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35 Years of American Death(projects.fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by sndean 10y ago|1 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
So not only is the machine unnecessary, you can drink from the bag? It's the SV version of a Capri Sun?
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Shift in world’s night lights(flowingdata.com)
2 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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Pablo Odysseus is an autonomus bot that rakes art in the sand(blog.arduino.cc)
1 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
Interesting statement: "To the extent Silicon Valley is wealthier than West Virginia, it is mainly because Silicon Valley has some very successful companies, such as Google and Facebook, and not because the Walmart in Mountain View, Ca
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The West Virginia Productivity Miracle(bloomberg.com)
2 points by sndean 10y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft turns two-factor authentication into one-factor by ditching password(arstechnica.com)
42 points by sndean 10y ago|38 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
> It's not immediately obvious to me why a histone would have such antibacterial properties. > I'm not sure it is an 'of course' here - rather it might actually be a lucky find while playing with the truly cool sou
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by sndean 10y ago
This is one of the ways it's been sold. But, we've tried D-enantiomer peptides too, which aren't as readily degraded.
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Authorities turn to technology to help locate Facebook killer, Steve Stephens(cleveland19.com)
1 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
> The fastest female marathoners do not even remotely compete with the top men - top men run just a smidge over 2 hours, with the top women running 2:15:00+ Random side note: Interestingly, the shortest and longest races (at least out of
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by sndean 10y ago
> (not even you, your lab is) Well, I had to pay for it out of pocket. Got an annual license. But yeah, I get your point.
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by sndean 10y ago
> The nicest Desktop software I know of is SnapGene: http://www.snapgene.com/ Have to agree with that, though it's a bit expensive.
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by sndean 10y ago
Just one example: My PhD advisor went directly to industry after their PhD, stayed there for 10 years, and then went back to academia. Six years later they had tenure. "I got lucky" was frequently said, though.
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Cats Are Actually Nice, Scientists Find(motherboard.vice.com)
4 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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Marching Scientists Will Have a Lot in Common with Angry ’70s Farmers(fivethirtyeight.com)
5 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
Not sure about the question of pain, but most IACUCs (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees) at universities and elsewhere don't care what you do to invertebrates. It's an odd line to draw, but that's apparently the li
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by sndean 10y ago
AFAIK, they're inferior. But a different, better avenue to avoid using the LAL test is to simply not have endotoxin present in the first place [0]. If at least vaccines and medicines can be produced in strains without LAL-positive LPS,
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by sndean 10y ago
> These are just some of the areas doctors need to be well versed in. I agree that, on average, doctors are smart. But my newly-minted MD fiancee would be the first to tell you that they're not the "just about the smartest&quot
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Ask HN: Writing a book about proprietary software/language
3 points by sndean 10y ago|3 comments
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Is Komodo dragon blood the key to new antibiotics?(bbc.com)
1 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
Very happy with a ASUS Zenbook UX305FA. Everything worked with no issues when I put Ubuntu MATE on it. It feels more-or-less identical to a 13 inch MacBook Air. It was ~$400, but "used" in my case was relatively new and unused. I
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Symantec attributes 40 cyber attacks to CIA-linked hacking tools(reuters.com)
2 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
> What job were you able to use a pi3 to prepare for? Yeah, I'd like to know as well
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by sndean 10y ago
> I'll go back to the point though that the USG is critically short of competent ML personnel. Definitely agree with that. And from what I've heard they're having a terrible time trying to hire. Especially where we're
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by sndean 10y ago
> It's good general advice, but frankly I think it doesn't address some of the major pitfalls - namely the top one: personnel. Just for some context [0]: Leslie works at a facility where there's (generally) no shortage of
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Ask HN: What can I buy for under $50 that will most dramatically improve my life
18 points by sndean 10y ago|33 comments
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Nukes(radiolab.org)
4 points by sndean 10y ago|0 comments
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by sndean 10y ago
Also, it's probably helpful to factor in how much debt they're in starting out. My fiancee is in (we're in) >400000 of debt. And as a resident she's effectively making ~-2 dollars/hour [0], because of the interes
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Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space(nytimes.com)
310 points by sndean 10y ago|223 comments

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