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by toufka 11y ago
Submit to Biorxiv [1]. Most journals have actually recently changed their terms to explicitly allow pre-print publication. [1] http://www.biorxiv.org/about-biorxiv
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And that would kill the golden goose. That public land in proximity to the city is pretty much the exact reason people enjoy living in the Bay Area in the first place. Were they to pave the Marin Headlands, and put condos on Skyline Boulev
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The same blimp was just ominously featured in one of the weekly shorts published by the Intercept (the site Greenwald, Poitras, et al. are at and publishing Snowden's leaks). The short is called "The Above" [1], by Kirsten Jo
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Another company, Bolt Threads [1] just raised significant money [2] to produce spider silk as well. Started by a few molecular biologists, they too took it from a protein sequence, into yeast, purified the protein in bulk, spun it into thr
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So only cite open access articles (like this one). It'd certainly be a win for the public.
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There are also all the environmental effects of living in the 'Silicon Valley' - named as such because of all the chip manufacturing from the 60-80s. Google's campus is nearby the 'MEW Plume'[1] of trichloroethene.
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Backscatter deposits that radiation disproportionately in areas of the body that are prone to cancer - skin, testes, breast tissue, etc. So those areas that are particularly sensitive take a disproportional hit with this technology. This [1
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by toufka 11y ago
Not my field - but it was talked about recently here. I'll do my best, but help me out here guys... Essentially, the money VC invests can be invested with a 'first-out' kind of option. So that were the company to fail, or s
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It has already happened. As was pointed out, it is a direct result of the Bayh-Dole Act [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act
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>"once people see the vastness of the internet..." Exactly. How will they get this glimpse from within a corporately delineated sandbox? Or one could see the vastness from afar, yearn for it, and make it happen. Give a man a fi
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DuPont just lost a significant case regarding Teflon [1]. These companies, decades later are being sought for significant damages. [1] https://theintercept.com/2015/10/08/dupont-found-liable-in-c...
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Seriously, NO!! If anyone ever reads this do NOT use a shopvac. You will make the problem 10000x worse. Mercury is only an acute health hazard if vaporized. A shopvac will instantly vaporize it. You will turn an expensive and irrita
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Because as much as it is true that funding influences how some projects get started in academia, professors do get tenure. And they can and do things which would be totally offensive to a corporate parent. There is a totally different k
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How will this research remain bias-free when salaries are being paid for by YC? What happens when some of the research that is done paints some of the activities of YC or their companies in a less-than-positive light?
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If you watch their (cringe-worthy) videos on their page they give away some of those details. Though again, the details are self-edited and should likely be taken with a grain of salt. At one point they mention that 35k in funding just fel
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Thanks. That's very helpful information that's not easily gleaned by awanderin' around 'how to set up a server' tutorials. Simple things like, 'last -a' is a fantastic little hint. Almost would like to
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Crispr is a homing system. It allows you to address a specific part of (genetic) memory. It is a single component in a much larger system. A required, and otherwise missing component. But it is just a component.
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If you read the presentation, it's more like, >A: Facebook app has such different priorities than other developers, that Apple's development ecosystem has 'unreasonable' expectations and assumptions. Facebook wants to
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It affects (non-cellular) iPads with iOS9 as well, so likely not a carrier-related issue. So it's not issue #3. And like you say, a lot more than iOS9 would be out of sync if it was #2. So we're going to have to go with #1 - App
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Laptop (OSX 10.10) is 'exact' Old iPhone 4 (iOS 7) is 0.2 seconds behind, +/- 0.18 second error - 'good'. New iPad (iOS 9) is 2.1 seconds ahead, +/- 0.08 second error - 'bad' (through 3x reloads, same
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If you're living in the land of gray-market computers/software, you'll never have gatekeeper installed to begin with. It's likely that the devs had disabled gatekeeper for other reasons - to run versions of local softwar
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It is notable that the 'original author's' paper was still in review. And that the review started, by a big-name journal, in Dec. 2014 - over 9 months ago. While the newer paper was reviewed and published, by a no-name journ
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Twist just raised their series C at $37M (~80M total) [1]. Emily (the author) is their CEO. [1] http://boston.citybizlist.com/article/275318/fidelity-manage...
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At 10¢/bp, that's <$100/gene for most averaged-sized proteins. That price range makes producing novel proteins competitively priced over the tedious effort of stitching up chimeras from preexisting templates. Scientifi
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See the front page right now [1]. Price of DNA is currently dropping! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10246514
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Some non-paywalled resources for more information are cited directly from within the paper: "Although agencies are slow to reform internally, they may more rapidly respond to local stakeholder pressure... This has begun to change as c
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Huh. It seems different scientific fields use the word 'stochastic' in very different ways. The commenter, 'bgins' makes the point, "Random has many connotations (like entropy), not at all equivalent, and is a more
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Sorry, that was not a well-written wording. The intention was to demonstrate the concept of 'predictability' not whether it was actually predictable. Edited and fixed now.
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The concept you're looking for is Stocastic [1]. The distinction between being 'stocastic' and 'random' is one of 'unpredictable & determined' vs ' unpredictable & undetermined'. Cell bi
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This would truly be a great thing. I've been trying for years, and it's really kind of painful, even with some good working knowledge of network infrastructure. Here are some decent software I use. Not all OSS, unfortunately, but

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