josephpmay

The technology is really just being piloted here in a low-risk application.

Everyone commenting here is right that it really doesn’t save that much time when boarding a plane, but think of where else it could save time.

(I probably shouldn’t go into details even though I never signed an NDA, so I guess I technically could talk about it)

To target a different demographic. Because of the stigma associated with Match.com

What the hell is wrong with scmp’s mobile website. A modal of suggested videos covered the content half the time for me

Microsoft word‽ Surly this campaign would be more successful if it started with autocorrect on phones.

Hearsay, but...

I’ve heard that last year Disney blocked an attempt from Apple to buy Hulu, which suggests that it is still pretty important to them

Double average speed, fewer stops, station is in Downtown FTL instead of West of I95, doesn’t have the stigma that it’s what poor people take when they can’t afford a car

I disagree with his argument, but what beautiful writing!

It is a political problem... BUT

Subways are expensive to build, and expensive to maintain. If a technological solution makes implementing public transportation cheaper, I think that's a good thing

Edit: Also, Subways work well in dense city areas, but are less efficient is places like LA (outside of downtown) that are very spread out

Publix is a national treasure only available in Florida (and a few other states) :)

It reminds me of the Def Con and Coachella FAQs

I hate to be that guy, but did you read the article? It had nothing to do with the rituals of meals and was about lab-grown animal products

I think there's an important point to make (although I don't have empirical evidence of this), that ADHD is way more prevalent in startup founders than the general population. This is logical when you consider that those with ADHD are less likely to be fulfilled by a desk job and are more likely to be risk taking.

In general I've found that unmedicated ADHD founders seem more common than medicated, but I wouldn't count on that as generalizable or fact.

In terms of people without ADHD using Modafanil or amphetamines to get an edge, I'm sure that happens a lot, but it's less common than Wall Street or high-powered law firms.

Funnily enough, I just started taking Modafanil this week.

The point is that you would only need this .01% of the time, and in everyday driving, the autonomous vehicle would be safer than a human

No. The idea is that UX designers can use this to prototype for future AR headsets

They made some really interesting design choices that prioritize optical quality over every other factor (ergonomics, look, etc.). Really interesting approach to create a device that’s esentially only for UX prototyping. Cudos to the Leap Morion team!

I built a major project in Meteor last summer, and it was a big mistake. For the most part, Meteor itself is stable and being actively developed, but many of the packages are experiencing severe rot, and one of the developers of a few of the most used meteor packages recently went out of business and took all their documentation down with them.

I read the article.

Revenue sharing keeps creators from switching to another platform.

A significant number of people make their living off of Youtube

OR millennials are moving to the exurbs not because they want to, but because cities are too expensive when you have a family and don’t want roommates. Much of the rest of the world is happy to raise families in cities... why not here? The solution should be to build infrastructure and improve the schools in urban cores, not invest in suburbs.

What makes you different from Viasat?

This is potentially pretty-huge, and a surprisingly well-written non-academic science article

I completely agree. I think this is an excellent way to study evolution. I just don’t see anything particularly novel in the research (not saying it’s not deserving to be studied or published- But I don’t get why it was presented the way it was in the article other than drumming up publicity)

I feel like this article is pretty misleading in terms of the context and significance of the research. Inserting ancestral genes in extant organisms is a well-accepted approach to studying evolution. Evolution happens because of environmental pressure and random luck (mutations). There's no deterministic factor of evolution, and it's weird that the article tries to present it that way.

Notice that the research was done by Nvidia

In many parts of SF, an electric bike will be quicker than an Uber

There is a good reply to you that is currently dead for some reason, so I’m reposting it here for people who don’t have dead visible:

> You're buying a service for the 500-800$. Here you're buying a flowcell for 1000$ (the "sequencer" is more or less free). The technology is pretty different and a lot more bleeding edge. If what you want is just a genome aligned to a known reference and you can wait a few days then this is not what you want. We use ONT's minION for strange niche stuff, where either the DNA prep method matters or the latency (the time from loading to the first data out of the machine) matters. Read quality is typically not as good as illumina, so for applications where we need quality we stick with the NextSeq. There's no reason to think nanopore technology won't get better though, but for now, if you've got the money illumina is still the way to go most of the time. >

As mentioned in the article, Polaris is only for new devices

There’s debate in the medical community whether acupuncture actually works or is a placebo...

But yea, it does seem weird to do it on bears

Here’s the original English-language source... no more information than the Mail article, unfortunately

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/23/c_136918319.htm

It would be nice if there was an explanation on what this was