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While I completely agree that these questions need to be asked, the public doesn't appear to have issues giving out social data everywhere. E.g., what if we took your questions and…

I admire and applaud your endeavor and hope that we see more disease-specific communities sprout in the near future. I attended the Consumer Genetics Conference last year ( http://…

Disclaimer: my father is a seismologist. It is near 0% likely that the Colorado earthquake and Virginia earthquake are related as VA and CO are on different faults. It's not 0% bec…

The first 100 days of a new presidential term is considered a benchmark to measure the early success of a president. Being that today is the first day of my startup after moving to…

Feel free to ping me after August 5 if you still have questions.

Depends on "affordable". Current bulk prices are about $5000 per genome though the coverage can vary. Here's the price per genome for the last decade: http://www.genome.gov/sequenc…

Nope. At least one claim was rejected. * The appeals court ruled against Myriad in another part of the case, however. The court said that Myriad’s patent claims on the process of a…

I've finally found the source of my frustration with the virtual rolodex: creating the contact. A fantastic feature of the physical rolodex is that one needs to simply place the bu…

Correct title should have been: Why I would have left twitter if I were Biz Stone. The article has no sources, only mentions Biz by name twice in the content, and uses "he" (as a r…

@andywood, Can you take a moment tomorrow and add an edit to your post giving a summary of whether you felt the comments answered your questions? I ask simply because my first read…

Expanding on your advice: when diversifying it helps to not throw darts. It may be best to not have investments only in tech, auto, health, etc., but it's quite another to randomly…

FWIW, this comment: "The api design functions on the simple idea of having a "GET" request act as a discovery mechanism while "POST" requests perform operations and searches -- muc…

Since the Twitter service is free, the "only" money to be made is in the displaying of the content. I believe this is recognized by UberMedia and also by Twitter and the cause for …

I'll go one step further and emphatically state "this isn't his entire genome." Additionally, this data could be radically improved if his phenotype was also included. Just because…

Can you clarify what you mean by "70-90% of the speed of generated C++"? Suppose that the generated C++ takes 1.0 seconds. Does your implementation take 0.7-0.9s or 1.7-1.9s or som…

Three tries seems about right. FWIW: the second version has an actual name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect The problem I've been running into is that my second v…

If you separate the syntax from the semantics, you'll see that the GET request (syntax) is merely the mechanism of accessing the appropriate function (semantics). If you reread the…

FWIW: I created an AppEngine-based webapp ( http://www.gnaught.com ) to keep track of blacklisted domains and uses Google's "-site:" options in the search query. It was a weekend-p…

Update: fixed the Google account sign in link.

* System Prefs -> Security -> Disable auto login (to secure your computer) * System Prefs -> Expose -> Expose (create your "switcher" layout) * System Prefs -> Keyboard -> Keyboard…

If I understand correctly, your basic assumption is that a developer only needs access to the configuration options. Essentially, a developer isn't going to hack the code, they jus…

Fantastic idea; wish I had thought of it. I'm very curious to see how efficient your "glue" code is between the components. It's one thing to have a modular hands-off system, it's …

Another option is the use of API keys that are separated into two types -- partners and end-users. The partner API keys would be bound to a particular end-point (e.g., the IP addre…