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by v3rt 9y ago
What kind of work has exposed you to so many areas; are you a data consultant (and if so do you work for yourself or a bigger shop?)
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by v3rt 9y ago
People take stock of their lives in many different ways: using happiness as the unit of measurement is called hedonism. Pursuing hedonism is a defensible position to take but I'm alarmed by its rise as the default system of value in th
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by v3rt 12y ago
Probably because it's a just-so story not based on reality. Building a career and finding a mate surely must be more influenced by the breadth of your social network than is your ability to help your children and grandchildren. Think a
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by v3rt 12y ago
I think he's getting at the fact that the iPod and iTunes were what first made people think of music in digital terms. An audio CD might as well be analog as far as people's perception goes, since until MP3 players came around, ri
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by v3rt 12y ago
I for one would still appreciate a link - I think those of us on academic networks should be able to see most papers behind paywalls
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by v3rt 12y ago
In this case, probably because when you're being tortured, it's small comfort to know how the synapses of your tormentors' brains are firing. Things like defiance in the face of adversity or finding meaning in life seem to be
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by v3rt 13y ago
Not at my university, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was somewhat true generally. I think a valid comparison might be between a hard sciences student at a top school who's also involved in a lot of extracurriculars and up at al
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by v3rt 13y ago
I'd like to disagree - at least for my university, which to be fair is notorious for being brutal in terms of workload. It's not unusual for me and many of my friends to have so much work for classes and extracurriculars over the
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by v3rt 13y ago
Thanks for that point of view, and that's totally how I'd approach it, but because of the new joint program I'd be able to get the master's in the same amount of time that I would spend on a bachelor's anyways, sorry if I didn't make that c
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Ask HN: How important is a master's degree?
10 points by v3rt 13y ago|10 comments
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by v3rt 13y ago
I am (or was, a couple of years ago) fluent in Javascript/AJAX and PHP so I could definitely hack something together with that, but Django sounds like a cool technology to learn as well.
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by v3rt 13y ago
The app is basically a service for ordering/dispatching couriers/deliverypeople, so it's definitely real-time(ish) - the core functionality is for users to be able to order a delivery (with real-time cost estimate) and for human dispatchers
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Ask HN: Fastest way to get a web app from 0 to 60
4 points by v3rt 13y ago|8 comments
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by v3rt 14y ago
How are the different online-education websites in terms of being able to take courses at your own pace? I'm interested in trying an online course out to pick up some statistics and machine learning, but I probably wouldn't be able to follo
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Ask HN: Which industries have the most to gain from software (or hardware)?
4 points by v3rt 14y ago|1 comments
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by v3rt 14y ago
If a big proportion of business-travel-miles are flown over oceans (which seems reasonable between the most common routes like New York-London, SF-Tokyo, SF-HK...), would it not be cost and time efficient to use low-drag but noisy planes an
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Ask HN: Google intern pool (input from Googlers appreciated)
2 points by v3rt 15y ago|0 comments
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by v3rt 16y ago
Continuing in the evolutionary psychology vein, though, the two viewpoints can be reconciled - humans evolved in an environment where it would likely be more acceptable for women to reproduce without a steady partner, so it would be advanta
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by v3rt 16y ago
I believe the predominant evolutionary theory actually does have an explanation - sexual reproduction serves to produce offspring that are different from their parents and have a better shot of being adapted to a constantly changing environ
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by v3rt 16y ago
This is a cool engineering project, but hardly seems like an efficient approach, at thousands (hundreds at best) of dollars a pop. Traditional chemical elimination methods (C02 traps, pesticides) seem much more effective, and biological app
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by v3rt 16y ago
That's the one! Thank you :)
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by v3rt 17y ago
Apparently, it's incorrect that the winning strategy is to move second - while the drawing motion take ~20ms less when reacting, it takes ~200ms to react in the first place, leaving you quite dead. See http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscie
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by v3rt 17y ago
Since when is HN new-world-order-conspiracy-central? We live in an economy with a certain amount of economic activity and overall wealth, which tend to go up over time (barring recession). To facilitate trade, the central banks of nations
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by v3rt 17y ago
The purpose of the estate tax is not so much to ensure that the capital being taxed is put to better use (which I'm not sure would be the case on average; the government would surely be a better entity to entrust with the money than a profl
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Ask HN: UK Colleges - Oxford or Cambridge?
1 points by v3rt 17y ago|3 comments
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by v3rt 17y ago
The article mentioned that closing main roads temporarily could have a similar effect - could teams thus experiment with benching star players , or altering plays to "mix it up" more, without actually losing the player? This would seem to b
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by v3rt 17y ago
I seem to remember reading that using actual IQ tests is against hiring laws (although job-specific tests that happen to measure IQ are fine), is this not the case?
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by v3rt 17y ago
I suspect the foundations of my mathematical problem-solving skills were laid when my parents signed me up for extracurricular math classes with teachers from the local Russian community, when I was in elementary and middle school. I starte
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by v3rt 17y ago
(Disclaimer - I am most likely biased since I suffered through twelve years of US public school math, often racking up low grades from boredom even while distinguishing myself in math competitions) I agree that the US system teaches mathema
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by v3rt 17y ago
However, all Chinese languages use the same written representation, so any Chinese person speaking a dialect of Chinese that is literate is as literate as a Mandarin-speaker.

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