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by vwinsyee 12y ago
In many cases, I'd agree with you. But in context of what happened here, the fact that the company was Chinese (or simply just foreign, for that matter) is absolutely relevant. A few outstanding points: 1. The company was "unaccus
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by vwinsyee 12y ago
If you want to know how to do something, how something works, you'll use a different, non-google indexer for searching, say, all of the "how to" sites: e.g. wikipedia, stack exchange, about.com, etc. I've gradually sta
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by vwinsyee 12y ago
The FDA has more than likely directly prevented hundreds of millions deaths worldwide. It's literally one of very few safeguards you can rely on to know that you're not eating poison. Amusingly, the top comment on a front page H
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Bye Bye, Baby(iht.com)
1 points by vwinsyee 12y ago|0 comments
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How Being a Doctor Became the Most Miserable Profession(thedailybeast.com)
119 points by vwinsyee 12y ago|130 comments
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My Ideas, My Boss’s Property(nytimes.com)
6 points by vwinsyee 12y ago|0 comments
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Is there a Tech Bubble?(iht.com)
2 points by vwinsyee 12y ago|1 comments
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by vwinsyee 12y ago
Thanks for the response; I'm definitely applying to the Data Engineers program. My engineering background has been more on-the-job than from formal coursework, so I was a bit subdued by list of engineering disciplines in the "Acce
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by vwinsyee 12y ago
I'm seriously thinking about applying (actually to the Data Science program). I'm currently looking to start in the SF Bay Area as a data scientist (or data analyst, if need be) in late May to June. But I have a question -- I&#x27
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by vwinsyee 12y ago
I agree with your general sentiment. However, it only takes one member of the underrepresented group (with endorsing capability), or any member of a centrist or neutral party, to approve the a comment. (And as of so far, it doesn't see
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"Computational Criticism": Franco Moretti and the Science of Literary Criticism(newyorker.com)
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Abstract: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/12/4418.short Full Text PDF: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/12/4418.full.pdf I'm on an academic network, so I'm not
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Oil rig worker says he saw Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 burst into flames(news.com.au)
10 points by vwinsyee 13y ago|5 comments
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
When I saw "6x4", my immediate thought was a "six by four" matrix. So, by convention, this means 6 rows and 4 columns, corresponding to e.g. 6 observations of 4 variables each (from a statistician's perspective). Th
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
You might enjoy this story/thread from three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815282
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Engineers Allege Hiring Collusion in Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
242 points by vwinsyee 13y ago|143 comments
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
> correlation doesn't mean causation. As a statistician, I guess I should be happy that more people are aware of this. But I also think too many people are taking "correlation != causation" superficially. I mean, almost al
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
> Hospitals don't let uninsured people die and insuring people doesn't magically save their lives. Not sure where you're getting this. A quick Google Scholar or PubMed search shows a consensus that mortality rate is sign
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Contrary to the current HN title, the article points out: Evidence presented during Private Manning’s court-martial for his role as the source for large archives of military and diplomatic files given to WikiLeaks revealed that he had used
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
But in the US, corporations are people too! [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Your statement reminded me of the conclusion Rene Descarte reached a few centuries ago: "I think, therefore I am."
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Google Glass user went to the movies; got interrogated for four hours(washingtonpost.com)
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
>Something else I just thought of while typing this is that this would make an awesomely sci-fi means of information storage. No need to remember a password, we've encoded your gut flora with your private key! First occurred to me a
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
From the article: "These findings, published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology in September, echo previous work that showed milk composition varying with infant gender in gray seals and red deer and with infant gender a
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
As the article rightly notes: "...every one of your relatives who spits in a 23andMe vial is giving the company a not-inconsiderable bit of your own genetic information to the company along with their own. If you have several close re
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
I didn't realize that Windows Mobile had such large market share at one point.
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
From an NYTimes article earlier this year [1]: According to the report, [tenure and tenure-track] positions now make up only 24 percent of the academic work force, with the bulk of the teaching load shifted to adjuncts, part-timers, gradua
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
There is no (hard) vacuum tube in the Hyperloop design. This analysis did not simulate a (hard) vacuum tube.
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Eh, as an American who's visited several major US cities, I've observed a whole lot of variation in behavior during inclement weather, partly because the US is pretty big and hence pretty diverse in climate. The behavior you descr
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
> Imagine fitting a fleet of drones with this tech and sending them out exploring... When I saw this submission, this was the first thing I thought of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxmJT5xT5rQ From related 3D scanning

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