elliott99

This is great. There are agencies that would pay a lot of money for something like this for their brands.

Obesity is more dangerous than (intelligent) steroid use

What if someone, like, wants to become a doctor, needs to learn pre-medical subjects? Self-study is better?

Maybe my undergraduate institution failed mebut I don't feel that having taken linear algebra, multivariable calc, applied stats, and graduate probability over the summer that the PDF below contains readily accessible information to me. Does it require graduate linear algebra? Graduate multi-v? We're my courses not rigorous enough? Am just not smart enough? I graduated summa cum laude, so maybe I should be okay.

All I am saying that is that there seems to be a huge leap between having taken the prerequisites everyone says you should take and then seeing Cramer-Rao bounds on page 70.

http://alex.smola.org/drafts/thebook.pdf

Better than anything I could draw. Here was one of the most re known physicists/smartest guys around saying...hey, I'm not really an artist but I'd love to give it a shot.

Kind of makes you wonder if that same line of the thought led to his scientific successes.

can you please show me a repository of R graphs that look half as polished/nice as graphs made in d3? I am not challenging or being confrontational I am actually curious why you think ggplot2 produces great vizes. I am new to data visualization, but I've worked in bit in R before and understand it's power to handle large data sets. Do you mean that they are great as in they are very functional for producing basic static charts like in Tableau? Or dynamic/creative vizes too?

In my line of work, clients are more concerned about "out-vizzing" the competition by creating mind-blowing "Wow!" vizes. Doesn't this rule ggplot2 out for the most part?

To anyone that read this and identified strongly: I highly recommend you pick up 'The War of Art' and 'Turning Pro' by Steven Pressfield.

Essentially,accordingly to Pressfield, those writers who identify strongly with problems the writer has in the article would do well to adopt a "hard hat" mentality of doing creative work; grab your lunch pale, sit in front of the computer and suffer, and don't worry about whether what you write is good or not-just do the damn work. 'Pretend' that you only write for money (you don't, but money is nice).

The problem for me and I think for the writer is identifying one's ego and with one's work. You start to worry you're not cut out, good enough, etc. But when you start thinking of creative endeavors like grabbing your lunch pail and heading off to the construction cite to put in a hard day's work, everything changes. It's kinda zen like in that way. Success or failure-the construction worker doesn't take it personally-he still has a beer at the end of the day and laughs with his family.

That's the way I see it anyway.

do they have tenure?

If it's a government college loan, the interest rate is like 5%, and mutual funds are giving more than that right now...so technicallly speaking...I don't know how quick I'd say that

can you explain this?

Protip frozenport: Don't take HN too seriously.

what is confusing? This quote is awesome.

I see your point, but if I did this on the subway to work, I'd get some pretty weird looks.

Obviously so the ghost of Alan Turning doesn't haunt us eternally...haven't you watched movies before

"However, it is long-standing government policy that pardons under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy should be reserved for cases where it can be established that the convicted person was innocent of the relevant offence, and not to undo the effects of legislation which we now recognise as wrong."

In this case, I guess pardon is not appropriate. I think the way we think of pardons at least in the US, is your first sentence, in which case Turing should definitely be pardoned.

is the physical bumping part a gimmick or require physical mechanism?

There is an enormous pipeline of econ majors to consulting from lac's.

I bet even if things got more amazing (like we started traveling around in those smart chairs like in Wall-E) people still wouldn't be happy. I enjoyed reading this because I often forget how amazing smartphones are.

Because I feel that people on HN try to micromanage their neurons to an extent that they evaluate themselves as if they were computer hardware....

"Well I only have so much RAM to do this task, but if increase my computer processing power through deliberate practice..."

I was a bit offhand, I admit. I was in a bad mood when I made that comment. But I stand by the fact people on HN take themselves and their capabilities way too seriously, without any thought to the fact, say, that the internet and programming are only a minuscule fraction of our history as intelligent lifeforms. While I love the internet/programming/topics discussed on HN, I just think that people here are too hard on themselves. You're not a computer with specs, you are the results of hundreds of thousands of years of evolution.

I am embarassed for Microsoft, this reads like a local political mud-slinging ad. Since when is Google Search a public service like plumbing anyways? No one turned over a rock and found the words "You have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit to do online shopping with completely unsponsored results."

If someone is typing "sale on X product", they are probably not looking for the type of company with a version of X product that doesn't have the marketing budget to bid on google search-in other words, they are looking for a mr. coffee or a keurig, not a pristine, well engineered french press.

I just feel that sometimes on HN people forget this.

HEY EVERYONE: ONE DAY, YOURE GOING TO DIE.

I would be curious to see what effect this has on PHD programs

I like Prismatic. Why is that not popular?

oh woops, thanks, my bad.

Why is the most preeminent newspaper in the world still calling saturated fat "bad." It's almost trite at this point to explain that there are no studies to support this.

would get if 15"

why do I have to sign up to see what this is? I was really interested but now I don't care because I would have to give you my email address

Actually, while I still very much like the idea of the site, I think I spoke too soon...it's very much focused on the hardware and software used, whereas I thought it was interviews with people in general from all walks of creative/hacker/writing/painting life about their workflow and how they get stuff done. More of these types of interviews would interest me.

I've never been to usesthis.com before. What a wonderful website! I would love to see more interviews like this.