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Re:Ask HN: PG has many essays. What's your favorite one?
on Thursday December 31, 2015 @06:37PM (#10820347)
Re:Ask HN: PG has many essays. What's your favorite one?
on Thursday December 31, 2015 @05:14PM (#10819996)
There was even a review paper on group differences in genetic markers for cognitive traits posted on HN. How do you get more controversial than that?
Re:Ask HN: PG has many essays. What's your favorite one?
on Thursday December 31, 2015 @03:47PM (#10819604)
What you can't say: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
"Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?
If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told."
Re:Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of...
on Sunday December 20, 2015 @02:34PM (#10767997)
I'm sorry for both not being aware of and breaking the rules. There is no excuse for either.
Re:Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of...
on Saturday December 19, 2015 @02:53PM (#10764623)
It is just a blog post. I hope someone will pick up the threads and see whether there is anything of interest there.
If you want to read highbrow material, do not click on hacker news submissions with such impish titles :)
(what lead me to post it was this HN submission: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/12/15/business/media/reporter...)
Carlos Slim: biography of Mexico's richest man penetrates 'cloak of silence'
Re:How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia
on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @02:22AM (#10742857)
Actually, it looks almost exactly the same; you just add a cdef int or long to the fibonacci for example. And using the Python scientific stack (which would likely give you all the speedups you will ever need) _is_ Python and looks like Python.
Re:Dear White People, You Suck at Diversity
on Monday December 14, 2015 @01:28PM (#10732795)
I did not know that white men controlled all firms. Are there even any statistics on tech companies owned by non-whites being more open to "non-gender conforming" people?
Re:Dear White People, You Suck at Diversity
on Monday December 14, 2015 @11:42AM (#10732060)
Which races should we emulate to get better at diversity?
Re:Who Y Combinator Companies Want
on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:40PM (#10699310)
According to the psychometrics books I have read structured interviews are as good as IQ-tests when it comes to predicting job-performance.
All types of hiring tests/interviews had some predictive power (except handwriting analysis).
Live coding in Python implemented as an Eclipse/Emacs plug in
Re:Exercise May Make Bullied Adolescents Feel Less Suicidal
on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:06AM (#10316969)
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=4556
Tldr: rigorous twin studies find no such effect and an analysis of the meta-analyses suggests publication bias.
Re:Developing Effective Bioinformatics Programming Skills (2009)
on Monday September 07, 2015 @12:57PM (#10182118)
Oreilly has an excellent bioinfo data skills book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/mobile/0636920030157.do
Don’t Worry, Smart Machines Will Take Us with Them
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Re:FISH Shell: A dynamic shell
on Monday December 22, 2014 @01:56PM (#8784458)
I really liked some of the old-school command line stuff like reverse history search and Snoopy swearing (!$). However, I still prefer Fish to Bash and Zsh, even though those two things are not included. It gets the really important stuff just right and makes the rest configurable.
Btw, is it just my imagination or is using Ctrl-c with Fish much faster?
Re:Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you check regula...
on Thursday December 18, 2014 @10:44PM (#8771015)
Steve Hsu: http://infoproc.blogspot.com
Example post title: "Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening using next generation sequencing"
Razib Khan: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/ Example post title: "Most Horse Lineages Are in Heaven"
Gregory Cochran: http://westhunt.wordpress.com/ Example post:
"It is easier to develop a phobia about snakes than electricity or carbon monoxide, probably because we have built in neurological mechanism that confer that propensity.
Likely most animals have a similar propensity to develop a fear of fire: or it might come automatically. If there was such a fear-of-fire mechanism, we have lost it: and dogs have as well. If this is correct, one could learn about this hypothetical mechanism by comparing dogs and wolves."
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These are heavily biased towards population genetics and quantitative genetics. Would appreciate suggestions for blogs of smart people writing about molecular biology.
Re:The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim
on Friday December 12, 2014 @12:49AM (#8738754)
You can also do "brew install emacs". I think that is the preferred option for Spacemacs.
Re:The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs and Vim
on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @07:26AM (#8728812)
This thing is really great. Been playing around with it for a few days and threw away my old .emacs. It's that good.
One pro is that it will make plenty of excellent emacs packages easily discoverable.