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by achompas 15y ago
These "sitting studies" condition on a person's lifestyle, i.e. given two people who are both active outside of work, the person who sits more has a greater risk of problems than the one who doesn't. I'm sorry I don't have a citation (nor a
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by achompas 15y ago
I should've searched SO for this question. Thanks!
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by achompas 15y ago
The course is taught by Gilbert Strang, who has written an excellent introductory textbook on the subject: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Linear-Algebra-Fourth-Gil...
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by achompas 15y ago
I hear Haskell is especially "math-y" (which sounds great to me). Can you suggest any resources for learning Haskell?
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by achompas 15y ago
Off the top of my head: -- Factual ( http://www.factual.com/ ), who I really, really like because they want to develop an "open data platform" -- Wolfram Alpha ( http://products.wolframalpha.com/developers/ ) licenses their super-amazing AP
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Ask HN: resources for learning functional languages?
6 points by achompas 15y ago|8 comments
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by achompas 15y ago
That's about the only benefit they're seeing, and it doesn't compensate for the risk they'll take on when (ultimately) asked to bail out a number of countries.
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by achompas 15y ago
See jgrahamc's post above for a great alternative: a set of bar charts color-coded into subsets. Much more effective than a big pie chart. Many other "part-of-a-whole" charts improve on pie charts as well.
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by achompas 15y ago
You can also catch wesm talk about the pandas package at AOL HQ in New York this Wednesday. I'll be there, ready to find an alternative to R. http://www.meetup.com/nyhackr/events/28880161/?hidePromoBar=...
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by achompas 15y ago
Both of those teams are of the "ground-up" variety. I wonder if they have enough capital to acquire something like this.
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by achompas 15y ago
But you don't know what's being offered in beta! Is it the whole service? Or are they staggering feature releases while testing load?
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by achompas 15y ago
You edited out a key part. Here's what you cut: "The app is free for now (in private beta) , while the founders consider monetization options involving freemium services, search offerings and mobile CDN models." Can you blame them for bein
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by achompas 15y ago
Sure, that $10k figure is steep. However, I'm sure there are non-trivial amount of daily deal execs, VCs, and tech analysts who would gladly pay $2k/month to understand the competitive daily deal space.
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by achompas 15y ago
First, a direct link to Arxiv and the study: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1109/1109.1530v1.pdf Second, let's avoid talk about how "correlation doesn't imply causation". Quote: They examine this effect in more detail by pinpointing
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by achompas 15y ago
Yipit also sells that aggregated data to various institutions ( http://yipit.com/data/ ). Their pricing plans [0] suggest they make a non-trivial amount of revenue from selling this data. [0] http://yipit.com/data/pricing/ EDIT: See vacan
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by achompas 15y ago
1) it's almost impossible to talk with someone about themselves, about mistakes they've made or about things they could do better (unless they brought it up). People usually aren't seeking validation or criticism from others, especially i
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Ask HN: who's thinking of developing on Amazon's Kindle tablet?
1 points by achompas 15y ago|0 comments
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by achompas 15y ago
http://quant.ly occupies a space in my Safari. Some interesting stuff posted there.
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by achompas 15y ago
I'm talking about anyone who values their time. You're talking about secretaries looking at cat pictures. Calm down there, Sparky. Are you really suggesting someone doesn't value their time because they bought an Air over an X220 with a S
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by achompas 15y ago
You're here linking benchmark charts, because as a power user you believe power users represent a large subset of computer owners. We don't. We're in the minority. My girlfriend, and everyone else in the humongous non-power-user subset, doe
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by achompas 15y ago
With #2 you're being disingenuous. All computers need some work, but PCs require much more work to uninstall crapware. As for #3, only one of the laptops you listed fits comfortably in my girlfriend's purse. As for the Air's hard drive? S
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by achompas 15y ago
I imagine that development for their upcoming tablet would occur via the Amazon Appstore. Thus, you'd probably want to start here: https://developer.amazon.com/welcome.html
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by achompas 15y ago
I really like Macs, but it's ultimately about your preferences. I was very focused on getting a *nix machine (have coded on Unix since starting 2 years ago), but didn't want to spend time setting up drivers and solving hardware issues. So I
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by achompas 15y ago
Why would people move all their stuff to the Valley just for YC? Isn't YC a 3 month program? If you're going to relocate to the Valley for YC and beyond then you should really just sell your furniture and start over. I moved from DC to NY
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by achompas 15y ago
2011 13" MBP. I'll be doubling the RAM (to 8GB) and adding a 160GB Intel 320 in the next few months. Really wanted a 15" but I decided to be responsible before starting grad school. :) Systems: Lion. Ubuntu 11.04 through VirtualBox (for pat
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by achompas 15y ago
Does anyone know whether GA accepts single hackers as part of their space? I'd like to find a desk away from home, and GA seems like the perfect place.
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by achompas 15y ago
Question for everyone: if the Kindle Color really does use Amazon's Appstore, then any apps for the Color would be developed using Java, right? I'm not very familiar with Android development, but the Kindle tablet represents a humongous opp
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by achompas 15y ago
Great news! Congrats to Simon and Natalie.
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by achompas 15y ago
For a book on a literal revolution, read George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia." For a book on how to generate revolutionary ideas, I'd recommend Steven Johnson's "Where Good Ideas Come From." More generally, Kindle lets you sample the first
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by achompas 15y ago
I'll throw in some soundtracks: Deus Ex (thanks @_danilo), Machinarium, and The Social Network (and Reznor/Ross's new tunes for Girl With The Dragon Tattoo...and Ghosts). and for some other instrumentals: Andrew Bird's Useless Creatures ,

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