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by nsedlet 8y ago
The possibilities for psychedelic drugs to treat and shed insight into mental health issues are exciting. But I think it's worth pointing out (especially if you are a recreational user or are considering it) that we don't understa
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by nsedlet 8y ago
Yes! He's one of the warmest, nicest people. I did undergrad research in the lab next door to Prof Barrett's when he was Director of Undergraduate Studies. He always took time out to mentor me even though I wasn't his student
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'The Middle': Watch How a Pop Hit Is Made(nytimes.com)
1 points by nsedlet 8y ago|0 comments
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A Surprising Friendship in Dublin(bbc.com)
1 points by nsedlet 9y ago|0 comments
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by nsedlet 9y ago
We had a production Rails app running with postgres, and we decided to implement some of our models with Neo4j. Graphs felt like the right way to represent the data, and all of the models were new, so we felt more free to choose the approac
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by nsedlet 9y ago
I commute about 6 miles each way between Brooklyn (home) and Manhattan (work). I've been raving about it to everyone I know because it's legitimately changed my life. It feels amazing, saves money, keeps me in much better shape, g
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Show HN: Tax plan impact calculator(taxulator.com)
114 points by nsedlet 9y ago|80 comments
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by nsedlet 9y ago
I think we all can and should apply our values towards judging companies' usefulness to society. That doesn't mean regulating or prosecuting them - moral clarity goes a long way on its own. People work hard to be held in high este
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by nsedlet 9y ago
The Sacklers have ingratiated themselves at the highest levels of society using a fortune that's at best built on a product of dubious value, and at worst obtained at the cost of the lives of tens of thousands of people. I think this
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The Secretive Family Making Billions from the Opioid Crisis(esquire.com)
3 points by nsedlet 9y ago|0 comments
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by nsedlet 9y ago
Some friends and I built a jukebox with lights that react meaningfully to the chords and beats in the music (using Chordify). We brought it to Burning Man as an art project. It's nothing compared to the other crazy ambitious stuff pe
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by nsedlet 9y ago
I agree with many of the WFH benefits put forward in the article. However, I think it ignores & mischaracterizes many of the WFH costs. Ignores: * Face-to-face communication is often more efficient. Just my opinion, but conversations
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The Opening of the Liberal Mind(wsj.com)
1 points by nsedlet 9y ago|0 comments
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by nsedlet 9y ago
I think you're attacking a straw man - this situation is nothing like the typical pattern of "acquire company, shut down the product". Hackpad has been running for years since it was acquired (everyone in our company uses it
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Show, Don't Tell: Why Recruiters Should Ask for More Than a Resume(cornerstoneondemand.com)
1 points by nsedlet 10y ago|0 comments
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by nsedlet 10y ago
I'm not sure why you'd want to do that. It seems unnecessary to achieve pricing transparency - anonymized salaries would be sufficient. It would require a dramatic cultural shift to be accepted. Discussing of one's salary
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by nsedlet 10y ago
I agree with this: employees are at a huge information disadvantage. However, I think a better (& admittedly more radical) solution to this problem would be to force employers to publicly post anonymized salaries by job title. That wa
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by nsedlet 10y ago
Yes Chordify has time information - it's pretty accurate too, and works for folk, rock, classical, whatever. It's just a matter of timing the lights with the audio output. My setup is a Raspberry Pi as a master, and an Arduino to
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by nsedlet 10y ago
I've been working on a weekend project to make lights that react meaningfully to music, by taking into account beats and chords. Here's a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5sRgSmRGpg It uses chordify.
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by nsedlet 10y ago
I agree - it's about focus and time. Recruiting is already a very manual process, and it's hard enough for most recruiters to identify candidates and get them interested in the role. The conversion rate from initial outreach to
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by nsedlet 10y ago
I'm in the recruiting space. An enormous part of the disparity in applicant success comes down to "job-hunting skills". Will their resume, as presented & formatted, speak to the employers they're after? Are they a
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by nsedlet 10y ago
Are you saying front-running is not an HFT strategy? Because that is incorrect. In equities markets, for trades of a sufficient size it's not possible to place the order all at once. You'll hammer the order book, and take very s
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by nsedlet 10y ago
Isn't front-running big trades just a subset of algorithms that predict price movements? i.e. They're not mutually exclusive. Admittedly I have zero special knowledge of Renaissance and what particular strategies they use.
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by nsedlet 10y ago
A few weird things stand out to me: (1) Renaissance is super secretive. If they want to use this strategy to make money, a patent reveals to competitors what they're doing and creates more issues than it seems to resolve. (2) Renaiss
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by nsedlet 10y ago
Seems like too little data to draw conclusions for a single company. But probably enough to draw conclusions by industry and company size.
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How Science Is Putting a New Face on Crime Solving(nationalgeographic.com)
1 points by nsedlet 10y ago|0 comments
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Blockchain and Media, a One-Two Punch(medium.com)
2 points by nsedlet 10y ago|0 comments
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by nsedlet 10y ago
Yeah, it seems like you could more reasonably conclude from a failed swim test that a mouse was tired, not depressed. So isn't an equally valid conclusion just that the illness-induced cytokine-blocking makes you feel tired? That does
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by nsedlet 10y ago
Unfortunately, very early-stage founders don't always do paperwork before starting to work together (which seems to be the case here, although it seems very little work was done). Obviously, it would be easier if they did.
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by nsedlet 10y ago
I agree with you, although: it's got to be a pain in the ass and a huge expenditure of social capital to try to negotiate some equity in a contentious situation like this. Most startups will not result in a meaningful financial outcom

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