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hive_mindon The Story of a Lucky Economist

This guy seems obsessed with "impact". People such as this usually embellish what impact they have.

hive_mindon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2017)

Are you adventurous? A helpful person who helps strangers?

  Location: on the beach in CA or FL
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: no 
  Technologies: javascript, php, python, database, SPSS, R, machine learning, bitcoin
  Résumé/CV: see below
  Email: profsummergig@gmail.com

I'm a computer professor in the business school of a university in the Rocky Mountain area.

I get summers off. I want to visit FL or CA for 3 months during summer 2017 to learn surfing. During that stay, I'd like to work for a start-up or some such. Don't need pay, but sweat equity and a place to crash would be yuuuuuge.

My ideal schedule will be to surf 4 hours a day, and spend 8 hours a day working at the start-up.

I consider myself well-versed in human communication, cognitive biases, UI/UX design, pricing, coaching.

Programming languages I dabble in: javascript, php, python.

I'm an expert at SPSS and can work with R. Have knowledge of machine learning, bitcoin (I did the Stanford MOOC for both).

I'm well read. My regular reads (and YouTube and Twitter addictions) include:

  - Hacker News
  - Nassim Taleb
  - Daniel Kahneman
  - Marc Andreessen
  - Paul Graham (Y Combinator)
  - Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert)
  - Derek Sivers

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I'm huge into hacking "learning." I know some Spanish and French, and am fluent in Hindi. I have a PhD, and hope to do a J.D. one day. Good cook, regular meditator. Originally from India, I have my green card, and expect to have citizenship by summer.

hive_mindon Getting a great plan past the boss’s desk is hard

the essence: ultimately, what people care about is, "what's in it for them."

hive_mindon Runner Disqualified After Claiming 2nd Place in Fort Lauderdale Half Marathon

She's a Harvard grad.

Lots of over achievement in her short life.

Gotta keep appearances up. Gotta keep the family and friends impressed. And so on...

hive_mindon I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (2014)

Barbara Oakley's MOOC is great. I taught me to take Pomodoro seriously. Also taught me that taking breaks is important to help the brain integrate material.

hive_mindon Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear

What puts a child at high-risk for Autism?

hive_mindon India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi

> it allows concerned citizens to raise their voice when they see law is being broken

How exactly do concerned citizens raise their voice in India? I once saw a stray dog that had been run over by a car licking its wounds, waiting to die. After which it would lay there on the road-side until it had been eaten by birds and insects. I wanted to raise awareness of my various concerns about this. How should I have gone about it? Genuinely interested in learning from you.

An aside: the stoic, pious strength I saw on the dog's face as it licked itself, knowing it was dying, was one of the most powerful things I've ever seen.

hive_mindon India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi

This is India. Starving, thirsty, injured (hit by cars and trucks) cows and dogs roam the streets, hobbling along, limping along. There are people starving on the street-side. The poorest children are openly prostituted on the streets.

How are they going to enforce a rule regarding plastic bags?

The rich will continue to do whatever they want.

The middle-classes will continue to do whatever they can get away with.

The poor will continue to be shit on and abused.

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About 20 years ago they banned smoking in public in Delhi (I was there when they did it).

All that this ordinance did was to give the police yet another angle to harass people. More corruption. More bribes.

hive_mindon The Surprisingly Simple Invention That Allows Robots to Make Clothes

I wish they'd use starch again, instead of "water soluble polymers." The oceans don't need more plastics.

hive_mindon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2017)

  Location: on the beach in CA or FL
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: no 
  Technologies: javascript, php, python, SPSS, R, machine learning, bitcoin
  Résumé/CV: see below
  Email: profsummergig@gmail.com

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I'm a computer professor in the business school of a university in the Rocky Mountain area.

I get summers off. I want to visit FL or CA for 3 months during summer 2017 to learn surfing.

During that stay, I'd like to work for a start-up or some such. Don't need pay, but sweat equity and a place to crash would be yuuuuuge.

My ideal schedule will be to surf 4 hours a day, and spend 8 hours a day working at the start-up.

I consider myself well-versed in human communication, cognitive biases, UI/UX design, pricing, coaching.

Programming languages I dabble in: javascript, php, python.

I'm an expert at SPSS and can work with R. Have knowledge of machine learning, bitcoin (I did the Stanford MOOC for both).

I'm well read. My regular reads (and YouTube and Twitter addictions) include:

- Hacker News

- Nassim Taleb

- Daniel Kahneman

- Marc Andreessen

- Paul Graham (Y Combinator)

- Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert)

- Derek Sivers

I'm huge into hacking "learning." I have a PhD, and hope to do a J.D. one day. Good cook, regular meditator. Originally from India, I have my green card, and expect to have citizenship by summer.

hive_mindon [dead]

(OP here.)

I'm a computer professor in the business school of a university in the Rocky Mountain area.

I get summers off. I want to visit FL or CA for 3 months during summer 2017 to learn surfing.

During that stay, I'd like to work for a start-up or some such. Don't need pay, but sweat equity and a place to crash would be yuuuuuge.

My ideal schedule will be to surf 4 hours a day, and spend 8 hours a day working at the start-up.

I consider myself well-versed in human communication, cognitive biases, UI/UX design, pricing, coaching.

Programming languages I dabble in: javascript, php, python.

I'm an expert at SPSS and can work with R. Have knowledge of machine learning, bitcoin (I did the Stanford MOOC for both).

I'm well read. My regular reads (and YouTube and Twitter addictions) include: Hacker News Nassim Taleb Daniel Kahneman Marc Andreessen Paul Graham (Y Combinator) Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) Derek Sivers

I'm huge into hacking "learning." I have a PhD, and hope to do a J.D. one day. Good cook, regular meditator. Originally from India, I have my green card, and expect to have citizenship by summer.

hive_mindon I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam

100% true.

hive_mindon I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam

I'm Indian myself and it concerns me that so many of these scams emerge from what appears to be India (based on the Indian accents).

Does anyone know if any scammers have ever been "brought to justice" in India. Ever?

Seems like something that should be a high priority for the Indian Govt. if they want to help with India's image abroad, especially with the tech sector.

hive_mindon Ask HN: What's happening in agricultural technology?

interesting looking automatic carrot harvester: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06MAiRaKC6M

hive_mindon You Can Change Your Personality

Nice reco. Which contemplative exercise do you find most useful?

hive_mindon Depression as hard on the heart as obesity and cholesterol

Exercise, sleep, meditation, diet, hobbies.

hive_mindon Ask HN: How to learn new things better?

"Flow" seems to help a lot.

I recently did some image editing with GIMP. (I usually use Photoshop, and don't really like GIMP, but decided to use it because it is FLOSS and I'm switching to FLOSS where available.)

It was one of my first times using it, and it was difficult to use. I had to check a couple tutorials on YouTube before I could get into the flow.

Once I got into the flow, it was an amazing feeling. And after I was done editing, I was able to learn other, new things unrelated to GIMP.

This is the most difficult thing for me: getting into the flow. I suspect that GIMP won't be able to get me into the flow once I become better at it.

It's such a mystery: flow. There are reams and reams written about it on the internet. On how to hack it. Do this, do that.

What I want is a simple activity, that once I start doing it, I automatically get into flow (so that I can harness the momentum to learn other things). Anyone have personal experience with such "hack flow" activities?

hive_mindon Radiant – Business analytics using R and Shiny

I found it fantastic because it allow me to do stuff quickly without having to learn Shiny.

Do you know of any other GUI charting R apps like Radiant besides GrapheR and Deducer?

hive_mindon React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Enough JQuery

Great concept (tutorials for people who know just enough JQuery). Would love more tutorials (for Angular, e.g.) for such people.

TodoMVC was a great effort. But unfortunately, the actual Todo creations are not well documented (for beginners to figure out how and why certain things were done).

hive_mindon Show HN: http://tempr.org

Appreciate the feedback. Could you please clarify how it isn't helping (it's too late for me to fix this submission, but it'll help me for future submissions). Thanks.

hive_mindon Show HN: http://tempr.org

http://tempr.org

hive_mindon Show HN: TextDissect – Let's Dissect Buffett's 50th Annual Shareholder Letter

OP here:

There was such a great discussion on HN re: Berkshire Hathaway's last Annual Report 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9133627 ...

...that I was inspired to whip-up something for Buffet's latest Letter to Shareholders (released last week). As always, its got wisdom in spades.

So here it is, a place where the hive-mind can dissect shareholder letters to glean what the Gurus (e.g. Buffett) are "really" saying.

Each paragraph can be commented on separately (i.e., has its own, independent, comment thread).

Commenters can log-in to comment via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Disqus or Linked-In.

I assembled it in about 3 hours using WordPress, Commentpress (a WordPress plugin), and WordPress Social Login (a WordPress plugin).

It did take me about 40 hours of searching to find the Commentpress plugin though. I must have gone through every single annotation and commenting technology out there before settling on that.

Unfortunately, the site is not particularly mobile friendly. So this site should be viewed on a large screen in landscape orientation.