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shazamon San Diego's Bird Scooter Hoarding Problem

Then the charging cost would grow with profit and would no longer be considered an overhead cost.

shazamon Quitting my job has been the best thing I've done for my career

So how did it benefit his career?

shazamon Show HN: Should I Send It? Helping you understand your mood in emails

Great PowerPoint. Really LOVED how it took you 100 slides to explain mood analysis.

Positive mood.

shazamon What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan

TLDR: YouTube Ads not as efficient as blog posts about YouTube Ads

shazamon Peter Thiel sells most of remaining Facebook stake

Yeah but Instagram is doing fine

shazamon Simple blood tests may soon be able to deliver news about your cognitive health

How old are you?

Would you have wanted to find out if you were in your 20's?

shazamon Simple blood tests may soon be able to deliver news about your cognitive health

there is no drug or lifestyle strategy that is absolutely guaranteed to protect the brain

shazamon You are what you read

In short: spend less time reading articles like this one.

shazamon Launch HN: HealthWiz (YC S17) – Navigating health benefits to lower costs

I have a neck fracture and after answering 25 questions it said I have a 'thoracic aortic aneurysm'

shazamon Ask HN: Books you read in 2016?

When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi (highly recommended, but come prepared)

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany (recommended for HP nostalgia)

Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance (recommended)

Shoe Dog - Phil Knight (highly recommended)

Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell (meh)

The Gene - Siddhartha Mukherjee (currently reading, recommended so far)

shazamon A Survival Guide to a PhD

Does anyone have advice on applying to a PhD from industry & without significant research experience (but a BS + MS degree from Stanford)?

shazamon Computers do better than pathologists in predicting lung cancer type, severity

Does anyone know about how to get involved in work like this? I'm outcome-oriented so disease diagnosis would be motivating for me. I'm looking to help out on an open-source project along these lines.

shazamon Show HN: Neural network color recognition

Interesting but how is a NN necessary instead of examining pixel values?

shazamon Ask HN: Do startups actually do data science?

You're right the term can mean anything, but I alluded to my meaning when I mentioned "ML problems".

Thanks for the tip about Hortonworks/Cloudera, I had never considered such a role but that's exactly what I want to be doing next year.

shazamon Want to start work as a consultant – what should I watch out for?

Thank you. I see that most agreements have the same sort of language about the company maintaining ownership of all work...

shazamon Want to start work as a consultant – what should I watch out for?

That's what I'm worried about. I'd be acting in a data analysis/software dev role. What can I do to change the language?

shazamon SSH client in Google Chrome

I've been using this for some time already

shazamon Show HN: MemStash - Commit things to memory

I see what you did there

shazamon Instacart (YC S12) wants to be Amazon with 1 hour delivery

I see a very tight profit margin, but the key to pulling this off is good supply chain optimization.

Good luck

shazamon How America's Broken Meritocracy Drives Our National Anxiety Epidemic

The article claims that the US is "near the bottom in terms of actual social mobility", but only supports this with some points about how social mobility in the US isn't that good.

The US is still one of the most meritocratic countries in the world.

shazamon Show HN: Script Excel with Python

That's funny, I just used xlrd and xlrt and had to convert about 100 files to 97-2003 workbooks

shazamon Show HN: Morphine - regulated distraction.

My main problem with these types of extensions is that I end up just removing blocked sites when I run out of time

shazamon The Apologies of Zuckerberg: A Restrospective

Listening to Mark speak right now at Stanford. Someone asked him a question about privacy. He genuinely seems like a not-evil person.

shazamon 50% of All Workers Made Less than $26,000 in 2010

Not to take away from the point, but I'm always initially skeptical of statistics.

For example, this is also true:

50% of all taxpayers make less than the median EVERY DAY

shazamon Photoshop 'unblur' leaves MAX audience gasping for air

Wish they applied that algorithm on the video...

shazamon Groupon a Case Study in How Not to Do IPO

Looks like someone was right...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190453740457655...

shazamon Google Correlate by Drawing

0.9665 correlation between "iphone" and "cancel tmobile". Amazing.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=iphone&t...

shazamon Official enrollment for Stanford's online AI class has begun

I'm all for the increasing availability of free online education, but it's interesting to note I'm paying 50 grand (partially) for this...

shazamon Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear

The technology could be interesting, but this article is painful to read.

"One downside often cited by advocates of coal and gas power is that wind turbines require a lot more maintenence than a typical coal or gas power plant. But in a lagging economy this might just be wind power's biggest upside — it will create lots and lots of permanent jobs, sparking a new cycle of economic growth in America."

He thinks the fact that they require more maintenance and are less efficient is good for the economy. Unbelievable.