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Frequentist Statistics:

1. Start with a model that you think describes your data.

2. Find the parameters of the model that make it fit the observed data most closely.

3. If the model really does not seem to fit the parameters, reject the model. The criteria for it not to fit is usually the p-value, which is the probability of data at least as unlikely as your observations occurring if your model is actually correct. If the p-value is less than .05 (by an arbitrary and accidental custom) the model is rejected. Wrap your head around that, if you dare.

4. If the model is not rejected, use it to predict future outcomes with the best-fit assumptions, ideally allowing for some uncertainty in the values of the parameters. Decisions are made on this basis. The uncertainty in the values of the parameters is quite difficult to allow for in practice.

Bayesian Statistics.

1. Start with a model that you think describes the data.

2. Then get some models to model the parameters of your model, called prior models, describing your uncertainty about the parameters of your model. You get the initial parameters for the prior models from your own head, or the head of an field expert.

3. Use the observed data to refine your estimates of the parameters for the prior models. So you started with educated guesses of these 'prior' parameters, and then you made the guesses better using your observations. In practice, your guesses can become irrelevant very quickly as you add more data.

4. Predict future outcomes using your model, where the uncertainty in the model parameters is modelled explicitly using your prior models as described in 3.

5. Put those predictions of future outcomes into a utility function to make decisions.

Summary:
The main thing is that Bayesian statistics allows you to specify models for your parameter uncertainty, provided you are okay with the educated guesses.
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I think about this point someone should link to [share likelihood ratios, not posterior beliefs](http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/02/share-likelihood-ratio...)... the summary is that you can do your Bayesian analysis without specifying the prior and just report the resulting likelihood ratios, telling everyone, "Here are the likelihood ratios, update your beliefs appropriately." Though that may lack some practicality.
Not quite, Windows uses hinting information from the font, OSX doesn't. Many freely available fonts contain terrible or no hinting, and they will look bad at small sizes on Windows.
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Photography involves capturing a moment or period of time, visually.

Technical skill can affect the way that moment is represented - but there'll always be an element of serendipity involved in taking a good shot.

Even so, this doesn't detract from the fact that someone who has invested time in the art of photography is going to be able to take more interesting and more notable photographs. I.e. The ratio of interesting:non-interesting shots, will be larger.
There should be a blog just about YC companies at this point.
Hmmm... most of the identifiably British photos seem to involve kids giving the Google car the middle finger. What does that say about us?
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I have to disagree. By my observation a lot more people are more interested in photography than there have been, due to high quality digital photography equipment at reasonable costs. And while some of them are very much "spam the shutter and see what pans out" talentless hacks, quite a few of them take the time to hone and expand their skills (behind the lens and in the "darkroom"). On the whole I think this leads to the creation of a greater number of talented and skilled photographers, though of course it also balloons the numbers of untalented photographers as well.
In reality a cops job is to find someone for whom the DA can make a case. Innocent or guilty doesn't matter as the ability to make charges stick. A consequence of being driven "by the numbers".
So what would you consider an acceptable cut-off point for Windows users, after which you'd go for an embedded font over a "safe" solution?
This is one of those ideas that I wish I'd thought of.

Simple - but conceptually brilliant. Bridging a conceptual gap between online communication and the physical world.
It says that you have a significant enough population of so called "chavs". And it's not just Britain. The kids in America were more or less the same. Lots of built-up anger in both cases.

Looking at many of these pictures is a reminder that poverty is akin to a disease.
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> 2. Coding async is weird at first, but you may grow to love it (as I have). Over the months, I've discovered many cool tricks and patterns that help keep the nesting to a minimum.

Can you share a few? Either here or as a blog post?
Nice. I like the "organic" feel of the images you get.

http://demoseen.com/langton.html#+/.<..<....++..........
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So I am not the only one who when they first used Windows 7 felt like it was a weird copy of their KDE 4 box at home?
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His issue (though not too obvious) is that NPM assumes /usr/local is writable by unprivileged users, which isn't secure or common in Linux distros or OS X.

It's a bug in NPM, it should be fixed someday.
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It's much easier to see what language someone would speak since a browser specifies it in every HTTP request [1]. It's not only more deterministic than guessing where someone's geographical location is based on IP ranges, it also doesn't rely on ISPs updating database records. It is magnitudes easier and more reliable to check someone's language than it is to check someone's geolocation.

Next to that, if I select it once, I would hope Apple would be at least smart enough to save my selection in a cookie, so that when I visit the site tomorrow, it doesn't require me to enter the same exact information.

It's obvious Apple is dropping the same ball on browser locale here just as RIM does, so my comment disproves his comparison with Apple.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14...
Interested about finding out more, too
I work at Canonical which continuing to grow. Most of the technical positions are remote. It's a great place to work. Tell them Benji sent you. http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/
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Most graph databases use BerkeleyDB under the hood. They are pretty safe to work with.
I think you mean Wayland not Unity, and I don't think its mainly Ubuntu pushing it. There probably are some issues with unity and network transparency due to dbus use for shell components(and I think the universal menu) but that's a separate issue.
Not after the Tolkien estate gets done suing them...
I'd say this is (if not a rare, at least a great) learning opportunity. Much better compensation puts icing on the cake!

I'd go for it if I were you; all the best.
I think there are parallels between the art markets and the emerging start-up markets.

In both of these fields, the actual products created support financial markets largely supported by opinion.

Both involve gatekeepers who select artists (or start-up companies) as important. The decisions made by these gatekeepers help to influence each relevant market.

Both involve attaching value to an artist (or company).

I think the difference is, in the art world - the curation (or moderation) process has been developed over time to ensure that there aren't too many new (highly hyped) entrants to the art market at any one time.

Surely, without this kind of restraint, bubbles are likely to develop?
Heh, the world isn't governed by presidential translators, but by 20-somethings pushing one set of data to one government, then slily changing it and pushing it to the other government.

Also, Palantir probably has a cadre of fat old white conservative reps to deal with gov't reps.
This is an interesting one I found:

http://www.ultra-premium.com/b/random/street-view-car.html

Unfortunately they have taken it down now, so although the link works, it leads to a location nearby, instead of the screenshot I have.
I think you need to go see how DNA evidence is actually used. CSI is not remotely like what goes on, forensics is not any kind of science it's just a kind of "best practices" from cops.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09054/950979-85.stm

DNA has a lot of issues as well.

http://www.bioforensics.com/articles/champion1/champion1.htm...
Solaris has a POSIX shell in /usr/xpg4/bin/sh. Unfortunately, there is no way to make /bin/sh POSIX-compliant, e.g. by setting an environment variable, a feature many other Unixes have.
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Fine, some things cost more but my point still stands: national products are the same or almost the same cost.
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I'm just curious, how do you see it as a learning opportunity? Learning the rough and tumble world of startups?
You could put it under 'unreimbursed expenses'. Yeah, you might get audited, but it's something you may be able to argue.

Alternatively, go self-employed and have the employer pay you enough to cover the extra FICA/SS numbers. If they're not providing insurance coverage for you, there aren't many other reasons to be an 'employee' of a company.
Extracted programmatically, then roughly checked by hand. A few removed that were genuinely irrelevant, but I can't guarantee that they're all good.

But to some extent, that's not my job. The OP should now check the info there and see if it's of any use. Ideally they could provide a summary of the information they feel is relevant, and then we'd have a potentially useful resource.
I submit that properly trained, "spouse and kids and dog and cat" aren't disruptive. I have all of those but a dog and work at home for hours at a time without interruption.
Hm, works fine for me (from several locations), and I don't see any related errors in the logs.

EDIT: I wonder if this is somehow caused by the Nginx FastCGI caching. I've had some trouble setting it up to not break WP admin login / being logged in to the site. In the end, I fixed that by only caching 200 responses and by making sure the WP session cookies are passed on. I wonder whether I've missed something that would cause it to incorrectly cache/serve the page for some visitors.
At home my wife or kids can bother me every 5 minutes. Literally. Every. Five. Minutes.
Right, US heath insurance is a form of collective bargaining. The more people you have the more you can negotiate. If you have a small group you cost are exponentially higher and the conditions covered significantly less.

I once bought a policy for myself, we had just exited one of our startups and I was on my own and working freelance. So I had no insurance. I was a 25 year old male and the only health problem I had was high blood pressure. It is/was controlled by medication.

Anyway, given that I was essentially a group of 1, the policies available to me where pretty expensive. If I recall correctly they where around $1000 a month for me. I did not have family at the time so it was just me.

Further I had a $500 annual deductible (I had to spend $500 before they started paying anything) then the per visit co-pays where pretty steep too. They ruled almost every possible male related problem a preexisting condition, so if I had a major medical issue related to any of them, they would not cover it and probably the wost of all, self purchased insurance plans don't cover perscriptions, these are a huge medical expense.

So not only where the policies expensive but they where essential useless for 2 years while you run down the clock on the preexisting conditions clauses. Given that many people are insured through a company policy or medicare many never deal directly with the reality of trying to get a decent policy on their own. I have to say, when I had that experience I realized how broke the insurance system is, it is totally stacked in the favor of the insurance company and the only way to claw some of that favor back is through collective bargaining.
Here's some discussion on SeaMicro's original cluster-in-a-box offering from the ever-excellent James Hamilton: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2010/06/14/SeaMicroReleases...

Lack of ECC support will be the killer here, I think - it would be great to see an ARM based alternative.
No, it sounds more like "you're costing us money now, so we don't give a crap about maintaining those servers anymore. If you really care about stability then pay us more money for our other service."

They should pull up the old contract, find out exactly what can be done to either terminate or transition people to the new services and get it over with. This seems like they're just letting the issue run off the rails and then when people complain that a server is down an extended period of time, a server that they paid a lifetime membership fee for, they start spouting off that these people are whiny freeloaders.

If the servers are old and rickety, migrate them to the lowest level of your new service for the same cost as what the person paid for initially, given that they've already paid in full, this would put the customer cost at $0. If you don't want to do that, then maintain the old servers and give them as much love as you would your other customers. That love includes not getting pissy in public about people whining over "free" servers, especially when they _weren't free_.
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Yes, and also the associated revival/turnaround/business processes.

(This is based on my understanding derived from your post above that the startup is not getting shut down.)

I do realise that you're basically on the technical (and not business) side of things, but imho it'll give you an opportunity to expand your experience and knowledge, going beyond the realms of technology; usually a useful thing. YMMV :-)
I'm with you. I loved and was fascinated by photography from a young age, but it was intimidatingly slow and expensive to experiment on film. Going digital let me do what I'd wanted to for years, the hobby ballooned and my skills went through the roof.
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Studies show that having any kind of noise is not good for concentration so these horrible, disease promoting open office plans mean I have to buy extra equipment to try and block out all the noise.
Yes, individuals cannot buy health insurance for the same rates that employers pay. Some individuals cannot buy health insurance at all if they have preexisting conditions.
It would be to allow you to concentrate on your core functionality without worrying about whether you are complying with spam laws, getting delivered, what your delivery rates are etc., running the mailserver. It's just paying for all that to be made a lot easier for you. There's lots of services in this area though: mailchimp, campaignmonitor, sendgrid, and Amazon have one now too.
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Offtopic, but the parent post should not be downvoted. It clearly adds to the discussion. (I can barely read it to make sense of the replies!)

Please, don't downvote when you think someone is wrong; downvote when their post doesn't contribute.
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"What wrong with a for-profit system? There should be MORE profit, not less.
High profits attract entrepreneurs to compete for customers by offering lower prices and innovating - consumers benefit."

That ideal doesn't exist, and probably can't, in the real world. In most situations, the easiest/fastest/cheapest way to 'profit' is by getting more customers' money, and spending less of it. When 'spending less' means customers get less care (the easiest way to spend less) then people will suffer.

The 'innovations' and such... well... I've no doubt some would/will happen, but how much 'innovation' can there be in insurance? We saw a lot of 'innovation' in the financial insurance markets (CDOs and such) and that wasn't a resounding success.

The bigger problem with your premise assumes that people are smart with respect to choosing between multiple private insurers each offering 'innovations' of their own. Most people wouldn't be on day 1 switching away from their current system, and it's not something that you can easily learn from or experiment with. With consumer items, I can buy them, try them, and recommend them to my friends if I like them or not. It's a lot harder to try out various insurance programs for multiple surgeries to see how each one fares in your particular situation.

Hospitals are often losing money because they're covering the cost of procedures for people who can't pay.

Long and short, hospitals and medical entities exist to help people with their most basic needs - health and life. People generally go to hospitals when they are sick or dying. Seeing 'for profit' companies making a profit from misery, illness, sickness and death isn't something that is going to sit well with most people.
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> The more people you have the more you can negotiate. If you have a small group you cost are exponentially higher and the conditions covered significantly less.

I have not found this to be true. I run a small company in Florida. We have BlueCross BlueShield. Comparing notes with other employers, big and small, the size of the group does not appear to make a difference. What seems to matter more is the makeup of the group in terms of age, gender, and preexisting conditions.

There is a huge difference between buying individual insurance and qualifying as an employer group of two or more.
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Chrome on Windows has some of the ugliest web fonts in general, but I've found that including an EOT, Woff and SVG in addition to the TTF.

FontSquirrel's '@font-face Kits' execute this as perfectly as I've seen, and I can't find a scenario wherein their fonts look ugly.
US hospitals can only treat uninsured people who are on death's door

I don't know that to be true, here in Florida we have a lot of immigration, many of them are fleeing worse places and don't have a lot of money and definitely don't have insurance, so they go to the ER like others go to their general practitioner. They do this because hospitals are not allowed to refuse treatment to the uninsured.
Okay - tried it on a different PC, different browser, loaded fine.
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I just happened to be scouring around for a good JS charting library yesterday.

Does anyone here have any experience with one? I am trying to build a dashboard, much like http://www.geckoboard.com/ and I need to be able to display nice charts (all kinds - bar, stacked, pie) with real-time data.

I looked some into flot (http://code.google.com/p/flot/) which uses the canvas, and Raphael (http://raphaeljs.com/) which uses SVG (and is not really a charting library) but they have gRaphael for that purpose. But with the plethora of options out there, I figured I ought to ask here at HN.

Any suggestions, anyone?
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Background: Christmas time. When asked what I wanted for Christmas, I replied:" an electronic book". Problem is, it doesn't look very good on a christmas tree. Hence came to me the idea of providing gift certificate templates. And pivoting a bit on the idea, I thought that some businesses might be interested in paying to print for pre-designed gift certificate templates! So when I decided to leave my job and create my own company, I decided to start small and create a website filling that need (others exist, see www.giftcarddesigner.com).

What it is: providing pre-designed gift certificate templates that a (small) business owner could personalize online, without using photoshop, paying a designer or microsoft word.

Also, I'm currently bootstrapping this from Jakarta, Indonesia, my business is registered in France, and my main target would be (I assume for now) small american businesses.
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US hospitals can only treat uninsured people who are on death's door

If you break your arm or get poked in the eye and don't have insurance, you do not get refused treatment at the ER.
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apparently, hoes like umbrellas.

seriously speaking, this collection is better than what most galleries have to offer.
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Are the ping times and connectivity noticiably different for you between Linode's Fremont DC vs Linode's Dallas DC?

(see http://www.linode.com/speedtest/ for pingable hostnames of servers in each DC + speedtests)

If you do want to move, you can put in a ticket and they can move you between DC's with no downtime I believe or just replicate your instance and switch IP's.
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