skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We think of our target audience in concentric circles. We'll likely have users from each circle at any given time, but we'll prioritize our product and marketing towards the inner circles then move outwards:

Circle 1. A few specific analysts in a few specific companies we're associated with. They analyze survey data, they use only basic functionality of the fancy tools, and they want a simpler solution.

Circle 2. People analyzing surveys generally. It's a straightforward application where existing tools are way too complicated.

Circle 3. The rest of the 50% of stats tool users that never use more than the core functionality of existing tools (that number is from our research).

Circle 4. People who analyze at work. In particular, Excel power-user analysts and marketing folks for whom the go-to tool for analysis is the pivot table. We want to ease them into the world of more powerful, statistical analysis. We do a lot of usability testing with these folks and we're excited about their reactions so far. But they're not in a lot of pain, so they're not a great initial audience for us.

Grand vision stuff: Tools like SPSS and the like were built in the 80s, and Excel pivot tables were built in the 90s. They've been updated but not overhauled, and there's a gaping hole between them in terms of ease of use and power. As small, rich datasets become ubiquitous, are people in 2020 really going to be using tools from 1990? We hope not.
The author mentions that 90% of resumes are probably not qualified for a position and suggests that many of those rejections are be due to a lack of relevant experience.

This sounds like a horrible idea. There's a well-established history of inexperienced people doing amazing things that their more experienced counterparts couldn't do. This often includes founders (also true in other disciplines like the arts and science)

Obviously this is a much more nuanced topic (personally, for most roles, I would not consider random resumes on general principle because I don't think it's a great way to make an impression) but if you're going to have hard rules to weed out resumes, I would not recommend using experience.

It's a bit pedantic because this is not the article's main point, but it stood out for me and I think discouraging inexperienced people from doing anything is generally a bad idea.
Thanks!

We are trying to make Statwing automatically display the right analyses for the portions of your data you are most interested in.

If we can accomplish that, then hopefully we've helped make you faster at understanding the relationships in your data. Maybe that is enough so you don't need to break out R for basic analyses. Otherwise I would also use R. I made some graphs in R that wouldn't be able to do in Statwing right now, but if we can output the right things based on your data then hopefully you could save some time with us.
Firstly, the merchant still gets the sale and is happy (it's like boasting about getting 20% off at Bed Bath and Beyond). All the merchant has to do is skip an email here and there (if they want). This is to say: you have not found a loophole; you are not a concern to the merchant; no one should be frightened by this tactic because of your story.
Given that many people initially thought this ban was silly until they researched the actual consequences of swallowing the balls, reality does not seem to bear out your hypothesis.
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More realistically, Visa was probably hoping that many consumers would, like the author, already have the option of and be forced into using their Visa card.

I agree that this seems, in addition to being extremely frustrating to almost all consumers, a silly marketing move, but I'm sure that Visa has run the numbers and has a sound business reason for doing this. Since, judging by mthoms's post, this seems to be a tradition at Olympics, my reasoning may be off, but I imagine that forcing all vendors to only accept Visa must cost a lot more than a sponsorship without that condition—and I really think that they wouldn't blindly jump into that without a sound reason.

There's the obvious trade-off of how much extra money Visa makes from users who have multiple cards and are forced into using Visa where they wouldn't have otherwise vs. money lost from Visa-owners who who are pissed off. But there are probably much more subtle, long-term effects. Maybe 75% of consumers present have a Visa, and 50% of those Visa-owners feel entitled and empowered by having the ability to use their card while others are frustrated; and then there's the trade-off of the 'entitled' Visa-owning 37.5% of consumers spending more with their Visa cards over the following months/years vs. the money lost due to the 25% of consumers who didn't have a Visa at the olympics and possibly hold a grudge and never own a Visa card because of the experience. Not to mention the fact that a similar sponsorship would likely be arranged if Visa decided not to do it; for all we know, MasterCard had a clear business incentive to do this but refrained because of moral reasons, but are we (consumers as a whole) discussing how valiant MasterCard is and how much they respect us as consumers or have we all forgotten a little bit about MasterCard because everyone's talking about Visa?

Again, I don't agree with this idea; I think it's bad and annoying. But I think it's silly and a bit ignorant for all of us (many of whom have no marketing experience, and most of whom don't on this scale) to assume we know more than the marketers making these decisions because we're annoyed.
Good tips. Another I'd add is using the express-resource module for routing.

https://github.com/visionmedia/express-resource/
Please charge for this. It's obviously very well done and you deserve to be compensated for your hard work.
Expectation? No. Desire? Yes! If someone goes out of their way to make me unable to use the form of payment I want, and that is accepted in many other places, I will dislike them, despite not having the "right" to use it.
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Nice! It's a great dataset, really fun, and we're big fans of ProPublica.

We'll definitely edit the copy. I'll ping you unicast to make sure we did it right. Yay!

edit: Also, thanks for the feedback on the tour. Our goal is to make the interface so intuitive that it shouldn't require the tour to know what to do. We've got some updates in mind that should get us much closer to that goal.
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It's only within the sites themselves, nowhere else.
This is very true. The merchant fees in the UK and therefore the minimum spend between merchants can vary enormously.

For instance, I can buy milk at £0.49 on an American Express card in Tesco, but in my local pub, anything under £10 (on any card other than AmEx - AmEx is still not accepted in that many places in the UK) requires me to pay a £1 transaction fee.

There is no reason behind this, other than Tesco are so huge, they can negotiate a much better rate than a small business, who clearly can't even consider the huge American Express merchant fees.

The sooner somebody disrupts this 'business', the better for everyone.
Example public dashboards that some users have made so far:

5by5 podcasts: https://www.dashzen.com/p/Q/n9jot
Latest in Paleo: https://www.dashzen.com/p/Q/0Yia6
Tech Companies' Facebook Likes: https://www.dashzen.com/p/Q/8zPx1
Tech News: https://www.dashzen.com/p/Q/LBQVi
Presidential Election Polls: https://www.dashzen.com/p/D/WIYyX
The Hobbit Movie: https://www.dashzen.com/p/F/iud6H
The geometry of viewing Earth in the Martian sky is the same as viewing Venus in our own Terran sky. The interior planet periodically approaches a certain maximum angular separation from the Sun. Just as we see Venus but not the Sun sometimes in the early morning or evening twilight, Martians (and rovers on Mars) could see Earth but not the Sun at corresponding intervals of Mars' rotation. It's a significant amount of time, up to several hours per day at maximum separation.

The angular separation between the Sun and the Earth as seen from a space probe is significant as far out as Cassini at Saturn. The probe can receive commands from Earth without the signal being overwhelmed by solar radiation, except for a few days each (Earth) year when Earth is too close to the Sun as seen from the spacecraft. (Earth doesn't literally go behind the sun often, thanks to inclination of the planetary orbits plus Cassini's own inclined orbit at Saturn.)

> Our line of sight to Mars is independent from Mars seeing the sun.

Our line of sight to Mars as an entire body is independent, but our line of sight to a particular point on Mars is indeed correlated with that point facing the Sun.
Indeed. Even the Kindle and Kindle Fire made sense as platforms for selling other stuff. I don't see that here, and I'm kind of scratching my head.
I'm leaving the UK
That is a great feature idea. Maybe another way of doing it is to get an email when someone touches code I touched last.
Have you done this before, or is this your first attempt at building something for others? Please post back about whether you get any work through this.

One of my goals in learning to use django efficiently is to be able to solicit work like this, so I would be curious to hear how this goes.
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This is stupid marketing by the Visa team. But what has not been mentioned is why would the Olympic committee allow this! And money is not the answer as I would think Visa / Mastercard or other would still sponsor this if the committee had said all cards must be accepted. Personally I am more disappointed in the olympic committee than Visa.
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came here to write this.
For example, if I look at my history, I have a bunch of `git diff` and `bundle exec rake test`, which actually correspond to `<C-r>-d-i` and `<C-r>b`, and a few `heroku ...`which amount to `he<Up>`.

The single command to actually count this occurrences required way more typing.
A better marketing approach to this would have been to silently only accept VISA and never call attention to the fact that there is an arrangement behind the scenes.

Still pretty awful for your potential customers.
It's time for penalties for false DMCA takedown notices.
I relied heavily on a bank card when I lived in France a decade ago. Has Europe regressed?
Are there any practical uses for this?
The discussion is happening over in this thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4346941
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That was the reason Apple offered it in the first place, it's not the reason it was built in and updated with the OS.
Read the summary posted by bryanlarsen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4345768

Basically, ETC and ASTC are royalty-free parts of OpenGL.
If you don't live in the UK, having a fistful of sterling when you get home is not really the ideal situation. It's not far from it going bad, in a sense.
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Visa started pushing debit cards here in Canada now.

http://visa.ca/en/personal/visa-debit-card/index.jsp

(I don't work for Visa, but they sent my girlfriend one in the mail.)
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There's an implicit assumption of "more than one unit" in a market. One of anything is a curiosity, not amenable to economic analysis. In this particular market, popular music, where the issue under discussion is massive copying, it's downright disingenuous to do the "sunk costs are marginal cost of the first unit" schtick. Marginal cost gets calculated without sunk costs.
Here is another image not shown in the article:
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Try to run your own web sites that has these options.

On my web site PostJobFree.com there are 3 payment options: Direct (backed by Stripe), PayPal, and Google Checkout.
Stripe covers ~85% of new transactions. Paypal ~10%. Google Checkout ~5%.
They never mentioned YouTube on stage though, it just wasn't yet removed from the developer previews. That's like saying Apple advertised Mountain Lion as having the 32-bit kernel because it was present in DP1.

I have little doubt they were planning to remove it the entire time and it just wasn't a high priority issue until the license expired in between beta 3 and beta 4.
(OP Here)

I think it is important to note that there is a big difference between weeding out resumes due to a heuristic like experience, and weeding out candidates based on experience.

Take the oft-quoted Tristan Walker/Foursquare example. If Tristan had simply sent his resume to "jobs@foursquare.com", It's likely that Dennis and Naveen would have hardly looked past the first lines of his resume. However, because Tristan worked his ass off to reach out directly, he was given a chance to do amazing things despite his inexperience.

I entirely agree that inexperienced people shouldn't be discouraged from trying to punch above their weight. I just believe that the bar for them to gain entry is a bit higher than submitting a resume.
Sadly if you want to see a forged Cashier's check you need only try to sell a car on Ebay. There is a scam, that works like this:

1) You advertise an item of value X

2) Person 'buys' it. Sends you a cashiers check.

3) "whoops, they typoed the number and the cashiers check is for $1000 more than your car (or boat or whatever)" Go head and deposit it, take out the $1000 'extra' and send it back to me.

The check is forged, the fraud depends on banks giving legitimate customers access to 'some' of the funds right away and holding the rest until the check clears. The victim gives away the $1000, and their property, the crook rides off, and 3 days later the check bounces.
Like other has said, the argument makes absolutely no sense at all. Would you say that "the right to speech" is the same as the "the right to shot people in the head"? Both require the same amount of liberties so they must be the same right?

"Freedom to be shot", and "freedom to not be shot" is not the same thing. Yes, both include the world "freedom", but its not the same kind of freedom. Same goes for rights, laws, and in this discussion even software licenses. What count is the Intent and what real world effects it has.
> Visa only gets 2-5% of the charge.

Visa doesn't get that - the issuing bank does. Visa probably gets %0.1 of the charge.
Thanks for dousing a small outbreak of nuclear hysteria.

It's depressing that the article has to insert (non explosive) next to the plutonium. Clearly some people must think that this is a bomb waiting to go off at any moment.
Actually, Tim Hortons just recently started accepting Visa (at least out here in BC).
I completely disagree.

Living in a civilization is about joining a social contract to not infringe on each others rights. (theft, rape, murder, etc infringe on the victims rights, where as buying Bucky Balls does not affect anyone but the purchaser)
> I'm thinking of things like cigarettes and alcohol, and wondering why they can be less restrictively regulated than little magnetic toys.

Probably because Bucky Balls does not have anywhere near the lobbying money that Big Tobacco does.
In the US, there was never such a law. It was a term of credit cards' merchant agreement that merchants couldn't charge extra for credit card use.

However, the recent Dodd-Frank Act limits that - merchants can give a discount for using cash and allows them to set a minimum amount for credit cards up to $10.
This is definitely a fair point. So far, we've found it to work well by keeping our packages fairly well organized.

A simpler solution might be to put your custom modules in node_modules (without symlinking) and then commit those to your source tree.

The main point that I wanted to get across was that it's worth structuring your packages in such a way that makes it easy for developers to write new modules without using a lot of relative paths in the file system. Node does this work already, so I like to take advantage of it.
Yes! Especially traveling outside the US.

In the US it's common for merchants to always take both, it's not so elsewhere. I did take a taxi once in the US that only took one and not the other - and not the one I had.

That ended up as a half hour drive around town looking for an outdoor ATM.
There are third-party implementations of the MP3 Downloader. I've used Pymazon, which worked well under Linux. There's also clamz.

- http://code.google.com/p/clamz/

- http://code.google.com/p/pymazon/
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Yep, there is also the stipulation that no Shops in London are allowed to sell hot Chips unless sold with Fish aka Fish and Chips, because McDonalds has exclusive sponsor rights on Chips. I should say that English Chips really are nothing like McDonalds french fries.

Same thing, different brand
I would rather say:

If you do not have a Visa card take your money elsewhere, we don't serve your kind here.
How odd that it's a Facebook game and not an Android app, considering Amazon's investment in that realm.
Within your world you may be a generalist, but the OP is not a programmer and many if not most of the people he is talking about are not either. To them and most people you are very specialized.
Google has two big clear goals with their Android strategy:

(1) keep it's main product (Search) from being locked out (by MS/Apple/Facebook), set aside (made nondefault) or emasculated (ad blockers eventually). This is the main point of Chrome as well as G+ to some extent.

(2) minimize frictions that reduce searches. In the case of Android they give away the OS because if the OS costs more the phone costs more and fewer people switch to an internet phone. For Chrome the push for speed attacks the problem at a different angle - faster internet = happier customer = more searches per person.

There are other benefits and goals Google has with this -- yes they want to boost G+, yes they want to keep the data flowing and building, yes they have grand plans down the road -- but those are all secondary.
I'm embarrassed by how long it took my to realize I was reading satire - but in case anybody missed it the author is Andy Borowitz - it's definitely satire.
Actually it's worse. All video footage belongs to the IOC. In other words, athletes don't own their image at the Olympics. This is true with the NCAA too, by the way. And the NFL.

So if a company signs an athlete to wear their tennis shoes (for example) any image from any olympics, the IOC gets a fee. Not the athlete (of course the athlete is begin paid anyway).
Thanks! I haven't been using AMD so much since I've mainly been working on the server-side js, but it seems like a similar structure.

The shared code between client and server is definitely an interesting concept. I'd be interested to see some of your posts on how this ends up working!
Hardly, it's just that in 2007 YouTube and online video were basically synonymous. You didn't really have one without the other.
"Olympic committee allow this"

Money of course. What did you think?
I'm worried for how quickly you can do tests with this interface. I feel my fingers urging for hypothesis hunting---do you have multiple comparison corrections in place?
If one needs a reason to hate Visa, their suspension of payments to Wikileaks may be a bit more robust and stand on somewhat higher moral ground, in my opinion.
Amazon owns other "content creators" too, like dpreview.com, which it bought in 2007.
I do a lot of stat. analysis and I was impressed with the clarity of the analyses. However, I ran through the Obama v. Romney tutorial and was surprised to see that the software was averaging survey items (Likert-scale data). I thought that this was not allowed since it is troublesome to interpret the output (how do you interpret 8.36 Neuroticism?)

Aside from that, I can see this filling a need for those whom are aware of the importance of statistical significance but do not have the time to look up the appropriate analysis function in R/SAS/SPSS/...
> I'm in the right aren't I?

I'm not sure what you're asking me. Demanding something is not the same as copyright infringement or theft.

If you're asking why we won't give you the service for what you demand because nobody owns it, I would argue that a service is both physical and finite, so I believe it can be owned. Our service involves physical work being performed, and it is limited by resources, so it being owned such that you cannot demand it is still consistent with my beliefs.
Anyone with serious ambition in the Web tech sector would jump from the UK to the US in a heartbeat if it were a practical option and for many, like Ryan, it is and they do. This can only mean good things for Ryan and Treehouse.
> The web site (and the future Google YouTube app) will surely have advertising

Already does. More evidence this was in the pipeline the entire time, Google has already devised a scheme to feed unskippable ads to devices that use their own player such as iOS.

You can experience it right now, just go to youtube.com in Mobile Safari and look for a music video. Most likely you'll get a pre-roll ad.
> Does there need to be?

Yes. The question of morality require more than the simple fact that someone can gain something of value without loosing something of value in exchange.

A question asked by Eben Moglen (a professor in law historian and founder of FSLC), if bread could be copied with no costs by the process of pressing a button, what would the argument be to require more for bread than what a starving person would be able to pay? Would it be morally right to deprive a person of what he or she need to live when it cost you nothing to allow the person to survive? And if you do decide to deprive the person of that bread in a effort to give money for the first bread created, would the death of the starving man then be murder?

And before you say "but copyrighted works are not necessary for living", please consider the effect of education has on a person ability to survive. There has also been physcology experiments that has proven the need, the almost extreme need for culture we human beings have. Deprive people of it and there is physical effects from it.
I can do everything they can do in matlab with your data in less time and with less hassle. my only price is a xmen comic book and a 6 pack of coke.
I wonder when would Sony eradicate that project, like they did with Bleem...

I wonder how many of you remember the good old Bleem emulator?
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You're able to use cash, though I doubt they'll give you a discount.
Your 2nd link works now and the image is without the white box! Here is a 1600x1200 version: http://i.imgur.com/708I5.jpg

There is a seam just to the left of the package, which is why NASA presented the image with the object off-center, and why I cropped it that way as well.
That and that those products predate regulatory agencies and also sience had not caught up with the dangers (till relatively recently).
In other words, they are kind of grandparented into the social fabric. Gasoline is kind of the same --extremely falmmable liquid which is sold without end-user regulation.