skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your assumption being that I don't know calculus? Anyway I stand by my original statement, if you're working in data analysis (even as a frequentist) you should be able to see the truth in it; "data scientists" aren't deriving MLEs for wacky distributions and using the mean to parametrise a Gaussian doesn't require calculus. Thanks for the link, I guess?
I'm getting the same behavior. formulas like '=1+2' just show in the cell instead of their result.
If you're really unsure about salary, just ask them "What is the salary range budgeted for this position?". This would be one of my questions to ask at the end of an interview. Given that you have serious Python skills, they may give you a more lucrative offer than you'd expect!

Also, if someone really pushes you regarding your salary expectations, just answer "I want to make sure this is the right fit before discussing salary."

Since you're fresh out of school, check out sites like http://www.salary.com and http://www.payscale.com as well as local job boards. Ask your friends/classmates and anyone with a few years of experience about starting salaries.
Sprint, then do nothing
Thank you so much. I've often said that travel is a skill, and couldn't really express exactly why I've grown more comfortable with it over time, but this is perfect.

Also, my first time to Europe, I tweeted something about being stressed about my first train ride. I got back several confused "Wait, trains are so simple, what are they like there???" This. This is what they're like here.
Fully aware, but it's not important as it's being run as a separate business concern so it's a for-profit enterprise.
Apple under pressure by interchangeable analyst
I'm uninformed, "grid saturation" meaning what?
It's just a bias for proven ideas, rather than ideas that are theoretically sound, which depending on your position can be entirely rational.
Good point. But aren't there plenty of other public indicators of wealth?
I use pocket as well and it's great for marking articles to read later. I built ReRead so I would be reminded (by email) of articles that I should read again at a later date
All great points. Personally, I am looking to grow my business to be more than just me and it was one of my main motives to start presenting myself as a business, it just happened to carry with it the beneficial side effect of being seen in a more professional light (most if not all my clients are aware I'm still the only full time employee).

Regarding taking on too large of a project should you wish to remain a one-man shop - all I can say is that the projects you turn down are equally as important as those you accept. You have to know both your abilities and the limits of what you can do as one person.

Also, I'm more of a Coke person.
"The belief that meritorious people will rise to the top" requires believing that people of equal merit are treated equally, but that doesn't happen - people have all kinds of biases and *isms that muddy this up.
I've added this to the list. Thanks for the feedback :)
As you gain more experience, your prior experience becomes outdated, and doesn't show an accurate picture of your up to date skills. You want to be efficient in showing the employer the most relevant details of your experience, so they can make their decision faster. The stuff you did 10 years ago may just be a distraction, and may make you look worse than you are today. A page or two should be sufficient in painting a convincing picture of your expertise, even if it isn't comprehensive.

After you pass the resume screening, you may want to follow up with a full CV. The difference between a CV and a resume, at least in the US, is that the CV is the unabridged version of your resume, containing all your experience. The resume should be a condensed version of it showing just the most impressive and enticing parts.
Traditionally the console SDKs are 'Visual Studio plus proprietary magic', so you'll need to get registered as a developer either way. But you'll almost certainly be using Visual Studio.
Not really Google's fault. Also they are announcing prices for US. Just assume prices in other countries will be ~30-50 percent higher.
Great idea. Will add to the list :)
The thing about math is that you don't know what you're missing until you learn more. It sometimes lets you solve hard problems in an incredibly obvious and simple way because you knew a mathematical solution existed. Ignorance of the existence of that solution would have lead you to build a complicated and clunky chunk of code.

I recently was able to apply a few math techniques in a project to solve a problem elegantly[1][2]. It is useful in my career as a software developer.

[1] https://github.com/SGrondin/map-reporting/blob/master/src/ge...
[2] https://github.com/SGrondin/map-reporting
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People would probably vote if they felt less disenfranchised by our plurality voting, the electoral college, and our two party system.
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There's no such thing as a "small" or "large" sample size, per se. If you're doing it rigorously, you need to fix both your confidence interval (e.g., 95%) and the effect size you expect to see (e.g., a 50% lift in metric X relative to your control). You can then do some simple math which will tell you what sample size you need before there's only a 5% chance you'll see a 50% lift in metric X if you continue the test. Finally, you run the test until you've sampled that many users and stop the test. If there's a winning variant and it's statistically significant, congrats! If not, go back to square one.

The larger the effect size, the smaller your sample size can be before you reach that conclusion.

Most folks don't fix the desired effect size and instead just create a bunch of variants, start the A/B test, wait for the A/B testing framework to shout "statistically significant!", and then declare a winning variant. If the sample size seems "too small" they might not feel comfortable declaring a winner, so they perfunctorily "get a few more samples." Neither of these are rigorous, so it's a bit pointless to debate about which one is "better."
I once had BART break down on my way to the airport, and it was something straight out of a horror movie.

"Okay, so we're stopped. I'm going to get out and manually flip this switch. Then we have three more. Don't worry, I'll get you to the airport soon."

Every single part of my body was screaming "NO THIS IS LIKE A HORROR MOVIE, DON'T GET OUT OF THE TRAIN OR YOU'LL DIE!!!"
One major flaw to this article doesn't point out is that you may have a numbers advantage, as the coach and author suggests as the reason to why this works. Or, you may have a practice advantage against your opponent.

Practice advantage means that very rarely do teams practice their onside kick coverage or their 4th down defense on the opponents 12 yard line, because it just never happens. So the week before you play this team, your coaches will over index on the amount you practice onside kicks and 4th down coverage, meaning there will be a lot less time to practice for their actual offense and defense.
The Moto X/G are simple.
Funnily, around me the opposite is true: clients I know are actively avoiding consultancies/companies in favor of freelancers, because some of those consultancies have the bad reputation of selling gradually more low profiles for expensive prices.
I spent 18 years in a papermill town (the company, or the family that owned it, basically owned the entire town). Still remember what it smelled like, but it stops bothering you for the most part after awhile.

The real issue is that they switch up what they are making every few months or so, so the smell changes periodically. Whenever that happens you start noticing the smell again for a few more days. After a few years you'll become pretty good at ignoring that general class of smells though.
If the numbers truly support it, then NFL coaches, of all people, should adopt it. They are supposed to have balls and care more than anything about winning.

If the facts truly support it, I expect we will soon see NFL coaches adopt it.
When I had issues I just put it through their "how was the ride" thing that pops up after every ride, and they sorted it for me that day.
Same exact story here. Linear algebra seemed like a tautology, I was ranting about it until I started using it in CS...
I'm not drawing any conclusion, I just treat women, poc and LGBT people as, you know, PEOPLE. There's nothing that stops anybody from contributing repos to github.

Certainly it's not their gender or their race or whatever other social construct. If you don't have time it's because you don't find time, which means you don't have any interest in it. And, you know what? It's fine.
Are you saying that women or black people have a too busy agenda doing their <enter stereotype> stuff that they possibly cannot use github?

Please, if you want to talk about people not having enough opportunities to participate in github community, talk about people living in Nigeria, Tibet, North Korea. They surely have bigger problems. This has nothing to do with gender or race. No, not at all.

If we consider discrimination on the workplace, in the industry, at a job interview, then sure, I can agree with you. A woman might have a harder time being accepted in the industry (sadly), same goes for other minorities. But on github? Sorry, I'm not buying it.
Yes, I have a Github ID, but have mostly interacted with projects not hosted on Github. Yes, they still exist. :)
ATM2
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Possibly. Web workers are isolated from the DOM, but can still do stuff like import other scripts or do XHR requests, but those would be limited to the same origin.

It seems like that would be somewhat XSS safe since you are just passing strings back and forth.

I really like this idea.

evalSafeAsync(code,context,callback)

That being said, for a spreadsheet, you need to bite the bullet and parse the formulas. I don't see an easy way to support SUM(A1:A4) using this eval hack.
I'm not positive, but I might imagine that it's that the solar power generated by that particular grid either equals or exceeds the amount used by it. If there's multiple grids it could be that the residential area is nearly self sustaining during the day, and they don't have the capability to move that generation successfully to the other places that need it because the grid interchanges weren't built with that in mind.
I'm talking about the dissonance of his figure, and I think you realize that. I didn't say every single facet of the character was compelling.
I'm from a country that has zero football and soccer is the king of everything. Some time ago I started watching football and really enjoyed both the physical tactical aspects of it. Been very busy though (had kids!), and never got to really study and learn more about the game (read a for dummies book and that was it - still have last year's superbowl game on media player to be watched). What would be a good, practical way (book/video/documentary) to learn about the game? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
HN has a voting ring detector that severely punishes them, if that's what you're alluding to.
I wonder why this "USA" there is supposed to represent the whole USA. Who decides? USTR isn't even democratically elected, yet it got some weird authority to draft far reaching regulations which affect everyone.
Sorry yep, didn't see your reply earlier.

That's not to say threads aren't expensive, they still require several heavyweight struct allocations on the kernel side, e.g. struct task_struct, which I counted to 1k before getting bored (and wasn't even quarter way through the fields)

Edit: Linux git HEAD with Debian unstable .config:

(gdb) print sizeof(struct task_struct)

$1 = 1904
If nothing else, it's probably time we give OpenERP another look just to get an idea of how problems are being handled there. Pointers to useful reading would be welcome, if you've got any.
Nothing beats a fish sauce factory. Fermenting fish, mhmm...
A corollary of your observation is that the BI is proposed to replace retirement benefits, whereas the BJ as specified in the model provides income for employed people and registered disabled only. Since BJ advocates seldom oppose the principle of state-aid for the retired, you'd probably need to start by solving this (pretty easily by adding "retired_person" and "administrative_cost_per_retired_person" variables) which would substantially reduce the cost gap between the two proposals.
When you have bytecode, you have programs that run using them. I understand how these are a good thing in fonts or in PDF, but what is running i this ACPI machine the author described?
Chip Kelley mentioned several times during his coaching at Oregon that the reason he lined up for two points after every initial touchdown wasn't as much for the possible extra point, but so that every opposing team would have to devote precious (very precious in the NCAA) practice time to learning how to properly line up against it.
My twitter feed is so private I only have three followers: me, myself, and I. My wife doesn't even follow me. I don't think she even knows I have a twitter account. It's all very hush-hush.

I should send out more private celebratory tweets....
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Perhaps this points towards a larger scale failure in modern forms of "representative" democracy. Since opting out is the only alternative to arbitrarily picking between unsatisfying options - there's no "none of the above" box on a ballot sheet - it makes sense that voting becomes skewed towards those special interest groups irrationally motivated enough to actually vote. Notice that based on this evidence not voting is actually an entirely rational decision.
I've thought about going this route. Somewhere along the line I found "mosh" which might be useful to you if you're working at the terminal a bunch. I solves the typing latency issue as well as a host of platform specific terminal emulation issues.
Unfortunately, it wasn't the ride that was the problem. It was how much they charged me. I had already submitted the "how was the ride" form.
why should your readers accept your unsubstantiated hypothesis

The typical line of thinking with conspiracy theories seems to be the less substantiated the theory, the more credence it should be lent, under the logic that the government is suppressing evidence.

So basically the less evidence, the more believable. Beautiful, isn't it?
I originally wrote it as one monolithic paragraph with just the last line separate at the end. I thought it would be funny that way, plus capture the feeling of being faced with all those details. But some people found it annoying, so I relented.
> Going forward, I am probably just going to initiate a chargeback. They aren’t giving me many choices.

Give them a week to sort it out. Don't immediately chargeback, but call the credit card company and tell them about the irregularity. That way, you give Uber some room to sort it out, you don't have to worry about the charge in the process, and you established the timeline in case things do get hairy.
Is it just 'smell', or is it aerosolised capsaicin? The latter is not really fair to characterise as NIMBY-ness.
Likewise; two or three times, always quick and happy to refund.
>>Unfortunately I don't know how to argue it on an individual basis.

That's because you can't.

If your goal is to feel like you were part of the process and feel good about doing your civic duty or whatever, go vote. It might take you a few hours.

If you actually want to have an impact, though, you should use those few hours to instead create a short video explaining your stance, upload it to YouTube and share it on Facebook. If you get 100 views and 5 people change their mind as a result, you made a five times bigger impact than you would have if you had spent that time casting your own vote.

In other words, among all the possible ways of making a difference, voting is the second worst (the absolute worst being not doing anything).
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That's the problem, you can't make a convincing argument on an individual basis without invoking altruism, because this seems like an example of tragedy of the commons.
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In Singapore it is illegal to bring Durian indoors; its odor is so pungent.
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Not really snub just decline.

I can see how snapchat gets a lot of use to select friends (350mil msg a day) but how many use it with most of their friends? Seems narrow scope? But maybe thats just me.
Relative vote totals count. A legislator elected 80-20% will act in a certain way, a legislator elected 50.1-49.9% will act in quite a different way. Today, you can see this written into news stories about Obamacare affecting "vulnerable Democrats", but it's always something; the 50.1%-er is always looking behind their back.

Mind you, this still doesn't mean that "your vote counts" in a huge way or anything, but it is false that the only vote that counts is the one that swings the election. Votes do not merely choose whether Person A or Person B "wins"... it also imbues the winner with more or less power and flexibility.
there's no "none of the above" box on a ballot sheet

I find myself wondering if you've voted before. You can write in anyone you like.
That's exactly what I thought -- did he somehow re-discover Lisp.
I experienced an exact opposite response. We had a fairly troubling experience with an Uber driver late at night, and sent an email explaining what happened and requesting a response.

The next day we had an email response, refunding our money, requesting more information, and offering to talk on the phone. A little more discussion and we were told the driver had been terminated and got another heartfelt apology. It was great.
Too long; didn't hello world.
Tiny ARM+FPGA SBC gains beefier FPGA
http://linuxgizmos.com/tiny-arm-plus-fpga-sbc-gains-beefier-fpga/
Obviously, Dover can live where he chooses, and like the places he chooses. I don't begrudge him his preferences. But the shallow armchair-quarterbacking from someone who has clearly made no serious effort to have a substantive experience of a place? That I could do without.

After I posted my comment, I read his Life List, his About page, and other parts of his site, and realised that Dover's entire schtick is to promote an utterly self-absorbed worldview, so the lack of perspective is not really about Singapore.
High school play obviously has strategies that aren't appropriate for higher stakes or at a higher level of play: There are a lot of silly plays that high schools do that you'll never see in the professional leagues, aside from pro bowl level frivolity.

It's worth noting that this isn't about "going for it" on the 4th down, but instead about trying onside kicks. I mention that because one of the academic papers linked (by David Romner) is specifically about going for it on 4th down, and it doesn't say not to punt, but rather that on the average there are are many situations where teams punt when odds favor going for it on the 4th down (e.g. 4th and inches at your own 30 yard line. Aside from the last minutes of the 4th quarter down 6 points, the vast majority of teams would punt it).
It's like a long-time smoker saying that they have no reason to not smoke that next cigarette because it's not like that one cigarette is going to kill them.
You can't argue it on an individual basis, because it might not be "rational" on an individual basis: that is, taking all things into account, the expected "goodness" of the world in which you go to vote might not be greater than the expected "goodness" of the world in which you don't -- even if you strongly prefer one of the candidates. That's a pretty self-centered way to view the world, though.
Ok, so what's the equivalent of an IMDB score that VCs could use to judge a startup pitch?
I had a small billing error with an Uber a couple months ago (I had a free ride promo that somehow got eclipsed by a $10 off Google account promo). I tweeted, got a DM a few hours later that telling me to send them an e-mail. I did, charge refunded same-day. No complaints.
I'm more of a Coke person myself. Funnily enough, my comment originally referenced Coke. Then I realized I'd overused Coke as an example of "Generic Big Company/Brand/Advertiser" too many times in my commenting history for personal comfort. So I consciously switched to Pepsi this time around. :)
If you get 100 views and 5 people change their mind as a result, you made a five times bigger impact than you would have if you had spent that time casting your own vote

... well, assuming those five people vote. ;)
That's not a technical argument. Nobody wants to build on the CLR because its closed source and Microsoft tightly controls it. But the person I replies to claimed it was full of design mistakes, which is different.
> "Moments of Absolute Clarity" that tend to unravel considerably when met with the hard test of execution in the real world

Damn I hate it when that happens! (Especially if I've published the "moment of clarity") :)
I don't think "conventional programming languages" (and in particular Java) are well suited to the task of analyzing and querying data.

But Excel is also an odd beast. It's used for laying out reports, pivot tables, plotting graphs, working with database, calculations and VBA macros. Not all features play well together.
Eh, it's pretty easy to get things not on the far side of the screen; it's just hard to get it precisely in the center.
Before Digg/Reddit/The Internet every college kid in California was obsessed with it. I still an old roommate who travels around the world with her own little bottle in case she can't find it locally.

I remember an article from around 2009 where he talks about the drunken voicemails he received. It was in the NY Times so it isn't like they have been hiding.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/dining/20united.html?_r=3&
This makes it impossible to deal with the CSS without also having to deal with server-side coding, though.
> What makes the policy debate so difficult to resolve is that tariff design is a very indirect way to support residential PV. In Germany, they’ve gone with feed-in tariffs for solar PV instead – a direct subsidy for every kWh of energy coming from your PV system. Much simpler, and allows a reasoned debate on tariff design apart from solar PV policy.

I'm fairly confident this section about Germany is wrong - Germany has feed in tariffs which operate in addition to net metering, not as an alternative. That is certainly the case in the UK, whose system was modelled on Germany's.

Still, the basic point of this post is correct, net metering is an indirect subsidy, but there is an obvious technical solution: using the article's metaphor, to encourage people to eat their own zucchinis, or to use the solar energy on-site rather than automatically exporting it to the grid.

At present, PV systems export generated electricity directly to the grid, separately from the grid-connection used to bring in electricity which is consumed on-site, all of which is imported. Solar could fulfil normal electricity demand, and also be used to charge up storage heaters, or storage a.c. To the utilities, the house would look like any other, except with lower electricity demand.
Failing together usually only make sense for the simplest of apps, not for anything that has a lot of moving parts. If my pub-sub message queue falls over, I'd rather the web workers still stay up so visitors can see the site - they'll just be without realtime notifications. If the background workers die, those tasks should stay on the queue, but everything else still runs as normal.

So really, the math works out such that if you fail together, you'll have X amount of downtime. If you fail seperately, you'll have X*3 amount of degraded service.
You realize that that's because of your government's extremely high incentives to manufacture in Brazil, right?