skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small nitpick:
What you are talking about is not sampling bias, it is something else.

You are alluding to how confidence in the presented results may be significantly lowered due to a high variance - associated with small sample sizes (it is a statistically significant possibility that you obtained the outcome through chance and not because it is representative)

Sampling bias is another thing altogether, when the method of taking measurements will exclude some of the population. For example, estimating ratio by taking note of the presumed gender of people leaving a particular room - not realising that it is in fact the female toilet.

Nonetheless, it is always a good idea to query the sample size when results are presented in such a manner :-)
The problem is that you have an asymmetry in resources between e.g. local officials who might want to stand up a fiber network and a company the size of Verizon, who very badly do not want this to happen. You need countervailing size, and in the US only the federal government has it.
After reading this book, this is a very good summary.
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After about 6 months toying with Go, I also ended up doing the same, except on Windows. I need a personal directory where everything I create and edit is stored, and nothing more, so I can easily and frequently do a manual backup of the contents, without the zip containing anything I didn't create.

It's a pity though the $GOPATH system doesn't fit in with this style of working.
The World Food Programme sometimes provide cooking utensils.

I wonder if they consider providing iron pots in regions with a need?

See eg http://m.wfp.org/photos/gallery/nicaragua-providing-cooking-...

I can't tell what the pots are made of but I don't think it's iron.

Edit: here's what WFP do in Cambodia. http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/re...
It's not a watch aficionado company. It is, as I understand it, a company that just rapidly builds out app ideas. An app incubator, you could say.
I use it at Walgreens all the time and I don't have any prompts to agree to. I hold the phone to the NFC reader, put my thumb to the phone, and then I'm done. That's it.
Then what is evolution trying to explain ? I thought it was explaining how primates evolved to humans, not just micro evolution at the DNA level ? For all practical purposes these are considered stable states in that they are different enough (visually, internally, intellectually) so as not to be considered continuous i.e. just differing by some epsilon.

Are you saying evolution does not claim to answer this and this is a question not worth asking?

I have a feeling the gist of what I am asking is clear enough but we are getting lost in words. I just asked for a link on Amazon that talks about testing/simulating/demonstrating evolution for snapshots enough far apart in time where we would say yes these organisms are pretty different, something like the snapshots demonstrated here: http://www.bot1320.nicerweb.com/Locked/media/ch11/taxonomy.h...
They can do this now. Municipal ownership of some of the pipes isn't going to stop what is essentially an orthogonal fight from happening at a higher level.
It does exist in the US. The ones I've seen are linked to GPS trackers that are added to fleets, so it's more a company adopted thing than a driver adopted thing.

The amount of data that you can get is pretty impressive from tracking a driver in real-time. There are even versions with cameras pointed at the driver and the road to record any "adverse events". In this way, it's less focused on the driver and more focused on fleet management.
> More progressive and pro-active then basically socializing 1/7th of the US economy with the ACA?

What's socialist about a fine for not purchasing insurance from private corporations?!

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/dec/16/...
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They don't contradict each other.

> Why build apps now which be obsolete when 2.0 finally rolls around?

It's well known Agular 2.0 won't be backwards compatible with 1.X projects:

http://chariotsolutions.com/blog/post/angularjs-2-0-bold-new...

"Although Angular will run on ES 5 browsers (the current world), changes being made to the core Angular architecture will break every Angular application. See this InfoQ article for details, which include removal of controllers, current directive definition syntax, $scope, and more."

and from the Angular Team after the Euro conference:

"Our goal with Angular 2 is to make the best possible set of tools for building web apps not constrained by maintaining backwards compatibility with existing APIs."

Which is totally different than having to maintain an application over an extended period of time. They're two totally different issues.
I've been into one of the Titan sites outside of Denver - I was given a tour by the owner, as I had some interest when he was trying to sell it.

I ended up walking away because of the dangers and regulatory barriers, as you mentioned. The owner had found old explosives on the surface, toxic materials inside. Everything other than the control room had asbestos. The elevator was broken, so he had put some lights down the stairwell with extension cords... but once at the bottom, you needed flashlights to get around. You ended up dressing up in hazmat suits just to look at the place. The ladders to get to the various levels in the power dome were steep, and navigating that part of the site in the dark, while it was full of old scrap metal and debris... definitely not safe. The control and power domes were dry, but the silos were partially flooded. That was 15 years ago, so I have no idea what has become of the place since that time.

I will say that looking at images and diagrams of these old sites does not really give you a perspective of their scope. The power dome was probably the largest single room I have ever been inside... and it was underground. The control dome had gaps on the edge, so you could look underneath and see these huge springs that held everything up, designed to stabilize it in case of an attack. It may have been a dangerous place, but still really cool to explore. I wouldn't go in without the owners, though - even though most of these can be broken into, if you got hurt down there, that would be serious trouble.

Even if you can purchase these properties cheaply, there is still a lot of work to do, and it is more than most people can really handle. But it can be done if you have the money and time, and people have done some really nice jobs of it in other locations.
What will the federal policy be on encrypted traffic?

Only two possibilities: ban it -- untenable -- or allow it.
They likely don't record the team composition, so this would require hand-labeling of any data points.

Do we know total applicants? I'd like to know what n produced a 5% sample.
nice. loved the pac-man monsters :) the pointer-lock doesn't seem to work in chrome, but works in firefox (with a bit of a hassle from the context-menu that also pops up)
For my understanding, does nw.js accomplish the same thing as browserify?
I'm sure kick starter would be far beyond this if they didn't only do the transactions on fundraisers that succeed their goal.
yes. some communities have 10000 people per square mile (Brooklyn, where I live) while other communities have 6 people per square mile (rural Wyoming), and we've also got everything in between.

the infrastructure requirements, costs, and issues for these communities are extremely different.
It should be noted that you're not getting gigabit speed for $57 a month. According to their website, their service at 50mbps runs $90 a month. As is mentioned in the CBC article they arrive at the $57 a month figure if you bundle it with TV and phone service.
> Are inferior networks right for poorer towns?

Yes. In rural areas, the cost per mile is much more important than in the city. If gigabit costs 10% more per mile than 100Mbit, is it worth it? Their burdens per person will be higher, in areas where the wage is typically lower. Perhaps 10Mbit wireless would be much cheaper per customer; maybe much more affordable for local residents (who have to pay through fees or taxes, one way or another).

Similar thing with septic versus sewer[0]. You won't have septic in larger towns, but sewer costs can be stifling.

[0] http://lancasteronline.com/news/health/small-iowa-towns-stru...
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We call it the law of conservation of mass.

Or well its a limit case, but yeah we absolutely do call it a law.

Theory is the explanation, law is the model.
The tale of a rogue access point
Seems like it was prompted by a funding round.
The linux sysctl is a wrapper for kernel state represented in the file system, freebsd sysctl is direct to kernel. So that is nice, everything in one place. Before my switch to freebsd, I had been a linux user since 2000 - and while I was aware of the existence of sysctl, I don't remember seeing it used very often. It was much more common to see direct interaction with stuff in /proc (rockectraid, never again). Why is that? Is it an issue with standardizing driver interaction or what?

My prior post wasn't written as a statement of exclusivity, simply that I prefer the way freebsd does it.
I still don't see your point about people who "just barely cannot get in". Most community college students did not need to do anything to get in. For the public community colleges in California, if I recall correctly, you just need to be 18 (or have a high school diploma or meet some other conditions.) Why do you think that funding community college would result in more students like the bottom 10% of those currently in community college classes?
You're correct. I double-checked my terminology now. :)
I've mostly seen GoFundMe used by individuals that are self-employed to other individuals (such as selling art), but they have a calamity happen, like their tablet or workstation breaking down. It's never 40K-100K USD stuff, mostly under 5K.
Over the years in the startup world, I've realized there are just a few very fundamental things that I (personally) need to do to keep going. Especially in such an exciting / stressful / uncertain ecosystem, year after year. I suspect others have this too:

- Eat well
- Sleep well
- Sports (both individual and team)

If I do these things more often than not, odds are that I'll be productive, have good ideas, be able to execute on them and be generally happy. It takes discipline, but I could never go back to not doing these.

Thanks to the author for a really vibrant piece, I'm sure he'll be back on his feet.
You can cite academic articles, but only do so if you can personally vouch for them being good, rather than just relying on the echo chamber of citations. Because if I follow your link, and look at the paper, and find it is the typical esoteric nonsense, in which the key assumptions are completely hand-waved away, then I will be annoyed.
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How about the non-hispanic, non-black minorities?

Or even more interesting to me, how about the distribution of education level and background?
A big difference between roads and network links is that I don't have to send packets through Mayberry on their way from SF to DC. Interstate highways were amazing because they specified a minimum level of quality that you could then expect everywhere, in every state, as you were transporting goods through them. While it would suck for Mayberry's residence if their digital "road" is two tin cans and a string, your data traffic doesn't have to be routed through it.

And yes, there should absolutely be different standards in different places. The most obvious relevant variable is population density: there are a lot fewer feet of fiber between residents in Manhattan than residents in rural Montana. Something that makes perfect economic sense in San Francisco's Financial District might be ruinously expensive to deploy in a small town in Oklahoma.

The Internet isn't a special snowflake here. No one builds skyscrapers in farming villages because it would be hideously costly and the local tax base couldn't support it. Same with gigabit fiber: 10,000 homes might be able to afford having better access brought in than could a hamlet of 50 people.
I think most people have a missconception about the mutation-process, recent research find that it's not very random and environment influences a lot. That is a radical difference from previous evolutionary-biology which was a missconception about the evolution process in itself, the new neo-evolutionary theory is closer to reality.

The old evolution-theory is spread more than other scientific theories primarily because it has inferences onto politics, society and religion. It acts as a scientific narrative of life, most often the information spread is inaccurate according to the theory itself, but it's primarily used to justify politics.

While the old evolution theory had inferences in beginning of 1900 of anti-race, anti-weakness and anti-homosexuality (nazi, racial-biology) after 1970 the inferences instead change to be pro-race, pro-homosexuality (homosexuality is created by evolution for a purpose instead of a error now). The interesting thing is that while the inferences from evolution theory changed, the theory itself was the same, it's just the politics around it that change. Evolution theory is used to support politics as a contemporary narrative. You can pretty much justify anything by creating a purpose of why evolution wanted something to occur, like "The evolution wants us to create babies and progress technology.", "The evolution theory wants women to be better at hearing baby screams."

The new neo-evolution theory instead brings a whole range of new inferences. If the environment can change mutations and progress itself then environment becomes important. Inferences from the old theory was that people were predefined from birth by their biology and this became the basis for many sciences today like psychiatry. When the premises of other sciences become questioned, the sciences need to updated.

Without having a discussion about epistemology I think it's impossible to understand the difference from fact, theory, hypothesis and truth. Just because predictions from a theory is true it doesn't mean that the theory is the truth, it just means that it does accurate predictions. Most of scientific theories have been revised and it would be naive to think that neo-evolution theory is the definitive end definition about evolution.

If evolution-theory would be distributed without inferences on politics I don't think it would be a hot topic at all
There is a real societal value to liberal arts classes and other requirements beyond classes directly related to the job you are training for. Having a capacity to continue learning, skillful communication, and the ability to think for yourself are integral to your future success, but are often not covered by more technical classes.
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Stressing the term "theory" by creationists attacking evolution is a rhetorical device intended to imply that "even scientists don't know".

Obviously, scientists, and other educated people, know that this attack is misguided.

However, recognizing that such arguments are indeed rhetorical, rather than logical, is a step towards not having to go through them again and again...
I, personally, would not celebrate that outcome.

I believe in the power in markets and price signaling, ala Hayek, and there is nothing unsophisticated about that.

We agree on more then you may be aware...the HI industry is a giant problem, and must be fundamentally altered for the market-based solutions I prefer to do their magic.
Yes, but that's not that hard to account for. Private companies don't seem to have much trouble. My question isn't "would municipal government be better than private companies", but "would federal government be worse"?
Yeah, I find a lot of software organizations it's becoming more and more a disadvantage of being white. Not sure I can complain, it's worked out for me, but I worry about my kids.
Data on citizenship would also be interesting. How many founders are foreigners and how many are US citizens?
Also also on Hacker News today/recently:

A $10 USB charger that steals MS keyboard strokes (arstechnica.com)

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/meet-keysweeper-the-...
absolutely awesome. This is how far we've come.
It's not really the vehicles.

It's the loading docks, the fueling stations, the truck scales and all the rest of the infrastructure that supports trucking.

All of those are going to need to have "automated truck" support as well, not to mention, when an 18 wheeler blows out a tire, you need some skills to bring the truck to a successful stop, but even more skills and equipment to effect the repair.

Mining operations are easier because they work on their own property and aren't required to mix with other passenger vehicles.

I know you said "eventually," but I suspect that it's going to take at least 50 years before we're anywhere even close.
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Sure, Austin Community College is littered with University of Texas people.
Michael, I think you should really ask yourself: what good can come of this? It doesn't really demonstrate anything about YC's fair-opportunity goals, and it opens the topic up for significant scrutiny--both by rights activists, and now (even worse?) by stats majors who are always looking for an opportunity to tear apart someone's oversimplified models.
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Did you ever consider why gold has value? It's just shiny metal. Other than jewelry and some electronics uses, no one needs it. At one point it was useful to make coins (for fiat currencies) because it was rare, but now it's just valuable because "it always has been."
Yes. Age is a fundamental figure for any demographics. Gender, ethnic group, and age. The fact that age is totally ignored is a huge blind spot.
I thought about creating a meta CSS UI Framework for every major Desktop UI. Would be great to find some contributors to this endeavor..
This is more or less considered a fact in macroeconomics

Oh, good.

What does economics say about who captures the benefit of education?

What's the rate of return on successful graduation from community college? (Hint: check Schenk Matsuyama 2010.)

What is the graduation rate from community college? (And isn't that number a lot lower than you expected?)

Now, given the fraction of benefits that is privately captured, and the fact that some fraction of students are delaying earnings while pursuing a degree, what return do you expect to the government?

Also, do you imagine there being any limit on magically pouring money into "education" and growing an economy? Why is it that no other nation on Earth spends as much money on education as the US does? [1] Why are they all leaving money on the table? In the particular case of post-secondary education, the US is almost 50% ahead of its next closest competitor in terms of spending per student. What is wrong with all those other countries? Have you not told them this is a macroeconomic fact?

[1] The US is at the top, maybe tied with Switzerland, in pure dollars spent per student. http://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/48630868....
we didn't look at this here because we fund a lot of asian and indian founders, and we just don't have enough of a sample to look at e.g. native american founders.

on things like education level, country of birth, age, etc we've previously looked at and discussed the data and it seems very diverse.
Ubuntu does it too. That's the reason debian and Ubuntu weren't hit too hard by the Bash bug.
If you use a tracker, anyone on that tracker can get your IP address. Not to mention querying the DHT and busting everyone with a matching hash. I once downloaded a file with all the encryption buttons checked (Deluge interface) and some enforcement agency still sent a warning notice to my ISP with my IP address.
> We have plenty of examples of good abstraction already (programming languages, operational systems, databases...). After we get one, most people stop even thinking that it's prossible to program without them.

Right. And that's why we're how many versions of Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and OSX in? PHP, Python, .Net, VB, Ruby, GoLang, Rust, Objective C, Swift.

And so the dance continues.
You're talking about Verizon, though – the dslreports.com forums are full of people talking about being charged installation fees even when they've moved into a place which was already wired by the previous occupant.

In my neighborhood they ran promos (we have 3 competing high-speed ISPs) but even then some people reported having to call to actually get the correct bill.
The biggest conception about evolution is the question about whether it's true.

But evolution is not true or false it's simply just a model to describe how life evolves, the best model we have.
From userfriendly.org : http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010611 and the following strips
Thiel's point is actually more nuanced.

Monopolies undeniably give customers worse service on the margin.

But, all that profit in one location lets you do things---important, good things---that you couldn't do without that obscene concentration of money. Bell Labs came from AT&T. Google X from Google. The moon landing from (double-ocean-protected) USA.

Japan and S. Korea have a few very large companies that have de facto monopolies protected by their governments, and they're not shitholes.

This is worth a read: http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue23/Locke23.htm
I've always be leery of self driving cars. They run on software. Software is only is good as the guy programming it.

What happens when the software develops a bug? Be it in the middle of rush hour traffic, or hurling down the highway at 70mph?

For all of the great things we know self driving cars can potentially bring to the table, how do we account for the issue of buggy software?
for last batch, more than 40% of the founders were born outside the US.
This is great!

Other than for very specific OpenGL ES features or platform-specific acceleration I have a harder time recommending indie developers starting out to use anything other than the web as their platform these days. And with time I'm sure WebGL will catch up (and surpass?). I've played my part in making it happen and will continue for that push. It beats telling people to install this, link that, and all the tooling involved in packaging a game. It even beats an engine: it's free, distribution is built it, the network effects are there.

The developer tools need to catch up but it's only a matter of time.

Update: "platform specific acceleration" being a broad term for targeting platform-specific features; consoles for example or optimizing for specific features of a particular touch interface.
This is already an issue faced by other government entities that provide access to the internet. See libraries. Their solution is to leave it open because it's not their place to censor. Parents already have (I assume faulty, never checked it out myself) software solutions to block "unsavory" content.
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so if you really do read a lot of Austrian economics and really do have a sophisticated view of political economy then why did you label ACA as "socialist"? at best that's ignorant, and at worst it's an actively deceptive slander of both ACA and real socialism.
I didn't even consider how compasses actually work when thinking about that logo/icon. I just saw it and it looked wrong. :)

Seems a bit counterintuitive for a logo, but I'm obviously the one that's wrong, here. Sorry!
I have done that for a while and, if you have a commute, there is no time left for anything else during those 4 days. It may be a nice option sometimes, but it's not viable for people with other obligations during the week.