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by crayola 13y ago
Two remarks: - Median would be nice to have as well, as it is more robust to outliers. - I would like to know whether this is driven by big new pages receiving many visits (changes in user behaviour), or by existing pages becoming bigger ov
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by crayola 13y ago
No, at the time of posting it hasn't reached $1000 yet. Someone wants karma.
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by crayola 13y ago
The lenovo x1 carbon (and probably others) charge from 0% to 80% of battery in about 30 minutes -- which is really helpful and does a lot to compensate an otherwise lackluster battery life.
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by crayola 13y ago
Or eccentric-proof, in this case.
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by crayola 13y ago
I mean – unless you have in mind some complicated relativistic effect, in which case my answer may be a bit naive, it feels a bit like you are overlooking the fact that, as you go back, you will kind of receive double your share of photons
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by crayola 13y ago
The light doesn't go back.
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by crayola 13y ago
CLI is an interface too, though.
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by crayola 13y ago
Great visualization, thanks!
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by crayola 13y ago
While I think this is not impossible, I am not sure whether I wish for it to be the case, as it will, to some, justify the US & EU reaction. I would rather Snowden still was in Moscow, but found asylum swiftly in an EU nation.. Unlikely
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by crayola 13y ago
The guardian just posted a relevant update, 'How do we know Snowden was ever in Russia?', which essentially would be better titled 'Why we thought he was ever in Russia'. Sounds like it is quite possible that the whole R
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by crayola 13y ago
What I don't get is – all the journalists made it sound like he was definitely in Moscow yesterday, yet by the sound of it nobody actually saw him get on or out of the HK to Moscow plane? Is that not a huge journalism failure?
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by crayola 13y ago
There is also NOW TV in the UK, which is a standalone Sky service. Somehow they don't get too much press, but they do have loads of recent movies (basically everything Sky). See, for example: http://community.nowtv.com/
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by crayola 13y ago
I duckduckwent there.
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EU sets timeline for single telecom market(euobserver.com)
39 points by crayola 13y ago|37 comments
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by crayola 13y ago
I'd call this an opinion rather than a bias.. A bias is where some exogenous factors (e.g. background, stakes..) are pushing opinions a certain direction.
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by crayola 13y ago
PhD in economics here from a top 15 uni, completed a couple of years ago. No regrets, even though I realized, after a few years, that I would probably not enjoy a career as an economist (in academia or policy). I successfully 'converted' in
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by crayola 14y ago
Completely agree. If your audience gets them, that's the most robust, easiest to interpret way to visualize a distribution (continuous or discrete). But it may require a few words of explanation depending on the audience.
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by crayola 14y ago
0-1 is probably rightly interpreted as 0 < x <= 1. No overlap.
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by crayola 14y ago
Can't it? There are USB 3.0 docking stations that connect to your computer's USB 3.0 port and can handle two external displays via DisplayLink, and provide additional USB 3.0 ports and audio jacks.
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by crayola 14y ago
Yeah.. I thought the same. People reporting stats to the public at large lack incentives to adjust for multiple testing: most of their audience do not know enough to care; and to them, the value of the product improves with the number of 'i
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by crayola 14y ago
Nice -- thanks!
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by crayola 14y ago
I wouldn't joke with that.. Someone may actually try and lose a lot of time and data. Yes, most HN readers will get your 'joke', but possibly not all.
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by crayola 14y ago
That's very nice, I can see myself using this quite often. A little feature request -- I am not very familiar with markdown, so I find myself wanting to switch back and forth between "edit" and "view" quite often. A shortcut for this (and p
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by crayola 14y ago
The benefits from data.table are not as much processing very large data (anything above 10M observations is mostly outside of R's comfort zone on a reasonable machine, anyway), as much as the ease of performing operations such as indexed jo
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by crayola 14y ago
Interesting analysis, but it would really benefit from a section about data.table. For me and many others, data.table has almost completely replaced data.frame (of which data.table is a subclass) and completely replaced plyr. The speed and
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by crayola 14y ago
Absolutely. The improvements to code and performance are really spectacular.
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Darpa puts $3M into startup pushing big data in Python(gigaom.com)
2 points by crayola 14y ago|0 comments
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by crayola 14y ago
R has some spectacular libraries and a huge userbase among statisticians, so it is definitely a big actor. On the downside, the core team who manage it appear to be somewhat averse to making the language progress in meaningful ways. R is ve
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by crayola 14y ago
The phrase "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..." is suspiciously similar to the one in the ad, though. But maybe that, also, was borrowed by the ad from previous material?
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by crayola 14y ago
I would agree with you if it wasn't for the data.table package in R. It is a game changer. Really.

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