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by dfee 8y ago
Another article on the front page decries Harvard’s holistic approach to admission - with arguments that admission should be based on a single measure of academic performance (like standardized test scores, GPA, etc.).
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by dfee 8y ago
“Profits” in your context being imagined not real. The gaming was done on the accounting side (revenue recognition) of course.
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by dfee 8y ago
I prefer to code in bits. The problem with HTML is it’s verbose. So folks like to save some keystrokes (and mistakes).
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by dfee 8y ago
With forge, you can add , delete , or modify individual parameters as well as convert argument values or validate them. import forge def sumthree(a, b, c): return a + b + c @forge.compose( for
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Show HN: Forge – a library for dynaimcally revising function signatures(github.com)
1 points by dfee 8y ago|1 comments
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by dfee 8y ago
This is opinion masquerading as fact. Take for instance Ubuntu - should those releases be considered unofficial? [no] How about the python-attrs library - should those be considered interim? [no] All versioning schemes fail somewhere and Ca
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by dfee 8y ago
I re-read your comment a couple times, and understood your main point to succinctly be this: If `Point` is a subclass of `ColoredPoint`, and `p` and `cp` exist as instances respectively, there is ambiguity between `p == cp` and `cp == p`. I
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by dfee 8y ago
I don't think you understood my comment was about how people respond to incentives. Anyway, I'm particularly interested in this remark you made: > We have over 100 years' worth of artificially introduced atmospheric carbon
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by dfee 8y ago
I imagine a future where an industry exists that is federally subsidized and pulls CO2 from the air. However, our need for carbon sequestration is ultimately surpassed by the industry’s “output”, and we end up heading in the other direction
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by dfee 8y ago
Wow. I’ve been down a rabbit hole with cart building and DB design and never realized that Snipcart existed. What other magic is out there?
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by dfee 8y ago
If you read the article, you might’ve missed that the culprit is a 1978 decision to pass Prop 13 - a resolution that only allowed property tax hikes to be passed on election years, and then in 1996 proposition 218 that limited tax raises in
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by dfee 8y ago
Ah yes, python36.com. Now that’s not Python 3.6, that’s a domain registered by someone who wanted to hikack some seo juice (joose?). It looks like they didn’t register python37.com though, which is probably a big deal as Python 3.7 is in be
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The Slippery Math of Causation(quantamagazine.org)
124 points by dfee 8y ago|23 comments
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by dfee 8y ago
I had no idea you could make your payments “private” by default. Indeed you can, and you can mark all past payments as private by going (on iOS) to: Settings -> Privacy -> Private and Settings -> Privacy -> Past Trans
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by dfee 8y ago
For a number of reasons, I think this metaphor fails. K8s appears more open than Android, is not largely controlled by one corporation, doesn’t come crippled with vendor services, etc.
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by dfee 8y ago
I’d say that’s a segment of the population who can swim. But outside those who swam on a team for more than a year (I was a competitive swimmers for more than a decade), and of course lifeguarded through my high school years, I’ve found it
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by dfee 8y ago
> Today Routin discerned that Polys is playing a language game with himself, and, growing bored of the language in which Polys typically thinks, wanted to hear something in a different language for the joy of it. However, Routin doesn’t
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by dfee 8y ago
I was frustrated by the trade-off between writing repetitive function signatures, and writing function signatures that have no meaning. So I wrote `forge`. It's 100% tested, well documented, Python 3.5+, and is available on PyPI as `py
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Forge (python) signatures for fun and profit(github.com)
1 points by dfee 8y ago|1 comments
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by dfee 8y ago
Primary keys on postgresql are unique (and non null). It’s not possible to change that behavior as it’s the definition of a PK field. You can thus create more UUID fields that are unique and non-null by specifying that instead of “primary k
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by dfee 8y ago
It’s unfortunate to not see life expectancy explicitly mentioned. There does seem to be a correlation between average age of the congressman and average years served, though. I’m assuming that reflects the life expectancy piece.
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by dfee 8y ago
No. I’ve actually lived in both. Also, it appears(?) the parent comment to my initial comment was adjusted.
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by dfee 8y ago
That’s definitely an option that satisfices, but would it reduce the amount of satisfaction by increasing the number of “acceptable” solutions while decreasing the number of “desired” solutions? Humans are greedy, and that’s where these alg
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by dfee 8y ago
Excellent generalization about the 89,004 local governments in the US. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/government... Also, is your comparative perspective based on time living under multiple
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by dfee 8y ago
Insane. Let’s say it’s half that and you make $100k a year. You wouldn’t put in 2 hours for an extra 25k/yr? I mean this isn’t a lottery, and hopefully you’ve reasoned there will be a high probability of getting hired; say 50%. So then
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by dfee 8y ago
Cost of doing business. Not willing to put in your free time? No need to worry about getting a new job. Are you also job hunting at work, doing interviews on your employers time, etc?
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by dfee 8y ago
A long but worthwhile read. I find the dignity culture most appealing, the honor culture most traditional, and the victim culture most segregating. If I had to cast my lot between the three, I’d go with the first, but I’m unaware of other a
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by dfee 8y ago
We’ve entered the trough of disillusionment, for sure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
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by dfee 8y ago
I’d be considered eccentric. It’s not discipline or the lack thereof. There is a piercing focus that overwhelms the demands of normalcy. But I won’t talk about me. I’ll talk about a friend of mine. He stepped away from his role with the US
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by dfee 8y ago
I don’t follow. Can you explain?

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