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Ask HN: If you worked with a grad from a code bootcamp, how effective were they?
91 points by glaugh 12y ago|82 comments
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by glaugh 13y ago
Lawrence Lessig argues (I think persuasively) that lobbying should be classified as a form of corruption. It's not as egregious as directly paying someone off, but in the end the influence of lobbying is pernicious and pervasive. Highl
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by glaugh 13y ago
Fun. Especially the heatmap. Totally spitballing here, but it'd be interesting to see a version of the heatmap where the 0 is darkest and + or - is lighter. You'd lose information, but it'd draw your eye to the games that are
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by glaugh 13y ago
Apologies that this is about form not substance: I appreciate the clarity of the "What makes Variance unique?" and "Where is Variance not a good fit?" sections. Really useful. As someone who makes a data analysis tool (w
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by glaugh 13y ago
As of yesterday, PD-1 drugs are now available for compassionate use, too: http://smh.com.au/national/bittersweet-victory-for-save-lock... They have pretty absurdly high success rates.
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by glaugh 13y ago
Agreed on #2. My rule of thumb is to respond within 24 hours. If the intro-ee responds quicker, no biggie. On the flip side, when I'm the intro-ee, I don't really care. I'm almost never the one to reply first, but if someone
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by glaugh 13y ago
RE your first point: I think everyone would agree that antibiotics are a net good, that their use should cause and correlate with declining mortality. But that wouldn't make it any less true that there could be second-order negative ef
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by glaugh 13y ago
Not sure about NBA or NHL, but for NFL I'd refer you to these tools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7159731 (I was the OP of that thread, but I'm not associated with the tools' creator)
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by glaugh 13y ago
Reading it now for the first time, super fun. e.g., about those restaurant light-up/buzz pagers: http://www.windytan.com/2013/09/the-burger-pager.html
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by glaugh 13y ago
OP here. That is awesome. I'd definitely recommend people use this over the download at the bottom of the blog post, it's really painful to parse the free text (there's a lot of weird edge cases). I'll add a link to th
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by glaugh 13y ago
OP here Made the message a bit friendlier for future folks, thanks for the feedback :)
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Dataset: Ten Years of NFL Plays Analyzed, Visualized, Quizzified(blog.statwing.com)
75 points by glaugh 13y ago|38 comments
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What will health nuts eat on Super Bowl Sunday? Nuts(survata.com)
13 points by glaugh 13y ago|28 comments
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by glaugh 13y ago
Small quibble: Democrats and independents (swing voters) support marijuana legalization at similar rates, according to General Social Survey data (which ends at 2012, but is otherwise pretty consistent on this finding). That said, it could
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by glaugh 13y ago
They let clickthroughs (clicksthrough?) from Google read the whole thing. https://www.google.com/search?q=Payments+Startup+Stripe+Join...
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by glaugh 13y ago
Ah. Yes. Good point. Fixed. Thanks
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Statwing is awarding $1,500 for the best insights from social science dataset(gigaom.com)
1 points by glaugh 13y ago|0 comments
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Every US age group, region, religion, party is moving to marijuana legalization(blog.statwing.com)
3 points by glaugh 13y ago|1 comments
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Republicans have been losing moderates (and liberals) for 20 years(blog.statwing.com)
2 points by glaugh 13y ago|0 comments
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Amazon's Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires(online.wsj.com)
45 points by glaugh 13y ago|71 comments
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by glaugh 13y ago
The book "Epidemic of Absence" is the best summary of the research on this, to my knowledge.
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Tech Trust Index shows consumers trust Google and Amazon but not Sprint and AOL(survata.com)
9 points by glaugh 13y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Export to Statwing – Help your users analyze data from your app
11 points by glaugh 13y ago|0 comments
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by glaugh 13y ago
Definitely a lot of different angles on little data. Our aim at Statwing is to take the power of statistical analysis and embed it in a UI that's easier to use than Excel's PivotTables (via automated selection and interpretation o
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by glaugh 13y ago
I would imagine Airbnb could at some point cap the number of nights you could let a place out, right? Certainly not ideal from their standpoint, of course, but manageable?
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by glaugh 13y ago
Statwing - San Francisco (Mission District) We love analyzing data. We love the feeling of getting an idea, exploring some hypotheses, and finding a surprising story in the data. And we love enabling others to have that feeling. So we’re cr
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by glaugh 13y ago
Here's a different perspective on the data. Threw the data into Statwing, related Salary to Union Membership: https://www.statwing.com/open/datasets/6019645769abb7de64d3e... You can play around in there a bit
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by glaugh 13y ago
Back End Engineer Statwing's users demand larger data, more complex analyses, and faster interaction. We'll need to optimize regression, graph, and dozens of other statistical algorithms to efficiently handle wildly diverse datase
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by glaugh 13y ago
Our bad. Should have put some p-values in the text itself. All those differences are statistically significant, typically at <0.001 levels. All the statistical output, including confidence intervals, is available via clicking through the
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by glaugh 13y ago
Well, p-value is <0.00001, but that's because it's a pretty big sample. You're right that the effect size is "small" (Cohen's d), which as you suggest you can basically see from the curves. "Advanced&qu

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