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Dishonesty with data – Trillions watch post game show(jthess.com)
1 points by johnhess 10y ago|0 comments
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by johnhess 10y ago
I love this very honest appraisal of how pay-for-performance incentives ought to work, and I wish more companies would step back and ask themselves if their "traditional" incentive structures have the motivational factor they&#x27
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by johnhess 10y ago
It's also unclear why they compare to the C-17 instead of the C-5, which is larger and handles a heavier payload (by about 100,000 lbs). Heck, even a 747 has a higher payload than a C-17. Being the biggest wasn't the C-17s goal.
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by johnhess 10y ago
tl; dr. Two distinct attacks, likely related, possibly coordinated took place. The first was observed in March 2014 and thought to be expelled in late May 2014. Before that expulsion, a second attack began. While OPM thought it was in the
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by johnhess 10y ago
Interesting to see the steps they took to expel the APT (physically verifying the identity of account holders on account resets, taking services offline, resetting networking equipment). Even more interesting is that had confidence they&#x2
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by johnhess 10y ago
sure would be nice to have something better than a raster image of pages 2-231
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Ask HN: Do you accept LinkedIn connection requests from recruiters?
11 points by johnhess 10y ago|16 comments
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by johnhess 10y ago
I really like this one: https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/an-engineers-guide-to-stock-opti...
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Is it really illegal to share your Netflix password?(slate.com)
12 points by johnhess 10y ago|3 comments
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by johnhess 10y ago
Not to mention, some of the numbers just don't add up. The most expensive brand is BMW. But their most expensive car is less than their brand average...?
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by johnhess 10y ago
Seems relatively likely that there's some selection bias going on here. It could stand to reason that less reliable brands get discontinued. But there's an alternate explanation. If the only population of Saturns you're loo
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by johnhess 10y ago
You'd be really surprised how well the humans in a 911 center cope with antiquated technology. Visiting the center in Cambridge, Mass, I watched a dispatcher -- calm enough to almost seem disinterested -- do everything perfectly by be
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by johnhess 11y ago
As the article itself states: > Experiments and retrospective field studies each have advantages. The advantage of experiments is that they can more confidently infer cause and effect by isolating gender as the predictor variable. The a
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by johnhess 11y ago
If you make to the end of the article, they do account for exactly this issue by comparing cases where they could find an out-of-band gender indication (google+) but where the name was not identifiable via github name/profile. From the
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by johnhess 11y ago
> I started by timing how long it took the pans to bring a cup of water to a boil over the maximum gas flame on my stovetop. The copper and the cast iron each took 3 minutes, the aluminum-stainless combination 2.5, and the thin nonstick
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by johnhess 11y ago
KnowledgeHound (knowledgehound.com) - Chicago, Boston or REMOTE - Contract or Full Time - Backend and Frontend Engineers WHY WORK WITH US? Because the team is incredible. A-players on the tech, design, and business side. Tons of talent with
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by johnhess 11y ago
The turbine reference isn't to a traditional turbocharger. The 919 has two turbines. The first is a traditional turbo, but the second is used as an energy recovery system (stored in batteries, released on-demand).
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by johnhess 11y ago
KnowledgeHound (knowledgehound.com) - Chicago Boston or REMOTE - Contract, Part and Full Time - Software Engineer WHY WORK WITH US? Because the team is incredible. A-players on the tech, design, and business side. Tons of talent without blu
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by johnhess 11y ago
100% of the top 20 by valuation have their .com What proportion had it at their founding or shortly after? Surely a well funded and successful company had the means and motivation to purchase their .com
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by johnhess 11y ago
KnowledgeHound (knowledgehound.com) | Boston Engineering Intern Deploy real-world code to production week one. Develop code and your skills. Spend some time in the sun, working in Boston and Cambridge. WHAT WE DO: We build KnowledgeHound, a
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by johnhess 11y ago
KnowledgeHound (knowledgehound.com) | Chicago | Full Stack Engineer WHY WORK FOR US? Because the team is incredible. A-players on the tech, design, and business side. Tons of talent without blustery egos or corporate politics. Every day is
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by johnhess 11y ago
KnowledgeHound (knowledgehound.com) | Chicago | Full Stack Engineer WHY WORK FOR US? Because the team is incredible. A-players on the tech, design, and business side. Tons of talent without blustery egos or corporate politics. Every day
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by johnhess 11y ago
KnowledgeHound (knowledgehound.com) | Boston Engineering Intern Deploy real-world code to production week one. Develop code and your skills. Spend some time in the sun, working in Boston and Cambridge. WHAT WE DO: We build KnowledgeHound,
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by johnhess 12y ago
Chicago. Full-Stack (primarily Python, Django, Angular) engineers. KnowledgeHound (knowledgehound.com) is a data search and visualization tool used by Fortune 500 companies to make better decisions using survey data they already have. We&#
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by johnhess 12y ago
KnowledgeHound - http://knowledgehound.com - Chicago, IL Full stack (mostly Python/Django) developer to lead a team and architecture. Also searching for dedicated frontend/backend. ===========================
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by johnhess 12y ago
Could a lawyer or someone with familiarity with warrants like these explain how a "warrant canary" is legal? I understand the concept, but discloses something you can't disclose. They can compel you to lie/not comment i
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by johnhess 12y ago
I found it to be a great way to learn SQL. As a rule of thumb, it should be fine if your goal is to learn the basics of SQL, and not-so-fine if you're looking to learn database administration. I would not use it to learn how to alter t
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Querying Time Series in PostgreSQL(no0p.github.io)
111 points by johnhess 12y ago|7 comments
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by johnhess 12y ago
I have to disagree. As creators, we should expect to see the behavior our designs encourage. The fact is, if it's harder to buy something, would-be buyers choose another route. Imagine something of trivial value that was very arduous
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by johnhess 12y ago
The really disgusting part of the article is this gem (emphasis mine): > The average compensation at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bu

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