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by mshron 6y ago
Yeah, people can take things too far. There are definitely safe ways to go to a store, if the store is taking precautions. I'm not so sure about indoor restaurants right now in the US, but I guess you could make a case for it. On the o
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by mshron 6y ago
> The mainstream news didn't really seem to think it was a huge deal mid-February. I have to disagree, or maybe we have a different idea of what is mainstream. The New York Times front page was making a big stink about the coronavir
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by mshron 6y ago
Fair, but I think for the purposes of this article, social media accounts (could be friends or corporations) that talk about breaking events would also count as "the news". Both in the plusses and the minuses! Upside, you're
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by mshron 6y ago
It seems like a weird time to post this article to HN. Aren't we all living through an extremely good example of why paying attention to the news pays off? Generally speaking, people I know who read the news prepared for SARS-CoV-2 by
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by mshron 6y ago
Great question. Writing skill is generally underdeveloped in engineers, and it's absolutely worth getting good at. Based on your other comments, you're already starting with drafting, which is great. The next step is to learn to r
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by mshron 7y ago
Warby Parker | New York, NY | Engineering Manager, Data Engineering | Full-time | Onsite preferred but remote possible As one of the original "clicks to bricks" retailers, Warby Parker has more interesting retail data than almost
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by mshron 7y ago
Solar is already down to $0.065/kWh for industrial applications [1]. That's $3.90/gallon at today's prices, and solar prices continue to fall. The DOE's 2020 targets came three years ahead of schedule. Their 2030 ta
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by mshron 8y ago
I gave a relevant talk a few years ago: How to Kill Your Grandmother with Statistics[1]. The authors are spot on that the problem is not p-values per se but dichotomous thinking. People want a magic truth box that doesn’t exist. Unfortunate
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by mshron 8y ago
The Weeds, by Vox, and Why is This Happening, by MSNBC. Both of them take an hour to explore one topic, usually related to politics or a cultural moment. But it's not just a summary of recent news; they go back into history and provide
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by mshron 8y ago
Respectfully, I think you're working from an outdated definition of racism and sexism. People have already been treated differently on the basis of their race and sex for their entire lives. Starting at the end, and assuming that being
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by mshron 8y ago
For anyone interested in this extremely important point (that markets need a lot more than just enforcing contracts to work), two book recommendations: * Rob Reich, _Saving Capitalism_ [1] * Steven K Vogel, _Marketcraft_ [2] What kinds of c
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by mshron 9y ago
I'll give it a shot. Every city has rules about what you can and can't build within its boundaries. Even lightly-regulated cities like Houston still have rules about density, lot sizes, and what you can build where. There isn&#x27
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Killer Robots Are Coming and These People Are Trying to Stop Them(buzzfeed.com)
6 points by mshron 10y ago|0 comments
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by mshron 10y ago
I don't think you're disagreeing with what the authors are saying. They are not suggesting that the money comes from the recent MBA grad. They're suggesting a typical private equity approach where new company debt and outside
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by mshron 11y ago
Through no fault of your own, I believe you are misreading this key paragraph: > That’s a net deficit of $147,174, which Edwards covered with his own discretionary research and personal funds. The Flint Water Study team of 25 students an
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by mshron 11y ago
What about companies that have additional data sources? For example, a CRM. It seems like it's hardly a data warehouse if it's _only_ event data. Or am I missing something?
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by mshron 11y ago
I went back and read it more carefully, and it's linked to an email address one character off from the known Satoshi one. satoshin@vistomail.com vs satoshi@vistomail.com.
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by mshron 11y ago
Interesting argued. I say: let's try it somewhere that is game, and see what happens. As Bob Reich says, we've been running an experiment in trickle down economics for the past 30 years and it hasn't done most of us much good
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by mshron 11y ago
The two people mentioned in the article both say they make about $500 a month from social security.
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by mshron 11y ago
Well said. Advanced math is mostly about working with properties higher up the chain of abstraction, and then seeing what happens when you bring the insights learned up there back down to more concrete examples. From an OO point of view, th
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by mshron 11y ago
The "default" alpha and beta are not the correct ones for a website A/B test. If you're designing a drug, you'd better be very careful not to accidentally approve something that is useless. It would cost a ton of mo
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by mshron 12y ago
Love the idea! I would ask for a little more separation of concerns. One package for raw but cleaned data with a collection of schemas, and a second for loading arbitrary data + schemas in to Django (and probably accomplishing all of the ex
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by mshron 12y ago
This is the key result in this conversation; this should be higher. Basically: if we insists on Deutsch's causal fixed point propety of CTCs, they do not give you P=NP, they give you P=PSPACE. That is, all problems which can be solved
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by mshron 13y ago
Ehhh... the term "adversary" is the standard term in any crypto paper or book for people who you are designing your system to be safe against. I'm very concerned about NSA overreach, but this is normal crypto terminology. It&
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by mshron 13y ago
Living in Brazil, working with the Guardian, a UK Newspaper. Not saying that OP was right, just saying that there isn't much reason to split hairs here.
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by mshron 13y ago
I went to the Restore the Fourth rally in NYC. It was, by a long shot, the most cohesive march I have ever been on. It helps that the context was threefold: NSA spying, NYPD Stop & Frisk, and NYPD unlawful surveillance of Muslims throug
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by mshron 13y ago
I agree, this is the question. And the answer is "both". From the NY Times article: > FISA orders can range from inquiries about specific people to a broad sweep for intelligence, like logs of certain search terms, lawyers who
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by mshron 13y ago
Finally a demo that doesn't make me think "Wow, the web has really caught up to the 1995 desktop!" Maybe if you're already an after-effects wiz this doesn't seem as magical, but it certainly felt like magic to me.
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by mshron 13y ago
Called. Thanks for putting this together! Slick experience. I had some complaints that I was hard to hear; not sure if that was Twilio or that I was calling through Google Voice.
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by mshron 13y ago
Right. My larger point though is that there are lots and lots and lots of jobs that can be eliminated without strong AI. We may succeed in destroying the demand side of the economy long before we solve the problem of making the supply side

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