inverba
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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
Unfortunately this is flawed in a very fundamental way. The NYC subways have different schedules for the morning rush, afternoon, afternoon rush, evening, and night. There should be at least three different distributions in the delay/wait data. Without teasing apart these distributions, I'm not convinced that anything meaningful can be said.
Comment · 11 years ago
> I am convinced (although I do not yet have enough data to prove it) ... If anyone had any actual evidence that might support this conclusion, I would be grateful.
This is the opposite of how useful research and/or data science works. Data should be taken as is and then learned from. It certainly should not be gathered in an effort to directly prove a conclusion that you are already "convinced" of.
It's very disheartening to see this as a comment on a data science article on hacker news... unless you're being sarcastic/ironic? This has to be sarcastic/ironic, right? Right? :(
Comment · 11 years ago
By most definitions, bias includes the negative prior as well as the refusal. For example:
"Bias is an inclination of temperament or outlook to present or hold a partial perspective, often accompanied by a refusal to consider the possible merits of alternative points of view."
Comment · 11 years ago
I think the white text against blue background is a rough choice. On the right monitor and brightness, it's fine; on the wrong one, it's illegible. Text either needs to be thicker or the color schema needs work.
Comment · 11 years ago
The website is designed in a very jarring way. The transitions should be much more obvious.
Comment · 11 years ago
You can also just "color" the entire page and get a fairly high score.
Comment · 11 years ago
It's an example where the law suggested is in place and for the most part no positive result is being achieved.
Comment · 11 years ago
I tried it with three people all age 24. The ages I received in response were: 41, 33, and 22. It seems like beards strongly influence the result.
Comment · 11 years ago
These laws already exist. http://gothamist.com/2015/03/10/cash_in_on_idling_vehicles.p...
Comment · 11 years ago
It's worth mentioning that this is still bare minimum even compared to other Ivy League colleges. Harvard plans to expand their faculty by 12 members with Balmer's recent grant and Cornell is in the process of adding faculty for their new campus in New York City (Cornell Tech - which is basically a startup incubator).
Comment · 11 years ago
One thing the author doesn't mention is np-completeness. You need complexity theory to introduce/explain the concept of np-complete problems and I would argue that knowledge of those are necessary for a good programmer. Otherwise you might waste a lot of time trying to find a polytime algorithm for something which (arguably) doesn't have one.
Comment · 11 years ago
As a long time reader, it seems like the content on Hacker News has been consistently trending towards "lighter" material (more articles about drugs, work flow, business concepts) and away from technical, actually "hacker" material. What are you thoughts on this trend? Is there anything we can (or should) do to prevent this forum from becoming reddit?
I understand the rest of your point, but the underlying assumption is very wrong.