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How are you defining "objective" in relation to someone's inherently subjective utility function? That makes no sense.

I understand the rest of your point, but the underlying assumption is very wrong.

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.

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? :(

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."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias.

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.

The website is designed in a very jarring way. The transitions should be much more obvious.

You can also just "color" the entire page and get a fairly high score.

It's an example where the law suggested is in place and for the most part no positive result is being achieved.

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.

These laws already exist. http://gothamist.com/2015/03/10/cash_in_on_idling_vehicles.p...

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).

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.

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?

Does anyone have insight into how this fits into the market? I don't understand how this isn't a strictly worse phone (given that people carry phones with them all the time).

A lot of teas need the water to be a specific temperature before they are put into cups/have the tea leaves inserted. Even if "the water ends up in the same uninsulated cup", the process of getting the water to the correct temperature will be more efficient in an insulated container.

Also, it's hard to believe that this would substantially decrease the amount of water heated. If you were super anal about only heating the water needed, then that's do-able with a tea kettle. If you're not, then even under the new model you would probably just use a kettle or pot most of the time.

But we're writing code, not a grammatically correct english essay. If incorrect grammar leads to shorter and simpler variable names that other programmers understand, then it should be encouraged.