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Show HN - Dlvry, never miss a package again

dlvry.com.au

1 pointsby thmcmahon13 tahun yang lalu0 comments

Code Keyboard Hands On

youtube.com

1 pointsby thmcmahon13 tahun yang lalu0 comments

A new apparel start-up makes the greatest hoodie ever known to man

slate.com

5 pointsby thmcmahon14 tahun yang lalu1 comments

Forget your fancy data science try overkill analytics

gigaom.com

4 pointsby thmcmahon14 tahun yang lalu0 comments

Entrepreneurship as a Humanitarian Service

blog.thmcmahon.com

1 pointsby thmcmahon15 tahun yang lalu0 comments

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7 tahun yang laludiscuss

Definitely a thing growing up in central Victoria in the 80s/90s.

10 tahun yang laludiscuss

It's mentioned in the abstract: 'We deal with the potential endogeneity of the decision of how many hours to work by using the instrumental variable estimation technique.'

Essentially they use 'instruments' which are just other variables to control for this issue. Page 7 has the variables that they're using.

10 tahun yang laludiscuss

How'd you go with wrapping the websocket client in R? I've been putting together an R client and am stuck on how to do the websocket given the lack of R websocket libraries.

10 tahun yang laludiscuss

Not sure that you'd want to plant a bunch of European trees to replace native Australian forests.

10 tahun yang laludiscuss

Found at least some of the raw documents on the ICIJ researcher Mago Torres' document cloud account. https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/Account:%2013504...

11 tahun yang laludiscuss

I also found the r programming class to be super useful.

11 tahun yang laludiscuss

F# and R both have good ways of doing this. See http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/magrittr/vignettes/ma...

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

This is essentially how the 457 visa works in Australia. It's uncapped but you have to pay a 'market salary rate', which is either the salary of an equivalent worker in the firm, or of an equivalent worker In the industry.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

This is the same economic problem that affects basic research. Open source software is a 'public good' - its usefulness is not diminished when it is used by others, and you can't prevent others from using it.

The longstanding solution to this problem is government support. This might not be a sexy solution on HN, but it is the obvious one.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

Yep great article. As a beginner programmer I find functional more intuitive than OOP, there just seems to be less abstract concepts and boilerplate.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

If you don't want to do it anymore just charge more. Would you be willing to do it at double the price?

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

The problem with cabs is the information asymmetry. You dot know before you're getting in how good their knowledge is, this means that knowledgeable drivers can't charge more and you get a 'market of lemons'. This is a classic form of market failure, and is a strong case for regulation.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

Or just use snoozing (I use mailbox) and this problem is solved. I could not go back to using a mail client that doesn't have this feature.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

From the preface:

Since this book is meant to provide practical advice, I think it makes sense to write with the assumption of Python 2. Specifically, I’ll be writing the book with Python 2.7 in mind. Future updates may very well change this to evolve with the Flask community, but for now 2.7 is where we stand.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

I'm frustrated too, that's why we're working hard to win the next election.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

Parennoob - thanks, the idea of a startup visa was flagged by Chris Bowen in his press club budget reply yesterday, check it out if you're interested.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

Thanks mate, noted.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

Cheers Andrew - both Bill Shorten and Chris Bowen have flagged re-examining our position on employee share schemes. I'll add your voice to many that I've received on this issue.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

Hey thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed comment, it's not my job to publicly defend the ALP so I'll just note your views/criticisms but I think the libraries idea is a good one.

12 tahun yang laludiscuss

Well this is an area where I can safely say we're going to have a more attractive policy than our opponents. Our office in Braddon ACT is one block away from the NBN, it's frustrating.