skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering how R has exploded in recent years, I'm sure a more recent article could have been found. That being said, R is amazing, easily the best language/software for any sort of data analysis. And bonus points for easy Fortran/C++ interop, as well as easy multicore/cluster computing. Oh, and a shout out to RStudio, which is also amazing.
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False assumption. Planes fly in response to aggregate passenger demand. Changing commuting habits for the sake of the environment would lead to fewer flights.
#5 does not require their product specifically.

The original Joel Test included CEO of the company that builds FogBugz asking "4. Do you have a bug database?" It was in fact a piece of content marketing.
Bzzzt. Inaccurate headline. A million dollars was the median price for homes that changed hands in a 90-day period earlier this year in San Jose. It is not the price of the median home in San Jose.
YouTube link from the article : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sSBPxAv2qk
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That's what 10+ full-time engine devs working full-time on the project from the start can get you, I suppose.
Isn't the original Joel Test a transparent pitch for FogBugz?
Right, that makes more sense now. Great links, thanks.
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Sexual desire was fixed at a cultural level until it wasn't. The narrative that people only steal because they're poor and desperate is just that, a narrative. Anyone can feel excitement at taking another's property. Your perfect society free of crime is begging for a "disruption."
>"No shit Sherlock, or how can a HTTP request get a response back", was my answer.

Aren't they configured on the basis of inbound/outbound connections? If they allowed inbound traffic you should still be able to get a response back.
OP here, you're right and it's even worse than you say. After my brief literature review I'm starting to suspect that the entire problem of demosaicing is ill-posed in most of the ways it is studied (certainly including this little side project). Some of the survey papers I saw talk about this. The color image pipeline is basically ignored in all the analysis I've seen, and to the best of my knowledge the common assumptions are based on dubious heuristics.

On the other hand it works well enough...
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Please don't break my back button and hijack my scroll. It is very annoying.

Looks nice otherwise.
The original Joel Test was a piece of content marketing by Joel Splosky, the CEO of the company that builds FogBugz among other tools for collaboration among software engineers. This appears to be the same. We should evaluate it its merits: Are these useful questions to ask in pursuit of a more productive and less frustrated data science team?
I wasn't privy to their firewall configuration. But that's what their engineer said, made a change, and everything started working. I'm guessing the firewall configuration was non standard.
Yep, that sounds just like what he was describing.

I can see the advantages for legitimate policy development from this new system... But one can only hope they don't let everything get leaked.
So how did you figure it out?
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Ppm vs ppt is 6 orders of magnitude difference. To put that in context, 6 orders of magnitude the other way would be part per part.
Great post. Why is the kernel trick so important for Gaussian processes? My understanding is that operating in an RKHS is primarily needed to enable that cute little maneuver.

Wait, never mind. If GPR is like an infinite-dimensional linear regression then doing it within an RKHS means you don't actually have to bother with the functional generalization and can get solutions to a potentially ill-behaved loss function along a grid/cube/hypercube/whatever. Is this part of why SigOpt works more efficiently than classical parameter space sampling designs?

Not-so-ninja edit: Time for me to re-read Rasmussen, I think.
One of the major problems with Arma 3 is that due to it's simulation nature, it has to simulate everything, rather than just a bubble around the player and then cutting corners everywhere else. This means it inherently must use a whole lot more CPU than your average videogame.

It's quite possibly badly optimised too, but even if it weren't, Arma would eat CPU like crazy.
Don't say "people like you". You are blatantly constructing a strawman and it makes your whole argument look very weak.
Point taken. FogBugz was also, AFAIK, not a perfect solution for everyone (e.g. I don't recall it offering much for a shop where everyone uses screen or tmux as their window manager). But the underlying principles were handy anyways.
It is commonly believed that it is illegal to share salaries. This is false and in fact it is illegal for companies to prohibit sharing salaries.
Awesome! Thank you so much for taking time out and write such a detailed feedback. Let me work on each of the points to improvise ReadBoard.

I will check "Show HN" guidelines and see if this is a right fit.
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The mobile application is also a good resource for businesses. There are various mobile app businesses have included in the list of new billionaires club such as Facebook, Umber, Whatsapp, Alibaba, Netflix, Instagram, Spotify, etc. You could be one of them; you just need to consider mobile application development for your own business.
Well it is, but if your CPU is getting its job done 1ms sooner, then the GPU now has an additional 1ms to do the rendering while delivering the same deadline. Which probably means it'll render more frames.

Bottlenecking just means that improving the bottlenecked thing will result in the biggest improvement. The second-biggest performance limiter can still be a significant performance limiter.
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On the contrary, Susan Kare herself mentioned the Swedish origin as the source for inspiration[0]

> So I said, "Let's try something abstract." So I was pouring through books of symbols, and I thought it was a sign on Swedish campgrounds that meant "interesting feature," or something to look at that was interesting. So that seemed to fit. And it lent itself to being digital without being jagged. That definitely came from a symbol book, or an interpretation of something in a symbol book that sort of made sense. Because I like the idea instead of just drawing some shape and saying "That's the control key," even though nobody who ever saw it-- actually, every now and then I hear from someone who actually had seen one of the signs. Mainly it is just abstract, but I knew it meant something relevant.

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20150527143227/http://web.stanfor...
in Canada, the CBC was pretty great until the conservatives annihilated their budget. In that time, they lost the license to the theme of their flagship show, Hockey Nightnin Canada, and after that, the show itself. Also, they lost the rights to report the olympics, and the news is much lower quality.

its almost like public services dont work well when you defund them.
I interpreted that comment as a question of how can we know that someone is working too much (and therefore should be concerned) if we don't know how much they're actually working.
From the article
"in order to stay updated we’re trying to use the iPhone itself, and the data it’s giving us"

Which is interesting, given Apple's marketing about how they don't track consumers.
The Bay Area is just like the tech-heavy Nasdaq index it helps propel: When the going is good, the going is very good. But when it's bad it's really, really bad.

Detroit was really good for a long time too I hear. But don't worry this time it's different.
Well, you can't apply a technical solution to a social problem and expect it to stick, but the former can make the latter easier to fix by removing (some) inertia.

The GitHub approach (free for open, pay for private) seems sensible. I worry sometimes whether that is sustainable for GitHub, but given the competition out there (e.g. Overleaf, which I use quite regularly), I'm hopeful it will work out.
In america, im sure most people would prefer leaded water if its half the price of unleaded stuff, too.
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A quote from an interview between two doctors discussing hypochondriac patients: "For anyone who thinks we're denigrating hypochondriacs or lack sympathy, I had cancer 5 times as a medical student."
My recollection was that https://spacetimeresearch.com/ (ex ABS guys setting up a plum contract) did all the data processing of the raw data, providing a representative but anonymous set to ABS masses for reporting.

The real data was locked away (no electronic access) and I recall destroyed after a certain point of time. There were no names attached to the real data, even though the real data was not accessible by any mortal.

The representative set had the property that if you say queried a statistic at the national level it would be correct, but if you queried that statistic on a narrower area it get more "representative" and less applicable to the precise area queried. The means etc would however all pan out.

The data was accessible at 7 granularities of geographic areas. Some of the areas may have only had 100s of residents, so you can see why the data was fuzzed.

We were co-located in a building with the ATO, but there was a strict protocol and security personnel denying any access by non ABS staff. We had no internet access, no floppy drives, (no USB back then from memory), no CD burners no easy way of getting data in or out.
> Fatherhood hasn't done much for your typing, either!

Mobile auto correct! Hopefully I've now fixed the typos!

Age could also have played a part in this. It is of course all anecdotal and extremely hard to prove either way. It's a gut feeling, if you'll pardon the pun.
1) List out your accomplishments at the company from the last 4 years.

2) Try to find out which accomplishments grew revenue or cut costs for the business. Try to find out how much. If necessary, take one of the sales managers out to lunch and tell them you're trying to get a broader sense of the work you do from their perspective.

With that information in mind you can get a rough sense for the company's BATNA; When you go to them in a negotiation you now know that for you to leave would mean they lose a resource that generates $450,000/yr in value for the company.

It also means you have some great lines for your resume. "...which earns $4K monthly recurring revenue" is a tantalizing way to end a scentence if it is true.

Google [bingo card creator blog] for more on this topic.
I know it's trollish, but as person using C++ I have to do it:

Writing software using C++ in 2016 is an anti-pattern.
I enthusiastically agree with this point, however, I think the test was more about "is the company doing right by data scientists?" than "these are skills competent data scientists should have."
And every employer insists on local employees, just because it's trendy. Salaries have not kept pace with housing costs.
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More likely they forgot or screwed up and tried to put the blame back on you.
> "...your stance "this isn't a backdoor because it requires physical access; if you've given up physical access you're already screwed" is beyond disingenuous. "

Ok, I'm open to the possibility that my views might be dated on this.

But, to be fair:

1) the 'physical access' rule was an absolute given in training that I've taken. (I'll let you draw your own conclusions since that the training was hosted by Microsoft). I guess I've had it drilled into my head for so long that I didn't even think the assertion would be controversial here.

2)Schneier commented on here (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/10/evil_maid_att...) stating: "As soon as you give up physical control of your computer, all bets are off."

Granted, Schneier's comment was in 2009, and it's possible that expectations on security have changed since then, but

3) this stackexchange question (http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19334/what-can-a...) is a bit more recent. Some quotes:

"Physical security is a critical (arguably the most critical) part of IT Security. At the end of the day, almost anything can be overridden with local access to the hardware."

"If a "hacker" with any real experience or skill has physical access to a PC, I would just throw away the hard drive and start fresh."

4) even some other comments in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12264137) don't paint my notion as disingenuous as you might.

Again, I'm not a security expert, but do you think I could be forgiven for making such an assertion?
Please elaborate on the part about UCG from a separate domain. Why is this?
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In the olden days of x86: "REPNZ SCASB" to get the length of a zero-terminated string and "REP MOVSB" to copy bytes from place to place. But I think more modern CPUs actually work faster with the RISCier equivalents.
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I've had some amazing bananas in Central America. (You can also often find non-Cavendish varieties at your local Mexican, Latino, or various Asian markets.)
Interesting. Last year my wife and I founded a mainland China outbound medical tourism business and had to get in to this stuff to facilitate servicing our customers. Of course, the Chinese system is very different to the US system.

That said, mostly these customers are interested in the US or Europe (for cancer and other serious operations) or Southeast Asia for lesser stuff. China is a HUGE and WEALTHY market just waiting for a decent player in this space. However, I am now focusing on another business (http://8-food.com/) and the focus of the business has shifted so that the average client has their medical records to be re-generated by foreign medical service providers. This is not ideal in some situations, such as remote second diagnosis (which I believe will grow steadily in popularity). If you would like a local partner for digitizing available records in China so that wealthy Chinese can access foreign medical service providers (high resolution film scanning, medical records translation, etc.), you could do worse than talking to us. Email in profile.
Can't edit the parent anymore: Actually the flex price should go down compared to Compute Engine because it should be optimised for a more specific use-case?
Maybe people simply have different goals. For instance, it seems pretty obvious to me that no mass-layoffs (and thus a limit on productivity increases in that company) was a condition of the Obama administration's helping out of GM, and the same goes for the various Euro governments who did the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reor...
You mean they're people? In any case, doctors are healthier than the general population on average across a lot of measures. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/08/is-your-do...
I found Apigee's API design eBook really useful:

http://apigee.com/about/resources/ebooks/web-api-design

I was impressed with the Rackspace Cloud API and documentation too. Especially their authentication services.
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Definitely true. I was in Beijing to see a couple friends competing in the 2008 Olympics. (Rowing events; a 2km race that takes ~6.5 minutes).

One friend got bronze, but was <0.25 second from gold. She was ecstatic! Another friend got silver, and was >1 second from winning. She was massively sad/depressed. (Part of that was expectations; the woman who got silver was 100% focused on gold and gold only.)

I had heard this saying before (that bronze medalists were happier than silver medalists), but seeing it up close and personal right after their races was eye-opening.
To comment, or not to comment, that is the question. (Downside of commenting)
Sure, but a lot of those are tied up in the current single-blind extraordinarily-slow editorial-thumb-on-the-scales system that primarily benefits for-profit publishers.

Platforms like Authorea and Overleaf combined with preprint servers can help society journals compete with glamour journals without going broke. Essentially the society journal is destined to become an "overlay" journal where the editor suggests what preprints to look at while they're under review. This should, in principle, encourage actual review. Open review offers another type of incentive. Of course the actual society journal editors can be dinosaurs (and I say this after speaking directly with some of them), but eventually most of them get with the program.

I don't know what to do about the glamour journal fetish. Many of my papers in non-glamour journals have dozens of citations, which I think is great, because the glam journal papers (which, granted, have thousands of cites) are mostly cited by people who barely read them. So perhaps you say, well obviously that means the glamour journals have higher impact. Maybe. But I look at similar papers to ours in similarly glamorous journals and they have, say, 2 citations. Or 34 citations. Or whatever, after fighting through review for months. Meanwhile I have preprints and software manuals with more citations than that. But those aren't "for credit" because... shit, I don't even know why not. It's just an administrative quirk. Or something.

STAP and #arseniclife and the recent "MS gene" paper in Neuron provide endless examples of the fallacy that "peer reviewed" is necessarily better ("peer review is boosting with three weak learners"). But maybe that isn't the point. As has been said previously, Deans may not know how to read but at least most of them can count. :-/
True, but from memory this only came out as flash was on the decline.
Always wonder why its availability isn't widespread!

As a guess, it doesn't transport as well as Cavendish: ripens too quickly, gets brown spots too easily.
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I moved to Rome, Italy last year and was quite surprised how little respect they seem to have for other people's property.

All the apartments have thick security doors[1], lower windows of buildings have iron bars and all gardens have tall fences. If you leave anything that looks even remotely valuable in your car, someone will break a window and grab it. There is tonnes of vandalism, and even if you leave a motorbike locked with a secure lock it's somewhat likely it won't be there the next day.

It sounds the complete opposite of Japan!

[1] A few weeks after I arrived I was at a friends house and there was a disturbance of some sort in the apartment next door. The police couldn't get in, so called the fire service who had to work for 20 minutes to break the door down. They considered going in through the outside, but it was the third floor and all the windows had metal shutters.
No, it's one of the few sporting occasions where they actually compete together.
Just saw this.

Hey, you know, your forum, your rules. So, fine with me. No issues.

However, you are getting tripped-up by language and, effectively, censoring it, which is exactly opposite our culture. And passing judgement on the necessity of language is a very subjective thing. Profanity or colorful language is able to communicate at a level that is almost impossible to match with hundreds of words.

In this case the use of the word "abomination" is objectively correct and true. This coming from someone who started using APL over 30 years ago, was very much a part of the community, published APL papers, met every luminary in the language and fully understands how, when and why J came about. Few people. Very few people on HN can match this degree of depth in APL and most voice opinions about J out of ignorance of the history and genesis of this history-changing mistake.

The only modern parallel I can find is what happened with Python 2.7 and 3.0. Not a perfect analogy because the incompatibilities did not kill Python. J all but assured that APL was dead.

Instead of sticking with and evolving the great concepts of notation as a tool for thought Iverson managed to both give the world one of the most amazing new concepts in computational problem solving and, at the same time, years later, pretty much kill it. Yes, "abomination" fits that history.

Still, your forum, your rules. Live long and prosper.
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> Discovering sites along these routes won’t be easy, because most are now likely to be underwater. But this summer, Davis and his colleagues began surveying areas of the Pacific Ocean...

It's surprising this was just given two or three sentences, because this is kind of a crux of the argument. If people had done a coastal migration that long ago, they'd be doing it when sea levels were significantly lower, meaning a lot of the evidence is gone at this point. (Something inside me hopes they find something, though.)
God only knows. Whatever it was, my opinion of them remains the same. They're generally incompetent.
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Thank you for being an example of the ignorant mentality that allows poisons to flood our environment.

Who the hell are you to say that the adulterant you introduce into my bloodstream is safe because its such a low level? Should you have to wait until I stick my thumb in your eye to attain proof that its harmful before I'm prevented from doing so?
FOX News video of Assange implying it: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/08/10/assange-implies-m...
> keep their code muggle-friendly

What a great phrase, I'm going to borrow that.
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p.s. every zip code i've tried has a bunch of findings. anyone have a zip code without one?
The Southern part of India happens to be the actual point of origin of the banana plant and would therefore be the site with the greatest genetic diversity of both edible and wild inedible banana species. Same way Kazakhstan happens to be the origin of apples and used to have the most genetic variation until some Soviet era dictator decided to have much of the forests that were the gene bank for apple varieties cleared to grow cotton instead.

Of note, many have forgotten, but rice suffered from a pandemic blight in the 1980s that was saved only because a particular species of wild rice, coincidentally found in South India, happened to have disease resistant genes.
Using xsv (https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv):

cargo install xsv
xsv search -s ZIPCODE <zipcode> -d $'\t' UCMR3_ZipCodes.txt
xsv search -s PWSID <pwsid> -d $'\t' UCMR3_All.txt |
xsv search -s AnalyticalResultsSign = |
xsv select FacilityName,Contaminant,AnalyticalResultsValue |
xsv table
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I wonder how much can people realistically save under these conditions
Does this also come with an increase in surface attack from malware?
All of those things are most likely to be found in dense cities like New York and Chicago, not the far less walkable exurban sprawls (although those places do need parking because people come from afar)