skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Almost everyone does that".

No they don't. I am not living in a bubble. You're describing a mom and pop shop.

And by the way you don't have to be a code ninja or have a super devops team for that.

You can have your code locally, point your DB config to a staging server with a copy(you do backups daily, don't you?) of production and boom!

Seriously now... elementary stuff. If you're still changing code directly on live systems you have a long way to go.
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Did that course actually. Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig were the instructors. Still have the certificate from the course(back then they used to provide signed certificates from the instructors for free).
Hope it works out for you, best of luck!
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I said "brand loyalty," (i.e. Apple has a history of making quality products and providing great customer service) not "easily manipulated by brands" and "learning curve of alternative options" (i.e. it would take effort to learn how to move all my stuff to a different OS and get used to the hardware and OS differences, which is a large friction point) not "incapable of learning a new system." You can somehow try to read into that as if I'm saying Mac users like myself are stupid if you'd like, but that's not what I flat out said nor insinuated.
I wrote an article for the ACM Queue (also published in CACM) about this very issue called "Statistics for Engineers"

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2903468
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This 1997 Flight Sim Let You Fly the F-35 Years Before It Was Ready
The iPhone 5 is four and half years old. He'll be fine.
• He probably won't be able to update to iOS 11.
• He'll still be able to run iOS 10.
• He will still be able to download new apps.
• He will still be able to download his old apps, even 32 bit ones, because he owns them.
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I actually felt anxiety about it raining just knowing where it was all headed.

You people scare me. Honestly. I'm not joking. What I can feel anxiety for: thinking that people can start a fight for a butt on the floor.

Making people feel guilt for using the wrong trash container, or leaving the tap open for too long. Life's too short for that crap, IMHO.

It makes me think of Demolition Man. I believed it was over the top comedy when it was released. Now I'm not taking it as a joke anymore.

Edit: I should not need to say this. But... I don't smoke. Also I don't approve people littering if they can avoid it.
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Which cider store in Ithaca are you referring to? I live here and I can only think of Cellar D'or and the larger store near the FedEx on state street.
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Dear Microsoft – a sysadmin's wishlist
The same argument could be made about just about any human activity that isn't obviously beneficial to humanity, the environment, etc.

Is reading a discussion on HN morally defensible? You could be spending that time helping humanity somehow.

Is working at a tech start-up making mobile apps morally defensible? You could be working at a soup kitchen instead.

Is playing a video game morally defensible? You could be assisting volunteering at a shelter instead.

Is having heat in your house morally defensible? You could be turning it off to save money which you could send to help alleviate poverty, though this will require you to endure freezing temperatures in your home.
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Also looking at the German standards for low or even positive energy homes I see a huge potential for energy efficient homes in the US (but also other markets).
Unless the developer recompiles. Which is simple to do.
This is not just for contracts. Gigster does that even when recruiting. After three rounds of interview, I got a canned response that they are unable to take my application forward.

I asked them for feedback and got the same reply that they can't provide any feedback (even after 3 rounds of interviews).

I reached out to the developer who interviewed me and after a couple of days, he replied back saying that Gigster doesn't allow him to provide any feedback!

Avoid interviewing with them, in my opinion.
It should be noted that it's quite limited. You can only install a few of these apps on a given device, and they expire quickly. It's not really practical for sideloading in the general case.
Great example, and mentioned in the article.
Turkish grannies to get state salaries for grandchildren’s care
I keep looking for another data science spot to open up in Raleigh. Wish I could have taken advantage of the openings when your office first opened up but was terrible timing on my end (really enjoyed interviewing though). Also got to meet Tim not too long ago at PyData Carolinas and he's awesome.
Please Stop Protesting on Behalf of Billionaires and Globalist Corporations
Since you allow the parent to stay unflagged despite its identical language, I've reposted my comment.

Your move.
From the incident report:

> Git repositories are NOT lost, we can recreate all of the projects whose user/group existed before the data loss, but we cannot restore any of these projects issues, etc.

Your fancy snippet will report that it has pushed no changes. The data that was lost was new issues, PRs, issue comments, and so on; I've never heard of anyone keeping backups of these on their local laptops.
Google Cloud takes aim at Microsoft customers with new Windows VMs
Ask HN: Is Ubeam the next Theranos?
Have there been any updates on progress or lack thereof from Ubeam?
I am now running my own news startup (oko.ai) and have secured a deal with the biggest news agency in Portugal. And fact-checking is on our pipeline of features, thank you for the share.

Also do you think we are in the right spot to go for this YC call?
I see very little value for the company in agreeing to something like this. A user could still sue (even after signing the form) by claiming the given feedback is discriminatory or something similar. No company would voluntarily take on that sort of liability when there are countless alternatives.
That's what we do. `service-1-dev` and `service-1-prod`. Can't ssh to `prod` unless you are a really really qualified devops.
> it is pretty amazing that normit transformations (map the quantiles of a non-normal distribution onto a Gaussian and use that) don't seem to be on this guy's radar

I don't mean to offend, but this is the PhD ur-response, "you didn't mention my pet theory!" :-)

You've given me some interesting stuff to chew on but I very specifically wanted to write about descriptive statistics as a way to describe data, not as a way to summarize it for computers so it can be used in inference. Mapping non-normal distributions onto a Gaussian ain't gonna cut it for that purpose, and to the extent that I care about robustness in this context it's not robustness of inference but whether a descriptive continues to provide a reasonable description of the data for human consumption in the face of outliers etc.
PMs as a group hoard information on projects: devs have almost no visibility into the current set of available, unstaffed gigs.

Their goal is to be remain necessary and collect a paycheck. They're middle-men and this is why I encourage devs to talk directly to clients and get used to solving client/customer/user problems through direct feedback rather than relying on the broken telephone system.

Also this is when unions and co-operatives start to look like a good idea. If Gigster and other sites like it were operated as co-operatives, where every freelancer is also a member of the organization, they wouldn't be so inclined to hire middle-men and to rip people off.
Bias in Book Lists: A Data-Driven Look Back on 2016
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MSFT can go 15 years of support because PCs pace of change is far slower than smartphones. I'm pretty sure MSFT dropped 286 support long ago.

And Windows compatibility with so much old software is a big reason why it sucks. There are too many apis that should have been deprecated and hacks to support specific apps that bloat it up.
I don't think of tesla as a "car and battery" company but as a "portable battery (the supposed car) and a home battery" company.

They already partner with (or own) SolarCity so really their overarching business is as an energy company. They collect it, they store it, and they transport it.

All they need is a logistically easier way to transport it than traditional power lines which I'm guessing would step on some toes. So their next step might be something like WiTricity. That way, they can bypass physical infrastructure.
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The problem with these chemicals is that they very easily penetrate through your skin straight into the blood. [1] (Their super low molecular weight might be the reason for that.)

So even your jacket may be a significant route of exposure, too.

[1] Dermal Penetration Potential of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) in Human and Mouse Skin http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15287394.2011.615...
I stopped using Chrome because I didn't want everything I did on the web sent to them. Now that it's open source I'll probably never look at the code. So idk. Probably just gonna stick with Safari.
To be fair the article should not be called "Unlearning descriptive statistics", but "Learning just a bit more (and often better) descriptive statistics", but granted, it's not that snappy.

Certainly better than "I took a statistics course, and you won't believe what happened next!!!1!!"
> You have it completely backwards, I'm afraid. Private land in the southwest tends to be overgrazed and abused, while BLM land is very well managed, with enforcement of herd rotation through pastures.

It's a hotly contested subject, but evidence (and logic) shows the balance favors private land, where owners actually have an incentive to maintain it -- crazy concept, right? Here's a broad survey that evaluates the frequency and magnitude of overgrazing on federal land:

http://people.oregonstate.edu/~muirp/wpubland.htm
Is this title just the six most used words in the article? :-D
Yes, PyCharm supports Vagrant, Docker etc.

My host system is Fedora but since our production code is deployed on Ubuntu, I have a Vagrant Ubuntu image. PyCharm reads the Vagrantfile and it has access to the virtualenv(python in our case) of the Vagrant's image.

UPDATE:
I am not sure if that's what you were asking.
Maybe this response(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13543158) I gave is more relevant ?
I don't feel particularly convinced by this article, I feel like it misses the bullet by going beyond a reasonable standard. The article is phrased in such a manner that it acts as if typical descriptive statistics are not useful, but the more important point is more reasonable and understand when to use what statistics.

In fact, many of his examples of what to use are just other descriptive statistics, median is no less a descriptive statistic than the mean is.

I think the problem is not so much that descriptive statistics are bad, so much as they are not particularly useful when they lack context. Unfortunately, statistics is a much more complex field than your average product designer doing an A/B test thinks. The majority of statistics and models the average person utilizes has assumptions and qualifications that they don't fully understand, and frankly that's not a slight to them but rather just the additional depth of the field.

Just as an example, ask the average person to derive the degrees of freedom for their t-test without just utilizing the formula they were taught.

As in most fields this is an issue of nuance, not that beginner techniques are bad, but beginner techniques alone are not nuanced enough to capture useful or rigorous insights.
> It seems likely, given that this mechanism is "deliberate" and definitely under the control of your DNA, that you live longer and more successfully with aging than without.

Not necessarily "you" but perhaps the species as a whole. Without the aging and inevitable death our ancestors may have evolved slower.
> "Contractor agrees to indemnify Gigster from any and all claims, damages, liability, settlement, attorneys’ fees and expenses, as incurred, on account of the foregoing or any breach of this agreement"

There's no way that's legal, right? Like, you can have a broad indemnity clause, even for willful malfeasance. You can have a clause forcing arbitration. But Gigster's clause says "as part of this contract, you have no recourse if we intentionally violate this contract". Surely that's not legal, in the same sense that you can't sign a contract which flows entirely one direction. It literally states that Gigster can't be treated as having signed the contract they are currently signing.
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Perhaps I wasn't patient enough, but I waited a long time for that stupid pan to heat evenly. The thermal conductivity was just too low. And in the meantime, the excessive temperature in the center would burn the seasoning off.

Whereas with stainless steel, it reaches the Leidenfrost point in a matter of minutes.
The comments below explain a bit of the reasoning, but I agree. In cases where there is no alternative meaning to the word, this makes for a confusing read, especially since ö is a letter with a completely different sound in several European languages (German, and I think Norwegian and Danish, and my local dialect of Slovenian :P), pronounced as "oe"

If you want to imagine how I read a word like that, this video is a helpful guide to pronounciation of ö:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr-mCMtISfA