skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Data science is a horribly overloaded term.

Ask a databases person and they will tell you about ETLs and relational joins. Ask a statistician and you will hear about estimators and the bias-variance tradeoff. Ask a social scientist and they will tell you about experiments and causal inference. Ask a CS theoretician and they will mention streaming algorithms and probabilistic guarantees. Ask a machine learning person and you will probably hear a lot about prediction and stochastic gradient descent.

The approach that will breed the best practitioners is an interdisciplinary one; a great example is UBC's program: https://masterdatascience.science.ubc.ca/program/courses. And also future positions that separate the roles of data janitor, data analyst, machine learning engineer, and so on. There is a huge difference between what Facebook's Core Data Science team does and what most companies call "data science", which is sitting on a huge pile of poorly aggregated data and having little idea what to do with it.

Most importantly, data science has to be thoughtful and part of the engineering process, and can't be done after the fact with digital trace data. It's a lot easier to run experiments than it is to do statistical gymnastics with observational data.
Well the same is true for multiple languages which will mean not everyone has to use Go. Especially when there are so many interesting languages to choose from.
If attraction weren't part of what's trying to be accomplished, attractiveness wouldn't be a qualification. The whole point of hiring a model is that they're attractive.
I thought you had hard data backing up your claim. Frankly I am quite skeptical at any unspecific "noticeable performance hit" claim. uBO's overhead is typically in the low milliseconds range, which amount to noise-level overhead really when compared to everything else occurring at page download/rendering time.

See https://twitter.com/adildean/status/936183316134416384
This piece is incoherent "campus loonies" outrage, pushing "diversity of opinion" talking points (while unintentionally demolishing it in a paragraph), demonstrating a surface-level understanding of issues (grouping "cisgenderism" with "racism"), and ultimately going for really silly "logical gotchas" instead of pointing out the importance of arguing soundly for your ideals.
Thanks for the clarification, but at least with Visual Studio tools for Python, some of that is also possible.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/python/debuggi...

Extensions can be written in IronPython, http://ironpython.net/

The builtin repl supports IPython/Jupyter style, with inline plots, .NET and WPF integration.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/python/interac...
I wonder if there's been a new groundbreaking book in the recent years
They add complexity which makes understanding and auditing code much harder. Look at OpenSSL and their overuse of macros, or heavily-templated C++ code.
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Large holders of bitcoin are probably believers so I don't think they would do any detrimental action to the ecosystem on purpose. Plus, if they wanted to sell BTC they would not be so stupid to do it with a large market order (because it would act against their favour), OTC market exists (or even limit orders, which don't move the market but if anything, they make it more price-stable).
Yes, but I do not have to read their implementation fortunately, and not so many things in Go use generics if I do want to read their implementation.
zombs is a clone of http://moomoo.io/
In 1944 Adorno and Horkheimer already described that domination of nature is a central characteristic of instrumental rationality in Western civilization, and thanks to globalisation it is slowly becoming a global norm. We will see if our augmented brains, trusted and synced on the blockchain, will see the flooding of data centres coming. Makes you wonder how all this fossil fuel powering all this became fossils.
'Special is the new retard.'
Still to this very day, I refer to myself as a retard. It is truly what I grew up with and for me, over time, it has become a badge of honor of sorts.
As a humorous aside, I also tell people that 'I used to be a card carrying retard.' After the looks of shock and dismay wear off, someone asks - 'No card anymore? Did you get 'better'?' - my reply is always - 'Nope, I ate it with some paste in kindergarten. It was delicious.' Never gets old for me.
Do you own a dictionary?
The mental gymnastics crypto cultists perform to justify their chosen greed outlets become more impressive every day.
hell no. Rule #1 - users should never see stack traces. Every time some python tool fails and dumps a stack trace, I want to throw my computer across the room. As as user, I never want to see a stack trace. I have zero interest in debugging some random tool. Show me a decent error message with tips on how to get more info. If you want a stack trace that I can give in an error report, put it in a log file somewhere.
And people wonder why women feel alienated and unwelcome in the technical world.
Is it a waste to burn CPU cycles, to have a chunk of entropy to wave around so that you can possibly buy shit?

Yes.
So are most economists.

Net Neutrality allows the government to control the internet. Many of us believe that the internet should remain free and unregulated.

We all agree that ISP monopolies are a problem, and that's what should be tackled. It's much better to give monopolies competition that to force them to be fair.

Here's more people opposing Net Neutrality:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoNetNeutrality/
Unsurprisingly, exceeding one's authority is not a crime.
Wes McKinney is a good guy, and Pandas is very useful. The title of this article is grandiose though.
Type-Driven Development with Idris: https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-i...
The dissing of PhDs is unwarranted. Gross over-generalization. People being skeptical of ideas in a peer-review sort of way can be both good and bad. For example, the assumptions and claims of this article can do with a substantial amount of skepticism. Perhaps someone should express skepticism and view this article with the peer-review critical eye that he mentions.

I am reminded of climate-change skeptic articles that say “hey these scientists know nothing. See today it’s 10 below zero. Common sense! No global warming.”
That's the game that made the genre that people call "io games"
Great, but no love for R and Hadley Wickham ?
Wonder if he sold them after he made his 10% or so
From my point of view

They are shitty and cruel and don't want to empathize. And there is no incentive to try.

I could make this a Wall of Text just with observations alone. People; still a good time.
I feel what is with this demand that Go has to have generics when there are some excellent languages with Generics available.
Stark realism indeed.

"Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts." — James Nicoll
Most of these people are likely affected by capitalism to an extreme: imperialism. Much larger of an injustice than anything you listed.

The people who are most able to take risks (in the investment sense) are those with the most. An exponential growth system such as this only widens the gap, voluntary or not.

Everyone can get in, but the benefit is unequal. You need money to make money. This does not solve any equality issues on the grand scale, and only elevates a few lucky ones. To expect people to educate themselves on cryptocurrencies and understand the market when half the people in tech don't know what's going on is not reasonable.
There's way too much "conservative" in this.
Make it a screensaver!
I know about cornering the onion market and the Onion Futures Act, what is the other banned futures contract in the US?
Also since a large number of coins are lost the 40% number understates the size of the whales. Estimates are that 20% of coins are simply lost for good.
In US, if you say anything bad about US leaders, maybe you have trouble at the border when you go on holiday.
In Russia, you can say anything about US leaders, and nobody will care.
Relax, we'll be back to banging the rocks together in the ruins of our cities before then. I think most people are grossly overestimating the rate of progress vs. the rate of environmental collapse.
This is an article making baseless generalizations that all data science is failing in Silicon Valley, and that the true need of a company is to hire a "data strategist." Unsurprisingly, the article is written by a self-proclaimed data strategist.

This blog post would be more compelling if there were citations or even general context backing up the authors pretty wild claims ("the vast majority (we are talking 80-90%) want to leave their current job", "failure rate of data science teams is over 90% right now", "the top 5 data scientists I have ever worked with, only 1 had a PhD").

As a data scientist working for a relatively well known startup in the Bay Area, I don't dispute that there are problems in this industry. There are many under-/un-qualified managers running around (I don't know if that's a data science specific problem, or if it also applies to much of engineering as well). There are ICs and teams that have trouble producing industry-applicable work because they're too academically focused. There are also business-driven teams that have trouble producing quality/reproducible work because they're too business focused.

That said, the claim of 90% failure is ridiculous on its face. Having another MBA put together a powerpoint presentation about a company's data strategy isn't going to suddenly solve the actual issues in data science.
> Was this predicted at the inception of Bitcoin?

At inception? No. But Satoshi was made aware of this problem. Here's a long passage from Nathaniel Popper's Digital Gold:

Laszlo’s CPU had been winning, at most, one block of 50 Bitcoins each day, of the approximately 140 blocks that were released daily. Once Laszlo got his GPU card hooked in he began winning one or two blocks an hour, and occasionally more. On May 17 he won twenty-eight blocks; these wins gave him fourteen hundred new coins that day.

Satoshi knew someone would eventually spot this opportunity as Bitcoin became more successful and was not surprised when Laszlo e-mailed him about his project. But in responding to Laszlo, Satoshi was clearly torn. If one person was taking all the coins, there would be less of an incentive for new people to join in.

“I don’t mean to sound like a socialist,” Satoshi wrote back. “I don’t care if wealth is concentrated, but for now, we get more growth by giving that money to 100% of the people than giving it to 20%.”

As a result, Satoshi asked Laszlo to go easy with the “highpowered hashing,” the term coined to refer to the process of plugging an input into a hash function and seeing what it spit out.

But Satoshi also recognized that having more computing power on the network made the network stronger as long as the people with the power, like Laszlo, wanted to see Bitcoin succeed.
If you'll forgive the self-promotion, 'Working with Coders: A Guide to Software Development for the Perplexed Non-Techie' came out over the summer and is designed for project/product managers and others who have to deal with programming on a daily basis but don't actually code: https://www.amazon.com/Working-Coders-Development-Perplexed-...
* Don't follow a specific diet and don't exercise regularly *

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Honestly, this is the biggest red flag for me. Yes, you may have other personal/emotional/mental health things you want to get support for, but regular exercise can do absolute wonders for your overall well-being.

My advice: watch a couple youtube videos about navy seals -about how disciplined they are and the will power they develop to get up every day and attack the day during their training. Challenge yourself to get up early and do a good quality workout for about ~2 weeks straight, then re-evaluate how you feel. I bet you'll feel 5x better.
Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug.
pretty much, but since samsung doesnt enter the space of these competitors, it would be silly to have a falling out. Samsung doesnt offer too many competing products with amzn /goog
I’d work for an Aussie, but my auxiliary national affiliation in New Zealand would mandate I give them some good natured grief :-)

I’d say it takes all kinds. I work with one Aussie who is a great manager, and she enjoys good rapport with everyone above and below as far as I can tell.

Kiwis and Aussies that I’ve known have had a tendency to project a feeling place inferiority which I think is rubbish. Everyone has imposter syndrome, but being from Aussie or NZ is no reason to feel inferior. Stand tall!
How about their heirs?
It seems like every currency is going to have a power-law distribution of holders, whether it's Bitcoin or USD. I don't see how that undercuts the libertarian desire for currencies without central control.
A working knowledge of some basic stats, access to some decent tooling, a good working knowledge of what the organization is trying to accomplish and the ability to persuade and lead based on findings will likely move the revenue needle much more for most companies than a pure "data science" role.

The trouble is of course we don't have a good name for that role, so it's all "data science".
ah yeah, youre right. cjdns has that too, you can build mesh networks with it:

https://tomesh.net/build-a-node/
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So what comment of mine tripped the downvote sensors? The first line was somewhat of a half joke, half truth. Have you ever dealt with HR and interoffice politics?
But if you know R, you can change the behavior of operators.

> oldPlus <- `+`
> `+` <- function(e1, e2) {
+ if (is.character(e1) && is.character(e2))
+ paste(e1,e2,sep="")
+ else
+ oldPlus(e1,e2)
+ }
> "hello" + "world"
[1] "helloworld"
> The JAR signature scheme only takes into account the zip entries. It ignores any extra bytes when computing or verifying the application's signature.

Why? is there a use-case for this?
I don't understand the dilemma. Nobody is forcing you to use bitcoin and it's still an incredibly small market in the grand scheme of things. The libertarian position is (generally) that government mandated fiat currency is a tool of state oppression. No such force exists when it comes to bitcoin, and if people are unhappy with the concentration of bitcoin in the hands of a small number of people, they are free to use any other currency.
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I get it: you don't like the piece.

Do you have any substantive and specific criticisms of it?

For instance, can you give an example of what you call a "logical gotcha" in the piece, and demonstrate why it is a "logical gotcha" (and, for that matter, why "logical gotchas" are bad)?

What you have written here is basically just name calling.
I read it as parodying the person in the scenario by implying that they think that flat-screen TVs are somehow particularly desirable.
Why not getting an iPhone and let Apple patch it for you? It's just a phone, not your child, you don't have to take care of it...
I Am Not a Libertarian but a few thoughts come to mind. Bitcoin is just about as close to the libertarian ideal as you can practically get in this world. The two main flaws that I can see is that it's not as anonymous as it could be, and many governments have already imposed a number of burdensome regulations which prevent people from using bitcoin as they see fit. More anonymity would get around those regulations to some extent (not saying that I agree with doing that, it's just the pedestrian reality).

WRT most of the wealth being held by a small number of people, I think it's inevitable that power structures like this arise in human societies. If you leave things unchecked, some people will acquire way more wealth than others. Doing away with regulations will likely only make that worse, not better. I'm more of a socialist, so I would prefer that we somehow limit the amount of wealth that a single individual can hold, because it gives them a tremendously unfair amount of control over the destiny of humanity as a whole.
It only happens if the market is not there to "catch" the sell off. Say there are 1 000 000 X and the current market price is $100 each. If I have 40% of all X and I go to sell it, I first sell to everyone willing to buy X at $100 each. Then I sell to everyone willing to buy X at $99.9 each, etc. Once we stop selling at price Y, we've essentially sold X to everyone who would buy X for between Y and $100.

Note that this implies selling off X always decreases its price. This is not true if Y is $100 (people were willing to buy more X at $100 than we had X at all), but even so a market usually has something like a bid-ask spread, so if we were trading a small amount of X we could maybe even sell it all off without moving the big price.

So really, whether this crashes the market for X depends on how much people value X. If only a few people thought X was valuable, they probably all own it, so it's worthless. If everyone wants X and are willing to pay just a bit less to get it, Y doesn't really change much from $100. There are also non-currencies like equities that essentially have a price floor: below the price floor there is basically no risk that the item will ever be worth less than that (this could be determined by something like the total value of property owned by a business).
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Any idea why some trains that are further out have a shorter travel time to the city than the next closest physical station?
They can crash it to rebuy. It happened pretty often in altcoins.
If it's just a nice trinket that has sentimental value then it's most certainly not an "investment in life, future and love."
I have a very difficult time separating "true" libertarians with members of libertarian parties. Like people don't readily give up how pragmatic they are. On one end, there seem to be people who really yearn for pure individual freedom with no government at all. I'm pretty sure that was tried for the first 50,000 years of humanity and the results are well documented. (spoiler, for populations larger than ~100 people, your chance of ending up a king's subject is >99%) The other end doesn't seem to mean anything concrete, other than a distaste for OSHA or environmental laws.

Anyway, I think most Libertarians would be cool with a handful of ultra-wealthy, because they really think they can conquer the market someday and be one of them.
The fact that shaming people for failing to be rich is so common within the crypto community that it has a name, says a lot about the crypto "community".

Kind of reminds me of another "community" that crypto enthusiasts have been claiming to be morally superior to since day one. Unsurprisingly, they share several other ugly traits between them as well. Greed being the most prominent.
Cholet's book is already complete, and available as PDF & in print form - 20th of December is timeline for ePUB/MOBI
I thought they article was going to be about Hadley too. But i'm pretty sure he was the HR star yesterday.
5% isn't small! A charity is typically funded by the returns from investing some pot of money. The stock market returns on average about 7% a year, and inflation is typically about 2%. 7-2=5. At 5%, the charity is required to spend on average all inflation adjusted money its endowment provides.
> Because bitcoin is a digital currency and not a security

And in that statement, there is the fraud.
I agree with you but this is an apples to oranges (or perhaps apples to 747s) comparison. The top 1000 holders of gold don't have anywhere near 40% of the market. Not to mention that 40% of the market for BTC is only a few million coins.
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That is not entirely true. Most of those clones are not fun at all despite having the same concept. Or they are fun, but not nearly as addictive for some reason. Details of execution matter and original flappy bird somehow got a lot of details right. Randomly downloaded app does not.

It is same as with pc-man and tetris. Most of clones are not fun at all, despite having the same concept.

Source: I played both original flappy and then tried some of clones.
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It makes sense that their "quick" solution is to give each customer their own cert/key, but I'm surprised that they didn't go with a reverse proxy approach from the beginning, where the wildcard key would be kept securely at their reverse proxy layer that no customers would have access to. Having to maintain TLS certs in IIS on each of these VMs seems like it would cause them more work than it's worth. Having experience with the platform, do you have any insight into why they would do TLS at the VM rather than via a reverse proxy?
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> Untraceable money

Bitcoin is not untraceable money, it can be even more traceable than normal currency. It could be stablished as a law that public money when being spent in the blockchain needs to be auditable by the people (identities of sender and recipient known), and this way you would end up with even less corruption than the current system.

> Deflation means that the rich will get richer

Wrong. Rich people don't have money, they have holdings. Most of the holdings that rich people nowadays have are not money. Deflation just benefits the savers, as opposed to the spenders. Some savers might be rich but not all. Incentivising saving instead of consumption may make the planet a bit greener.
Plus, if one day we stop measuring cryptocurrency value with a fiat-unit of measure, maybe we find out that the cryptocurrency value is actually the stable value. The asset that is not stable is the fiat currency because it's being depreciated all the time. The day all stores in the planet denominate prices in cryptocurrency, the bad consequences of deflation (hoarding for the sake of profit) will be almost imperceptible.
BTC is not "untraceable money". Everybody has (or can have) a copy of the blockchain, which is the cryptographically signed and verified ledger.

If anything, it is more traceable and public than physical cash. The difference is that you don't know who 63dca1f6eddfb659d71ec5244ab950a4 or e3557c1e589e2a687f6afe1a253196ca are. But when you do associate a person with a given key, that association probably persists over time.
Liquidity. You can rely on anybody to want fungible money but not to want the particular stock you own, much less your spare apartment. The alternative, of course, is what is known as ”financial repression” whereby a state forced its citizens to operate almost exclusively on national financial assets.

As regards to the various network topologies, it gets pretty ornery: forcing all banks to transact through a central bank, that acts as the guarantor, would eliminate counterparty risk. Allowing everybody to transact amongst themselves instead means you cannot keep track of who has what and so you cannot rely on ”netting” out debts and credits. The various systems available worldwide represent a kind of path-dependent compromise that favours the incumbent actors.