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it depends on how serious companies will take the regulation and how strict it will be enforced by the regulator

Indeed, hopefully it won't be another cookie law, this time notifying users they need to forfeit their rights granted by the GDPR to access the site.
I’ve known many quants use both R and python/numpy/pandas for complimentary tasks. The R standard library was generally spoken about in positive terms, but for data massaging and manipulation beyond pure maths/stats analysis a python environment probably offers much more flexibility.

Note that I don’t claim expertise in the above, but a bunch of very talented people I’ve worked directly with, and who were very directly incentivized to be productive, used R.

Perhaps your profs were trying to help you learn R, including its limitations, when they were setting you tasks?
That AI would ask the client / designer "what the hell do you mean with this?" until an implementable design emerges. Client / designer decides it's much more efficient to throw a half baked idea over the fence to blame a human programmer afterwards.
The book "R for Data Science" by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham (O'Reilly, 2017) [1] provides a comprehensive introduction to modern R and a set of packages known as the tidyverse. Highly recommended.

[1] http://r4ds.had.co.nz/
> Really, the only way economics make sense is if you assume that everything is valued at its real value at any time -- not just when it changes hands.

Why? The other way seems to make sense to me.
Then what do they think is the point? I seriously have a hard time to understand. Ok if it is a small group of people that actually did something great but having stuff like "The american woman" or "The computer" isn't very interesting in my opinion.

I understand that other people feel otherwise, but I would rather read more deeply about a single person because I find that way more interesting.

The entire "silence breakers" is simply about creating medial rage against people who are not yet proven guilty which is in my opinion immensely stupid.
>Personally I kinda feel a little meh about the subject. My heart goes out to every struggling business(wo)man - it's hard to make it on your own. But farmers are especially insulated against market forces by a giant morass of subsidies and land use regulations. They're already getting a much bigger handout than they deserve.

Smaller businesses yes.

Big businesses get even more subsidies than farmers -- and not just subsidies.
None of them. Grab any analytics tools and play this amount on the next world cup would be a lot more fun than lost everything for nothing. At least you had fun.
I've been a heavy R user for about 7 years, and I only slightly disagree with one of your points.

(In my opinion) R is best for traditional statistics, as opposed to AI, machine learning, predictive analytics, data science, data analysis or any other variant thereof.

If you're more concerned with Chi-squared tests than unit tests, or if you need to teach a mathematician or a biologist how to fit regression models and analyse residuals, goodness-of-fit statistics, p-values etc, then R is the best language for the job.

If you need to build a program (as opposed to just do a thing), or if you're more interested in accuracy than inference (as per most machine learning tasks), then Python with sklearn and pandas blows R out of the water.
That's silly. If you're doing research using new statistical methods, they're almost certainly available on R first. And ggplot2 remains the best plotting library I've ever seen.
Not all technical problems can be fixed.
Well, shoot. I just took ciprofloxacin for a week following a minor surgery, and noticed that I've lost some of the sensation in my upper right leg. I assumed it was caused by the surgery, but in six weeks, it hasn't improved. Not exactly life-altering, but it does feel pretty weird when scratching an itch and I'll get odd tingling there sometimes while trying to sleep that feels more warm than painful.

> Nearly all quinolone antibiotics in modern use are fluoroquinolones ... One example is ciprofloxacin (Cipro), one of the most widely used antibiotics worldwide.
You can still sell it.
He lived in a time were personal meetings were still very normal. And he was in a trade were meeting many people was normal and beneficial. I would say anyone in that business meets that amount of people and even more. But he was one of the rare people who also documentated it well, while being relevant enough, to make an article about it.

Meeting people doesn't neccessarly mean he know them all personaly, or had more then a handful encounters with them. Like if you have a big company-meeting with dozen on dozen relevant people, it's quite normal to go around and exchange contact-information, talk a bit, and never meet again or use the contact-info.
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> Mr. Schmidt did not identify any Volkswagen superiors who might have pressured him to lie to regulators.

So, a guy that takes the fall so that the superiors can get scratch free.

This can involve anything from some guarantees of financial security post-prison and favorable push for "early exit" from prison, to blackmail and threats for the person's family.
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Here you can find all info you want: https://examine.com/supplements/vitamin-k/

Search on that page for: "Skeleton and Bone Metabolism".
K1 and K2 work differently. We know a lot but there is still a lot more we don't know. Hell, looks like even different versions of K2 (from MK-4 to MK-13) works for different stuff in body. Only because MK-7 stays in blood for longer than MK-4 doesn't mean that it better. It could also mean that body is better in utilizing MK-4, or even that it's using it for different stuff.

More here: https://chrismasterjohnphd.com/2016/12/03/start-here-for-vit...
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Interesting that nearly half of the backers are Chinese companies.
I believe that health care in the US is subsidized to some degree by people with higher income.

—- Medicare payroll taxes are proportional to salary.

—- Low income people that use hospitals generally don’t end up paying for their surgery and care which is passed on to people that do pay their bills.

—- Big pharma offers heavy discounts to low income patients for expensive drugs resulting in higher costs for the rest of us.

—- Under the current Afforadable Care Act free/low cost insurance is provided by raising taxes on the upper income people.

I don’t know what’s the best way to improve the system; I just wish the costs, who was paying for it, and where the money was going was more transparent. It appears that it is intentionally designed to be inscrutable.
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Thanks Roger, I love nwjs (still prefer it over electron), thank you for your work!
Henry Osieki in the 9th edition of his book The Nutrient Bible factors increasing demand for Vitamin D include:

alcohol, autoimmune reactive arthritis, bile problems, cancer (breast, prostate, colon, and skin). Crohn's disease, cystic fibrosis, elderly individuals, hypoparathyroidism, intestinal disorders, insulin dependent diabetes, kidney disorders, lack of exposure to sun, mineral oil intake multiple sclerosis, obesity pancreatic disease, pregnancy, rickets, schizophrenia, smog exposure, ulcerative colitis, use of anti convulsants e.g. phenytoin and phenobarbital, steroid medication, vegetarianism.

Functions facilitated: anti-proliferative effect - osteosarcoma, melanoma, colon and breast cancer, apoptosis, anti-inflammatory action, blood clotting, calcium and phosphate absorption and regulation, cofactor in synthesis of heat shock proteins, differentiates leukaemia cells and induces apoptosis, heart and muscle action, helps induce monocyte conversion to macrophages, increases bone strength, induces apoptosis in breast and prostate cancer, increases neurotrophic factor synthesis (NGF, GDNF, NF-3), increases the activity of tyrosine hydroxylase and choline acetyltransferase, increases neural glutathione levels, inhibits iNOS and TFN - alpha activity, immune-regulating properties, mineralisation of bone and teeth potent anti-proliferative agent in the colon, protects against neurotoxicity associated with ischaemia, reduces the risk of colorectal and prostate cancer, regulates cellular differentiation in intestinal cells, regulates or inhibits T-cell mediated immune response, regulation of calcium and phosphorous metabolism, selectively reduces interleukin 2 levels and proliferation of T cells, stimulates polyamine, stimulator of ornithine decarboxylase and spermidine acetyl transferase.
I’ve always looked at prison as more of a deterrent for committing crimes. If he wasn’t criminally charged maybe others would think committing similar actions would be worth just paying fines. You might say that people in the auto industry wouldn’t copy his actions but I’d say prison works this way on a societal level.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows that most bubbles are bubbles in advance. People don't invest because they think it won't crash, they invest because it is definitely going up and they hope they can cash out before it does.
I'm also very interested in whether Authy will be usable on Linux after Chrome Apps go away, or what viable replacements exist.

I experimented with migrating from Chrome to Firefox 57 when that launched. It's a very capable browser and I could easily use it as my main browser, but Authy was the main thing which stopped me dropping Chrome for work use. There were other things (like Netflix Chromecast support) which were stumbling blocks for home use, but I can always keep Chrome around for those.
OK, and how would it look if that weren't the case? If superiors hadn't pressured him?

It would look exactly the same.
Actually, I think the interpretation of simplicity as ease is an awful thing in the context of programming and should be actively discouraged. Rich Hickey’s talk “simple made easy” is the best explanation I’ve ever seen of this.
We should demote police officers who run a search warrant and fail to find an obvious piece of evidence that was right in front of them because they didn't think of opening a door.
I think it does not stand.

in US 6 weeks of paid vacation is still rare in professionals. 3 is common. So you're using 3-6 while in europe there is guaranteed 6. This is apples and oranges.

Besides: this is in addition to the sick time. Sick time is paid and you don't use vacation time for that in europe. How is that in US? Can you get additional 4 weeks paid sick time? Can you get 8?

Then in addition you have this perks in US as long as you work as professional in top companies. While the real difference in terms of health care is after this work. Last I check, average age at FANG is below 30 yrs in USA! Wow! So imagine you're 45, you dont work at google/etc: then at low impact events or maybe even medium events if you dont have family healthcare is comparable (your savings cover it). But at high cost/high impact situations or medium ones if you have full family, you're not covered (add to this highest in the western world cost of healthcare in US). While it's state funded in europe also at the high cost level (read cancer therapies and all the things like). This is big difference for last 40 years of live.

And then you have mentioned maternity: that alone (and most of people have families in any place of world) from family perspective is a huge difference financially AND child development.

p.s. and there is cost of living. in US alone you can easily have it in SanFran at 1.77x of US average - you can imagine how it scale to the other parts of world?
Sauce: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=cost+of+living+index+S...
Your attempt to make an analogy here doesn't hold up. The anti-tax position would be to want to keep your car but also get use of the bicycle whenever you want it, since the true taxation analogy would be both you and the other person granting use of your property to others.

Unless you want to argue about people paying more in taxes than they (feel they) get in benefits. In which case, well, the most rabid anti-tax people generally are getting far more benefits than they pay for (and are busily re-rigging the tax system to tilt even more in their favor).
To a large degree, that post was a test to see if my comment would even appear. For now, I do not wish to contest the ban, because this is a good opportunity for me to spend less time on HN ;)

I would, however, like to repeat what I have written elsewhere, which is that it is unclear to me how I'm supposed to know which accounts are moderators. There is no [mod] besides your name. So while I do know that some users have complained about my comments while others have up-voted them, I do not know if those who complained were moderators or not. I also do not know how to see which and how many comments I have made which were flagged.
Oh, it looks more and more like regular exceptions (nested errors, details, kinds).
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I agree that there are also some good parts with R.

But the argument "It's good because many people use it" is the one I heard most often when it comes to discussion about programming languages especially old ones like R and java.
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Hi everyone! I just finished this post, please enjoy it and let me know if you have questions or suggestions (especially regarding the math portions, of which I have a hard time understanding anything beyond year 2 calculus!).
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I think everyone here is super overblowing this.. You're redirected to a new domain (of your bank) for verification. Then directed back.
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I second this - the tidyverse packages make R feel like it's supposed to feel like, tables make sense, string manipulation makes sense, it's all grown out of one consistent approach, kind of the opposite of base R.

Just a shame that R's approach to namespace is so bad that importing tidyverse leads to a few name-clashes with bioconductor...
"Poll: Democrats more likely to believe allegations of sexual misconduct" that's the title of the article..
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While waiting for the ETH network to come to its senses again so I can actually buy a kitten I decided to pass the time building a little tool that find bargains :)

Enjoy, and i you have any suggestions let me know!
Yes. This is the book that I referenced to!
If Cloudflare hadn't exploded as it did, they would not have done any fix.

So lets see what actually happens to those issues being reported.
Is there anything out there comparable to ggplot2 for high-quality plots?
> The justice system punishes people. There are around 2.2M people in US prisons.

The justice system punishes society by failing to adequately rehabilitate offenders. As a result many go on to reoffend. So really the current system is only punishing the next innocent victims of crimes perpetrated by released inmates.

See the difference in reoffending rates between Norway and the USA, and their different approaches to prison time. For a start, the US views the inmates as "criminals", Norway views the inmates as people who did something illegal.
It's worked for me just fine every week the last few months.
Related to this topic, if you have IBS/IBD, some interesting research been coming out in the last couple of years indicating that low vitamin D may play a role in this issue as well. This [1] 2015 study found 82% of people with IBS had low vitamin D levels relative to 31% in the control group. This [2] 2016 one proved causation of vitamin D supplementation improving symptoms, by randomly splitting into two groups and treating only one. This [3] speculative writeup by the Vitamin D Council in 2014 discusses some possible mechanisms of action.

This seems like such low-hanging fruit that it was extremely surprising to me that this is at the cutting edge. Causes and cures for IBS are not clear and one third of patients find current treatments unsuccessful [4]. But the above doesn't seem to be well known in online discussion because it's so new, and my gastroenterologist didn't bring it up at all either.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4412886/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27154424

[3] https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/health-conditions/inflammato...

[4] https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/study-finds-high-dose-vitami...
> The ones who are getting off easily, IMHO, are the regulators.

...and the politicians who are supposed to oversee them.
I agree 100%.

> This is utter intellectual laziness

It's not.

Of course this was done under a laughably thin guise of impartiality ("if we use real-world tests, we would introduce an unfair element of randomness"), but in truth it was clear to anyone who cared that the regulations are deliberately softened to make it easy for manufacturers.

Boring example: the European driving cycle only defines measurements up to a top speed of 130km/h. So it's legal for manufacturers to ignore regulations from 131km/h onwards. Why not enforce adherence up to the rated top speed? Because... uh...

> How is it possible that it never occurred to anyone there, to test cars in real-world conditions

It has occurred to many people. Manufacturers have fought it tooth and nail -- I wonder why.

Even in Germany, which all but depends on its automotive industry, this is widely considered a disgrace (except, of course, in the circles relevant to the inception of regulations).
In fact, many people consider it a strategic mistake to go soft on the German auto industry, allowing them to fall behind. I'm sure it'll bite them. But only after the current politicians and CEOs have left office, so why should they care?

Grrrr.
"That is what the interview process is for, so both sides can find out if there is a good fit."

Well yeah, that's exactly what the anecdote illustrates - people who aren't hung up on 'doing maths' or 'being a mathematician' will have ample opportunity; those that are better like it at universities because that's where they're heading.
This $40 was a charge that allowed willing, solo drivers to use the car pool lanes. No one had to pay the $40; they could continue to drive solo in the non car pool lanes as they had previously. This option was just added.
I think this was a great idea, so I'm sad to see it go. I have prepaid credit cards for potentially sketchy sites and one "main" credit card that I use for most of my payments online. This could probably have reduced the "administration" overhead involved.

Is anyone aware of a similar offering that is available in Germany?
I wouldn't think so, after all most people here don't even have a credit card. We do have debit/ATM cards, but they use a separate payment network developed in German and are not interoperable with Visa/MasterCard.

On that note, I wouldn't mind not getting any benefits since most cards here don't offer any notable ones either. This is probably a direct consequence of there being a pretty strict cap on transaction fees (iirc 0.3% on credit cards).
What are your dollars but numbers being added and subtracted in a database? Things have value because people assign them value. There isn't some magical property that makes the trust in US government more legitimate than trust in math and cryptography. It would seem a lot of people would argue in favor of the latter as well.
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> 1) Has anybody run into a request like this? How would you respond?

Yes. Satisfy their justification without showing code. It is possible to show how algorithms made their decisions. Make this part of your product. You already noticed there is a demand for it and that delivering a black box can be a deal-breaker. So read up on LIME, decision paths, interpretable models on black box output, etc. and give them the capability to see how an algo made its decision.

> 2) How likely do you think their goal is to genuinely "see what happens under the hood" as opposed to replicate in the future?

Unlikely they'll replicate. It would set them up for legal problems. Depending on how deep your moat is (training data, novel optimization techniques, encoded domain expertise), they probably wouldn't even need to see source to replicate in-house. It may be more about not being hood-winked, paying top dollar for a product that does a few imports from open source libraries.

> 3) Are there any legal protections we can put in place to prevent them from not just copy-pasting our code, but also from "learning from it" or so?

Not that I know of. Perhaps you could charge extra for the code review, so in the case of "learning from it" they'll at least pay for it. A thought exercise: did you learn from open source/open research/commercial solutions before building your Proof-of-Concept? If no, then they don't need to either (provided they can hire the talent), if yes, you are like a thief who is worried they will steal from you :).
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As a non-native english speaker trained in academia, I'm pretty sure that sometimes my comments must come out like that.
I'm not doing it on purpose, it's just that I don't know better!

I suspect there are many others in my situation here, specially those whose native language is of latin origin, because latin-based words are considered more formal/academic in english, yet they're much easier for us to learn!

Just keep that in mind when judging other's comments please ;)
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I understand most of your points, but I disagree when it comes to the Optional part of your article. As stated by Brian Goetz
here (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26327957/should-java-8-g...), the intent was not to use optional all the time as you suggest, going as far as to say "Optional allows you to completely remove NPEs from your program. ". No they do not, an optional can be null anyway. As explained by Mr Goetz, they should only be used when designing an API, to explain to the consumer that a result may not be returned: "you probably should never use it for something that returns an array of results, or a list of results; instead return an empty array or list. You should almost never use it as a field of something or a method parameter."

I think we should keep in mind this is a type added for the JDK code foremost, and use it in similar use cases, and not see it as a general replacement for nullable values.
I agree only if truly everyone is and not only the western rich people are.
>Nowadays EC is mostly dead, though, except for Germany.

It's dead in Germany as well.

For quite a long time the banks rebranded their scheme as "electronic cash" and reused the logo. But a few years back they changed their brand to "girocard" [2] and MasterCard bought the famous "ec" trademark [1].

I especially like the consorsfinanz card, which is just a regular Debit MasterCard.

https://www.mastercard.de/content/dam/mccom/de-de/privatkund...

[1]: https://www.mastercard.de/de-de/privatkunden/produkte-featur...

[2]: https://die-dk.de/zahlungsverkehr/zulassungsverfahren/electr... (in German)
EMV still uses crypto, as does contactless EMV.

It's pretty good and has more or less killed cloning.
A lot of these encounters also seem to be at galas, fundraisers, etc where you'll be introduced to many many people through the night.
I complain about this every time a post on R programming comes up here, but my favorite thing to hate (our of many) about R is that there's no way to find out what the directory of the current script is. Imagine someone would want to use relative paths to their data files so that they could version control their scripts and run them unmodified on different machines! We wouldn't want to enable such abominations now would we!