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It's not just Microsoft, every company seems to believe that their application needs to be fullscreen, all the time. I reality I don't think that anyone run any app in fullscreen, except perhaps video editors or photoshop.

iTunes, Spotify, browsers, editors, everything is shown in fullscreen, and often designed like that. It's doesn't make sense on 27" screen, and it doesn't make sense on an 13", but everyone seems to think that their product is why people have computers, nobody want's to be just a service.

Maybe it's a little like CPU, disk or RAM. We have more of it, so applications use it, while not giving us more actual functionality.

The old ICQ, MSN and WinAmp got it right. Take up as little screen as possible and just sit in the background and do their thing.
That's a great excuse to keep open space floor plan. "This way all 100 of you can have windows."
That seems like a convoluted scheme to get "normal" people to care about something that you care a lot about, and they don't.

They don't care because it's not a problem for them. Yeah, maybe they could have bought a cheaper phone if everyone had spend twice as much time writing the code. But hardware advances have actually caught up with requirements (and then some), and all these sites work fine on even lower-end current phones.

You care about it like a watchmaker cares about the mechanical drive of his watch.

They don't need a watch. They have smartphone. It's 8 magnitudes more precise than your mechanical watch.
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This attitude that the workplace is a minor, independent kingdom for the capitalists above you, where you shouldn't expect to be treated well or with respect is a scary one indeed.

Workers are not untrustworthy beasts that need to be corralled, or at least shouldn't be, and we shouldn't accept being told that we are. _We_ are the ones who create the value, _we_ are the ones who the world could not run without.
While you are correct, it’s not normally seen as an indicator of high blood pressure. The larger concern would be an arrhythmia or a form of heart block. These are definitely dangerous, but usually concern is only raised if symptomatic or the heart rate is below 50. Even in this case, a heart rate below 50 can be normal in very athletic people.
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Most data scientists I know don't have CS degrees but instead a background in physics, biology, math, economics or statistics.

For a data science role focused around exploratory analysis, model building and idea generation (as opposed to a more engineering-focused data scientist) I'd say that a basic understanding of programming concepts and familiarity with the most essential tools (version control, Linux, Python/R) is probably enough to be accepted into a data science role. Data science degree programs are still quite novel so most companies don't expect to recruit people with such a degree, hence there are good opportunities for people with a STEM education I'd say.
Natural light or artificial light that recreates the natural light spectrum is good. Everything else is bad.

There is an overabundance of sharp blue light in most modern light sources. I highly recommend either using tinted computer glasses when working or something like f.lux

Even worse are flickering lights. Even at a high (nearly imperceptible) frequency, I have seen so many colleagues(myself included) suffer from headaches due to them.

What should be done? Either invest in better smoother lighting for your workers or let plenty of natural light inside.
Indeed. Go maps are slow as hell. Everytime I need them in a tight loop, I have to make an ad-hoc equivalent with slices, if at all possible.
> where the page starts to load and then just goes completely blank.

That's almost certainly a bug on your end. You do have 50MB of free RAM available, right? Other than actually running out of memory (and swap), normal usage should never result in a no-render.

My best guess would be a content blocker interfering.
You have to prioritize, but the job that puts food on the table has to come first. I have a full time, non-technical job and I wake up earlier to work out or work on projects. I say "or" because I only have time to do one or the other, so I tend to alternate.
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Which countries?
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any example on how to use this JS code?
This would indeed be problematic :-) The up/down vote buttons are plain anchor elements.
>Rome was highly dependent on grain imports.

I doubt this was true during the period described. Rome was little more than a city state in 492, and the first period of expansion was just starting in 450.
Except that most practitioners are bound to use a single lab and then run as many tests as they have to do cover regulations and insurance. Then to boot you have no idea what they'll cost until you get the bill later.
I've heard it said, "A data scientist is a better statistician than a typical programmer and a better programmer than a typical statistician."

I 'graduated' from the Data Analyst Nanodegree @ Udacity in my spare time, and have experience with both. I lack a background in math beyond university Calculus, though, so that seems the major barrier for me to get a foothold in the industry.
I find the description of state transition and Einstein's relationship to quantum mechanics distorted to the point of being offensive!

Why would anyone take the gross simplification that is the orbital picture and then have a problem with particles physically moving between the levels? Why invent this silly notion of "teleportation", if you want quantum mechanics to get spooky just draw the proper probability clouds for Dirac's sake!
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^ This: I don't know how people do it, I'm using my computer in the dark at the moment with the screen being projected onto the ceiling. I can't think of another way I would rather use my computer really.
I think that the challenge to hire a good data scientist is that it requires skills in both:

- hard science: strong statistics or ML to analyze data, some CS to organize the data.

- soft skills: strong business sense to understand what is important, some communication skills to explain it.

A data scientist needs very good skills and experience in both, but they are somehow anti-correlated in my experience.
The Netherlands for one.
Am I the only one here who actually likes it dark? It might be healthier with natural light, but my personal preferences has always been darkness.

I wonder if it is related to coming from a northern country (Scandinavia) where ~1/4 of the year is really dark.
I was particularly thinking of the backgrounds and quality of people in Attlee's cabinet and compare that with the today's politicians.
Not really, the hospitality deals with the unknown in a charitable way. There is no presumption of reciprocation nor measure of resources expended. It is not karma.

It is most likely adaptive because it allows for forming social bonds at all.

Without this there is no starting point when there is limited contact between people. (as is the case for nomads)
In Spain there is some regulation, but I don't know the details. I remember an inspector paid us a visit and made some recommendations.
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It has been illegal to stuff people into room with no natural light in Denmark for at least 40 years. It can just be a skylight if you're in warehouse or factory.

I believe that office workers are required to have actual windows and honestly I don't think even the employers think it's right to have windowless offices
IIRC Germany sort of requires all offices to have direct natural light https://www.thelocal.de/galleries/lifestyle/top-ten-weird-ge...
Generosity and hospitality are considered among the highest virtues in Arab culture. But you are spot on, their origin lies in the harshness of the environment. You give a stranger in the desert food and shelter, knowing full well that it might be you in need of those things in a months time.

The culture of hospitality was so developed that even sworn enemies can ask for shelter (for a limited period of time).
> There's got to be a special name for this kind of logical fallacy.

There also needs to be a Fallacy fallacy: the irrational believe that merely dropping the "fallacy" moniker is an argument.

In this case: Yes, considering there are many hosted email services competing for customers, with quite a lot of variation between "huge web app" and "minimalistic list of links". And considering Google is known to excessively A/B test any change (including more-complex v. just-html interfaces), it's quite valid to conclude that people generally prefer what GMail is doing.

GMail even has a fallback html interface it switches to when noticing slowdowns. The number of people keeping that mode on manually (few) is another indicator of people's preferences.

> Except we're layering less powerful, less abstracted APIs over an already high-level document model[...]

"Abstract" != "good". Abstraction layers can be stupid, or deliberately constricted. They are still, tautologically, by definition, one step more "abstract" than the API they access.
I think I misunderstood what the parent meant by "article". I use Zotero for academic journal articles and books. I think you can import website links too, though.
You have to look at the net result. If you're 50% certain that a schoolbus with 30 children has a leader of a terrorist cell that will on average perform one attack with ~100 casualties 1-2 times a year, and otherwise this terrorist is expected to have a life expectancy of 3-5 years, and without him this cell has a 60-70% probability of disintegrating, it's a very clear cut case.

I don't personally work in intelligence and I don't have first-person experience with this calculations. Of course, I expect that in reality they are much more complex and carry a lot more uncertainty - at least those I've read in detail certainly are, but I wouldn't be able to describe them in sufficient detail in a single HN comment. But refusing to make such a choice is still making a choice, and not always a best one.

Any conflict known to man have had loss of innocent lives by both sides. If you try to avoid it at all costs, all that you'll manage is loose, with more innocent lives destroyed, most of them on your side.
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The US government does mandate numerous IT security measures for companies involved in military/defence-related projects, justified by national security concerns. The same argument could be made for regulating private organisations involved in national elections.
The business also wants me to come back after leave instead of moving to a less expensive place while looking for another job. Paid leave is an investment.
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Natural light is good, but the office isn't the place I crave it the most. And as other have alluded to, I'd much rather have a dingy personal cave than a bright but shared space.

So #1 perk for me: enough schedule flexibility that I can ensure I can have some outdoor time during daylight hours every day, even in winter.
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That doesn't mean that his campaign staff are going to constantly lose their security keys. Losing a security key is an infrequent-enough occurrence that the inconvenience of needing to go to campaign headquarters to get a new key shouldn't be too onerous, not to mention that the inconvenience of showing up in person to get a new key serves as the real motivator not to lose the key in the first place.

Look, even security keys may not provide "enough" security. An adversary capable of performing a targeted, in-physical-range attack will be able to sneak a keylogger onto a staffer's laptop (to steal the password) and then take advantage of an opportunity where the security key isn't guarded to swipe the security key for either momentary access or to register the attacker's key for long term access - which won't be caught without persistent auditing efforts, which most campaigns won't do. As always, the question is "how do we raise the cost of an attack while keeping the cost of defense relatively low" and that's what security keys do really well.

Edit: look, specific campaigns may have different ways of adopting the pattern. Maybe the candidate without a dedicated campaign office could keep the keys in a safe in the candidate's home. Maybe national candidates / candidates whose staffers would need to drive for an unreasonable amount of time to get a replacement key, maybe there can be local caches of keys in different cities, where some independent business figures out a way to register numbered security keys for online accounts in a relatively anonymous way for both remote businesses and whoever else. Still doesn't mean that security keys are a bad idea.
Yes the coin thing is really good. If you want to flip again, then you know what option you prefer.
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No mention of expected power production, no demonstration of this turbine actually generating electricity, and it’s extremely small (”The O-Wind turbine is a 25cm spherical device”)

That makes me skeptical, having read https://www.solacity.com/small-wind-turbine-truth/ (and a few of the links to actual tests)

If this solves the “doesn’t work well in turbulent winds” part, that may change, but if fear that, if it does, that is at the price of efficiency.
Criticisms and bizarre fawning over beauty that a couple of people have made aside, the one thing that bugs me the most is the inconsistent usage of ;
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Imagine being a Twitch streamer whose livelihood is streaming to the website, and out of the blue, your ISP just starts throttling you.

What a nightmare; I've already seen streamers who had to consider moving because of continuous internet issues.
I just finished Bad Blood and one thing I have noticed is that how much you can get away with if you have mastered the art of talking to powerful people. It seems they could have figured out much earlier that Theranos was a fraud if anybody had ever bothered to take a closer look. Even when some people started having doubts Holmes always was able to take herself out of it. Instead the whistleblowers got treated badly. The Shultz situation was especially frustrating to read.

This reminds me a little of a situation at work. We have a director who everybody outside management knows he is full of sh.t. He never delivers anything and when you get the chance to talk to VP or CEO they agree that he needs to go. But then they talk to him and he always gets a second chance. This guy gets much more face time with our CEO then anybody else I know.
It's the police who generally have the most up to date database and are also the only people really able to do anything with the information (other than court summons, I guess).

Regardless of who owns the ANPR, since their sole purpose (if you ignore the survelience aspect) is cutting down crime, the data will end up with the state eventually.
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There is no gap, actually. It is plain, old supply vs demand. Second and third class firms wanting the few Einsteins out there for peanuts, being flooded with CVs from kaggle noobs and mooc kids. Point is the latter are good enough for the jobs on offer but the former feel somewhat entitled to be choosy & stingy, even if they have no real business case to pursue.
It is likely that those Republican campaigns aren't any more secure, but that the threat is somewhat asymmetric.
> It’s also worth noting that this cost isn’t taken by the employer, but by the employee. As they all have collective contracts, the wages fleeced by low productivity employees are simply made up by higher productivity employees.

That's based on the assumption that the total sum of wages is fixed, which is clearly not the case. Higher collective negotiating power means that employees on the whole may get a larger share of the proceeds, leaving less to the employer/owners/investors. Of course unionisation may affect productivity as well, either up or down, so revenue will be affected, too.
You know we human should use more natural light in our office but their is no hard and fast rule for the same. People are so busy in their rut routine that they cant even handle a day off outside with family.

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Or just swap your plate for one from a same make and model you found on eBay. You can trigger ANPR's all you want and even the police vehicle mounted ones won't be cause for much suspicion.
You cannot "operate independently from" without also "being independent from".

And you're just proving that bad-faith accusation, and splitting hairs into finer and finer strands.
And no doubt I've written single methods/functions that where uglier.
Is this really considered a perk? It is a bit like getting paid is a perk.

I work in Germany where direct access to natural sunlight is part of our OH&S policies.
> Quervergleiche sind nicht zulässig

For anyone not speaking German: this means performance reviews can't be based on the performance of other employees in that company.

This also cuts both ways: when challenging a performance review you can't argue that your performance was average compared to other employees, you'd have to compare it to the industry average.

> "Leistungszulage" cannot be cut

The union contract guarantees "equal wages for equal work" and defines wages and a range of bonuses (the "Leistungszulage"). The idea is that two people working for different companies doing the same kind of work get the same wage if they're both average performers (compared to the industry as a whole). Additionally it formally defines the criteria by which performance is evaluated and how the resulting scores correspond to increases/decreases in the "Leistungszulage".

The "Leistungszulage" according to that document is set at 14% for average performers. Higher performers get more, low performers get less. This means in practice that +14% is the baseline for a variable part of the regular wage that can be higher or lower depending on the performance.

So unless lnsru's complaint is that 114% of whatever the nominal wage is is "highly overpaid", the argument is entirely moot. To an average worker, that 14% for average performance is not an extra, it's their expected baseline. So anything on top is a reward any anything less a punishment, just as with any other bonus not negotiated by a union.

If anything, this makes it easier for the company to cut low performers' pay (as long as they can prove the low performance if challenged) compared to non-union contracts with no pre-defined variable bonus where the only option would be changing the contract (which is non-trivial, especially when the employee has no reason to make it easy).
There's your problem. I'm AWFUL :D

I just make a serious effort every day to be less awful, and I've learned that when I try to trade my soul for huge success I get neither. But I know what it's like to go to the bad, and I know other people will do likewise.

To me, the Theranos story feels very natural and plausible. And I hope I will always be prepared to choose poverty and failure rather than try to elbow my way into a place I'm not supposed to be.

But there will always be someone who is prepared to lie, cheat or destroy just in order to beat me over here playing nice. Because they ARE no worse than me. But I don't have to give in to my worst nature…
There is some value in the additional rigorous data processing skill set.

The intent is to get away from just merely slicing and dicing data to come up with some insight that explains causality.

Whether we are afforded the time to do a proper and thorough analysis is a different matter.
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You may be the minority at least, but you also have to see it as having options. There's a big difference between having a room with a window and opting to close the curtains, and have no window at all. Most likely you also don't get depressed by working in a bright room, while others actually suffer if they have to little light.

I would guess that all Scandinavia countries have similar rules, and there's actually a minimum amount of light you're legally allowed to have in a room. The law in Denmark for instance actually require a room to be insanely bright.
I do believe the staff cared for the collections. But the museum director kept a minibar hackishly installed in John VI's former bedroom, which was used as the director's office.

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My ethical standard is closer that an American life (or Dutch, for that matter) is worth a human life than the general population, sure, but there's a bottom line, too. If you don't have high ethical standards you shouldn't be put in a position where you can exercise power. It is that simple. If your ethical standard is to shoot civilians from an Apache, and cover it up accordingly, you have no place in the military. In any military.

Its not so much a trolley problem or equivalent, what we discuss is downright racism/discrimination.
Of all the thing that make me thing "there ought to be a law" natural light seems like it should be way down the priority list.

edit: And yes, I've worked in places with and without natural light, both white collar jobs and near minimum wage jobs. Comfortable temperature for the amount of physical activity I'm being asked to do and a comfortable amount of space in which to work are both a million times more important and the former only requires pushing some buttons or turning a dial, not cutting a hole in the side of a building. If someone asked me what would make work suck less back when I worked in one of those jobs where I didn't get to any outdoor light (some of those jobs didn't even suck) natural light wouldn't have even been on my radar as an issue.
Refusing to provide your passwords is itself a crime in the UK, not to mention obstructing an investigation and god knows what else they decide to stick you with for trying to have some privacy. I believe the idea is to threaten you with more jail time than you would receive for the crime you possibly committed.
this is why I usually go for something like const $ = (el) => [...document.querySelectorAll(el)]