skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also an actuary, and I agree with all of this. I personally had a better experience with my undergraduate coursework thanks to a flexible program - I took no exam prep courses and close to 30 credits' worth of CS courses - but it's definitely the norm for an actuarial science major to essentially be an exam prep major.

There are lots of data science roles at insurance companies, many of which seek out current and former actuaries, so that's probably the easiest foot-in-the-door role to transition out of the field if that's more in line with what you're looking for. However, I'm sure those roles are pretty boring as data science goes.
Whole Bay Area, I guess. Remember, the city of Richmond (California) passed a resolution against orbiting mind-control satellites. It’s juat wacky around here.
Is this situation any different from security footage already at gas stations and the like? I suppose automatic aggregation of said data is more problematic.
don't you mean "some memes refuse to die no matter how much RF radiation they're exposed to?"
Could you provide some citations for your claims (e.g. 'poorer people voted for Clinton')? If you do, I'll go look up my old sources. It's been awhile, but I came away with the impression that economic hardship was one of the drivers behind the election result.
Most of the major web server software caches the gzipped content. It only happens once.

Plus you can actually look at the files on the server without modification or piping them to gzip to check the files.

You can also elect not to gzip files smaller than MTU (1500 bytes) and stop wasting your and your client's time. Realistically it's often wasteful to gzip small files (below 5KB).

If you're worried about squeezing maximum compression out of your text files, then you're serving up too much stuff to clients anyway. You probably don't care about your users... just about your bloated page loading fast. Get rid of some ad garbage.
Aggregate test scores say more about the student/neighborhood population than the instruction. “Bad” schools become “good” as their neighborhoods gentrify, for example.
This wikipedia list is missing a lot of APIs, it seems more related to products -- For example, the QPX API (which I used) was shut down this April and is nowhere in that list. Your numbers are lower than they should be.
>For Thea Ottersen of Norway, privacy was not a major concern, as the general procedure doesn’t differ much from what she has come to expect from American airport security.

I suppose that's one unfortunate way to look at it.
So to be clear:

You say DNSSEC validation is "too broken" for any public CA to be doing that, but actually the largest (by issuance volume) does exactly that

Whereas you say multi-perspective is so prevalent "many of them" do it, but you aren't able to produce any examples at all.

Maybe time for a re-think?
I've very rarely seen the case where there isn't a queue after the boarding pass scan and before the boarding door(s) and seating area of the airplane.

This suggests that downstream of the boarding pass scan is already the true bottleneck of the system.
I've been making art from randomly generated numbers for years. It's a realization of Pollock's objective where the viewer's subconscious is the only artist free from bias of any other person, a conduit of the mind.

https://imgur.com/a/2qRHjxl
> and signed credit card receipts

chip & pin rolled out a year and a half or so ago, including to a small general store in rural central Maine.
Yup. I saw one on the cash register at Einstein's. "Some products sold here will give you cancer, etc." I figured it was for the bacon though...
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I do not understand your argument at all, sorry.
They also have mortgages, medical bills, and friends with mortgages and medical bills.
> I honestly feel like it’s nuts that we don’t collectively fund healthcare, precisely because I don’t want to live in a world where I may be ruined by an illness and I am willing to pay to make sure others don’t have to live in that world.

Isn't this the exact thing insurance solves, in particular catastrophic coverage insurance? Nobody really gets "ruined" by paying out of pocket for one X-ray and two aspirin.

The problem is that the insurance is so expensive some people can't afford it. But the only sense in which single payer would "fix" the high cost/overhead/waste problem is by de facto regulating prices, which can be done even without it but which has a lot of obvious problems -- if the regulator chooses too high a price then it's still wasteful/unaffordable but too low and there will be no providers (or the providers will sacrifice quality to hit the regulated price).

What we need is a real solution to cost disease, which probably has something to do with reducing the regulatory compliance costs so there will be less overhead and more viable competing providers, requiring price transparency from providers, and then having people pay out of pocket for all non-catastrophic care so the patient has the incentive to decline treatment or find a less expensive provider when the treatment is unnecessary or overpriced.
You know that BANANA stands for "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody", right?
The differences are huge. Getting 800 on the math SAT (circa some years ago) is like a 2:1 gender ratio, and qualifying for the USAMO is maybe 10:1.
I've learned a little bit about bone conduction from reading about products based on the technology - bluetooth earbuds a few years ago, and microphone+speaker units for airsoft/paintball more recently.

One of the major things I've heard about the technology is that it's generally not really very good - that the sound isn't ideal.

Obviously what's presented here is a few shades better than anything I can get my hands on - or apparently manufactured in the first place, at least not without military-scale funding.

Is the impression I've gotten incorrect? Is there anything out there I _can_ get my hands on that _is_ any good?
I wouldn't be too confident in that. Actuaries are not able to implement the models they'd like to. Regulators don't like complex models and they don't like models with disparate impact. Or models that make some risks (accurately) expensive.

I'm a developer now but by last few years in actuary work were mostly spent helping insurance companies deal with regulation. We did some modeling with with machine learning but ultimately the models that got approved had to be simple (compared to machine learning). My job before that was a lot about internal negotiations with other departments.

Better models were not the main bottleneck.
Active funds generally underperform during periods of economic growth and we're in the longest running bull market of all time right now. Ackman makes mistakes but he is still very insightful and backs his opinions with dollars. No one who deals with risk is going to have a perfect track record, and even though his Valeant and Herbalife bets didn't pay off the opportunities/flaws he saw were real, other factors just happened to be more important such as Icahn propping up the price of Herbalife and Valeant's accounting problems.
I particularly like the Nuclear free zone signs in Berkeley.
> I have friends who claim to be "anarcho-" something, who at the same time espouse state socialist politics.

I think we have the same friends. I've never met a true anarchist. I've found that when pushed enough, they tend to be authoritarians in disguise, and they are only shout "Down with the system!" as a generalization of "Down with the system I don't like!".
Nuclear pasta
Richmond Public Library launches book dispenser machine technology
When it comes to planning an alpine climb, I use http://www.mountain-forecast.com to judge what sorts of gear I might need. Super niche use-case, but it's better than anything else I've found.
I mean that the hosted build environment supports every platform (Windows, Mac, Linux).

Travis for instance only supports Mac and Linux.
Circle CI supports Mac and Linux.
Appveyor supports Windows and Linux.

Other tools like Jenkins or Buildkite can be installed anywhere but you have manage the build servers.
really? in my experience, people who even know the difference between "mean" and "median" always use "average" in the sense of "mean".
Next will be male/female (in the context of wires, plugs, sockets etc) and it will be on a "spectrum of gender fluidity".

Political correctness/SJWism has gone insane and cannot be taken seriously.
Careful, you used a power in your first clause and an intensity in your second...and the intensity in the first (from a tower) is exceedingly less.
weather.gov hourly forecast. It has a nice graph :)
I’ve used it for recursion in anonymous functions in C#. It is straightforward enough to implement. Was it the best choice? Probably not, but I took the opportunity when presented.
I disagree. If you are writing shippable code in an article, it's because the article is about how to write shippable code. This article is not about that, so writing shippable code risks detracting from the main purpose of the article.
Realizability of Graphs (2008) [pdf]
I don't know any actuaries, but it always struck me as odd that the hardest working people in my last company were the actuaries.

I mean these guys were on presumably amazing salaries, were some of the smartest people, could work at any related insurance/finance/whatever company (of which there are a LOT hq'd in Sydney) and had worse hours than most other teams. I just don't understand it.
Australia passed a law earlier this year[1] which now has a mandatory 25-year minimum sentence for anyone who leaks government information. They're definitely trying to stop leaks from happening, and it's fucking disgraceful.

I also just discovered that this law also criminalises (with a 10-year prison sentence) creating software vulnerabilities in anything that is part of public infrastructure. This means that you could arguably give any software engineer (that has ever worked on free software the government uses) a mandatory 10-year prison sentence for being a saboteur because they were "reckless".

[1]: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018A00067
Building the Fastest DNASeq Pipeline at Scale: Variant Calls at 30X Coverage
I know folks around here hate AMP stuff

I think just about everyone must be developing some very strong negative feelings about having a boring, offtopic debate about AMP in any AMP-unrelated post that happens to contain an AMP link. Please don't start more of them.
It's inverse square -- think of it as the surface area of the sphere a specific distance from the source at any given instant. Not the volume of the space between the frontier and the source.
The only assembly language I ever did was on an MC68HC11 micro-controller (Handyboard). It was so clean and simple.
>At the same time, I had been fascinated by the legal innovator's paradox: the fact that there is an intrinsic disincentive to innovate when you don't capture the gains of increased productivity, which is true in an hourly billing model.
@justin - I’d love to hear your thoughts here regarding how you are tackling this. From Atrium.co your pricing appears to be a mix of subscription and fixed prices. Presumably the trade-offs for any one lawyer to switch to fix cost is insufficiently lare, but if you create a company with scale than at the aggregate level the value capture across enough clients is large enough. Is that right?
What about the people who are sub 100 IQ (namely about half the population) who don't really have the capacity to work in a highly trained job?

You seem to just assume if we give people free stuff they will all go get PHD's. That's just simply a fantasy.
Geometry in three dimensions requires inverse square.

You probably have incident on your body more energy sitting under a light bulb than from a cell phone, not to mention the nuclear fireball in the fucking sky.
Switching to a healthier diet can reduce water footprint by as much as 55%
I'll try and contain my derision towards serious conversations about hosting performance-sensitive content on GitHub/GitLab Pages. As explained in a separate comment, gziping _everything_ is wasting CPU.

If you just gzip from nginx, have content caching enabled (why don't you with static content?), and set a minimum size for gzipping, you have the best possible scenario and take a small hit on first requests of files until server-restart/cache-expiration.
If GitHub are okay with you using multiple IPs to get that data then it's not inherently expensive on their side for you to be using this.

Surely a rate-limit exception could be in order, then?

And perhaps you could help them alpha-test a new API endpoint that just so happens to include all the info rolled up as one URL :D

(Hmmmmm.... GraphQL....)
Nothing was mandatory and, in fact, the team leads purposefully organized events to be inclusive to everyone on the team. That was the whole point...by including an older, less-physically-capable team member, it was no longer an option to do fun, youth-oriented team events. And that person was excluded from work-related conversations that happened at after-work bar trips, which caused some awkwardness when the rest of the team aligned behind a significant decision and the excluded team member felt like he wasn't consulted. The team had a 20s-oriented culture and all but one team member participated. You can call it age discrimination, but he didn't fit the culture. And by trying to force him into the culture, with the best of intentions, the company lost the rest of the team to other positions/companies.

I guess what I'm saying is that many employees want their work to have a social component and will seek out employment that gives them that. So companies that don't include a culture fit criteria can risk alienating those employees. One would hope that a large enough company can use cultural fit as a sorting criteria more so than a filtering criteria. But the narrative that prevails here...cultural fit is just a code word for discrimination...feels too naive and lacking nuance. Human social interaction is complex and seeking to view workers as interchangeable cogs based on their capabilities to do work is much too simplistic. Which is not to say that cultural fit isn't an excuse to discriminate, which it often is. I'm only trying to point out that it's a really complex issue that has no universally correct side or answer. It's almost always situational and there's no blanket policy or rule that you can apply to address the issue. Trying to force companies to be culture-fit-blind causes its own set of problems.

And I say all this as a 40s coder, so I'm sure I'd miss out on a number of positions based on cultural fit.
IME questions like this typically come from people who don't deal with the bureaucracy of applying for visas very often, if at all.

You assume fear of being bombed or hijacked, but it's really to make international travel easier and more efficient.

Lack of a reliable way to verify identity is a major reason why applicants for admission (or applicants for a visa) are assumed "guilty until proven innocent", and a ton of people are denied visas (or denied entry) every day on the slightest reasons as a result.

Being able to verify someone identity biometrically makes international travel and immigration more trustworthy, which makes it politically more palatable to make the lives of travelers and immigrants easier.

And doing this on outbound flights is no different from doing it on inbound flights - from the host government's perspective, they need to know when people enter and leave.
> if I'm going to give up my privacy by having my passport photo shared with airports without my knowledge or consent

The same place where you literally already have to have your passport scanned, your face photographed, you're recorded in every area that isn't a restroom, where if you're not a US national your fingerprints taken, and they literally scan you beneath your clothes? You're worried about your privacy _there_?
So, what's the "light at the end of the tunnel" here? What's the expected, realistic salary after all ten exams?

The lure of the CFA is that $250,000 is not unusual. Except most people finishing their CFA never get an analyst job, so it's kind of a moot point.
It's almost as though both you and the lender should think deeply, be conservative, and do your homework before taking out something as large as a mortgage!
By that logic, driving a car increases your risk of cancer (relative to riding a motorcycle) and so should be labeled as such.

(On the basis that you're a little more likely to live long enough to get it.)
Ditto. Thankfully, my corporate phone is Verizon, and I get LTE on that. If you plan to stay long term, it’s probably worth switching carriers.
https://github.com/adjunct-professor/sheet-music/blob/master...

https://github.com/adjunct-professor/sheet-music/blob/master...
Ask DO vs. AWS, reliablity
I'm debating which provider to use for a new product I'm developing. I anticipate hosting 2000 client sites, doing moderate traffic.

Is there any reason I should pick one over the other?

I do not need at this time any of the tools AWS provides. I just need bare servers that I will configure myself.

Is there any cases of DO completely losing data? Can I rely on them for DNS?
Nice to know. Thanks.

Brazil has had it for 20 years, though.
I have ADHD and it certainly sounds like you might as well. I have struggled with what I call the "sustained effort" issue for some time and believe that the only thing that will work is seeing a coach several times a week.

Here I run into another problem associated with ADHD: procrastination. There are multiple popular approaches to beating procrastination. There is a fellow at Stanford that advocates defining the very first action necessary and setting some event as a trigger for initiating it. Once you are started continuing is much easier. It sort of works for me.

I do hope this helps.

Good luck
The day-to-day is basically a combination of:

* Moving data around - mostly using Excel + SQL, though R is growing in popularity

* Using that data to calculate figures that are significant to the business - including premiums, IRRs, profit margins, and the value of future claims

* Presenting the results of those calculations to management and recommending a course of action

I'm not sure what "old-school original data scientists" do/did or how similar this is.
Point out that the sun gives them more energy per time.

Point out that light bulbs probably give them more energy per time.

Tell them to hold up their hands to a light bulb (or do this yourself) so they can see visible light from light bulbs are enough to penetrate the skin, yet we don't get sunburnt sitting under a light bulbs all night.
Hồ sơ xét tuyển Trung cấp Xét nghiệm Hà Nội chuẩn 2018
50-150K CAD

from Junior to Senior
I had a friend who wanted to be a radiologist because he uses some income calculators and decided that would be what would give him the biggest return on his investment. Guy had trouble passing Anatomy I; think he had to take it twice. From the way he talked, I don't think he realized it was a full MD position; residency and all. Guy was not suited to be a doctor.

It took him years, marriage to an abusive woman, the Air Force and a divorce to finally get out of the idea he would be a doctor. Recently he tried to hire me to write software for a "Crypto currency hedge fund."

TL;DR If you chase after money, you're going to miss out on life. The US market wants to turn University into a huge investment you need an ROI on to lock you into a career path you'll probably hate. It was not like that for me, and I only graduated 12 years ago. Small state schools were affordable.

I learned a lot in school, but today I can't even recommend it to people starting out, unless they can do it with little to no debt. I cannot recommend bootcamp or other for-profit schools.

I wish it was easier for people to find something they love doing and not have to worry about money.
The surface of the Earth is finite in size and has no edges. You can keep progressing forward without hitting an edge.
Exponentiation is almost never shippable code, most languages have an operator or standard library for that.
Is it implausible that they might be getting amazing salaries because they are the hardest-working? (Why?)
Does this system implement an algorithm for determining skill over time or is that up to the user? If an algorithm does exist, how does it compare to TrueSkill[0]?

My biggest criticism with matchmaking systems is they're too good. The skill rating is so accurate in such a short amount of time that every match is frustrating and/or boring.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/trueskill-r...
A federal agency does that passport scanning and id check, I didn't expect them to share the same information with every airport agency in the country.

I'm fine with the TSA scanning my passport, and the airport filming me. What I'm not so fine with is the airport also having my photo and identity, so now they aren't just filming me every place I walk in the airport, but they are also correlating that to my identity.
You could have a point if you put a little bit more effort into your rant. As it stands you are making a couple of factual errors, as others noted.

THz is non-ionizing, for one.
OP’s joke is that the nuclear fireball is the Sun.
There will always be one off weirdos, but the prevalence of the idea that radio waves can cause cancer is unfortunately too great.
Those namings relate to male/female sexes, not genders, so thats not applicable here. And even if it was applicable, if the name is steeped in a context that is oppressive to certain groups and there is a viable alternate name, what's the harm in exploring those alternatives and making conversations comfortable for everyone who might be involved?
I've been following curiousmarc's channel for a couple years. I love his videos. This teletype restoration is amazing. The most recent video on his channel is of him and the guys going to a place that sells replacement parts... for teletypes. I mean this guy they visit literally has every part you would need to repair, and probably build teletypes from scratch. They had everything Marc needed to complete his restoration. Amazing!
No - at the time I used forums (think creditboards or something like that and others) which have very helpful "armchair experts" that give excellent advice. Lots of form letters/response letters can be found and modified to suit your specifics. Many good strategies can be found and adapted down to the specific collection agency, etc. One of those things all the info is easily 'googled' and just gotta put in the hours reading and understanding how it all works, then use it to your advantage.

It's basically trying to get them to trip up and make a mistake - and it blew my mind how often and unabashedly these collection agencies would! Hell even BofA and Chase violated before they sold the debt off and I got an immediate removal from my report and the debt wiped away / no more collections (I was happy just to make things 'disappear' in these instances..didn't put money in my pocket but at the time is was a huge win, as one can imagine).
Brazil has the potential to be good and make anything bloom, be it startups, big corp etc. It has a good geographic area, plenty of natural resources (water, oil) and whatnot.

BUT!

What keeps Brazil from entering the row of 'actually a good place to live' countries is nothing but the rampant corruption and the sheer amount of bureaucracy involved in anything regulation or taxes in the country. It's not a matter of simply high taxes, but mainly a really complex system of hoops one has to jump to incorporate even a small and simple company. This sucks.
I'm pretty sure the qpx API was a purchase, not something Google started. So it's arguable that you can categorize it the same way.