skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is that we are coming from completely different perspectives. When you say "programmer", you are likely referring to someone from a CS background, likely with software engineering experience, who has spent their lives working in C++, Java, Python, etc.

By that definition, I would be a non-programmer, as I come from a statistics background, and though I have lots of experience in C++ and Python, most of my experience and work is in R. But that is by choice.

If I'm trying to create an application or build a website, I wouldn't use R. But when it comes to ingesting data, transforming and cleaning data, and modeling data, R is second to none. Yes, its syntax looks ugly and bizarre if you are used to object-oriented programming, software development, etc. In the context of working with data, I have never found anything in R to be even remotely confusing or strange.

On the contrary, the next best option to R would almost certainly be Python, and the gulf between the two is massive in my opinion. Python is a great general purpose programming language, but its data analysis capabilities, using packages like Pandas and sci-kit learn, feel like poorly designed, bolted on, and unwieldy. R is better for virtually every aspect of data analysis than Python.

So it isn't that R is poorly designed. Conversely, its very well designed, for its purpose as a data analysis-focused programming language. It only seems to be poorly designed to "programmers" because programmers work on problems that R isn't meant for. But that is like complaining that a screwdriver looks poorly designed for hammering nails.
Would something like this work?

https://fluidapp.com/
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I fall on the "lighter" side too, in the sense that it's not as immediately obvious. It's still been really hard when I have to do high intensity CPU tasks while also doing things that people use their GPU for, like whiteboard interviews or remembering stories
Well, as "local" I mean German. The Spiegel dedicated multiple documentaries about it.

You can't deny Arabic families are driving sneaky business here
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A small plugin for error propagation through component tree in VueJs. Adds error boundary like functionality for custom errors thrown in components.
Every meeting in every outlook calendar in the country would have to change. Every exchange (equities, derivatives, commodities, etc) would all have to revise their trading schedules and applications, all the trading systems connecting to them would have to change and in some cases the actual laws governing those exchanges might need to be updated. The work contracts or at least the conditions of employment of millions of people would need to be changed. I've worked on applications that need to connect on a schedule to end points in other timezones, and plan and implement time and DST changes. It would be a nightmare.
Wow, $8K per month is a crazy amount of money (for a developer in Europe), especially to work on a project of your choice.
I feel like you'd end up with a micro-payment type system - it'd be $1 to cross a parking lot or two and you'd have fields of parking lots everywhere to house the cars that would serve the instant demand people would expect.
Relevant.

https://youtu.be/Bh7bYNAHXxw
I struggle with this so much and am glad you asked it. I reopen the books and things come back to me slowly, but it is very hard to retain without daily use.
Having had direct experience with this, this is the reason people don't file bugs with Apple. It is an exercise in futility.
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SaaS is good for some products but why would I pay a monthly subscription fee for taking notes?
It's not just bad apples. Sometimes people just aren't a good fit for a role. It turns out they don't have the right skills mix, need too much direction, etc. I've definitely seen perfectly nice folks who come in but it turns out they can't really do the job and no amount of coaching seems to help. It's better for everyone not to string things out too much.

Being honest, I've had one job I wasn't a good fit for myself. But the dot-com bubble burst took care of that one relatively quickly.
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As a person who suffers from a biologically testable disability, I find it insulting and damaging to the truly handicapped to lump Autism in with provable conditions. I've had a hard time understanding why it's so socially acceptable to wave a flag when convenient and stand up for justice when there's no scientific backing beyond the justification for homeopathic remedies. Society is a complex organism and while we are making inroads - not labeling people as witches and burning them alive - stumping for a wishy-washy grab-bag of symptoms to label a true disability is a pretty hard sell. I'm not claiming you're mentally ill for having autism, but then again sometimes I wonder why people voluntarily choose to take pride in defective functions.
How many people use web apps as part of their regular work flow?
The best boss I had is many times better than anyone else with whom I worked before or after working for him. He is someone who is well known in the graphics and chip design industry but I prefer not to name him solely to keep my semi-anonymity.

I'll list a few of the things he did that really kept me (and everyone else in his team(s)) driven. I was about to say 'motivated' but it doesn't seem to express the intensity as well as 'driven' does.

Here are some of them:

- Was involved in hiring for his team and trusted whom he hired

- He set up 'connections' in such a way that the new folks were always being mentored by people of varying levels of tenure and seniority. This wasn't a direct "so and so will mentor you". It was more that he set up the dependencies and interactions in ways that there was a gradient on which you could keep going to gain further and further expertise from people.

- Was politically adept. His teams never encountered any rubbish that was irrelevant or would slow them down. He would say "if that doesn't work, I know which buttons to press" and he'd make things happen.

- Where I work now, I have to justify before _and_ after going to a tech conference. When I was working with him, he was like "there is this conference. XYZ is visiting there and I need your_teammate and you to help him with some logistics - just take the hardware from your team. I realised after a long time that this was his way of connecting us to XYZ (who's a veteran and highly respected person in the industry) and it was a golden opportunity. He strongly believed in having people who work in different countries and offices getting to meet now and then and would find excuses to make them happen.

- If we messed up, we'd go to him and say "We messed up! This is what happened..." and he'd just say that it wasn't something to worry about and would instead ask about things that were more 'big picture' and 'long term'. This only made us even more resolved never to sully his teams' reputation.

- I once asked for access to the codebase of a project I was interested in to see if I could port it to another OS. Instead of doing that, he instead connected me to the team who worked on that project and asked them to see if I could help them. Again, he was connecting people and giving me much more than I had asked for.

- He was a visionary and would always speak about his vision in a very matter of fact manner instead of making it a grand thing. So, it made it easier to believe in it and think about it.

- He always maintained that he didn't believe in managers who "just manage" - i.e someone without a sound technical understanding of what we were working on, could never be a manager in one of his teams.

There are many more things and for the moment I'll end the list there.

I realise now that no amount of 'process' can generate this kind of drive in people. I hope that some day I can grow up to be 1% as good as he is.

People follow leaders who free them from chains - they don't thrive in systems which artificially-constrain them.
That’s cute but not at all how contract Law works.

Minors don’t have legal authority to enter into contracts, Google can’t claim (at least it’s not a legal defense) they were defrauded by a minor for agreeing to their contract that expressly states the minor will get their parents consent or permission. The burden is on Google.

Google would be liable for collecting data on the minor in violation of law, notwithstanding any agreement the minor agreed to, because that agreement isn’t legally enforceable.
Not entirely scientific, but the male majority roles took 18 "page ups" to scroll through versus 16 for the female majority roles.

A better approach would be to get the full counts of the positions, but that requires more work than the results are probably worth.
What is r/f? I couldn't find an obvious answer with a quick search.
I think this post is better off linking to the original (Kirk’s): https://www.kirkville.com/apples-measure-app-and-accuracy/

It took me a full minute to figure out how to get to it from loopinsight, and I don’t think loopinsight provides any additional “insight” at all...
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> but why would I want to have a device on my head to look at a 2D canvas?

Office managers are sooner or later going to find one VR headset cheaper than 2 or 3 large screens for tech work. At that point, you will be given a headset instead.
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What's confusing me here is that this is what you seem to be saying is happening:

1. Facebook knows my gender.

2. Facebook tell advertisers they will select/not select me based on my gender.

3. Facebook, despite knowing my gender, completely disregard that information and try and guess it with exceptionally poor results.
straight out of the manual!
No one's sued them yet. It's kind of like the affirmative action lawsuits, where it's a widespread topic but like only one person is actually pressing the issue in court.
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I'm definitely not wrong, I'm just living in the other half of Europe. And that's my point - there is the other half, you can't do blanket statements like "cars should be banned". Cars need an update, but motorized 4-wheel individual transport has its place, maybe not in your city, but definitely in mine.
I used vim for YEARS and it still hold a fond place in my heart... and my muscle memory.

I use a flavor of emacs, spacemacs, that has had a TON of work to map it's controls to "vim-style" keybindings. If Emacs didn't have vim-style editing, I would not use it.

If you want a more lightweight solution, https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-collection is a set of evil-mode keybindings to get you started.
That's interesting. For somebody who's not all that familiar with Lua, what are it's main selling points for something like this?
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Presumably reinforcement, like rebar
Please give a comparison to Matomo¹ (formerly Piwik), the current obvious choice for doing this.

1. https://matomo.org/
Dusk, anyone?
https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/dusk
remember heartbleed?
You can switch off or amend autovivification behaviour using this pragma module - https://metacpan.org/pod/autovivification

no autovivification; # switches off autoviv except for setting

no autovivification 'exists'; # just for exists checks
The original page (https://missourieducationwatchdog.com/whats-stored-in-your-s...) works for me.
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If you work somewhere where that is the situation I would highly recommend trying to find a job that isn't as messed up. In the province of Ontario, employers are specifically needed to allow you to take your sick days for if you are feeling overwhelmed or something else is going on that is bad for your mental health.

Asperger's Syndrome isn't considered a mental illness it's considered a neurodevelopmental disorder. There are many people who are neurotypical who due to circumstances will have trouble with handling interactions with the outside world I don't see why being on the spectrum should be considered something worse than being a person who drinks alcohol and then insults someone.
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If you want a modern version of this, you should checkout https://github.com/RhodiumToad/pllua-ng

A friend of mine benchmarked different pl languages and https://github.com/eugwne/pllj was basically the fastest, but it's not so actively maintained. pllua-ng with luajit 2.1 was also faster than plv8. But that was about two years ago, your milage may vary.

"Lua is faster - PL/V8 is lightly faster than Python, but Lua is about 30% faster than PL/V8" - Pavel Stěhule
and that was without luajit, but 4 years ago.

Maybe someone should build a benchmark :D
There is also an issue of getting what you measure for since humans game systems to their benefit. Look at standardized tests - they guided education from an early age as opposed to actual educational outcomes. I remember vividly being in elementary school and they multiple workbooks with pages of analogies with occasional ambiguous answers. There wasn't any real learning just a bunch of drilling that depended on existing knowledge. Then the SAT dropped it for a writing section and analogies practically disappeared off the face of the earth. They showed up four times a year at most - literally. Usually because the quarterly state tests had one question with them.
Exactly. Also, these PMs are likely to act in a way that will get good developers to quit and will not hire someone because they are too competent. I don't think it is always malicious though. They view themselves as a valuable part of software development. So when someone says that micromanaging good developers and putting them in 15 meeting a week is counterproductive, the PM assumes that person is lying or wrong. I MEAN IF NO ONE IS MANAGING THE DEVELOPERS, NOTHING WILL GET DONE.
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BMI is a measurement. The ill effects of obese BMI on health is pretty much settled.

The main thing I know there's been some recent controversy regarding the health risks of the edge cases of the "overweight" category. (https://www.verywellhealth.com/is-being-a-little-overweight-...).

My best guess is that your edge cases are going to come from people who are slightly overweight but still exercising regularly and have an overall healthy diet (as this WebMD page implies -- https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/can-you-be-fit-fat#1). These people may be healthier overall than someone in the "normal" range with a bad diet and sedentary lifestyle.

Best guess is that this is not the majority of overweight people, though... Exercise statistics in the US are pretty dismal. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-80-percent-of-american-adul...).
The Montgomery is ~2km from the shore and has a buoy marked exclusion zone that is monitored visually and by radar. I wouldn't worry about magnet fishers affecting it.
This is true in my experience. Data Scientist seem to run the gamut from "knows SQL" to "has a Ph.D in Behavioral Psych and spent four years getting scientific results published in peer-reviewed journals".

The company that I work for has changed role titles from Data Analyst to Data Scientist specifically because people who know SQL, but don't program, won't apply to/accept jobs without that title.
This sounds like someone who doesn’t have an understanding of how the services they’re using are designed to interact with each other. This is a problem, but it’s not specific to Google: it’s difficult, if not impossible, to ensure that your average user actually understands how these services are meant to work. As the user starts to realize how integrated these services really are, it causes a level of confusion and paranoia; humans fear what they don’t understand. This, in turn, causes them to misunderstand how the services truly integrate; they feel helpless and don’t understand just how much control they have over their own data.

Many of these claims are outright false because they’re technologically infeasible and would require the exploitation of security vulnerabilities. Companies like Google are constantly having their apps inspected by hobbyists and professionals alike; there’s no way that’d go unnoticed for any length of time, plus it’s nearly impossible to begin with.

In short: a parent has just discovered the internet. They’re scared, paranoid, and confused. This is, unfortunately, quite normal.

There are legitimate privacy concerns regarding Google’s collection of data, but none of them are raised in this article. It’s a misunderstanding at best and outright propaganda at worst.
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Just a heads up, HN comments only use a (I think) small subset of Markdown for formatting, but your link will work as is without having to wrap it in [] and adding the ().

https://github.com/simpleanalytics/cdn.simpleanalytics.io/bl...

https://simpleanalytics.io/what-we-collect

Anyway, cool project! I've always felt the same about using GA given I actually like to pretend I have some sort of privacy these days, and always have an adblocker on, so I hated setting it up for people. Definitely will be keeping an eye on this the next time someone asks me to setup GA.
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This is very cool - I'm literally building the same thing right now!
It's a good article but existence of the White Shark Café has been known for quite some time. I first read about it in The Devil's Teeth, a book (the only one?) about the Farallon Islands (20 miles west of San Francisco) where they actively study Great Whites.

They've known it was there since satellite tracker data indicated that in the 2000s. I guess what the article is talking about discovering is the Café part. They didn't know that there was food there or rather they didn't understand the food there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Shark_Caf%C3%A9
If you want a "fun" story about an unfinished commercial building, just google "I-4 eyesore".

Down in Orlando (actually Altamonte, but if you're not from Central Fla, it's Orlando), there's a building a local mega-church has been "constructing" since 2001. They wanted to build it with no financing, and kept putting construction on hold every time they ran out of funds. Pretty sure at this point they've spent more in property taxes for a building they can't use than they would have spent in interest if they'd just financed it from the start, but, shrug.

It's a pretty ugly building design to begin with, too. All those mirrored windows are blinding when the sun hits them the right way.
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Reminds me of when Brett Favre went down easy on a sack to give someone the sack record. (Reggie White?)
Also some comments by the author on the difficulty of getting this accepted to ML journals: https://twitter.com/spyrosmakrid/status/1042389286706995201?...
There are open source alternatives that do similar things, I want to give people not the hassle of setting up servers, maintaining their versions, and having no updates if they don't. See it as non-self hosted solution like Heroku is for deployment. I believe it should be simple as installing a Google Analytics code.
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I'm currently in the situation that two mobile apps should be updated to make future developments easier to implement.

By update I mean that the underlying framework needs to be completely replaced.

Do you charge these kind of upgrade to your customers or not?
Just what the data science needed more of: gatekeeping.

Data science is an extremely broad, vague buzzword encompassing a variety of jobs and skillsets, most of which have existed for decades under different names. You do work that involves putting models into production in Python, congrats. The insistence that all data scientists must also do so is silly, especially considering that there are surely many skills used by many data scientists that you are incapable of.
Paid for it, A+ app. I use it all the time. no cloud subscription or anything retarded.
By not allowing them to do so on their own.
I don’t think unlimited screen estate is really a thing; you can get yourself multiple 4K 50+ TVs for less than the price of a top line iPhone, but such an environment is not ergonomic at all. It’s much easier to switch desktops than to move your head and body around. I think planar screens will rule productivity for the foreseeable future.
This is not what I'm suggesting. Winning is not charity but you may feel you have reached your goal with the records you already won. Winning is also not about "winning everything". For example a football (soccer) match where you stop scoring after you have a reasonable goal lead is perfectly expected under "fair play". Nobody will consider it charity.

I just contrasted the behavior of one world record holder who sacrificed part of his performance out of respect for the previous holder as opposed to the world record holder who screams "beat that" at the 72 year old previous holder just moments after beating him. I find the second type of behavior distinctly more belittling for both. Especially when the other guy was 5 years older and using far less advanced technology, and also some very impressive lifetime achievements.
> I really dislike cars and being around cars. They are noisy. They ruin the air quality of a city.

I guess you are not alone. Given a certain location, the singlemost important indicator of your house price is the amount of cars driving by each day.

A factor of 3 in my immediate neighborhood:

$15k per m^2 in a cul de sac vs. only a 100 meters apart $5k per m^2 next to a 4-lane road with quite some traffic.
You see a similar thing with real estate in equal housing. I wasn't aware of how strict the standards were for this stuff until I took the license courses last year.

If you have a real estate office and somebody walks in, you might offer them a cup of coffee. If another person walks in later and you forget to offer it to them, and that person is part of a protected class...you've just violated equal housing.

This is why a lot of real estate offices will put out drinks, snacks and coffee with a "help yourself" sign now.

Well over half of the course was basically "how not to get sued."
If I know your phone number I can get your 2fa code. It a security HOLE.

Instagram accounts get swiped all the time. There is a vibrant account trading economy on IG, and there are no reassurances that the account won't get swiped back.

Facebook knows how to do to 2fa without SMS, but they want everyone's phone numbers and social graph too much.

Account trading lives in the shadows and it won't have a favorable public view, therefore the problems inherent to the platform itself don't get attention right now.

Putting Facebook on blast is the way to change this.