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I teach Python for Data Analysis and struggle in recommending good visualization solutions in Python.

Most of my students are used to Excel and are new to programming.

Expensive proprietary packages like Tableau(and even Power BI) provide a much better experience when it comes to presenting your results to management.

So we do the data gathering/wrangling/munching/analysis in Python but export the results for commercial visualization packages.

I can't in good conscience recommend any one Python library for visualization.

I mean for people who are just getting a hang of Python not Wes McKinney :)
I wonder if he ever just hops back and forth on the doorstep to mess with them. I mean, he's got to get bored.
> Why kind of effed up country votes on history?

Would you prefer the history curriculum be overseen by an unelected group of party cadres?

Voting is a lot better than many systems currently in use. If there's an issue, at least you have the chance to influence things for the better.
This is why I have consistently seen people stay clear of Digital Ocean. They’re great for pet projects, and staging/development environments (as was their original intention when they came out if I recall correctly) but many of these “small” issues can quickly become a huge headache. Sure, anybody with an ounce of sanity has a backup plan, but the reality is none of us want to have to jump into it unless absolutely required.

On a side note: you should test your backups and plans often! Don’t let outages catch you off guard.
It is... if you don't have Google money, Google brand, Google costumer goodwil, Google P&R team, Google capability to attract talent, Google global outreach, Google datacenters, etc. If you ARE Google, and you have all of that? I think it's more difficult to explain why they failed.
I'm not the person you were replying to, but I went to university in Manchester, worked there, then Oxford, Cambridge and then to the US. Currently in Seattle.

(I did do a stint in the IT department at North Lindsey College, which was... different.)
Yeah i never quite understood the charges either, but more because he works for an organization that isn't subject to the US jurisdiction.
This super cool! Congrats!
Got a Honda Clarity Hybrid Plugin for ~two months. I have been using the electric mode. Don't have to fill the gas tank after ~1800 miles. Used only ~1-2 galleon of gas because I wasn't too sure about the setup initially.

It has electric range of 48 miles - perfect for the daily commute ~30 miles round trip. A nice gas option is there just in case the battery is gone - which I used couple time.

The charge point app shows that the car took in 169KWHr in Oct. I figure if it is charged at home 15c / KWHr = ~$23. That's 50% to 75% cheaper than my last commuting car's gas cost.

I am doing my share to reduce the oil demand.
That is the argument for a filter existing. It says nothing about it's position.
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> The truth is that gasoline is still king because it is the fastest way to recharge your car.

No, that's not why. Gasoline is still largely king because it's the legacy technology, so it has a very wide install base and it's still cheaper.

The average person very rarely drives the full range of an electric vehicle within a day, so the charge time almost never becomes a limiting factor. Indeed, for many people, having to fill up at a pump every so often brings more inconvenience into your life than simply plugging in your car at home or the office every so often. Once you have access to a charging station at some place you're already going regularly to anyway, electric becomes more convenient than liquid petro fuel.
> No, but I have a very good friend in Vegas who says it's similar there.

Also the strip is where the tourists are, and isn't technically the city of Las Vegas.

A lot of the behaviors people engage in on the strip would get you thrown out of a place that's more locals oriented. They don't take shit off strip.
Ask HN: Advice on Facebook and Google Certifications?
I am running my e-commerce business from past 7-8 years. I've spent tons of money on online advertising during this time. Returns have been excellent so far. Overall, the skills I developed during this period are as good as some of the best digital marketers out there.

Now, I am trying to get into services space (digital marketing). Problem is getting those first few clients. I only have success of my project, but its not enough for people to be convinced. Can someone give me pointers on where to start? Will getting a Facebook Blueprint certification or Google Adwords Certification will be any good to attract potential clients easily?
I'm terrible person, but I couldn't resist to get example of very ugly and visually inconsistent linux distro. And that guy reviewing it, is saying the dream distro in video title. What?

Just watch the video and wait for settings app to get what I'm talking about. If it miss-aligned items don't bothers you, then you're weird (or maybe I'am) :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCsRMLhVL8Y&t=418s
TS is more popular and has a bigger ecosystem. It could enable more contribution to the project.
If you can grab a phone from someone you can execute a much simpler physical attack called rubber hose cryptanalysis :)

So yes what you are describing is nonsensical you need to know the target, be able to steal their device and use it within a time frame before it would be disabled.

And this is if they don’t use say an iPhone or an Android phone with biometric login which often hides the notifications.

Also the biggest hole in this premise is that you wouldn’t even care if the device displays texts when locked or not since if you have the device you can take out the SIM and put it into your own phone.

So based on this any TOTP or U2F token is useless since they can be stolen and used.

Seriously if this is your threat model I don’t think you should leave the house since you are clearly in a lot of danger.
I'd love to have something like this but with texts available in varied areas, eg: programming (such as Haskell learning).
Azure service names by comparison: Virtual Machines, Storage, Functions, Pipelines, Archive Storage, Active Directory, Repos [1]. Personally, I am not irked by less-descriptive names as much as with the hoard of acronyms—S3, EC2, SQS, SES, SNS.

[1]: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/
Most weird organisms have been noticed long before their genetic weirdness was known. Darwin mentioned in "The Voyage of the Beagle" that a salt lake in South America was reddish due to microbes, but only in the late 20th century did people recognize that these were very unusual microbes -- members of the Archaea.
I know this is a joke, but I’m glad this person wasn’t in charge of naming these services. Amazon’s concise and consistent names often translate directly to API calls, making it possible to guess CLI methods.
Every time I see something like this I’m reminded how easy it is to get into a bubble in this industry. If you were going by hacker news, you’d think Go and Rust would be way higher ranked.
In other words, most likely because it’s the default python interpreter for this system.
... and Debian 9

I’m no Luddite but the simple fact today if you want to reliably deploy and can’t or don’t want to ship a container, Python 2 is the reality.
Yikes, a downvote for something very positive. Some people just have closed minds. Do you downvote everything that is positive?
For a device like this[1] or this[2]?

[1]https://www.lidl.de/media/product/0/0/8/6/2/9/1/wenko-brotsc...

[2]http://www.umwaagen.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/BS_38.jpg
What about languages like Haskell, which are also growing nowadays?
I kinda like gnome too, so I never thought I would say this, but "I miss Ubuntu's Unity". And boy I hated it in the beginning. Who is minority now? :D
I don’t think Vala is the problem. The problem is GObject, and if you are tied to GObject, Vala is probably as good as or better than the alternatives. The only language that is clearly better than Vala is Go (better tooling and type system, quite a lot simpler, etc), but its bindings weren’t mature (and still aren’t terribly mature) when elementary kicked off.

Linux really just needs a better GUI toolkit than GTK and Qt, but these things are tremendously complex to build and as shitty as the web is, it’s quite a lot less shitty than these toolkits. This is why I think the ChromeOS model is the right way to go—every app’s UI is a browser app with a local daemon running on the backend, maybe in a container (but do away with ChromeOS’s custom modified kernel and prohibition against native code execution). In the worst case we’re writing JavaScript/TypeScript/etc on a browser instead of Vala on GObject, but WASM may well mean that we can write in any language.
> You will no doubt hear a great deal about patient autonomy, the principle that the patient must be allowed to choose treatment that he wants.

This must really be tough on doctors. I have a few people in my life who love seeking out medical advice but rarely follow it.

"You have to help me doc, I'll do anything!"

"Ok, do X"

"Well anything but that."
A 2x4 is cut to 2" by 4" wet and shrinks when it is dried. I'm no huge fan, but this is not an issue with the imperial system.
More on the Hopf fibration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopf_fibration

Note this is due to Heinz Hopf, different from Eberhard (known for the Hopf bifurcation).
(disclaimer: I worked at AWS from 2008 to 2014 as Technology Evangelist)

I always disliked most of the acronyms. The worst for me was Elastic Beanstalk, a name allegedly picked by Bezos himself. I thought that choice was really poor, considering that most of the world doesn't know what Beanstalk refers to.

This is what happens when you grow up in an English culture and think that the world functions like yours. I had the luck of being from a different culture (Italy), and therefore an easier way to discern certain things.

It doesn't mean that this "type" of fairy-tale is unknown, in fact its origins might trace back to 5,000 years.

In addition, "Jack and the Beanstalk" is an Aarne-Thompson tale-type 328, The Treasures of the Giant, which includes the Italian "Thirteenth" and the French "How the Dragon was Tricked" tales." [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk
When I was at University of Cincinnati they had a "recreational computing" mailing list. One day some CS people decided to build a cocktail table video game console using MAME or something like that. This rapidly became the MALE GENITALIAtail table (yes, all caps) due to some kind of obscenity search and replace on the list. The name stuck and there was a MALE GENITALIAtail table in the student union for a while.
This is totally possible. You can create a sub component, register and use it in the same file as the parent component.
Though not really recommended you can even do this:

...
components: {
"inline": {
template: `
<h1>My inline subcomponent</h1>
`
}
}
...
I met a lovely Mrs. Null, who had many unfortunate stories concerning automated forms.
That's the narrative - if you're coming from Angular, you're going to find Vue more similar and probably easier to grasp.
My main computer for last few years has been an Asus X305 laptop, using Ubuntu 14.04 with the i3 tiling window manager (i.e., there is no desktop). It's best computing environment I've had since I started out on a TRS-80 in 1979.

My i3 setup is not tweaked to auto-sleep on lid close. I'm sure it would have been easy to set up when I installed i3 back in 2015, since the sleep-on-close worked with Ubuntu's Unity desktop. Instead, when I installed i3 I attached sleep function to a hotkey, so before I close the lid I press the hotkey (if I want system to sleep). It is totally not a big deal. The system does autoresume when I open lid, which it also did in Unity environment. But if it didn't that would also not be a big deal.

To me the idea that someone would reject a superior system if it didn't auto-sleep (or auto-resume) on lid close/open is bizarre. I actually prefer to manually control with a hotkey.
Stress Makes You Want Pleasure More, but Enjoy It Less
Pedant> Yes it is technically the city of Las Vegas. The strip has a Las Vegas, NV address.
> I woke up, bloody, in an ergonomic office chair, my hands zipped tied behind me with the same zip ties they used to manage the server ethernet cables.

I didn't realize this story was fiction until I got to this sentence.

Update: The author confirmed on Twitter that other than the dramatization, this story is in fact true.

> And, aside from the beating up and tying down, it was true![0]

I can admit when I'm wrong. I stand corrected.

[0]https://twitter.com/TinkerSec/status/1063781216128835584
It's not, it just can be ugly as some distros are showing us.
Why does Intel encrypt the code? It is unlikely that anyone would steal it because it is useable only with Intel CPUs and is protected with copyright. So the reasons are either Intel wants to hide something (a code that changes CPU behaviour when a benchmark is detected?) or wants to have some features that cannot be disabled or modified by the user.

It is difficult to believe that there is no backdoor.
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The PHP plateau, then decline in just the last 2 years in interesting.
Some are compatible, some aren't. And even if yours is technically compatible, if you run into problems with the website or program where you need to use it -- and you will -- you're on your own.
Because they found a better solution through partnership with dexcom.

https://www.wareable.com/health-and-wellbeing/dexcom-g6-cgm-...

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medical-devices/jpm-dexcom-dis...
Huh, that's an interesting idea and I like it. It'll give people a visceral feeling of how much more expensive the inefficient vehicles will be to operate. Have this amount be printed prominently on the price sticker, and maybe consider increasing the distance. Depending on the country and inefficiency of the vehicle in question, the extra amount for pre-purchasing the fuel will only be low to high 3 digit dollars.
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Read a bit further; the story is not fiction, only that specific incident.
I think I saw this approach for the first time on Viktor Frankl books which formed the basis for logotherapy:

"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
That's true, but the same can be said for the reverse. How do you know that a research success is not really a failure. If anything, there is more incentive to forge successes than failures.
> Should they be legally required to give patients certain drugs

They're not legally forced to do so. They can chose any other job. But if they chose that job then yes, they need to fill the fucking prescriptions correctly.
"If a middle income family gets a second and sometimes even third car that doesn't necessarily translate into a proportional increase in kilometres driven."

True, but the embedded carbon cost of each additional vehicle is roughly equal to 10-12 years of driving that vehicle.
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How to make remote work more common
Meta-analysis finds little evidence for the Macbeth effect
I've seen a decent number of Teslas in Spain, for whatever reason.
Sweden: What 'Humanitarian Superpower'?
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Thank you! I didn't know this. I thought they introduced them shortly after announcing TPU v1 in the 2016 (or 2017, can't remember) Google I/O.
GObject is language agnostic in the sense that it’s terrible in every language. You still have another type system and memory model that is different from those of the host language, and you end up writing code that feels only marginally better than writing GObject in C. It’s all terribly disappointing in my experience. GObject has served us well, but if the Linux desktop is to survive, it needs a better desktop toolkit story (I left my suggestion on another comment in this thread).
> The UK is one of the richest countries in the world.

There are two parts to England: London and not London. All the money is centered in the capital and the rest of the country is neglected. House prices in London are driven up to insane levels due to the money laundering through real estate transactions for empty housing.

The majority of the working class people in England live in poverty.
For how often front-end development is shat on you’d think something as trivial as adding the ability for a user to close a registration dialog would be child’s work.
The problem with MacOS is that much of its refinements for power users are so different from Windows (and Linux desktops modeled after it), that people don't expect they can do things the easy way.

Suppose you have a document open. You want to attach it to an email you started writing. In MacOS, you drag the icon from the window's title bar into the email. That's it. No need to browse to the same thing you already have on the screen, because your desktop is a set of objects you interact with... Not a window manager.

If you want to open a file browser, you can right click the title bar on any document, and it will give you a breadcrumb of all the parent directories.

If you move a document you have open in an application, the application will notice, and save further changes to that new location too when you go back to it and press cmd-S.

These are just a few little things in one aspect of the OS. But macOS is full of them. Like consistent keyboard shortcuts.

Or multi touch gestures that act while you perform them, not just trigger an action after. There is a commitment to making the computer work like it should, instead of making the human adapt.

Meanwhile in Windows land, even the official apps can't figure out how they want to look or how they want to work. And this is what Linux desktops based themselves on.

There are of course signs that Apple has also lost its magic, and that a new generation raised on touch and web and cloud has no idea how this stuff works. The idea that you can e.g. scroll casually through a decade worth of emails with one flick, offline, is a pipe dream in Gmail land. It boggles my mind that basic conveniences like sortable, resizable and customizable tables are now a luxury in many apps.

But there still is an insane amount of design thought that went into macOS, and everyone else is years behind. That's just a fact.
Hmm, I thought controlled burns were best practice and was being done. Is that not the case?
Well they're both on the 'fastest growing'[1] list, which is about what I'd expect.

1: https://blog.github.com/2018-11-15-state-of-the-octoverse-to...
Amazon high throughput? How about Amazon distributed queues?

Amazon EC2 Queue? How about Amazon State Machines? Or Amazon BPM?
> the super-large SUV fetish from the 90s has long died out.

Are you sure this is true? I believe the size of the average American new car is the largest it's ever been. Sedans and station wagons have been replaced with SUVs and trucks. Hell, Ford's barely even making cars anymore, just SUVs and trucks. More info here: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/06/the-steadily-disappearing-am...

I suppose that you were referring to Hummers, but they were only ever a tiny portion of the market. The rest of the market, however, has been steadily transitioning to larger vehicles ever since.
Indeed. I was recently house hunting for a cheap place outside the city (I love the city but I work fully remote and I love buying a cheap house with no loan even more).

Every time I had to drive to the house, it was a huge pain in the ass. The agents wanted to meet in the middle of the week, so I'd have to drive in the morning, find a coffee shop or library to work from, drive to the house, go back to the coffee shop, then finally drive home. It was a couple hours+ dead time every day.

Where I ended up buying I took the train (working the whole way), rode my bike 15 minutes, viewed the house, rode back to the train station, and took the train home (working the whole way) - whole thing fit in a regular work day + lunch break.

Now if I lose my job and wind up having to commute, I'll still have the train time to work, do personal projects, etc. but if I'd been in a car I'd just be sitting there getting out of shape and wasting my time (and trashing the planet).

Even though living in the country means I'll definitely need to buy a car, it should (hopefully) only be one for our three person household, and the drive vs. train visits to view places was a helpful reminder of how much I hate car commuting.
Nvidia loses an AMD worth of market cap on worst day in more than a decade
Sign up bonuses are good but cards cost about $70 a year typically. Wouldn’t it be better to hold two and change it up every year?
"In a way the so called “New Jersey style” was a rush for a minimum viable product able to minimize the time-to-market and to gain the first mover advantage."

Another way of looking at it is that it is an attempt to get something into existence, rather than waiting years for perfection and ending up with nothing. To paraphrase performance work, something is infinitely better than nothing.

I am somewhat interested in the comment, "(the mindful reader will notice that alarm is still waiting to be moved to user space… the fact is that it’s too boring of a task!)" I originally interpreted it as meaning userspace could interrupt the blocking call, but I see its actually a filesystem that interacts with kernel space.

fd = create("/dev/alarms/new", ~0, pair_ints(getpid(), ms))

Been a long time since I have looked at Plan 9; create has some interesting arguments.
You touch on the real tragedy: that all this may be lost in favor of less well thought out interfaces.
Isn't that because they got heavier (better safety features and structural integrity) and got more powerful engines? The original design can barely cope with modern highway speeds, with dangerously slow acceleration, and if you get into a crash at those speeds, you're dead.
Is it a transparent contact lens that you put in the eye?
Non-technical intro to blockchain concepts and terminology
Not saying I'm huge fan of AWS service names, but don't mind them either. Didn't feel it as blocking issue and got familiar with them quite fast.
Trouble is, at the end of the day nothing is more powerful or more efficient than the command line and once you've accepted that fact (which more and more people are there days) you might as well just use Linux.
If it helps, people notice. My wife and I had a lot of conversations along the lines of "maybe we should just move to a country that doesn't make having a kid so damn hard" and Norway was near the top of the list. The excellent support for families with kids who have autism (though ours does not, it was a concern genetically) helps as well.