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As a corollary, "Data Scientists" who can't program their way out of a paper bag (e.g.: write simple SQL, or a scraper in Python) is near useless, and a stress on their peer who can.

I'd much rather hire a good programmer with some statistical knowledge than the other way around.

Wouldn't it be fun if the next Newton turns out to be the guy who wrote Doom and other FPS, games that were blamed for any kind of surge of violence until the GTA games show up?

OP is talking about false allegation, you're explaining how to avoid real allegation.

What really bothers me with this, although a few interesting points are made, is that there is absolutely no way you can correctly assess most of what is discussed in a job interview, and you'll just build a subjective persona that you'll then plug, successfully or not, in your model.

What scares me is that recruiters actually believe they can.

He brought Nicolas Sarkozy to light, who was indeed part of a new generation of cynics.

Funny how as soon as you die, all your sins are forgotten and you a revered as some kind of political saint.

Chirac was a crook. I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm surely glad he left.

"Saving to buy later" is not really a good strategy in Hong Kong, as the increase in market price is faster than what can save. The only option is to get a sharp increase in one's income. This is very disheartening, as the goal post keeps moving.

It wouldn't matter much as they appear to be above the law, or at least to think like that.

There are hundreds of videos released everyday of evident gratuitous police violence and misbehavior that is never investigated anyway.

A bit after the battle, but I suggest you should take a look a Daniel Ingram's _Mastering the Core Teaching of the Buddha_ (available more or less freely online, or through normal distributors).

He filled up pages after pages on how to balance one's practice and avoid pitfall like that. The guy is a bit controversial (which I personally embrace), but he sure wrote more than anyone else about all those issues and a lot more. As the subtitle indicates, it is quite the hardcore reference.

I think visualization has been shown to actually improve performances, which is not that much of a stretch, really (IIRC, a study on power lifters, I can't find it back, something Greg Nuckols wrote).

At virtually any level, performance is a function of one's physical condition and one's coordination. Even joggers will get better and more efficient at running simply by doing so repeatedly, regardless of their physical condition improvement (just like I get better at playing challenging video games, and it's not about the muscles in my thumbs). In other words, there are many non-physical factors to performance.

Visualization surely help to trains those. But yeah, not a superpower :(

Flossing really strike me as an American thing. You can buy dental floss anywhere, but only in the US do you hear it's the most important thing ever, probably because of the really high sugar consumption.

This kind of article is inspiring, but also makes me depressed at what a shit parent I must be and all the various ways I'm screwing up with my kids head, despite trying my best, out of my own imperfections and ignorance.

Scary.

Additionally, there is a long period of time when the kid has suicidal tendencies and doesn't comprehend any language, and telling stories won't do anything to save his life.

Fear, induced by having made that mistake and paying the price, or induced by elevating your voice, does seem to work, albeit imperfectly.

I also woke up after a wisdom teeth extraction, while still intubated, choking, and remember the nurse pulling out the tube quite painfully (for me) while I was gagging.

The asshole anesthetist denied it happened.

Additionally, an individual's next "move" (whatever that may be) being unpredictable doesn't make it "free will".

Universal predictability would definitely disprove free-will, but disproving universal predictability tells us nothing about free-will.

I tried to design one of those for my company. We've typically just hired someone through my HN post about it recently, so I think it's working, but I'd still really like to get some feedbacks on it. I am very concerned about getting it right, having been through the shitty side of many interview processes.

omnistream-dot-co/job-opportunities/

And some more in the French speaking side of the internet, which they apparently belong to.

The supposedly water resistant phone accumulate so much dust by the camera lens that it became completely unusable after 6 months. The original Z1 Compact was ace though, I kept it for years. I wish there existed an equivalent model up to today's standard, especially if it wasn't made by Sony.

Agreed, it recently became impossible to find compact phones that don't need to be removed from one's pocket before sitting when wearing jeans.

Omnistream | Singapore | Full-time | ONSITE preferred * About us *

Omnistream is a Singapore-based company working in the field of retail data in South East Asia. We "turn data into profit" by wielding technology, notably to optimize assortment and logistic (machine learning, operational research, time series analysis) on one end, and optimize marketing (machine learning, recommendations, ...) on the other.

* Our team *

We are a very lean team with a decent work-life balance and a good spirit. We cherish personal accountability and autonomy, and a nerdy sense of humour.

* Open positions *

- Data Engineer: to collect, process, clean, verify various amount of various quality data from various source. Technology used: Python, Postgres, AWS. - Data Scientist: to develop clever, pragmatic models to improve the baseline. Our motto is that _all models are wrong, some are useful_. Tech used: R, Python, SQL. We actually build cool stuff, we don't suck too much and we are looking for strong individual contributors.

* Apply *

The application process is designed to be less painful (feedbacks are welcome) and starts with a short treasure hunt.

Take a look here to know more and how to apply: http://omnistream.co/job-opportunities/. Happy to answer any questions here.

This is fairly similar to Buddhism kamma: be good to the world, and the world will be a better place for you to live too.

Having worked in a French university, around 2005-2010, we actually received an explicit memo that male should not receive female students in their office without a third person being there.

I also think there is a misunderstanding here. In this kind of bet, the track takes a cut. In other word, your 10-1 odds are calculated on what's left after the track took a cut.

I simulated this myself on the HK tracks: if you bet randomly _and_ don't ignore track take, your expected return on the long run is precisely $BET - $TRACK_TAKE, which was about 80% in HK. ie: you lose 20% of your money on average on each bet.

Isn't that simply a consequence of having less money in your pocket in the end?

Omnistream | Singapore | Full-time | ONSITE preferred

* About us *

Omnistream is a Singapore-based company working in the field of retail data in South East Asia. We "turn data into profit" by wielding technology, notably to optimize assortment and logistic (machine learning, operational research, time series analysis) on one end, and optimize marketing (machine learning, recommendations, ...) on the other.

* Our team *

We are a very lean team with a decent work-life balance and a good spirit. We cherish personal accountability and autonomy, and a nerdy sense of humour.

* Open positions *

- Data Engineer: to collect, process, clean, verify various amount of various quality data from various source. Technology used: Python, Postgres, AWS. - Data Scientist: to develop clever, pragmatic models to improve the baseline. Our motto is that _all models are wrong, some are useful_. Tech used: R, Python, SQL.

* Apply *

Take a look here to know more and how to apply: http://omnistream.co/job-opportunities/. Happy to answer any questions here.

Curious as to how OP managed to get the registry data. HK government is infamous for sucking at opening their data. This guy: https://webb-site.com/ is famous for spitting in their eyes regularly to remind them.

Wasn't Weboob initially (partly) developed to scrape porn websites? If so, then the name definitely is on-topic.

A bit late for the party, but there is really good reddit community around the Mind Illuminated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMindIlluminated/

That can only work if you have a large number of available positions (typically, low-paid interns). In other cases, you have one position and try to hire the best candidate for it. Interviewing enough candidates takes some time, if only because not everybody is available at the same time.

Canadian French is very different from France's, be it the accent, the idioms, the vocabulary.

As a native French speaker travelling in Montreal, I often found it easier to talk English with French speaking people, to my great shame.

I recall a simple transaction with a cashier in a supermarket, and having her repeat the simplest things (like "hello") a couple time because I had no idea what she was saying or if she even was speaking French, this was awfully embarrassing.

Although I agree, Parisians are asshole.