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Exactly - no big deal, at all - but Kubrick is responsible for several really big deals.

joyofdataon Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less

you are argumenting from an optimal-employee-perspective or what you might choose to call it. Fact is - even supervisors are humans and 90% of them will be hesitant to have somebody "under" them while making more or as much money. I fear that's just a fact.

joyofdataon Employees Who Stay in Companies Longer Than Two Years Get Paid 50% Less

As the line manager is employee herself, the strategy only works, if she is applying it herself, too. Otherwise her salary might not be competitive and you as her sub-employee are risking the most severe of all offenses - asking for more than what your supervisor makes.

joyofdataon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)

Hamburg, Germany

Yieldlove GmbH

Web Software Developer (PHP / Symfony) ONSITE

https://www.xing.com/jobs/hamburg-web-software-developer-ham...

jobs[at]yieldlove.com

This is what you can expect from us:

- friendly work atmosphere without dress code

- international team from eleven different nations (check out your future colleagues here on Xing)

- nice and centrally located office next to the Sternschanze (U3 Sternschanze / U3 Feldstraße) and surrounded by lots of shops, restaurants and bars

- free drinks like tea, water, juices and excellent coffee

- certification for PHP, Symfony and MySQL

- unlimited work contract

- 40-hour work week and no over hours

- 30 days vacation

joyofdataon Not Just Mike Pence. Americans Are Wary of Being Alone with the Opposite Sex

> People forget that the cost of a new iPhone is almost the same as the average yearly wage in Cambodia.

Good point!

From a thieves perspective it is probably not just the value of the visible goods - it's also about the arrogance such behavior exhibits - people who show off kind of deserve to get a reality check.

joyofdataon The Old Are Eating the Young

> Young people are better-educated

that's a pretty bubble-thing to say ... leave your bubble for a while and you'll see that only some young people are better educated - most are terribly educated or not at all.

joyofdataon The Old Are Eating the Young

what you described is essentially a global ponzie scheme. and that's what it is at the bottom line - the growth feeds on itself - no more growth - everything crashes.

is that sustainable or even reasonable by any standard - the answer is an obvious "no". but it benefits the powerful.

joyofdataon Britain's master forger

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3212568/

It's a documentary about Wolfgang Beltracchi - an artist who made millions forging paintings and eventually went to prison for it. You just have to like the guy.

The flick is currently available on Netflix Germany.

joyofdataon Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big (2013)

okay - but what if frequency increases to three files and beyond within a year, the file size doubles and the expected latency of processing needs to be reduced?

Also compressing doesn't go well with ad hoc analysis.

Sounds like maybe a Hadoop setup is not the worst idea to be ready for the future.

joyofdataon Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal cities across the globe

thanks to global economic growth those people no longer have to live in huts but are allowed to sew bags - they can buy Nikes and Coke!

joyofdataon Antarctica’s potential collapse could damage coastal cities across the globe

very good point! just think about it - all the panic and then nothing - but then we are stuck with solar power, more vegetarians, less pollution in the ocean and on and on ... terrible! waiting until the very last moment is the only feasible strategy

joyofdataon Baby boomers are making it harder for millennials to buy homes

well - at the end of the day my message is that the perspective of the article is misguided.

the problem is not too many baby boomers - the problem is unafordable and unavailable space to live.

also in Germany this is a topic - resurging in regular intervals. the nationalistic perspective is "migrants take our flats" - when in fact its the government failing to either provide flats funded by the state or influencing the market to prevent excessive rents and encourage building of cheap apartments.

it's effectively a more or less intended divide and conquer strategy - have the people fight each other then they won't fight for changes of the status quo.

joyofdataon Baby boomers are making it harder for millennials to buy homes

> Raising small children in an apartment can be pretty stressful

this is precisely the entitlement I was hinting at - I was raised in an apartment - lots of my friends have been raised in apartments - I do live in an appartment (*1984) and we have many neighboors with children in our apartment building.

It is absolutely possible and also very humane indeed also to raise children in an apartment.

> But: apartments also aren't available! They're just as appealing to the downsizing boomer.

And this is just expressing the sad state of the US. The reason why there aren't enough apartments is not b/c of the babyboomers (also not b/c of migrants and Mexicans) - it's b/c your government fails to build them (I'm from Germany). Now you are stuck with a market in favor of people renting out own flats.

> Where will they work?

Not build at all - just live in an apartment or not move to super-hot-spot areas like LA or NY. If you can afford to build a house you can afford a car and you have to commute.

joyofdataon Baby boomers are making it harder for millennials to buy homes

Why do Millenials need a house? How about a flat? And when they can afford it they just build a house for themselves.

joyofdataon Collection of photographs of WannaCry infections from around the world

> Yes, they have. How would you do it otherwise?

How about a thin client based on Linux receiving the raw data wireless and then simply displaying it formatted as a table?

And if that doesn't exist yet then have Siemens design a solution of that kind.

joyofdataon Rich Retirees Are Hoarding Cash Out of Fear

I don't think that is true at all. It is neither unachievable as many people have achieved this already* - I don't see any reason why it should alienate me - I believe this state rather goes along with being more compassionate and empathetic - so I'd argue the opposite is true.

* to give you one random example coming to mind - the journalist in Mexico who got killed by murderers from a drug cartel past week knew very well what was at stake and chose to keep doing his job - so I'd argue he managed to come to terms with having to die. it's an extreme example but reaching this mental state is likely easier in less extreme life circumstances - those most of us are impacted by.

joyofdataon FastMail lifetime member plans to be discontinued

I switched to Fastmail from GMail a month ago and I have no reason to complain. Spam filtering is indeed not as good as at GM but good enough.

It receives mail and sends mail.

There is anyway absolutely no other competitor in the game b/c FM and GM are the only web mail services offering a reasonable 2FA solution. I checked 'em all and would have preferred a different provider as their servers are located in NYC.

My motivation was to avoid having too much of my stuff depending on and catering to the Google Datenkrake.

joyofdataon Collection of photographs of WannaCry infections from around the world

Many of those photos show real time connections / schedules for trains of the Deutsche Bahn.

I'm wondering ... does this mean they have a dedicated OS installation (virtual or not) for each set of displays showing different schedules? That would be so rediculously inefficient ...

... but then again - it's the DB - basically a synonym in Germany for incompetence :D

joyofdataon Rich Retirees Are Hoarding Cash Out of Fear

I'm getting more and more convinced that one of the most important goals in live should be to mature to a level where you are simply comfortable with dying. Being able to simply conclude at one point in life that it's enough and either submit to fate or commit suicide.

joyofdataon How a Blind Developer uses Visual Studio [video]

two thoughts:

1 - does sun light have no physiological/psychological value for blind people? the sun light might still be captured on the skin or even in the eyes and trigger relevant biological processes.

2 - having a monitor is also important for a blind person when working in a team.

joyofdataon India Is Winning Its War on Human Waste

Very good analogy!

joyofdataon What a stranger taught me about Japan

This guy is so full of himself - almost disgusting how he tries so hard to come across as a humble and reflecting person.

joyofdataon Blinded after applying contact lenses with wet hands

> Research suggests the density of pain receptors in the cornea is 300-600 times greater than skin and 20-40 times greater than dental pulp,[14] making any injury to the structure excruciatingly painful.[15]

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

Incredible! Why are there any pain receptors at all?

joyofdataon Russian police arrest anti-corruption leader, hundreds in nationwide rallies

HN is not just tech stuff - it is anything discussed by techies. This absolutely belongs here.

joyofdataon Uber is designed so that for one employee to get ahead, another must fail

"I wouldn't - it's a huge mountain, you can't move it."

joyofdataon IPython 4.0 Released

And it works with R now! Nice ...... :)

https://github.com/joyofdata/joyofdata-articles/tree/master/...

joyofdataon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2015)

Data Scientist

http://joyofdata.github.io

joyofdataon Ask HN: What is the most you've paid for a domain name?

one Euro an fifty Cents

joyofdataon Over 20 designers have copied my website and I don't mind

#humblebrag

joyofdataon A Brief Overview of Deep Learning

well thanks for the info - but then I shift my critique to that I find it unnecessary to distort ML and biological concepts just to simplify the subject, when an accurate depiction wouldn't be much more difficult. Especially to not differentiate properly between memorization and generalization/learning is odd b/c this is one of the most prominent mistakes - it is specifically not the goal to minimize the in-sample-error! that would lead to very bad results most of the time