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by bpchaps 10y ago
unstructured blob: I'm working with data from a FOIA request for ~5yrs worth of parking tickets in Chicago. About 18m rows in total. The end goal is to be able to say whether a parking ticket was valid or not. It's been ongoing fo
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Nice! OSM data unfortunately wasn't comprehensive enough for a project of mine, but I still love what they do. It's great seeing these kinds of improvements!
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I'm already in over my head with a bunch of other things towards Chicago, so I'm honestly going to pick my battle and let this one go. It goes against my usual policy, but the stress got out of hand there for a bit.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Agreed, and I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted either. You speak the truth. I was mugged about two months ago in a pretty busy intersection and raised the issue when the investigation was 'suspended'. Even though
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by bpchaps 10y ago
(Can't comment on much else, but just wanted to say thanks for the link. I just got an SDR and the link you sent looks incredibly useful for learning. Thanks!)
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Yes, agreed. Though, it's important to note that the number of honor's programs without that class of drama is small without expensive schooling or certain types of homeschooling. Not having to do 'difficult' homework wa
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by bpchaps 10y ago
No excuse! ;) (I love this spirit of this project. If you have any way others can contribute, I would be interested!)
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by bpchaps 10y ago
My experience with burnout is that it's almost identical to worry, with a sense of not feeling "good enough". I've had the feeling of burnout from being the sole sysadmin and devops at an HFT firm. An identical feeling h
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by bpchaps 10y ago
They wrote this editorialized piece of shit based on a single paper from LAST NIGHT?! When is wired.com shutting down? Soon? Please?
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I was a "smart kid" in high school and found myself getting bored in the honors class to point of getting kicked out and pushed into the "normal" class as the only white kid, 90% of the time. It was honestly probably the
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Problem is - that's such an easy thing to say, whether it's true or false. For a device that's owned by millions, it's pretty grandiose of them to think that their internal team is all it takes. There's so much an i
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I had the.. pleasure.. of speaking to Comcast's CISO after doing a security risk exposure disclosure. Before talking to her, there were mentions of bug bounties, etc (neat). After talking to her, though, she said in a hand-wavy way tha
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Interviewing at google was the absolute worst experience I've ever had over two weeks: First interview was a cold call from a bored sounding engineer-turned-recruiter. The guy asked me some questions and some I didn't know at the
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Not always. I was one of the only devops/linux admin at a past job and was in one of the first rounds of layoffs. It's a bit dangerous to think that just because you're critical, you're immune - on paper, you're pro
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by bpchaps 10y ago
The advice I give people is - do things that will make yourself feel interesting about yourself. Self motivation is the key, but you have to learn to find it first. Stick your neck out into places that you normally wouldn't and you&#x2
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I went out to SF for a vacation and to check out if it made sense to move out there for job prospects, but the homelessness absolutely ruined it for me. Nobody ever seems to talk about it on HN for some reason, but it was the absolute most
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Oh, derp. I'm stuck in travel exhaustion and read that wrong. :)
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I'm looking for a new FOIA lawyer - would you be willing to share the details for yours? (I'm in IL)
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Heh. A few examples means jack. I can give you tons of personal examples where it's true. It's mostly just a matter of how patient you are in filing a suit or pursuing with an AG. That takes months , and more often than not it&#x
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Eh.... The extent that Chicago's mayor's office has gone to prevent me from getting their phone records comes pretty damn close.. I seriously, seriously doubt there are only a few situations like these.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I'm as cynical as the next guy, but it's seriously hard to deny how far this research has gone in recent times. Give it time.
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Something curses based would be nice - no need for a GUI ;). Cron's syntax can be hellish. For example, % is treated as a special newline character (ugh) so that commands like this don't work - and it's very difficult to trou
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Agreed. I've been a sysadmin for about ten years now and absolutely loathe them. At the surface, they're simple to use, but it very, very quickly becomes a headache as the server count increases. That, and just about everyone who
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by bpchaps 10y ago
This is kinda frustrating to see considering the many, many other open data problems I've seen. Sure, it's a typo, but did it deserve its own article? No. There are more important things to discuss. (Not trying to minimize the wor
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Didn't know about that one - thanks! Any thoughts on the infinite loop problem, though? I've seen tons of threads for it in stackoverflow/github and not much ever comes from them. Lots of dev he-said-she-saids, though. Pretty
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by bpchaps 10y ago
Of course. Problem is, a lot of the kernel halt requests don't seem to make it 90% of the time and restarting the kernel gets annoying when using it on larger datasets. Though, it has forced me into writing easily re-runnable code whic
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by bpchaps 10y ago
It looks nice - I kind of wish a lot of these features would have been put into jupyter itself, though. The lack of configurability in jupyter drives me insane. Sure, the configs are editable, but the lack of proper documentation makes it i
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by bpchaps 10y ago
This is why over time, even more important than your ability to hire, is your discipline to identify those who are driving up the exponential overhead curve — single-handedly draining more productivity from the organization than they contr
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I was once told that if you're ever pulled over by a cop in my home town that the only thing you could do was to comply with everything, including warrantless searches even if innocent. That, if nothing illegal was found as a reason to
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by bpchaps 10y ago
I had a very long debate with someone on this about its MitM uses and it confuses the crap out of me when people say it's not used for that. For some reason many people seem to think that, even though there's enough information fo

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