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   The New Yorker Reviving Jewish Life on Majorca(bbc.com)

   1 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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   Airbox: A cloud desktop for academics, researchers, and programmers(airbox.launchaco.com)

   2 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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   Families go deep in debt to maintain a middle-class lifestyle(wsj.com)

   51 points by mjirv 7y ago|139 comments
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   U.S. immigration policy gives Canadian tech a great opportunity(bloomberg.com)

   2 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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   by mjirv 7y ago

   Metabase is much more for data visualization. As far as I know it doesn't really have any ETL features. I could actually see this being pretty useful as an ETL layer to go along with Metabase if someone were trying to build a free&#x2F
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   Causal inference in economics and marketing (2016) [pdf](pnas.org)

   3 points by mjirv 7y ago|1 comments
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   The Seven Tools of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning [pdf](ftp.cs.ucla.edu)

   2 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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   by mjirv 7y ago

   Ironically this is the exact opposite advice I would give, as someone 3 years out of undergrad with lots of SWE and non-SWE (PM, consultant, banker) friends. If a college student told me "I want to optimize for a career where I don&#x2
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   by mjirv 7y ago

   This is great. I keep the following in my bash profile for querying CSVs with SQL, which works OK, but this is probably better: function csv_to_sqlite() { echo "used as csv_to_sqlite PATH_TO_CSV TABLE_NAME" sqlite3 -cs
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    Elementary Education Has Gone Terribly Wrong(theatlantic.com)

    1 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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    A Cool SQL Problem (and Why It Is Also a Bullshit SQL Problem)(ryxcommar.com)

    3 points by mjirv 7y ago|1 comments
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    AWS launches Textract, machine learning for text and data extraction(venturebeat.com)

    15 points by mjirv 7y ago|2 comments
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    EMR Notebooks: A managed analytics environment based on Jupyter notebooks(aws.amazon.com)

    2 points by mjirv 7y ago|1 comments
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    Maintainable ETLs: Tips for Making Your Pipelines Easier to Support and Extend(multithreaded.stitchfix.com)

    5 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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    How to Start a Cultural Revolution – Ben Horowitz (2017) [video](youtube.com)

    3 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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    Math teachers should be more like football coaches(nytimes.com)

    210 points by mjirv 7y ago|131 comments
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    Advanced Analytics with Spark and HLLs(databricks.com)

    1 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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    by mjirv 7y ago

    I'm confused by this: > In EdgeQL, sets are flat, i.e. a set (including an empty one) cannot be an element of another set It seems like in the last example, they're returning a set (of movies) that contains other sets (director
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    The “Two-Income Trap” stuff is clearly incorrect(peoplespolicyproject.org)

    2 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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    Exponential growth devours and corrupts (2017)(m.signalvnoise.com)

    2 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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    It's never too late to start a brilliant career(wsj.com)

    17 points by mjirv 7y ago|4 comments
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    by mjirv 7y ago

    To the folks at TrueCar who made this: are you planning to open source it or make it available for others to use? I can see it being useful in a lot of other industries.
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    Armatron – ETL Done Well(medium.com)

    3 points by mjirv 7y ago|3 comments
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    by mjirv 7y ago

    Anyone know which of these are true for Redshift as well?
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    Cloud data specialist Snowflake picks new CEO(wsj.com)

    1 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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    Running Fast Interactive Queries on Petabyte Datasets with Presto (2016) [video](youtube.com)

    1 points by mjirv 7y ago|0 comments
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    Children, Unhappiness and Family Finances: Evidence from One Million Europeans(nber.org)

    11 points by mjirv 8y ago|1 comments
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    How did home cooking become a moral issue?(vox.com)

    2 points by mjirv 8y ago|0 comments
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    2019 Cloud BI and Analytics Predictions [pdf](uploads-ssl.webflow.com)

    1 points by mjirv 8y ago|0 comments
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    A Letter to Steven Pinker and Bill Gates about Global Poverty(jasonhickel.org)

    2 points by mjirv 8y ago|0 comments