skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If marketing is a primary focus - a classic technique is to comment on relevant threads in your category - filtered RSS feeds from Quora, StackOverflow, Google Alerts, HN, Reddit, etc.

It only takes a second to review a thread and see if you can add value with a comment (and possibly plug your service).

Could use Zapier's Digest app to get them all at the end of a day/week so you don't have noisy alerts all day. Slack and/or email is usually a solid way to get those alerts.
Bang and Olufsen, Origin Acoustics Team Up for New Architectural Speaker Range
The goal of a Masters degree in Machine Learning is ideally to prepare you for core research and engineering roles where you work on improving, adapting and inventing new algorithms and techniques.

However, such roles are very limited in the industry. Most jobs you will find expect you to be able to apply, combine and optimize existing algorithms to given real-world problems. This requires a different set of skills that are seldom taught at University (you're typically expected to pick up these practical abilities on your own).

Udacity's Machine Learning Engineer Nanodegree, like its other programs, is heavily project-based, and has been developed with feedback from industry partners in order to emphasize the skills and concepts that are most relevant for the vast majority of jobs that are out there. This focused curriculum allows people with limited time or a related background to efficiently get started in machine learning.

Keeping this mind, ask yourself what your ultimate goal is, what time constraints you have, and choose accordingly. There is no shortcut to success, esp. in a competitive and highly technical field like machine learning - whether you opt for a Masters degree or a Nanodegree, you will have to spend considerable effort building a strong public profile (e.g. by participating in Kaggle competitions, and working on additional projects) in order to make yourself stand out from the crowd.

Good luck!

Disclaimer: I work at Udacity, in case you didn't realize by now :)
As with all trustee-run plans, people should evaluate the investment options before moving the money in. The HSA I personally have access to is great for saving taxes on expenses, but if I wanted to use the investment options rather than sit in cash, my only options are high-fee managed funds (there's a lot less pressure on these vendors than on 401k trustees due to less public awareness)
Nothing is immoral about failing to make a profit.

However I think you're mistaking harsh criticism of Twitter's execution and return on investment, for a moral criticism.

Just as it is "ok" for a business to fail, it should also be "ok" for people to criticize that failure, especially if they believe that critical mistakes were made by the leadership they entrusted with their money.
We've had flying cars and jetpacks for a while now. They're just not economical to implement on a large scale.
Need some AI? Yeah, there's a marketplace for that
One Million $1M Ideas
> Work not that interesting

If you think that now, I wouldn't do it. Or instead, offer to contract part-time to the startup alongside your current gig.

I would also weigh where you're at in your life (do you value the extra money and the extra free time sufficiently more to be a contractor or not?).

I've done seed stage, early founder style, and mid-stage startups. IMO engineering is much more fun at the former; work-life balance (what's a vacation?), and comp are much better at the latter. Different people place different amounts of value on these things though.
Well the thing is that the roboadviser is not even intended to make particular security picks. It is only supposed to decide which broad areas to invest in and what percentage for each area. Thus, the roboadviser can say that for your particular risk profile you should have 60% stocks 40% bonds and within the stocks you should have 60% sp500, 20% foreign large cap ... etc.

My point is this portfolio distribution stuff is not an exact science and there really isn't a right answer. There are some broad accepted guidelines, but they are rather broad and simple and you definitely do not need computers to follow them.
It could be science.

The solar system is moving at 230 km/s after all. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year
That's not the same as building a publishing operation and creating new copies of the items in their catalog for anyone who wants one. Lending doesn't create new copies.

Personally, I think IP is nonsense, but a lot of people disagree with me.
That strategy would have lost out in the rise in uk stocks due to the drop in the pound
Damn! Yes, definitely not laying on our backs.
It's ridiculously high. For a better evaluation, see probably one of my favorite visualizations of all time:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
I think there is a kernel of truth here (popularity != quality) but that being a truism the rest of the article is just justifying why the author doesn't read books that are considered good books. It's entirely true that large books command more attention than small ones, but I think writing a really good large book is much more difficult than writing a really good small book, which seems reductionist but just considering how quickly you an iterate on a shorter book vs. the time it takes to revise or rewrite a longer one. There's a quote from a review of some Franzen or Safran-Foer novel that talks about how a new writer's first page is brilliant, first chapter is great, and how it basically trails off from there most of the time. Maintaining the prose quality and style and complexity of narrative that Wallace does in Infinite Jest is no mean feat, and this may seem controversial but I think in that sense it is a greater accomplishment than some shorter works.

This isn't to say I don't see the value in brevity or that I don't believe it's difficult to write good short books: I do think it's difficult. However because reading a 1000-page book does take more time (I don't think it's necessarily harder word for word) you have to make the writing worth it, which is undeniably difficult.
Great question. I like how you think.

The catch in, IMO, is that you need the right knowledge to pull it off. It's not as easy as it looks and it does take some cojones--like you said.

Most people say, "sounds like a good idea" and never do anything.

There are very few people who will teach you how to do it without ripping you off and selling you some scam.

Honestly, that is why I put my course together.

Yes, it's $500. But if you actually follow the advice, it's dirt cheap and I'm not selling you a bunch of get rich quick BS, like most real estate "scammy" stuff.

Here is the link if you are interested: https://simpleprogrammer.com/products/simple-real-estate/
Are you forgetting about dividends?
Yes, likely you'd need to get all-new batteries every 10 years[1] or so. (And likely recycle the old ones.)

The good news is that batteries are getting about 8% more efficient every year (price per kwh) [2]. So 10 years from now batteries will be 1.08^10 = ~2.15x as efficient [3].

So when you replace them, they'll cost half as much for the same amount of energy storage (and probably half the space too). It's basically Moore's law for batteries except slower.

[1] https://www.tesla.com/powerwall

[2] https://cleantechnica.com/2015/03/26/ev-battery-costs-alread...

[3] or is it 1/(.92^10)? That would be 2.3x
It was messed up that the show would take 2% whether or not you made a deal, and half the deals fell through.

But 2% dilution aint THAT bad.
Because distribution of value is important, and people believe that distribution of value is important. After all, there are limits to how much I can feel your well-being, and vice versa.
And the first-sale doctrine is why libraries are legal. (I imagine that book publishers once waged an MPAA-style war against libraries.) But libraries really have nothing to do with P2P piracy.
Practical Diversity in Tech, for Your Twitter Account
Jay Z: ‘The War on Drugs Is an Epic Fail’ [video]
As a layman I got the impression the issue was essentially settled with the AdS/CFT correspondence - string theory is equivalent to quantum field theory. Just in the same way one can convert a boolean satisfiable problem into a graph coloring problem or a Sudoku puzzle or any other NP-complete problem. Different representations and ways of looking at the same thing.

The details of the correspondence are currently only known for (toy) theories not describing the actual physics of our universe and it is a matter of debate whether it is possible to extend the correspondence to realistic models but nonetheless those are just two different ways of describing the same thing.

I am not sure whether the correspondence has anything to say about what point of view is more fundamental - are both really equivalent or just in some limit, i.e. does string theory for example survive for very high energies while quantum field theory breaks down implying that there are really tiny strings while fields and particles are just a very good approximation?
Apple iPhone 7 teardown shows plastic where headphone jack used to be
> I'd call this Russian way of doing business

That's a funny call, since no one has been tax raided yet.
Honestly, I don't understand how anybody can honestly think that there can or should be a "right to be forgotten." These laws are an abomination of freedom of information and are incredibly naive.
Since Iran was mentioned in the article, it should be noted that Iran hosts 900,000 registered (& estimated 3 million in total) Afghan refugees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghans_in_Iran
Maybe it's just to protect the antennas from weather.
How many hours per week is the program and how long does it take? how far are you into it?
Roth 401(k)s (and traditional IRAs) do exist, you know...
I've put it into Excel a while ago with growth rates between 0% and 6%, the gist of it is fairly robust with respect to growth assumptions.

A way to think about it is maybe this: remove 1% pa, and to first order you're down about a third after 35+ years.

Now, in the scenario where you're saving regularly, there's much less to take away at the beginning, so the effect is somewhat ameliorated.

But it's really this relentless pounding, shaving off a "small" fraction every year, that's so devious.

As a consumer, it's hard to see. But the industry knows exactly what they're doing, which is why (for some products) they're paying these fat commissions, which is why you have all these friendly financial advisors calling.
Put some contact info in your hacker news profile.

I can help you with this, email me
> In diplomacy and international relations the United States has conducted itself with fairness and honour, and is generally regarded outside of her borders as an honest broker.

That's an excellent propaganda piece. You deserve a medal for that.

> If you want to know what the world would look like without a strong, democratic, law-abiding nation as supreme military power, read up on recent news about the South China Sea and the 11-dash line.

You can say that because your country has not been invaded by US and the "international community", or the "Coalition of the Willing", to get rid of your government - by all means necessary. Assad of Syria, Saddam and Muammar Gaddafi will no doubt disagree with your characterization of the US as a "law-abiding nation". Ditto for many South American countries.
> An atheist or otherwise "religion tolerant" mentality implies compatibility with anyone.

You're referring to ethical relativism. Do you really expect me to be chill with female genital mutilation because I believe there is not a god? This makes no sense.

> It looks like you're "tolerant" only with atheists or somewhat less religious people.

Tolerance always has boundaries, and one's beliefs are irrelevant to judging others' actions. Are you really that surprised to find someone isn't literally endlessly tolerant?
Airbnb Hosting Horror Stories
I had a guest ruin a rug with coffee this week. When I asked him to partially pay for the rug he responded with "You are sending me this now. It's Friday we left on Tuesday. Really." Airbnb is impossible to get in touch with. As a host, I feel we are stuck with these issues to deal with on our own. For a 25 billion dollar company, they pay pennies to help their "independent contractors" who ultimately are providing the homes for their guests. Any other horror stories from Airbnb? Hosting or Staying.
>about using a functional programming approach to games in general

Games are predominantly imperative in structure. Using a functional approach for writing an entire game seems like a bad idea.

Can games be written functionally? Of course. Turing Completeness and all that.

>"A Worst Case for Functional Programming?"

I read the article. If the author didn't claim to have video game development experience I'd question whether he'd ever written a game; his examples imply the kind of AI that would be needed for a real-time game, but you don't just "move a tank" like 10 meters in a physics frame. Best practice has physics running at least 100FPS; probably higher rates like 1000FPS would be better. One tank being 1/1000 of a second farther along than another isn't going to mess with the AI.

If the AI is running at a lower frame rate (making decisions only about 5 times per second, or even once per second, could be totally fine) means that the decision will just affect the acceleration being applied -- and would naturally happen in its own phase, so the state of the world would be constant for all participants.

Actions like firing shells, if they can be dodged, are best batched as he suggested. But you still have huge problems like how to handle collisions, which is typically best done in some kind of object oriented way, though I've seen some clever pattern matching approaches as well that functional languages could support ("If a [VEHICLE] collides with a [SHELL], then do X; if [WALL] collides with a [SHELL], do Y..."), but even then each action needs to mutate something in the world.

Which brings me to the fact that, for any nontrivial game, you pretty much need mutable data in order to get even halfway decent performance; you might be able to get away with lazy modification of a "world" data structure (copying it N times for N interactions in the world is absolutely going to kill game performance), but then you're again passing a "world" around to every single operation that anything can ever do -- and unless I'm wrong, every single "shell" and "tank" in the world is going to need to dig into the structure to find "itself" or the object it's colliding with in order to actually do the thing it needs to do...

No, I stand by my assertion. Functional techniques can be useful in games, and I use them. Taking ideas from functional approaches to stabilize the game and simplify the code is an awesome idea. But trying to write a pure functional game is just a bad idea -- or an exercise in watching bears dance [1].

[1] "It's not about how well they can dance, but that they can dance at all"
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Mandatory civil service could be an alternative to the armed forces, for those that don't want to be involved in fighting. In fact, I would like to see a civil service branch patterned after the military branches (or maybe similar to the peace corp), which would be primarily responsible for all infrastructure projects (road / bridge building, govt. office positions, IT services, etc). This would be an excellent way to get young people who are out of high school into the workforce. Then if they can't find private work after their 2-year civil service stint, they can always re-enlist.
Brits won't be kicking out any Polish plumbers, either. They're people who do work and make business and it will be generally recognized a useful practise to allow them to stay.

Currently, EU citizens don't need a work or residence permit, but if you actually get a job and stay longer than that, you will still need to register your right of residence. It's not really that different. And believe me, existing rights of residence will not be forfeited in case of Brexit.

Shall we make a bet? I'll offer a pint if I'm wrong.
To clarify, I want to shine a light on results wrongly removed: cases where freedom of expression, and the public interest in remembering, outweighs the right to be forgotten.
whats annoying to me is this nonsense while the us employs people to hack into other government systems - including the uk, with impunity. (nsa hacking tools leak).

UK should be giving lauri love a new identity and a fat paycheck. Not pandering to the administration of a country soon to be run by either a crazed sickly war hawk or a full retard that gets all his world news from fox.
Meh, gotta rewrite our frontend in Angular 2 to impress YC and cash out on our IoT razor blade disposal community.
I don't think most Europeans know mañana, which is the key to the joke. The others sure.
Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math
I use both R and python quite a bit. I prefer python as a programming language. Here's my take on 'Why learn R?':
(1) R/ggplot is hands-down better for plotting than anything in python. I also think that R is better for EDA generally.
(2) Many smart, knowledgable people use R and publish their code. To learn from it, you need to know enough R to read and modify it.
(3) R has better package support than python in several common data analysis domains. For example, in forecasting and in graph analysis, the best R packages available are much better than the best python packages.
I have an undergrad degree in Computer Engineering, and have been working in the field for 3 years. So I took 1st year and 2nd year Math courses during my undergrad, but I haven't really used them since.
Bonds are a horrific investment in today's market. Rates are lower than they have been since WW2 when they were fixed by the government! The principal and interest risk for owning bonds is essentially at an all time high. You'd literally be better off in cash in rates rise even somewhat in the near future.
Investing in REIT's gets round some of the problems TR Property has done me very well I brought at the bottom of the last property crisis
People used to enter those and document what was inside. That was stopping at the end of the 1990s, but 9/11 really made it trickier to do.

I think somewhere on textfiles.com there's a file by possibly kelticphr0st about those buildings.
Goldman Sachs was also fined for the same, they negotiated it down to 5 billion. So it's not related to recent events with Apple.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/business/dealbook/goldman-...
Exploiting Window.Opener
(ex-employee #13 over here.)

They could start by incorporating every single feature that BlockTogether has as abuse mitigation.

Encrypted end-to-end DMs (which were blocked numerous times by useless product managers) would have been another excellent feature to protect users.
Is Turing Lisp a flavor of LISP? This is the first I've heard of it.
It's because the "sharing" economy is catchier than the "capitalists extracting value from the few remaining resources owned by the middle class" economy.
Oh I get it. You finished auditing the linux kernel and can now comment on hn?
- Some of that space is now filled with networking gear, since phone companies are ISPs via DSL, FiOS, etc. Since this implies a lot of internet bandwidth coming into the building, they might also lease some of the space and network capacity to other companies who co-locate their own servers and networking gear there.

- The backhaul equipment that connects cellular networks to the landline phone/internet networks may also be in those buildings. (Some big carriers, e.g., Verizon, provide both landline and cellular services.)

- Some of that space is taken up by backup power supplies (batteries and/or generators) to keep the system going during power outages.

- Some of the space may be used for storage of supplies used for maintaining the local phone network.
Not sure which is worse, Java based MinecraftEdu that wanted manually installing on every computer and kids given write access to the folder, or having to deal with Windows 10 Advertising Edition and Windows Store
I remember this at the time -- Tew invested the initial earnings he made (<£2,000 IIRC) from selling ad space to friends and family into buying media coverage, which kickstarted the whole thing.

So whilst he was lucky, he did kind of make his own luck by putting the money into it -- he could have just taken that money and sat on it.
There's no security in the world like knowing you can tell your boss "fuck you" and be fine for a year or more (except perhaps two years or more =P ). You don't have to do it; you can just always know that you have the cash to walk out the door and never come back.

Or you can drive a Tesla.

I bet I know which one makes you feel better when you put your head on your pillow at night.
Exceeding long winded and repetitious:

tl;dr

Losing in chess is probably more pain than pleasure in winning (repeated almost every other paragraph). So becoming excellent at chess might not give you pleasure it might make you a freer person. (this last part isn't too well described actually).

Kind of a painful read after the first couple pages actually.
I only take 1-2 courses each semester. Which means it'll take me a total of 3 years to graduate. Right now I'm about a year in, with 3 courses under my belt. One of the courses I took was time-consuming and difficult- maybe 15-20 hours a week. The other two however have been relatively easy, where I've spent less than 10 hours a week on each.
"Your company will probably extend a term saying “We will match your contributions up to N% of your salary.” You should always and under every circumstance invest enough money to max out your employer match. It is free money if you take it."

This is a reasonable default option but not necessarily the best for everyone.

There is a flaw in this statement - you are encouraged to save more today in order to maximize amount of money in your retirement account, with side effect of some immediate tax savings (which btw will not be in absolute figures but will be in rate - if you save more to 401k, your tax rate will be lower but amount of tax you will pay will still be higher).

If you are too far from retirement and have other goals that will come before retirement that could be very important to you, it becomes a decision just like anything else, not a no-brainer.

This is because of tax law - you are very constrained in your ability to take money from 401k before retirement if you need it.
I'm speaking more to the ethics than the legal technicalities.
> There's a reason taxi service is expensive.

For less regulated cities, sure. For the more famous ones such as NYC and Boston, it's because there are a fixed number of permanent licenses owned by rent-seekers who lobby the city government to keep it that way.
I think Putin is still the numero uno bad guy, but it doesn't hurt to have two of those to blame everything on.
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8103240
I thought recently it would be nice if there were a website that serves as a central authority to evaluate the truth of various claims. This would save a lot of time that is wasted discussing the same stupid claims again and again. If this site were organized in a similar way to wikipedia, maybe it could gain similar trust over time.

"Obama was born outside the US" - "no, this has a truth value of 0 on webclaims.org, so most likely it is false". Obviously, the site would present evidence and the reasoning that led to its conclusion and would enable people to contest it if they find a mistake.
This code needs a pass through gofmt, among many of the other Go linting technologies.
Does Vault actually address the problem of credentials being visible in the process list? I thought vault only solved the secure distribution part.