skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do know. I've been trying to find a job and I have an Engineering Ph.D. from University of Waterloo which is considered one of the best in the country. Companies in the US often hire from UW (Microsoft has traditionally been a big hirer), but I'm overqualified in one sense, but I don't have the work experience people want.
a lot of wisdom in books

I specifically said self-help books.
So, how do you measure love? Or satisfaction? Or grief? Lots of things exist that cannot be measured.

And really, a lot of the things I mentioned are very hard to measure, because the data source (music) is very dynamic and inconsistent. But that's missing my point... audio equipment is sold using a meaningless measurement because it sounds important and is easy to measure. It has nothing to do with the clearly audible distinctions between different amplifiers.
This is really important. You can't actually absorb information at high effectiveness for more than 4 hours / day. So you spend the other time doing things that rest your brain.

I would add that 20 minute naps after absorbing material are proven to aid learning. Midafternoon is a good time. Set a timer and don't go over.
Thinking about my "size" comment more. Some anecdotal observations:

Asian pears : Japan softball sized, US hardball sized

Carrots : US carrots are hard to cut Japanese style (really is just julienned) because they are so narrow at the fat end. Roll around on the cutting board like a marble. US carrot about the thickness of my thumb. Japan carrots were fat like a silver dollar and were easier to slice into stackable sheets.

Apples : I liked the cheaper apples (Fuji) in Japan. Weirdly the more expensive ones were less tasty and larger. The Fuji's probably size-wise same as the US.

Grapes (the expensive hot house types) : Japan's were sized like a small plum.

Strawberries : seemed more uniformly large. Still damn tasty.

Anyway, those are my kitchen observations.
Figures (for 2016) from the community college I went to for my first two years:

$1267/term in-state

$2815/term out-of-state
1kWh as gasoline is about 1/10 liter. Though one will not get anywhere near that much high-quality electric energy with consumer/small-scale methods.
My question is, it feels like machine learning is reaching its "Rails" stage. You can implement the latest Bi-directional NN or LSTM-RNN using a high level API that already sits on top of another high level framework. Even beyond the core setup it will do the peripherals - smart initializations, anti-overfitting, split up your data, etc.

Do people who implement (albeit real, useful) deep learning systems, but who have no formal machine learning background, who don't really know much or care about implementing derivatives or softmax functions because the frameworks abstract all that away - are these people getting offered jobs?
Sometimes valid, sometimes subject to flawed reductionism. Depends on context, and you can't make a generalization.
Something I recently found out is that nearly all wasabi in America (and the rest of the world) is fake - it's all horseradish and food coloring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi#Surrogates
These are definitely great points. Most companies looking for DL/ML talent aren't interested in setting up HR hoops for the applicant to jump through.

They want to see if you did cool stuff before you applied for the job. If you didn't then you won't get an interview, but if you did then you have a chance no matter what your background is. Of course, the question of "what is cool stuff?" comes up. If it is building small projects with a a little bit of success, that probably won't do it (it might work for larger companies, or companies that need light ML/DL performed). But if it is "built twitter analysis DNN from scratch using Theano and that can predict the number of retweets a tweet will get: here's te accuracy, here's a link to a my write up on it and here's a link to github for the code.".

Edit: added words similar to this at the end of the blog post.
I'm in the process of swapping out my phone for my old iPod Touch. It creates a lot of moments where getting access to the internet requires effort (e.g. asking people for their WiFi password, finding/knowing about public places with WiFi, looking up routes in Google Maps and screenshotting it before leaving WiFi, etc).

Doesn't work for everyone, but works for me.

And also I save $50 a month.
Why isn't Tesla doing this?
What's an "illegal phone call"?
A box filter for scaling down cubic and linear is much better than using impulse filters with the interpolated values at the floating point coordinates in question. If someone wants to improve the code in GEGL (used for rotations, scaling, perspective transforms, live on image warping as well as other transforms in the development version of GIMP) the relevant place to put it in is here:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gegl/tree/gegl/buffer/gegl-samp...

For the linear case a "tent-filter" instead of a box filter would be really correct, a similar box filter function exist in cubic. Both of these receive a reverse jacobian matrix indicating the shape and extent of surrounding area in source image to sample from.
More money for the bonfire? What the hell does a company like AirBnB need this cash for?
In Canada, it's generally the case that your taxes go to pick up the garbage. They might hire a company to do it, but it's usually the municipal government that pays. I'm living in a co-op and we get a tax break since we contract ours separately. Even if it's a commercial paid service, how many companies are going to do that in a dying community?
if something you have requires a password, you still have two-factor. Kind of.
Clinton proposes 65 percent tax on U.S. billionaire estates
Scientists confirm the universe has no direction
This is especially troubling given the ruinous dietary advice they were bribed into trumpeting, essentially poisoning a generation of Americans: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-ind...

They cannot be trusted.
Fuck you airbnb, what a bunch of assholes.
I must be out of date, but my impression is that heroku's ease of use deploying and configuring applications through the web UI can't really be matched with kubernetes, mesos or others, which would need thousands of lines of orchestration code to work. Is that not the case anymore?
The fully-loaded cost of a good engineer is $150-$300/hr. Unless you're operating at serious scale, the cost of Heroku is a rounding error.
Dilution is a function of valuation and amount raised. Assuming they'd raise the same amount from public or private markets, valuation is the only factor in question.

It is not a given that public markets would price Airbnb higher than private markets. In fact, recent history suggests that the opposite often happens.

So no, IPOing is not necessarily less dilutive. Also, since their valuation is $20B+, dilution differences are a rounding error.
This is interesting but the real money is in extracting HFT models from other firms by messing with the order book and evaluating the response :-).
How much would you pay a month, not to get paged when your single point of failure there fails, or you get traffic that outpaces it, or any of a number of other things?

I'd pay more than 20 dollars.
Enumerating the rights of states in the US is hard. The things that are clearly states rights is unclear. People assert various things as being states rights, but I think they are incorrect that this is an answerable question. There is usually an assertion that something is in that category, but others will not agree. Is the right to marry with restrictions a state right or a federal right or both?
You're not alone in thinking this (and I was one of those Demon customers back in the day :-) ). I've had pub chats with many tech folk over the years about how we might enable this. It needs to be cheap, of course, like 5 USD pa cheap. But, perhaps, with today's container tech that's viable. It needs other things too.

A fully distributed "web" of personally managed data is where we'll get to one day. It might need a few cycles of centralisation and distribution, though.

It's also one of the reasons why we must not let the "privacy is dead" and "back door encryption" folk have their way.

To be fair, though, I don't think GitHub is a big part of that problem.
> Wouldn't it do more to encourage local food production and consumption? Thus reducing pollution

No, local food production increases pollution. The lowest pollution is obtained when food is grown in the climate most suited to it.

Transportation energy (or pollution) is absolutely minuscule compared to energy used in growing the food.

Optimizing for transportation costs in food production is a horrible idea from an environmental point of view, because the other costs so dwarf it as to make it utterly irrelevant.
Right, and usually SD cards don't have anywhere the level of FTL's that SSD's have. In fact its likely there isn't much of a FTL at all, rather just a simple ECC on the flash pages. Lose more bits in that page than the ECC can correct, and the whole card is basically done because it can't relocate sectors. SD isn't meant to be primary storage. Its meant to be used more like floppies/usb sticks.

I can't tell you how many android phones I "fixed" for a couple years by replacing the SD cards. I actually had a sandisk 128G fail on me a couple weeks ago, that was just sitting in a dell/windows tablet with little more than a few movies copied to it. It didn't last 6 months, I guess something in win10 must have been rewritting a date/time stamp or something similar to the same sector long enough that the card just started hanging doing reads until it became bad enough that windows would choke and I noticed it.

Back about 10 years ago, I had an ARM device with an SD slot that I was writing firewall logs to. The SD cards in that machine would last ~2 months before they died. Eventually I replaced the SD cards with a USB attached SSD in an enclosure, and that fixed the problem.
Personnel costs and marketing costs as they expand to new markets.

Further experimentation with vertical integration (Airbnb owning room servicing teams, or Airbnb owning actual apartments/hotels).
>>> Are you saying instead of having Github, we should all be hosting our own Git repos?

Well, yes. That's the point. It was designed as an entirely distributed setup. It's crazy that in order to post a message to my neighbours I have to send data to Facebook in SV and just as crazy that two devs on the same team need to write their code commits in a load balanced mega server in ... Err ... Washington? Wherever.

And I don't mind having lots of clients but I object to no open standards, incompatible and frequently unavailable APIs and lack of control over my messages and how they are dealt with. I want procmail for messaging platforms ! And I want a pony !
Have you tried Tokyo Fish Market in Berkeley? (I don’t know much about Japanese cooking, so I couldn’t advise you about specific ingredients.)
Yes, certain motives may be similar but the method and journey are always unique

This has nothing to do with "conversing" and everything to do with advice-driven self-help books which use vague terms to supersede wisdom similar to astrology.
Or capital is cheap and it doesn't hurt to raise it while you can.
The usual censorious nonsense. It's weird how the people most loudly barking orders about what others are and are not allowed to say, wear, write, draw, think, are all writers and journalists.
Maya,

You did not answer my inquiry.

Why is giving extra money to charity MORE of a deterrent to fraudulent claims than giving extra money back to the consumer?
Without knowing how many applications meet each criterion, advertising how many YC companies meet those criteria is more misleading than helpful. If 95% of applications are from pre-revenue companies, then the 50/50 split between acceptees which are with/without revenue would indicate that companies with revenue are 19x more likely to be accepted; if half of applications are solo-founder, the fact that only 8.5% of accepted companies have solo founders indicates that they are at a huge disadvantage.

Frankly I expect better than this from YC. You guys have the data, and don't need to be actively deceptive.
Self driving RVs. It's the future of the hospitality industry.
"Coming from Italy, I'm always amazed how large US tomatoes/zucchini/eggplants/etc are, and those big, watery vegetables are almost always tasteless in comparison."

From Melbourne, @SamBam what do think is the reason?

My own personal observation, growing both Roma and large Beaf steak variety tomatoes in a home plot, is it's a combination of cultivar and heat. I agree on variety chosen. The commercial varieties are combinations of size, colour, season and preservation. Not necessarily taste. So it maybe the sugar content.

Leave the tomatoes in that sun, pick them when they are ripe and the taste is there. Back at the supermarket, picked early and cooled... not so much flavour.
It's so their founders can keep their wealth in the family. They grew up from upper middle class families, so they have a duty to themselves and the world to pass down large amounts of wealth.

They also would want higher net worth so they can get tax benefits from donating to charity and in return it makes them look like they are so generous when in reality they couldn't care less about anyone else but themselves. They have their cake and eat it too, because the press will glamorize them for their "philanthropy"
The Artists and Their Alley, in Postwar France
You'd still have to include the notice in any source distribution, but that's not really as onerous in my opinion, since you're already having to distribute all your source files, so what's just one more notice.

But neither MIT nor zlib require you to distribute any source files. With zlib it's pretty clear what's expected, but with MIT, I'm actually not sure what attribution if any is required in a binary-only distribution.
Yes. Provincial courts are a thing in Canada in addition to Federal courts. I'm not sure about the "not touching" rule, but they are separate, because many offenses at the provincial level (i.e. not having a sign in French for your business in Quebec) aren't offenses at the Federal level.
From what I can tell from comment history, the GP is quite young and still in school.

While I learned a long time ago that a degree (and even a master's degree, can't speak to fresh PhDs as I've not had the opportunity to work with any) from a prestigious university is not worth the paper it's printed on as far as judging someone's ability to actually ship good code, it seems that lots of SV firms hiring people right out of college think it is.

It's foolish on the part of said firms, but the answer is to take a job at a company that's not a "unicorn" and build up experience (and proof of experience, e.g. shipped products) such that one's "pedigree" is fucking irrelevant.

Honestly, if the job was just a CRUD job, and you're fresh out of college, you don't fucking want it. You need to get out of your comfort zone if you want good experience.
Ferry service
Something that looks very different to the ImageNet dataset. Microscope, ultrasound, satellite, x-ray etc images
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." - Betteridge's Law of Headlines
Doesn't Apple famously use overnight air for all their shipping needs? Or is that only for devices?
This is very enlightening. One of things that everyone on HN think as obvious, yet is far from that to most folk; even those with a fair degree of technical knowledge.
AMP is nothing. Businesses hire tons of people just to optimize their site specifically for google. AMP is a tiny part of what SEO-ers do. Everyone uses Google so they dictate a lot about how websites must function/act/exist.
>> I would not mind giving up all social services, especially not if I got a cashback.

It's not your decision. The collective system collapses if everyone is given the choose to opt out. Canada isn't going to let people suffer and die along in the woods without help just because they signed an opt-out form. Nor will the country allow seniors, who control most all privately-held wealth these days, to stop paying taxes because they want to live off the grid. Everyone is connected and everyone is expected to participate because when it hits the fan, everyone rushes in to help regardless.

I've had this discussion on countless climbing/skiing adventures. A person's choice to walk into the wilderness does not mean the government can abandon them to their fate once things go wrong, no matter what they say about not wanting help.
Tesla 8.0 Software Update – Better Over Time Video
Fresh food is better than preserved food, I won't argue that. But people got by with preserved food for a long, long time. We've gotten used to eating fruits and such out of season, but maybe that's going to get expensive again.
C0: Specification and Verification in Introductory Computer Science
It's becoming fairly normal at this point for more mature private companies, from what I can tell. If you've been at a company for 4-7 years with no IPO in sight, it can make some sense for the company to do a buyback. I know Uber has a tenure-based buyback program, Palantir did at least one in the last year or so, etc.
My / has reached 200GB now? And that's despite /home being seperate.

That's the issue.

With this, my / will reach terabytes.

There's two things why not: cheap isn't free, and "elegancy principle": Don't build shitty hacks, build software that's easy to maintain, as minimal as possible, and will be used for decades.
"At the same time, the choice of getting into nuclear was on conditions, one being that we had to find a way to deal with nuclear waste asap. Decades later this is still an issue"

The only reason it's still an issue is because of anti-nuclear politicking deliberately blocking any efforts to resolve the issue. See, for example, Yucca Mountain in the United States.
As a reference point, a Tesla 85D uses 290 watt-hours to go one EPA rated mile. So 1 kWh takes you 3.448 miles.
A few months ago.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...
Oh man. I thought I was the only one, my first interaction with the interviewer was him bemoaning the fact that my degree was not from an IVY league university, right to my face.

I had the most humiliating experience of my life interviewing with AirBnb couple of years ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5300104
This guy got a job at AirBnB coming out of App Academy:
http://haseebq.com/farewell-app-academy-hello-airbnb-part-ii...
Oil went down, so Hanjin's costs went down. So did everyone else's costs.

But the problem was overcapacity. Everyone was lowering their rates, trying to get enough business to fill their ships. Lower oil meant that Hanjin could survive on lower rates. But lower oil meant that everyone else could, also, and they lowered rates to a place where Hanjin couldn't make it.
Its actually not hard, as there aren't any.

States (like all governments) don't have rights, they have powers. And those powers are usually detailed in the state constitution.

The federal Constitution limits the powers of states, assigns certain roles to the states, and reserves certain powers to them (or them and the people together), but generally the powers of the state are defined per state by the state's own foundational governing documents, just as the powers of the federal government are in its Constitution.
> Does any other country have separate courthouses for the local and federal governments?

The very country we're discussing here, Canada, does.

Federalism is not a uniquely American institution. Canada is a federal state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federalism
The standard operating practice for Silicon Valley startups now is to put of IPOing as long as possible. Facebook actually got several exceptions from the SEC so that they didn't have to go public. Going public entails a ton of hassle, for example if Airbnb went public and had one of their programmers accidentally introduced a bug that misreported the number of users they had they could be liable for fraud. There's very little benefit to going public except that it creates a market for the stock which gives employees liquidity. However public markets are actually pretty crappy for that too because in order to avoid insider trading employees are often confined to a narrow window of time when they can sell their stock. Because they are lots of employees who want to convert their stock into money to but things this window gets flooded with sellers and employees wind up getting 80 cents on the dollar compared to other stock holders.

So yeah, you are missing something. Public markets are basically strictly worse than private investors. Also it's not like there are a bunch of private investors waiting to write $555M checks to company's whose financials suck... how could that make any sense?
While I don't think it was stated very clearly, the impression I got from the grandparent poster was that in many cases metrics actually distract from the thing we actually care about, in this case "how does it sound?" You can't really represent that as a number, because in one case "rich resonant lows and a warm sound" might be what you're after, while in another "crisp, distinct highs, and extremely high fidelity" could be preferable, and it is the gestalt that produces the aesthetic quality.
> MessageBird was making $20M a year and profitable prior to YC.

Did they get the standard valuation deal (7% equity per 120 K$)?
Happened to me too. I thought it might have been an exception or some sort of a fuck up. They called me all the way to SFO to tell me that my degree is not from elite schools so I can go home. No not in some sort of an indirect way, like right to my face. The interviewer asked me where I went to school, made a face told me 'oh not from a top university?' .
It doesn't affect stock price because it doesn't really affect the money being made. There aren't going to be any huge fines that need to be paid, they aren't really going to lose customers explicitly due to this. After all, it was _hackers_ that broke in and did bad things, you can't completely protect yourself from hackers. If the difference between having a secure company and an insecure company were cut and dry, then it might have an affect. But the entire security landscape is so nuanced and complicated that the average person watching/reading the news isn't going to know the difference between 2 different companies (one with good security practices and one without).
Hell, the entire Quebec legal system is distinct from anywhere else in Canada, owing to its roots in France's legal traditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_law
Nope, it's pretty clear that the massive anti-nuclear freakout was not in any way worth it.
Nearly 14,000 Uber and Lyft Drivers Sign Union Cards in New York
Exactly.

Unique visitors versus active accounts.
250k for what amounts to basically a CRUD website.