skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ML seems pretty bad at classifying things it hasn't seen before though. There are quite a few examples where an input outside the training data resulted in misclassification.

Humans may not always see a white truck in a snowstorm, but is computer vision going to see it either? Or will it pattern match the few visible parts as something else entirely? Or dismiss the truck entirely as noise?
I believe PM in the context of the original post was referring to product management, not project management
You quoted me directly on "I feel bad for poor Stallman..."

How an expression of sympathy is also a personal attack, I do not know.
It'd be one thing if the product just came out, had a lot of media fanfare and sold out due to low volume. I mean that's reality right. But the fact that it appeared in weekly ads for stores all over the country. It's really expectation that hurts the most.

That's just causing hassle, distrust. Retail employees probably don't lke to get 50 extra calls a day for a product that will be in stock for 14 seconds. If I were a regional mgr I'd put VERY heavy pressure on corporate for say Target to NOT show ads for this product until reasonable levels of stock are guaranteed. Targets around the country got about 11 units. The one I went to only had 1 spare controller. Keep in mind that a good portion of the NES games are co-op.

There are 1800 target stores in the U.S. If they all got 11 units that means there were only 19,000 units for that store. I heard gamestops got about 5. Walmarts got about 6 units each.

So 6 units to walmarts 5229 stores is about 31375 unit.
Gamestops 4,434 stores at 5 units each get 21700

Who knows what amazon stocked at. Would it be reasonable to say amazon got 10000 units? I mean they sold out in a minute. Maybe it was less than that.

So those totals add up to 82,075 units. Let's round up, not forgetting the Best Buys, Microcenters, mom-pop shops and The 800 Toys R Us stores in the U.S. and say the United States got maybe 112,000 units total for the release.
I am on a similar path, if with a much lower opportunity cost. I am 37 years old, one failed startup as a founder, a few marketing roles on other modest startups and some years as social project manager on the resume.

I decided to quit my last job and study full time to become a developer. Not through a bootcamp, but through cheap or free resources online. I chose freecodecamp.com to go for now.

I did an Ask HN too and I did not receive much support either from the HN crowd. I don't know if people here think being a developer is not a good career path, or they are tired of wannabes and impostors, or they consider a developer career is just for a few selected ones; but I was expecting much more support here for people wanting to learn to code.

My answer to your question: I think you should go for it. Just consider very carefully if a bootcamp is the best way. But if you have the cash reserve to use, I think might be a good first step. After that, keep searching for knowledge in other places. And follow with laser focus the exact field that you consider interesting.

If in one year you regret this decision, it is not too late to reverse the career change and go back with your great resume as a PM, with more added value by your experience learning to code. Go for it, it is not a path of no return and it will be a valuable experience either way.
I see your point. Having the mobile layout Grid thing is quite handy. There is another toolkit for React I've been using for an admin backend that has proven useful, not quite as polished but has more of a complete toolkit for what I need. npm rebass, relfexbox, react-geomicons was on Hacker News as well -> http://jxnblk.com/rebass/
Personally I find sniping quite enjoyable (as an idle-activity), but I also consider "recon" part of it (finding mislabelled or less widely known items that get the same job done usually results in huge effective discounts).
What makes you think that I've developed my own emulator?

Not that the assumption was incorrect...
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This is pretty much what boosting is. Although we can ask the same question of the boosting algorithm, I guess.
Yeah, I screwed up the math.

Point stands though.
Especially since the Koch brothers use their money to sway policies.... and effectively at that.
On the other hand, companies like Google, Twitter (twwtr at first), (the)Facebook, etc. also didn't overdo it. You should put some effort in the name for sure, but don't worry too much about it in the beginning.

Just grab a free logo from http://logodust.com and come up with a name, any name, figure out if people want the product. Don't let this article stop you from making progress.
Go to Austin, go to SF, go to West LA. Plastic bans are already banned. Go to Orange County CA go to Mexico City go to Shanghai. Plastic bans are allowed. Compare. Latter cities have cleaner streets no bags on streets, in trees, hooked on fences, on the beach, in the water, etc. These bans work and it is evidence of how stricter environmental regulation or taxes are effective to prevent man from hurting man. Or man to hurt the nature he and his posterity depends on.
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Some take-aways and wonderings:

Margery Kempe (circa 1550) was long dismissed/diagnosed with various mental illnesses. Nowadays, (with maybe more seeking than ever for psychidelic experiences) it seems she had something interesting to say.

If you like to read and are heading to grad school, be careful not to lose the joy.

Probably people of all descriptions could enjoy a shift away from how hetero romances dominate mainstream storytelling.

On the plus side, it sounds like there's starting to be more of a place at the serious/critical table for people interested in exploring the bodily delights of reading.

How would it upend "religion" if more people went to the bible and other "serious" texts looking more for visceral, bodily feeling rather than doctrine/dry facts?
Everything can be made a political topic. What is the wolf you're seeing?
I tried to look at the site on my S7, but it ground it to a halt. Tried on my i7 laptop, same result :/
I just read the the first 5 results of your google link. There isn't any outrage in any of them. They are actually fairly unbiased news reports about court rulings on the illegality of various NSA programs, not opinion pieces criticizing the programs. The post that we're discussing is an opinion piece, and my comments were about opinion pieces. There is no dispute that there has been an incredible amount of news coverage of state surveillance since the Assange, Manning, and Snowden leaks.

Frankly, given how news is now consumed, it's very possible we're living in alternate realities. The PATRIOT outrage I was referring to was circa 2002. Where I lived, the media reported vociferous outrage from democrats and nonchalance from republicans. Since "Obama" has wielded--and greatly expanded--the state's surveillance powers, I have not heard anywhere near the same objection from democrats. (Note that I say "Obama" because I have no idea whether and to what extent he has actually overseen the NSA's actions; its entirely possible much of these programs have been hidden from the executive branch for decades, which is frankly much more worrisome).

The few polls i just looked at seem to back up this flip-flop:

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/12/news/la-pn-republica... ["With President Obama in the White House, Democrats stand in support of the NSA’s methods, 49% to 40% in the Gallup survey. Republicans were opposed 63% to 32%. When President George W. Bush was in office, Republicans were supportive of government surveillance efforts and Democrats opposed."]

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/12/poll-... ["Interestingly, the most intense opposition to the programs comes from the political right. Republicans disapprove of the program by almost a 2 to 1 margin. Independents disapprove, 56 to 34 percent. But 49 percent of Democrats approve of the program, compared with 40 percent who disapprove."]

I don't share your believe that Trump won't seek to use surveillance for his own purposes. Not because I think he's a horrible person, but simply because people use the tools at their disposal, especially in times of stress or emergency. Of course, the president of the U.S. deals with nothing but stress and emergencies.

Finally, I don't think anyone's fear is based off a failure to communicate the programs effectively. If the programs were wildly successful, those successes would be publicized by now. The NSA needs some good publicity. By the way, negative publicity the NSA can't avoid is largely its own fault. It's current slogan is "Your Data: If You Have Nothing to Hide, You Have Nothing to Fear" https://nsa.gov1.info/data/ I'm not sure you could come up with a more Orwellian slogan if you tried.
I actually think Machine Learning is relatively easy. There are a lot of resources, the community is very open, state-of-the-art tools are available, and all it needs to get incrementally better is trying out more stuff on different data sets.

I worked in SEO before, which had far more elements of "black magic". Perhaps SEO helps with the transition to ML, because you are basically reverse engineering a model (Google's search engine) / crafting input to get a higher ranked output. It's feature engineering, experimentation, and debugging all-in-one.

And front-end development of the old days... debugging old javascript or IE6 render bugs makes ML debugging pale in comparison. You had to make a broken model work, without being able to repair it.

As for the long debugging cycles in ML. John Langford coined "sub-linear debugging": Output enough intermediate information to quickly know if you introduced a major bug or hit upon a significant improvement [1]. Machine learning competitions are not so much won by skill, but by the teams iterating faster and more efficiently: Those who try more (failed) experiments hit upon more successful experiments. No Neural Net researcher should let all nets finish training, before drawing conclusions/estimates on learning process.

Sure, the ML field is relatively new, and computer programming has a longer history of proper debugging and testing. It is difficult to do monitoring on feedback-looped models running in production, yet no more difficult than control theory ;). And proper practices are being developed as we speak [2]. The author will probably write a randomization script to avoid malordered samples automatically in the future.

[1] http://www.machinedlearnings.com/2013/06/productivity-is-abo...

[2] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html
You're not crazy per se but have you ever written any code? Try to get your feet wet do something like a weekend project type deal to see if you have it in you :)
There is also http://react.semantic-ui.com/ which I have found to be very useful.
Wouldn't the "righter" way be to create an ASDF system definition file? This doesn't tie you to Quicklisp, but Quicklisp can handle ASDF system definitions just fine.
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An IIR low-pass filter can be implemented with a delay measured in tens of microseconds.

With regard to naming of high-pass/low-pass filters, it might help to think of the opposite names (low-cut/high-cut). Pass is the opposite of cut/reject.
Thanks -- that answers the question! So fair to say that it's impressive because of the absence of LIDAR and/or other sensors -- and that by adding LIDAR to such a system one could presumably get towards 0% manual intervention?
He tried to change the rules, to make it fair. They won't change it. So he played it by their stupid rules and won. Now, they're complaining that he's playing by their rules.
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Glad to see the author here! Just curious, how did you know this was submitted?
Notice that this toolkit is written in TypeScript.
I don't understand the title given here. How is it related to the article?
>I'm not a big fan of $150K high-end servers filled with $5000 GPUs that can be bested with clever code on a $25K server fill with $1200 consumer GPUs. But I am a huge fan of charging what you can while you are unopposed. It's just that I think that state is temporary.

There is virtually not a single "enterprise" grade product which can't be made at least 50% cheaper (or sometimes 10 times...) with off the shelf consumer grade hacked hardware....

Enterprise products always have a pretty steep markup, but what you lose with those 1200$ GPUs is both features (e.g. virtualization, thin provisioning, DMA/Cuda Direct etc.) and support.
When you buy a 5000$ CPU over a 500$ with the same performance what you pay for is reliability and support, if you don't care about that then fine, but when you need to launch a 100M$ service on top of that platform you won't really care about the price tag it's all in the cost of doing business.
The Wii U and 3DS both support Virtual Console for a variety of old Nintendo consoles (more for the Wii U), and the Switch presumably will too. Though, Nintendo being Nintendo, transferring purchases between consoles is rarely possible.
Finding problems and learning how to solve them with a tool you want to learn is a pretty powerful method (IMHO).
Don't bother reading this
You may want to have a look into CSS @apply - https://tabatkins.github.io/specs/css-apply-rule/ (currently supported only in Chrome trough).
Not to sound like a bummer here, but I'm not sure what kind of computer is needed to open this webpage. Simply scrolling up and down that website causes my computer to almost freeze. Firefox 49.0 user here. I would profile it, but I'm afraid of having to restart the computer as a result.

Edit: It looks amazing. (Still the performance issue is reproducible easily)
21 Inc. (where I work) has a very easy to use python library [1] allowing you to accept bitcoin payments via HTTP 402. But you can also just use the library to serve up a fresh payout address in plaintext on a website.

If you like the CLI, it has that too; it's a fully-compliant HD wallet. Getting set up is as simple as it can be

$ curl https://21.co > setup.sh
$ sh setup.sh
$ wallet create
[write down mnemonic]
$ wallet payoutaddress
[printed payout address]

Then you can use `wallet history` or `wallet balance` to see incoming payments, and `wallet send` to send money to a recipient.

If you like the advanced stuff, it has support for micropayment channels, too.

[1] https://github.com/21dotco/two1-python/
Well, other places in the world deal with it slightly differently as well.

I currently live in St. Petersburg, Russia, and very few stores hand out plastic bags for free; most charge a small fee (5 ruble is the most I've seen) per bag. The net effect is that most people do end up getting a small collection of durable bags that get used for everything for as long as the bag lasts. (St. Petersburg has rather unpredictable precipitation, so it's not unusual to use plastic bags to protect whatever you're carrying with you either). Ultimately, the bags stay in use as long as they are fit for use.

Similarly, when I was still living in in the US in Washington State, the city I was in did a bring your own bag initiative, which has been taken further this year, apparently. [1] My experience at the time was that you'd get a small fee added to your grocery bill to account for the number of bags you used, but if you elected to bring your own bag, this was instead deducted. With the WA initiative, it was much more environmentally minded.

Ultimately both initiatives had the same effect - new bags were acquired by customers less frequently and reusable bags were more frequently used without much complaint. Once in a blue moon I see (saw) small breakdowns over charging for the bags, but most of the time people don't seem to care. WA cities weaned themselves onto the BYOB initiative. In St. Petersburg, I'm under the impression it was more of a "why wouldn't we charge for it?" sort of thing from the stores. Regardless of what direction cities decide to adopt, people will adjust pretty quickly and easily it seems - $.05 isn't much in USD, but 5 RUB here and there can add up to a transit pass pretty quickly in Russia right now. (30 RUB for surface transit, 35 for subway). Excess use of plastic bags is a habit of laziness.

[1] https://www.cityoftacoma.org/government/city_departments/env...
Is ito calculus really the extent of the math you need to know to go into quant??
Humans don't use accurate depth maps to drive.

Machine learning is great at complex algorithms if done well.
> I think we live in an era of incredible promise, which, yes, has probably been said of every era that predates this one, and will be said of every era that follows it. Our particular era of promise is one rapidly being transformed by technological change: We are more connected than ever and have access to evermore sums of information; we work more consistently and yet enjoy greater and greater flexibility in how and where we earn a living; we indulge in more idle time while deliveries of groceries and new running shoes arrive at our doorsteps; soon, all our Ubers will even drive themselves.

Right off the bat you have a chronocentric perspective. Our progress is not universal, it just appears that way to us Westeners because we're marinated in it. Actually it is specific in both time and space.

Even within our countries there are huge portions of the population, especially outside the cities, for whom there has been little progress for considerable time. There has been regression. That's a large part of why Trump got elected. Have you a single article on any of this?

Furthermore you Katie, are not a skeptic of Silicon Valley. Peter Thiel, whom you abhor and call names in this article, is. So is Nicholas Carr and Jaron Lanier.

> At Gizmodo, the answer is this: We approach technology with both enthusiasm and scrutiny, covering the Silicon Valley elite with the skepticism and rigor that their billions of dollars and vast influence deserve.

You don't attack Silicon Valley, you just attack the personalities within it. It's like thinking the point of Christmas is fairy lights. If only we could arrange them properly with the right lighting configuration Christmas would be improved. No!

SV does need skeptics from the left and the right. It does not need a constant stream of whining about who is dicking who and how many women Elon Musk follows on Twitter. I checked your website. You don't have a single article on Gwynne Shotwell, who not only has an awesome name for a rocket company president but is running the show at one of the most important technology companies on (and off) the planet.
I think about the future and get excited about technology and the types of things you can build and contribute to if you know how to code (e.g. block chain, deep learning, etc.)

You will learn none of these things at a coding bootcamp. If you are really interested in going deeper, check out Georgia Tech OMSCS - you can do it while you are holding your current job (employer may even pay for it for you if yr lucky) and more importantly the courses are relevant to what you state actually interests you about future of tech.
http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/current-courses

I have a feeling tremendous opportunity will be available over the next 10 years to software developers while other disciplines such as management become less and less important.

I disagree, solid managers and leaders will always be important. Perhaps you are focusing on the negative, rote aspects of yr job too much?
And people will instead do what, exactly?
I don't think Trump made his money doing low-level performance programming for the past 10 years, so I'm not sure your analogy is valid.

However, since you, whoever you are, have not only written a hash table, but discovered profundities like 'Sometimes list costs 780x as much as vector for "absolutely zero reason"', and 'don't try to offload 100 cycles of work to another thread' I'm going to defer to your expertise. I recommend you stick a bone through your beard, pronounce yourself a performance guru, and make bank. Have fun.
CRM administration for example. Excel mastery is generally the entry point into those teams (from my experience)
what a unique project, this app can really enable someone to see what anyone around the world is thinking
How do you know it's true? What about the numerous objections in this comment section?
>some very light use of JS

React doesn't like it when you modify stuff without telling it. Hence the dependency.
Yes it's an awesome job, and not just because of the money. I've worked for small shops that weren't very profitable and didn't really make a lot those years, but still loved the work.

I could see derivatives pricing being boring, not as much room for creativity there. The strategy/trading quant work is like a super open-ended science problem with a constant stream of new challenges as you try to outperform yourself or the competition.

FWIW, I don't think these are great questions for strategy quants. Some of the best people I've worked with a.) used very, very basic ML techniques b.) were just naturally smart/clever enough to engineer great features. and c.) had incredible attention to detail, didn't "hand wave" away the dirty work like checking/cleaning data or executing the model in practice.
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I got an email about the post, and asked the person where they found it.

I also browse HN quite frequently so would have been likely to see it anyway :)
When the good guys do it it's fine.
One famous most recent case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayou_Corne_sinkhole
I might add that google sheets in fact supported basic sql. It only works in google sheets (so you can't download it, load it in excel and continue to tweak things) but I still find it incredibly handy.
No performance issues here with Chrome and a Macbook Air 2012 (i5 & 4GB RAM).
While I agree that most of the issues you mentioned are definitely things to be concerned about, would a Supreme Court with Trump nominee's really roll back gay and reproductive rights? Who would have standing to bring a case before the supreme court that could roll back gay rights? Also, the supreme court has been more conservative for a while and nothing has really happened with reproductive rights. I don't see Roe v Wade being overturned anytime in the near future.
I am the developer of HiveMind (crudzilla.com), I am currently stuck on what I think would be the final feature of the platform that would fulfill my vision of what a modern web application platform should be about.

That feature is a drag-n-drop UI construction mechanism that would basically allow the user to glue together UI components (I call them UI parts) and write code only as a fill-in-the-blank task to complete the application.

I think React, Angular and similar paradigms might eventually make this possible. In the future building web applications, especially typical business crud applications with simple workflows wrap around a UI should not require more than familiarity with a development product and basic programming.
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Let him sell the damn stock... He thinks he's selling off of a 52 week high. What you can do is go to your bank and get an online trading account. Make sure the bank will allow you to short NYSE:GRUB before you sign on. Then, buy PUT OPTIONS thru Jan 2018... nearer term puts are safer, but Matt Maloney deserves a whole years worth of headaches for this... Got any really rich republican friends? Tell them all about this strategy!
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