skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some interesting points being made in the article but some of it is crap.

> Hillary Clinton, by contrast, epitomizes the dorky arrogance and smugness of the professional elite. The dorkiness: the pantsuits. The arrogance: the email server. The smugness: the basket of deplorables. Worse, her mere presence rubs it in that even women from her class can treat working-class men with disrespect. Look at how she condescends to Trump as unfit to hold the office of the presidency and dismisses his supporters as racist, sexist, homophobic, or xenophobic.

Isn't this just the same attitude applied towards Clinton/liberals? Wearing carhartts could be dorky, Trump not releasing his tax returns could be arrogant, listen to conservative media for a while and you'll hear similar insults about the intelligence and sexism of liberals.

> Trump’s blunt talk taps into another blue-collar value: straight talk. “Directness is a working-class norm,”...Of course Trump appeals. Clinton’s clunky admission that she talks one way in public and another in private? Further proof she’s a two-faced phony.

Straight talk? Or blatant lies that anyone with critical thinking can see through - Trump has already walked back from of some of his proposals. Trump is also an absolute master of doublespeak and using it to say outrageous things - "Those second amendment folks could do something about it" etc. Plenty of business people are also very direct. Aren't people from places like Chicago and New York even known for being direct/blunt?

> At a deeper level, both parties need an economic program that can deliver middle-class jobs. Republicans have one: Unleash American business. Democrats? They remain obsessed with cultural issues. I fully understand why transgender bathrooms are important, but I also understand why progressives’ obsession with prioritizing cultural issues infuriates many Americans whose chief concerns are economic.

How the hell is healthcare not one of the unnecessary burdens we place on businesses in America? Why does a small business need to worry about providing health insurance to their employees? I work for a medium size company and we have a whole department of people managing health insurance, HSA's, VEBA's, and various health related tax deferment programs. Does any other OECD country have that additional burden?
> If the end game of a company is to simply offshore all their jobs, then they can also plan on giving up the benefits of being based in a stable democracy like the US

Or you take a trip a few hours north and you get a stable democracy which will happily take in skilled workers.
One thing I hope the engineers are addressing: Google Maps recently directed me down a cobblestone street that required me to slow to a crawl. If an autonomous system attempted to maintain the speed limit on that road, I'm not sure the car would make it without anything being broken.
Silicon Valley frets over foreign worker crackdown
The retailers are flown to this place and treated like kids in a candy store, so they need to interact, feel, and try all new products, because a bad investment in inventory (too low or too high) will affect the store.

My best guess is that they are shown a working prototype, but for a company this huge (and protective) I don't know.
A couples' reading list.

Step 1: My wife and I both download an app.

Step 2: We link our accounts.

Step 3: We each find and read articles in the app, Pocket-style.

When done with an article, swipe right if I think my wife should read it. Swipe left if I don't want to pass it on.

Step 4: Open the queue of articles that my wife thinks I should read. Read them. Swipe right if I want to chat about it with her. Swipe left if I don't.

Step 5: On the weekends, as we're going for our walk, talk about the articles we both found intellectually stimulating.
Corey is much more effective as a campaign manager than a token guy in CNN. He got fired because of the loss of Colorado delegates without voting in the primary. Conway proved to be a better campaign manager anyway, leading to a successful presidential bid.

The point is Trump fires people for poor performance, and he is not afraid to pivot.
Depression is a label for a wide range of complex illnesses. I am sure that what you say is true for some people, but in some cases it simply isn't. I've got friends who have been helped by medications, and I've got friends who have tried medication and it didn't help. One thing that is counter productive is to assert that these medications don't work ever, because they do appear to be extremely effective in some cases. Which figuratively and factually is a life saver.
VBA has access to "VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5", which is quite functional. I use it from time to time.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22542834/how-to-use-regul...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974570.aspx
It's amazing how badly this game was trashed when it came out and how it's come to be loved in retrospect.

If the designers had followed the trend at the time and gone for "realistic" 3d with textures it would look horribly dated now.

But they did the right thing and it has aged extremely well. And the re-release looks great on the Wii U.
To be clear your complaints only described a subset of ML - neural network approaches in particular.
It the UK most shops donate it to charity.
That's actually neat idea. I will probably build the first after I done completing my react native course.
The original comment above contained no dilemma. There was no choice between saving the mother and the foetus. The mother was already dead. Stand down; you're batting at a straw man.
Again, these are not ideal for software distribution in the general case (but can be useful for certain cases, so fine as an extra option).

Do you see many Python projects being distributed as virtualenv tarballs which quicklisp bundles may be seen as the equivalent to?

Let me present a sane scheme for dependency management, in terms of software distribution:

+ Create an ASDF system definition.

+ Create a README and list all dependencies with links to the code, version requirements
(if any) and other notes/gotchas. This is useful to have regardless.

* Optionally, create a install-deps-via-quicklisp.lisp script that pulls down given dependencies via quicklisp.

* Optionally, create a quicklisp bundle.

Quicklisp (and the way quicklisp does things) should never be forced on the user. Don't get me wrong, it simplifies dependency management and has made things easier for newcomers but it compromises on other fronts and is not (and should not become) the standard way of managing dependencies in CL-land since a lot of its design choices do not mesh well with many real-world scenarios. Always leave a fallback.
Worth noting that it's a project connected to Quantum (http://www.quantum.com/)
Out of the other 3 in 4, how many are self-medicating with something else?

Coincidently, my mother has three sisters, and all of them are in this age range. Two are on antidepressants. Two of them drink a bottle or two of wine a day. There is some overlap there.

Mother's little helper...
> he stands a good chance of being the most popular Republican president in history (while simultaneously being the most hated)

Trump isn't hated because he is Republican. People are afraid of losing hard won rights like marriage equality or the right to healthcare if they are unfortunate enough to have a preexisting condition. The violent rhetoric he used during his campaign doesn't help at all - condoning crowds chanting "kill her/hang the bitch/lock her up", saying that he wishes he could "smash the shit out of protesters", and offering to pay the legal costs of people who assaulted protesters. That is not normal in a health democracy and sets a dangerous precedent.

If Trump is a moderate on issues such as gay marriage and somehow manages to control healthcare costs without people losing their coverage he could be popular.
So if I feel bad for someone who lost his dog, I'm looking down on him as a "lesser"?
Checkout this photo of Hillary and Bill Clinton as a young couple
A young man made the headlines driving Uber with his dad's car, where his dad paid for the gasoline and all. I don't remember the exact profit he made but I calculated that wouldn't cover the cost of servicing and fueling the car.

Someone else will make a better profit, of course. But enough to pay taxes, insurance, required employer costs? I don't think so.
I like the idea of Clifford Algebras a lot, though this article is written like the whole thing is crackpottery and has a lot of weird irrelevant rants.

It feels extremely natural to incorporate bi- and tri-, etc, vectors into physics -- far more natural than the awkward Pauli matrices and pseudovectors and pseudoscalars that it's normally explained in terms of. I'm totally convinced that it's correct to, for instance, interpret the magnetic field as a bivector-valued field.
No, they are placing an urgency on it now that a candidate they do not approve of will be assuming power. If Hillary had won I seriously doubt you would see one article about it except from sources derided as right wing.

So the NY Times went after it under Bush, maybe this country just needs Republican Administrations just so the press will do their damn job. They certainly got silent for most of eight years.
Use ASDF (https://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/), it is the de-facto standard in CL.

Quicklisp does not replace ASDF (it uses ASDF internally).
HN is a humor free zone and I for one appreciate it!
>Retraining for millions of jobs in the skilled trades.

Are you under 40? I assure you that it's really quite challenging to undergo retraining after 40 and then essentially start your career all over again as a fresh graduate. Yes, having had life experience helps somewhat but not all that much.

It's easy to say "Just do X" but pretty much everything becomes harder to do after 40 or so.
I watched it.

Now, I don't really think there's a hidden power governing everything. It's just the path of least resistance and we are following it.
The New Yorker caters to a very specific demographic. If you are outside that particular demographic, it can very well appear to be satirical. But I have been assured before by that demographic that it is really a very serious literary magazine.
Like life.
This is really slick and fresh looking. Almost inspires me to build something with it
> I did not receive much support either from the HN crowd

I think there's a reason for that, and you touched on some of them. There's undoubtedly an ageism to the tech industry, and being an older junior developer is likely to be a huge uphill climb.

There's also skepticism around the coding bootcamp industry for the same reason that there's skepticism around University of Phoenix: The certification isn't really useful or impressive, and the kind of person who benefits highly from a program like that would likely learn just as much through self-study at a severely reduced cost (or free).

Compounding that, there's a glut right now of alternative software development education. It's hard to imagine a future where being a software developer isn't significantly less prestigious in the future, except for software development in highly specialized areas (e.g. machine learning).

Not that prestige is so important, but the reasons for the loss of that prestige will likely cause salaries to plummet significantly. It's entirely possible (and some would say likely) that most web development will become analogous to traditional trade professions like plumbers in the future, with:

* Significantly less initial investment: There's no standard or certification for being a web developer)

* Significantly larger pool of competition: Your web developer doesn't need to physically be located near you, unlike your plumber.

If you're fine with all of these things, then that's great! Be a software developer. Just be aware that it's likely to experience significant changes in the coming decades, not many of which are likely to be beneficial. You might very well do better for yourself and your family to actually just become a plumber instead.
Ah ha ha, the people panicking pretty much by definition haven't taken advantage of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (RKBA), in fact loathe the very concept and have been campaigning for decades to take them away from the people who do have guns, which I'm sure massively overlapped with those who voted for Trump.

Many even live in cities or states where it's impossible to own guns (NYC unless well connected, D.C.), or hard/decided by whim (e.g. Massachusetts), or where the types of arms that can be legally bought and owned are severely limited in a way that makes them less useful for this sort of thing (e.g. California, much of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic).

Me, when Obama was elected, I finally broke down and bought an Evil Black Rifle and ammo for it, but that was more a FU to someone I'd correctly pegged as a "gun grabber" than anything I was planning on making "serious social use" of (well, I'd bought those earlier). And I have a lot of company, for years, most every month, sales of guns through licenced dealers are greater than the same month in the previous year.
So there is a greedy strategy to approach problem with ML

1.Starts with a VANILLA model, a proven one. To establish a baseline you can fall back on. For example, in deep learning, starts with fully-connected nets, then vanilla CNN, adding BNs and ReLus, then residual connections, etc.

2.Do not spend too much time tuning hyperparmeters, especially in the field of deep learning, once you change the your algorithm, a.k.a network structure, everything changes.

3.Adding complexity as you go. It is important once you established some solid baseline, then you can start add more fancy ideas into your stack, and you will find, fancy ideas are improvement over the already working ideas, and it is not that hard to add it.

4.One important tip to remind, once you change your algorithm, as time goes, those changes might not happy with each other. So reduction is also very important. Rethink your approach from time to time, take away stuff that didn't fit anymore.

5.Look At Your Data. Garbage in, Garbage out. Cannot be more true. Really. Look at your data, maybe a sample of it, see whether youself, as the most intelligent being as of yet, can make sense of it or not. If you cannot, then you need to probably improve the quality.

Anyway, ML is a very complex field and developing like crazy, but I didn't feel the methodology to tackle it is any different from any other complex problems. It is a iterative processes starting from simple prove solutions to something greater, piece by piece. Watch and think then improve.
I have no idea as I'm not a programmer, I'm pretty much a hardware/EE guy. When I built mine it was less than 50 cents in discrete components and can definitely be done with SMT components to save space. I don't see why not though; I can get some pretty precise filtering using LADSPA plugins in software mixing apps.
I agree, being better than human is a sales point that I expect to see in brochures. One of the ways I would expect that plays out is self driving transport cars for high value targets like world leaders and drug lords. "This car will respond faster, and more accurately, to get you to safety before a human driver even knew there was a problem."

That said, John stated that without LIDAR you couldn't adequately meet the environmental challenges and achieve good self driving.

Specifically "I'm still not happy with self-driving on vision alone ... There are too many hard cases for vision." which boils down to a disbelief on the imaging processing side of the pipeline where NVidia has been attacking using GPU type architectures to extract image information rather than generate it.

One way to evaluate how far the image processing pipeline has come is to look at research on how well it can classify images. And in that space, in the research, it is doing better than humans [1]. As I've said elsewhere I think LIDAR was a crutch that worked well to cover for weaknesses in classifying images, but I recognize that the crutch may no longer be needed (certainly Tesla and Nvidia are trying to make that case).

[1] http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1325712
Stranger Things: The Rise and Fall of UFOs and Life on the Moon
Crazy, yes. But is it the right kind of crazy to drive your success? There are no rewards without risk. Bottom line, if you can sustain yourself through your proposed experiment, then why not? But I would preface that with some soul searching. Are the things driving you away from being a PM generic in nature and likely to follow you? If so, it probably means the remedy to your woes is working on yourself.
Just GNU: GNU's Not Uber
I shared this on HN a while back. It's an interesting watch (at nearly 3 hours, Curtis keeps you entertained throughout). For those in the UK, you can watch the whole thing on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam-curtis-hy...
RSS makes it easier to shuffle through the headlines.
> So borrowing money from investors to compete with somebody is now a despicable thing, maybe even a crime?

Running at financial loss just to drive prices down so you can kill competition is at least unethical in my book. Also I believe it is illegal, for good reasons, in some countries.
WikiLeaks: Trump loses CIA drones
I'm running a core i5 @4 ghz + 16 gb of ram and it's till slughish as hell on FF.
maybe this country just needs Republican Administrations just so the press will do their damn job

Many people have been making the point that for this reason, for the foreseeable future the Presidency must be limited to white male Republicans ^_^.

Seriously, for more than a generation pretty much all capital and lower case 'c' constitutional checks and balances utterly fail if that's not the case.
But the computer vision systems can be endlessly improved and merge experience from millions of cars, while human drivers accumulate experience from a single driver, age, and are eventually replaced by younger, inexperienced drivers.

Soon enough these systems will have data from encounters with far more varied situations than any single human will ever be physically able to encounter in a lifetime.
No issues on Windows 10 Build 10240 with either Chrome Version 54.0.2840.71 m (64-bit) or Firefox 49.0.2.
Whoops, that must have been a mistake on my part earlier, changing the url and pasting the wrong one (which I was checking earlier because someone posted it here). Sorry, and thanks.

Since this thread is already so off-topic, perhaps we'll ask the submitter to resubmit.
Protectionist policies are as a whole bad for the country enacting them. (But they can benefit certain special interests.)

This is basically the least controversial and most orthodox position in the history of all of economics. Basically all economists agree with this one, even if they disagree on a lot of other things.
When my ex-boss was hired as a quant, he didn't know any stochastic calculus, but he was a full math professor (specialized in algebraic geometry).

So during his interview, they spent half an hour deriving the Ito integral from scratch and then proving some properties of it.
Your emailing me bullshit that should be handled by IM is causing me anxiety.

I don't check my email more than once every 2-3 hours, assuming that I am actually working and not screwing around in a reactive pattern.

Choosing an appropriate level of communication severity and urgency should really be business 101.
I see, thanks. Now I need to read up about ASDF systems (I haven't fully understood defsystem yet). I'll extend the README tonight. :-)
Archeological 3D Mapping: The Structure from Motion Revolution
Uber perhaps not, but the main problem with AirBnb is the transformation of homes into de facto hotels. Long-term residential rentals are misallocated as short-term when the supply of the former is already tight.
I don't think there's enough time to teach. My machine learning class at Berkeley only felt like we were getting our feet wet.
LIDAR is just another form of seeing, just not as we are used to as people but combined with cameras they two would compliment each other. Relying on only one is a fool's gambit.

LIDAR won't go blind from white trucks on sunny days. LIDAR won't suffer snow blindness or inability to track in conditions where humans don't see well, like heavy rain at night. You add in visual acquisition to fine tune what you are detecting if necessary; perhaps to read signs and tell what color the traffic light is, maybe even to see brake lights. To know a floating bag is just that and not a solid object, to see that road is washed out or such.
Project, Product or Programme Manager most likely.
There are many good 2-dimension alignment indicators and tests, but the one you linked to is not one of them. It was very obviously written by someone who considers themselves 'left libertarian', and most of the questions (and answers) are written with implicit biases. They use words like 'rights' and 'trust' to construct what some (myself included) consider false choices.
Try taking a class in udemy. See if you can get that much first before quitting. Speaking from experience.
I suspect that it is this (somewhat cynical) line of thinking that cost Hillary the election. Successful politics is about coalition building. Maintaining and expanding those coalitions means following through on those promises.
About questions not being great, do they match what you could expect in a real world interview for a strategy quant position?
How three dots changed JavaScript
The incorrect link gave me a good laugh though.
Coincidentally I was watching "ReactNL 2016 Max Stoiber - Styling React.JS applications" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19gqsBc_Cx0

Styling in React needs some sort of consistent way forward.
You guys should upgrade to Chrome.
I agree with you, but a user can easily wrap their own to avoid the boilerplate for adding arguments. An example would be:

// Could provide more detailed usage if wanted.
constexpr char USAGE[] = "./program --input_path input --output_path output";
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
const flags::args args(argc, argv);
const auto input_path = args.get<std::string>("input_path");
const auto output_path = args.get<std::string>("output_path");

if (!input_path || !output_path) {
std::cerr << USAGE << std::endl;
return 1;
}

std::cout << "success: " << *input_path << " to " << *output_path
<< std::endl;
return 0;
}

The primary goal of this is to be simple to use and implement in your project, but I can see the use of a simple validation function which provides the same functionality as the above.
They are letting schools innovate. That was one of the main points of the article, that in Finland, local districts enjoy plenty of autonomy in curriculum decisions.