skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely possible with a masters in SE. There are many types of quant (see the markjoshi.com link above) - it will be easiest for you to become a quant developer with your background in software engineering. This will be much more focused on the software development side of things rather than the math/modelling side of things, but depending on the firm will give you large exposure to how the modelling side works. They are very competitive positions, but if you are a strong programmer that can prove you have knowledge of financial markets, have relevant side projects, and can understand and communicate the math behind what you build, you will have a leg up on the competition.
For some reason this page is really slow on Firefox.
This looks amazingly good and well thought through.
This paper is awful from a scientific standpoint. Rather than sticking to facts, it's full of opinionated judgements, logical fallacies, and poor use of statistics to back up claims.

A lot of it is devoted to caricaturing arguments for plastic bag bans and "debunking" them. For example,

> Are Plastic Bags Killing Millions of Marine Animals?

It's also full of logical fallacies. For instance,

> By any measure, plastic bags constitute a small proportion of all litter. So, it would be foolish to focus any strategy intended to reduce litter primarily on plastic bags.

Apparently this is meant to imply that no effort at all should be spent on reducing plastic bag litter.

For instance if you look at Section 2.3 and the bottom of page 18, it cites reports that Americans throw away 100 billion plastic bags per year, then says "A look at the data, however, reveals a very different picture." It goes on to give data that in no way contradicts that figure, but instead focuses the argument on how small a fraction of the mass in landfills comes from plastic bags.

The abstract gives 6 claims, e.g. #1 is "The bans, fees and taxes on shopping bags have a minuscule impact on litter." But the paper is not organized so as to actually go through a demonstrate these claims. You cannot figure out from the introduction or Table of Contents where in the paper one of these claims will be demonstrated, if anywhere.

The support is disappointing due to goalpost-moving, e.g. the main supporting evidence for #1 is that plastic bags only make up a small percent of litter, therefore nothing we could possibly do involving plastic bags can have a large impact on litter.

I could go on, but it's not worth any more time. I'll just close by mentioning that the authors reveal themselves at the end of the abstract, when they write

> Those people who are genuinely concerned about reducing litter and other
environmental problems should focus their efforts on solutions that have been
proven to work.

Pretty clearly the authors are not including themselves in the list of people who are genuinely concerned about reducing litter or "other environmental problems".
I did, just saw the film last night.

This is a rare case where the film has preserved the feeling and the central concept of the story fairly well, but the film changes the plot significantly in order to do it. I wasn't entirely able to predict the plot as it unfolded based on prior knowledge of the written version, unlike with The Martian.

I still like the written story better, but the movie stands on its own as a great movie, and I'm happy with their take on trying to tell the same story a different way.
The sentiment is really changing. Two ago bitcoin was scam and idiotic.

But as usual. People not to a) priven wrong and they need to get with it in touch with it every few weeks/ days to accept a new concept.

And i think for that. We as bitcoin fans and user should and now can get more cocky :)
I wonder why all the UI toolkits always come without some form of layout support.

What is Qt without a GridLayout?
It doesn't serve residents. It serves hotel lobby. They don't even hide it too much:

http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/31/hotel-workers-union-gave-1...

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/04/hotel-exec-celebrates-new-...

It's not about safety or interests of anybody else, it's about who the money goes to.
Ask HN: Product Managers who started as engineers – how did you get there?
I'm an engineer and I'd like to do product in the long term. How did you get there from being an engineer? Or if you started as something else and switched to product just to know the usual journey to get there.
Computational psycholinguistics is very interesting subject in AI. Language as a window into the brain. Recently interviewed an expert who works in the field. Made me aware of the famous "nun" study which was able to predict dementia 50 years prior based on the idea density of their entrance essays.
https://soundcloud.com/user-925097294/michael-covington
My favorite quote for this election was along the lines of "This is what happens when the majority votes as a minority identity block."
Documentation is unusable on mobile... I hope that was due to someone making some CSS mistakes with their page code and not the framework's code.
Hack
I want to be a hacker what should I do first from zero ,please
You're almost certainly crazy from a financial perspective. You're unlikely to catch up, salary-wise, and will hit the ageism wall a lot faster as a developer.

But hey, we all get a little crazy when it comes to the things we love. Just be aware that a bootcamp is just the first of a great many steps before you can contribute to something you'd consider the 'future' and not 'move the button 10 pixels to the right'.
> Living in the US is inherently illegal, even if you happen to be a citizen

I am guessing you are implying that the White Europeans "stole" America from the Native Americans. By that notion, you can keep going a few 100 years back in history and you'll eventually end up with "Living in the ___ is inherently illegal, even if you happen to be a citizen" for every place in this earth except that place in Africa where the human is supposed to have evolved and migrated.
Those themes are gorgeous, where I can find those theme?
This is a topic of research. Check out this very short paper by Robin Abraham, et al. titled "Speadsheet Programming":

http://eusesconsortium.org/pubs/searchable/sheets.pdf

Also, check out the work by Simon Peyton Jones on spreadsheets as functional programming for the masses.

One of my pet projects right now is an Hour of Code presentation that leverages the knowledge of spreadsheet users to learn the basics of programming in Scheme.
Does a Slack bot to notify customer support is offline exist?
We are going to make a slack channel for external customer support. Is there a bot that looks at our support staff and if everyone is offline (due to timezone), let a user who is asking a question know that they should email us, or even better if the bot emails us and tells the user that we will get back to them in 12 hours?

Cheers!
No sorry, I linked you what you asked for. The "most damaging wikileaks" link has all the links to the emails organized by offense. In just the first 20 or so from my skimming there was pay-to-play evidence with the emails they were found in.

You've demonstrated a closed mind about this, and were not willing to look into it yourself, so I think that counts as being willfully ignorant.
I don't think the nomenclature is the important point here. I also don't consider contributor agreements inherently bad.

Great to hear everything can be done electronically now. It was only a couple of weeks ago that I last checked and found the postal instructions.
You’re right that “There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space [...]” is kind of misleading, but it’s only half wrong.

The special relativity story is more nuanced. There’s no single “time direction”. Which direction in spacetime looks like “time” vs. a mix of “space” and “time” movements vs. “space” depends on your reference frame.

Every “faster-than-light velocity vector” can be considered the direction of “time” for some observer, just as every “slower-than-light velocity vector” can be considered a direction in “space” for some observer. A vector like “the vector difference between the position of the earth now and the moon half a second in the future” (by our measurement) is, for some other reference frame, a pure movement in time. In just the same way, “the vector difference between the position of the earth now and the moon two seconds in the future” is a pure distance in space indicating simultaneous-in-time events, for some other reference frame.

Or perhaps we should even say that the “reference frames” and a split between space and time dimensions are an abstract concept that we impose on top of the 4-dimensional spacetime. We can work out all of our physics in a 4-dimensional context without explicitly splitting “space” from “time”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime_algebra#Spacetime_sp...

In just the same way, if you have a two-dimensional Euclidean plane with no externally imposed markers on it, there’s no inherent notion of “up” or “left” – those depend entirely on what kind of reference you pick. Imposing some specific coordinates is sometimes useful for understanding the geometry and solving particular problems, but itÍ’s in some ways arbitrary.
> This is a very disingenuous statement, because it is illegal only because it's made illegal to kill the service model they are using.

On the contrary - Uber likes to say that it's fighting against the unjust laws in London that require drivers to take an obsolete test of all roads in the city.

In reality, they would have been exempt from that law as long as they provided fixed price quotes in advance. (Uber provides "estimates", but not fixed quotes).

They actively chose to structure their business model this way because providing estimates instead of fixed quotes allows for better customer acquisition, and they'd rather compete against medallion cars because it's an easier market to undercut if you have the VC cash to spend tens of millions in lobbying and lawyer fees just in that one city (as they have).
I recognize the importance of skepticism about sources of information, but why would a paper like this need to specifically "disclose" one of the board members of its publishing organization?
> Who could even keep up with reading and understanding that much documentation about changes to the algorithm, let alone the base way it works in the first place?

Someone at Google, hopefully. At least I wouldn't want to work at/be customer of a company where no one knows how their core product actually works.

If Google employees are able to keep track, so are regulators. If not, then the "cost" of requiring it may actually be a benefit.
Seems indeed, and in fact an A/C will eat a kilowatt or more, but...

The components of this system need to generate next to zero heat and they need to be placed in all sorts of inconvenient locations. That's causing automakers to desire extremely low-power dedicated circuitry over GPUs.

Consider as an example the C7 Corvette: despite its enormous blindspot, it still doesn't have blindspot indicators because they can't find any way to cram existing sensors into the thing. There are more examples, that's just the one with which I'm most familiar because I balked on purchasing one over this despite an insanely great deal on it at the time.
I thought it was kind of funny but to be honest I couldn't tell you were joking. It's hard not to assume people are just dumb.
Why are these mutually exclusive?

(Can we use Airbnb celebrating the other side as evidence that Airbnb's preferred laws don't serve visitors, they serve the VC lobby?)
Not sure why React is a dependency, looks like pretty simple stuff that can (mostly) be done with just CSS and some very light use of JS. But using the framework du jour is a nice way to get upvotes I guess.
> That may be because your paycheque affords you a comfortable enough life on that front that you don't have to stress over it.

I won't deny I currently make a fairly decent amount of money. I'm not rich, but am somewhere around the top 20% or so of income earners at $70,000 a year or so. And I know I have that job due to both luck and privilege. Not white privilege, but being born with a brain that was well-suited to learning and enjoying computer programming. Which just happened to be the in-demand thing.

But I have been extremely poor before. I've worked full-time at Wal-Mart and near full-time at McDonalds simultaneously to afford the apartment I had to share with three roommates. I've lived for years on ramen noodles and bologna sandwiches. Believe me, I know what it's like to pay credit card interest with other credit cards, to have to finance food purchases, to dodge constant collector calls (even at work, yes even though that's illegal) and worry about a court case leading to wage garnishments. To have to drive without car insurance to afford food and have your heart rate skyrocket to 170/110 whenever you see a police cruiser on your side of the road.

If it meant we could treat all people as equals with dignity and respect unde the law, I would accept going back that far. I very much don't want to, but to me, social issues are more important.

One thing I will say is that I've never had to provide food for my children (I don't have any.) I can certainly understand how having children leads many people to be more conservative. I've seen it happen to some of my best friends I've known over half my life now.
Ah, but it is acceptable to the majority for Apple & Google, and now, with a vengance, MS. Or the ISPs and telecoms. Or the IoTs. But not for the guv, unless a 'good guy' is in charge.

Copy that.
Informal anecdotal knowledge: GM wants 10-20 watts for the entire self-driving system, sensors and all.
Interactive Data Display for JavaScript from Microsoft Research
That would basically include Quicklisp again. I thought I shouldn't?
The u-boot here doesn't seem to match what Nintendo released as OSS:

r16-uboot-fc3061df4dbd4153819b2d2f141d82b88fea51cf.tar.gz

Notice the commit hash.
why did you publish this on Saturday??? now i have no excuse to try to replace react-material...
> Why do we elevate companies like AirBnB and Uber that circumvent laws for profit to be our champions and unicorns?

because it worked very well for paypal and we all must love everything elon musk touch/ed.
When a reporter drives out into what they think of as "hicksville" looking for a quote that can be ginned up into a big story[0], that is one thing. When the subject of the story has to close up shop due to death threats for holding a position on gay marriage held by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton circa 2009, now we're shading into that "will decide how everyone lives" territory.

[0] http://reason.com/blog/2015/04/02/was-memories-pizza-a-victi...
If someone wants to be an exemplary citizen, rendering all of the components on to a single page for us on mobile would be amazing.
But I can't do that when these social wedge issues directly affect my own life (he's talking about overturning my marriage)

And you don't think this affects the working class? They are losing their marriages too, with those who lack a Bachelor's degree or above having dramatically higher divorce rates [0]. Not only that, they're also losing their lives [1]. Take a look at the Mortality Gap picture in that article. Shocker of shockers, it's the spitting image of another map we all watched on Tuesday. For many people, Tuesday's election was a literal life-and-death struggle!

[0] http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article/marriage-and-divorc...

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/middle-age...
I love however how the left suddenly rediscovers the dangers of unlimited government power and benefits of limited government powers. Too bad it won't last.
Retraining for what?
Exactly. I make a habit of chatting up the Uber drivers I ride with, and I haven't heard many complaints. Far more typical is the guy who picked me up in Seattle yesterday after a great week at Kubecon. He's retired after 22 years of driving for UPS and loves to work the overnight shift when things are quiet (he was fetching me for a scheduled ride at 6 AM and arrived at 6 AM). The attractions for him are the flexibility and independence. He works when he wants and for as long as he wants, and is able to add a nice bit to his pension in the process.
People who make money on the status pro control media specifically targeting people to change their opinions. Those opinions include hate for the 'elite', which is code for intellectuals, academics and environmental activists who are exactly the people warning of climate change. This is easier of course because of the social cultural divide between those peoples.

And before you say I'm calling people 'dumb' to be influenced by media that they are consuming; I think people at every level of intelligence are influenced by the media they are consistently consuming. That's why I don't like watching Fox news -- I started realizing that I will subtly adopt their way of thinking, even if I'm consciously critical of everything they're saying.
Question for Palantir devs: is this currently being used in production?
It's different, but it works. I think (pure speculation) they changed the visual process because watching it written the way it was done in the written story would have taken too long on film. In writing you can compress time easily. On film you really have to maximize usage of time.
Why don't you use canvas bags?
As I understand it, he's got a phone and a pen and that's pretty much all he needs.
Site is super slow and jaggy on a macbook pro..

No demo's
Yeah, me too; I was in the 2005 Grand Challenge. Vision processing has made enormous progress since then. Here's Mobileye's guy explaining what they do and what needs to be done.[1] Here's the NVidia guy.[2] Here's Chris Urmson from Google.[3] All three use their vision system to draw boxes around things that look like obstacles. Then the planner uses those boxes to construct a path. The vision system just gives you a rectangular box in image space; the LIDAR based systems turn point clouds into simple 3D solids.

These vision systems do OK on things that look like typical road obstacles - cars and people. Other stuff, not so much. Only Urmson from Google talks about that much. The videos from the vision systems don't seem to be doing much with road edge clutter. They're not marking every post, fireplug, and low-hanging branch. Train a deep learning system on cars, trucks, pedestrians, and bicycles, and your system sees only cars, trucks, pedestrians, and bicycles.

These vision systems do a lot less than many people think they do. Watch the videos.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZa9SlMHhQc
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NGnvGS0AtQ
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj-rK8V-rik
It was, until most of those computers got a power-saving mode -- electricity is not free. Also, note that some things (like bitcoin mining) are so specialized that they run poorly on general-purpose cpus and gpus.

Still, there is a thriving set of "do this computation at home" projects: Folding@Home, SETI@Home, ...
Yes, I was looking for a "kitchen skin" page and was disappointed not to find one.
What fundamental problems remain to be solved for self driving cars?
Revealing an actor's age is illegal? IMDb website sues California
Ah, memories. http://blueprintcss.org/
Founder of 7 figure company: 3 things you need to start a multi million company
I'm the original author of "Straight", a stand-alone opensource Bitcoin payment gateway - a software that allows you to accept Bitcoin payments: https://github.com/MyceliumGear/straight-server

It is now part of the Mycelium Gear project, which is a hosted commercial version of it, and I don't work for the company anymore, but the team behind it that I hired and worked with is really great and they keep working on the product.
Quant dev here.

Note there's broadly two kinds of quants.

One is a derivatives quant, basically someone who spends a lot of time working out the values of derivatives. So you're looking at ito calculus and iterative methods to find the value of contracts with weird clauses (Knockouts, Cliquets, vanillas, etc), and then building spreadsheets to calculate the hedges for those trades as time goes by.

The other is strategy quants. Here you're looking for some way to beat the market. So you're reading in a bunch of data from various sources and applying some sort of quite open-ended analysis on it to come up with rules for a trading system. You then build a framework for trading such systems, which can get very involved eg execution algos that read realtime market data.

I started off in derivatives as a trader but quickly moved on to the other. They're both fairly deep, and both require you to know coding and math.

The questions here seem to apply mostly to derivs quants, but strategy quants have found many things applicable.
Is there any money to be made on mastering Excel? Like are businesses ready to pay for Excel related services?
Not every bag regulation was as stupid as Chicago's
I think because in our heart in soul we wish to destroy. And like to see things to be destroyed.

As long as we save money.

And at the end we, as consumer, basically don't care.
If my PM was interested in improving coding skills and went through a code bootcamp I think at the very least it would foster some mutual respect and understanding. Also in my limited experience using ML and deep learning frameworks the tools aren't about knowing how to code, they're more about "turning the right knobs" to achieve desired results. That said I think if you find the right code bootcamp it will teach you how to use the tools you're interested in. And yes you're crazy. But it helps to be crazy to do this kind of work.
I think the Python equivalent is just:

foo().bar().baz()

ie, let someone higher up the stack handle the error.
It was long enough for the Democratic president to be comfortable to keep running them and for the Democratic candidate to make no mention I've heard of to change them.

And it won't change until the tune changes from "we need to keep all-powerful government from the hands of people who disagree with us" to "we need to have less of all-powerful government, no matter who runs it".
It seems like a conflict of interest, IMO.

This is very much a political topic. When you take into context where the funding came from, the "research" presented in this abysmal paper looks a lot more like a wolf in sheep's clothing.
I really don't understand these types of comments - humanity shouldn't exist; fine then practice what you preach, but I doubt you are willing to go first.
Well, they are going to be disappointed. We all want a small black box we can stuff under the steering wheel and have it draw zero power so we don't need to cool it or pay for the extra thick cabling.

But in the meantime, where we haven't actually solved the problem even when the trunk is full of racks with high-end boxes, it seems silly to mandate that, in the classic GM "compromises safety" sense.
> I repeatedly see in a lot of Trump supporters is how they assume he does not mean what he says.

This.

Stated more eloquently by a media person recently....

>"The Left takes Trump literally but not seriously; the Right takes Trump seriously but not literally."
Sue them in a court of law, if it's bad enough, though be prepared for a long and hard fight. But never try to fight them in the court of public opinion.
Aww yeah -- another Challenger! What team were you on?
For me, when using React, I'd love this. They have their CSS options too, but have excellent support for React. A lot of other toolkits bypass the React way of thinking or require some external dom manipulation and make it more complicated to just quickly use it in your React app.
Mining and private blockchains don't mix
Bad news, and Thiel (Palantir) is a supporter. Only silver lining here is that some of tech's police-state collaborators may finally get a taste of their own medicine.
+1 for web components and Polymer
https://beta.webcomponents.org/