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Ask HN: What ML problems do you have? looking for startups that need ML help
I'm part of a team of ex-Google/Microsoft/MIT PhDs working on a "Stripe for Machine Learning" startup (meaning: building products that allow companies to instantly apply ML to their business, a lot easier than all the other workflows out there). We're trying to better understand different needs and applications, so I'm wondering: what kinds of problems do you face where machine learning might potentially benefit, and what troubles do you encounter?

For example: are you having trouble with spam or categorizing your users/items? Do you wish you had better search or recommendations? Is it too expensive or time-consuming to find machine learning help yourself?

We're based in SF, so we'd also love to meet up with anyone in the Bay Area who wants to chat in person. (And we're happy of course to chat/email/VC with anyone anywhere else!) Just hit me up over email (in my profile).

(Also, our first products are actually out and ready -- you could get up and running with problems like spam detection, user/item categorization, sentiment analysis, webpage classification, etc in literally five minutes and two lines of code. We're not going with a full launch yet because we want to make sure we can 100% support all our early customers, but if you're interested in being part of our private launch or just curious to learn more, definitely reach out!)
Great question. I've been designing logos for 12 years so I have a good sense of what's important:

1. Amazing fonts. This is the low-hanging fruit, and the core of every logo. Some logos are just nice fonts :P

2. Brainstorming and idea exploration. Logojoy is cool because it gets you thinking, and makes it a joy (haha) to explore different fonts, symbols, colors, etc.

3. Presentation. If you look at how the top agencies present logos to clients, it's always with a ton of whitespace, real-life mockups, etc.
That seems both really cool and absolutely terrifying. Automatically find references when writing a tutorial? Hell yes! Automatically find references to support an argument you've decided to make? Hmm... maybe not a win for journalism.

[edit] Actually, I guess the way you described it, it could go the other way. You start writing some argument, and google shows you some stats that show you're wrong, or something. That would be neat.
I've always had a problem with Chesterton's Fence precisely because it is a sort of status quo bias that can be (and is) used as an argument in favor of backwards social norms and traditions. It's one thing to say "Don't touch that piece of code you don't understand." It's totally different to apply that line of reasoning to norms and laws that actively hurt people. Sometimes there's a reason for the way things are and the reason is just plain stupid and cruel.
I think it is. All that privilege requires is the existence of the non-privileged or disadvantaged.

To give an extreme example, the majority of people in the US don't have to deal with what those who live on reservations have to deal with. That means that the majority of people in the US are privileged in a way that those on a res aren't.

I've always thought of the discussion about privilege to be a very American way of talking about human rights. We can't possibly talk about having enough food, housing, safe interactions with the law, etc. as rights, and thus those who don't have that are being denied their basic rights, so instead we talk about those things as privileges that are denied to a segment of population.

I would much prefer talk about these things as rights, personally.
Agreed with the others here that your experience seems rather sheltered. You had luxuries that many, many others didn't have. It's incredibly unfair and borderline insulting of you to say that those parents "don't care".

Life isn't that simple, man..
That is absolutely help. Borrowing from the bank of Mom and Dad is something that was simply never an option for me, or most of my peers. Mom and Dad were struggling, too.

When you're poor, and your family's poor, a lot of options are closed off to you. I know some people who were given old cars by parents; I always had to buy my own. That's just a couple thousand dollars for a used car, but that stuff adds up when it's not just a car, not just a loan for a house, but everything taken together.
Same. Developer tools helped me remove it :)
What does same-sex marriage have to do with the article? Yes, you can apply "Chesterton’s Fence" to the question of marriage law, and then decide that the justification (Mormon or otherwise) for banning same-sex marriage are not convincing. For example, you may decide that our modern nation does not need to compel everyone to reproduce as quickly as possible, so there is no need to ban non-reproductive marriages.
Yes, but not without effort the way it is in Python 3. Having to prefix strings with "u" and include the utf-8 encoding header sometimes are definitely nuisances in Python 2.
What's the market? I can't imagine ever wanting to trade my modern electronics-filled tractors for the stuff we have run in the past, even if it was in brand new condition. I look forward to the day that I can upgrade my tractors to ones with even more electronics in them.

Yeah, the electronics can break. But even on the equipment I own where the electronics are not critical to the operation, you still end up fixing it ASAP because you quickly miss not having it. Electronics have become heavily used because they add a lot of value.

Perhaps not in the case of the aforementioned DEF, but that's a legal requirement, and even the most basic tractor you could imagine would still require it.
This isn't good advice in general - sure, in this situation you happened to have all the leverage because you were developing a core product of the company they needed to own to raise funding, but that's a corner case.

It's just as likely the situation be flipped and the client refuses to pay because there's no contract. The contract is there to protect both parties.

Starting work without a contract puts you at risk as a consultant - maybe the funds haven't been approved yet and the contract will never be approved, maybe the ultimate approver will disagree with the scope and you'll go down the wrong path with your day to day contact ...

Most companies hiring contractors are going to be larger than a handful of people and it's dangerous to assume you understand the internal dynamics as an outsider.

Just like a client will check that you can uphold your end of the contract by checking your references and qualifications, it's ok to ask a smaller client like a startup for assurances that they can actually pay.
Steve's Corollary of Enterprise Systems: Don't touch anything ever.
I don't understand. Given Schengen and free movement, why couldn't the legal team from Belgium just 'freely move' through the Netherlands to get to their area of jurisdiction?
> That's really sad, 1 in 4 millennials don't have parents that care?

Maybe most of those have sufficient money and don't need any parental financial aid?
They also included being on the parents' health insurance policies, which with ACA is a no-brainer for many young adults. It's far cheaper for them, at a modest cost to the parents. Even if they pay their parents back the cost they're still saving versus paying for individual coverage (most of the time).

The definition, then, of "financial assistance" is very broad and covers more than just literal cash.
Congratulations, you have an anecdote. Is it typical, or is it specific to a privileged few? Absent any actual data, I think it's pretty callous to condemn 1/4 parents for not caring.
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Cool opportunity
On a related note; this is one of my favorite podcasts

http://contrakrugman.com/

Also related; Krugman is probably my least favorite modern day "economist".
How do you know that? How many republicans in California don't bother voting?
This piece really comes off just as venting. I don't think the people quoted in it are offering anything particularly insightful or that their solutions would really help that much.

One of the proposed solutions is sending more yard signs to rural areas. Do people really vote based on yard signs?
> 1 in 4 millennials don't have parents that care

Wow. Is that really how you see it? Most parents care, they don't all have the same amount of money.

That said, I knew one parent that would demand student loan money from her kid during college.
A very similar service that's donation-based: http://emblemmatic.org/markmaker/

The UX isn't as good and the app isn't as full-fledged.
People will find the sources to support their argument regardless.
Ok, wow.

My initial take on this article was "This is a crappy piece of journalism which takes some arbitrary facts and tries to use it to criticize millennials." My observation is that generally crappy journalism can be easily exposed and lampooned by inverting the headline's wording which doesn't change its meaning but flips its implication. So "3 out of 4 millennials get helped by parents" flipped is "1 out 4 parents of millennials don't help them." The first might be interpreted that millennials are slackers and the other might be that baby boomers are lousy parents. Both implications are unwarranted and wrong. And that is the hallmark of crappy journalism. There is no interpretation of this headline which conveys useful information.

As a parent, and having been around thousands of parents and read many surveys of parents, there is a common theme. The majority of the time they want to help their kids in any way they can. It is instinctual. Further, any assistance parents give their grown children can be interpreted as "financial" assistance, from babysitting the grand children to giving them the old sofa that has been in the basement for the last 10 years. And that in no way reflects on the character of the children, aka the millennials, in this piece.

That said, I never intended to imply that parents who could not help their children should be criticized. My use of the inversion device would have the headline imply that, and I would disagree with a story based on that just as much as I do the current one.
This. We are headed to a slow-growth society, in which existing wealth is much more important than new income (yeah, I like Piketty). It's not only in the US, also in Europe.
I got 6 months using 2xAA. If your board has a 5v regulator, either get another board ( pref without one), or make sure it is a low quiescent current type. Rip out the LEDs. Use deep sleep.
The golden rule in my experience is that you can have both, if being careful in the proportions. Usually I limit new things to 1-2 concepts/tools a time, and use well tried ones for others. This way I usually manage to get stuff done and avoid getting stuck in my comfort zone.

Note: I have some hobby projects with minimal progress, where I ignore the golden rule and try new stuff all the time :)
I know you're not trying to say that regular expressions were created as part of Perl, but I think you're giving a bit too much credit to it[1] regarding regexes.

The PCRE library is indeed used all over. And Perl was, I think, the first first-class scripting language that integrated regexes so closely to control structures and other language features in a way that feels truly natural.

There are still a lot of tools out there that use other regex libraries. Don't have it in front of me, but there's a lovely chart in the book _Mastering Regular Expressions_[2] that breaks out regular expression library use by tool. But, generally, I think the diversity of regex libraries actually causes problems for adoption these days, because people who are tempted to use them (thus learn more) tend to run in to other tools where the things they've learns mysteriously don't work anymore, and scares them off.

Anyway, regular expressions in the wild go back to Unix v.4, which included Ken Thompson's grep.

[1] Perl deserves a ton of credit it doesn't get in general, including credit for giving the world PCREs.

[2] In general, if you work with regexes a lot and don't own this book, you're doing yourself a disservice. It is one of my top-10 technical books, not just for density of actionable information, but also for the pure general excellence.
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The states used to subsidize funding and stopped - what could be done better here? I don't see states raising taxes to cover education any time soon.
The device here had to be configured with a URL for the user's web server. The real problem is, how do you securely introduce your home devices to each other? Various schemes have been tried - proximity, reading serial numbers off labels, and pushing the "pair" button at both ends at roughly the same time.
In 2010, when I graduated, it was still real hard to get a rental office to take a credit card. And $1500 + $1K in moving expenses + $1K in furniture would have been prohibitive on the $2K credit-limit card I was able to get as a college student.

I paid it back pretty quickly, because tech job, but I couldn't have floated it.
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While I agree with you on free child care, this article doesn't even consider that. It's all financial support exclusively.
Exactly. I'm making 25k month with a SaaS that was built on boring ASP.NET+SQL Server+Angular 1 because that's what I knew.
I host it on Windows because I know how to make it fast and secure.
I'm happy I focused all my time on building the features that clients were asking for, instead of learning the latest frameworks or fighting an OS I'm not familiar with.
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Making school affordable enough that students can actually WORK student level jobs to pay for it. If easy money wasn't being handed out, the schools would have no choice but to lower their fees.

I stepped onto the RIT campus as a freshmen in 1998, and total costs per year were north of $35,000. Expecting a clueless kid to understand what that means is insane.
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> You're saying that capitalism corrupts government by its very definition?

No, I'm saying "capitalism" is a name for a particular manner of corruption of government.

Or, more fully, a particular-but-still-quite-corrupt stage in the evolution of government away from the perfectly corrupt state of public power unified with the personal interest of the ruler or members of the ruling class with no distinction, wherein the structure of property rights established by government creates and maintains a ruling class which still has disproportionate and dominant power over the formal public power, but in which nevertheless (unlike preceding stages) there exists a formal, if often misleading, distinction between the formal institutions of public power and the members of the ruling class.
In-flight wifi on United has solved this problem by giving you an explicit page to go to. They say to go to unitedwifi.com to activate the connection.
FYI: Default redis install has since fixed this vulnerability.
Oh, I meant the demonstration has lasted decades, not necessarily that the backwards-compatibility was eternal. Once you take the stance of preserving compatibility, there's a strong market force to deprecate and eliminate old interfaces and guarantees once it's practical. On both the PC market of then, and the smartphone market of today, hardware gets replaced faster than once per decade.
Great. Take something we don't really understand (dark matter) and say that it's really an effect produced by something we understand even less (dark energy).

I mean, if it's true, it's the way forward, even if we currently understand it less. But this can turn into a just-so story, ascribing magical properties to dark energy...
The -i switch takes an optional string that creates a backup of the file with that extension. To use your example (with zsh blobbing):

perl -p -i.bak -e 's/foo/bar/gi' **/*.txt

Recursively replaces foo with bar on every .txt file in a hierarchy and saves the original file with a .bak extension, along with the in-place edit in the original.
> I haven't even looked into whether your font usage is appropriate, can you clarify that as well?

I did a test and the first result it gave me was just my company name in the Disney font.
Sounds like a super neat uC. Is anyone planning a generally available RISC-V with typical ARM or x86-sized caches and memory controllers?

RISC-V is open, but so is the SH-esque j-core. Why is RISC-V so much more popular?
Sort of:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Dashboard+View

Basically you create plugins and make sure they are compatible with the dashboard view plugin.

The nice thing about jenkins is the contributed plugin packaging system. I'm not sure how Cyclotron plans on doing that stuff or if it will ever.
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https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze.html?host=www.thegua...

Still getting a 50/100... somehow that's a "C" on the Mozilla curve.
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Thanks for your feedback, will definitely test different arrangements.
Very cool. I'm going to take a closer look at this. Congrats on the launch!
Is that sarcastic? If you're browsing without JS, or even without first-party JS, the images are basically worthless. I'd much rather they used CSS to accomplish whatever they were going for there.
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As a graphic designer, I implore you to PLEASE develop that good banner ad creation AI product. There are few things and mind numbing as creating 15 variations of the same banner ad over and over and over... My manager and I would both rather have me working on something else.
There aren't enough IO pins on an Attiny85 to measure the temperature and send it to another device wirelessly, right ?
I've gave up from Docker for Mac the first time I've tried it.
Do you really need an SHT7x? The SHT21 has a datasheet accuracy of ±2% RH and ±0.3C compared to the SHT75 which has ±1.8% RH and ±0.3C. The repeatability of both units is the same (±0.1%RH, ±0.1C. The '21 also consumes about 5 times less power in sleep mode and 3 times less in measurement mode.

You can pick up an SHT21 for about $3 (breakout included) and Sensirion sell clip on IP-rated membrane covers for outdoor applications - you just need to build it into your housing and provide an o-ring.

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/temperature-sensor-accessories...
Spotlight already does this. Type in 'aurora borealis' and it'll pull a wiki blurb (or maybe definition).
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One of the reasons that I think it's more helpful to interview for patterns (and anti-patterns) than it is for algorithms. Especially for the front-end.
"Put very simply: don’t destroy what you don’t understand."

The Chesterton's Fence story has always bothered me. The moral puts all blame on the person challenging the fence for not coming to the same conclusions as the builder.

For the person building the fence, it's easy to assume that the purpose of your work is self-evident, but the truth is that it is hard for anyone else to put together the facts as you saw them, and it's harder still to reason the same way you did. So just thinking really hard about the reasons for the fence's existence will not necessarily lead to a correct -- or even desirable -- result. The story's moral may as well have been: "What I did is more important than what you want to do." Or: "Fear change."

I'd rather see a dual lesson drawn from the same story: "If what you are doing is important, it's just as important to make it clear why it is important."

This particularly applies in the context of software development, when a little effort to make the rationale of some code more clear can pay off over the dozens to hundreds of times the code must be read and rejustified.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04h6wjx

"Identity politics on the left eventually triggers identity politics on the right".
Demographic change might be part of this. I told my wife (who is NOT American) that my plan was that our kid will be either paying us rent or out of the house after turning 18. She was horrified, coming from a culture where children kind of stick around their parent's homes well into adulthood. This behavior might be totally acceptable depending on the household.
> So, I went through the whole logo creation process and got stuck at the sign up screen. I don't mind signing up ...

Yeah, I stopped here too. I'm not going to hand over my details sight-unseen ...
Use `xkill` (if you're using X). `xkill` in a terminal, then click on the window you want to kill. Boom. No need to type out a convoluted command.
Well, sure. Someone getting help from their parents are privileged compared to someone not getting help.

The term isn't normally used in this relative sense, though.
The oxford dictionary says that privilege is 'a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group'. Something the majority enjoys is not a privilege.
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in my generation we grew expecting to bust our tails and make it in the world. Perhaps coming only a generation or two removed from the Great Depression put a different spin on things.

Even though my parents were doing very well there wasn't this concept of loading children down with gifts and such they clamored for because it can lead to disappointment later on or worse dependence.

When push came to shove I know more than a few who did a stint in the service to shore up finances, teach responsibility, and save up for college. Perhaps its a regional thing, but we never though of deserving more than the chance to try and succeed but recent generations come across as wanting it all now
I was really impressed that it was slid on rails into place instead of being assembled in place in sections.
Foaly was the best!
You should expand to recreational sports teams. The logos all follow similar formats and everyone wants one that looks professional but on a limited budget. There are design services that will do it manually but your algorithm approach would work really well for it as well.
There's your first problem. You had a shitty contract that isn't paying you for billable hours.

If you quit paying me, or on net 30, you will pay for the work I've done. And if you don't, I'll take your ass to court. "Fuck you, pay me."

Very relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8
PCRE is a nice library. I read (on its site, IIRC) that it is used for the regex support in Python and some other languages.

I once worked - as part of new product work in an enterprise company - on building the PCRE library as an object file on multiple Unixes from different vendors (like IBM AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, DEC Ultrix, etc.) and also on Windows (including on both 32-bit and 64-bit variants of some of those OSes), using the C compiler toolchain on each of those platforms. I was a bit surprised to see the amount of variation in the toolchain commands and flags (command-line options) across the tools on all those Unixes. But on further thought, knowing about the Unix wars [1] and configure [2], maybe I should not have been surprised.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configure_script