skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Andrew Ng's Machine Learning on Coursera is a good for building some solid foundations in ML in general. Keep in mind it's not limited to Neural Networks. The math is kinda light, you either seek to understand it or trust that it works and focus on the ML principles.
I feel sometimes the web is going in circles.

A) First we had simple web pages
B) Then people want to do fancy stuff on it. It became slower
C) Back to A

Instead of going back to "A", it seems like there new are ideas are coming out (like AMP) but in the end, I really wish we would just go back to "A". HTML is HTML.
> chronoscope

I know what you meant, but chronoscope is another name for a chronometer.
I have feeling the OP is thinking of air-gapping or clean room builds, but I could be wrong.
It's a lot more likely that they do when you precondition on them living in SF.
Apple Inc: A Pre-Mortem
Looking for product feedback for Daily Fantasy Sports app
I would really appreciate feedback for an app that I coded. Here is the link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/madness-dfs-daily-fantasy/id1194134896?mt=8

Heres description:
Madness DFS is daily fantasy sports without having to work within a salary cap - so you can get going instantly.

You are given a choice between the two best players at each position for that night (PG, SG, SF, PF, C). For example, you might be promoted to choose between Curry and Westbrook, Lebron and Durant ect.. Everyone that you choose goes to your team and you play against a team that has all the players that you did not choose (so if you chose Curry and Lebron, you are playing against a team that has Westbrook and Durant). You can then place a bet that the team you chose will win. So, if you bet $10, and your team wins, then your balance grows by $10.
Next time send the dealer a check and a letter. Demand all correspondence in writing. Don't allow calls. Expect your new car within a month or so ;)
It's less effective against strains you're already infected with, but not entirely ineffective against them. That's why widespread vaccination at an age before sexual maturity is suggested.
check out "the three body problem"; it has a very clarke-like sense of wonder tinged with both optimism and melancholy, and the same blend of science and "magic science", but it also adds a dark feel that is nothing like clarke.
Very nice...but warning, it may require some effort to go back to default theme (see https://github.com/dunovank/jupyter-themes/issues/86 )

I can't actually recommend it until this is fixed.
I see you have never wanted to link someone to an AMP page. You also somehow didn't notice that there's a huge useless bar at the top of the page.
I don't immediately see the vast difference between ranking fast sights higher and ranking slow sites lower. Clue me in please.
If you traveled back in time, the earth would had
moved on, not to mention the solar system and galaxy. Wouldn't you have to travel in time and space?
Are there any other unexpected caveats there? Like, I don't know, do your fingers get dirty because of small particles of the ink that didn't stick, which add up over time (think whiteboard markers but on smaller scale)?

Because this really looks too good to be true, at least for me. Maybe I should order and see myself...
When did you last look at Glassdoor?

The avg entry level software engineer makes 110k in San fran, and 95k in the US as a whole.

It's 128k in San fran for a data scientist and 113k in the US as a whole.

I'd suspect the Data Science entries are skewed upwards, as most of them are employed by big companies, while software engineering has a larger small to medium sized employment prospect which probably bring down the average in comparison, but brings more job opportunity.

I think you searched for programmer on glass door. Programmers don't even need a degree, just a boot camp and you're good to go. I'm not sure data science has an equivalent, maybe business analyst? That averages 69k in San Fran.

Also, if you look for Machine Learning Engineers, a specialty of Software Engineering, they make more then Data Scientist, with a 140k avg in San Fran and 122k national.
Nuclear warheads have multiple safeguards against detonating without intention.
While there are actually quite a few not specifically mentioned this article is a good start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_Action_Link

Even in the event of fire, explosion, etc warheads are
unlikely to detonate unintended. Missle failures are quite
common and a few have happened during atmospheric nuke
tests and no detonation occured and many of these test
weapons had few of the safeguards on duty weapons have.
In case you meant this as a Beeminder question (it's a good one!) the answer is, yes, you can end a goal any time with one-week notice, or schedule it to end at a pre-specified date.
Tidal's Sprint Deal: The Good, the Bad, the Unknown
Comments that make a single unambiguous point are fine. It's no problem to leave detailed support to replies.

A more controversial statement with the same content probably wouldn't have been voted up, but thread parent is objectively true even though it doesn't contain its own proof.
If all websites fall into one of two categories: fast or slow, and you penalize one, it's the same as helping the other and vice versa.
… or organizational culture? A lot of places really wanted to believe the problem was the technology because that's relatively much easier to change than going to a bunch of very senior managers and telling them that the way they're used to doing business is too expensive to continue.
It seems that the only reason for hangouts still being around is because some of its feature like group video chats are needed for 'Google for Work' (or whatever it's official name is) .

Yep, it is a mess.

I don't mind seeing a company attack a problem from multiple angles, but for messaging that's a big issue.
Q: Does GV have 'access numbers' that you can make calls via so that it looks like the call came from your GV number?
It'd be interesting to decompose on stuff like geography or range-to-nearest-metro. I've worked in smaller cities and bigger ones and the big ones tend to have more folks who offset their hours to dodge the peak commute time.
I can't speak for other cities, but Minneapolis is nothing like that.

It's only a few hours drive from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (massive wilderness area), two hours from Lake Superior/the North Shore (skiing/mountain biking/hiking), and incredibly close to thousands of lakes/cabins (very few of which are manmade). MSP airport is also a major hub for Delta and has affordable/quick connections to nearly every major market (either directly or via ORD). Culturally it has renowned theatres (second only to NYC in per capita theatre seats) and has decent nightlife/culture. It's as car dependent as any American city but has a huge bike culture (possibly the #1 bike city in America?). Diversity is also growing - my local school district in a relatively affluent suburb has 160 languages being spoken. There are also 17 Fortune 500 companies in Minnesota and a healthy economy (with plenty of IT jobs).

I'm lived here for 10 years after moving from New Zealand so am well aware of what coastal/mountain living is like. I've also spent time in London, Sydney, Chicago, DC, Boston, San Francisco, Madrid, Hong Kong, LA, Paris, and Copenhagen so have a sense of what living in a more well known city is like. Like I said, it's not NYC or SFO but it's definitely not what most people expect. The local joke is that it's impossible to get people to move here but then no one leaves because of how good the wages are compared to the cost of living and amenities.

Then again, maybe Minneapolis is part of a Northern identity that some have kicked around!
Samsung’s Note 7 apology was full, humble, and nerdy
Engineering Team at UC San Diego to Attempt to Brew Beer on the Moon
In the basement of course :-)

Not having to clean snow/ice off in the morning is a luxury I quite appreciate.
I'm still struggling with my own legacy code problem. I'm reviving an old LISP program from the early 1980s. Parts of it were written for the original Stanford AI Lab SAIL system in the 1970s. It last ran under Franz LISP in 1986.

My current struggle is with one line of code:

(defun getenode (l) (cadr l))

That ought to be simple enough. But it's being applied not to a list, but a "hunk". A "hunk" is an obsolete MacLISP concept.[1]. It's a block of memory which has N contiguous LISP cells, each with two pointers. This is the memory object underlying structures and arrays in MacLISP. Macros were used to create the illusion of structure data objects, with hunks underneath. However, you could still access a "hunk" with car, cdr, cxr, etc.

I'm converting this to Common LISP, which has real structures, but not hunks. That, with some new macro support, works for the regular structure operations. So far, so good.

But which element of the structure does (cadr l), which usually means the same thing as "(car (cdr l))", access? (cadr (list 0 1 2 4)) returns 1, so you'd think it would be field 1 of the structure. But no. It's more complicated and depends on how hunks are laid out in memory.

The Franz LISP manual from 1983 [2] says "Although hunks are not list cells, you can still access the first two hunk elements with cdr and car and you can access any hunk element with cxr†." At footnote "†", "In a hunk, the function cdr references the first element and car the second." This is backwards from the way lists behave.

A blog posting from 2008 about MacLISP says "A Maclisp hunk was a structure like a cons cell that could hold an arbitrary number of pointers, up to total of 512. Each of these slots in a hunk was referred to as a numbered cxr, with a numbering scheme that went like this: ( cxr-1 cxr-2 cxr-3 ... cxr-n cxr-0 ). No matter how many slots were in the hunk, car was equivalent to (cxr 1 hunk) and cdr was equivalent to (cxr 0 hunk)." Note that element 0 is at the end, which is even stranger. The documentation is silent about what "cadr" would do. Does it get element 2, or get element 0 and then apply "car" to it?

The original code [3] contains no relevant comments. I'm trying to figure out from the context what the original author, Greg Nelson, had in mind. He died in 2015.[4]

[1] http://www.mschaef.com/blog/tech/lisp/car-cdr.html
[2] http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/franz/Fran...
[3] https://github.com/John-Nagle/pasv/blob/master/src/CPC4/z.li...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Nelson_(computer_scientis...
How to get cut
You should consider having a version that does not print the email in the invocation - it may get picked up and be spammed. one might not want to publicize the backend email recipient of the support/feedback. Another reason is that if someone figures out the fig api, they can send emails to arbitrary recipients thus blacklisting the fig domain.

One thought is that it ought to be a service that works with a hash/UUID and that value maps to a recipient email on your database. so the only people who know my email is fig itself. Still - one can in theory spam every fig user by scraping for fig js. that brings me to some sort of recaptcha, i'm not a robot support.

Added bonus: backend can route the message via any channel not just email.
Google Voice is GREAT for non-profits. For my son's Cub Scout Pack and my kids' soccer club I paid the money to get permanent numbers for them both.

Now they each have a permanent number that goes just to voicemail. The messages are transcribed, sent to a gmail account set up for just that number and then forwarded to the people that need to receive it.

Personally, I have a lot less trust in any organization that won't put a phone number on their website. But I also understand why people aren't anxious to give out their own cell or home phones.

PS: It was $20 for one (because I transferred a number) and $30 for the other (because I requested a second number). The gmail accounts are free. It takes some knowledge to make this happen but it's a much better deal than $9.95/month to a voicemail provider.
The burden of proof is still on the party forwarding an accusation in civil cases. Presumption of innocence still holds in civil cases.

Presumption of innocence is even in the UN universal declaration of human rights.

What is considered burden of proof would be different, but it is still responsibility of the person forwarding the accusation. What you describe would be an accusation through "probable cause", described as reasonable grounds to conduct a search or investigation.

That being said I think country of origin are not reasonable grounds. Could be an individual sending money home, could be a merchant, could be anything.
Keyfree – An Authentication Proxy for Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Western Union doesn't "make" $1.4bn (not $14bn) per quarter, any more than Amazon "makes" the list price of every item they sell. WU's quarterly profits are closer to $200MM.
But it wasn't true that they were losing money in all the markets they pulled out of.
Nope. HTTPS only prevents you from falling for it - but you still can't get there.
Based on the current MO so far it will probably be to sites like Brietbart or other propaganda nonsense that the Trump team will have planted to call on.
The fact that the person receiving the link will also get a fast loading well behaved page with a bar at the top is not such a deal breaker for everyone.
I mean, really, that's most of AMP: a restriction on a bunch of elements that may slow things down and a bit of special mark up so things can be further accelerated.

If most websites actually did load quickly, then I don't think AMP would have a reason to exist. But if most websites can't manage to slim down their bloat, then one potential answer may be to take away some of their toys (and I'm not saying it's the right answer, just a large part of AMP).
I logged out of facebook a few weeks ago with the intention of never going back. I got to say it's a deeply liberating feeling. Once you realize that people just go there to go there, breaking that loop is incredibly gratifying.

On the other hand, I still use FB messenger as the main means of communication for almost all of my friends abroad.
Recently I wanted to transfer money to my broker account to make some investments. The branch manager of my bank got involved and locked the funds until I provided them some proof that I would indeed use these funds for an investment. How do I do that? Do I get a letter from my mom certifying that I have the honest intention to buy amazon shares???
Use C++ in Your DSP Programming with Hexagon SDK 3.1
"Bates found that this rationalization was largely untrue. In fact, he noted, Aetna pulled out of some states and counties that were actually profitable to make a point in its lawsuit defense — and then misled the public about its motivations."

It could be the case, but it seems that, in at least some of the markets, it was not. They were pulling out to try to invalidate the DOJs finding that the merger would produce insufficient competition.
There are two thoughts I had while reading this very thoughtful (and entertaining) answer:

* The corollary that comes to mind is that the absence of time travelers indicates the relative unimportance of today in history. The author addresses this in her claim that we likely live in the temporal equivalent of flyover country.

* Alternatively, time travelers are highly skilled at not revealing their roots as time travelers.

My guess is that the second is more likely to be true, but that they are not mutually exclusive (and odds are good that both are true).
The building regulations in SF have done more to encourage suburban sprawl than to discourage it.

Of course if density weren't outlawed SF would look different, but it would still be a very appealing place to live. You could triple the number of housing units in SF and it would be a city of low apartment buildings and townhouses with great views. You could increase the housing supply 10-fold and it would be a city of midrise apartment buildings with a fantastic climate and beautiful parks just outside the city.
FYI, clicking that will launch your email client with the recipient sent to hn@ycombinator.com.
AMP is exactly what our industry deserves for doing such an awful job in regards to performance for so long.
Arduino – pulse a LED with a cosine wave function
Have you tried a Wacom tablet?
I think you can hold it and write even in the air.

I have bought 3 (upgraded to better models) in this past decade, couldn't be happier.
Not quite. Based on the article, they threatened to withdraw if the DoJ did not support their proposed merger with Humana. The DoJ did not support it, so they followed through on their earlier threat. So it's not spite, but part of a negotiating tactic.
Original DOI link:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nm.4274

Edit: Please read abandonliberty's comment below before reading mine. I didn't properly elucidate the position on the harms v. benefits tradeoff (net harm) the way abandonliberty did.

My own opinion: it wouldn't be terribly surprising to see many harmful substances only be harmful to a majority subset of a population space, though that's why the scheduling system (theoretically) exists -- to allow drugs to be classified based on harm v. benefit to various populations. Whether Nicotine should be scheduled is... well, given the number of people addicted to it, probably not the easiest conversation to have. I originally thought it was Schedule II (high abuse potential but with some medical benefit, which would certainly fit our potential future understanding of nicotine based on studies like this), but it turns out my original hunch was faulty googling.
Extensive discussion of the original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13459764
Ok, early days, but does this mean nicotine gum or vaping with an E-liquid with nicotine could be used for Schizophrenia treatment?
It won't really be a surprise, when science learns that most "harmful addictive" substances can improve aspects of brain function for many people.
I don't care and I doubt most users do. AMP has made my mobile browsing experience effectively much faster.
Ask HN: Would an electric car work in space or on mars?
Following through on your promises is not a good thing if you make bad promises. People who voted against him did so because of what he promised to do, not because they didn't think he would deliver.
Maybe it's just a stress relief tool. Like you want to vent your frustration with a dumb site, so you can. Meanwhile it just pipes all input to /dev/null.
They also stripped out many of the amazing features from Grand Central and then left Google Voice to rot for years, slowly degrading.

How they handled Voice (and so many other services) has moved me from being a huge Google fan to someone who immediately starts looking for a replacement when Google buys a company whose services I use. It's almost a guarantee that they'll lose interest in running a service once something else new and shiny comes along.
I'd be interested to hear what issues you have with Apple's cloud services. I, personally, have had no problems, but am definitely curious.
Bukowski is absolutely right here, and Taleb also hits this topic pretty hard in his drafts.

The worst years I've had working for myself have still been better than the best years I've had as an employee, and that was justice! It's like with all of the problems in the world, I'm going to spend my days being a lackey to make more money for someone who already has plenty so I can ride the status/consumption bandwagon even harder.

My slave mentality deserved slave results. Praise God I accidentally broke free!
> Expecting companies to be morally upstanding is silly and a modern invention

No, it is accepting that a social group is somehow free of all moral and ethical obligations by virtue of calling itself a "business" that is a silly modern invention.

Humans have are obligated to be morally upstanding. That obligation does not evaporate when we get together in a group, or when we file a business license to make that group "official".
I know that things have changed since I was a kid in the 80s and suburban parents are no longer happy sending their kids outside to roam the streets unsupervised.

But surely even back in the day, parents wouldn't have sent young children to hang out unsupervised in Central Park?
Are they replacing it with anything in the Gmail UI?
Same here. They pushed me from voice to hangouts for all the group SMS and MMS support. So now I have some chat history in voice and some in hangouts which is impossible to search through unlike with voice. Now they want me to go back to voice.

What the hell is going on at Google? Is there anyone with an actual strategy for anything? I thought about getting Google Fi, but right on their page they said if you move from Voice to Fi you can't go back.

I would easily pay $5 a month or more for a company that could give me a single number and not be terrible. I think if Google actually charged for a lot of their free stuff it wouldn't be so shit/never updated/abandoned/etc.. - like an Amazon Prime type thing.
> I could see mobile networks implementing their own AMP caches, so their inbound traffic winds up terminating mostly at the cache layer. This speed boost will win the mobile networks customers.

How would that work? Google can replace links to AMP pages with links to their own AMP cache in their search results, since they're the ones generating those resutls. Cloudflare can serve the AMP version of their customers' pages since they are the ones actually terminating the TLS connection.

Mobile operators don't have either type of access. At best they could try to do this for non-encrypted content with some kind of a transparent proxy. But the share of non-encrypted content is plummeting quickly, and might as well not exist soon. No operator is going to invest any money in HTTP-only services at this point.
Come on! All people who got their womb removed in the 1920s and 30s are dead now. They don't affect any statistics anymore, especially not those concerning women who had their womb removed by the age of 55.

I agree with GP, a rate of >40% hysterectomies sounds unbelievable.
One of the TPP sections that concerned me the most was where corporations could sue nations for passing legislation that detrimentally affected their business (think countries passing environmental restrictions on companies). My concern was greatest that US companies would do this to other nations, like Australia where I am.

I'm assuming now that US companies won't be able to do this, but is the TPP still binding between the rest of the ratified countries?
While your at it. I want a site that I can put in more filters:

-I can travel for x hours.

-Price between x and y.

-I accept only x transfer flights.

-Temperature in destination have to be x to y.