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Sort of a content-free article, but the headline is an interesting bold claim that conjures a lot of thoughts:

- I know enough machine learning to be dangerous, but I'm hardly ever asked to use it. I designed a Bayesian classifier for my own startup around 6 years ago, analyzing political donor networks. I've completed the Stanford ML course. Back in college I did a math minor, so I'm comfortable with linear algebra, calculus, etc. I'm pretty comfortable with statistics of both kinds. But my bread-and-butter is freelance web development . . . and I'm not really even sure how to find work doing more MLy things.

- I've read over and over that the most time-consuming part of ML work is data collection & cleanup, and that matches my own experience. It is the same thing that killed so many data warehouse projects in the 90s. You don't need a Ph.D. to do it, but it is a tough and costly prerequisite. So it seems like you'll need non-ML programmers even for specifically ML projects.

- In a similar vein, Google has written about the challenges of "operationalizing" machine learning projects.[1] Having a little experience collaborating with a team doing an ML project, where they did the ML engine and I did the user-facing application, I can say that many ML experts are not experts in building reliable, production-ready software.

- Will there ever be a Wordpress of machine learning? If there is, the author will be rich, but you won't need a Ph.D. to operate it. But because ML requires hooks into your existing systems, I don't know if this will ever happen. What will happen I think is plugins to existing e-commerce systems for product recommendation or other off-the-shelf ML-powered features. These already exist, but I assume they will become more prevalent and powerful over time. In any case, the mainstreaming of ML for business will be inversely correlated with the expense to implement it, which suggests it will be easier and easier for non-expert developers to use (and misuse).

EDIT: Added the (now-)third bullet point I forgot before.

[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43146.html
Yes. Trains and trucks use up more fuel and are much more dangerous than pipelines. Look up "oil train derailment". Oil trains can and do explode when they derail, and they pass through population centers.

One reason existing pipelines have a lot of problems today is because a lot of them are very old, which makes them much more dangerous than any pipeline built today. This is a good article about that: http://insideenergy.org/2014/08/01/half-century-old-pipeline...

A brand new pipeline would be less dangerous than the existing pipeline infrastructure we use today.
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The texts that I hate least (LA and I have a long and rocky relationship):

- Coding the Matrix, Klein
https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Matrix-Algebra-Applications-Co...
This has a strong emphasis on LA's utility in CS, and includes concepts outside traditional LA that enrich the narrative.

- Intro to Linear Algebra, Strang
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Linear-Algebra-Gilbert-S...
Strang approaches LA from a practical less-theoretical angle, which makes it very sensible if you're an engineer but may not be as suitable if you're a mathematician.

- Linear Algebra, A Modern Intro, Poole
https://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Introduction-Available...
This is a solid text that has worked out most of its bugs over the editions.

- Linear Algebra and its Applications, Lay
https://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Applications-Updated-C...
Like Poole, this is also a solid and long running text.

The books by Klein and Strang also benefit from free videos of those courses that are available from Coursera/BrownU and MIT OCW. Klein's is also available on the Kindle.
It's an open source media centre application - used to be called XBMC. The illegal stuff are plugins for the software. I haven't used it since it was XBMC, quite a few years ago, but I imagine you could definitely plug things like Popcorn Time into it.
I have a strong belief that I have no proof for that our society would be more productive if wages were such that people didn't have to worry about their next paycheck or their replaceability or their hierarchical fetters of restraint from free responsibility. Seems we get stuck in local optima by being "good responsible hard-working employees"
That page has so much JS bloat it made my top-of-the-line MBP lag just scrolling.
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I'm a Junior Developer in a company that only employs one other dev who is my boss. I would really like to get some mentorship experience but I don't know how to without having someone to mentor. Does anyone have any experience in this?
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At this point, the main concern is getting that camp cleaned up before the flood comes. It should be noted that the tribe has passed a resolution for protestors to go home[1] with no provisions for relocation. This isn't the only area of North Dakota that is going to flood this year and money spent on this foolishness is going to be missed. Devils Lake is going to rise about 4' under current estimates.

The reporting has been so bad and at times just stupid[2] that the state had to setup a FAQ[3] just to combat some of the foolishness. Point 14 directly contradicts this article and pretty much shows how bad the reporting has been.

1) http://fortune.com/2017/01/21/standing-rock-sioux-pipeline/

2) There are no friggin wild buffalo roaming North Dakota - they are all on ranches, preserves, or the national park land.

3) https://ndresponse.gov/dakota-access-pipeline/myth-vs-fact

[edit]The reason this particular corridor is used is because it was initially cleared in 1982 for an existing gas pipeline. The DAPL pipeline runs parallel to that pipe. [/edit]
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Theaters get an increasing percentage as the movie get's older. First weekend they get ~0-25%, but they also fill the seats. "after the fourth week when theatres generally can keep up to 80% or better of the ticket sales" However, the seats are mostly empty. http://www.themovieblog.com/2007/economics-of-the-movie-thea...

I would guess Hollywood get's around 80% of overall ticket sales, but it can very a lot. However, production costs can be less than advertising costs. So, the production side might get 60% of stated ticket sales and that's the percentage that Netflix would need to cover.

That said, if Netflix had every movie ever for 25$ a month they would also likely have far more customers and probably be revenue neutral for Hollywood. But, at the same time every studio would want a larger cut and the only way it would work is if there where similar rules for streaming movies as streaming songs.
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Define worth?

They have released a process that is worth upgrading to: https://ark.intel.com/products/97129/Intel-Core-i7-7700K-Pro...

https://ark.intel.com/products/52214/Intel-Core-i7-2600K-Pro...

There are a massive host of improvements between those two processors. Each release since Sandy Bridge has continued to increase performance between 5 to 10% in most tasks and more in some specifics. Over 4 releases that is a noticeable effect.

That processor in the US is 350 Dollars.
>This is different. In the past, technology has been a multiplier for the productivity of workers.

No it wasn't. One power loom with 10 operators replaced 2,000 people.

The same will be true when a cadre of intelligent robots, with one manager giving them daily instructions, replaces 5 wait staff and cooks at a restaurant.

>The confluence of robotics and AI will mean the eventual evaporation of low-skill and/or laborious jobs as they are completely replaced by automated agents.

Low-skill work is no more vulnerable to automation than high-skill work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec's_paradox

Ultimately, we humans universally have and will continue to have a set of skills that cannot, for legal reasons, be automated. This gives human services a unique value proposition. Moreover, human labour cannot be mass-produced like machines, so it becomes increasingly scarce, which is why wages have increased 20 fold since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution

>These people do not have a unique skill set they can apply to something else.

Yes they do have valuable skills. They have a high-level understanding of society, people's intentions and needs, and the tools and technology that enables people to accomplish tasks.

A person living in 2017 isn't some empty slate that's indistinguishable from a human living in 1950. The modern person has knowledge about automation that makes them vastly more productive in the modern context. The modern person knows how to use modern tools like smart phones with applications like internet-accessible maps, to maximise productivity, and has unique knowledge about numerous domains that is not publicly available.

With respect to the last point: most of the collective knowledge of the economy is not in the public domain, as a public resource. It is mostly diffused throughout the population, as private knowledge. It is this knowledge that makes individuals increasingly productive, and their labour increasingly valuable.

>Globalization can only happen once.

Industrialization has happened continuously for 200 years. Wages have grown enormously over this time frame.

You're being pessimistic for the sake of being pessimistic. Maybe because you're looking to rationalize your universal welfare cheque.
>"That part of the Ars article is restating a claim made in the Daily Mail article."

Wow, this is why I ignore the news. What a clusterfuck. However, I cannot find the part you are talking about in the Daily Mail article after a search. Can you quote it?
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1 of the 2 project is a pinterest clone deployed to heroku that uses features like devise and alittle bootstrap that allows people to upload images with written descriptions about that image

Next project is an incomplete file cabinet at that is currently put on hold while i finish Michael Hartl project.

---My main focus for building these apps where to gain a better understanding of rails which is why I did not spend time with styling.
Similarly, certain books show up multiple times, once for each version. It would be great if those were consolidated to the latest version of the book.

An example of this is when you search for Hadoop. You'll find all 4 editions of Tom White's book show up in the top 10 listing.
As it has been said before. Piracy is a service problem. Yes, you can rent stuff via amazon but the prices are too high.

I will watch several hours of television and entertainment a night, if I did this via amazon I would end up paying well over $200 a month.

If they can scale that back to something reasonable like $75 a month, I am sure that I would be more willing to pay.
I'm curious, what do you see as the potential?
Maybe it was a bit of a stretch.
> An alternative scenario might be that drugs would get cheaper in the US, European drug prices stay the same and pharmaceutical companies somehow scrape by with lower (but still positive) profit levels.

You're treating this as if it's a question of "fairness" to the drug companies, and it's not about that at all. If you could drive drug company profits to $0 with no collateral effects, it'd be unambiguously the right thing to do.

The question is, though, what does that do to the market? If you're an investor that has a billion dollars lying around, do you put it into drug development or social media? Both are highly risky, but the former is burdened by a regulatory regime that thinks companies in that sector should just "scrape by," while the latter has unlimited upside.

You're basically sending a signal to the market that the more valuable your business is to society, the less money you're going to make from engaging in it. That's ass backwards.

> Seriously, if drug companies were making a net loss in European and other countries, they'd just stop supplying in those countries and subsequently enjoy higher profits

They continue to sell in European countries because they don't make a marginal loss there. But if their revenue levels in the U.S. were at the level they are in Europe, they absolutely could not justify their enormous fixed costs.

> And prices the US pay are in no way related to what other countries pay: it's simply a function of market power and being in a much weaker bargaining position.

It's true that drug companies are in a much weaker bargaining position in European countries, but only because European governments exercise seller-side market power to artificially drive prices below what they would be in a market with many buyers and many sellers.

> I realise Pfizer (net income: $7.74 billion) and Merck & Co (net income: $4.44 billion)

Fun fact: Facebook's net income is about 30% higher than Pfizer's even though its total revenue is only about half. Obviously Facebook's product is much more valuable to the world and should be incentivized accordingly.
At the moment (and I hope to keep it this way), it's not only the core of Redash that is open source -- it's the whole product. There are a few features that are introduced on the hosted version first, for ease of development. But most of it goes to the open source first.

As we (Redash) use Discourse as well, it will be only fitting, to have Discourse use Redash :-)

(btw, Sentry are Redash users as well[1])

Feel free to ping me (arik at redash.io).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13599631
Apologies - my mistake! It's true that (not here!) in the rush to talk about its warming effect, many choose to ignore the positive effect of CO2 in the atmosphere <with respect> to its importance as a carbon source for plants.

Greening has of course taken place. To quote NASA, [ I think I've got this one right ] ...

"From a quarter to half of Earth’s vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25. An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet’s vegetated regions. The greening represents an increase in leaves on plants and trees equivalent in area to two times the continental United States."

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...

This is not in the least surprising given extensive experimentation showing enhanced profitable growth for many plants (not all) with increased CO2. There will be upper limits of course.
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What would be more ecological is to leave the stuff in the ground in the first place. This is not a symbolic fight.
In the part where the whole Noah/flood thing happened, it says that humans' lifespans would be limited to 120 years (after Adam etc).

But that is not the point... no matter whether you take the Bible literally or not (I don't), at the very least it suggests that at the time of the writing there was some observation of 120 years as being a reasonable upper bound for human lifespan.
This one has been called into question. It was expected that the Army would do a fully independent study.
Utter nonsense. A PhD signals two things: that a person has the same degree of mastery of core material as a person with a master's degree and that he or she has the determination to do additional original research sufficient to produce a 100 page paper.

It isn't required for any serious research effort, except by the accident of inertia. And it certainly isn't a necessary indicator of determination.
My favorite pet theory (head-canon may be a more appropriate term) is that Dark Matter is a set of matter that's just as rich and interactive as ours - made up of particles that follow the analogue of our laws, with weak, strong and electromagnetic forces - but slightly different, so that that parallel universe is full of intelligent life, investigating "shadow matter" that only interacts via gravity, wondering how sad and empty and dark it must be for those particles that make up only 10% of the universe.
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water. The Bible is not one book, and it had many authors. There are plenty of historical reference that have been corroborated by archeological findings. You don't need to believe everything to believe something.

Edit: I'm also not suggesting that 120 years of age is some sort of divine limit, but it does hint at the sort of lifespans the people at that time considered were possible.

Second edit: I mixed my sources up. The 70-80 years that a psalmist mentions is probably a more likely standard old age.
In "Escape From Reason", Francis Schaeffer said that modern humanity was faced with a total dichotomy: Rationally, there is no meaning, and we are just machines made of atoms. Any meaning (or even freedom) is in a place divorced from rationality. Faced with this, in the 1960s, people (including Leary) took drugs as a way to (hopefully temporarily) escape into irrationality, hoping to find meaning.

But the problem is the dichotomy. Even if you find meaning in the acid trip, you can't ever rationally explain that meaning, even to yourself. You know it happened, but that's all.
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plain text doesn't imply parsable; natural languages, for instance.
This is what I keep telling people too - that the "old-fashioned" statistical methods aren't applied to more than a tiny little fraction of the problems they could be applied to yet.
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If people aren't willing to pay $100 for an all you can eat movie service did it even cross your mind that it only means it's overpriced?
I appreciate your advice, with that said can you take a look at my new comment and let me know what you think. I didnt include the "why you should hire me part" though
If you feel a submission is inappropriate for HN, flag and move on. If you're new to HN, adding comments like this is just adding noise. Similar to the guidelines regarding comparing HN to Reddit, please refrain from making comments on HN submission quality until you've been around for a while.

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Wow, I had no idea that was the case. Thanks for the correction.
I would assume Github, of all companies, would provide a git commit with a diff. Alas.

Here is a diff:

https://github.com/lgommans/terms-of-services/commit/32e5aef...
As far as I can tell -- there's some evidence of false flag operations regarding the "stand down and go home" resolution.

There seems to be plenty of voices from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe leadership calling for continued peaceful protest.
SO doesn't focus on CS, they focus on solving problems like "How to get better replication on postgres?" etc. This is also why books like SICP, TAOCP and CLRS seem to be missing.
There are people who live in the pipeline's projected path and their water will be poisoned if/when the pipeline leaks. That's not symbolism, that's life and death.
Argument from final consequence aside, much of that work was was ongoing before the legality AND environmental impact was fully realized, on the expectation that the locals did not have the resources to fight its construction.

Even if the pipeline is ultimately established, winning damages for the local people would help them relocate away from resources tainted by the previous pipeline (who's legality is also very questionable).
It's the cover art to an edition of The Martian Chronicles. See:

http://www.michaelwhelan.com/galleries/descent/
You risk deadlocks if you have a limit on the number of system threads.

Think about something like goroutines reading and writing from pipes.
The cloud cover over Venus is 250 km thick. I don't think the wind speeds are uniform throughout the entire atmosphere, certainly in the upper reaches the sulfuric acid is less potent.
From looking at the map, it seems like the pipeline could have been built heading south-east directly from Stanley, avoiding crossing the river at all. Does anyone have any insight as to why it was built west first, then swing to the south-east?
Yup and that is why selling a generic Kodi box is fine. Loads of places sell them without issue.

The issue here is that these five people have taken a normal Kodi box, modified it and then marketed it as a device designed to violate copyright.

The real issue here is how these people were advertising and selling the device. It raises interesting questions though - would they get into the same amount of trouble if they sold a generic Kodi box with instructions for the user to configure it in such a way? What if they sold it with just a link to a Google search that had such instructions? What if they provided a script you could download and it would do the configuration automatically for the user but what they sold was actually a generic (legal) Kodi box?
And can't be easily blown up by nukes. Seriously. Sagan himself sat at a committee that actually considered it for "national security" reasons, and iirc, found it 'feasible'.
>> the interface is very easy to use

If they're selling Android Kodi boxes from China (which I suspect they are, since they're widely available, preconfigured and cheap), then I would disagree. These boxes have incredibly flaky UIs.

As for Kodi itself, it's fairly usable, but I would say the process of adding non-public repos for shady add-ons might be a little overcomplicated for a non-enthusiast who just wants to watch a soccer stream.
Sort of. The NTS people appear to be ntpsec people: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-using-nts-for-ntp... , and talk about how clearing out the crud (including unused modes) provides enough headroom for the work of adding security.
> If neither, then leave the oil in the ground.

Nothing is ever perfectly safe. Nothing you do ever has no impact. Everything in life is about tradeoffs, and the right thing to do is pick the best one. NOT wait for the perfect one!
without factoring in time zones, this contains some friday and monday usage, no?
I didn't double major in math or stats. I squeaked through linear algebra without understanding the material, and then re-studied it independently a few years ago and actually understood a little more.

Yet, I can still apply machine learning to solve Ax=b problems. More importantly, I can use business analysis and write code to transform business problems into an Ax=b problem, and then optimize it.

You don't need a PhD to grok optimizing a vector to transform a matrix of inputs into a vector of observed outputs, then apply that trained vector going forward. Neural nets are slightly more complicated than a straight linear regression, but only slightly. I'd call decision tree methods like GBM even more complex, but still eminently grokkable for a decent programmer.
You are so lucky! I can't even look into a mirror since I learn 3 years ago that a NoSQL ninja will soon stab me in the back and steal my job because I work with that declining SQL old stuff!
I'd second this, up to a point - my GF has it (she changed from Sky), and it's half the price - £40 for her a month including broadband, etc. My only gripe is that it seems a bit fragmented to me when using the box - there's not a universal UI which allows you to just access all the on demand content that's available, so you have to go into BBC, C4, or the NowTV app, etc.. If it was unified (somehow, I appreciate that's not easy or probably even possible) then I think it would be really hard to beat.