skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of "paid" marketing avenues that aren't ads. Remember to factor in time and opportunity costs when deciding whether to go for organic style or ads. Most people have time to throw at developing organic content, and it'll pay off over the longer term, however, it isn't "free" when all said and done.

Some "free" ones:
PR would be a good one, track any relevant industry publications, follow #journorequest on Twitter [0], and reach out to journos writing articles about your industry/area and offer comment.

Reach out to some industry blogs, or the blogs of companies in non-competing verticals to write some value-add guest content. Builds a network, and if you find somewhere where you'd be an additive to another brand (e.g. you provide an email helpdesk solution, can write an article for an ESP about best practices for outbound email content etc...)

Make sure you capture interest on your site, landing page, blog email capture, reaching out to cold leads and asking them if they would be interested in hearing more (make sure you're explicit for their permission). Then keep them on a drip email list outlining the problem you solve, how it fits into the industry, some kind of hook relevant to each user, and then an offer to talk them through getting set up, or hear about what blockers they'd have with implementing your solution. Sell after a build up.

None of this is quick, organic acquisition will compound, but don't expect results with free channels straight away.

[0] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23journorequest&src=tyah
Effective altruism, I guess?
Ask HN: Anyone interested in joining a validated startup as cofounder?
Over the past 12 months, I have tested and validated a business model (made over $60K in sales) without writing a single line of code. It involves helping small business in India conduct business using only WhatsApp and Facebook messenger.
Now, looking to bring onboard a technical co-founder who could automate the processes and help me scale this thing up.

(wanna apply to ycombinator too, down the line)

If this sounds exciting, could you reach out to me on arjunvpaul AT gmail ?
I have, more than once, booked an apartment through booking.com which were not available by any other easy to find means. It is quite curious but it is what it is.
Telling explicitly what one wants to do actually helps the compiler and it helps with the maintenance. The compiler then can help me to find calls which are just accidents, name clashes, etc.

In a Lisp-2 in the expression (sin 2) then SIN is always a function name. It can't be anything else. It's not possible to bind a name in the function namespace to a non-function (or macro).

Using something like FUNCALL is a clear sign that a function value is being called. This makes the source code longer, but it helps me to understand the code even months/years later.
Completely agree with everything you're saying. I hope the SEC prosecutes any criminal activity that is found to be intended to take advantage of unsophisticated investors, but I don't think its appropriate to characterize ICOs as a cash grab as some have in this thread. I participated in the Ethereum pre-sale in 2013 and think ICOs in conjunction with the relatively new SEC regulation surrounding crowdsales (https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-249.html) could potentially facilitate new, organically-grown companies that reward individuals for their independent analysis of a project that they believe has value, irrespective of how much capital they have - people should be able to measure the risks they are willing to take, and exercise the judgment call accordingly. Currently regulatory limitations force potential investors with less capital to limit their participation in projects that they may want to have a stake in - I don't think that's fair.

I do think that there are some projects that have tremendous promise (more specifically in the Ethereum ICO space, since Bitcoin smart contracts are basically dead in the water at this time).

For example, Swarm City markets itself as a sharing economy platform (after the rebranding from Arcade City due to one of the founder's shady dealings), and intends to compete with the class of organizations with business models like Uber and Airbnb. While they have a ways to go in terms of developing the intended product to a level that could be acceptably called production-quality, this is exactly what decentralized applications could be used to build. The fact that Swarm City is trying to work through its earlier issues and still has active development/plans to release a real project is very promising, and shows that small-scale decentralized development can work in the real world. Whether a real product can be released remains to be seen, but I'm cautiously optimistic and advising my peers to just be really, really careful - especially as new highs are tested every single day.

Aeternity is another interesting project that builds on top of Ethereum but is focused on scaling and the issue of oracles right off the bat, which is something that is kind of brushed off as a trivial and minor detail, but that will really make or break these decentralized application platforms on the whole. The technical lead, Zack Hess, has experience working on cryptocurrency projects (@zack-bitcoin on GitHub) and I think its amazing that all this cryptoasset technology is enabling people to raise money easier than before.

While abuses need to be dealt with as swiftly and dramatically as the scale of the crimes deserves, it does seem a little hostile to characterize the class of these projects as completely fraudulent. But the valuations for some of these projects is just insane. People don't need two prediction markets valued at >$300m and a variety of distributed supercomputing platforms with no real-world use-cases this badly...
Saving lives: the mathematics of tomography
This face filter technology can turn you into a statue or an oil painting
2mm below the tallest, but how earth do you get the pink piece to balance on the gray piece?

I bow to the master.
These types of news articles about prospects often are driven by an ulterior motive.

When the job market is saturated:

There's a desperate shortage / skill gap of programmers, truckers and pharmacists. Go join this trade school for 16k! The economy is going to hell in a hand basket if we don't churn out 1000 new Javascript programmers every 12 weeks!

When travel agencies want cement their dominance and pour cold water on new competition:

Things are full, really! Don't bother applying Y Combinator as an online travel agency. You're just wasting your time and won't be able to generate any VC or get a single hit to your website! It's futile for... reasons!
For a quick overview, I like http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map/ - even though it's a bit dated (the map mentions kernel 2.6.36), I find it a good starting point for digging deeper.
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18-core Skylake-X is a luxury good: people will buy it just because it has 2 cores more than the ThreadRipper...
Or, since the CEO takes these resignation letters as undeniable fact, use the exploit to resign the CEO.
Also, he is protecting his CEO. Let him stand in a positive light, with his/her hands bound. If my boss would react like him "there was nothing he could do because they already hired someone to replace me". I'd be really really mad at him.
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Great answer - thanks ;)
The font you are using looks broken to me. (Win 10, Firefox)

At 100% scaling, every "i" clearly looks like a "1". It reads "MoonScr1pt" for me: https://i.imgur.com/Ti12E5I.png

If I zoom in or out in the browser the i looks ok again.
Comparison between online courses-Udemy and Lynda
> why have you commented then?

To learn, not about racket, but about the point of macros. It seems to have worked. I was going for something along the lines of Cunninghams law.

Anyway, thanks for the insight on macros.
There are Two online Programing courses available. One is Udemy and the Second one is Lynda. Udemy is very costly course because you have to purchase software but it is very good for learning. Lynda is programming course for learning your skills.
Reality here

I'm a dishwasher partially as well as other kitchen duties like cooking/preparing food, that is what pays my bills.

My job is to organize the plates (computer vision), then I spray the food remnants off them before sliding it into the "automated" washer... then I stack them/put away where they go throughout the restaurant.

Yeah I definitely agree with that being automated/should be. I do wonder how long(when will that happen), how much of an investment to pay for it, likelihood it will break down. Then the rest of the site being automated as well.
This looks like a spammer: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=bhootai
And the Big 3 have had big success in getting large near zero interest rate loans and liens of liquidity provided by tax payers directly and the issuance/sales of t-backs on behalf of tax payers. Financially speaking, the shenanigans of Tesla and the Big 3 aren't too dissimilar…
It's just not a tech guy who knows the details well?

Anyone can send email from anyone, it's how the email protocol works, that bit is not surprising.
I wonder if it ever occurred to some people—let alone the author—that Silicon Valley is not only comedy, but a merciless mockery of its real-life namesake. It is pure satire.

As such, the show takes reality and amplifies it—often to the level of ridiculous caricature.

To suggest that Silicon Valley must censor itself for the sake of people's delicate sensibilities, is to suggest that the show must cease calling out the fact racism exists in the real life Valley, and instead paint a willfully disingenuous picture.

To quote Geogre Carlin:

"It’s the user. It’s the intention behind the words that makes them good or bad. The words are completely neutral. The words are innocent. I get tired of people talking about bad words and bad language."

Silicon Valley's writing is no different. The context is that it's a show which mocks the absolute shit out of its real-life counterpart, and does an excellent job of it.

This is simply a case of wannabe censors bent on cutting off their nose to spite their face. Silicon Valley is playing for their team, they're just too stuck up to realize it.
Thoughts on building a bootstrapped business
Docker on OpenBSD 6.1
Luckily, if you care about letting the user opt-out, you can respect DoNotTrack: http://donottrack.us/
Why Supercell’s founder wants to be the world’s least powerful CEO
Your work computer is not your property
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The ABI Generic Analysis and Instrumentation Library
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How are theses numbers getting calculated? Actuaries have 21% probability of automation vs programmers who have it 48%?
We started openredis in 2011, and we reached the 1k customers mark a year later. It's a Redis hosting service for EC2, also available as a Heroku add-on. Aside from the fact that the Heroku add-ons program could be considered some sort of marketing, we've never paid a single ad. For us, the key to getting customers was word of mouth. In 2014, at the three year anniversary, I wrote a blog post about how we got started: http://soveran.com/turning-three.html
This is pretty common in my workplace as well. Usually what gets sent is an e-mail along the lines of "due to leaving my computer unattended today, I'm bringing cake for everyone tomorrow".

I consider it a good method to keep everyone aware of computer security.
Those questions tell you more about the interviewer than the interviewee.
Even after decades of experience, this stuff can still be extremely frustrating. I remember my first experience trying out Go, fighting with the GOPATH and GOROOT variables until I could figure out how to get things installed properly.
Competition breeds excellence. :-)

EDIT: I was getting excited by the i7-7820X until I saw it has only 28 pcie lanes. Talk about being pushed towards the way more expensive 7900x! My relatively cheaper 6850k has 40 lanes, wonder what the thinking behind this is?
The numbers came from a report published in 2013 (linked on our about page): http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/view/1314
I think that's completely wrong. Very few vendors want their product to be commoditized. From the perspective of a hotelier, reducing their property to a few lines of JSON data is a losing proposition. The result will be the same thing we've seen in the airline industry: a race to the bottom, competing only on price, with ever-crappier service and more nickle-and-dime addons.
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>If comparing the pros and cons of two languages in response to another such comparison is "whataboutism", then I have no fucking idea what that term means.

The issue at hand is not whether Python is superior to JS.
Rather, we're talking about a specific problem in the JS world -- the apparent need for tooling and its so-called "dependency hell".

Bringing deployment into the conversation is whataboutism.
4.2% probability for "Software Developers", but 48% probability for "Computer Programmers"?
Software Developers has 4%, but Computer Programmers more than 10 times higher. Given that this titles happen to be used interchangeably, I take those numbers with a grain of salt.
> I'm not talking about Theses. I'm talking about "übungszettel".

Sorry for the confusion. While I mentioned theses in passing, my statements were about programming assignments in undergraduate courses where students were expected to turn in individual, original work.

> I'm aware of the fact that bavaria takes a bit of a harsher stance on this.

I'm actually not aware of this fact. In my experience, how cheating is addressed depends much more on the stance of the individual professor than on that of the university or federal state. Extrapolating from your experience at one department within one university to all universities in Germany seems audacious.
Are you me? At my only "real" job I scheduled a meeting with the MD and we had a very long and constructive chat about the reasons I was leaving (grievance with my immediate boss which had been raised repeatedly but never dealt with), plans to hand over the projects I was working on, and my plans for the future. He wished me all the best and said he'd always be there if it didn't work out. At the end of the meeting I handed over my written notice, which was just a few lines confirming that I was leaving and the date of my last day.

The MD is still a good personal friend (he even hosted our wedding reception in his garden) and we've worked together on multiple projects since. The bad boss was let go shortly after I went, when it was looking like another senior developer was on the verge of quitting.

I guess the moral of the story is to never burn your bridges, no matter how bad the situation seems at the time. Plus, as a business owner myself now I'd much prefer the honest feedback so I could actually make improvements that might make other employees' lives more tolerable.
Anyone have insight on where GSA's published per diem rates[1] fair in the gamut of hotel pricing? Seems to be the pre-tax lower bound of decent 2/3 star hotels.

[1] https://www.gsa.gov/portal/category/100120
Interesting, the best I could find was lawyer. Politician wasn't available, I suspect that is the safest job of all, if it should ever become threatened they will simply pass a law that makes that illegal.
I suppose I had always taken that bit for granted, but it occurs to me that my first 4 years out of school was working for a Consulting Engineering Firm, so I was exposed from the start to the whole business development & proposal writing thing.

I'll have to go back and separate out what I actually learned during that period, since you're right that it's probably not entirely intuitive.

For the longer gigs, which made up most of my early contract work, it was mostly just a matter of telling them during the interview process that I'd prefer to work on a contract rather than salaried basis.
Whoops, it is surprisingly easy to think one word and type another.
> Most of the times I booked through booking.com it was "cash on arrival", so these sites are nothing more than ads.

Expensive ads. Cash on arrival does not mean that the hotel does not pay a sizable commission. Roughly in the range as the cut iTunes, Play, Steam take for transactions that, unlike hotel service, create zero cost beyond the initial investment. Occasionally, hotels might even offer you a cheaper room if you cancel your reservation, to get out of that obligation. Maybe some sites are much cheaper, but the big ones like booking.com take everything they can, and they can take a lot.
Don't worry, we programmers are safe - just select "software developers, applications" and it's 4.2% ;)

https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/15-1132-software-developers-...
> Lol

Who is this comment addressed to? The article doesn't make these claims, and you didn't reply to another comment.
Yeah, I always type in "computer programmer" first to see if they put any real thought into the dataset. 48%... whatever that means, interpreted as "start worrying".

The history of computer programming is the history of people trying to automate computer programming. All that ends up ever happening is that the nature of computer programming changes.

Just think of all those assembly-language programmer jobs that were "automated away" by the invention of Fortran. Or all of those C++ programmer jobs that were "automated away" by Java, Ruby, SQL, whatever.
I entered Machine Learning Engineer and it gave me a list of job titles. No automation ? (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Annotated Algorithms in Python
NASA Is About to Make a Big Announcement About a New Mission to “Touch the Sun”
I worked somewhere where the behaviour described in OP's post happened. It was just lighthearted. We worked in desk 'bays', so someone sat next to the unlocked PC would have visuals on what the prankster was doing on the machine. Harmless emails like 'I'm buying the whole office donuts at lunch' were sent. It was very rare for any employee to leave their machines unlocked twice with this unofficial procedure in place.
Hyperpoly – Interactive programming languages comparison based on Hyperpolyglot
There is/was an extension that did that at some point, but it was never used (on Linux) due to poor implementation and a desire to target low RAM machines. Mac's backing store implementation was quite heavily optimised - macOS can do on the fly memory compression and the window server uses shared memory to obtain the window bitmaps.
There are also many plugins for various CMS for Shariff, e.g. for WordPress I can highly recommend https://wordpress.org/plugins/shariff/
Oh, wow. That really is a bookmark with a timer.

Remember when you wondered "has self-optimization gone to far?".

Yeah, this is the answer.
Ah, the numbers looked familiar. Some of them are pretty bogus, like "computer programmer" at 48%.
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Thanks for the correction - that's neat. They really pushed a lot of high level detail into the draw lists!
“There had been this perception that to get the best price, you book through a different channel than going direct,” he said. “That’s never actually been the case.”

Yeah, that's a load of crap. I always start with an aggregator, and if I find a place that I like, I check their website as well. Unless they're cheaper or offer some major perks, I book through the 3rd party site. Of the last 5 hotels I've booked, going through a 3rd party site has been a better deal 4 of those times.
There are many ways one would do that in various Lisps during development.

For example a dynamic variable could be accessible in the debug repl:

CL-USER 56 > (defvar *bar*)
*BAR*

CL-USER 57 > (defun foo (baz)
(let ((*bar* (* 1000 baz)))
(break)
*bar*))
FOO

CL-USER 58 > (foo 5)

Break.
1 (continue) Return from break.
2 (abort) Return to level 0.
3 Return to top loop level 0.

Type :b for backtrace or :c <option number> to proceed.
Type :bug-form "<subject>" for a bug report template or :? for other options.

CL-USER 59 : 1 > *bar*
5000

The value of a lexical variable can be retrieved.

CL-USER 60 : 1 > :l baz
Value of BAZ is:
5

CL-USER 61 : 1 > *
5

In something like McCLIM or SLIME I would print the object to a listener and the window system remembers the value.

In some other Lisp I would call (inspect foo) instead of (print foo) and the inspected values would be available in a stack of inspectors. Alternatively I would trace the functions, and the tracer would record the passed and returned objects.
What you describe are RoI (Return-On-Investment) calculations. In business, for every investment you have to be sure that the value is greater than the costs, either if it is a new homepage, a new production machine or a fancy ML optimization.

So I would not say that this aspect is ML specific, even though it is very important.
> they'd get together and form an industry working group, and design simple, standard data formats and querying/booking APIs, and then make all their data available through them

Are you familiar with SABRE/AMEDEUS? The flight industry did exactly this and it's been a disaster for them. Heck, they even handle hotel bookings as well.
Although I consider AI risks more significant than everything else combined, you do have a point. The danger isn't communicated well and on top of that, nobody has a good defensive plan (IMHO).

That means attacking the problem directly isn't an effective approach. Especially if it creates AI-risk fatigue.
So does it support ECC like AMD? Otherwise not interested.
+ Shrugging-off an act of felony being committed.

Nevertheless, it does pose a more general question. Given that in many workplaces the employer has access to your work email/account, how can one prove that he/she did not send a particular email?
Giphy is the slowest, buggiest site I sometimes have the displeasure of using. Unusable on mobile if you ever get linked to it, the search is mostly useless and results are irrelevant. Loading an actual gif takes ages.

Just giving stuff away for free and expecting to be able to slap on a business model later just seems like a recipe for failure in general, only very few companies manage to survive, let alone thrive, with that start.
Haven't you been to India?
I am a developer, but based on a recent article I read, data scientists are less probable losing job to automation, so tried it and ended up here - https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/15-1111-computer-and-informa...

I also work in insurance industry, and rumors were, underwriters are more at risk losing jobs to automation - https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/13-2053-insurance-underwrite...