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Ask HN: Deep learning algorithms to aggregate technology topics from the web
A friend and I were talking about putting together a project that crowdsources cool technology topics that leveraged the latest algorithms.

I'm assuming that we should use something like Pytorch and possibly leverage the great work done by Yan Lecun.

What deep learning algorithms are recommended for this project? If you can specify a technical paper or library with sample code, that would be awesome.
Did the same thing for an apartment hunt several years ago (one particular realtor had all the best stuff going up on a personal site) and also just notified via email. This is done the way that it is by their content marketing department.
Well, that's coming from the insurer, so I'm sure they're not exaggerating (/s)...

> Iowa’s largest health insurer, Wellmark Blue Cross & Blue Shield, has cited the case as an extreme example of exploding health care costs.
In response to your first question, my go to answer would be the government's favorite rent seeking apparatus: parking enforcement. Parking tickets are a regressive form of taxation that disproportionately affects the poor. I'm not talking about exceeding your time at the meter. I'm more referring to Street Sweeping violations on a weekly basis, when they hardly ever actually send a street sweeper down your block.

Another example is how LA Sanitation continued to charge myself and thousands of other apartment dwellers the monthly flat rate, despite our landlord hiring a private service, and the fact that the city collected our cans and the city trucks didn't collect trash. They refused to refund my money, citing a City Council Resolution on the matter. The city was eventually sued and this policy was repealed. If I refused to pay, since DWP does the billing for Sanitation, my electrical service would have been terminated.

Don't even get me started on CA's solution to Sacramento's refusal to curtail spending by passing a $.20/gallon gasoline tax. CA residents already pay more gas tax than most other states.

And last but certainly not least, CA Senate Bill 18/2017 which thankfully was crushed by activists. This "Children's Bill of Rights" did not increase safety nor the welfare of children in general. It did however insinuate the State of California as your child's new parent, whilst mandating a new level of services to be provided by the billionaire author of the bill, Jim Steyer (Common Sense Media). Funded by your tax dollars, of course.
There were a few other nuggets:

+ Get Leads Without Spending Money: The most interesting learning for me was the idea to focus on getting "free" leads. Basically, the founders of this company figured out how to showcase one of Shopify's advanced APIs to such a degree that Shopify promoted the startups product. It's a "puff" observation on one level, but this old school "biz dev" approach to marketing a nice counterpoint to all the growth hack BS about fine-tuning Adwords spend.

+ Don't make your first hire until you're at $1M ARR: Another simple observation, but scale is important. If these two guys can run a business for two years and get to $1M, why do most funded startups need 5-10 people prior to product market fit?

It may not be your taste, but these are lessons that are rarely taught.
FYI Privacy Badger seems to default to blocking cdn.rawgit.com which makes all the code examples not appear.
For the curious, if you just want to one-off this for yourself, you probably don't need twilio to do it. Most carriers have a special domain that if you send email with the recipient's phone number, it turns into a text. I've got Verizon and its as simple as this from the command line:

echo 'Text message text' | mail -s 'Subject will display in braces in the message' -a 'From: Myserver@Mydomain.com' 'number@vtext.com'

This ended up working faster than Twilio for me. (Less than 10 seconds from enter key to text on phone).
60% shouldn't be considered "skin of its teeth" and historically wasn't. It only is now because the Senate has become fairly dysfunctional.

I don't see how it's "partisan finger pointing" to explain why the lack of a public option is the responsibility of a single independent senator. It vaguely fits for stating that the 40 Republicans were never going to vote for any form of the ACA, but that's really just a statement of fact.
Do you have a source. Do these economists say there should be no limits on immigration?
Your number is now on hacker news!
I've written a similar thing for the Dell Outlet: https://outletmeknow.redfern.me/. SMS notification isn't actually working at the moment as I've run out of Twilio credit, but Email should be fine.
Except web-based (or "cloud" now I guess) services like gmail are not running on your computers (apart from the javascript, but you can see that so you should be happy).

In this case it is google's code running on google's computers.
After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface
Every human can install any code they want on their iPhone for quite a while now.

Every human is mortal.

Thus unless you were implying non-human mortals, your point is stale and no longer valid.
Just saw that. Yowzer... damn clumsy of me! (Thankfully a published work number but still!)
Streaming to /dev/journal would be a tight little feature. Maybe it has an API?
But the GP's comment is still valid since that's the foundation of everything to build upon. Or things will go way worse.
This is really solid. Nice job. Introductions to new languages, frameworks, etc where there is a nice progression but isn't too wordy and let's you jump into code is one of the best ways I personally learn.

Any thoughts about extending this to also include React Native (or creating a separate off shoot for it)?
Thank you! I never did MUD programming but I played a lot of MUDs. I always dreamt of making my own though and a lot of my old ideas have been incorporated in this.

And yes, it will probably never be finished but that's the beauty of it. It's my own sandbox I can always work on.

Do you have anything to share?
Well, I am trying to fact check this article with more knowledgeable people than myself from a perspective of "so, can you actually make meaningful money making indie games" and the answers I am getting suggest yes, you can.

I am looking at this information as someone who wants to actually make a living doing things online. I don't need to become a millionaire. I just want a middle class income. I used to make $100/day at my corporate job (not $100/hour like a lot of programmers) and I started at above minimum wage. Plus, having that corporate job was incredibly expensive for me. So, I need less than $100/day to compete with my old corporate job.

I am actually looking for hard numbers of "can you reasonably support yourself doing things like this?" Maybe not with making games being the only thing, but as part of the picture.

This article is a little bit like saying "Actors are not capable of supporting themselves at all unless they are big Hollywood stars." Maybe that is true of acting, I don't know, but it isn't actually true of indie games. It can be done, though it no doubt is a tougher market than the one he entered however many years ago.
Did they just beat Intel?

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11112/intel-to-equip-fab-42-fo...
What you can do? The same things pros do ;) You won't be maintaining Photoshop but you may be dealing with large opensource software written in C++.

And what is good for the pros is good for you too. There is a small caveat about game dev though. While C++ is probably the best language for writing game engines, if your plan is to write an indie game, this is probably a bad place to start. You should probably pick up an existing engine and build your gameplay on top of it using the associated scripting language instead. Writing your own engine can be both fun and instructive but it is not the easy path towards a complete game.
how about:

my accountant preparing my tax return for free in exchange for...
inviting
...a sleazy salesman [to] sneak a peek at them and find new ways to sell me stuff.
So we should forget about whether its good for the world and just focus on shareholder value? And i suppose you will go on to justify it by citing benefits of more money for shareholders, better company, perfect economic systems and efficient services etc.

I think thats a horrible idea. The real question IS whether we should reward companies that get ahead by ANY means necessary and their leaders. We should not.
Is Basho dead?
Spring-loaded.

See the SR-71 fuel aft transfer switch. Maintaining a forward CG keeps the bird in the air. Control is intentionally manual.

https://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/1/1-62.php
ACR is pretty solid. Bitcoin deposits/withdrawals are relatively quick and painless.
> Russians are "proud" peoples, as they say.

I doubt that as a people Russians are any more "proud" than any other nation; such a sentiment reminds me of the age of Romanticism, when such kind of analysis of nations, or of national spirit, was commonplace. It is so very human (and so very superficial, too) to want to feel superior to or at least no worse than others, that states exploit this via propaganda. If people are being systematically told that they belong to a great nation (which defeated the Germans in WWII, or was the first to send a man in space, or has a magnificent cultural legacy in XIXth century writers, or has the second largest nuclear arsenal, or other such stuff intended to boost nationalism), they get "proud". When this propaganda stops, they go back to normal again.
No matter what you're replying to, uncivil, name-calling dismissals and personal attacks are not OK on Hacker News. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think this is something of a serious issue, but I was thinking more of problems in the operation of our financial markets in a straightforward legal sense.
Wouldn't Robespierre be a better example than Guillotin?
www.reactnativeexpress.com :D

Thanks for the great feedback! I should probably link to the React Native version somewhere.
> As Sirer put it, smoothing prices is a bad idea. If something is volatile it is because the market deems it to be so. Going against the market is not good.

Yeah, as somebody who used to work for market makers, the Bancor notion of markets struck me as... I guess "utopian" is the kindest word I can come up with.

The reason we as market makers got a special deal was that the market wanted us to provide liquidity, which sometimes can smooth prices a bit. But we personally didn't give a fuck about that. We were there to make money while avoiding getting crushed by market movements.

That was honestly a grim mindset, and I'm glad I don't do that anymore. But I appreciate the way a lot of individually self-serving actions can sometimes balance out to something socially useful. To make that work, though, I think requires you to be extraordinarily cynical. From what I've seen, utopians get eaten alive.
I am curious what it would take to make a law prohibiting the sale of software without source code and build scripts.

Some would fight it tooth and nail, but it would be better for society. It would be end the idea of selling prepackaged software, but it would end whole categories of viruses and malware.
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Actually RF shielding paint is very poor. Manufacturers advertise them with "99.5 %" or so, which equates a measly 20 dB. Additionally, correctly applying these is quite difficult, and incorrect application greatly diminishes the shielding. (You also need to cover everything, including ceiling and floor, not just the walls). Even when correctly applied, the attenuation is so weak, a cell phone will still work. Shielded facilities are built differently and are far more expensive than shielding paint.

RF dead chambers are bloody expensive for a reason: you can't emulate them by pasting some paint on a wall.
If you write the web version of your app using AngularDart, you could probably share a fair amount of code between the two.
> Regulation could be a big drag as well. Eager both to shield workers from obsolescence and to appease corporate lobbyists, many U.S. states have enacted laws to protect established industries from new market entrants. Some states forbid car companies from selling directly to buyers, while others protect credit-card companies by banning retailers from passing on swipe fees. Though one study has cast doubt on federal regulation’s role in reduced entrepreneurial dynamism, state regulation could be a much bigger deal.

I'd contend the opposite seems more likely; we've deregulated a lot of stuff, including, perhaps significantly, getting really lax on antitrust legislation. Consolidation and subsequent rent-seeking is the typical result of unregulated market economies.
Should it reach her though? What if I hacked your account and sent it via you? Or should metadata detect that?
Not entirely, but I think that would be hard to do in a comment box! Thank you!
What do you mean by "server inventory"?

Do you want configuration information like IP and MAC addresses? Do you want make and model information?

Specifically, what kind of information do you want?
> I doubt that as a people Russians are any more "proud" than any other nation

As a people, rather than as individual people, it's quite plausible that one nationality would be prouder than another; strength and centrality of national identity isn't a universal constant.

Being proud as a people means, essentially, that the individual people have (compared to other groups of the same kind, in this case nationalities) the group identity as a strong/central feature of individual identity.
What kind of React app development would be considered non-modern?
Why is this title changed? The correct title is "The Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurs Flourish in America" which was also up in the beginning.
> Why should my app be smaller than 20-30MB if Facebook can get away with 400MB?

Because while some might tolerate FB, they might not you. And when they get that "storage full" message, your app will be one of the first out (I hope so, it sounds like it would be well deserved).

Have some respect for your users...
>I would disagree that C++ is only useful "near the hardware"

Okay, but I didn't say that? I said C++ has limited uses, _unless_ you're near the hardware, where its much more common. You can disagree, but its better if you disagree with what I actually said :P

But to your reply, Personally, I don't agree that C++ is fun to work with. Like any other language, I tolerate it as and when I need to. And like I said in the previous reply, sometimes C++ is the only choice, and you accept that and do the best you can. I've found that good tooling does reduce some of the headaches, especially when it comes to debugging (although stepping through optimized production code still remains a giant pain in the ass). I'm happy that the language is progressing and with all of the new features, its like a cafeteria where you chose what you like and what works for you and your team. I certainly don't agree with all the advice that the C++ cheerleaders put out on the internet about inserting every new feature into production code. Personally I take a very conservative approach and only use features that have shown tobe useful across the entire dev cycle of - helping to conceptualize an idea, being easy to reason about by everyone on the team, being easy to debug, and being reliable enough for 24/7 execution (though this applies more to the library side of things). My code runs automation machinery, and it has to have zero bugs in it. I choose C++ because currently its the best tool for the job.
> Besides the web interface I'm planning to implement an ERC20 compliant token

Why??
They didn't mention whether the effect remained constant regardless of population density.

I'm a big proponent of "you probably shouldn't be inhaling more than you need to of any sort of particle" but I wouldn't be surprised if the small amounts of extra stress of day to day life in a more densely populated area isn't good for you.
I don't understand why seeing an ad is so bad. So a sleazy salesman is more annoying because they are in your way. But if you're going to see ads anyway, I'd rather they be relevant!! Can soemone explain why given that there will be ads either way they actually prefer irrelevant ads?
So, JavaScript? The records literals are JSON, which is the most popular syntax for this at the moment anyways.
This. If I had perfect QOS where I knew foreground tasks would dominate my bandwidth and connection would never be interrupted and latency would be low and packet-loss would be negligible? I would be perfectly happy with 10mbit. I'm not downloading images that often.
> probably the only gripe I would make is to have comma-separated lists instead of having to use parentheses to separate non-atomic expressions.

Wait no separators are evil. This is the best thing about the syntax.
But imagine you use an Android phone, for instance. There's a whole bunch of integrated stuff that works well together that wouldn't if you had a Google account and then kept your e-mail somewhere else. It's not really a 1:1 comparison.
I disagree with you, but from the perspective that my email contains the history of every transaction I have ever made, all of the newsletters I sign up to, and, for another 3 days, ~50% of my conversations, since I do a good chunk of my communicating over gChat.

Consumer preferences change over time, so google is far more interested in the thing I bought yesterday than the thing I bought 4 months ago, so being able to read my emails is still a current interest of theirs.
You can, it's called Google Apps for Business.
>conflation of neurotoxins in water and largely benign electronics makes very little sense.

dopamine addiction coming from and through the benign electronics may count for something.
I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing that a few years ago, didn't even realize I was just playing the same game :)

Edit: Does 0h h1 have the every row/column has to be unique rule? Edit Edit: It does. I don't think I knew that all the times I had played it years ago, probably would have helped on a few puzzles I got stuck on. Edit 3: It just came into play twice on my first 10x10.
Object-Oriented Java Primitives, 0.8.1 released
Most commonly and with lots ans lots of prejudice.
- no ads based on scanning emails

- no scanning emails

Are different things
The first part is sarcastic. It's a shame that you have to resort to "preventive self-denigrating" when voicing valid concerns about the FRS, which is basically a facade for a bunch of crooks who usurped the control over US money supply.
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How nice of Google.
You can't compare numbers across fabs anymore. Die size is basically marketing at this point.
They should go to India, or China, or Vietnam, or Nigeria, and, with a straight face, tell people there that we've become stagnant over the last century.
I have no idea why you would think that. It's pretty standard usage of punctuation like (){}[] etc. If it's hard to read that's because the libraries and infrastructure for writing derivations is not simple or well-documented. But that's not a language issue.
In the US a service provider is allowed to violate all manners of privacy for the express limitation of ensuring maintenance and system health. Spam blocking would qualify as maintenance, but advertising would not. I suspect Google violates all manners of privacy in an automated way for all manners of reasons and qualifies such in their terms and conditions.
> if there is a correlation between engagement/login/usage and churn ? Are users who login and use the Saas atleast twice a day are more likely to stay on ?

Yes, generally speaking, there is a correlation between usage and likelihood to stay on and not cancel. When we do our analysis, we're starting at the unique event level. I can't think of the data science term off the top of my head for it but our process doesn't require events to be keyed in, so while we have an event called 'login' our platform thinks of it as 'event 1' --- there is no semantic meaning to the event to our system, and this is intentional to allow us to test all events without knowing exactly what they are and under what circumstances they fire off.

>or is it that customers which have multiple users using the SaaS application are more likely to stay on ?

This is an interesting question, and I wouldn't say this is true. There is a lot of complexity when an account has 10 users, and 2 are super power users, active several times a day, when the other 8 are different degrees of engaged. Maybe a few never even registered in the first place. We have several methodologies for 'rolling up' user associated with one account to the account level which is key for our customers where we're not scoring likelihood of users to cancel, but likelihood of accounts to cancel.

> What signals are emitted by the customers who are about to discontinue ?

Varies for all of our customers. One thing to consider is we make sure we're not contaminating our dataset... if you have an event which is called "customer clicked don't renew button" that is helpful to you but we want to predict weeks or months before they click that button, and not take those types of events into account for training purposes.
What about it? What R&D has been done, for example, in the past few decades for routine doctor exams and to combat obesity?

Outside of niche drugs for rare diseases, what has R&D done to reduce costs?
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I'm very surprised prereigstration systems exist at all for college level lecture courses. Personally, I prefer the system where anyone can sign up for (almost) any class and then the university hires/reassigns teaching assistants as needed:

http://www.thecrimson.com/admissions/article/2013/9/10/cours...
The only reason that your DNA has a copy error rate is because your parents DNA had a copy error rate.
Definitely.

I think of markets as a technology. You have problem X, you can solve it with a market structured with A, B, and C. So it's really weird to me the extent to which markets have become a religion. In some quarters, a fundamentalist one.

I have similar concerns with Bitcoin. The technology is really neat. But it doesn't have users so much as it has adherent, devotees, and apostles.
> offering you goods and services you may be interested in

The thing is: never, not even once, has Google offered me an ad with goods and services I was interested in.
The Romans also used lead acetate as a sweetener.
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Why is six afraid of seven?

Because seven eight nine.

Never grep a yacc by the inode.
Big companies can't hide this stuff forever, you can eventually figure out, it is just better business-wise for them to just state they read your emails for ads, it can cost them a lot if they don't, plus most people don't really care.

A few weeks ago a friend and I were talking exclusively through WhatsApp about a trip to London(in Portuguese with our very unusual jargon), I didn't do any search for anything related it was all within our conversation, a couple days later Facebook had a post on my timeline saying: "heading to London? Check what your friends did there".

I don't remember reading anywhere that WhatsApp reads your conversations for ads, but it was clear to me that's where they got the information, it was spooky at first.
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Yep, that's basically it. You can't link any code to it. I think it was added just to make your launch screen look as similar as possible to your app's first screen.