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Ask HN: Where to Sell a Municipal Bonds Machine Learning Project
Hello, about 3 months ago, my business associate and I started reviewing machine learning papers about Municipal Bonds (price prediction).
After one month, I implemented a classifier (web application) that is able to predict if a Municipal Bond (Investor Grade, Tax Exempt) is going to gain or lose value in a 30 day period with a about 70% accuracy and 80% ROC AUC (Trained Jan to Jul 2017 and tested Aug 2017, transactions don't overlap).

Metrics: https://i.imgur.com/krotxNM.png

It needs data from 2 major financial information companies and the subscription for it isn't cheap (I think is around 12k/monthly), but the potential earnings are mucho more than that.

Right now there is a hedge found interested in the technology, but I'm looking for more offers. Any idea of where to start?

Thanks!
Crazy idea - what if other utilites were aware of ANSI codes and behaved appropriately? For example 'grep' could ignore color sequences when doing pattern-matching, and then re-apply the colors to the output. Then you could do something like `git log | grep` and see the original coloration in the output.
Oh well, dammit. I see that now. It's a zero-sum game, and in first-to-market, winner takes all. Time to pivot.
I also found this click bait title humorous. ONE COMPUTER can launch a car to into space!*

* As long as it's the one controlling all the other computers that control all the systems for Falcon Heavy.
haha. this reminds me of DOOM for SysAdmin, but better!
https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html
> It would also need to reach a balance with its planet and not simply eat up all the resources and die out.

Like we're kinda doing?
I've listened to a handful of fiction audiobooks, and Dune was the only one that I've listened to that had multiple voice actors. I'm sure there are others, but it's uncommon.
i think the issue is that since the script sits under wp-admin it is outside of something that administrators can use caching techniques against. Also, if it is under wp-admin, it should require a logon to access.
I personally love their bot API and the option to create custom stickers.

Although not "features", having an open API for writing clients for whatever platform I choose and the fact that their official clients are open source are also a big plus.
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Fascinating. I'm regularly coaching individuals to avoid absolutist words more as a means so they don't stir the pot with team members. This study points out a correlation that makes me rethink how I approach that advice.

It seems like there's a lot of room for understanding how language can impact behavior. There's the colloqualism "Perception is reality" and I guess with CBT the true mechanism is to change the language of a persons internal dialogue thus changing the way someone perceives the world.
So, if I figured out that my competitor used Namecheap's hosting, I could have signed up for a hosting account, hijacked store.mycompetitor.com, and used it to sell my own products. Not ideal, Namecheap.
The thread you link to has one performance test, with a difference of 750MB for OpenVPN and 870MB for SSH - how is that a factor of 6 to 8? And that's just for iperf/UDP traffic, which is hardly a good indicator of real world performance.
Hmm maybe people could stop having so many babies.

No that's crazy right?
> anti-european sentiment

The scientists are using evidence to assert something. Maybe it's flawed but unless you're going to publish and refute it, calling it "anti-european sentiment" based on nothing makes it seem a awful lot like you're the one being political.
When I was a youth almost all my peers had jobs which paid less than a "living wage" or were going to college (or, commonly, both). Just the way life works unfortunately...
So can any neural network, we should not be shocked by this
Cutouts 1.0: Cutout parts of a webpage, share them with friends, tag and search
exactly, that's how every other adhoc solution does it. however the bigger issue is that since it site under wp-admin, it should require a login to access.
> They are definitely measurable

No, not "definitely". You are assuming they are because "reasons". However, we have no idea whether those "reasons" apply, or whether they mean something is measurable.

You may have an argument that they should be measurable, but that's a far cry from "they are definitely".

A little humility is a Good Thing™
> I think it would also improve reading comprehension and enjoyment.

Listening comprehension.
I'd quite like to be able to write some plain python (not PIL or numpy or Cython or whatever) to change all the pixels in an image at a similar speed to say Java.
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The truth is the puritans enjoyed sex, just within the confines of marriage. Here is a brief article dispelling some of the myths, https://nypost.com/2016/10/21/the-puritans-really-loved-havi...
It's actually feasible to generate a .docx, especially when using anchors for text.

But .odt is much easier.
Was this the main point of the story? - "At some point, we were lucky to get noticed by the App Store team, and we’ve been featured as App of the Day throughout the world"
Serious question could a non-payment clause protect you from a client claiming damages from a stunt like this?

For instance could you include a clause that states: "In the event of non-payment, development on the site will cease and will be replaced with a temporary landing page until payment issue is resolved."
This post was killed as a dup, but where was the prior discussion?
The thing is, in WordPress, it's not uncommon to end up with a public URL that takes a few seconds to generate if it uses a few plugins or multiple queries on a low-end server. This is really just demonstrating that apache/nginx fall over at some point (usually what goes away first is the MySQL connection).
Like IPFS?

https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs
I'm going to add another:

4) We have more money sinks now. Just think what entertainment purchases looked like back in the '60s and '70s. You had no video games, no home video. A/V technology progressed so slowly that your TV set and your stereo system wouldn't become obsolete. The only upgrade people made was going up to a color TV (and B&W sets were much less common by the end of the '70s). So, the average person would buy one TV set and one stereo system, and they'd have a bookshelf and a record collection. Nowadays in the 21st century, there's a dizzying array of stuff you can buy for your own entertainment. As such, people are diverting their funds away from traditional lifestyle purchases (clothes, furniture, etc.) and towards modern forms of entertainment (video games, Blu-rays, Netflix and Hulu subscriptions, etc.) and upgrading our basic hardware (new computers and phones every couple of years, going from old-school TVs to HDTV to 3DTV to 4K, new video game consoles every generation, etc.).

(Also, I'll say that your point #2 applies more to men than women. Women's clothing is still very colorful.)
Nice to see this article available on the Internet: I read a PDF that was passed around by email at the time it was published (Frank Yang is a relative of one of my neighbors and I once tried to chat with him about Maxwell over dinner...).

If you haven't read Wigner's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" it's worth a look : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness...
Soon after the Windows 95 release I heard that one of the members of the Windows 95 team had a copy of NeXTstep on a computer they used, and that it was a source of ‘inspiration’. I can’t find any reference to this now, but the 3D look and grey shades definitely are similar. Windows 95 looks much more like NeXTstep than Windows 3.11.
Sure, given this one data point that's also a fair interpretation, although you'd be assuming a lot about the distribution of not-necessarily-comparable jobs across industries. But this reasonable interpretation is also at odds with the author's disclaimer that 'The gap, however, is an artifact, a social construct that has no implications for "social justice"'.

I presume the author doesn't actually believe that this gap definitively "an artifact" with "no implications". Rather, he probably believes something closer to "the fact that this gap is not caused by prejudice does not imply that the social justice movement is wrong". I presume he defensively overstated it in the way he did to reduce the chances of being attacked by an online mob. While it's understandable that he'd want to do avoid being attacked, I'd prefer if he could phrase his deflection in a way that is more strictly correct.
I see no value in a machine that draws pictures like a human except to shovel monstrous quantities of mass produced crap to further starve the masses of any attention span. If the future of entertainment is plugging in a bunch of parameters and spitting out some optimal result that appeals to some demographic, a practice that we can almost see fully realized today except for the part where machines create all the content, then there will be no new entertainment worth consuming in the future.

NN generated books, movies, shows, paintings, all worthless. It's the maximum viable version of youtube videos made for children that are cobbled together with a bunch of random assets, so that perhaps a baby will stay quiet and maybe click some ads.
I was just about to purchase $10,001 worth of services from them and have now decided not to because of the computer trespass by the web developer.

According to https://www.cga.ct.gov/2012/rpt/2012-R-0254.htm that makes it a Class B Felony.

Plus the prima facie tort for the lost business.

Are you sure it's such a good idea to go around looking for trouble like this?

There are plenty of legal recovery avenues without going looking for trouble and pretending it's just standing up for yourself - a defense which will go nowhere in a felony hearing.
You can watch the KotlinConf session video by Tor Norbye. It was what you said and more. To clarify, I meant they dropped Java internally for their own lint rules, not that they dropped support.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8yX5-lPS6o&list=PLQ176FUIyI...
Ask HN: Can a company be built using open source code?
Well, for companies like Docker or Mongo, I guess their revenue model is to provide support for enterprise customers. But can a new company like say the next Uber or Facebook or Netflix or Amazon be built on top open source products where their core offering is available for everyone to check and read? What about licensing the code? What kind of licenses should they use?
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The browser was in the Plus! package.
I've seen useful usage of coroutines where you have a task you want to run synchronously on the main thread, but you want it to yield time without unwinding the whole stack.

So you create another thread, have the main thread yield time to it, and at fixed points in this other thread yield back to the main thread. When the main thread yields to this other thread, all it's context is maintained and you don't need to "walk up" the stack to restore the work this thread was doing.

At a high level, this solves the class of problems where you need to do background tasks in applications that aren't thread safe. There are probably other places where these work well, but this is just my experience.
> I still get frustrated on OSX when I minimize a window and have to hunt around for it.

OSX took the NextStep/OpenStep interface and dumbed it down to great detriment, then added new things back (spaces, zooming) which were inferior logically but required less 'thinking' of how one works and more 'shiny looking' to potential customers..

IMHO hands down the best mouse-oriented window management paradigm to exist to date is the NextStep/OpenStep style over and above windows and osx, though I will admit windows has improved things with their sort of hybrid 'classic' windows+'macish' updates, and some of the newer ui things (e.g. window thumbnails) haven't made it into the current flagship of that lineage which is the open source WindowMaker..

Since the 'official' lineages are dead, am hoping the WindowMaker people continue to innovate/move this paradigm forward as they have been doing subsequently for the last N years...
People with money and vision spot the good startups in the early round(s) and may decide they do not need a gorilla (SEC) sitting on their shoulders at this time, mainly due to the burden, but it also shits down your back...
The threshold could be very low for gaining upvote privilege. But yes, I like this idea better. As a long time reader but someone who doesn't comment much, I don't like the idea of being further restricted on what users like me can't do. I upvote things I find interesting even if I don't comment often.
That's kind of the impression I got too. Build a nice looking app and hope that Apple throws you a bone I guess.
Which is amusing, because @Pinboard absolutely cannot stand SpaceX and mocks them constantly.
Honestly I much prefer the old control panel and use it whenever possible on Windows 10. There is very little you actually need the new Settings dialog for. But I completely understand why it exists, the control panel is way too complex for the average user.
I totally understand that currently it is not possible. My personal opinion is that the scope should be widened carefully in a limited way for aggregious public corruption. It's not an easy answer by any means but should be addressed with harsh penalties for some situations
>In 2011 Zuckerberg ['s sister] advocated for the abolition of anonymity on the Internet to protect children and young adults from cyber-bullying. Zuckerberg explained how anonymity is protective for perpetrators. (Wikipedia)

I'm really surprised to see anyone advocating anything like that, but I guess it goes to show that Hackernews is actually a little ways out of the mainstream.
It’s all about your use case and threat model. For me, I am just using it to get around traffic shaping by my shitty ISP. Easy setup and speed are the only parts that matter to me. If the government wanted to sniff my traffic I’m sure they could find a way, but my ISP is too dumb to do it on their own which solves my problem.
Solution: add http auth to your /wp-admin directory
>The bulk of my friends don’t pay for subscriptions. The bulk of the internet doesn’t pay for subscriptions. People will gladly spend hours a day reading brainjunk, to avoid even the slightest expense that might improve the quality of what they are reading.

There are non-subscription models, e.g. people pay for ebooks.

There are niche subscriptions, e.g. finance, health, which cost much more than Netflix.

Some websites have occasional article gems, but there's no way to pay for a high quality, non-DRM, indexable, offline readable, surveillance-free PDF/A version.
I can't agree with this. I don't think scraping specific forums for a small dictionary list of words can be an accurate marker of depression, especially when those forums overlap with your control ones; asthma, cancer, and ptsd sufferers would also suffer depression and anxiety as well, and it's hard to say those would be linked to word usage. It feels more like they had an idea and constructed an experiment to bolster it, considering they have no way to verify what the actual rates of depression and anxiety are apart from posting in that forum, nor any way to take into account lurkers and non-posting participants, who make the majority of a forum's inhabitants.
>however the bigger issue is that since it site under wp-admin, it should require a login to access.

wtf?
Sorry - what exactly has Woz contributed over the last n decades?

I love the guy, but your point of comparison here is .. well, futile.
Except that usually DoS attacks are effective because they use a distributed system of many computers (DDoS).

This attack is notable in that it requires only one, this detail is worth mentioning.
So, I think WireGuard can't, but it can be used as a part of the puzzle. I'm running a mesh using WG as the security layer, and then l2tp to provide a layer 2 on which to run batman-adv. I have a bunch of machines getting DHCP addresses from my home router that way, and (I assume) batman gives me good routing. Of course, cobbling together your own "secure" mesh probably isn't ideal, but it works surprisingly well.
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That's the reason they are working on the next-gen mobile client now, code-named Telegram X [1] [2]. In my tests it appears to be faster and lighter, I can't speak for the code though as it hasn't been released yet.

1. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/telegram-x/id898228810?mt=8
2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thunderdog...
VRBO basically is what people used before Airbnb. As a long time user of it I never really understood the Airbnb hype. I guess Airbnb penetrated markets due to hype and marketing which vrbo was unable to. But they are basically the same thing for end users.
Actually it's the cheapest promotion that received this kind of feedback, ever. Their alternative was to use some leftover scrap for the test. The only cost was the car itself - and if Tesla/SpaceX manages to catch it in the future, it's definitely going to be the most expensive car ever.
I predict the usual moralizing comments about how not paying people is bad, but doing this is soo much worse.
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Like the one literally in the subject and link
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It seems a bit like a toy project right now.

SSH supports a wider array of features while having effectively the same cost in implementation and use. The only difference is SSH doesn't support dual IP roaming and IP over UDP. Probably didn't need to start a whole new project when they could have added this to SSH, but then crypto nerds couldn't reinvent the wheel (and SSH probably wouldn't accept the patches).

And this baffles me:

"In the server configuration, each peer (a client) will be able to send packets to the network interface with a source IP matching his corresponding list of allowed IPs. For example, when a packet is received by the server from peer gN65BkIK..., after being decrypted and authenticated, if its source IP is 10.10.10.230, then it's allowed onto the interface; otherwise it's dropped." "system administrators do not need complicated firewall extensions, such as in the case of IPSec, but rather they can simply match on "is it from this IP? on this interface?", and be assured that it is a secure and authentic packet."

If this is on a dedicated tun/tap interface, shouldn't it only be transmitting secure and authentic packets anyway?? Why is IP traffic on an interface just assumed to be authentic information, if for example you aren't sure what put that packet on that interface? And you still need firewalls, so this duplicates configuration. This is basically an .rhosts file for a VPN.

If WireGuard is as easy to set up as SSH, why not use SSH? Because you want a VPN. But if you want a VPN, don't you want VPN features? WireGuard doesn't have VPN features. So you have to get a real VPN, or use SSH.

To put it another way: if you only want roaming IP and public keys, use WireGuard. For any other use case, you're going to get a real VPN or use SSH.
"literally" as in "not literally" as most parts of WP are not vulnerable to this attack.
I don't know, but I hope so. I worked at Amazon when the Alexa was released and one of the things people love about Alexa are the custom skills. I've heard that the store is a bit of a mess, but they have some cool integrations.
Sometimes people travel, and it would be nice to have the data if a meteor strikes while you're gone.
> I wouldn't switch back because of the underlying crap that is the Windows [...] file system

You lost me. HFS+ is arguably one of the worst file systems around (yes I know that Apple finally switched to APFS but that was fairly recent).

I'm really curious what you actually liked about Mac's file system vs. Windows?
Not sure why you’d have to hunt for minimized windows because there is a separate area on the dock reserved for them, and the animation clearly shows the window moving towards it.
Thanks! That's a great idea, especially now that people can create lots of these.

I wonder what would be the ideal format for that? It could give you a list of newsletters and their descriptions, with some popularity signals or something.. It might be better to surface the free content though. Maybe "here are some recent free issues by newsletters you might enjoy." Just thinking out loud...
It's evolution in the smart device market as the use of a lightweight JS engine on an IoT device goes more mainstream. Being lightweight is key to allowing third-party apps while maintaining decent battery life.
I can't find the dictionaries they used. It's hard to develop any intuition about the utility of research like this, without the actual dictionaries they applied analysis to.

Are the word lists public information? Why or why not?

Are there links to the word lists?
If you're having that many arguments, maybe it's you. Not being snarky, it can be difficult to assess your social interactions int he aggregate and conflict may sometimes be drive n by a desire for emotional activation (and maybe dopamine or other neural reward) that isn't satisfied by shallow/bland interactions.

Of course, not all arguments are bad. I prefer to be around someone that argues (in a constructive lets-compete-for-a-good-solution way) than someone who is just habitually agreeable; in the latter case, you might want someone to test out the strength of your ideas but you end up feeling like you're pushing a string, which is demotivating.
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But they literally are.
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> It's not that I cannot afford to wear suits. Its that I dont like suits.

I think you prove my point (and it's not a bad thing!)

Sociology is interesting. A suit is traditionally a sign of "I invest in my clothes and therefore I have self-pride." (It's also a sign that you don't have to do hard/dirty labor.) It seems culturally America has decided that this is out-dated and are choosing to focus less on clothes as a sign of pride. This doesn't the pride isn't there, just that the ways of showing and seeing it have changed for some or most.

Some people will always think a tee-shirt or shorts look worse than a button-up and pants. It's a personal sentiment for sure.
Maybe at a certain point civilizations realize the potential risks of broadcasting, and go stealthy. Have you read ‘The Three Body Problem’ trilogy?
Once I realized my library had a wide audiobook selection that I could checkout and listen to from my phone I cancelled Audible.