skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fwiw I've self taught myself multivar calc and (so far) some phd stats. It's not glamorous though. It's thousands of hours working through textbooks, and requires some really intense levels of motivation.

Also I wish I studied it in college, but didn't want to go back.
Is actually, not bad as a UI.

More fleshed and could be a good alternative to the regular shells.
Ask HN: Can you train multiple neural networks to work together?
I’ve been getting into ML recently, and started studying Neural Networks. The work seems to be mostly about training nets on a specified dataset, at least in the intro lessons I’ve covered. Training on a dataset is interesting, but what idea i wanted to do a more complex task, like classify something in multiple mediums, I.e images and sound.

Would it be possible to string together multiple neural networks trained on different datasets all feeding forward to some master net that operates on the bunch and comes up with a more complex decision?
Aurora Serverless Data API: A First Look
a "dead" company can last a very, very long time.

By measure of "cool kid technological fore-runner" IBM has been dead since the early 80s.

Or perhaps more hilariously:

http://excite.com/

reminder that google wanted to sell to excite.com for $750,000, excite.com said no.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/google-excite/
Sure, but please note that it is not "smart" related.

All i wanted to say is that dying is not related to market value.

Die as in bankrupt or not profitable is a big stretch for its use as a metaphor. Im not sure how to put this without sounding patronizing and/or stupid and/or explaining to retards but:

There are more things in life besides money or economical viability.

One could argue that afk it is way more easy to use it metaphorically to stereotype those that have money than those who do not.
Just because you choose to believe you need to be fed your information doesn't mean others do. I've tutored people carrying the thoughts you're expressing ("I need someone to teach me this because I'm not smart enough to learn it on my own"). The quickest way to success with them was shattering that myth. I did it by talking to them about their feelings/beliefs and helping them figure out practices for changing their minds about themselves. Here's a great paper called The Debugging Mindset on cultivating a growth oriented perspective an why it's important:
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3068754

I hope you can develop a more empowered perspective of yourself and others though reading it.
While I agree that the "Spaced Repetition" technique is phenomenally powerful - I've used it to memorise Ozymandias, the entire periodic table, English Regnal dates, and more - there is very little point in memorising what the symbol "is" (that's a signum, that's a small delta) because what a symbol "means" changes from discipline to disciple, paper to paper, and author to author.
I don't miss any of these.
Google Calendar SMS notifications to be removed January 7, 2019
Also missing all the APIs that Google dropped over the years, which means products that depended on them stopped working.
I've taken reasonably advanced math courses (I was, for a time, a math major), and I have a great deal of difficulty with machine learning papers. They often reference domain-specific formulas that are prerequisites, sometimes without naming them, and rarely does a paper actually define every symbol used in a formula (in fact, I don't think I've ever seen a paper do this - it's usually none, and they only define a few elements of the notation). The worst part is that they'll use a known formula, but change the notation slightly without explaining why.

These are bad academic habits. If you're using a formula with a dozen variables - at least state what they are, as well as any more unusual or overloaded notation, subscripts, etc. If you're using a formula from elsewhere, it's better to restate what these symbols mean in your paper, rather than send the reader off on a hunt. Be clear, be explicit, leave no doubt. You don't have to explain all of probability theory, but it takes only a line or two to vastly improve the readability of your paper.
Google docs had multi-user features before Wave. Back when it was called writely.com even. Some features scattered out onto other Google products though (like hangouts).
"Since Calendar offers in-app notifications, you can still get notified, regardless of your device or connection."
No, the 6 replaced the 5s. The SE came a few months afterwards.

That they didn't actually discontinue the 5s at the time is incidental.

The point is, that they do release things out of cycle so just because they didn't do it at the usual time doesn't mean they won't.
> Lots of ways to subtly mislead with cherry-picked stats or the "men don't report reliably anyways, so we can't consider that" hand-waving this article does.

Yikes, let's not be misleading in turn. That's not why they don't have those stats. Here's the actual reason and context you conveniently left out:

"unfortunately, the NSFG doesn’t have full data on men’s premarital sexual behavior, and in any event they recall their own marital histories less reliably than do women)"

Demonstrate why they are incorrect or misleading as opposed to setting up a strawman.
Yeah I remember it being more like OneNote than a chat app. At least that's now I remember trying to use it. Maybe it was something halfway in between. As much as I tried to use it, it never really caught on. Can't really remember now.
Thanks, didn’t even know G+ was shutting down.

Guess I better tell my mom, she’s just started using it, the low user count is actually a good feature for her, doesn’t like the “noisiness” of other platforms
I don't mean to be negative, and the project looks great, but how many more web editors do we need?
https://www.khanacademy.org is a good place to start. Otherwise, you can take a look here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols. There are free calculus courses available on https://coursera.org that you can start on, otherwise a local introductory math program might be available to you?
This is completely at odds with my experience of speaking French in France, both in major cities and small villages. My spoken French is appalling, and yet I've encountered nothing but good will from the French, happy to encourage me, and to work together to figure out what I'm trying to say.

Obviously YMMV, but your assertions are contrary to my experience.

Edit: Down-voted. Thanks for the reality check.

2nd edit: Up-voted, perhaps to compensate. Thank you to whoever did that.
Turkey or Nah? App Uses Tensorflow.js to Detect 'A Turkey' or 'Not a Turkey'
I followed your search link and just clicked the second article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/5d38c003-c54a-4513-a3...

No where does it say that there were only 1 attack in 15 years.
It's not just the lyrics. There's a certain female voice that dominates the pop music industry. Repetitive doesn't come close. Clone would be more accurate. Pop music today is dominated by the X-Factor industry. In the 70s you had the influence of the music business moguls but there was still room for genuinely creative bands to appear on Top Of The Pops and in the UK Top 20.
> I thought it was pretty clear actually: it works out of the box with no configuration (batteries included).

Actually, no. This is not clear at all looking at the website. Unless you assume that vim does not come with "batteries included", which sounds wrong to me. I for one use "raw" vim, without plugins nor configuration, and I am very happy with it.

(Strictly speaking, this is false: I have "set t_ti= t_te=" in my .vimrc so that the screen is not cleared when I exit, but I suppose this kind of fringe features are OK to be user-specified).
The real answer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18503772
This requirement is technically fulfilled by encrypting transmissions with TLS and storage with disk encryption like LUKS or Veracrypt. It does not really say anything about password hashing.
Instead of “died”, I’m guessing the poster meant “irrelevant”.
I've been reading mathematical notation for decades. You face three things I've noticed:

1. People are typically _really_ bad at writing mathematics -- notational brevity is not a virtue when attempting to communicate ideas. You may find value reading through notes on Knuth[0] and what he taught regarding writing mathematics.

2. There is a certain level of field/conceptual awareness needed when translating the coded concepts in an academic paper/textbook. However, consistent with (1), people are bad at encoding. Using several topical texts at your disposal can help. For example, in econometrics your standard masters year 1 texts are Greene, and Wooldridge. Wooldridge is expansive and simpler to read, Greene is more fundamental and uses horrendous notation. I found reading the same topics in Wooldridge helped me decode Greene, from which I was able to deepen my understanding of Wooldridge.

3. Very few people can read a paper or text once and know it immediately. The most studied professors I know will take months to fully digest a seminal article that incorporates new ideas -- if you're new to a field, _every_ article is seminal to you.

Don't give up. It takes practice to decode, to put the concepts into a mentally straightforward order, and so on. The fact you're asking about it shows that you care, and if you let that grow you'll get to the point you want to be.

[0] http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/reviewing-papers/knuth_mathematica...
How nuerons do addressing could be interesting to know. Is it like dhcp?. also is there data in the signals, like CAN-bus? Trying to draw comparisons maybe useful in building some kind of architecture. We know language is the tool or technology of understanding. And that developing it creates context for further understanding so in some respects language modelling itself is self learning. You'd then maybe only have to make it goal oriented. How that mental model works and grows seems to operate at metaphysical level but is represented in that physical pink lump. But as people often point out you don't need to be a bird to fly. Aren't we going for something beyond our own contraints when we try to make thinking machines? In which case the brain could be a limiting architecture. Harder to model is how we 'feel'. Pain is felt beyond just heat, pressure sensors or something unwanted demanding our attention. It's simple to concieve a model for reasoning using symbols, so in which case how it's done physically may be irrelevant? The intolerable ache of a tooth however is a hard thing to comprehend. Physcologically pleasure and pain are just multiplication or division or a success rate of our desired state. But understanding and feeling sensors and incorporating them into our condition brings in the whole needing a body argument. It's probably inaccurate to just call the CNS sensors and the PNS actuators. How the limbic system or the gut interact with our intelligence needs factoring in too for the creation of values. We identified many of the salient aspects of the mind, brain and body a long time ago. I wonder if it's enough to simulate bodies or needing sensory robots is more important? I don't feel I would know much if I had sensory deprivation of more than 3 senses. We encode many things onto memories. Time, geospatial information, emotional information, sensory information. Our corellation of all that stuff is our subjective understanding of it. It feels naive to assume one small group of people in one small domain will get us there given all the touchpoints.
> I am super bad at interviewing

Then read some (maybe this, I didn't look at it in detail, but at first glance looks reasonable) and practice.

> I just want to see how well the candidate can code :-(

All this tells you is if the candidate can code. If you want that, give them a test, look at their Github history (if they have it). Ask for code samples from any project they can share that they're proud of.

I personally find it much more valuable when interviewing someone to talk about what they've done. How they've solved problems. What their interests are both in and outside software.

Setting up a non-stressful experience and using behavioral interview type of questions and form is my personal favorite. Something I think is really important, that many people forget, is that the interviewee is also interviewing you. If you come across disorganized, unprepared (didn't even read their resume), etc., then you may fail the interview and even if you want to hire them, they'll say no.
Ask HN: What should you focus on in the first 2 weeks at a new company?
Hi,

I am starting my position as a software engineer at a big company next week and would like to know what to focus on for the first two weeks at a big company.

Previously, I worked at a small dev shop for 3 years and have never experienced working at a large corporation before.

What advice would you give for navigating bureaucracy, getting promoted, networking in company, etc.
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18503772
That is indeed bad. I've seen stellar coders that were terrible at their job (unable to communicate with a client, to work in team, to be autonomous, to be pragmatic...).

Unless your part in the interview process is explicitely to only look at the coding skills, in which case that's perfectly OK I suppose!
Gee, it’s almost as if the phrase means whatever is needed at the time to win an argument.

When an opponent says that the evidence of anthropogenic cause and/or catastrophic effects doesn’t meet the threshold of proof they want before supporting regulatory schemes, oh look they are denying [that the] climate change[s]. It’s basic science!

And if they say that of course the climate changes, has changed a lot more in the distant past than we’ve ever seen firsthand, and humans probably affect it in many ways, well they’re ignoring how the phrase “climate change” is used in the literature, which implies a particular anthropogenic cause and catastrophic effects!
Crypto Exchange LXDX Giving Away 150,000 Shares
Standardization took place and the "business class" caught up.
The only problem here is that you decided to overcomplicate things by having a myriad of %s and ternary operators. You could've done something like:

if a == 1 and b == 1: some str
elif a == 1 and b != 1: some str
elif a != 1 and b == 1: some str
elif a != 1 and b != 1: some str

But instead you wanted to pee the bed.
Vim doesn't have syntax highlighting? News to me. Git and file finder is available to you by opening a new terminal tab/window and simply using git/standard unix utils. There's no need to integrate such features when you can extend a terminal into an IDE as your needs suit.
Massive discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18503772
Large discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18503772
The discussion seems to be here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18503772
Other people have listed great books and resources.

What I don't see, however, is to ask a friend. Find someone who is familiar with the notation, if not the material, and ask questions. You'll likely get a more clear answer.
Primary discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18503772
1. Try to get a mentor.

During my time as a PhD student in philosophy, I had the luck of having a mathematician and physicist turned philosopher as my supervisor. He helped me a lot in understanding notation and improving my own mathematical writing style (~ getting silly notation ideas playing around with LaTeX out of my head).

Notation heavily relied on conventions and these differ from field to field. Mathematicians are usually very clear and define everything. They have to be easy to understand, because what they are talking about gets very complicated very fast. Unfortunately, in other areas like logic-oriented theoretical CS there is an unhealthy focus on 'notational precision' (plus shortcuts, making things worse) rather than being understood that can make papers rather incomprehensible at first.

2. Look for textbooks with good mathematical prose.

Get some recommendations. Some good introductory books are relatively short, self-contained, define everything, and avoid symbols in favor of English in many places. Try to get one of those in the area you're interested in.

3. Check your reading style. (kind of obvious advice that is often given, but maybe still helpful)

You may be reading the texts in the wrong way. I did that very often and occasionally still do. Reading a mathematical text takes way more time than any other text and requires active participation. Do the exercises and stop every so often to check your understanding. Constantly use pen and paper and check everything. Draw diagrams.
I hope you don’t hire based only by quality of a code. Do you let someone else interview the candidate for soft skills?
> I travel around the UK with my kids and these days everything wants to charge an entry fee, even other castles in similar states of decay/disrepair.

> Easily my favourite castle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llansteffan_Castle

Llansteffan Castle is free to enter and wander around in the way you did as a kid, despite being privately owned

What's not allowed are things like wedding photography and drone flying, at least without paying (and having various insurance).

Basically it's free unless you're making money from it.
Annoyingly doesn't say WHY.
Is it just me, or is HN becoming a dumping ground for worthless stories from internet "media" rags like Vox, The Atlantic, etc.? Are these outlets spamming their stories to HN, or are people simply karma-whoring?
I think it is interesting that a conservative think-tank uses the term 'studies' in their name. Disciplines with a <object of interest> studies title usually denotes a theoretical kinship with Critical theory or generally adhering to a postmodern humanistic philosophy of science.

The author is a professor of Family and Consumer Studies at University of Utah. That discipline is usually denoted Family and Consumer Sciences or domestic science. The same discipline being split between researchers favoring either a studies or science name is nothing new. But almost all examples I can think of involves a dispute between a hard/soft approach.[0] Which is not really the case here. So in my opinion would a generalist be excused from presuming that this institute is rooted in the liberal goals of critical social theory, instead of what it really is.

I have no evidence that professor Wolfinger is nothing but a serious scholar. But it still smells a little like scholarly black hat SEO'ing to me.

[0] Crudely said a soft approach involves a focus on theory, relativizing empirical evidence, and activism.
What about leaving flowers, like the one on the slate.com from 2013 [0][1] used to facilitate?

[0] https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/03/google-graveyard-does-exi...
[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/201...
I still miss google desktop. The Windows search indexer has never been particularly good.
It's not about being "fed information". It's the reality that being around a motivated group of peers confers real advantage.

I look at the history of art (e.g. Impressionists), YC, winning athletics programs, Silicon Valley, or just about any well-regarded academic department as evidence. These places don't do well just because they select the best, they also MAKE the best by creating an environment that fosters it.
MIT AI: Python (Guido van Rossum)
> I don't know any way I'd have learned all the complex topics in math, stats, probability, etc., I did without attending a big 10 engineering school

This is something the MOOC crowd often overlook. It's based on a misunderstanding of what a university gives you: university entry doesn't grant you access to some members-only club where they hide away the knowledge to keep it from the plebs (ignoring the open access movement, at least). Instead it grants you access to an environment in which you can learn effectively.

The idea that MOOCs will threaten the existence of universities is absurd. It's already possible to get access to the sum of human knowledge without being enrolled at a university. It's always been possible. They're called books.

But this stuff is hard, and attending a high-quality institution gives you a huge advantage in learning the material, compared to being self-taught. MOOCs may grant everyone access to lectures, but just as important is learning with high-quality peers. A MOOC is not the equivalent of being in a class with other smart and well-motivated students.

Again, it's always been possible to learn this stuff independently, but your odds of succeeding are far lower that way. It's great that we have lots of freely available learning material online, but I really don't see that MOOCs are going to turn the world on its head the way some people seem to think.

I'm ignoring accreditation here, of course. If you want to be a surgeon, you obviously do not have the option of teaching yourself, but in terms of learning maths/technology (and assuming knowledge - and not a certificate - is your goal), books have always been there. MOOCs are books++, not universities--. (With apologies to the pedants who might prefer the pre-positional operators.)
Excellent sounding project -- great thing to do for the web!

How are you going to deal with pronunciation in the Alexa skill?
Facebook Multi Groups Posting in AutoHotkey (TagIE)
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/2sz5xo/bspwmofxoc...
Their FAQ [1, 2] suggests that using an encrypted password still warrants an entry.

[1] http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/devs

[2] http://plaintextoffenders.com/faq/non-devs
Why it's important to define what “enough” is for your business
Belgium: Muslim organisation brainwashes children to reject Western culture
You say:

> What I don't see, however, is to ask a friend.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18510564 :

> ... get a few examples, and ask some friends, colleagues, or on-line forums ...
Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air
I understand why they had to, but I'm still a bit sad Wikipedia axed the edits that added the standard military conflict infobox with "Australian dignity" listed as a casualty
Maybe more civilized countries can offer them asylum. Its just incredible to what degree the US is fucking its own people and how unwarrantedly proud they all are about their country.
They do already, even without any goodwill, a suicide costs north of a few thousand, so it makes sense to try to reduce them.
Cause of death would be nice instead of 'why dead?'
I completely agree that this is tragic and not in any way funny.

I also agree that his being American is irrelevant: we have arrogant, selfish fools in many countries.

But I can't agree that his being Christian is irrelevant. His stated reason for being there was on a conversion mission. It was precisely his proselytising that gave him the arrogance to risk the lives of everyone on the island.

And it was very likely his religion that led to his death. He had been shot at on a previous visit. He wrote to his parents saying that he may not return. It strikes me as highly likely that he thought that his death would be a martyr's death.

So no, I don't find it funny. Any more than if someone climbed into a lion's enclosure and was mauled to death. Because, in many ways, that's very similar to what he did. An utterly stupid waste.
If you host your code on Google Cloud Source Repository you can use the search feature https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/searching-...
$144 a month gets you one master. As I said, an HA master is twice that. If you want to compare to GKE, you are starting at $288 a month.
Nice, thanks. Do you know if any math textbooks have been translated into code notation?