skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats on the launch! You've got a decent website but I didn't have a very good first impression. Allow me to share what I went through to see if you can make some improvements? After finally getting a chance to figure out just what the heck this is, I can say I had a terribly frustrating experience.

1) Cool, a mobile app creator. Let's take a look and see what this one has to offer.

2) Interesting, let's look at the tour. Oh, it's Vimeo. Crap, the video won't load. Any other way to see? Nope, guess not. Oh well, lets refresh a few times. Nope, still can't load. Silly Vimeo. Oh well, I'll ctrl+click and load it in another tab while I click around.

3) Get started. Hrmm, these themes seem to all be pretty similar. Oh well, let's see. Wait, what? Oh, I can just add invitations and event information? Wait, I thought this was a mobile app creator? Let's go back to the homepage and see what I missed. Oh wait: there is no link back to the homepage from the creator. Not a single one. Help? Nope, goes to Zendesk. About? Nope, goes to blog. How about the top left? That always goes to the home page, right? Nope.

4) Guess I'll see if the video will load. Oh, the video finally decided to start. OHHHH, it's made for events. "Introducing Yapp Events" and it's completely clear from the video that it's totally about events. Surely the homepage said this and I just missed it? Nope, the word "event" appears in a not so legible image (not actual text) along with "And many other events, gatherings, and groups..."

So, allow me to comment on my problems.

1) This creates event apps for mobile devices. It is a far cry from a generalized "mobile app creator." In my opinion, "Mobile App Creator for Events" is not only more accurate but more interesting as it's solving a particular problem and not just claiming to be another "app creator."

2) Provide some kind of tour that isn't video, please. I want to be able to go through a tour without having to rely on Vimeo (which works sometimes, but often doesn't). Can't I just read through a simple set of images and instructions to browse how this thing works?

3) Providing a dead end for me to be able to get back to the homepage is pretty bad. I got into it and because it wasn't clear this wasn't an event app creator, I got lost and couldn't find my way back home.

4) Why does your introduction video so clearly say that this is to help make apps for events but your homepage appears to advertise it as a generalized app creation tool? If you are relying on the gist or the important part of your application to be described in a video that may or may not be loaded, then you're not conveying your intentions clearly enough.

I hope I didn't come across as too negative. I like the idea and the service, but just wanted to share what I went through in case others may have gotten lost along the way as well.
Holbrook was also the middle school next to ours.
They'll usually either be exercised or settled for cash if they're profitable. You should look into your broker's policy, though - if they're exercised, you should be sure you have enough capital to cover the position.

You should also not be in a position to forget about your options - they can move very quickly and forgetting about the position can cost a lot of money.
So they successfully replicated the online apple store rush experience then?
Beyond just the importance of understanding how computers work, I deeply believe that learning to program can be a huge aid to understanding (really understanding) mathematical concepts as well as other fields of science, language, etc.

I'm currently reading Seymour Papert's amazing book _Mindstorms_ (after reading a comment on HN, appropriately enough). I am in complete agreement with his assertion that schools currently present topics as a series of disconnected rote pieces with no "point" or basis for deeper understanding. Computers can provide the platform for understanding, intuiting, and even self-teaching concepts in a way that just isn't possible with pencil and paper.

The whole book makes me unconsciously flex my hands into fists and suppress a scream, "yes! This!"

I was one of those kids who thought they just weren't made for math and I hated it and felt bad about it. Later in life, I finally figured out that all of the math I'd been taught in school was about as complex as a "hello world" program. It's laughable, really. And I don't feel bad about it anymore. I wish somebody had been able to tell me that then.
Ok, we're getting closer, but I think acabal's point was that it's hard for us to tell on a general basis which acronyms matter and which don't. i.e. the question isn't really "what do I use?" it's "how do I know what to use when I don't have the knowledge to evaluate the different options? or even to tell which options matter?"

There's a disconnect here. Perhaps to you it seems like you're pounding the same simple point over and over again, trying every which way to explain it, and we always keep bringing up things that we really shouldn't be concerning ourselves with because we'll just screw them up.

But the community needs a better starting point. A lot of us know that there's a universe of stuff that we don't know about crypto, and we don't blithely imagine that we're secure because we used XCZ or LSA-j14(3). What we know is that Bob said to use XLQ and everyone says Bob is an expert, so we're gonna use XLQ. But we often come to this information in the middle of a hacker news thread, or on a website that looks like it was designed in 1993. There's no good general starting point that gives us a way to make good security decisions without knowing what we don't know. Does that make sense?

(There are actually a lot of resources that try to be starting points, but without the tools to do a meta-evaluation of which of these is expert and trustworthy, we're back to the same problem.)
For recruiters who aren't sure where to find these mythical post-docs who do science (with "Data"):

1. Go to a scientific journal that involves serious computational work.

2. Look at the last author on an article. This is usually the lab boss.

3. Google "$LASTNAME lab webpage".

4. Look for graduate student and post-doc profiles.

5. Email them and offer more than the 38k they make for working 60+ hrs/wk.

6. Now you have a "Data Scientist"

Alternatively, just Google "Argonne National Labs".

There is no shortage of Data Scientists with years of experience (every scientist I've talked to has guffawed heartily and asked "what other kind of scientist is there?"). Yes, I get that the term is just a very unfortunate choice of words (on the order of General Linear Model vs Generalized Linear Model), but the point is that no one knows to brand themselves this way. Recruiters are probably just frustrated by the lack of linked-in-ness, and the fact that most people competent at "Data Science" don't know what that means.

Here are things virtually every PhD in a computational discipline will have done:

1. Written code. It might be just Matlab, Python, R, etc.

2. Written up and communicated the results with compelling visualizations, both orally and written

3. Published a paper at some point demonstrating they can do this.

4. Dealt with failure and hunches that didn't work out after weeks of work.

On the hiring part, after you've found these mythical creatures:

As someone who does science (with Data, even!), here is the best question I can think of to ascertain my competence: "Diagram an approach to answer a particular question, with emphasis on ruling out competing explanations and demonstrating whether a result is true. Sketch some hypothetical visualizations you'd use that show what your result is, how large the effect is, and how sure you are that you're right."

I should be able to do that. On the flip side, if an employer can reason with a post-doc about that process in an intelligent fashion, they would be excited about leaving academia. You might need to teach them to use a cluster, EC2, whatever, but you will not have to teach them to ask and answer questions.
It's all fun and games until somebody loses their head over it.
most of those people already have really well paying jobs in finance (or satisfying careers in academia)

I've always taken the data scientist distinction to be the startup world's answer to the "quant" designation. Quant jobs are a lot better than "just a" programmer jobs, even at hot startups, so I see the "data scientist" title as an answer to that. It's a startup quant.
FB is probably the last social network I'll ever use. If it goes, I'm back to email plus a whitelist and updating my webpage once every two years or so.
I've got people in the Delaware D.O.C.
I send 'em 89 bucks, they send me equity!

Collaborate or compete, 'til HN's header goes sable
I'll put a cap in your ass
or put your ass in a cap table.
Jailbreaking and installing those hacks is difficult enough that your losses from it are likely to be low. So the question comes down to what your motivations are. Money-wise, it doesn't make much sense to tack on any more anti-piracy measures than there are already. You'd effectively be working for pennies designing and implementing your schemes with the amount of revenue they'd likely generate vs your losses from goodwill in the inevitable anti-piracy screw ups.

Personally, I prefer the pragmatic approach to the idealist. It's far less stressful.
Deferring taxes is generally preferrable unless you plan of retiring very soon. Mathematically, the amount you save by deferring taxes now can equal up to nearly 20 years of earnings growth, or more at today's low interest and growth rates.

With currently-taxed contributions you don't have to worry about future taxes...but you start off with a substantially smaller base. You also take the risk that future taxes won't be lower than they are now, or that even if they are higher that retirement withdrawals will not be subject to special taxation regimes.
Erlang's been fine for showing us what's good and what's bad. But most of all, Erlang allows us to take the good parts and move them to a "friendlier" language when the time comes.
This could be a perfect application for Google Consumer Surveys. Emailed you.
Robots destroy lives!

It's funny, software automates far, far more than robots do, and yet you would be hard pressed to find people on this site who hold the opinion that software destroys jobs. Software adds value, it may create efficiencies but it is not a job destroyer. And the same is true of physical automation as well.

We've come a long way since the days where everyone worked on the farm, or everyone worked in a factory. Automation has never created poverty or starvation. Look at Japan, which went through exactly the same process as China is today. In the mid 20th century it was a country heavily dependent on exports fueled by cheap labor (in 1950 Japan's per capita GDP was less than 1/5th of the US's). But it didn't take long for them to automated like crazy. Is Japan a poor, unruly, starving country today? No, it's one of the richest countries in the world with one of the highest standards of living.
I think he was referring to MDMA when he said "X"
Venice has a lot of cool geo-names close as well. Abbot Kinney is a rad name in itself. Any other ideas down that path?
Hi, I just read your comment. Thank you for saying this...we have really put in a lot of hard work in the video. Since I was a professional in the field, many of my close friends are indeed professionals in the video/movie industry and I was absolutely blown away that they were willing to put in long hours and even provide the equipement without receiving any payment at all. I first thought we would do something simple, but since we're all a bit of perfectionists, we couldn't help ourselves but to push quite a bit further. Thanks again, , Uros (FOUNDER)
Awesome, thanks man! Will check it out.
You need two data points to measure progress. First graders are the first data point. Transfer students alone are not a dominating element of the population. Pointing to an inability to get reliable test results from other districts is trying to excuse failure with more failure.

The accounting trick works because it's about comparing percentages rather than raw numbers. The preponderance of disadvantaged kids would swamp the progress of the privileged kids otherwise. This trick lets them point to substantial performance improvements in substantially less than half their students and use it to write off the lack of progress on substantially more than half.
I think the solution is to find another service. How can I trust appfog after this terrible surprise? Tomorrow I will receive an email. We are very sorry but appfog will be dicontinued.
For those living in the UK, it's probable that you can access the online master OED through your local council's library web site, using your ridiculously long library card number as username.
f8n or h4n - too geeky, I guess.
Thanks for offering.

If you're building an app maker and not just an event app creator, I might assume you're shipping JS code and storing in the db or something along those lines. My question is, how much of your code is bundled with the app in the store and how much of it is fetched and eval'd at install/run time?
I don't think this was well played by Google or intentional at all. The Google Play website is still down. Tarnishing your brand in front of current and potential customers just to try out a guerrilla marketing tactic is just plain stupid.

A much better tactic would be to have a site that's up, responsive and presents a simple, joyful order process. That would win evangelists. People could point to the Nexus 4 launch and say, "Look everybody! When Google launches a phone, they do it right. It was a painless, awesome experience."

That is the complete opposite of the Nexus 4 launch we experienced today. Google bungled it big time (and I say that both as a consumer as well as an owner of Google stock).
You could always migrate to https://pagodabox.com/
The thing to note is that data scientist interviewing culture at companies is a function of who their first data scientist is or who the founder or whatever things the first data scientist should look like. This is why you have a wide variance from companies that look at people only with applied math and a background in Clojure to companies that require data scientists to be well versed in Java to companies that require statisticians. It has reached the stage where I think it is easier to sell yourself as an awesome scaling/data engineer and quietly do whatever data analytics you want when you get in.

FWIW, I agree with you that quantitative social science is a great background to have. My data science team lead has a background in Neuroscience and he seems to be having fun applying that intuition to recommendations.
That would be fine if Google made an announcement that they expect to take orders again in n weeks.
You might want to check with another financial professional if he told you that withdrawing money from your 401k is not a taxable withdrawal.

There are very limited exceptions to the withdrawal penalty, and they are all hardship-based. Launching a startup is not a hardship.

Alternatively, if you are doing one of those Roll-into-Business 401ks...well, you have a fool for a financial advisor or you are being taken for a ride.
Is there any open source ML framework that includes support for DNN?

Do you know of any tutorial that may guide the beginner using DNN, I have no idea how to choose the number of hidden layers and activation functions.

Thanks!
Good information and generally an awesome review ha.
Interesting that they encourage Twitter as a support channel, as a user I like Twitter for support, but as a company I absolutely loathe it. It's hard to get details and follow up, and if anything requires an explanation or sensitive details you need to get an email anyway...
Oh wait! It doesn't show up when using the App Store app!

So even if you put a link there you need someone to be aware that such a link exists, to believe there might be something useful at the end of that link (which you point out, there rarely is), then wants to go to/turn on their computer, fire up iTunes, attempt to & succeed at finding your app, click the link, possibly register for your bug tracker (doesn't seem too uncommon), possibly check their email to confirm their registration and then finally file a bug report.
That sounds fantastic, because service sector jobs tend to be local.

Massage parlors and landscaping -- pretty geographically limited, ie limited competition, and scale poorly, ie no large competitors with economies of scale.

Is that the overall trend? The things that wealthy societies want -- in the future, will they increasingly or decreasingly come from geographically limited services that scale poorly and are thus good candidates for employing large numbers of humans? Even if increasing wealth grows the pie, will enough of the things we want in the future be the kinds of things that lots of our individual neighbors can give us?

I wouldn't bet on it.

I mean, I think it'll all work out -- it always has -- but I could also see lot of things we take for granted, like high employment and industrialized education as sufficient to prepare people for work, revert back to the historical mean a bit.
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Please note: this is the first in a series of tutorials. This tutorial in particular is devoted solely to migrating application code. Tomorrow, we will post the first of two data migration tutorials that will walk users through the data migration process.
Using my new Nokia Lumia 920, I was quite disappointed in the maps. Not because they're lacking anything that I used from WP7, but because they didn't add the number one feature I was looking forward to: Nokia's excellent 3D maps based on WebGL that they offer on their website. Apple has very nice 3D maps on their new Maps application. Nokia has excellent 3D maps in the browser. Why they didn't integrate this into the phone, I do not know.
Prioritizing one’s tasks and handling the toughest stuff first.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006W8U2WU

its solid as a rock. its exactly the thickness of a USB connector (full size, not half) and fits great on a keychain. It's a bit bigger than the smallest ones you can find but it's good build quality and good speed.
> While I have zero doubt these companies and others will be taking 101% advantage of the situation, don't forget that the situation has been created by our own governments and an unwillingness to modernise in the face of a globalised world.

Ultimately it is the fault of the voters, and as another poster pointed out, this is about a level playing field, not "punishing" big multi nationals.

What we have seen since the 80's is a corporate oligarchy being created, if you can get into it you are set for life.

These people are Nixonian in their attitude, "it's not morally wrong when I avoid taxes". This also stems from the amorality of Ayn Rand's writings, in Randian thinking it is acceptable to expect others to follow a moral code which you yourself break and it's acceptable to admonish others for breaking it.

Big companies don't actually create a lot of jobs, most companies over their lifespan shed workers as they become more efficient. For a healthy free market to operate, it is vitally important that the percentage tax burden is the same for small companies and large companies, governments should not be giving tax advantages to anyone. This economic cherry picking causes "too big to fail" syndrome.

As a UK voter, if a political party said they would simplify the tax code and make all companies who operate in the UK pay taxes on their business here I would probably vote for them.
I've heard that reading strange fonts on bright orange, blue, yellow and pink backgrounds is bad for your eyes, too.
Mattercliff, Matterhorn ?
Oh my god. That website has javascript that adds and removes a pipe "|" to the end of the page title, and it looks like a blinking caret for text input.

My OCD is going insane.
This is true for shares you own outright.

However, if it is stock that is under SEC "rule 144" lockup
(which usually applies for 6 months following an IPO and most M&As), then the legality of doing that is murky.

It used to be outright illegal. The letter of the law has changed, and now it is unclear. I was in this situation, and personally couldn't find a single CPA or lawyer who would say "I believe it's now legal to hedge rule 144 locked shares". (And as a result, I didn't, and lost lots of money, and almost came out with a net loss on a x5 exit)
I'd really like to stay with a name associated with where we grew up - there have been some great ideas here that I wouldn't have ever thought of!
Thanks a lot for the tip.
As someone who has worked 60+ hour weeks as well as 20 hour weeks for longer periods I've always felt that working longer was doing me well. If I'm working about 40 hours or more I'm more focused during work and generally more relaxed when I'm not working. But then again that's just me. Working less than 20 hours a week makes me incredibly lazy by the way.
Some school systems are beginning to track educational achievement longitudinally. The Data Quality Campaign is a national effort to promote and coordinate these efforts.

http://www.dataqualitycampaign.org/
My wife works in marketing in Research and Analytics. Hard science people do the math (including creating the particular profiles/techniques) much better, on average, than the social science people. While they may have used menus of SPSS a bit, they hit a wall when they hit the scripting language, or at least learn at a glacial pace from the smaller sample sets I've seen.
Oh some sort of rate limiting on Wallet being enacted at the Play end. If you stop people putting the thing in the cart, they can't get to Wallet and have it choke and die, as it did this morning.
If you have a marketable skill and there's little competition - I'm pretty sure you can negotiate whatever hours you want. If you have a competition, your options are decreased. If it happens so that your skills are not very marketable you either be prepared to put up with more constraints and worse conditions or improve your skills. What people who favor unions assume is that workers are not ever willing to improve and raise their market price, and that they are hopelessly exploited by the employer.

The intentions of bringing more comfort into people's stressful lives are understandable, but by just wishing it and possibly legislating it we are not making anyone richer. The overall effect will be less jobs for low-skilled workers who do not have enough skills to compete on the job market.
Crash Dev: Ignite 18 + "The Maker Moment"
Why? What is different?
George Carlin
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