skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anyone's curious about the raw numbers, I found the counts here:

http://int.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2015/2015-06-26-rule-guessin...

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yes that sounds correct. I'm thinking of something where I take an existing db and train a NN on it, then populate a test db with things like "typical account", "typical delinquent account", etc.
This db could then be used for automated testing.
I have seen approaches like Factory Girl in rails but the new rows are just incrementing fields somehow.
Another approach would be to model a column statistically then generate random values that conform to that model.
I'm thinking of something that is so general it can find and model relationships in a db. For example it should be able to see that most people have 2 or 3 credit cards on file and generate test data that is like that. This may not be a problem for NN but the idea of running the networks backwards and "imagining" things it has learned seems like a good fit.
I have played around with markov chains trained on a first + last name that could generate made up names but that is as far as I got with it.
If you are interested in cloud platforms and you have more than one server (stack usually means more than one) then you could take a jab at learning how to install OpenStack, or go the Windows route and install Server 2012 + System Center.

Really depends on what you want to learn, bare metal does have it's advantages when it comes to learning how stuff goes together. Especially if you also got an ethernet switch out of it.
I've been looking forward to this! One question; it appears as though the types and schema are passed with every request (eg https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js/blob/master/src/graphq... ) -- I assume part of the reason for this is versioning/sharing the schema, but is it always external, does the server ever know the schema a priori -- what's the thinking around this design decision?

(It's a plausible idea! I'm just curious on the what and why)
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Just this morning I met with a doctor who is well-published and widely respected in his subspecialty, and the first thing he told me was "I used to think I knew something about your condition, but I've long since learned I don't." while the practiced humility is (I think) a bit of an affect, it underscores the point: the higher you climb, the better you can see how far off the horizon is. Some people learn their neighborhood really well. Some learn a particular highway really well. Some cut a new road. They're all valid, all can provide a solid living.

You are unwise. You're supposed to be, right out of school—its a peculiarity of this industry that we look at peers who are like five minutes more experienced and see someone presenting themselves as "senior". Humility is a good thing. It sounds like you're self-aware enough to have it, so take that and run with it and realize that your university degree provides you a solid foundation to start learning—its not the end state of the learned.
Note what didn't happen here: he didn't create a startup company to deliver Luxury Water to rich people. He didn't patent the idea, and attempt to collect royalties. He didn't discover the idea while attempting to get rich from some tangentially related business.

Contrary to popular narrative, many of the technologies that make our lives livable came about because dedicated people devoted themselves directly to solving some important problem, not serendipitously while pursuing personal wealth.
They make money on cars (gross margin). They lose money on R&D and expanding the production line.

Any car company growing this rapidly would lose money. Any car company this small designing a new model would lose money.

I know why so many financial commenters harp on and on about Tesla losing money. What mystifies me is why so many HN commenters do the same, given that most of us are startup people. Many startups lose money for the same reasons.
Both of those ignore the education factor.

Basically if you have two groups of American born, collage educated men, with of the same age then income positively correlates with number of children. But, if you compare collage dropouts vs. people that have PHD's then the PHD population makes more money and has fewer kids. So, education is a huge confounding factor.

We went from 14 being a reasonable age to start a family to 24 or even 34 being the 'reasonable age' that's a huge impact. But, ‘wealth’ as an independent factor aka adjusted for age, education, country etc becomes a positive factor.

PS: Historically, starvation also limited family size.
What a perfect PR headline.

Exciting, confusing, non-specific.

"Wow a 52% quarterly surge, Tesla's on fire!"

I thought that meant they sold 52% more cars than Q1.

But what they really are saying is "Tesla sold 52% more cars in Q2 2015 than Q2 2014"

And they are still less than halfway through year end's target 2 quarters in which analysts feel certain they will not hit without the Model X release (2)

With all the discussion around the Unicorns preferring to stay private how much of a factor must avoiding the colossal pain in the ass of having to engineer this kind of financial-speak every quarter on top of just trying to run your business.

(1) http://www.ibtimes.com/tesla-motors-inc-tsla-likely-miss-201...
I'm talking specifically about the act of scraping, not about what is done with the data afterwards. The post I was responding to referred to a general scenario, rather than this specific lawsuit.

To focus on the act of scraping itself, consider a case where they download the data and study it privately. That should not go to court, even if they broke the ToS, unless there are measurable damages.
No gaming experience has ever been as involving as the good old UO. And I also started my programming by coding automation scripts for one of at that time popular and mostly prohibited playing assist programs called "UO Inject". No other motivation keeps you as engaged in programming as writing scripts that automatically cut the trees for you while you sleep!
I don't think you're paying attention! Many millions of us have been interacting in 3d combat/flight/driving simulators for years. With < 20ms internet latency and high frame rates it's a pretty amazing experience. We call them 'video games' like they're similar to what NES games were like, but they're everything people dreamed of for VR. Now we have head mounted displays, completing the picture.
+1 for sell, before they depreciate

Use the money to rent an ordinary VPS (aws, linode, etc.)

There's no reason to own your own servers unless you have unicorn-level success, and Netflix still uses aws.
You are 100% correct, thanks! Here's a more appropriate link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_take-...

The US is 7th, behind a very similar group of steep-progressive-tax countries.

I would say an even better metric is median quality of life indicators (which tell a similar story of the US trailing left-wing countries) but that's an understandably more controversial index.
Pomello (YC W15) hiring engineer #1 to bring predictive analytics to recruiting
POMELLO OVERVIEW:
Pomello (www.pomello.com) is a rapidly growing, well funded, predictive HR analytics company. We deliver organizational culture measurement and applicant screening software, helping companies hire better and reduce turnover. Our technology was developed in partnership with Stanford professor Dr. Charles O'Reilly, a leader in the field of organizational behavior and culture for over 30 years.
Pomello is backed by Y Combinator (W15), and New Enterprise Associates (NEA).

THE ROLE:
1st Full-Time Engineer -- You will take the technical lead on Pomello. You have experience engineering enterprise applications, and are ready to build a product from the ground up without the bureaucracy of a large company. Initially, you will be a full-stack engineer with a lot of hands-on building. As the team grows, the opportunity will exist to take on more team-building responsibilities. You will influence every aspect of the product from ideation to execution. We value team members who are able to make strategic decisions quickly balancing development speed with risk. We are looking for consistent progress towards long-term goals, and the ability to get comfortable with rapidly changing priorities. We do not have the right answers to everything and we want you to experiment.

HERE ARE A FEW THINGS YOU MIGHT WORK ON:
Enhanced Analytics/Data Visualization--Make predictive analytics easily understandable and actionable.
Communications and Data Capture--Develop seamless integrations and increase engagement with easy to use communications that deliver feedback into our analytics.
Incorporation of Unstructured Data into Predictive Algorithms--Identify and make sense of unstructured datasets that will increase our value proposition to customers.

REQUIREMENTS:
3 Years of full-stack development experience
Significant experience with Ruby
Significant experience with mySQL
Proficient in HTML/CSS/Javascript/JQuery
I am transracial. Although I'm actually a short white guy, I feel like I am actually a 6'2" Chinese man.

If Bruce Jenner can be a woman, I can be Chinese.
"This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."

-- HAL-9000
Location: Cambridge, MA

Remote: Yes (but I prefer to be on-site).

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Cython, Haskell, C, LLVM, Postgres, MySQL, numpy/pandas/sklearn/IPython, machine learning, computational Bayesian statistics, stochastic optimization, Python C API, careful attention to quality and design.

Résumé/CV: Please request via email. Also see my profile on Stack Overflow: < https://careers.stackoverflow.com/ely >.

Email: spearsem@gmail.com

I'm a scientific and statistical computing professional. I enjoy working on backend analytics systems, applied modeling problems, and performance-critical applications. I have experience in quantitative finance, education technology, and consulting.
Pascal was your original example upthread, tho:
"Now, the other way around: you've got an embedded Scheme, but you hate all that parentheses and want to just code in Pascal. Fine. Write a little macro which will translate transparently your Pascal into Scheme. No runtime cost whatsoever and all the interop done for free. See the difference now?"
Inflation doesn't necessarily follow. If everyone was given a 10% raise then you would get inflation, but a fixed distribution results in a very different effect. One possibility is that people would purchase roughly the same amount with the lower classes having free time to educate themselves rather than working minimum wage jobs. I mean, I can't imagine somebody throwing their lives away just to buy another loaf of bread or bottle of milk every week.
This is basically straight out of Moneyball.
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That's a lie and you know it. Isn't the refrain parroted here all the time something about bootstrapping your own company? Self funding and all that? While a couple people like you might throw a tantrum and decide not to participate, I imagine there would be 5x that many in poorer places in the world who would be able to more than make up for it and start amazing companies.
The default in financial magazines is year-based comparisons. Headlines are short.
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Just fyi, the doc mentions mutations here: http://facebook.github.io/graphql/#sec-Language.Operations
> No, it isn't [use or threat of violence to achieve a political goal]. It's the act of instilling terror.

I think it is, but those two definitions are connected.

When you make the people afraid, that tends to have an implied political goal. Fear will drive the voters to put political pressure on government to do something.
How often are percentages used in a financial context that aren't year-over-year percentages?

Your statement about the Model X confuses me. Of course analysts think that they need Model X shipments to meet their year-end target, because that's exactly what the company itself has said.
I do agree with the strategy in itself, what I'm arguing is that this wasn't the right one in this particular instance. External to internal or vice-versa are both valid, you just need to pick the right one or both.
I think you're thinking of hardware keyboards, which are totally irrelevant here - look at the screenshot at the top of the page.
What you responded to isn't even an argument, it's an agreement.

If you feel belittled then that is on you. I have no particular obligation to ensure that you feel good about your position.
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The more I read your posts, the more I imagine you're just someone who's scared that they won't be able to have a bunch of employees paid minimum wage at his beck and call, that he can treat however he wants because they're dependent on him for a job.
That's generally what people mean in finance - YOY growth. Otherwise you get seasonal data problems (pretty much every retailer's Q4 is huge relative to Q3 because of Christmas, for example).

As always, dig deeper. Tesla isn't out of the woods yet.
Um what? If you look at the actual fatality lists [0], more than three times as many astronauts died than cosmonauts during actual missions (that ratio is much higher if test/training deaths - like that of the Apollo 1 crew - are included). In neither case is the number anywhere near the hundreds.

I don't know the details on ground crew deaths (if that's what you're actually referring to), in which case Soviet recklessness wouldn't be exactly surprising, and you're probably entirely right. I don't think that's what the parent commenter's talking about, though.
Interesting to see this implemented as a mixin when they just announced yesterday they are fully supporting es6. Looking forward to building some side projects with this and seeing how it compares to using react + flux.
Especially if you move your coins through different wallets a few times to obfuscate, and then consolidate them back into the same wallet where you attempt to convert it into cash... obfuscating the intermediary wallets isn't going to do you much good if it can be shown you control the starting and ending wallets. headdesk
I don't think the license as stated prohibits people from looking at the code, and if it does I would clarify to anyone who is interested that I'm totally ok with you taking a look at what I've been working on.

I appreciate your feedback, although my experience has taught me that those of us in the HN crowd have a completely different and disconnected understanding of software licensing compared to what lawyers think. I worked at a couple IP heavy companies and my impression is that any license that leans toward the Richard Stallman way is a huge red flag for businesses. I recall that GPL v3 is much better than v2. I'm also of the understanding that both BSD and MIT are discouraged now because the license is so thin, and they don't say anything about patents, while Apache 2.0 does.

I invite anyone to contribute more to this discussion, because it happens to be one of those political things that can be more important than the code itself.
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Why? It seems a perfectly cromulent word for a concept which has no other succinct description
No I don't feel stupid. Here is why:

There is always someone who is smarter and more knowledgeable than you. What matters is that HN provides easy access to those smart minds and I love it.

There may be people who are not as knowledgeable as you. In that case, I love teaching them what I know.
"Grok" in is original use is something more like a deep and complete understanding. Here is Heinlein's explanation from "Stranger in a Strange Land":

"Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man."

In the linked-to essay, the writer ends with an incomplete understanding of the Doom code base, and therefore has not grokked it.

When Nacraile comments, "it also would have been a poor lesson in grokking big unfamiliar codebases", this appears to use "grok" as the equivalent with "come to grips with", meaning "to begin to deal with someone or something difficult or challenging in a sensible way." That also appears to be the way you use it.

But 'grok' is supposed to mean something more like understand various arbitrary things at a low and intimate level, not at a high level.
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This website (as far as I know, I don't know if they changed that) since the beginning uses flat files instead of a database. Depending on the case it might actually work and be a valid strategy for persistency
Wouldn't that be similar to startup culture, though?
How Navient student loans are stealing my money
I always log into my online account every month and pay the total due for each loan on the required due date. On 5/21, a Navient rep inadvertently applied a false payment to one of my loans. I then logged into my account on 06/01 and payed the total due for all of my loans. When I logged into my account on 07/01 I saw that the loan in which the rep inadvertently applied a false payment to, was now showing payment missed and had a late fee applied to the loan. What went wrong was because the Navient rep applied an incorrect payment to my loan, it was showing 'up to date' on 06/01 and thus, when I clicked the 'Pay Private Loans' button, it didn't apply any payment to the loan in which the rep applied an incorrect payment. The Navient rep then reversed the incorrect payment, without letting me know, resulting in my loan now being behind and late a month. I immediately called the Navient customer support team and let them know the situation. They said the best they could do was apologize and waive the late fee. It then occurred to me that I've been overcharged interest on my July bill because now the interest had been calculated on the balance from May instead of a sum of interest accrued from the balance of May plus the interest accrued from the balance of June minus my monthly payment which wasn't made because of an internal error by Navient. I then decided to email their support team and let them know I had been overcharged interest due to an error on their side.

This was the response I received from my email,

"Dear XXXX,

Thank you for your inquiry and for your business with Navient.

While your late fee has been removed, we are unable to waive an interest. Per your promissory note, you are responsible for monthly payments each month. Your interest assessed to your loans was in accordance with your promissory note, and would vary depending on which day you would have submitted your payment for June.

We apologize for any confusion that his may have caused."

It seems unethical to me that they are replying in regards to my promissory note and disregarding their violation of the contract when I enrolled in online billing. Should I just lay down and let them get away with this? Am I wrong? I'd love some feedback on how I should approach this.
I got it right, using decimals - I was probably a little too exhaustive...

http://imgur.com/6adtvqz
"not suffer from piracy" really means "has more power to lock in and control people", and yes, that's a major factor.
Shipping a successful game is the most important line on the resume when applying in the games industry.
How did not spending on defense work out for France and Poland?
I want to remind international readers that confessions by a defendant in an American often have little to do with truth, but with calculated odds. One should not assume that just because a defendant "admits" to having done any particular act, that they actually did so. While the confession provides some evidence that the defendant is guilty of something (to the extent that this makes them more likely to be found guilty by a jury of a particular set of charges) the exact details of a confession should be trusted less than the details that result from a full trial.

The confession is a charade, usually coordinated in advance with the prosecution. Almost never is the confession made because the defendant suddenly realizes that wrongness of their actions, and simply wants to avoid burdening everyone with the effort of a lengthy trial. Instead, the defendant is threatened with a terrible punishment, and told that unless they cooperate the chances are high (regardless of their actual guilt) that this punishment will occur. They are offered (or offer on their own) a "plea bargain", where if they confess to a subset of the crimes with which they are charged, they can willingly accept a smaller (though often substantial) punishment.

The contents of the admission are a negotiation between the defendant and the prosecutor. If the prosecutor demands that you confess to being a witch, and that if you don't confess to being a witch there is a high likelihood that you will spend the rest of your life in jail being raped by unpleasant men, you don't quibble about whether or not you are actually a witch. You weigh the chances of a potentially unjust conviction with a horrible outcome against the chances that your lawyer will convince a jury that the charges are false, and if the odds are against you, you confess to being a witch in all the detail the prosecutor requests.

The harsher the punishment the defendant willingly accepts in the "plea bargain", the more likely the admission was made under the duress of an even more severe punishment. The accuracy of the details of the confession are equivalent to a confession under torture. In torture, the punishment begins and in agony you are willing to confess to anything in hope that the punishment will stop. In the plea bargaining system, you are threatened with a terrible punishment and confess to anything in hopes that the punishment will not start. In neither case should the details of the confession be treated as true.

So while I presume this agent did lots of bad things, and probably stole the bitcoins in question, realize that the details of the admission are a just a plausible story written by someone wielding great power, signed under duress by a defendant justifiably scared of this power. In the absence of outside evidence, the exact details should no more be treated as "true" than the dying confessions of a man broken on the wheel.