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by achompas 14y ago
The New Yorker on iOS is a great example. It's an atrocious app. Each issue takes >100MB, there's no font resizing or dark mode, and articles are laid out such that 1/3rd of the screen is white space. A magazine-porting framework for iO
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by achompas 14y ago
Agreed. Further, I personally think this is the issue at the core of the "data science shortage" right now. "Data science" means many things to many people. Some shops want BI folks who can code. Others want people who can keep up in deep l
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by achompas 14y ago
Right. This article bombed in the last paragraph once the author went with the employer-friendly conclusion. I'd say our education system is working out fine if we're skipping the high-barrier jobs that don't pay a premium wage.
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by achompas 14y ago
I'm in New York at Knewton. We do a lot to mitigate mistakes (code reviews, testing, rigorous QA), but when they happen I'm not getting the switch. We're taken care of w.r.t wages and time. Hours are totally interchangeable here--if I arriv
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by achompas 14y ago
My experience as a junior engineer is completely opposite to yours. I'd also suggest finding another job--your current gig is not offering you a good environment to grow and learn.
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by achompas 14y ago
his machine learning at Hunch has been a personal inspiration Can you explain? I have no knowledge of the degree to which Chris worked on Hunch's models.
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by achompas 14y ago
Funny to see this, since I just recently thought about unsubscribing from B&A in Downcast. The thought would have never crossed my mind a few months ago, but Marco's right. Episodes started veering into niche discussions specific to iOS
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by achompas 14y ago
$4/year is obscenely cheap. In fact, you could probably charge an order of magnitude more.
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by achompas 14y ago
No, they're making sure users flock to twitter.com instead. And it's been effective, since I use the web interface instead of Tweetbot now!
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by achompas 14y ago
Then wait for the new Mini. Problem solved!
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by achompas 14y ago
2^3 == 8 So there's the pundit response or the data response. The pundit response: "this election is a toss-up!" In which case we'll just reject your assertion outright. No one really buys the pundit response, though! Okay, the data respons
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by achompas 14y ago
I don't know what you mean by this. Are you referring to "Obama wins" as a potential coin flip? Because Silver's prediction was more nuanced than that. Are you talking about his predictions for the 50 states, which represented a potential (
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Ask HN: "mandatory" apps for my new iPad mini
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by achompas 14y ago
We are! Crossposted from this month's hiring thread: Knewton (Union Square, NYC, full-time) is hiring for the following: -> Software Engineer -> Infrastructure Software Engineer -> Data Scientist -> Adaptive Instruction Anal
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by achompas 14y ago
It's good for employers they don't have to pay out stored up PTO days and they can keep whatever real soft limit they want in their heads that they set culturally as the management. It's also good for employees in that I don't have to hag
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by achompas 14y ago
I'm happy with it. At my last job I felt miserable negotiating paid time off past my limit: "I'd like to take a week off." "Well you only have 4 days left, and we need at least one person in the office the day before Christmas, so I could
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by achompas 14y ago
Knewton (Union Square, NYC, full-time) is hiring for the following: -> Software Engineer -> Infrastructure Software Engineer -> Data Scientist -> Adaptive Instruction Analyst http://www.knewton.com/jobs/ ===== Knewton is b
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by achompas 14y ago
The "iPad mini vs. other 7" tablet" battle has been going on for a week, but if nothing else I hope these new Nexus tablets force Apple to move away from $100 jumps for memory and $130 jumps for radio. The ~$450 I paid for a 32GB iPad mini
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by achompas 14y ago
Not sure if you're in the US, but if so you have 15 days to return it: http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38... Go get a bigger tablet!
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by achompas 14y ago
The market in NYC pays $4-5k/month for interns, from what I've seen and heard. That's just a bit below the $35-40/hour number you list above. It's arguably justified, since companies expect interns to ship production-level code, but that's
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by achompas 14y ago
Another vote for Passpack. Great service.
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by achompas 14y ago
I believe Cassandra does as well, not 100% sure though.
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The interesting PLs are C/C++, Go, Dart, JS, and Rust. Everything else is BS.(twitter.com)
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by achompas 14y ago
Yeah, agreed. I'm a big, big fan of data analysis in Python, but there isn't a full-featured time series analysis library (statsmodels is almost there). R has at least two that I know of (and needed to hook into from Python using rpy2).
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by achompas 14y ago
Kaggle competitors work on small data sets, so algorithmic problems don't really surface there. Just because your algorithm can "beat" an industry's worth of work doesn't mean it can be implemented in a practical or efficient way.
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by achompas 14y ago
It's actually a badass name, with roots in both traditional journalism and technology. A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to news organizations: newspapers, magazines, and radio and televisio
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by achompas 14y ago
This should be at the top of this HN thread. A shame that it's buried down here--these look extremely valuable. Thanks for the link!
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by achompas 14y ago
Yeah, there's the SVR "pipe" concept, where you attempt to fit the margin s.t. points are close to it. It's a great alternate use of SVM's obj. function optimization. I haven't really used SVRs aside from some exploratory work, so I can't s
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by achompas 14y ago
It might be the part you cut out. GP mentions "life and livelihood," so its possible he's had success as an iOS developer.
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by achompas 14y ago
SVMs are very much used for regression as well: http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/svm.html#regression Note: the scikit-learn implementation of SVMs is based on libsvm: http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/

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