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Re:Ask HN: Self Hosting Your Podcast?
on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:14AM (#22236392)
I wrote a bad Python script that I use to encode WAV files, upload to B2, and generate an RSS feed. I host my MP3 files on Backblaze B2 and the RSS feed on GitHub pages. With my usage, I stay in B2's free tier.
Re:Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why
on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:06AM (#22224716)
If you happen to be on Firefox, you can use this extension to get around it:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
Re:There’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’?
on Monday January 27, 2020 @08:57AM (#22159205)
While I agree that most technologies can be used in both ways that are good and those that are evil, some technologies "appear to require, or to be strongly compatible with, particular kinds of political relationships" [0]. I find it reasonable to say that a technology may be more or less moral/ethical depending on what it encourages.
Re:Ask HN: Ways to use machine learning in banking risk?
on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:34AM (#21826540)
Check out this paper for ideas: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.05840.pdf
Re:Ask HN: Dataset Cleaning Tips
on Monday April 08, 2019 @05:40PM (#19609311)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10811
There's some description in here you may find relevant.
Re:Ask HN: What things have richly rewarded the time invested in maste...
on Sunday September 30, 2018 @09:23AM (#18106073)
Poetry is great! To me, it seems like there should be more software folks interested in it. I definitely see a few parallels.
Re:Ask HN: How do I consciously improve my reading and retention skills?
on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:51PM (#17928561)
For retention, I find making cards in Anki to be helpful.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I get a whole project reviewed?
on Monday August 27, 2018 @02:32PM (#17853282)
I know of at least one person who offers a code review service (specifically for Python).
Re:Ask HN: How common are sign-on bonuses?
on Monday August 20, 2018 @04:21PM (#17803577)
Small sample size, but in Austin I've seen 5k-10k.
Re:The Matrix Calculus You Need for Deep Learning
on Saturday June 30, 2018 @11:13AM (#17431112)
My ML professor used this book, and I loved it. Some presentations of ML make it seem like a bag of tricks; this feels like the opposite of that.
Re:An Easier Way to Build Alexa Skills Using Python
on Friday June 29, 2018 @04:44PM (#17427715)
Yes! I recently adapted a project of mine to be available as an Alexa skill, and it only took ~40 lines to get it working [0].
0: https://github.com/ssaamm/pun-generator/compare/24188aceb3da...
Re:Ask HN: What is your knowledge toolchain in 2018?
on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @03:27PM (#17349593)
Not exactly what you're talking about, but the most important tool I use for ingesting/remembering things is Anki: https://apps.ankiweb.net/
Re:Torus: A Toolkit for Docker-First Data Science
on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:35PM (#17250873)
This is interesting! It sounds like this v1 gets your local environment up and running in a Docker container. I maintain something similar for analysts on my team, and we've seen success in terms of decreasing time spent on environment setup.
As another interesting use of Docker in the data space, I'm excited about Pachyderm [0] (though I haven't had the chance to use it in production). In particular, the data provenance story seems compelling.
Re:MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)
on Monday June 04, 2018 @08:29PM (#17233958)
Huh, TIL. Thanks!
Re:MIT 9.11: The Human Brain (Spring 2018)
on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:52AM (#17219290)
Thank you for this! I used it to make a little script to download audio from each lecture:
youtube-dl --get-id https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyGKBDfnk-iAQx4Kw9JeVqspbg77sfAK0 -i > ids.txt
while read id; do
youtube-dl -f bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=$id
done < ids.txt
Re:Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS
on Friday May 25, 2018 @03:51PM (#17157275)
You may also be interested in Kill the Newsletter:
https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
(I think a fellow HN user made it? Can't remember)
Re:Ask HN: List of CS interview questions
on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:48AM (#16848280)
Maybe this[0]? I'm unaffiliated but have found use in it.
Re:Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
on Thursday March 29, 2018 @03:27PM (#16710298)
For #1, it's not an API, but you may find this interesting: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/category-trends
Re:Ask HN: To which tech email newsletters do you subscribe?
on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:53PM (#16189708)
Somewhat orthogonal, but if you prefer RSS, I highly recommend using this site: https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/
Re:Ask HN: To which tech email newsletters do you subscribe?
on Friday January 19, 2018 @03:52PM (#16189698)
I found this one after watching your talk at PyCon last year. Thank you for writing this!
Re:Ask HN: What's the best source to learn idomatic Python?
on Saturday October 28, 2017 @04:18PM (#15576595)
Seconding the recommendation on Chapter 3! Well-defined special/dunder/magic methods can make your code way more readable.
Re:The Corrosion of High School Debate
on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @03:56PM (#15444851)
My experience of high school debate was dramatically different from that of the author, though I also did policy + engaged in spreading.
I learned a ton about research, writing, and effective argumentation.
Re:Interactive Vim tutorial
on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @10:31AM (#15400685)
Closest thing I can think of is CodeMirror: https://codemirror.net/demo/vim.html
Re:Show HN: Play rock-paper-scissors against your computer via webcam,...
on Saturday August 12, 2017 @09:44AM (#14997861)
If you'll suffer a shameless plug, a friend and I made an (imperfect) ASL learning project at TAMUHack one year. If you're interested:
Re:Building a Music Recommender with Deep Learning
on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:39AM (#14910425)
For internal/experimental/exploratory use, I like Jupyter [0].
Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Tw...
on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:32PM (#14621516)
We thought about doing that but were scared of the repercussions from the school. We felt like it was much easier to argue for notification than for automatic sign-up. Luckily, we didn't get in any trouble, so we didn't have to argue it anyway.
Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Tw...
on Friday June 23, 2017 @02:29PM (#14621482)
The nearest thing I can think of is Scrapy (https://scrapy.org/).
For airfare, I think there's already a few players in the "this flight got cheaper" space (Kayak and Hopper come to mind), but they don't have data on some airlines (because of the airlines' ToS IIRC).
Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Tw...
on Friday June 23, 2017 @11:15AM (#14619735)
Apologies for the mislead! When I titled this, I imagined talking a lot more about stepping through the registration system in something like mitmproxy to find the exact requests to send, which feels a lot closer to hacking/reverse engineering. I ended up not really talking about that, but neglected to change the title.
Re:How I Hacked My University's Registration System with Python and Tw...
on Friday June 23, 2017 @11:10AM (#14619706)
Author here--you're totally right. When we did this for our actual registration site, we spent hours inspecting requests in a proxy[0] to get to ~194 lines of PHP.
0: We used https://www.charlesproxy.com/
Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @03:00PM (#14500100)
I've been using Tinyblu [0] for this, which seems to be simpler/have fewer features.