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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)
on Monday February 09, 2026 @08:27PM (#46954143)
https://stackwise.bio -- a biohackers playground
- find, create and share wellness protocols (improve sleep, brian johnson longevity protocol, ultimate mitochondria boost, etc)
- rating of all supplements
- track experiments you're running on yourself
- knowledge database of all supplements and peptides (side effects, benefits, etc)
- way to find the cheapest blood tests by comparing different companies
https://transferbridgeus.com -- a service that helps international students studying in the US to transfer colleges. Its free and we handle everything
Re:Crypto unlikely to survive as investment if unregulated, SEC chairm...
on Thursday December 02, 2021 @11:21AM (#29418146)
Whats wrong with Solana? I don't know much about it at all, just curious
Re:Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?
on Monday November 22, 2021 @07:09PM (#29313150)
I was starting to look at the same thing. I used to do a bit of Django development (5ish years ago) and things seemed to have changed a good amount with the tooling / frontend.
Does anyone have an opinionated stack they like with Django to get things up and running quickly that could also set me up well for the future for a website and an app(if I want to transition the website to a stable business, etc)?
The things I'd be looking for opinions on:
- django vs DRF
- react (or next.js) vs vue vs something else for frontend
- what other tooling should I use for modern front end development
- what else is in your stack for CI/CD, rollbacks, db migrations, deployments, etc.
- do you use any other templates or themes for the frontend to make the UI look good?
- how you handle security / auth when using a front end framework with django as the backend -- are there any tricks? I've heard JWT can cause headaches
- any django packages they recommend using, or other front end packages that are popular
Re:Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?
on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:27AM (#21116351)
Thanks for the link - I'll probably just use this instead!
Re:Yogababble
on Monday September 30, 2019 @10:52AM (#21115970)
I don't do anything low latency so its mostly the common scientific python stack -- numpy, pandas, sklearn, etc. Mostly linux, lots of Spark, some R and C#. We're really flexible on what we can use to solve our problems but the team has pretty much settled on python as both developers and analysts can work together more easily.
Re:Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?
on Monday September 30, 2019 @10:47AM (#21115902)
Something I've been thinking about recently is that there should be a site that only takes the "good" products from amazon and displays them for different categories - maybe only the top 20 or so. If i'm looking for an oven mitt / phone case / whatever the amount of junk is overwhelming. I envision it would essentially be a semi-curated list of amazon items. Anyone know of something like this? It's on my backlist of projects to build if I can't find any substitutes.
Re:Yogababble
on Friday September 27, 2019 @04:45PM (#21096104)
Lazy Prices [1] is a paper I was looking at for a while (I work on a Quant Research team) that does this in a simple way and the authors had good results. It takes the changes in language in some key sections of financial fillings as signals.
[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1658471
Re:Engineering Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Networks
on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:11AM (#19671079)
https://twiecki.io/blog/2016/06/01/bayesian-deep-learning/
This is a good example. There’s not much info I’ve been able to find - I’d be interested if anyone else has a solid tutorial.
Re:Ask HN: Cities underserved by tech jobs?
on Friday August 10, 2018 @11:53PM (#17738232)
Agreed (but I'm biased). Companies could get some great tech talent for relatively cheap in Chicago.
Re:Linear regression by hand
on Saturday January 20, 2018 @02:43PM (#16195032)
I agree, it seems like no help just to list a formula to memorize. If someone knows enough linear algebra to understand what the formula represents, they can do the derivation. This link [1] is a good one if anyone is interested.
[1] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2014/derivation-of-the-normal-...
Re:Introducing Preemptible GPUs
on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:33PM (#16076278)
I asked an AWS solutions architect about this specifically and they said they had no plans to implement it yet (that they knew of). I’d like to see someone offer this too
Re:Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk
on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:33PM (#15983478)
I've seen a few well know prop trading firms that are trading cryptocurrencies as well (Jump, DRW, probably others) and there doesn't seem to be too much talk of that. Goldman lends credibility and pretty much everyone has heard of them, so I get this is bigger news, but to me the more interesting news is in the trading firms.
Prop trading firms have no reason not to manipulate the cryptomarkets (it seems legal) and have the capital and knowledge to do so. Or am I missing something and manipulating these markets is illegal?
Re:CBOE Will Start Bitcoin Futures Trading on December 10
on Monday December 04, 2017 @11:12AM (#15844908)
No. Because they are cash settled, only cash will change hands.
Re:eBay launches visual search tools that let you shop using photos
on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:15PM (#15562607)
Yes, the types of photos will have a huge impact. eBay most definitely has an advantage in that regard.
Re:eBay launches visual search tools that let you shop using photos
on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:10PM (#15562555)
I've been building an automated service very similar to this for womens fashion (mens fashion soon) in my free time over the past 5 months using deep learning. The goal is to index existing items, and then expand to items that are no longer available. So you could take a picture of your shoes/shirt/hat/etc and it would ideally find the same one. If it doesn't find the same exact item, it would find similar items at different price points that you could buy. Getting similar items isn't that hard -- getting the exact item is much trickier though. With the pace of improvement in these types of models, there will probably be a lot of these types of apps popping up over the next few years.
Re:eBay launches visual search tools that let you shop using photos
on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:02PM (#15562480)
Pinterest does have something similar and has a few blog posts about how they did it
Re:Effective Tensorflow
on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:05PM (#15009686)
For those who use Tensorflow regularly:
What 'type' of tensorflow do you recommend for a project starting today -- tf.slim, tf.contrib.keras, 'raw' tensorflow, keras with tensorflow?
I am building a production model so was probably going to use tensorflow because I like the tooling (tensorboard), and ability to write once for production and research.
Re:AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum
on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:58PM (#14606886)
Wow that is truly unbelievable. Thanks for the clarification and the link (reading now).
Re:AI Hedge Fund Goes Live on Ethereum
on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:23PM (#14606523)
Maybe you could clear up something I've been wondering as someone new to cryptocurrencies. In the ICO, Bancor exchanges their own, newly created coins for Ethereum and the 'investors' are hoping that the new Bancor coins value will go up? So the Bancor team raised ~150 million dollars (in Ethereum) with no strings attached -- ie, no investors, debt, etc? Do I have this right?
Re:Quant Job Interview Questions (2009) [pdf]
on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:05PM (#12939552)
It's definitely possible with a masters in SE. There are many types of quant (see the markjoshi.com link above) - it will be easiest for you to become a quant developer with your background in software engineering. This will be much more focused on the software development side of things rather than the math/modelling side of things, but depending on the firm will give you large exposure to how the modelling side works. They are very competitive positions, but if you are a strong programmer that can prove you have knowledge of financial markets, have relevant side projects, and can understand and communicate the math behind what you build, you will have a leg up on the competition.
Re:Embed, encode, attend, predict: the new deep learning formula for N...
on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:02PM (#12932797)
Looking forward to those posts! Just want to say I am a big fan of spaCy and your site looks great.
Re:Foundations of Data Science [pdf]
on Friday October 07, 2016 @10:47AM (#12661048)
I love this quote. For accuracy purposes, it is from Ronnie Coleman, former Mr. Olympia and goes more like
"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights...I do it though"
Re:A look behind the scenes at an index fund with Vanguard's Gerry O'R...
on Monday August 15, 2016 @01:58PM (#12292156)
Somewhat related is this memo by Howard Marks that talks about the liquidity of ETFs (starts on page 6 -- the whole thing is a great read). When the market sharply drops and there is no liquidity for sellers, it might be even worse for holders of ETFs as they will have even less liquidity than the sellers of the underlying stock.
[1] https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/201...
Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday
on Sunday April 13, 2014 @07:58PM (#7583739)
I was listening to NPR a few months ago and they actually had a bit on tracking Twitter for gang activity and the ethics behind scanning twitter. Here's a link to the story [1]. One of the products they outline is called BlueJay [2] and scans for key words and locations. I guess NPR isn't popular among gang members or they would probably stop.
[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/28/284131...