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Hi, author here. I love reading academic papers and I love Math. But it's an unfortunate fact that academic papers make up the majority of the literature on ML — and that their not…

Hey, author here. > Aside from the fact the techniques he mentioned are some of the simplest in machine learning (and are hardly those that would immediately come to mind when I th…

Sure, author here. The point of the graphs are as an example more than anything — in any real world solution it's not trivial to plot your documents (as representing documents with…

Hack & Tell is Show & Tell for hackers! We'd love HN's help in replicating one of NYC's most interesting meetups in SF. Come show any cool hacks you've worked on recently — or to j…

Yup. We're working on making this clearer right now. "Your users" is _your_ users. You add a Javascript snippet to your app which sends us up-to-date information about your users (…

Eek! Fixed. Thanks for the feedback — we'll see if we can make that clearer.

Yup, my bad. Terms of use I don't think we need right now. Privacy policy is: we'll never share your data with anyone.

I'm often asked to generate CSVs of our user base for various non-technical colleagues. They might use these CSVs to do analyses in Excel or import users into a service (like Mailc…

Congrats guys!

I think there's a big difference between how [my generation and] I (19 y.o.) use Facebook, and how older generations do. For me, it is 80% keeping up with my current friends and 20…

I like the TV analogy, it's perhaps more apt. Surely the point of any TV network is to show ads based on their viewers interests? Just FB is able to be much more targeted (at the s…

I don't know. Obviously this matters in determining how much FB is worth. It probably isn't much right now but, I see the potential for huge future earnings, they haven't found the…

RE: The stock being down ~10% in after-hours. I think there's a real divide between the people who use Facebook, for whom it is (often) a serious part of their social life and, tho…

This is really a problem with Github's news feed, rather than the watch button. Facebook had this problem a few years ago but put a lot of work into aggregating similar stories, et…

I just did the Leaving Cert in Dublin in June and I'm currently interning at Hunch. You'll hear a lot of people going on about just how expensive New York is, but, honestly compare…