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Let's put aside the question of "why", and instead focus on "how" one could prove that he/she is smart. How do you do it? By learning esoteric and difficult languages like Haskell? By learning purely abstract concepts…

For any topic you choose, there are thousands of books, slideshows, websites, weblogs, online courses, and youtube videos. How do you find your way among them and choose what works best for you? I've realized not…

Given the target audience of HN, it's quite baffling why it doesn't exist in HN's preferences page. I remember Stylish (Chrome extension) offered a way to have dark theme, but even Chrome warns me about its privacy…

Did you get a BSc/MSc or PhD? What is it you do now? How much of an influence does a professor's reputation and networking have on his/her graduate students?

Last night, after updating a few apps on my droid, I realized Soundcloud is removed. Although the low storage-space alert would often suggest to remove Soundcloud to free up some space, I'd always neglect it. But the…

Recently I have been constantly getting a low disk space alert by Mojave. In my quest to handle the issue, I desperately removed many applications and moved so many files - most of which I have to use daily - to an…

I'm looking for some jaw dropping books to read, you know, the kind that give you that "awe moment" when you finally get it. Also of my interest are books with complex plot twists that give you goosebumps in the end. I…

I can understand that !@#$%^&*... are useful in their own context. But there are hundreds, if not thousands, of other meaningful symbols, too. Yet, we don't see any key allocated to one of these symbols on PC/Mac…

Hello HN, I've been looking for an accurate list of top websites with regard to their ad revenue. I think Google sits at the top, but I haven't found any list of other top-earning websites. Any help is appreciated.

I think Preview has degraded substantially under Mojave. The issue in the title happens abruptly (not always).

As a user, every time I want to log in to my Gmail or Instagram account, I have to wait till the page is fully loaded, then "click" on a button that directs to the log-in page. Why don't they let us log-in in the first…

Please read till the end, this is basically a cry for help... So basically I'm applying abroad this year and here's the situation: 1. Iran's economy is plummeting due to US sanctions and internal corruption. >> 1 USD…

I've been learning ML for a while now, and I was wondering: is clustering mostly used for market segmentation or are there other real-world applications to it? Can the mere fact of discovering clusters in a data-set be…

It's good to stay away from the hype as much as possible. In what applications do you think using ML is not necessary, or worse still, a bad idea?