skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It makes sense to me that the best athlete cannot be determined in some scenarios, or that the term "best" is simply meaningless. Due to training and/or genetics, player A might be strong in areas where player B is weak. Likewise, player B might be strong in areas where player C is weak.

Neither of these statements gives us any insight into what will happen if player A faces player C, but a traditional tournament structure might well keep A and C from ever facing each other.
how can you not understand the convenience factor? do you mean, why would you buy a home pregnancy test at Walgreen when you can just schedule an appointment at a doctor? are you kidding me? because it saves time and money, that's why. how is that a difficult concept to understand. I would certainly choose a quick blood test from Walgreens rather than going through my HMO to schedule a blood test if i suspected something was wrong. if i received a positive result, then that would factor into my decision to see the doctor.
This is completely incorrect. There are two inputs and one output, e.g., ℝ⨯ℝ→ℝ. Since there are two inputs, it's a binary operator. Since there are three inputs and outputs combined, it's a ternary relation.

Likewise, a unary operator is a binary relation. For example, x ↦ -x, or x ↦ x+1.
I have read all 1-3 parts that seem available at this time. My immediate questions are:

(a) is the client supposed to get a copy of the consensus to start with?
(b) what if direct access to all DAs are blocked?
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Citation please. My experience is that there are a lot more MDs and PhDs in biotech than other tech fields. I would like to see where you got the information that a "significant number" have absolutely no science training. Also, when you say "significant number" do you mean less than other fields at a significant level or do you mean less than some number you are defining as significant. If the latter would that be only 5, 10, 15, 20, 49.9% without science training and is that less than average or other tech fields?
False dichotomy territory there.

I had to deal with immigration lawyers for a friend about 2 years ago after deferred action took place. She was born in Mexico, but her parents came over here shortly after she was born. With deferred action, if you have a high school degree, are younger than 35, never left the US after you originally arrived here here and don't have anything on your "record" (which is a fuzzy thing in itself), you get a work permit with an SSN.

Now.. my friend is the most organized person you'll ever meet. For whatever reason, she decided to keep all of her homework, documents, mail, etc from high school 8 years prior. She never left the US, got mostly As, was good standing on jrotc. As a small anecdote, she also just got top employee award at a thousand person company without even working there for a year. Really, she was the kind of person that should have had a little bit of wiggle room.

Nope. She had a two month period of time that she couldn't find any documents from right after high school. They rejected her on the basis that she could have left the US at that time. It took 6 weeks to get a letter stating that. She immediately found some random mail and went through the whole process again. She got accepted, but it took another 6 weeks to get confirmation. THEN.. she had to 2 months to go to the SSN offices specially prepared for the "high traffic" where we were the only ones there, along with about 20 staff.

Oh, and then her brother who's been pulled over for speeding multiple times, dropped out of high school (he got his GED in fairness)... got a work permit with extreme ease. Hell, he even filed late without even using a lawyer.

Rant over, but you get the point. It's a frustrating process where there's a mold, but it's an ineffective baked-shit mold.

Edit: I helped another friend out who had a somewhat uncommon situation that let her get a greencard without going through the usual process. When DHS said she was good to go, the SSN told us it was "impossible to input the alien number" because it didn't have the correct amount of digits and couldn't be typed in their system. We were told to fill out a form that would take 6 weeks to process. DHS and the SSN office both refused to work with each other and we weren't allowed to use cell phones in the building. When we tried again about a month later, the person at the counter gave her an SSN on the spot without any issue. Frustrating.
But some of those steps will go under the median as well. The problem is the distribution is not normal -- if the range of possible outcomes below the median n is [0,n], the range of possible outcomes above the median is far wider than [n,2n]. Going by the chart the article offered, I suspect a sort of mixture distribution: the better understood tasks have normal distributions, and the poorly understood ones have bullshit estimate distributions.
That's fine, as long as religion and faulty economics are also exposed as completely illogical by AI.
I'm currently working on a startup which supplies automated legal document analysis for the legal industry. [1] So I definitely see the power for AI for transforming the legal industry, but also encourage caution in reading the report.

One thing to note is that a huge amount of legal work done today is actually quite possible to automate. It's a lot of reading through documents and finding the few clauses that actually matter to a contract or document, then focusing in on those. It's defining an overall strategy and then fleshing out (mostly templated) documents to implement that strategy.

Another factor in favor of legal AI is that legal documents have much more restricted grammar than standard English text, leading to less ambiguity. This makes them both easier to parse and to create automatically (you don't need to make the text sound "natural"). By 2030, AI will be able to easily summarize a full legal document and provide relevant references. (In fact, probably much sooner.)

That being said, it's important to note that this report isn't predicting the disappearance of lawyers (nor am I). Instead, it's the collapse of traditional law firms, which depend on a pyramid of partners doing high-level sales and strategy work being supported by associates and paralegals doing the grunt work. The grunt work is rapidly becoming automated, but I don't think AI will ever replace the client interactions and recommendations component. We've seen a lot of success with AI-lawyer pairing and I do think we'll see much more of it in the future. This definitely challenges the organizational structure of law firms. In the future, I think we'll see a lot more small and individual practices where clients work with a partner they trust who can get a lot more done thanks to AI doing all the grunt work.

[1] https://docnavapp.com/
I'm not sure what country you are referring to but in some places you can video into the court room. I agree that's super convenient in comparison to what you are describing but it isn't exactly AI
Because she refuses to talk specifics about the technology. And the subtext is that Theranos has been able to attract such a high valuation based on her personality even when the technology isn't apparently there.
Avie Tevanian was a key player in the Mach research project at CMU, and when Jobs brought him onboard at NeXT, he made his work with Mach the basis of NeXTStep.

When Apple bought NeXT, Tevanian became CTO as part of the reverse management takeover. The Mach version underlying Openstep was updated for OS X, but kept around since Tevanian was very much a Mach booster.
I explicitly said that vegetable based plastics are not a problem. What we're worried about are the OXO plastics, which are not vegetable, but mineral oil based.
The Global Decline of the Arabic Script (2010)
Same with medical professionals
Idk what to tell you other than that you should check the definitions. A unary function is a special case of a binary relation and in general an n-ary function is a special case of a n+1-ary relation.

Edit - Maybe this clarifies it: When we talk about a function we designate one of its variables as the 'output' and talk about its arity in terms of the inputs. When we talk about a relation there is no distinguished output: A relation is a fully symmetrical definition. That's why the arity of a function is one less than the arity of that same function thought of as a relation between its inputs and output.
I vote no (clearly). Here's how I break down the reasoning:

In the HN community, non-constructive commenting is pretty strongly discouraged and moderated, so the urge to say things that normally would make someone want to hide their comments behind an anonymous name is pretty limited already.

So if nefarious activity is already not your goal, it simply becomes a personal preference. Why hide honest questions and discussion?

The only exception I can think of is if you're not well versed in the various knowledge domains that are popular here and don't want to give that fact away. I don't think that's a good reason at all though to be honest. I've felt this community be pretty accepting of honest questions and thoughtful input as long as you are honest with yourself as to what you're area of expertise is and you've done due diligence to the topic. If you're guessing something, you are going to be called out pretty quick. Don't ask for easily searchable facts, it's a waste of everyones time. Ask for opinions, experiences, etc.
It's worth reposting this 2011 NYT article, "Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html

> When five television studios became entangled in a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit against CBS, the cost was immense. As part of the obscure task of “discovery” — providing documents relevant to a lawsuit — the studios examined six million documents at a cost of more than $2.2 million, much of it to pay for a platoon of lawyers and paralegals who worked for months at high hourly rates.

> But that was in 1978. Now, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, “e-discovery” software can analyze documents in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost. In January, for example, Blackstone Discovery of Palo Alto, Calif., helped analyze 1.5 million documents for less than $100,000.

> Some programs go beyond just finding documents with relevant terms at computer speeds. They can extract relevant concepts — like documents relevant to social protest in the Middle East — even in the absence of specific terms, and deduce patterns of behavior that would have eluded lawyers examining millions of documents.
You're right that the human factor is huge. I work in this space and from all our conversations it doesn't seem like any legal clients would be comfortable working directly with an AI directly. They value the human touch and advice provided by an actual lawyer.

That being said, there is already a division of labor in the legal industry between client-facing work and more rote document analysis/prep. The latter is where I think we'll see most of the automation: instead of being supported by a bunch of associates, the partners will simply work with an AI.

Client interactions and higher-level decisions will still be entirely human.
Should be less than a penny for many things, once all the patents expires.

Of course, we still may be paying a person to do a reality check on what a computer comes up with. The same way we will pay a doctor to confirm that, yes indeed, that leg has to come off.
Anybody who (as I do) finds this kind of thing fascinating should go back and read Young and Yung's work on kleptography from the late 90's: http://www.cryptovirology.com/cryptovfiles/research.html

They were way, way ahead of their time.
And a good number of newer games, such as Guild Wars 2.
Not really, or at least not using some abbreviation thereof. Just going off /leaders, look at tptacek, jaquesm, ColinWright, jgrahamc, ChuckMcM, jrockway, cperciva, DanielRibeiro, DanielBMarkham, steveklabnik, and mikeash.

A number of us have screen names because much of the early population of HN came from Reddit, which is almost all pseudonymous (the founders started off with pseudonyms).
An author of one of the gushing cover stories on how he feels he was misled - http://fortune.com/2015/12/17/how-theranos-misled-me-elizabe...

I know founders sometimes need to create a reality distortion field and sometimes act as if, but as a patient I would also expect transparency to understand exactly what the company is doing and if the tests are accurate.

Puffery and misdirection in a business whose key selling point is accuracy is a bit concerning.
403s are often used in place of 404s. This is even allowed by the spec. That doesn't mean 404 if worthless.
It's great to see this available and updated. It was one of my favorite compiler books growing up because it's so small and straight-forward. I feel it's a much better starting point for someone actually interested in building a compiler than say, the Dragon book.

Even more immediate and hands-on is Abdulaziz Ghuloum's "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" paper: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf (which chides Wirth for oversimplifying)
AFAICT (checked this a few months ago), it's waiting on a few difficult bugs. A good target is getting through the VS 2015 Community installer first, then working on the rest.
"It makes me wonder if she had spent at least a couple more years beefing up not just her engineering experience, but life experience, that some of the poor CEO decisions she's made would have been mitigated."

I think that is a very astute observation. When you are in the top 0.01% of CEOs you don't have a lot of scrutiny. Bill Gates says that he got lucky with his success and that graduating is a much more sure path to success (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/upshot/bill-gates-college-...). If you do make mistakes or have a failure and you dropped out then that (for better or worse) is a focus and probably makes it more difficult to bounce back. She hasn't failed yet, but the fact that she didn't spend the extra year or two finishing her degree will make it more difficult if she does fail. And lets be honest. We all fail at least once or twice.
If you don't play along, the bad guys will block your whole site.
No real special sauce, but you have winetricks which has a few things to help solve common problems, and then winehq.org to see if others made a particular software/game on Linux.

I've found it to work remarkably well with games. Basically install Steam from Wine and then install Steam games like you normally would. It mostly just works.

I also installed and played "Path of Exile" through Wine with no problems. It's a fast, online hack 'n slash where if I died I would have to start over tens of hours of gameplay and Wine never let me down on latency or anything.
try reading a real book or on a kindle in that situation, would be even more inconvenient.
Explain please :)
> The Costa Rican Electricity Institute(ICE) released a statement that 99% of the electricity came from renewable sources this year in 2015. Fossil fuels provided the rest 1%

Awesome.

* The majority of this is from hydro.

* This scenario can't be replicated everywhere (due to the heavy reliance on hydro, but solar and wind can be used everywhere).

* The remainder of fossil fuel generation in Costa Rica could be replaced with more solar and wind generation.

* Utility scale battery storage will play a large part in increasing renewables firm dispatchability, while home batteries until their power distribution network reaches first world standards.
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Why isn't what you described possible with AI?
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True, the syntax is cryptic and unintuitive. Target is a subnet in CIDR notation, i.e. 192.168.1.0/24. The other various options describe the scan to perform. You can do simple pings, a full portscan, a quick portscan of the few most popular ports, and enable various IDS-evasion behaviors.

Fing provides something of a value-add by wrapping its sort of functionality in a nice UI. It's just amusing to see people discover Fing as though it were the first or only tool of its kind.

nmap is a universal stalwart of network security since the late 90s. It is the classic "hacking tool" long predating Metasploit, and Hollywood VFX people have even figured this out - it features in hacking scenes in Matrix Reloaded, Battle Royale, Bourne Ultimatum, and Elysium. I suspect ease of use has never been a priority, since its target audience is fellow open-source-savvy l33t haxxors.
At least 6 developers making over $1M? Doing what?
Religion, that's what you want AI researchers to spend resources on? Even if "exposed as completely illogical", it would not stop religion from helping people live their lives with comfort and guidance. I'm not saying everyone needs religion, but it does help many people. What reaction are you expecting the world to have in the scenario that AI shows religion to be illogical?
To serve as a “de-glamourising” antidote.
>GPL uses the term "Free" in a twisted, marxist way. It's restrictive and, while done in good faith, completely burns bridges and appeal to people who'd otherwise be happy contributing upstream to some projects.

I am a Marxist. Go on?

(I have my own critique of the GPL - by its nature, it demands I conform to a liberal conception of freedom. I do not consider it a freedom to have corporate entities exploit my software for profit without compensating me.)
I just think AI will be the first front people will use due to time and cost efficiency. If it doesn't seem that will work, then I'm sure the person would go to real lawyers after. That initial AI would change the legal game for many law suits though.

* Gets sued for bad product
* AI finds 10 law suits in this persons past of the same nature that got nullified.

This would be fairly simple for the AI but would save a lot of time and money.
Why you only need to test with 5 users
Meanwhile, accounting firms look like their keeping their accountants, which seems like an easier task to automate away..
I learned my lesson about using real names back in the usenet days, I'm not about to do the same thing twice.
If i post an article on Hacker News,it wont make front page.But if someone else posts the very same article many hours later,it will
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764636

Talk of double standard.
"American Mathematical Society meeting in 1958" should be "American Mathematical Society meeting in 1950".
Systems that use machine learning to do document review actually already exist. E.g. https://kirasystems.com. They currently still need a lawyer in the loop to review and adjust the results, but eventually will be accurate enough to produce summaries that are more accurate than a human without any intervention.

Traditional law firms are starting to invest in software like this. While it can be used to reduce hours, it can also be used to sell more by increasing the value of the hours spent. For example, instead of doing a review of a subset of a clients documents, they can offer to review all the documents for the same, or even slightly higher price.
The Mr. Universe article says he adjusts the insulin according to activity and diet, and that it can't be manipulated to help him past what a functioning pancreas would do.

"People sometimes give him the eye, thinking that insulin might be advantageous in competition, but insulin is of no use to him in that respect because if his insulin ever goes high, he can’t shed body fat and get lean enough to compete."
It's incredibly telling that the only thing the NYT was allowed to photograph was the machine shop.
Yep if only the 6309 or 6809 was still being made. Beautiful processor.
Great work by Wine team. I use Wine for a lot of Windows application but I could never make Office (2010 and later) work on Ubuntu. If I can somehow do that, probably I would never switch back to Windows. Open Office/Libre office is frustrating and so are most online word replacements.
The high-level work?

Let me first say that I don't think we will have human-level AGI by 2030. If we somehow do, all bets are off.

The high-level work requires a large amount of creativity in developing nuanced strategies for a particular domain. It also involves integrating knowledge and ideas from a lot more than the law. Consider that the vast majority of intelligent humans who attempt to make it to partner don't make it. Top lawyers are highly skilled, and automating them away is not trivial.

Also consider the trust factor. We've done some customer discovery in this space and most people would just not be comfortable working directly with an AI. This is especially true because a good portion of what partners are doing is human contact work with clients, courts, and opposing counsel. There's a lot of leverage which comes from being able to read and manipulate people which AI can't replicate easily.

Note that I'm referring to the 2030 date specifically for this. I don't think lawyers (or, really, any current profession) will exist in 2100.
> Client interactions and higher-level decisions will still be entirely human.

I wonder if people ever said that about travel agencies?

I think there are plenty of things that people today wouldn't be comfortable with. I know many people that aren't comfortable with the idea of self-driving cars. 15 years from now, the things people are comfortable with could change.
That would be the Noka scandal, reported by the same Dallas Food blog that's behind the Mast allegations. Dallas Food does some seriously impressive investigative blogging.
Or you just posted mid-afternoon in the Americas and fairly late evening in Europe, instead of hitting American prime time right on the nose... :)
The Z80 was always considered the more "commercial" processor, and businesses ran CP/M and various business applications like dBase on it. CP/M as an OS was more "OS like" than anything available for the 6502 at the time, I believe that RT-11 inspired CP/M which was a DEC operating system (a "real" computer company) and commands like PIP were ported over with almost identical syntax.

In contrast there was a number of "proprietary" vendors with 6502 systems, Apple and its OS, SWTP and its OS, Sphere and its OS, Commodore and its OS, all different all with minimal amounts of market share in business. Contrast that to CP/M which ran on Altair machines, IMSAI, Morrow, Polywell, Sol20's, Heathkits, Etc. Even the Cromemco once my BIOS had gotten reasonable distribution.

The I/O address space provided another feature on Z80 (and 8080) machines, which was "shadow rom". Basically you booted with some "massive 8K" ROM and then you could write out a byte which would swap it in memory space for a 1/2K very simple jump table/switcher. That let you use most of the address space for user programs. Later when MP/M came out it let you do wild things with "swapping" processes.

Perhaps the saddest part of the Z80 was that the Z800 (which only made it to market in a more limited Z280 form) was still born. It had a sorts of great ideas that folks wanted to use but the momentum of the 8086/8088 was unbeatable by that time. Given chip geometries it would be interesting to build a Z800 today but for the same reasons that it is interesting to build the difference engine, to prove that it would have worked and had some nice features that were ahead of its time.
It's neat to imagine an alternate history where z80 CP/M machines 'won' the 80s PC wars, and Gary Kildall and DRI became the rich and deservedly powerful software house of the 80s and 90s, instead of Gates/Microsoft; with ascendancy for GEM and a multitasking multiuser CP/M instead of Windows and MS-DOS.
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A 3-D printer capable of incorporating hydraulics