skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impressive work - but just wanted to say that the FOUC (flash of unstyle content) on your site parsemail is really rough. Cool service though
You're describing creating an ambulatory blood pressure cuff. I've had one attached to me and you get used to it fairly quickly, although it failed to measure blood pressure when I was active (I was cycling for a few of the readings, which you think would keep your arm fairly still and not cause a problem) Cool to make it yourself though! Have a look at these further links. The australian prescriber article you may find particuarly useful

http://www.racgp.org.au/download/documents/AFP/2011/November...

http://www.australianprescriber.com/magazine/20/1/18/20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulatory_blood_pressure
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When you say "TCP Stack", you in general are talking about the layer that actually implements the bits and bytes of the TCP protocol. Why is this the "TCP Stack"? It seems to be essentially showing how to do socket programming for TCP connections.
I hope your joking or this sarcasm. If not, I think you should really read the latest journals and conference proceedings to see if you still think that ...
If example.com allowed indexing in 1999, a new owner of example.com can hide/delete the 1999-2015 content by changing the robots.txt in 2015.

It would be better if archive.org would adhere to the robots.txt of the requested date/year (show content of example.com from 1999-2014).
That's why they started OpenAI I guess? To try to prevent that from happening. I agree with the parent that I would like that perverse and sick industry to die but I think that has more chance by replacing the judges with AI than the lawyers. Which won't happen in 15 years.
I went through your comments history and I'm not sure I quite grasp what your idea is or what problem it solves. If I understand correctly, you have this idea for a new type of human-computer interaction based on a visual programming/interaction language? I suggest you start by writing down your thoughts in a blog/wiki for others to better understand it. I'd also start working on an MVP now because in another 12 years, advances in NLP/AI might render your language obsolete :)
Way to discredit yourself. Makes me wish MITs education was more well-rounded
I don't think any HNers aspire to become Chris Christie.
They accept bitcoin, without any hassles or having to provide any information about yourself. Just a simple QR code for the bitcoin address:

http://archive.org/donate/bitcoin.php

If you already have a wallet, it may be the easiest way to donate.
if there's a positive correlation it can be due to:

- VCs biasing toward founders with an elite school on their resume

- Elite schools offering more opportunities for building a start-up (Stanford, CMU, etc. have separate funds dedicated toward investing in student start-ups)

- Those who go to elite schools usually come from a place of privilege allowing for higher risk opportunities

- Those at elite schools have more connections to get their foot into a VC's door

and so on..
The brain is very good at turning complicated features in to abstract concepts. In fact that is mostly what some parts do. So, not clear if this actually improves things or not.

For example, the == and === look quite a bit similar in the font. You have to compare relative sizes, whereas with the normal fonts you can count the spaces.

The rest of the ligatures look pretty cool!
As others said already; you only need more efficiency, not full AGI to do that. And that simply is already happening.
There is also some work in progress to add fallback directory mirrors:

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2015-Decem...
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/FallbackDi...
Why would you favour a AOS (Array of Structures) or the SOA (Structure of Arrays), for the different architectures?
What discredits me? My MIT degree or my two years of service for the FSF.
That's pretty weird. I didn't believe you until I checked it out myself.

I wonder how much of Theranos is a long-play effort to create a "brand" around Holmes?

Perhaps years later, long after Theranos is dust, she'll point to it as a huge success that made her into the billionaire she became.
"ou can grow a wide range of crops up to ~5,000 feet and some vegetables up to ~7,000 feet. "

Meters, not feet. You wouldn't even notice 5000 feet for agriculture. Corn, tomatoes, squash, potatoes, and many other essentials were originally developed and cultivated at well over 7000 feet. Now 7000 meters is quite a challenge.
We clearly need to give up more privacy and add more fast-lane backdoors to protect against these attacks.
Google Nexus 6P Review – The Best English Web Magazine
Our obsession with fame/celebrity is the root problem. We want to go to famous colleges, work for famous companies (or start our own famous startup) and companies want to hire famous employees (at least at the executive level).

Fame is a fairly reliable way to quickly evaluate the quality of something (without knowing anything about the subject matter) but it severely limits your options and it's expensive.
> A lot of data on Bloomberg is public, just organised in a really familiar (to Bloomberg users) UI.

Besides HistData I have never been able to find even high granularity intraday FX data. Price data is non trivial to find
Probably the Tor wiki and documentation:

https://trac.torproject.org/
https://www.torproject.org/docs/documentation
Lots of source control systems don't offer that level of verification. Even Git, with SHA-1 hashes everywhere, lets you claim to be anybody when you write a commit. The only thing you can verify the origin of in Git is the author of a tag signature, for tags that are signed with a PGP key.
So, are you arguing against elite colleges being worthwhile, or in favor of them? Are we not supposed to use every opportunity we get? That's cute ;)
What software is typically used to create a font like this? Are there any good open source options?
When I query for "Software Engineer", I get:

{
"@type" : "EntitySearchResult",
"result" : {
"@id" : "kg:/m/0y49634",
"name" : "Software engineer",
"@type" : [ "Thing" ],
"description" : "Fictional Character"
}
This is actually a good answer. If we knew how long it would take to finish this project, we would also know how long it would take a given horse to finish a race, or when a stock would hit a certain price point on the market. We wouldn't need to be working on the project because we'd be inordinately wealthy.

All this talk of medians and means assumes that you've done the same thing many times before (otherwise you wouldn't have those statistics). In software, if you've done it before, then it's already done so the estimate is zero.

Projects always involve doing new things, new requirements, using new technology, techniques, or tools; targeting a new system, and/or using new processes and people. New requirements, constraints, market situations, priorities, and discoveries rise up during the project. Sometimes all of the above. Past performance is not a predictor of future results.

It's more realistic to flip it around. Prioritize the most-important requirements and set an initial deadline. Then you'll get something (the most important stuff, or at least some progress towards it) by the deadline and can decide whether to add the less important stuff afterward.

When doing that, quality and other intangibles need no longer be overlooked but become part of the prioritization. Do you want high quality, or more stuff by the deadline? Do you want the team functioning well for the long haul or is it worth burning them out to rush this, then having downtime afterward?

To get more control, shorten the deadlines to the minimal point where you're still getting deployable chunks of acceptable quality. That acknowledges the inherent uncertainty and gives better control and visibility than just making up a random number (or 3).
What do you think the cause of the pay difference is?
Yes, and she is apparently unmatched at creating reality distortion fields. And her minions just played the oldest game in technology. When people come over, and you don't want to show them anything, show them the machine shop. The Times was mystified by a dial indicator and chips (garbage) from a milling machine.

This whole episode is the best justification for the thesis that that VCs are successful, not from adding value, but simply being presented with the best deals. Perhaps that bull at the Dallas Morning News could do as well.
Well, you certainly have a "dog in this fight." =) It is a little self-serving to say "Yep, this is possible and we are the ones doing it." But since you have such a startup, you'd be crazy not say that!

But as I have stated elsewhere, document summarization and classification is not even in the ballpark of an AI lawyer. Excel didn't replace the Accountant. It's like a fancy Excel for clerks and paralegals (and Excel was a wildly successful product).

You sort of admit that but I think it is more than just the interactions with clients or making them "feel good." I don't think it really addresses what lawyering is or how positive legal outcomes can be achieved. This ma be a weak comparison but it's like we all know that the point of programming is not writing code and cleaning up memory; it's to create solutions to problems.

Also, I think the traditional structure of the firm serves many more purposes than just specifying a hierarchy for task assignment.
On further reading it looks like most of the convention delegates favored the concept, though of course there are always dissenters. I stand corrected.

But I stand by my point about the loss of other balances within and against federal power.
There's likely still more than a little residual sting left from the era of WordPerfect 5.1, where there was a degree of sophistication (and sometimes enormous expense) that looked stable for a long time... then simply vanished. It's been 20 years, but there's something about the experience of having too much of your knowledge trapped inside machines you can't (practically) use anymore that's a little bit scary, and just doing the same thing with another word processor (that obsoletes its old files every now and then) isn't something most people would look forward to doing. Things will get better, but memories have to fade and assurances need to be built first.
The true value of a lawyer is their judgement, analysis ability, and their power of persuasion.

To replace that you need a true Strong AI. So I expect lawyers to be replace shortly after everyone else is replaced. Give or take a few years, since lawyers have some protectionist options, like banning AI from being a lawyer.

Weak AI will eat around the edges. Better spelling, grammar, and cite checking software could reduce a lot of billable time. But most associates spend less than 10% of their time doing that.

For big litigation, document review has been mostly outsourced to legal service companies. I've been a junior associate (the ones traditionally responsible for reviewing documents) for about 2 year. I think I've billed ~200 hours to that (out ~4,200 hours I've billed total). Client won't pay our rates. So we hire contractors for 25 dollars an hour. There is still room for disruption. Predictive coding will probably become the norm within 15 years. But it's only going to put the temp "doc reviewers" out of job.

Westlaw and Lexis already summarize cases, index them. ALJ and Mathew Bender sells practice guides. Firms subscribe to proofreading, document processing, and printing services. They hire paralegals and assistants to do the less taxing work.

It's also important to note that business model of firms only relies on associates billing hours because it's convenient. Clients don't pay 500 an hour for an associate to make sure commas are correct because it costs that much to provide. It's just an add on service to get the high level talent's analysis and judgement. Nickle and diming essentially. Associate costs are fairly small portion of current billing rates.

Most of the grunt work I do is bespoke. Stuff like comparing one patent to another. We have google patent and questal to search. But it takes a human to do the analysis. Even humans of average intelligence with an engineering degree aren't very good at it. If you can build an AI that does it for any patent you feed in, all of our jobs are fucked.
So will Google release open data dumps? Google Knowledge Graph is based on data what was known as Freebase (see various papers). Google is about to shut down Freebase at the end of 2015. Freebase got bought by Google and was kept open and had a great community. (WikiData is still several magnitudes too small to be an alternative)

And stalled Freebase data from summer 2015 gets more useless every day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase

Paper: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~nlao/publication/2014.kdd.pdf (comparision table on page 3, compare Google KnowledgeVault, KnowledgeGraph and Freebase)

Microsoft bought Powerset (for Bing and Cortana AI), IBM recently bought Blekko (for Watson AI). Google closed Freebase and reuse it for KnowledgeGraph (GoogleNow AI and Search). That recent development hurts independent AI research and smaller AI companies.
> 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.

If/when human-level AGI becomes reality, the economic impacts will be the least of anyone's concerns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...
How did your funds perform during the 2008 crash?
> I don't think our society is ready for automated justice at this point. My clients certainly aren't.

They will if the service costs $10/mo instead of the $100s or $1000s per /hour/ you are charging...
> "Moreover, in David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell draws upon research that shows it’s actually more advantageous for a student to attend a college where they can be in the top 10% rather than in the bottom half of the class. It’s the top students at every college who receive the kind of attention from faculty and access to special programs that pave the way to more opportunity after college."

I thought this theory—mismatch theory—was discredited?

To clarify for future responses, check out this amicus brief sent to the Supreme Court in the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas. [0] There is a particularly exhaustive section pp. 14-16.

I bring this up (and prepare myself for the inevitable downvotes) because I feel like this mismatch theory exists only in the particular social debate around affirmative action, not because it necessarily is or is not true (even though mismatch theory is probably not true). Malcolm Gladwell's two stories in David and Goliath and in Outliers—general musings about private schools and musing about football players [1]—plus the one study by a journalist and an economist [2] arguing for Fisher are the entirety of the basis of mismatch theory. There may be two more articles supporting it since the Fisher case went to trial years ago. The amicus I link above must reference a dozen studies refuting it, from a variety of researchers in a variety of contexts. You'd have to believe there was a huge multi-academic conspiracy to simply ignore that evidence—you know, the kind that people think exists with climate change research.

Mismatch theory may be the only argument that is persuasive to these parents, because on the face of it, mismatch theory is consistent with their values for improving their children's positivist success. But what if it's not true? Trying to ignore the reality that the rat race pays off is not going to reduce suicides.

[0] http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/LCCR-an...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/books/david-and-goliath-by... "As usual, Mr. Gladwell’s science is convenient. He has charts to back up his premise about academic success, but how is success measured? In happiness? Salary? Getting jobs, or keeping them? Read the annotations if you must, but they won’t get you far. Mr. Gladwell needs a David-Goliath school story, so he creates one. His version happens to have common sense on its side, even if it is in no way definitive or complete."

[2] https://www.utexas.edu/vp/irla/Documents/ACN%20Richard%20San...
Great name! For those that don't know Senna:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSZj8v_Dqzk
I see a lot of old men, who once wielded a lot of power, being assiduously ego stroked by a young master, whose upbringing served to hone that skill to perfection.
There is an element of self-sacrifice implied by beauty regimes -- sacrifice of time, of health, of wealth. Perhaps this is a critical function of beauty regimes -- it allows them to function as a display behavior: as a means of demonstrating discipline and self-control and as a way to demonstrate deliberate and purposeful adoption of certain values.
Design paper: https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-des...
The caveat is perhaps that in Java 8, a Strategy is simply passing a function as an argument to another function too.

I'd love to see patterns struck down as obsolete with Java language updates.
N.F.L.’s Deal Over Data Blurs a Line on Gambling
Can we have a discussion about not every nation state being NSA and what that means?
Feynman: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1981)
Absolutely if the resolution and feedback were good. However there are a few logistical nightmares I can think of such as the prospect of damaging corals and cables getting tangled among a sea of other unintended consequences.
Well, that's the commit. Usually the "push" operation to the origin is auth'd, isn't it?
I thought so too; but that's what I read, as what happens when Euler curves were used in practice (which they were). Unfortunately, I didn't get to the point of trying it out for myself in my game.

[BTW: Like a bob-sled track, I did find that cross-sections that were sine waves or quadratic did feel strikingly smooth - those being smooth, with smooth deviratives, smooth derivatives of derivatives, and so on.]

If you imagine an x-y graph of force over time for a track that went like (start in a straight, an Euler curve to begin the turn, some time in an circular arc, and a reverse Euler to straighten it, end in a straight), the graph would be (level, slope up, level, slope down, level):

_
_/ \_

Apparently, humans are sensitive to the change between levels and linear slopes. Lines are uncommon in nature [though gravity is constant acceleration...?]. Perhaps related to inverse kinematics in limb movement? "Jolt" may be the wrong description.
Google's quantum dream machine
A couple of fundraisers for those who still support the FSF, copyleft, the GPL, Free Software or Linux:

https://www.fsf.org/appeal/
https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/
Containerd – Standalone Container Daemon
In most common configurations, authenticated but not logged, and there is no association between the push origin and the contents. If multiple employees have push access to a common repo, then Alice can push a commit which claims to be written by Bob, and nobody would probably notice, and there would be very little forensic evidence, if any.
Don't worry, I know you are being amiable. The current professions will largely exist in 2100. =) that's probably a safe bet. For "creative/intellectual" professions, a tremendous burden is on the possibility of an AGI Overlord to exist and for the "labor based professions," unless the "Post-Scarcity Utopia Event", there are currently people literally unable to afford an actual pot in which to urinate so I don't know if everyone in the future will be able to afford the Intel RX9000 Autonomous Plumbing Unit. =)
True dat. MkLinux was someone's pet project, much like Apple Dylan. It was never internally considered a contender for the future of Mac OS.
Anyone know if there is a way to run MacOS X or iOS apps on Linux?
Indeed! The best thing to do would to be to ban encryption all together! /s
VCs are probably missing opportunities by biasing in favor of elite universities. Just desserts, of course.
I remember Wirth's approach of preferring recursive-descent over the bottom-up LR, LALR, SLR, etc., was quite controversial at the time, since prevailing wisdom was that bottom-up parser-generators could parse more complex grammars and were widely believed to be more efficient. Now it seems things have turned in the opposite direction, with both large production-quality compilers and simple educational "toy" ones using some variant of recursive-descent. When GCC switched from a Bison-generated parser to recursive-descent, it actually made it faster(https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/New_C_Parser ). The fact that LL languages are theoretically a subset of LR has not stopped recursive-descent from being used to successfully parse languages like C++ whose grammar is actually Turing-complete.
Occam's Razor would say that the code was modified by a disgruntled employee just before leaving, no? Why is the jump being made to foreign governments?
Your comment reminded me of PG's "Cities and Ambition" essay. http://paulgraham.com/cities.html
That's not my understanding, for example: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-pain...

One site I found to 'debunk' mismatch theory focuses solely on graduation rate as a measure (ie students graduate more at more selective colleges). But that could be due these students transferring out to easier majors or simply graduating with lower grades (as discussed in the Atlantic article above).
The data was originally open, they closed it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase ). You call it nice?
They can say but that it still isn't true. Read the journals. Many of these professions which are supposed to disappear cannot actually be "made to disappear" because of a slightly better version of a primitive algorithm. It seems pretty obvious if you just stop and think about what would actually need to happen.

Autonomous vehicles, fine. If you ignore all the things that currently make transportation complicated, it's a fairly simple problem. I mean hell in the 1800s, they just put the vehicles on tracks with an engine and they were done. But most "white collar job" roles, if you get past cynical jokes, are actually well beyond the state of the art of AI research.

I mean, I love science fiction; I'm a big fan. But I'm also like a realist ...
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There's a reason that "first authors" are also called "corresponding authors".

It's so that you can get in touch with them if you have questions or, more critically, if you want to collaborate with them.
saw this and immediately upvoted b/c i really want something a lot like this.

went to github and realized i won't use it b/c it's implemented in PHP, i probably don't want exactly what this is, and i don't want to edit/debug PHP (not on my own time, anyway).

is that myopic? anyway, that was my honest, off-the-cuff response to the post.
What did you actually do, fresh out of MIT, such that your philosophical support for the GPL was the actual proximate cause for which you were fired? I'm having trouble seeing how this could come about for somebody who was neither determining nor advising about policy, so I'm curious as to what your role was.
Darling: https://www.darlinghq.org/

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6171925
I agree with you but I wonder why I never get archive.org results when I search Google...
Sure, maybe. One could also claim smart students self select top universities.
Is that a big deal? after all, it's common knowledge that the US spy routinely on their allies [1,2]. Nobody really seemed to care at the time.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-ge...
[2] https://wikileaks.org/nsa-france/
There is a special place for Samsung in Android hell