skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not "so wrong on your stock picks", you're wrong almost exactly 50% of the time (well actually you should be wrong about 40% of the time, but those 40% of bad picks will lose you about the same amount of money as the 60% of good picks earn you).

Just like everybody else, even most professional fund managers, although they wouldn't like to admit it.
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I'm afraid Watson is not old enough. You have to be at least 35 years old to be eligible to be president.
Wrong. Enrollment is compulsory.
They could invent another architecture which doesn't tie a mechanically failible element with an identity system.
Twitter's algorithmic timeline is all your own fault
> ridiculed and feel like crap

It's not about ridicule. It's not about offence. Why do people always make this same point about offence?

"My freedom of speech allows me to say what I like; FUCK YOU if you want to use your freedom of speech to tell me how much harm my words cause"

People with LD have been subjected to genocidal actions; they've been forcibly sterilised (without their (or their family's) knowledge or permission; they've been used as the subjects of harmful medical experimentation (again, without knowledge or permission); they often find themselves under DNR (without knowledge or permission); they face levels of bullying higher than other other group; they face levels of discrimination higher than any other group; this bullying and discrimination is bad enough when it comes from people in society, but it's often coming from care professionals; they are deliberately excluded from most of society who know nothing about LD.

About "it's just a string of letters" (there are a few strings I'd like to use about you but on HN it'd probably get me a ban): http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-01/osu-wys012616...

> researchers found that participants showed less tolerance toward people who were referred to as "the mentally ill" when compared to those referred to as "people with mental illness."

> For example, participants were more likely to agree with the statement "the mentally ill should be isolated from the community" than the almost identical statement "people with mental illnesses should be isolated from the community."

> These results were found among [...] and even professional counselors who took part in the study.
Reporting --> Chartio, Sisense, Looker etc. (anything web focused without a desktop version pretty much)

Analysis --> Ipython

No room for Tableau and similar.
This gives me severe flashbacks to clueless clients/PMs. We had projects we had to run through Black Duck -- "No open source code."

The reference implementation of the Mersenne Twister was once GPL, although it wasn't anymore at that time. Still, there are only so many ways you can implement a Mersenne Twister. So my implementation got flagged.
> reboot it with a different set of facts

Not just facts - the designers of the AI also choose the underlying assumption and models. Even the very idea of using an AI implies a certain set of biases and intentions.

Characteristics that are truly common enough in humans that can safely be extracted as a factor are rare. Most of the time we try to compromise so we can call our differences "close enough". The process of finding and/or creating those compromises is what we call "politics", and while computers can certainly help as a tool, but the process needs human involvement by definition.

Attempts to turn over any kind of political or social decision-making to an algorithm is simply a way to disguise the concentration of power. The algorithm's designers ultimately end up with the power, while others are denied power.

The racist tactic known as "redlining"[1] is a pre-AI example. Black people aren't denied hosing directly, they simply "don't quality" for a loan, with the real reasons obscured behind a proprietary "credit worthiness" equation.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case...

edit:

Instead of using AI as a decision-maker, a place where AI (and other technology) might actually be useful is as the facilitator and/or part of the "panel of experts" used in Delphi methods[2]. While the people tend to jump on bandwagons and make stupid decisions when unorganized, we have a lot of examples where a general crowd of people make very good decisions when they are focused on a specific goal and have enough structure to allow for iterative refining of ideas.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_method
> It has many tactics or tricks to cover or change the topics when facing difficulties.

This at start sounded like cheating for me, but thinking about it, developing these tactics to change the course of conversation seems like an important skill that all social people develop, especially with bigger groups of people in which the subset of topics that everyone understands and is more or less interested to is not very big.
This will never scale. Too much human work.

Also how is it different than Google or Bing, which capture people's surfing/clicking habits to find the best sites ?

Another way to reach similar result - is a use the curation people already done , i.e. forums, and particularly , forums with voting mechanisms. If you'll build a good forum search engine - that would be useful.
And you have to be natural born. I wonder how many of its parts came from outside the US.
Every big studio and the majority of medium studios converted to Linux once Houdini and Maya were ported. At the time the industry was dominated by five big American studios and 3-5 big London studios, all of which went the Linux route, not the NT route. Maybe you worked on multiple small studios that jumped on windows, but that wasn't the norm nor was windows the driving force is providing a smooth path from Irix.
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wasn't that the idea with OLPC Sugar [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar]?

The whole desktop and apps in python and hackable.
Any chance of OCR? I searched for "Pharm Team", which was the name of the company at https://frinkiac.com/?p=caption&q=major+league+baseball&e=S1... though the name was never said.
> it's also a much more pleasing language to write in (the lack or sum types or generics in Go is very annoying)

Interesting anecdote: Last year, for a course I had to write the assignments in Go. As a Rustacean, I grumbled about the lack of sum types a lot, and made various hacks via interfaces writing unidiomatic Go code to simulate them. My code design was also very Rust-y and unidiomatic.

This year, I'm TAing the same course, and there's a similar assignment. One student's submission was eerily similar to my design (by now I knew that it was unidiomatic), down to the hacks used. It also contained a comment saying "missing Rust's enums" (my code contained a similar comment to explain the hacks). At first I thought it may have been copied from my code (which can be found if you're looking for it), but it was different enough in other areas. I dug a bit and found that the student was indeed a rustacean.

It's rather interesting that two rustaceans used the exact same hacks and same overall design when asked to code in Go.

Surprisingly, I don't miss generics too much in Go. interfaces used to make me cringe due to the extra runtime cost (since I knew Rust before learning Go, and such solutions would make me cringe in Rust), but once I got used to Go I learned to use them properly. Named interfaces are pretty easy to use and let you structure the code decently well, just like proper generics. They may have a runtime cost, but Go doesn't put as much focus on that as Rust.

On the other hand, easy-to-use non-hacky sum types are something I miss from Go all the time.
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This sounds like the show "Person of Interest". Interesting thought experiment though
Note that comparison is by the musl author, but it's several point releases old for it and glibc.
Wages probably will fall but it's probably also more complex than that.

Your extremely talented engineers who build things at scale and understand the fundementals, who are basically a safe per of hands, are still going to be in deep demand. Profitiable companies that work at scale are still going to have real problems and are unlikely to turn around and tell their engineers that they're going to be getting significantly less money, as those engineers are already in their own market and these companies will still want to compete for them.

The startups filled with architecture astronauts who spend most of their time overdesigning, learning new tools, and basically doing anything that isn't meeting user needs, delivering the product or tackling some tough engineering problem, then you're likely going to see a drop because they're not really worth it in the first place.
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There's no need to be so hostile and assume malice when there's plenty of perfectly sound explanations otherwise.

Apple is a fairly security conscious company now so security tradeoffs should not be a surprise.
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SGI made a few NT computers as an attempt to sell PCs which of course didn't work out due to not offering much except for a name an inflated price. Linux was coming around at the time, but SGI wouldn't have been an early adopter of Linux by any means since Irix was one of the jewels of the company, and helping adoption of Linux would have helped people transition to commodity PCs.

NT was a part of the transition for much smaller groups or individuals since they could buy a dual processor pentium II/pro and put a decent amount of RAM in them along with an Oxygen card that would accelerate OpenGL.

Large studios had a huge amount of infrastructure built up in pipeline scripts and workflow, proprietary software that might have used POSIX APIs and GUI libraries that weren't on windows, and big network file systems that tied things together.
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> Please contact apple secure support to confirm that your device is still secure

There's no way the customer or Apple can do that with third party hardware installed. The only solution I can see is to disable all of the features relying on Touch ID.
This isn't a quantitive finance problem but more of a consumer finance problem: I really think it is about time there is an API for consumers to access their data at financial institutions. I could see that opening up all kinds of innovation. (Selfishly it would allow the startup I'm working on to multiply the value we offer to users.)

Obviously a standard would be nice but in practice I'm sure each institution would come up with their own or embrace and extend the standard. e.g. FIX with trading.
Using the word retard victimises a group that is already significantly marginalised while simultaneously not doing much to the intended victim. The word has a greater affect on unintended, innocent, victims than the intended target.

If you're talking about IQ less than 70 use whatever is relevant in the country you're in. In the US this is usually intellectual disability (which is a subset of learning disability, which in US also includes eg dyslexia which doesn't have IQ requirement), but for some small groups it might be retard (although other groups see that as hate speech.)

If you're talking about a difficult to understand action call it dumb or stupid or idiotic or almost anything but retarded.

In the UK the word retard is pretty much equivalent to kikes or nigger or faggot. I'm not sure people in the US recognise that when they say retard people outside the US see a word like nigger. If that's the level of offence you want to create then sure, go ahead.
Sure. QE pushes money into the supply side (banks) which goes primarily into rent seeking activities such as equity markets and real estate due to a lack of aggregate demand.

This allows the economy to stay afloat as those with assets enjoy increases in nominal wealth as long as more and more liquidity is injected into the system.

But it hurts the economy in the long run by distorting market signals (wage, unemployment, asset prices) that would take a major correction if the market was allowed to match supply and demand in these respective markets efficiently.

Short summary: QE hurts aggregate demand in the long run through the misdirection of resources and the creation of rent seeking asset bubbles. Weak aggregate demand leads to deflation, regardless of how much liquidity we have on the bank side.
And we do not need to index the entire Internet, users can add their own resources, and we will seek among the favorites.

For example, Jonathan Ive (opinion leader on design) will be able to say: look, here I have collected all the best sites, this is news, this is tools, look for everything related to the design here!

And as any other man. Our search engine will look at user's favorite internet and algorithms to choose the most suitable bubbles)

In the Google, sites in the first places only become more popular and getting there very difficult)
We have sites selected users)

This is what they wanted to do with +1 button, and we believe that our formula is more correct)

Thank you, we will build a system that indexes user intranets and provide the most relevant results)
I find that doctors offices often call from an unknown number. This is for privacy reasons: if a psych doctor calls and someone who doesn't know I am seeing one sees the caller ID, they would have violated my privacy. Also as a rule they don't leave voice mail messages beyond "this is Dr. So-and-so please call me back." Because of this I always answer all unknown numbers. If they turn out to be a telemarketer, I tell them they called the director of the FBI and ask them who they work for and how they got my number, then promise them to investigate their company because calling this secure line is a threat to national security.
Perhaps there were other factors.
It sounds plausible, but none of us can know for sure as we don't have the source code and internal access at Apple. (maybe they can't just deactivate TouchID on its own, maybe they can but they want to protect the already existing fingerprint data on the device)

I don't see how killing the entire 3rd party repair network worldwide can create a positive outcome for Apple, because they are unlikely to even have the resources for repairing every device in a timely manner and with acceptable costs.

It's easy to say that they'll just earn more from repairs and sell more devices, but customer satisfaction is also important and I believe Apple takes issues that essentially brick devices very seriously.

It is also well known that they take privacy very seriously (although implementations might not be perfect), so I am inclined to believe that in this case privacy concerns have won against customer satisfaction concerns.

Edit: Apple Pay is also a _very_ important product for Apple, I imagine they simply cannot afford any issues that might make this seem unsafe to customers.
> What is the benefit of using twtxt? Ok, it's decentralized, but what actual benefit does that bring?

Right now Twitter is up in arms about proposed changes which make users not have control over their feeds; there will be algorithmic curation so you only see the most popular content from your followers. "Just create a CLI wrapper" only works assuming the APIs are not effected by the changes they are making to the main product, which doesn't really make sense.
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Because the moon landing is one of the few events that every human coopts as ours. It is one of the few events that transcend nationality. While US made it happen - we the humanity made one of ours go up there.
well, how to identify "damaging" pull requests? i mean, that's what politics is.
Apple says iPhone 'Error 53' is to protect customers' security
Or find a Minecraft host that has an affiliate program. Considerably less work than hosting yourself.
Baning the use of one euphemism in favor of another has never resolved the root issue and will not do so now.
Yes, drinking culture in the UK is stupid and everyone knows it's a problem. The cost to the health service means that it's not really something that should be tolerated in the long term.

See for example: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/10/alcohol...
> There's a lot of stuff that depends on the secure element - in fact the phone would be quite useless without it.

Disclaimer: I don't own an iPhone with Touch ID.

However, it seems to me that the phone should still work if you logged on with your PIN instead of with TouchID. It should therefore be as useful as most phones that didn't have TouchID in the first place (which happens to be all my Android and iOS smartphones).
Worse thing is sometimes getting 30 different projects with the same snippet of code but the code was written by neither, it was simply copied from Stackoverflow and then applied by each developer on their code.

Have you had a chance of trying out the report?

If you are scanning open source, there is a trick to ignore matches from the repository where it comes from.

Just create a file called "ignore.txt" inside the samples folder and on that file include the keywords that blacklist positive matches. For example, if scanning the "Adblock Plus" code then add as keyword "adblockplus" on the ignore.txt file and no matches from repositories containing "adblockplus" on their URL will be listed.

Works good for discovering which parts of an already open source project are not really original.
> has much of the user's life stored on it

Stores life in fragile device

Fragile device breaks

Dies
Retard has two uses. If you're talking about watch mechanisms or dough in the fridge the word retard is perfectly fine, no-one cares about that use.

The word retard is hate speech, linked to actual real world violence. And that violences is very common.

https://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2009...

> A survey by Mencap of people with a learning disability has found that nearly nine out of ten respondents have experienced bullying in the last year. Two-thirds are bullied on a regular basis and almost one-third are suffering from bullying on a daily or weekly basis. People with a learning disability face prejudice and widespread discrimination that often makes them feel like outcasts and prevents them from taking a full part in society. Public attitudes in the United Kingdom towards people with a learning disability remain discriminatory. The Mencap survey suggests that the bullying of people with a learning disability is institutionalised throughout society.

How they described bullying:

> The following behaviours were most frequently cited: kicking, biting, name-calling, teasing, stealing, pushing, threatening, having things thrown at you, being told to leave a building, hitting, being shouted at, swearing, demanding money, hair-pulling, throwing stones, spitting, poking, being punched, being beaten up, having one’s head banged against the wall.
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As someone who worked as a telemarketer during college to pay for his degree so he could understand things like AI... Thank you!

Being a telemarketer sucks. The work environment is often toxically focused on metrics, turnover is high, and nobody wants to bother people at home!

Sadly it paid much better than most other jobs available to me at the time, especially once I got half decent at it and starting earning commission, so I don't think things this will ever make it uneconomical for employers.
Who said anything about GitHub? The situation would call for a highly specialized, custom-made solution. If you think that's impossible, please share your reasons for thinking so. Comments like yours are pure FUD and aren't in any way helpful.
That doesn't really have all that much to do with what is considered finance. It's maybe a bit like saying an open issue in computer science is having a great keyboard.
It's also now illegal to sell kebabs past midnight:

http://stoneyroads.com/2016/01/there-is-now-a-lockout-law-fo...

Native Sydney-sider, lived there for 25 years, not sure I'd enjoy living there any more.
If you google "online journal", you will see a bunch of sites offer a very similar service. If the word "private" freaks you out, you will be very surprise how the other competitors are advertising their private journals ;) (totally secure, always secure and etc...)
GoodnightJournal.com actually warns the people to be careful with personal data rather than just saying it's secure cause I believe nothing is 100% secure if the idea comes out of your head. (https://www.goodnightjournal.com/aboutprivacy/)
And people actually -want- overregulation in America. This time it's under the guise of Sanders (who wants the government involved in every part of your life), and Trump, (who seeks to alienate congress).

Here's the thing, large government just doesn't work. Learn from history.
The problem is that if you didn't fetch the file at the right time, you will lose some history after rotation happens. At the very least, it needs a standard way to deal with that (like a mandated date-based URL format?), which has to be specified in the format.

Also, no DM and no @-replies. For those, you need a registry of some sort, but decentralized registries enable name-squatting.

Before you know it, you have reinvented the WWW, except limited to 140 chars.
This could be an investigation work to get hard data. From personal experience would say that exist many cases where a given code can only be written in a given manner. On other cases, people simply copied the code many years ago and never again know where it can be found.

For me, more relevant is to compare the variable names. If both code snippets have very similar variable names, then one of them is likely a copy.
Apple have been accused of copper-bottoming the rules when relatives want to get access to a dead person's phone.

Apple only really need a death certificate and certificates of probate; but Apple insist on different court orders.

So I'm not sure if SOGA etc will affect Apple here.
Diagramming also has the added benefit of being a more precise way of communication how a system works. I've found that a 30 minute discussion can be turned into a 2 minute explanation with the use of a diagram.

Personally, I can't even really think about complex business/application/system logic without drawing it out on a whiteboard.
Not just business, this is true everywhere. As Goodhart's Law puts it, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=3978
People seem to have varying success, but I find that any even semi-legitimate companies will stop calling if you answer and ask to be put on their do not call list.

It can be necessary to talk over their opening spiel.

This is in the US for a number that is already on the national do not call list (which has lots of exceptions); I don't make threats or argue or anything sophisticated, just "Please put this number on your do not call list." Then hang up.
"full-stack", you say... Do you respect your stack? I've found that not only do I have to respect the customers I'm building for, and believe in the product we're making, I also have to believe in the technology stack we're using. Part of that is a desire to keep my skills current, but a another, large, part is a desire to build something well, something that will last. And that's difficult to do with crappy tools and materials. Also, do you respect the people you're working with? Maybe form a cohort within your company to eventually break off and form another team/project/company.