skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best chatbots are not open to the public. Because the current RNN tech is just way too computationally expensive to have on the public internet. Watson was able to answer most the questions on Jeopardy, but it required a room full of servers.

Google published some promising results of an RNN chatbot that was trained on movie scripts, but as far as I know it was never released publicly. Microsoft supposedly has an AI chatbot that is really incredible in China. Tay was supposed to be the start of something like that for the English world, but had that stupid scandal.
i assume you've already negotiated and agreed upon a salary with the hiring manager. there's no 'following up' to do at that stage in the game. if you've been interacting with an internal recruiter (rather than the hiring manager), then it could be an additional layer of politics, bureaucracy, or something else stretching things out, but either way: if after say 2 weeks, no offer letter has been emailed to you, that reflects very poorly on the hiring manager, and all the more reason to keep on looking elsewhere.

in the meantime, do not let up on the job search.
> So this autumn we can expect to have ES6 in every browser that matters!

Since when does FF not matter anymore?
> I'm just terrified that I won't find something.

That's good, serious, keep the terror, keep hungry. But also say honest to yourself, right? If a gig looks hinky pass it by.
> OO filesystems weren't going anywhere.

Really? Have we forgotten Smalltalk machines so quickly?
If you put these 700k in Vanguard, you could get ~3.21%	per year forever. That works out to 22k$/year. Perhaps it's below poverty line in US, but for some countries that could be upper part of middle-class income.
This sounds like an anti BRICS scare piece. Author conveniently forgets to mention that the USA / UK etc (along with their respective multinationals) destroy whole countries for their energy resources, or Monsanto testing crops in India, causing farmers to commit suicide.
That's not strictly true, the board composition was far more traditional prior to 2013, a lot of these government guys came on at that point. From the wikipedia article:

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

In July 2013, the composition of the Theranos board of directors changed markedly, with departure of Channing Robertson (emeritus professor, chemical engineering, Stanford University),[39] experienced pharma and biotech executive Robert B. Shapiro (former chairman/CEO of the Pharmacia, Monsanto, and G.D. Searle group of companies), and financier Pete Thomas (principal, ATA Ventures).[6][38] Remaining from the original board were Theranos President and COO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani and former Secretary of State George Shultz;
The second is only more interesting if you are in power. For you, life is good, and the interesting thing is pondering the nature of the future.

If you are not in power, if someone has a boot to your neck, then an AI of the first sort, which can automate the work of removing a boot from your neck, looks very interesting.
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That's _after_ the first launch, correct?
You fake out the connection with a faker object and give that to the code that wants to communicate to the network, and it returns streamed, deterministic data that would have been expected from the actual network, given deterministic inputs. The test uses the fake; the production code gets given the real object.
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ALWAYS settle early. By leaving it be you're exposing yourself. Eyes get wider and wider as you raise more and more. When that $2m wire clears, if it means writing a $300k cheque or agreeing to a $1m payout over 5 years, just do it. Don't be idealistic when there are real stakes on the line. True, they can still bring you to court later, but you'll be in a _much_ better position.
Offering to cover defense increases their overall cost. If they agree to provide defense up front prior to anyone filing, and they are able to file first, they are able to make the bet that the opposing party won't file a counter. If the opposing party has already filed, they cannot make that bet, and as a result they are less likely to cover defense in the contingency agreement.
I hear what you're saying, but still the price thing...A Voyage is 199 new, 159 refurb. There are GREAT cases like this one for $13 http://www.amazon.com/OMOTON-Thinnest-Lightest-leather-Displ...

Point is, this thing as nice as it is, case or not, is still WAY too expensive for what it is.
Or they lowballed him. Its hard to make assumptions here without the full story.
Sure, but Sam Altman is biased here. He is a share holder and has a lot to gain from the merger going through, and not being delayed or derailed. So it's hard to read this as if it were neutral, which is how he is presenting it.
I dread the day mine stops working. I'm overseas and when they first came out I wanted one, so paid a fortune to some place in Malaysia that bought them in bulk from the US, added a couple of hundred dollars and resold them. I've never regretted spending that much on it.

I have an ipad as well now, but I prefer reading fiction on the DX.
This has been a pain point for anyone who wants SSL on Azure. A few site extensions (e.g. the one for Lets Encrypt) have tried to address it but they haven't succeeded all the way. Looks like MS has finally made it a few clicks process.

Fire and forget SSL, here I come.
Why are those jobs more likely to be automated than the jobs college graduates take? Are college graduates better able to deal with disruption, or do employers simply presume they are?
> Instant gratification that can be draws congratulation is preferred to risking your political reputation attempting to solve the hard underlying problems

Certainly this happens to some engineers, too.
Two questions:

What role... EE, IT, sys admin, web dev (front/back end)

What kind of company (start up, established etc)
Intel: "Long term reliability cannot be assured unless all the Low-Power Idle States are enabled."

Does that mean if you run the CPU too much, it will die quickly? Is there some low limit on time at full power? Electromigration problems, perhaps?
Do you not recognize how weak this inference is?

"We are going faster and faster so we will get there" is not the way you calculate the likelihood of reaching a destination within a certain time.
Exactly. Wikipedia helps me remember things I've forgotten, but it's slow going when trying to learn a new topic. The first paragraph includes a set of links that you recursively follow.
> So, has anyone managed to make progress toward a "systematic solution" in the last 9 years?

Allow me to introduce you to the fantastic and battle-tested http://learnyousomeerlang.com/what-is-otp , preferably utilized (IMHO) via http://elixir-lang.org/
Sure it's the richest 1/3. I can't imagine anyone in, say, the top 5% who DON'T itemize.

Less-wealthy property owners might own property in a low-enough cost-of-living and low-enough-tax state (or have bought long enough ago) that their mortgage interest and property tax is still less than the standard deduction.
Great point. Editing my post to include this.
The military response was such a roaring success, too...
That's awesome to hear, thank you. The goal of education should be to spark the fire so we learn more. Really glad to hear the intro made the rest more intriguing :).
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The solution is not specific to this study. It's explaining that there are no absolutes and rather presenting the results with probabilities. For example, making it clear that research has shown that it is probable that it might make you healthier but is not guaranteed, based on x number of studies in the last x years.
Indeed, it's stupid that such high-tech device ships with dead animal skin.
Yeah, this definitely seems like a wrong use of the word easter egg to me, and I'm trying hard not to let it bother me.
> the fact is that two intelligent people can each hold conflicting, but sincerely held worldviews.

THIS! A thousand times over. The mere fact that a generous settlement was turned down seems to indicate both sides sincerely believe they are in the right and not some "out of the woodworks charlatan as sama has us believe..."
A couple months ago I bought a Dell XPS 13 (signature edition) off of Amazon because it was a few hundred dollars cheaper than buying it from Dell, and installed Linux over it.

It's a Skylake machine, and it's been working great. I'm using Debian Testing with the kernel pulled from Sid (necessary to get the wifi working).

Powertop output is:

Package | Core | CPU 0 CPU 2
| | C0 active 6.7% 3.9%
| | POLL 0.1% 0.2 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms
| | C1E-SKL 5.5% 0.2 ms 1.3% 0.2 ms
C2 (pc2) 9.7% | |
C3 (pc3) 2.2% | C3 (cc3) 2.5% | C3-SKL 3.2% 0.3 ms 0.4% 0.2 ms
C6 (pc6) 4.1% | C6 (cc6) 7.0% | C6-SKL 8.0% 0.3 ms 8.4% 0.7 ms
C7 (pc7) 0.0% | C7 (cc7) 28.7% | C7s-SKL 0.0% 0.1 ms 0.0% 0.7 ms
C8 (pc8) 12.1% | | C8-SKL 29.4% 1.9 ms 60.5% 2.3 ms
C9 (pc9) 0.0% | | C9-SKL 0.0% 0.0 ms 0.0% 1.3 ms
C10 (pc10) 0.0% | | C10-SKL 4.3% 3.6 ms 14.6% 4.1 ms

| Core | CPU 1 CPU 3
| | C0 active 5.2% 4.4%
| | POLL 0.0% 0.0 ms 0.0% 0.2 ms
| | C1E-SKL 1.5% 0.2 ms 1.5% 0.3 ms
| |
| C3 (cc3) 0.6% | C3-SKL 0.7% 0.2 ms 0.7% 0.2 ms
| C6 (cc6) 14.7% | C6-SKL 10.8% 0.7 ms 13.8% 0.8 ms
| C7 (cc7) 52.0% | C7s-SKL 0.1% 1.1 ms 0.0% 0.4 ms
| | C8-SKL 59.6% 2.1 ms 59.8% 1.8 ms
| | C9-SKL 0.0% 0.0 ms 0.0% 0.0 ms
| | C10-SKL 9.7% 4.4 ms 8.4% 3.5 ms

| GPU |
| |
| Powered On 13.2% |
| RC6 86.8% |
| RC6p 0.0% |
| RC6pp 0.0% |
| |
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As far as I can see, this seems to imply C8 is working fine?
> Because the 3rd party company already exists and will provide integration (ie: ADP integration) that the IRS will not be able to provide... not without a few years of development or some sort of coercion.

You do realize that the IRS already gets a copy of your W2, 1099s, 1098s, etc, right? You can order up a transcript of the data that the IRS has on your file for a given year and they have a pretty complete set of data from all the various mandatory forms.

What they don't have (and can't have, because only you have them) is data you'd need for schedules C and E and much of the deductions for schedule A. Guess what? Intuit and your local "tax guy" don't have those either, unless you give it to them.
(Usual disclaimer: I speak for myself, not for my employer, etc.)

The team in charge of solving this particular problem is located in two sites in two different timezones. This is true of most critical SRE teams at Google, and it is precisely to be able to have 24h coverage in these time sensitive situations.

In the 2+ years I have spent in SRE I have never heard of a single instance of an SRE being asked or even encouraged to stay after hours (let alone overnight) for incident remediation. There is quite a lot of emphasis being put on work/life balance.
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(side note: isn't it also incredibly arrogant to think that they can simply delete things from the internet and pretend they never said them?).

There is a right to be forgotten, no?
Sexual harassment is pervasive throughout all industries. I was replying to a comment that was ridiculously dismissive of a clear example of sexual harassment without speaking specifically about tech.

Basically, the law as it stands says that you can express romantic interest to a coworker once for free, but you have to drop it if they're not receptive.
And thats the thing. At least from my point of view, Cairo and the like was "happy" exiting within X11.

But once we got things like Compiz, a major shift in attitude towards X11 came about.
Hugo is great though, easy to use, its not more difficult than other software to use. Users are just afraid of command line tools.

I don't think wordpress strategy would work for medium. The best they can do is to improve their algoritms so that people can get good suggestions on the things of their interest. Sort of like subject circles, marketing ppl get to see their shit, engineers get to see their and other nerds can have their own cirlejerk.
In danger of being redundant:

> I always use a single line break to indicate a single line break.

Markdown isn't all that different from Word in this respect: hard linebreaks are second class citizens. In word, a single <enter> inserts a paragraph break, while <shift-enter> inserts a linebreak. In markdown a single linebreak inserts an (optional) space, while "<space><space><enter>" is translated to a hard linebreak.

It is very rarely that you need linebreaks in article/body text (eg: a book, newspaper article). One exception might be for dialogue:

- "I don't know.", said Tom.
- "Me neither.", I replied.

You'd probably want a break after the periods, no matter if the column broke up on eg: the comma or in the middle of a longer quote. This is all very different with source code, obviously.

It's a trade-off: Are most plain documents somewhat sloppily formatted wrt. paragraph/line breaks? I think this is probably true. And for natural language text, what you usually want for good layout, is soft word wrap. Lack of good word-splitting (hyphenation) for <p>-text in browsers have probably set back web layout 20 years -- and chrome is still a hold-out: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=47083
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I'm specifically asking as someone starting out in Product looking for career advancement and exciting products, not solely startups however.
"Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" which has been cited over 3000 times covers this topic:
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Yeah, I've been really impressed with how snappy VSCode is.
> a lot of strategy and insight can be transferred in a month

Not just that, a fair amount of work can be done in a month (bearing in mind that '1 month' is probably a rounding down).
It sounds as if Cruise has gone from being worth very little to an awful lot in around 24 months.
I can answer that for you. No, the US military does not acquire private companies, except in extraordinary circumstances of national security (think: WW2 type events). They'd only do it if the company possesses something of extreme strategic importance and could no longer operate as an on-going concern, and the first thing they'd do is try to arrange a sale to another friendly defense contractor. Buying a private company would be the very last thing they would do in the chain of actions there; further, what they would do, is purchase the technology, not the corporation.

Accordingly, the theory about Theranos being set-up to be sold to the DoD, falls entirely flat.
> If the IRS could put the 1040EZ online on a free website, that'd be great.

It has:
https://www.irs.gov/uac/Before-Starting-Free-File-Fillable-F...

I have relatively simple taxes but I did hire someone for a few years because I was receiving a 1099 for some part time work. I had no idea what to do to pay for this self-employment.

This bill would have made that process easier and free for me. My 1099s and all of that relevant documentation are provided to the government. If the government had estimated my taxes and sent them to me before I was required to file them, it would have given me a much better idea of where to start, while still leaving me the option of hiring a 3rd party if I thought it in my best interest.
To be honest Watson didn't use any deep learning (I read the paper, see http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/23... ). It uses an ensemble of dozens of question-answering algorithms. Still it's very cool. A name DeepQA was a bit misleading, perhaps "wide QA" would be better.

RNN chatbots are the future, but for now they aren't stable enough to fulfill customers' elevated expectations. Also there is a problem with objective function that rewards interesting conversation, there is some new research on this problem that hasn't made it into open RNN chatbots yet. The standard objective function was giving most probable answers, it turned out to be boring.

I agree with grandparent that Reinforcement Learning is a right approach for training an intellectual chatbot, but there is a problem of well-designed training curriculum (i.e. some systematic scheme of rewarding and punishing the RL agent). I wouldn't wonder if facebook's M team tries different approaches, including RL, to train on their data.
Giving a woman a t-shirt with your name on it after she shot you down for trying to corner her in a dark room is sexual harassment because it's a repeated sexual advance targeted towards someone who has made it clear that she is not interested. You can find the definition of sexual harassment on the government website that defines it.
Worse than user laziness: OFTC's servers often let their certificates expire and hang around for months before they bother replacing them. There's usually little choice but to tell your client to connect anyway despite all the warnings.
oh and for the same day comment, we plan to ship goods out the day of. Everything a user is able to purchase will already be at a local Natch fulfillment center.
That would be just part of the upside. It's like a gambler betting $10 on 1:8 odds if the real odds are 1:7. It's hard to measure the profits of being a good gambler.
Some of those can and should be skipped.

You're also missing a native assembly language.

Programming should be taught from the point of view of writing your own forth interpreter, up through BIOSes, based off of it, then in to higher level languages.

Logical composition, however, should be taught inversely. Take a high level language (SQL comes to mind, yes that's high level in some respects!) and teach how to isolate and logically differentiate between elements.

However I'm also for the more simple base test first.

Show someone a few examples of how to play Mastermind (game), see if it clicks.

Show someone basic register algebra, as one labeled context, and then show them VHDL style flow definition statements as another context. Keep the contexts labeled.

Anyone that can apply those rules to 'play the games' is probably capable of being a programmer; and anyone that doesn't find it fun probably shouldn't /be/ a programmer.
For what its worth Microsoft has struggled with power management on mobile skylake as well - https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/62772/micr... . There have been multiple firmware upgrades but if you look at /r/surface on reddit multiple people (myself including) still have issues with power management and sleep on the skylake surface pro 4's.
My understanding is that octopus arms are semi-autonomous and borderline 'intelligent' on their own. Each one is equipped with a sophisticated nervous system and can process a wide swath of sensory inputs. Severed octopus arms have been shown to behave as though they are connected to the intact octopus's brain. [1]

[1] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/even-...
At the very least, computation could be distributed at the hyperparameter tuning stage. Each node would be responsible for training on a different set of hyperparameters. The master node would coordinate the selection and distribution of new hyperparameter sets, amortizing the data-set distribution time.

It would also be possible to distribute computation of batches across nodes. Each node would compute the gradients on its batch, and the master would combine gradients and distribute new weights.

High-speed interconnects (e.g. Infiniband) are not needed in this scenario, and the bandwidth usage scales according to the size of the weights and/or gradients, not the data-set size.
I'm not really invested here, but I don't quite get the 'new product' defense (is it a defense?).

For me your argument is similar to stating that Visual Studio Professional and Visual Studio Enterprise are different products. Sure - you can totally explain that. For me those are editions of the same thing, and in the case of the Kindle I find it hard to see any benefits - sure, I haven't seen it live yet, but it's the same form factor, same resolution and .. it's used to read.. - compared to the cheaper versions.

If there's a market for this thing I wish Amazon all the best. It just isn't for me and based on this (personal!) position I fail to recognize this as a new product, see it as another iteration at best.

Again: This might be the best thing for a lot of people out there and I don't claim they're wrong at all. Still looks like a refresh. EA brings us FIFA 2016, Amazon the Kindle Oasis?
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re The Real Cost of College

Scanned article, will parse it later.

From the hip: Direct != indirect subsidizes and shouldn't be conflated. Direct subsidizes lowers the retail cost.

Outsiders need to understand that, just like business, higher ed has been reducing costs aggressively. Most faculty and staff have been taking it in the teeth. Meanwhile, admins and coaches and select faculty have been getting outsized compensation. No different than any where else.

Edit: If I had to guess, tuition at private institutions went up because it could. Charge what the market will bear. Maintain appearance of a premium quality product. Differentiate oneself from the plebes.

Edit 2: Chewed on the other two articles. Tim Worstall confuses cause and effect. Both he and Alex Tabarrok ignore that tuition costs were just fine before state subsidies (to the institutions) were removed. Drives me nuts. Further, why the American-centric exceptionalism? There are plenty of other nations with a variety of systems. A god-given natural experiment. So we can compare and contrast. Why are their costs and outcomes ignored?

If interest rates are much lower...

Changing access and cost of capital won't free up land to be redeveloped, therefore increasing supply.
Fair enough, and there's an additional level of complication here in CA: The original loan is non-recourse, but a refinance is recourse. So a lot of folks did not fully understand that the offer to refinance an underwater home at a low interest rate was probably worse than just walking away.

I think it used to be rare for filing of deficiency suits, so my sympathies on your situation.
Here's a list of the driver code analysis warnings. I wonder how many of these could be codified as compile-time checks in the winapi-kmd-rs library. For example, the KIRQL type is a u8 in winapi-kmd-rs, but the code analysis warnings the valid IRQL range is 0–31.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...
Why haven't we landed a man on mars yet? I mean its just a rocket and a man, how easy.
But we have longer term consequences for our actions both from users and employers. Using duct-taping to patch up serious problems is rarely punished in politics.
What kind of computer and OS are you using?
Thanks for your post! We hadn't agreed on an exact salary, but he mentioned a range for what he was looking at...now thats in limbo. Ive never been assigned a recruiter yet, and its so far been all through this hiring manager supposedly talking to hr...ever hear of this? How would you proceed?
I always see a lot of job postings for Austin. Plus, the city is supposed to be really nice.
For the residential construction industry, a lot more could be done in manufactured housing. Not necessarily complete mobile homes, but major chunks of real houses could be build in automated factories perhaps located in foreign countries. Then it only takes a few workers on the construction site to bolt the chunks together. This is already being done to some extent and will increase as building codes are updated and traditional construction practices die off.
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That's very easy to imagine:

- Have a job that pays enough to get you in the top 5%
- Don't own a house
- Live in one of the 7 states without an income tax

Boom. You probably don't itemize.