skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that is what the above poster is asking and the root of the original inquiry. Most press and IBM originated information about Watson reads like vague sales collateral or PR puff. The first link I get on google when I type in "watson" is titled "IBM Watson - The platform for cognitive business" [1] which is pretty meaningless. I click "What is Watson?" and get this page [2] which says "IBM Watson is a technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data" which is great but that could describe anything from Siri to Google to Yelp to Microsoft Word and Excel.

The above post saying "it helps with cancer research and patient care" is the perfect example of this. Yeah it sounds good, but what is it doing? Keeping patients warm? Writing publications for researchers? Churning through raw experimental data? Rationing healthcare (er, making treatment decisions) with sophisticated mathematics? Generating a quick summary of new research papers for treaters? I have no idea..

It may be super cool technology, but IBM has done an impressive job of completely obfuscating its nature and capabilities with sales speak gobbledygook.

[1] http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/

[2] http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/what-is-wat...
I really enjoy the level of writing and maintaining code. I really enjoy solving problems that very few people could solve. I don't really like the stuff that is produced and used that people get paid for...
http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developercl...

the 'learn more' part for each service should tell you more about what each service does.

hope this helps. it would take me a long time and a lot of copying and pasting to relay all the same stuff.
There are plenty of reasons one can guess the contents of the hard drive - but it's nothing more, just a guess. Could be useful for guiding a search for actual evidence.

The real issue here is that the legal system is then treating this guess itself as a sort of actual evidence for jailing the suspect.
The positrons might be hiding in the protons!
I'm in the exact same boat. My feeling is that as they workout more they will realize how much more they can do as well as just getting used to the fatigue.
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Objectively, the probability of it having been an actual drone strike are sub-microscopic. You wouldn't object to a headline like "Man in woods didn't see Yeti after all." The odds are similar.
When they first announced it, I thought it was some kind of strange attempt to put products into companies and for Alphabet (ABC) to be a holding company on that. This would have brought more visibility into the truly profitable bits of Google and the parts that are huge money holes.

Instead, it looks like Google already knew this all along and what seems to be happening is that Alphabet seems to have been formed to divest Google of financial drag, breaking out money pits to see if they can more easily be killed or sold off for parts.

I've noticed that in financial news, ABC is still basically just talked about as "Google".
Actually, the point was that no company is going to pay to move their employees. The company would just fire employees @ the current location and hire employees @ the new location.
You seem to be working against your own argument.

1) Business Insider is at best, simply not research journal, nor is it specifying results.

2) The medical center publication first statement says "A team of physicians and analysts at Memorial Sloan Kettering has been “training” IBM Watson for more than a year..."

Seems like like something productive would be going the other way....
To be more like a startup, you must optimize for Product/Market Fit
It's not. The distinction would be between planting CP and planting a murder weapon in someone's car. The weapon isn't the crime. It's evidence of a person's guilt. The CP is the crime. As would be the baggie of crack cocaine.
A few people in bad marriages around here...
WTF! That's it. I'll one-up this guy!
My understanding is that Watson basically acts as a cloud machine learning platform and people can build on it as they see fit. In that sense, Watson is basically the "brand" of IBM's machine learning offerings, no matter how singular the advertising makes it sound (i.e. the ads make it sound like a singular AI platform).

Can you explain what differentiates it from Amazon Machine Learning, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, etc?
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In what sense are there more rational numbers than prime numbers? They can be put into bijection with each other, so we generally think of them as being same infinity. There are more real nubmers, of course, by Cantor's diagonalization, so your basic point is true.
So accepting blatant advertising is a test for the community? And blatantly incorrect spam at that.

Oh, and calling it a derangement syndrome is both denigrating to those of us with real mental problems and a cheap way to duck the charges of spamming.
Agreed.

When I see such arguments I immediately become skeptical because I start seeing a political argument being made, or at least, an argument driven by political leanings.

When I say political, I do not mean party political, but generally being on the left side of the spectrum.

I've known enough philosophers who do their level best to bring science down a peg, seeing it as power struggle between the different ways of "knowing" Think postmodernism and the quest to relativise everything.
I don't really see a benefit in updating existing instances in this manner. Launching replacement instances with the new code is much easier for us, and it also provides a super fast means of rollback.
http://www.rossintelligence.com/ they use watson AI to simplify the legal system.
I am aware of some groups that are (at least planning to) use IBM Watson to analyse the outcomes and impacts of social policy research.

As a (made up) example: feeding the AI data-sets of various social investments made (eg: education, mental health, social & medical support) alongside health and societal outcomes (crime, hospital intake, suicides, etc..) then overlaying it on a map and maybe getting Watson to "tell you" which investments had the best impacts.

That particular example is actually an amalgam of a number of projects my girlfriend has undertaken recently in her career as a social-policy analyst BUT she is also enrolled in a university Master's program next year where one of the possibilities for her placement is to work supporting the Watson team in figuring out how to use Watson to improve lives & outcomes in the real world.

I've also heard about using Watson in analyzing health data (detecting cancers based on mass x-ray analysis) - but I don't know how much of that is currently working.

Hope that helps - I know it's all anecdotal from my side and I can't link you to anything published on the topic, but you can take the example for what it is worth :)

EDIT - I'll try and ask her if she got any more information about what she was going to do for Watson.
If I was the defendant's lawyer, I would ask the "forensic expert":

> Given a (encrypted) file named "bank_account_password'.txt", can you guess its contents?

Based on the current reasoning, the "expert" would say:

> Yes! It contains the password to a bank account!

The defendant could then "decrypt" the file and show that it was instead a JPEG picture of a bird. Case closed.
Do you have the pre-marriage pipeline filled? If not, you might want to include that in your projections.
having an expected value over 200k/year playing poker would probably place someone in the top 50 players, worldwide, in my estimation. I would say it's a lot easier job to be a software engineer than keep up with the discipline required to maintain such an edge. 10 years ago it was a totally different story, there was a LOT more easy money around. The level of play has advanced quickly and the boom has been over for years.
I'm not sure I follow what you mean. I didn't mean that this be used for mining bitcoin, but rather that there are other cryptocurrencies that have useful by-products. Am I misunderstanding your comment?
P-hacked hypotheses are deceivingly robust (2016)
Although I agree that we're heading this direction at a scary rate, it's an exaggeration to claim that the U.S. is already a place where this is routinely possible.
Tech workers wish they had the union protections and job security of animators in Burbank/Glendale. Most of these people have already worked for Disney at one time or another. This isn't Yahoo. And talent remains in huge demand. You seem to think this is going to turn DreamWorks into Hanna-Barbera. That's not the revenue maximizing approach so I think you're being quite shortsighted.
BWB has some fancy software that figures out if they're likely to sell a given book soon enough to make it worth having in the warehouse.

I've bought several non-penny-books from them, never had a problem with packaging, either.
Can we go ahead and retire the whole meritocracy idea then?
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Here is a recent Dallas R Users meetup on the very of topic of using IBM Watson

http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-R-Users-Group/events/229283377/
Because if they shoot you, they're viewed as the bad guy. If they frame you, you're the bad guy. It's all about managing appearances.
Hi DREADBOX,

I've not done enough research on running specific apps to be able to give you good answer. I do see the v2 version doesnt have a Barometric Altimeter while the sport version does and that might have something to do with it.
Can you really maintain the same intensity with Tabata if you push as much as you can during each interval? I see a downwards trend all the time on myself, and after 3rd minute I can't feel my legs at all, so I am sure I am giving it all I can. On the other hand, when doing 3x 7-minute HIIT, I increase load in each subsequent try, going to like >2 pushups/second etc. (but this was motivated by knee injuries in the first try when I went all out from the start)

Also, from personal experience, try stationary bike for 30 minutes, maintain >60rpm all the time and do 1-3 minutes of "easy" (meaning 1/3 difficulty setting on your bike) and then 1 minute "hard" (100% difficulty setting, still >60rpm), and repeat. I always start sweating like being in a rain after 20 minutes, and this exercise is doing wonders to my anaerobic capacity.
I've signed up for chef Watson as well! it's really cool.

https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/
Dialog-Based Language Learning [arXiv:1604.06045] (by Jason Weston @ fb ai)
Great find, thanks!
I'm successfully using it to supply a hedge fund with a new kind of edge.
What should folks who are the victim or witness to a violent crime do?
Yes. Do not talk to the police.

http://youtu.be/6wXkI4t7nuc

Edit for the downvote. The video has 6mio views and is considered good advice.
While not directly stated, to me, the letter is a reminder that at some point in the near future AI will not be the next big thing.

Any (reasonable) thoughts on what's next for Google after AI - and how you believe Google will get there?
You can also not read it, if you don't want to.
Not likely, but he'd be there for a very long time.

Generally speaking, when being held in jail for contempt charges, you can be held indefinitely, so long as you remain in disobedience to a court order. That last part is important, since the idea is you "hold the keys" to your own release.

However, if it's physically impossible for you to comply with said court order, you no longer hold those "keys", and can no longer be held in contempt.

That said... they're not going to believe you just "forgot" your password. The courts don't look favorably at folks who try to game the system like that, and you'd have a hard time proving otherwise.

See Chadwick v. Janecka, where a man was held in contempt for 14 years (!) for refusing to disclose where he allegedly hid funds from an overseas bank account during a divorce proceeding. They eventually let him go after they decided that being held in jail had lost its coercive effect... but again, that took 14 years.
Here's one I wrote with stacks:

https://github.com/jaroslov/coro
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This article is blatantly incorrect.
At a quick glance, everything here is totally consistent with "exercise is good" and "HIIT can get you benefits faster than steady-pace exercise". Both of which seem way more obvious and evidence-backed than the claims actually made here.
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The problem with mobile games is GOOGLE PLAY STORE and the APP STORE, that only show you 1% of what's out there. This "flat ui" stage of design has removed all functionality of applications that need them. Let me search apps by categories, or filter by price, product, company, developer, date added, date updated, and so on...
https://www.ibmchefwatson.com/community

Chef Watson is allegedly very good at what it does.
Go talk to an attorney first.
Tell HN: HN went down for a bit
How would the DRM zone controls Steam currently have work with this? Before, you needed to have a credit card of the country you're buying the game from.
No, you need pattern matching, which does not offer a convenient way to write Option.get().
No... it wouldn't be going the other way. You have to train with corpuses of data.
They're trying to get the more profitable ones in front of consumers. So a flat search is not in their interest.
You'd have to move outside of the US to play online. Playing in person is very slow and a terrible lifestyle doing it professionally.
As someone who works at the bioinformatics end of a clinical cancer sequencing operation, and someone familiar with the MSKCC operation (they are doing good work with their IMPACT assay) I have to say that the landscape of matching patients with drugs is so sparse (few drugs, few FDA-approved links, not enough trials) that no Watson is necessary, just basic string matching and a comprehensive high-quality up-to-date database (which does not exist and currently there are 10+ companies working on it)
That's called "counting". Enumeration is iterative.
The way that the Supreme Court has decided cases about safe combinations in the past this court pretty much has to find that the 5th Amendment covers encryption keys.

But to play devils advocate, I don't think it would destroy the 5th Amendment to treat an encryption key the same as a physical key.
"The cynics among us will of course acknowledge that that makes it much easier for Capella/Hackbright to make more money."

Especially with people like you spamming for them.
There are certainly exceptions as you mention, but if there isn't a good reason then why bother with it? This seems largely within the cultural spirit of programming; if there is tedium/bureaucracy, automate it away or solve it with technology.

For me, it's a necessity. I have fairly severe circadian rhythm problems and getting to work earlier is asking me to be unproductive, depressed and tired.
What if the suspect has some sort of accident that involves partial loss of memory? How do they decide if he refuses to cooperate or if can't cooperate?

Oh! I know. Waterboarding him for, say, one month should be enough to make sure he actually can't remember.
Right. Those history books are a fucking crystal ball. It's all right there for anybody to see.
Yep, hundreds of comments on the original post, 300+ submissions on the new Apply tab on the top nav of the site -- and I'd missed it completely as well. Even though I read this site far more than I should do.

Of course somebody has to miss these things, you can't reach everyone. It just feels strange when it's you.

I would love to see the pattern of how those 300+ submitters came to hear of it.
Both approaches are reasonable (and there's also a third one, ship your application in containers and replace containers instead of instances).

We update existing instances because in our test environment we deploy at every single new commit (we absolutely love that), and we have hundreds (or more) a day. At that pace, replacing instances would be more time consuming (again, for our specific use case) and less cost efficient.

Plus, updating existing instances is handled automatically by AWS Code Deploy, which provides a very good deploying pipeline that you can control using the aws cli tool.

There are other minor advantages but those are the two main ones.
Hmmm. Where do you get that from this article, or his blog post?

Sure, he did get the 23andMe interview from a friend. But Google? and AirBnB? and Yelp? and Uber? and Twitch? Man, that would be a lot of connections.

Ben Horowitz carefully orchestrated a bidding war when it came time to sell his company. Qureshi "cracked the coding interview" and then orchestrated a feeding frenzy of a bidding war.

A well-played hand. ;-)
If it were borderline impossible to have a discussion of GPG without getting swamped by those cypherpunks, people would totally rant about it.
Almost all the books I actually want to read are pretty niche (programming or Catholic), and because of that I can never find them in our local library system. Only Amazon or Archive.org end up having them.

(FWIW Archive.org + Lulu.com is a great way to get an out-of-print book into your hands for relatively cheap.)

So the way I see it, libraries are good for reading what people popularly read. They're good for introducing our children to Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys, or Lord of the Rings, or Dr. Seuss, or Amelia Bedelia.
> You can believe or not in some physical reality to math (I happen to)

I'm not so sure. Is there any evidence that the value of any physical quantity is an irrational number?

Math was originally inspired by physical reality, but I'm not sure it's so closely related that the concept of the Axiom of Choice being "true" even means anything.
A pretty generic letter with nothing new that the HN crowd would not know.
I am often hit by "sickness" when pushing very hard while lifting weights in the next 2-3 days after exercise, e.g. I do 30,000lbs dumbbell press volume and in 2 days I fall sick. So it might be wise not to overdo things, maybe some poeple's immunity gets compromised if they push too much and it takes very long until their immunity improves? And I did all kinds of immunity-boosting things like daily 5-minute cold showers etc.
OR...

P/E ratios will continue to climb into the stratosphere, continuing to chase smaller and smaller yields.

There's a lot of money sitting in the world, looking to be invested. If it doesn't get invested at all, it will shrink- and no investor wants that.
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Probably "not at all".

I can only assume that the number of buyers using both Bitcoin and a VPN to buy cheaper games is too small to worry about.
Do you earn less than a silicon valley intern?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36107590 - Why did Prince change his name to a symbol?
The final episode here: https://mastermind.atavist.com/the-next-big-deal
The majority of your profits come from search. If you break it down investor will be clamoring to get rid of most of the other stuff since it doesn't make much money especially when compared to search. Was Sundar a founder?
> You assume a constant price for gasoline, which is a bold assumption, given that the oil markets are currently gyrating wildly, and have been for some time - we're likely to see prices at the pump go up by orders of magnitude over a relatively short timescale, which will provide a big push towards EV adoption, and will drive people away from older vehicles which guzzle gas.

Sorry, that isn't likely. We have basically "infinite" (50+ years worth) of Oil @ $100 [1] [2] [3] a barrel which is why all those shale wells came online when oil was priced higher. We've already been ~$100 for years at a time. Similarly, the shift to greener technologies is going to put downward pressure on it once it is back to the ~$100 baseline from years past.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-03/texas-toug...

[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2016/02/29/the-break-eve...

[3] http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/20/us-crude-oils-break-even-cost...
> In fact, multiple dispatch is best categorized as a generalization of OOP, being more in the domain of generic programming. Kinda like the generic programming of C++, just at runtime instead of being limited to compile-time constructs and metaprogramming.

Doing it at compile-time is a feature, because the compiler has more information available for selecting the right specialization. (Technically, this can be done at runtime as well, but only at the price of making dispatch insanely expensive.) For example, in CLOS, how would I do the equivalent of specializing a template for when its argument is a `vector<list<unique_ptr<int>>>`?
I see. So you could use the same kvm API to get all the proctitles (assuming you're on a bsd), and then filter it yourself to find the one for the current process, right?
They have the content of his drives. The content is indistinguishable from random numbers. Same as if they found printed cyphertext in his home.
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The PR speak a while ago was that it would sift through research papers and books looking for relevant answers to a query - a much smarter Google Scholar. Nobody can keep track of all the cancer research, apparently, so machine analysis makes sense, IBM says.
I am planning on overhauling the example to use that latest version of Asio standalone that is tracking the C++ Networking TS. That way it will be a simple matter of people changing asio to std::experimental::net on a compiler that implements the Networking TS.
Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This article mostly quotes the original source, adding nothing: http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/03/how-we-build-code-at-net...
>Would I survive a crash? They're very tiny...

Depends on the engineering I suppose. The Smartcar which is just as tiny has a very high score in test crashes. Of course its twice the price of the car you quote and owned by Mercedes and gets all of Mercedes safety know-how. Until that Chinese car gets proper accident testing, I guess we won't know, but I think its safe to assume China's cheaper/faster/copy culture doesn't lead to safer products.
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>it's really no different than papers in a safe in a person's house.

That's a really bad analogy. Those papers actually exist. Without the key the unencrypted data is just a bunch of random nonsense. It does not exist in any real form.

A better analogy is the case where the papers might exist, but are hidden. Can a court compel someone to help the police look for evidence that can be used to incriminate them?
Right, but is that what it's doing? It sounds like PR is all that exists.