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> Nobody is suggesting AI will replace salespeople in the near future.

They aren't? Because I see this happening all the time. Automated checkout lines, E-Trade and online brokerages, etc. Low-value transactions are handled more and more by electronic "salespeople". All it takes to reach high-value transactions as well is for the clientele to decide they trust machines more than humans, which is not all that unlikely given the many sources of human error involved.

It's possible that humans will be involved in high-value transactions like investment for a long time, since the marginal cost of human labor is low as the numbers get bigger, but it's not impossible to replace; we already have the technology.
HN title is significantly different than the question the submission actually asks which is "why do TRADERS in investment banks . . . " and should be updated
I've owned Thinkpads in the past and almost bought the T460 last month, then I discovered the Dell XPS / Precision line and fell in love. I picked up a manufacturer refurbished XPS 15 on eBay and wound up swapping in a Dell Precision E3-1505M motherboard I stumbled across.

The line has Intel quad core CPUs, minimal bezel (my 15" is almost the same size as the 14" System 76 Galago Ultra Pro it's replacing), reasonably slim for a quad core, 84Wh battery, 10+ hours of low power dev (baseline power is about 5.25W on my 8GB + 1080p + Xeon E3-1505M machine) in (Arch) Linux? YES.

Oh yeah, and for nerd points the Dell Precision M5510 has the option for Intel Xeon and Ubuntu stock for people doing CPU intensive Linux work (in my case Linux embedded system builds that grind for tens of minutes to two hours).

To add icing on the cake, you can easily get parts (batteries, motherboards, etc) on eBay if you ever need to fix it yourself which is a sharp contrast to the non-existent System76 Galago Ultra Pro I picked up a few years ago after I ditched my last Thinkpad.

I keep looking at the Thinkpads, but they seem a generation behind.
I rather understood it that they wanted to know whether there is a C API to use LLVM, so perhaps something like this: https://pauladamsmith.com/blog/2015/01/how-to-get-started-wi...
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Sodium is normally in protein shake, and certainly in sports drinks.
The P+41 spiral contains an unusually large number of primes because 163 is a Heegner number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number).
That's a non answer.

If some belief applies to everybody, but on a different degree (per individual, or per job sector, etc), then the mere fact that it applies on everybody doesn't say anything to explain this variability.

And if what you say is that it applies to everybody with no variability, then that is obviously wrong. People in specific job sectors are way more worried about automation than people in other sectors, even if their jobs are not yet starting to get automated. E.g. office workers vs surgeons...
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> ...actually really hard to get right with the algorithms we have today

assuming, very few companies which would have publically available published financial going over a large (> 50 years) timespan, would it be safer to conjecture that it is actually the _paucity_ of data which impoverishes the algorithms ?
despite so many problems that OP stated, he's still recommending it!
I don't think bankers are naive, they are seeing it happen.

If your job can be done overseas, it probably will be outsourced.

If your job is algorithmic, you'll be replaced by a computer.

A lot of M&A activity though doesn't fit that category.
I could buy 3 equivalent laptops (finding IPS might be a problem) for the price. Is the Thinkpad brand really worth that much?
Can somebody who has finished academic education still learn from this course?
I'd much rather a strict rule and proper signage. At least at that point going the proper speed doesn't mean you can still get a ticket whenever a Texas cop feels like you deserve one.
With discovered you mean you bought one? What about the noise and battery time under normal and high work load?
I was able to get a Windows version running under Wine on the latest version of Mint. On their site (I believe in the FAQ) they link to a thread with instructions on how to do it. It works mostly fine, but there are some gotchas they list out.
Loved the links to Sidney Dekker books: http://sidneydekker.com/books/ and Charles Perrow's excellent 'Normal Accidents' http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6596.html
You might also want to read Diane Vaughn's 'Challenger Launch Decision' http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo2278192... and John Gall's 'Systemantics' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics ('Complicated systems produce unexpected outcomes')
>Nobody is suggesting AI will replace salespeople in the near future.

Huh? For one, investment bankers are "just salespeople" in the same way doctors are just nurses.

Second, everybody and their mother is suggesting AI will replace retail level salespeople in the future. In fact lots of places, from British supermarkerts (where you can bill and pay for your purchases yourself), to Amazon's Go experiment, and numerous other uses of automation in retail.
I missing the part in the article where it says this was a surprise to the supply chain.
A community is not about how many people have permission to write the main repository. Linux kernel is the example. Linus is only one who has permission to write the mainline tree.
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something feels very uncomfortable about an "autosteer beta"
There is a great talk from Patric Kua.

https://vimeo.com/172341374

He also has a book "talking with techleads" which reflects on the question that you have asked!
I am sure it is a great laptop, but it also looks like a X1 with larger bezels. Why would you want that instead of X1?
Just to be clear, there are minimums too for driving on the highway. It's up to the officer to determine (based on weather conditions, road conditions, vehicle conditions...) if someone is driving too slow. Just because you're in the right lane doesn't mean you can drive as slow as you want. Everyone should be going with the flow of traffic... the left-hand lane should be reserved for people who are "active drivers" using it to pass others.
Please let me know which part of the post was misleading. All major problems, I was able to fix. And the other stuff I can easily live with.
For that to happen, we need the number to be a "Normal number" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number). We just don't know if Pi is normal or not - it's expected to be.
>I would be really worried if I spent five years on something(s) that didn't significantly improve my financial security.

Fortunately, not everybody feels like that.
> Due diligence on the financials of a company (what investment bankers are supposed to do) is actually really hard to get right

Diligence is automatable, in the long run. There is a human element to it, but it is small in most contexts.

Bankers solve trust problems. An AI would need to be trustworthy in a personal way to replace bankers--this only happens with AGI. For a long time, as long as humans control capital, there will be other humans interfacing those humans with each other.
In case the full title makes a difference it's "Why do traders in investment banks feel their jobs are immune from AI, automation, and deep learning?"

cc @dang
When you abstract away test code, you are abstracting code written to test a software application's design, and thus your abstractions (and test data) necessarily mirror your application design.

This is why I commented elsewhere that DRY should be applied not as a coding principle to all code, but as a design principle to software design.
More like "why not to use Python"
I like that it supports the standard Maya keybindings by default.

Would be cool to render the scenes out! Has anyone (sucessfully) run Cycles through Emscripten? :)
The nice thing about 1Password (is for the time being) the fact you don't have to use cloud services and can manage syncing locally or via Dropbox. They're making a big push to the web version which we use for work, but I have a personal account from forever ago that I still use the local WiFi sync with.

Great iOS integration, great OS X integration, awesome browser plugins, but the Windows UI is atrocious and Linux support is technically non-existent but there are ways.
Don't focus on cutting out sugar. Focus on eating more protein and nutrients (target specific vegetables), and leave carbs and fats as filler - as a waste of time.
Are there anything similar to BountySource out there?
More to the point, most investment banking valuations are just guesses and understood to be as such. Estimating discount rates and growth rates in particular are very much gut-driven and aren't expected to be precise, no matter how complex a model the analyst comes up with.

There's only so much you can ask a kid 10 months out of Harvard econ to do, no matter how many pounds of cocaine and borrowed Excel sheets they have.

At the more senior levels, banking is relationship based, and making partner is a function of how much business you can bring in. This means maintaining good relationships with the clients you work with and reaching out to new ones. Show me an algorithm that can send cards on kids' birthdays, drink champagne, and play golf.
Serious question: why is this on HN front page? Am I missing something?
The "integrity of the work" argument has always been an oddity to me. As a Brit who grew up with ska (the original and the revival) I have been aware for a long time that the island music, rocksteady, ska, reggae etc, flourished due to weak and often ignored copyright law in Jamaica.

There is a whole genre of music there, with a very strong cultural background that is historically important in Jamaica and further afield, the UK being just one of those places. Some of the best music, imo, from the 60s and 70s came from Jamaican artists "ripping off" western music to create something unique. I don't want to live in a world in which Marcia Griffiths' voice went unheard. I also want people like Marcia to get paid and live a good life. The current copyright system is not working for anyone, not for artists either I believe.

The "degrading" of work seems like an arrogant argument, as if nobody in the word could do better than the original (or even different if not better). Books require editing before publication, songs require mastering and mixing by professionals. It is reasonable to assume that any work could be reworked as something improved, as long as that reworking does not try to pass itself off as the original there ought not to be a problem. Some system of profit share where profit exists could exist.

Here's a humorous article from techdirt highlighting the absurdities of the current situation https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150503/17153830875/get-u... My own take on one detail discussed on the comments there is that the Marley estate probably are trying to regain the copyright because the family are mostly working musicians (at least 3 sons and one daughter of Bob Marley that I know of) and would like to perform their father's songs.
What about the T-series keyboards changed recently that bothers you?

If it's actually the touchpad changes, they reverted them on the xx50 and up (or made them optional, I forget which).

(Typing this from a T430 I'm using while my W550s is being repaired, and I can't recall any drastic keyboard changes that had me in an uproar in the last while.)
Look up the comp ratios of some of the major investment banks. It can easily be 50%. As with all professional services firms, the biggest costs are people and real estate.
For a bit of history about ML, see Appendix F: The Development of ML (on page 89) from here:

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Another poster upstream commented the T470 is being announced this upcoming week, so I would imagine that the X1c that was announced is from the same logical "generation", and we might see a T470s/p as well.
>Looking back on my prior receipts, a stick of 8GB DDR3-1600MHz a year ago was about $12.

This would make a 4Gbit DDR3 chip cost less than a dollar, and I don't think that DRAMeXchange prices has ever been that low
It looks like the question title was changed, in order to aggregate similar questions/answers. Most of the answers answer the question in the current title. I agree that trading and IB is a big distinction, and traders are 1.5 feet out the door already.
For other readers wondering what SLC, MLC, TLC, and QLC stand for:

SLC -> Single-Level Cell

MLC -> Multi-Level Cell (now mostly means 2-level cell?)

TLC -> Triple-Level Cell

QLC -> Quad-Level Cell

It seems like a lot of the higher-level cell designs require a '3D' gate architecture, so you might come across that terminology in marketing materials.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell and http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/28/qlc_flash_primer/
It requires some serious mental gymnastics to split those hairs.
I guess it's because the echo command included in the shell was slow.
There's also a length limit to submission titles. I don't know what it is, but I suspect the original title exceeds it.
But the goal of unit tests is exactly and specifically to test single cases such as "if a" and "if b", discretely and independently of one another. More complex cases such as "if A and B" are what integration tests are written for.
I think he's saying the money client pay to investment banks is a small compared to size of the deals bankers advice / underwrite etc.
It does make a difference. Investment banks employ traders sure, but "investment banking" as most people understand it is, M&A advisory, IPO underwriting, syndication and so on. These are relationship businesses first and foremost.
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Is there one that does NOT use any off-device storage? Or one that provides options for how and where your data is stored?

What I mean by this is no cloud, no central server storage, no third party storage of your data at all.

In other words, if you have it installed on three devices there's file of some sort that you have to replicate between them yourself or some network-based (not internet, local network) approach to synchronization.

I know centralized storage is convenient but that's where you open yourself up for compromising your information in the even of a breach wherever your info is stored.
Have their trackpads improved at all during the last five years?
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Thats very interesting. I am currently in cambodia (siem reap heading to battambang tomorrow) and my frist impression is that this is not suited well for online workers. But the last part of your comment explains it. For me its really hard right now to let away some luruxy i am used too. Kudos!
I used the MyFitnessPal app before Under Armour bought them. It was a great way to learn how many calories each food is really composed from. But the downside was seeing that "I have a few hundred calories left" at the end of a day, almost like it was encouraging me to snack, making me hungry when I wasn't.
I think grandparent is referring to salespeople as in "human specialized in marketing and selling special/expensive/complicated products one-on-one to entities", not wholesale retailers.
The X1 has strange RAM config options and was way more expensive I think.
But it is large compared to what the shareholders earn, and they are the ones ultimately pulling the strings. The days of the white-shoe partnership are long gone...
Different people have different needs. This laptop despite its minor flaws was in the end the best option for his particular needs

...or as a HN user said a while back:

tuananh 42 days ago | parent [-] | on: Why the MacBook Pro Is Limited to 16GB of RAM

all of this largely depends on personal preference.

to me, i value battery so much more.

:)
unbelievably cool this all works so nicely in my browser.
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> I doubt the underlying premise, that Russia would even be so stupid as to try such a thing.

They've invaded Crimea and downed MH-17.

If that's not stupid, I dunno what else is.
I dont know. But the keyboard got slightly worse.
I habitually do <= checks for things that should never be below 0 because I'm paranoid like that. I don't think it's good practice, but I keep doing it.
The basic argument made by the "random chance" commenter was not that evolution is a random process, but that it favors organisms with complex and interdependent gene expression, because this increases the rate at which random mutations cause differentiation.
It depends on what you want.

You can buy reasonably cheap laptops with similar specs, either by buying >2 generations back (this T430 was $300), or by buying new models that are made of cheap plastic.

In my experience, all laptops eventually suffer damage, the more durable ones just take longer and tend to be more minor faults each time.

So if you can afford your laptop suddenly failing and switching to another machine (possibly by swapping the drive out, presuming that didn't fail, or restoring from backups/cloud storage), great, you have a robust setup. But many people don't have such a robust configuration, nor do they bring a backup laptop when e.g. traveling.

So for individuals and businesses that have configurations of Highly Replicated Data (where it doesn't matter if you lose an individual laptop), it might be worth it to buy lots of cheap laptops.

For cases where the amount of time/value of data lost to failed laptops is worth far more than the cost difference of the more durable laptops, it's probably worth it to get the ones with the rollcages and carbon fiber-infused chassis and [...].
> "Would you trust purchasing a house from a seller, without meeting/talking to them, or a single person before and throughout the purchase?"

You mean I can get an unbiased look at a house in peace, compare the numbers, look at the plans, measure the humidity and do my due diligence without a sales person breathing down my neck?

Hell yea. I'd pay premium for that.
More like, "How I wrote my own framework in VanillaJS"
I've heard of Goenka, but never ventured to listen to his talks. I'm not a big fan of these new age Gurus.

I believe mediation is science, since it requires practice, discipline and effort. Some might not see results immediately, but keep pushing.
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Code coverage reports are a visualization tool that should be used to quickly get a lay of the land. Code coverage itself should not be the goal; the goal should be careful coverage of behavior that is composed of discrete units amenable to unit tests.

I once made the mistake, as a new lead, of implementing a 100% code coverage policy; I thought that I was expressing the intent of covering all possible behavior. What ended up happening is that the team focused on the metric and lost sight of the goal of unit testing, which is to test behavior. We ended up with people submitting PRs containing unit tests for object getters and setters but not testing that trying to set a null value is properly handled.

That experience taught me is that code coverage is only a tool, and a tool is only useful if used correctly.

To drive the point home: having 100% coverage of all branches means that all written code is tested, but it does not mean that all code that needs to be written has been written. Unit tests should verify behavior, not just execute whatever code has been written.
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Just FYI, you can store locally as you described with 1Password. You don't have to use their cloud service. Or any cloud service for that matter since 1PW supports syncing over a local wireless network.
Huh, didn't know that t420 supported 16gb of ram - time to upgrade my trusty & dusty workhorse!
Has anybody experience with testing code that produces graphics (e.g. 3D engines, etc.)? I saw some articles stating that mocking the API is a good approach. But how can you test shaders etc. Tests based on image comparisons seem very cumbersome. We currently rely heavily on our QA which does automated integration tests based on image comparisons. But there is no immediate feedback for developers with this approach.
From my experience it's amazing to spend at least 20 minutes every (I mean every) single day on the thing you're learning. Whether it's playing an instrument or learning language, there are days when you seem to not have time for that - but 20 minutes is easily found, and it really, really, really helps. I think I've seen some research regarding that, but I might be remembering wrong. What I know for sure is that it both helped me learn more efficiently, but also helped me through weeks of lesser motivation
Finishing something, I have so many scrapped projects it's embarrassing
By the way, the scientists eventually got acquitted. Italian link http://www.wired.it/attualita/ambiente/2015/11/23/terremoto-...

According to the prosecutor their fault was reassuring people that nothing bad was going to happen, that is negligence in performing the risk analysis.
> The US helped plot to overthrow the Ukranian government in 2014.

Which is not supported by any claims, except wild Russian propaganda.

> NATO pushing for Ukraine to become a member

Same.

> Crimea has been a part of Russia for centuries

Russia (as is) didn't exist _for centuries_.

> to celebrate the 300th Anniversary of the Ukraine as part of Russia

That's wrong on so many levels...

> Crimea voted to rejoin Russia

Sure. _After_ Russia invaded Crimea they've held highly falsified voting which wasn't recognized by any international officials.

All in all, your information tend to be highly skewed to Kremlin propaganda.
But it's not LTS. All the major software stuff will be well supported for 16.04 till 18.04.

If you look around, you'll mostly find 14.04/16.04 in supported OSes. Even for OSS software, not just commercial stuff.
I found my apartment online. Set up the meeting. Negotiated the documents and corrected them where necessary. The broker I paid 10% of my first year's rent? Apparently he bought a ticket to Paris the morning of our closing.
What the article refers to is a cost estimate for the Koto Waterfront line, which hasn't been approved at this point, let alone started construction. Whether it will be built on budget is anyone's guess.

The route would also be in a relatively recently built area, so it's not hard to imagine why it would be cheaper to plan and execute that a route under Manhattan.

I don't know very much about NYC, but the comparison does not seem fair.
How much do parts cost though? Are they reasonably priced?
I just took a peice of code with quite good test coverage, and stopped running main a couple of times during the "unit" test run. Coverage plumetted, and I realised how much of the code is still untested.

(The code was actually already structured for testing, I just hadn't written them because of that coverage number....)

I am still running main, by the way, but that's a different invocation called "system tests" which runs if unit tests pass (and after the coverage report).
echo returns nonzero if it cannot write ...

touch foo.txt; chmod 400 foo.txt; echo ouch > foo.txt; echo $?

.., but it appears this asm returns zero always.
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