skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>But of your job is to look at data and make descisions based on that data, you're gonna be the first to go.

I posted the other day about machine learning and radiology. It's the type of job that squarely fits your definition, although things move much more solely in medicine.
You can make more than 100% going to the slot machine at the casino.

The difference between gambling and trading is not that big. Trading has more ways where you can get an edge over the house, but it is not that different from poker or slot machines.
Here's the interesting thing: to many people following a monotheistic religion, Euthhypro's second definition of piety (the post labels this as the First Attempt), which Socrates dismisses so easily, is the answer, i.e. piety (being devout) is by definition following the rules given in the Old/New Testament or the Quran (and ahadith).

One can perhaps try to generalize Plato's argument about Greek gods always quarreling, etc. into trying to analyze and find logical inconsistencies in these books. Indeed people have noticed these, e.g. in the case of Quran sone suras that seem to contradict earlier ones, but they have explained these away with various ingenious devices, because they are pious.

So, we arrive at the analytic situation where people are pious because they follow the book and they follow the book because they are pious, which to me is equivalent to the Euthypros's definition.
That means that get rid of unintelligent trolls -- the best trolls are the one who hang around and worm their ways into position of power, so they can do the banning.
I strongly believe that there are few programs that could plausibly not kill people. It might occur due to indirection (e.g. an OS running a critical system panicing) or directly (the linked example). This is why I believe in as many safeguards as possible: static types, contracts and static analysis.

Although I still haven't found a real project to learn Rust with, it comes across as the best thing to have ever happened to software development. Functional is easily within that realm, too.
The world's oldest profession will be the world's last profession.
The foundation already exists https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/ but it's not clear why they stopped funding ESR.
Backtesting does not mean much. It's easy to make an algo do well yesterday. Very hard to make it do well tomorrow.
It depends.

Given a small cluster of reliable nodes on a reliable network, these errors will occur extremely rarely. So rarely, in fact, that they'll be written off as "user error" by support.

If you're a startup building a system which has to quickly and reliably scale from 3 > 3000 nodes in a year then the whole thing is likely to explode in your face. Twitter style.

Now, if MongoDB was so superior that it was truly platform which would even enable that kind of scaling, then the decision is simple: just go for it.

The thing is, this isn't how the world works. When systems are built, very few people consider (or are capable of considering) the growth of the system. Frameworks and database are, by the rule, chosen arbitrarily. When scaling happens, the question is more "how can we scale what we have whilst having everything kind of work" than "how do we design a system which works correctly at scale".

Mongo's whole strategy is based around this. Make Mongo the default choice for the current generation of developers.

Fantastic market strategy.
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> By that logic, we shouldn't buy or use Vizio TVs either.

Burn it all. Facebook and Vizio.
Making this "a political argument" might be his best possible strategy (although not necessarily a good one) for encouraging donations? ESR is a fairly divisive persona anyway, so it might be best to embrace that and really appeal to some potential donors even if that repels others.
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By "immigration ban", did you mean "90 immigration halt based on countries flagged as dangerous by the previous administration, that has been able to encourage Saudi Arabia to sign up for a Mid-East safe zone for refugees to help keep them closer to their homes and families[0] as well as encourage Pakistan to arrest a known terrorist who killed 100 Indians and has been free for 8 years[1]"?

What Trump did was disruptive and unpopular, but its important to recognise that international politics isn't about whether one lady dies in hospital (which was fake [2]), its about whether hundreds of people die and if countries can work together. Trump has shown that he is not unwilling to play hardball with the international community if it won't start doing its part about cleaning up the mid-East.

[0] - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hughes/saudis-uae-pred...
[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistan-f...
[2] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/02/0...
> That is, software you are free to modify, change or use, without restriction

The FSF has a different definition of "free software". They don't want you to get software for free, and then modify it, turn around and restrict it's distribution for other people.

> there are also people, like me, who care about free software, and think that the GPL harms the community and actively discourages community contributions.

The only proof you've shown is that people like you don't like the GPL. That's all well and good as a personal opinion, but it doesn't show that the GPL harms the community or actively discourages community contributions.
Corruption. However, the line is generally described as: If companies can't discount per country then all countries end up paying high prices without discounts. However, if they can discount prices in some countries then that maximizes profits which increasing the customer base.
Well, not all healthcare procedures are emergency. If I need something done, especially that which requires many separately-billable groups, the final cost can be extensive. Right now, it's very difficult to even estimate this cost in some cases. Using that data, timing can be better planned and in some cases, compared around for other similar options. The lack of transparency in pricing until you receive the bill is a big deal, in my opinion.
The extinguish phase will be when the submarine patents surface and you can either pay up or shut down or go to court.
Isn't it more customary in the financial world to put out your Sharpe Ratio or ROI as a percentage as opposed to your monthly profit? As others have said, the profit doesn't mean anything if your principal amount is high.
Waiting times are public information in England. You can verify what they are for most things.

Currently wait times are too long. This is because i) Social care has been chronically underfunded for many years ii) The NHS has been chronically underfunded for many years.

Here's the wait times for IAPT (short form talking therapy for mild to moderate mental health problems -- usually CBT).

http://www.content.digital.nhs.uk/catalogue/PUB22842/IAPT-mo...

> 87.8% waited less than 6 weeks and

> 98.3% waited less than 18 weeks to enter treatment

That's too long, and considerable pressure is being put on trusts to reduce those times.

There's a wealth of data just about IAPT here: http://content.digital.nhs.uk/iaptreports
Right, but in this case his wife does "legal piecework". This work is by definition easier to distribute among many people. If a provider was accustomed to distributing 120 hours of work to 3 people, it should be nearly as easy to distribute the same work to 4 people, staying under the 30 hours.

I don't understand the connection between legal piecework and ACA.
I feel as though Hanlon's Razor applies here, but I'm not quite 100% confident.
Unless it has dramatically improved in the recent past, the UK's "faster switching" process isn't what any sane person would want for changing bank account. Last time I made the mistake of using it, it was a great way to swap spending a couple of hours notifying regular creditors and debtors of new account details with spending a couple of weeks cleaning up the mess the two banks involved made of the "automatic" transfer, and then spending the same time contacting all the same regular creditors and debtors to make sure they had the same new account details anyway. Has it got better lately?
There are frequently multiple providers available, and they often have wildly different costs. Some insurers have experimented with incentivizing people to choose lower-cost providers with some success. If I could easily see that provider X was even 10% cheaper than provider Y, but has comparable ratings, I would probably go with X unless it's especially inconvenient, and I'm probably less price-sensitive than most people.
Something akin to Paul Graham's essay 'What You'll Wish You'd Known". When I read it now I can really relate, I remember reading it in my last year of high school and it gave me a feeling of "wow, I feel like this should affect me but I don't feel a thing". So maybe a book that could instill the effects of hindsight without actually having to suffer the consequences.
Cities. The way cities are designed, built, operated. I am actually trying to see if I can build a company around this. It's the biggest challenge I can possibly imagine for me, and I don't know why I haven't given up yet :)

Cities help people connect (in a physical way), and help companies provide goods and services to them in a more efficient way.

However, cities today are maintained, operated, and enlarged based on legacy. I think there are huge inefficiencies, and yet it seems that trying to fix existing ones is a nightmare.

What about NEW ones instead?

I find this extremely interesting. We'll see.
Except all of the actual journalism being done on the Trump administration suggests incompetence, not malice, to be at the heart of its struggles.
For anyone interested in really flexible differentiable graphs, Chainer is the most flexible convenient library I've used. It's all I use for prototyping neural nets anymore, and I'm surprised not to see more adoption. It feels like working in numpy.
I have played hundreds of hours of DF over many years and the interface is still awful. There are aspects of the UI I enjoy as a vim user. At best it can feel a lot like composing vim commands.

However at worst it's as this article outlines: obtuse, inscrutable, and lacking in consistency. Stockpiles are bad, but probably not even the worst interface. There are many aspects to job orders and militia management I still don't fully understand how to manage today.
Universal healthcare is already much more cost effective than fully or semi-privitised health care.

Sorry, I forgot to pretend that all the other developed countries haven't figured out healthcare already.

Geez.

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Oh and btw, when you have a universal healthcare system payed by taxes (none of that bullshit insurance crap that only ends up being costly regulation/financial bloat) you can have entire and fully private hospitals and health clinics where you can get service for cash, and surprise, surprise, it's ridiculously cheap because it has to compete with the effectively free public healthcare system.
BoozeTech: 10 companies fill Techstars Demo Day lineup to the frothy brim
The Haskell program was lazy, so the kill thunk was never evaluated.
Nonetheless, for a side project this is pretty cool. Probably won't scale to crazy magnitudes, but for a one man project this is remarkable.
AI will allow a single worker to do work that previously would have required hundreds or thousands or workers, hence increasing the value of each worker and their salary.

Jobs will disappear in many places and appear in others because the world will be completely different.
Here's a cite for that:

http://visual.ons.gov.uk/how-does-uk-healthcare-spending-com...

> Despite less than half of the USA’s total healthcare expenditure coming from government expenditure or compulsory insurance schemes, it still spends more per person on these financing schemes than the UK- £3,111 in the USA in 2014, compared with £2,210 in the UK. In the USA spending on privately-funded healthcare is over five times more per person than in the UK.
Opened up article, was met with politically charged ad asking me to subscribe, closed tab.
> How is it possible to generate seven years of convincing sample data

From the article:

> These genes are tested by giving them hypothetical sums of money to trade in simulated situations created from historical data.

So they simply use historical data (going 7 years back). This is fed into a simulator (a trading day where you have access to the data of all days leading up to the simulated trading day).

> without overfitting your models?

Traditionally backtesting is used: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/backtesting.asp

Care should be taken to run the tests over significant periods of time (to reflect changing market conditions) and to have a final out-of-time holdout set to lessen the effects of picking "winners" that were winning purely due to chance (introduced by cherry-picking winners from thousands of models).
I've thought the same thing for a while. It reminds me of the line from Charlie Wilson's War...

Gust Avrakotos: As long as the press sees sex and drugs behind the left hand, you can park a battle carrier behind the right hand and no one's gonna fucking notice.
They aren't wrong but salaries are too low; you can't really bootstrap unless you're doing a side business and then you're effectively working two jobs. There's no YC in Canada or at least it's harder to get some funding.
Your comment is spot on. The work Goldman Sachs does is relationship driven. As a corporate client of GS, I don't need data. I need advice.

Don't confuse the work that investment banks do with the work that NASDAQ does or with high-frequency trading.

In addition, the reason why GS has less traders and more developers is more to do with government regulations preventing GS from doing certain types of trading. Not because developers or AI is better. Dumb article.
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When you say insurance isn't paying what it costs for a vaccination, what determines the cost of the procedure? Is it the vaccine itself? Office overhead? Liability insurance? I know pediatricians are generally overworked and underpaid. But, it seems we desperately need innovation on the cost side.

Maybe we need to drop kiosks into pharmacies that can read biometric markers, get doctor approval, and deliver vaccines.
But this is about responding faster, not responding more often. It helps you react to a story before everyone else, but there's only so many stories in a day.
Please don't try to make cats vegan or vegetarian - and please stop anyone that does - I'm surprised the author didn't bring this up.
True, but it would at least test OP's algo in some bearish market conditions. If no backtesting was done then it has only been tested in the current bull market.
I hate the forbes.com website, but a great story. Guy's phone number got hijacked, then they reset his other accounts by sending codes to his phone number on file. Maybe we need 3FA?
Are exceptions polluting my code?
This person inspires me, very sad day.
Infusion 2.0 released
Using the Universe as a Random-Number Generator to Test Quantum Entanglement
Re: the article's last point: I've actually found Emacs to be wonderful as a "sysadmin's editor" thanks to TRAMP; I can edit a remote file on any of my servers (provided I have SSH access, which is the vast majority of the time) using my local machine's Emacs.

Even when I don't have SSH access to a machine (perhaps because sshd ain't running yet), my increasing use of OpenBSD means increasing availability of 'mg' on my servers, which further means that I don't have to leave the comfort of an Emacs-ish environment (even if I lose some of the more advanced features). It's only on my Linux machines (and on SmartOS) that I have to resort to 'vi' or 'ed' for anything, and even that's going away as more distros ship with 'nano'.
I don't understand these devices. If I already have a circulator (and an oven and a range), why would I want one of these?
Or you can have 10× productivity.
Indeed, backtesting wouldn't help much in stock prediction. It could work for static input data, but many other factors are involved here.
DHS is a department created with the intention of being evil and removing freedoms. Before jumping to this massive power grab coup conclusion by potus, people really need to understand how bad DHS is. All the information is out there documenting their abuses of the freedoms of the citizens and noncitizens of the USA. It is not something new with the Trump administration. They routinely ignore courts, even the supreme court, and neither Bush nor Obama could keep them under control. Trump will also not be able to control them. While the Trump order gave them some latitude to run amok with their abuse, historically they have always abused their power and treated all people with distain.

DHS needs to be disbanded.
Unfortunately my Swedish skills are nonexistent....so was that basically a direct quote, 10 SEK / day to house a refugee in a camp vs 500 SEK / day to accommodate them in Sweden?

It's pretty shocking that no one seems to have done any kind of a financial analysis on helping refugees in their local region vs helping them after migrating to western countries, you'd think that would be one of the first steps.
It's nice to have a private notes app, my bigger concern is about what happens as the entire ecosystem becomes increasingly monopolized.

Any platform enhanced by ML powered by proprietary data will create huge barriers to entry for potential competitors. Even if privacy becomes important to consumers, app alternatives with have to at least match the mainstream version in 100 other ways. As much as Google has contributed to ML tooling and research, their data will ensure that services like Duck Duck Go stay obscure.

Network effects, economies of scale and the dynamics of VC funding will all exacerbate this as well.
See also TH1, which is the Tcl subset which Fossil uses for HTML templating:

http://fossil.wanderinghorse.net/repos/th1-sgb/index.cgi/wik...

It's about 6kloc. (I don't know how it compares to Picocl feature-wise.)
I believe that NN provide the logical relations for you so perhaps they can be used to train and then inspected to understand the data better.
What Warmed Ancient Mars?
They expect a benevolent dictator and/or a nanny state to do stuff for them, give them a job, a roof over their heads, food etc. This is how they were raised and educated during communism. They did not and will not adapt to capitalism and the free market.

The leftist klepto mafia party PSD promised things to these people in exchange for their votes. They are screwing up those who work or at least try to make an honest living, those who contribute to the county's GDP and expect their taxpayer money buy infrastructure, hospitals, schools, kindergartens instead of lining politicians' pockets.
Well, there is a difference. One takes skill, the other takes luck. The success rate in stock trading is directly influenced on your skill.
Unfortunately, ESR's personality is the absolute antithesis of somebody you would want to hire.

And, in terms of software output, he's just not that productive.
This ammendment almost made it to the floor:

https://www.congress.gov/amendment/115th-congress/senate-ame...

You can see who voted for / against it:
https://www.congress.gov/amendment/115th-congress/senate-ame...
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If you're interested in the project respond with a little about yourself and your portfolio if you have one.

This is for senior candidates who can work onsite only so please only respond if you're able to commute to NYC.

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I found https://prism-break.org a good list of software/services helping our privacy.
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In the late 90's the cool kids where using python. I was on the Perl bandwagon and in 1999 I bought "Learning Python" and never wrote a line of Perl again.
How is that a meaningfully different experience? Anything able to install a CA can flip the config value.
Half of Boomers Could Struggle to Pay Themselves in Retirement
because when you can write a computer program with an AI you can make the AI write the AI and you have general AI

There doesn't need to be a single AI to create the entire app. An AI to model data structure, an AI to build an interface, an AI to consume external APIs, etc. We already mostly bolt libraries together to make software; it doesn't take a huge leap for those libraries to be generated by machine learning.

Building anything but the most complex apps will be trivial in 10 or 20 years time.
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It actually is based on their integrity.
It's a dictionary. I'm pretty sure a computer can look it up faster than a human can.
No, hence the last part of my comment. I was referring purely to logistics, not to practicality for winning the race.
"opinion of this so-called judge", "The judge opens up our country to potential terrorists", "a judge would put our country in such peril"

This is trolling a judge at the highest level.
Who will make sure you get your fair share of the automation profits?
Universal healthcare is not "free money, do what you like".

Have a look at the English NHS. You have a national organisation providing best current practice guidance (NICE.org). You have the Department of Health that funds NHS England, who fund the Clinical Commissioning Groups. The CCGs buy services from health trusts. The CCGs don't have to buy from NHS providers, they could buy from private providers. (See some inpatient eating disorder services; some forensic units; for examples of private providers commissioned by the NHS).

English health care workers are dedicated, skilled, hard working people.