skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's understandable, but here they are not talking about the geographic area (in its native language, no less) but about the hominid species. English (and other languages too) typically fossilize nouns. Take Japan, we don't now call it Jahon even tough in the native language p -> h. [nevermind Japanese interchangeably use Nihon and Nippon]
Computer stock pickers generally don't view balance sheets, P/L statements and other fundamentals data in isolation - they match them up temporally to historical market data and try to model what the effect of future financials releases will be on the price of the relevant security. If markets are historically irrational w.r.t. fundamentals, due to human falliability, or whatever else, our machines seem destined to repeat our mistakes.
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I love dropbox but I ended up on google drive. I happen to have a business email address with them and I got 30G free then updated. Dropbox is better than Google but I was already on Google. If they offered some sort of package like Google does, they could have more people onboard.
Interesting to note that BlackRock's Aladdin software platform, powering much of this stuff, is being largely written / re-written in Julia.

https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/blackrock.html
We shouldn’t pretend that economics is a pure science
Do humans have the same low level immune system bacteria have? It seems like passing immunity between generations would be extremely unlikely, but it could still be useful for offering some immunity to viruses that one has already had.

Would it be possible to introduce a genetic template from a viral disease into an embryo to produce a human essentially immune to that virus?
Ok so how does Iraq apply to your suggestion that a civil unrest and civil war in our country could easily break out when Texans with guns hit high unemployment?

You also cited Houston which is the 4th largest city that has a crime problem not due to deer hunters, but of inner city folks and saw a crime rate explosion from an influx of people post-Katrina that had lost everything and had little job prospects. You didn't see country people from the gulf area bringing deer rifles into the city shooting people up and starting civil war.

EDIT: to JakeTheAndroid - the parent mentioned as part of their fear - "The U.S. has the largest standing army in the world on opening day of deer season, all with high powered rifles and scopes."

There's no evidence to suggest that those deer hunters would organize in the event of high employment to incite civil unrest which would result in civil war. We saw a rise in crime but did not see civil war when people lost everything with Katrina. And the rural people feared the most didn't do what was suggested.

The crime I'm talking about in the cities, esp. Houston, has existed for a long time. Rising unemployment does lead to more crime in the inner city, primarily by inner city people. I don't see deer hunters organizing and posing a threat. In fact, I'd guess they'd hunker down and protect their property and community and probably assist in any local response to the civil unrest if necessary, not the other way around, posing a threat to other citizens and the government itself as the OP speculates.
The author of this piece is a white male who, at 52 year old, spent a year working for HubSpot after being laid off by Newsweek magazine. He wrote a book about his experience.

In this article - http://fortune.com/disrupted-excerpt-hubspot-startup-dan-lyo... he gives a lot of information on exactly the kind of culture he is talking about.

Stuff like, "Later I also will hear a story about janitors coming in one Saturday morning to find the following things in the first-floor men’s room: a bunch of half-empty beers, a huge pool of vomit, and a pair of thong panties. The janitors were not happy. They get even more distressed when, one morning, a twenty-something guy from the HubSpot marketing department arrives wasted and, for reasons unknown, sets a janitor’s cart on fire."

The whole thing is worth a read.
So how about women without work? The participation rate for women is about as far below earlier projections as for men.[0]

[0]http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/the-plunge-in-labor-for...
Ask HN: What's the biggest challenge developing open source projects
It's not quite that simple. Much of the problems of Windows reliability was from 3rd party drivers and apps (esp killer apps). They couldn't ditch the hardware or app vendors because their customers demanded them. So, Windows source was littered with all kinds of provisions to basically work around all that. They eventually forced driver analysis and safer language onto the ecosystem when that was too much. But a key part of their path to dominance and backward compatibility was working around known issues in 3rd party code.

Avoid this when possible obviously. However, it's sometimes a good idea when it's for tie-in to ecosystem that has benefits worth it.
Careful my friend. You are veering into dangerous heresy.

You must return to the path of moral relativism (for certain behaviors only of course. owning a gun or voting for Donald Trump or using jQuery are just plain wrong end of debate.) and LSD micro-dosing for cognitive enhancement. Our dear departed Saint Steve Jobs (who has done more for mankind than anyone, like ever) is deeply unhappy right now and soon it may be necessary to convene a Silicon Valley church court to determine your fitness to continue in the group. The purpose of this is of course not to punish, but rather to help you see the error of your way and bring you back into the fold.

I'd like to suggest a period of Visappa mediation followed by a wheat-grass juice fast while you prayerfully consider your transgressions. Then a Medium blog post titled "I Know I Need to Change My Ways." Look to Travis Kalanick if you need any inspiration.

In closing, I'd like to bear my testimony that I know strong AI is soon upon us and the singularity will come to be. I am willfully considering you with positive energy as I furiously develop binary trees in Haskell and Rust. Amen.
Reminds me of this art project by Michael Marcovici where they 'taught' rats to trade. Sadly no longer online. https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20140220072141/http://www.r...
It's also physically healthy for people to be employed. Unemployed people who have too much free time but little productive time don't typically use that time to better their health -worse, they develop bad eating habits.

We could learn a thing or two from Japan regarding re-employing retirees. They feel useful and it keeps them physically and mentally healthy without having to depend on "new blood" to subsidize their lives.
Can somebody explain what exactly the problem is with this? Did they not have a hand in any of the research? Do they provide a genuinely useful service yes/no?
Geez I guess no one bothered asking users if THEY like chatbots? IMO chatbots are the online equivalent of getting an automated response from a phone line. like calling CVS pharmacy "press one" for pharmacy, etc... You get the point of it, but it's basically a tool that only benefits businesses because the user experience is very poor. I wonder why no one tries to make this whole bot thing have more of a personality? It seems so bland. If they modeled it after ONE person instead of using "data" to sound neutral, they would be more successful.
What I find most annoying is mandatory SMS confirmation for business accounts. We've got plenty of phones at work, but they cant receive text messages, so employees have to use personal cellphones to open accounts on these types of services.

If your site does this and doesn't offer a actual phone call option, see if you can do something about it. A company I opened an account with a couple weeks ago almost lost our business over this -- seemed very unprofessional. I can guess why this company requires verification, its an attempt to stop bots from signing up en masse to get the small free portion of the service (first X amount was free, if I could script creation and use of 100 free accounts, I'd never need to pay them).
Try being able to pay them minimum wage.
"Human on the back-end" is called "Human in the loop" for anyone looking into this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-in-the-loop
I find even as a chef I have kept the same habits as when programming.

When I on my kitchen at 10am, I'm a pure zombie, give me my coffee, let me prep and get the hell out of my way. But 8-9pm when I'm cleaning up , yeah I start getting more creative then (infact I designed my new waygu nori Maki last night from that), and when I'm at home, I'll still be thinking about recipes and jotting down notes to test and try during my zombie hours.

"Exhaustion, it appears, can spur creativity because, frankly, you just don’t give a damn."

This i can agree with. At the moment I'm short a chef, so I'm pulling 12-14 hour shifts every day. By Sunday(day 6), pretty worn out, but I find myself more willing to try crazy combinations.
We have an interesting dichotomy today which was very apparent in a discussion last night. A friend goes to an annual management seminar where last year's focus was on this topic of expecting employees to work until later in life. This year's topic was the end of work as many positions will be replaced or augmented by machines.

Which is it? There won't be jobs, so we have to figure out Guaranteed Income or other alternatives, or there will be jobs and we'll continue working later. I'm tempted to suggest the first is more likely, but be prepared for the 2nd.
By the time you discover QuickCheck, you might as well just use Haskell :)
Yeah there is a huge difference. If you have a datacenter in Grant County, WA, attempting to bribe the police will only result in them arresting you and calling the feds.
And why is this News. They don't have a product to sell other than a toy demo. No chatbot company can offer an easy to understand, measurable interface for customers to customize towards their own usage case, with expected outcome. You can tell me in bareface that your product is magic, and when it doesn't work, it is due to the bad weather. Though, I think DL based NLP technique is the future, however, chatbot is not the right conveyor for that vision, much more like a lot of money hungry dudes riding the hype to monetize their demo technology.
Quite a few liberal cities are also quite dirty, especially in the poorer areas. I've always wondered why the government-helps-all-of-us types haven't put two and two together here to revitalize neighborhoods, reduce pollution, and give the unemployable opportunities to improve their lives.
Yeah, fuzzing is just throwing random data. Property-based is supposed to be more like DbC where it's guided to test the righg things.
Gene drive is particularly interesting and novel approach... And seems like a huge tarpit for ethics of Gene tech.
> This myth is a transparent political device intended to humiliate and silence those who'd disagree

No, it really isn't.

Try to imagine what it's like to be a teenager and realize you're gay. What if you had been gay? How would your parents have reacted? Your grandparents? Your friends? Wouldn't they have let you know, however subtly, that you had let them down, that you were no longer the same person to them, no longer someone they could feel proud of and close to? Even if they all made an effort to be outwardly polite -- and it would be remarkable if all of them did -- can't you see how that would make it even worse? Wouldn't you feel ashamed???
>If we can’t assume any kind of common base-line level of background experience but need to re-hash all of school mathematics in every conversation, then it’s hard to have a technical discussion.

We can have any kind of discussion we want, but whatever the participant's level of understanding, talking down to them is unacceptable. You don't need to dumb things down here, but when someone doesn't understand what you meant, you can ignore it or help out, just don't be condescending.
FTLOG would you mind? You're putting words in my mouth and thoughts in the heads of some imaginary others to justify your own interpretation. I don't think this is the time and place to discuss whether or not I know the meaning of the words 'on the contrary'. Think of this as a funeral and you as someone that loudly disses the order in which someone places their flowers at the headstone. Please stop.
So the way a company charges market rate for juniors varies by industry.

In the trades, they generally get apprentices to do work at full chargeout (with guidance) with final signoff from certified person.

In consulting (IT, law, legal) you can either have tiered rates based on seniority of resource or a mixture of experience types doing "flat rate" job.
>"What is your proposed selection mechanism for pre-existing indels, given CRISPR treatment?"

This was explained earlier I believe, so I am not sure where the confusion lies.

1) You start with a mixed population of cells. From the literature it looks like about 99-99.9% will lack indels at the target site, the rest have them.

2) The Cas9 will cut the DNA of cells lacking indels at that locus (ie the wt cells containing a sequence complementary to the guide RNA), thus killing and/or growth arresting those cells.

3) Meanwhile the cells with indels will continue living and proliferating since they lack the target sequence. These are "immune" to the CRISPR-induced damage.

Thus the proportion of WT cells will decrease, while the "mutants" will increase. It may help to play with the code of the simple model I shared earlier.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006407
There is something in humans called Dicer - which is an enzyme that uses RNA to cause RNA interference. It has a role in destruction of viruses that use RNA. Here's a short wiki about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicer
> Before deployment begins, another process has encrypted our binaries and uploaded them to an S3 bucket.

Is this to ensure data integrity, or some other purpose?
Yeah, it's a little opaque. I'll try to rephrase. You have some code, with an if and else. if (cond) X else Y. After that comes code Z. When you compile this, the compiler emits instructions to check the condition, and if it's zero, jump to the else. Otherwise it proceeds to run X. At the end of X, you need to add another jump over Y to Z. Otherwise you'd execute Y too.

Having lots of little jumps in your code can slow things down (well, maybe, depending on CPU, etc., but stipulate that jumps are bad). So at the end of X, you have to have a jump over the length of Y. However, if Y is very short, like 1 or 4 bytes, you don't actually need to use a jump instruction. Instead, pretend the Y instruction is a constant, and load it into a register (and ignore it). The result is the CPU runs X, loads some ignored data into a register, then runs Z. No jumps.
I did that for high-assurance systems as an equivalence check to ensure optimizing compiler didn't break things. It's also standard in hardware verification where they equivalence check each step from highest-level form to lowest-level form.
He doesn't mention size or weight, but I was extrapolating from this line:

> that look really dangerous thinking if I have these on my door I'm really safe. The thing is, they open just as easy as the other locks

which makes it sound like he's describing locks that seem secure, rather than locks that are secure (e.g. because of their look, advertising, weight, size, colour, whatever).

I could be misreading him. I'm not contradicting the text, just interpreting it. If he genuinely means that very secure locks can be opened by a monkey/beginner with a bump key then I'd take his word for it. I'm just not sure that that is what he's saying.
>users if THEY like chatbots

I certainly prefer chatbots over the menu selection when I call. But that's about it. Mose of the chatbots are similar rule based systems anyways.
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If you think about them as advanced search engines that pick up your question based on how the sentence is structured you can use them for following.

Customer Service
-- Login issues
-- Information about products
-- Walk them through problems

Health
-- Information retrival, pills, medicine
-- Diagnosis, based on symptoms
-- Getting an appointment with a doctor

Finance
-- Payment, (entity wants to pay entity sum)
-- Counseling (legal, tax, pension, savings, investment)

And there are a dozen more. Chatbots will work because they use an interface we humans already know well, natural language.
The reason inflation is necessary is because our money system is built on debt. If the money supply shrinks, there simply isn't enough money to repay the balance. That means insolvency, which further contracts the money supply. That results in more insolvency, and under the right circumstances you get a chain reaction that completely detonates the economy. That probably would have happened in 2008, but the government stepped in and artificially inflated the money supply to stem the bleeding. Unfortunately, since exponential growth can't continue forever, we're going to be locked into cycles of successively larger financial crises rescued by public debt until the system is so burdened by obligations that it collapses under its own weight.
> Traditionally, "milk floats" (a vehicle) would be driven by "milkmen", doing early -morning deliveries of milk in glass bottles, and they would collect the previous day's empty bottles at the same time.

It used to be dominant in the US, too, and is still available in some places, so I don't think this is in any way indicative of a unique position in British culture.
If 10k Texans organized to start some sort of rebellion we'd certainly put forth more resources to address that. Nobody needs combat experience in Baghdad or first-hand economic knowledge of Houston to know that Texas would have no chance of succeeding in their civil unrest if it did happen under your feared scenario.

On a side note, I've hunted with Texans before and they put up deer feeders that make noises when they spit out food to draw in the game for easy shots. They also import exotic animals from Africa and stuff them on fenced private property. I don't call that hunting.
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Well, here's at least one analogue (meaning a useful model to emulate, from Mullins and Komisar's "Getting to Plan B"): a friend of mine, also an anesthesiologist, noticed a pain point and did something about it: https://epreop.com/about-epreop/
>What's sad is most of the entry-level work I see across most fields could be done with a minimum of training, even though employers insist on a college degree.

I'm in a graduate program now and I've become extremely cynical about "college" and "university". The mandatory degree("credentialing") is starting, in my opinion, to look more like institutional fraud than any honest attempt at teaching people anything.

Whoever figures that out, the credentialing part, could go a long way toward fixing that problem. Is anyone working on this?
The WSJ may have used doctored images in their anti-YouTube story [video]
If you are contracting, and the libraries are also custom, and built by different contractors, what you'll get out of your tests is just a tool to accurately know who to blame: I'd much rather have that be done by whoever is in charge of the entire project, but hey, if you have to, you have to.

However, when you are in charge of a project, and it's your ultimate responsibility whether it success or fails, testing libraries and services can be crucial. I once worked on a large distributed system that was built around a third party distributed database. Said database had a bunch of features past what a typical distributed database promised, and a good percentage of them were part of the design.

The people in charge of the project at the time never bothered testing those features thoroughly, and spent a lot of man-years building. When it came time to have everything working together, a whole lot of those special database features just didn't work reliably or quickly, there was no observability to be able to identify the problems, so the project was an unmitigated disaster, and the reasons for this weren't even clear. I came later to try to rescue the project, built a bunch of testing, and got a good picture of which features worked, which didn't, and evaluated the workable uses cases. Then came a redesign around what worked, with me reimplementing some of those broken features in ways that compensated around the database's practical limitations.

Property based testing and load testing can be ignored for toy projects, but you'll be happy you've done your homework early before you build something that will be used in anger.

I just wish property based testing libraries were built by people with more industry focus, instead of just those interested in thought experiments and academic proofs: The ones I've used often needed extensions to make them have industry-level ergonomics, instead of behaving like someone's Ph.D thesis.
I can tell you I have worked as a translator and it used to be that the hourly rates were respectable. Nowadays you make the same as an admin assistant.

Translation is one job that has already been disrupted by technology. I ended up learning how to code and I am working on something now that uses language and programming (NLTK)and oddly, I found programming to be much easier than learning languages (I speak 6 human languages ) because it is a lot more predictable, stable and less dependent on context.

Translators should learn how to code. There is a lot of demand now for people who can do NLP.
I never found a use case when Siri actually worked.

Failed cases :
1. Lookup Wikipedia during an amazing race
2. Play a specific song
3. Find an event in my calendar
I think OP made the connection pretty clear.

In Iraq, the military attempted to take cities in turmoil and were successfully held by normal, everyday people not nearly as well armed as people in TX. You then support the statement by pointing out its already a dangerous place full of armed people being malicious.

OP didn't say deer hunters are the cause of crime, but pointed out normal people there, that well armed with high powered, long range rifles are numerous. They'd likely pose a huge threat.

So, if civil unrest was to break out due to unemployment, this seems like a potentially difficult situation for everyone involved. Pretty plausible to me.
I never thought about it in this way, but you are right.
Things like topic recognition, entity and reference linking/disambiguation, synonym/paraphase are well researched tasks with purpose-made datasets for competitions like TREC. The most common approaches will be to choose a word embedding (one of the word2vec or Glove are good starts) and run that into a CNN or RNN variant: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01923

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09100

https://metamind.io/research/learning-when-to-skim-and-when-...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06792

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03305

probably if you search arxiv and the ACL anthology you should find good lit searches/historical summaries: http://aclweb.org/anthology/ Karpathy's arxiv sanity preserver is a big help. You can put together a list of maybe a few dozen twitter accounts and hashtags to watch, that'll keep you pretty current.
Big brands will always be able to afford dumb advertising, like sponsoring the Olympics. adtech exists mainly for small brands, of which there are many, many more.
Thanks for the comment, will do this asap.
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