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Hopefully more companies are doing this.

My research thesis is in this area, hoping for a nice career doing modelling to predict illness. I'd like to have a nice paying job doing something that actually help people instead of just only making somebody more richer.

Also it doesn't matter if the AI gets wrong, the algorithm gives say 80% accuracy and it tells you base on your genetic make up if you should take the surgery route or chemotherapy route.

1. It's to assist the doctor. Also perhaps it can be cheaper to diagnose than a doctor. If say the algorithm says with 80% chance you have cancer, then you should go to your doctor and have it check. If it says no, then don't go. You have another tool to evaluate your health keeping in mind that it's a tool and aid, not a replacement for doctor.

The only concerns are genetic discrimination which GINA law addresses. And medical algorithm usually err on the side of false positive. So it rather get it wrong in saying you have cancer than saying you don't have cancer and in reality you do.

Any body know of any companies that does this please send them my way. ^__^
I find the Japanese milk to be rather sturdy, I often keep it for a month or so (though I only use it for tea so a little change in flavor probably goes unnoticed).
This type of "field survey" article is great because it helps connect a bunch of different dots. The stories about India accelerating their digitization efforts is truly eye-opening and worth the read.

Considering this is a macro-economic investment article, I will call out that although going long on the Indian telecommunications sector seems like a good value play, over the short-term the entire Indian telco sector is experiencing turmoil[1] due to a recently sparked price war by 4G/LTE-only wireless network operator Reliance Jio who launched September 2016 and within 6 months signed up 100M subscribers by giving voice & data services away for basically free[2].

Hence, Raoul Pal's comment in section 7 about being long the telco sector makes sense, but choosing Bharti Airtel alone doesn't, given the intense competition and relatively recent consolidation.

[1] http://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/staff-stare...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jio
Grisu isn't accurate?
There's no magic, but sometimes there's no real reason behind why something is the way it is. Sometimes a developer just picks a path because they had to solve a problem, and they didn't think deeply about it. I understand that your explanation if focused more on how everything can be understood, but I think it's worth making this slight clarification for some cases.
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Does that mean you have to write after each message your bot sends a disclaimer such as "This is not medical advise, go see a doctor"?

Those symptom checkers have them most of the time - I just can't see it fit within a bot as well.
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The first picture and the GIF made a quick scroll of this seem very unappealing. No idea who this guy is, but this piece seems like a Hollywood marketing bit.
I'm still astonished that Southwest can pull that off. Or perhaps just more astonished at how long I used flight aggregators without realizing that Southwest flights will never show up. I suppose I always knew Southwest existed, I just must have figured that they didn't have any affordable flights for my routes. Turns out I live near two airports with a ton of Southwest flights, and most places I fly too have plenty of routes. I use them almost exclusively now.
At this point, doesn't the word "hacker" just mean "somebody who is good at computers"?
Thank you. I'm in!
Thanks for the suggestion. We have a lot of markets that we'd have to check and I imagine it's cost prohibitive. It's actually a very easy thing to build.

Moreover, we're kind of the big company in this space. We own many of the billboards we (and our competitors advertise on). We have multiple different platforms that we sell to our "competition". They're 10-20 years behind us in tech and the budget/desire to get there. It makes sense that we build this ourselves and keep it that way.
I would like an invite, if you have any. Thank you!
> Actually the second one is connected to the former.

Sure, but I am asking where it even came from to begin with. Like sadism, what bullet point does it apply to on the top comment?

> .. but there is evidence that psychopaths feel relaxed when others are not.

Also, sure it might be true but why do you even bring this point into the discussion? Does the article or comment mention anything about "calmness" (or similar)? I didn't find it but I might be missing.
Interesting point, but why fight an uphill battle? Wouldn't it be easier to avoid the term "hacker" because of the negative connotation? The importance of "hacker culture" (experimentation, clever solutions, etc) goes far beyond the name.

As someone who reads Hacker News, I understand what you mean by "hacking is essentially a creative process," but wouldn't it be easier to describe it as something like creative security research instead of hacking? "Hackers" will still understand what you mean, and maybe it would be less intimidating to others. Curious to hear other thoughts.
It's so interesting that 'hacking' has a negative connotation while 'intelligence'[1] has the opposite, even though it should really be the reverse.

[1] Obviously recent news have made this term more negative, but years past, there was nothing wrong with 'intelligence' (at least in my circles)
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I'd like to say you have hit rock bottom when you treat your employes (or "independent contractors") like whales in a pay-for-play MMO, but Uber always finds a way to go lower.
Gem from today: "Acting irrational is textbook persuasion. In this context, a mental patient and a Master Persuader look identical to the observer."

Looks like he's sponged up just enough game theory to rationalize madman theory. Make what you will of his page on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams

post script: the only thing I know is that attempting to show others what you know/opine makes them know what they already know more intensely. Meaning, if my comment does anything but raise an eyebrow, simply wipe the memory of my comment and discard my opinion. The last thing I'd want is people who like Dilbert to adhere to Scott Adams' beliefs for the sake of having to protect their enjoyment of Dilbert, I guess..
Copyright law differs from place to place, but I think what you have written is incorrect. There is a distinction between "infringement" and "making available". You can infringe copyright without making it available. In this case, making a copy is infringement, even if you don't make it available. Even loading a file into a computer can be an infringement, and so you need a license to do so. The format is irrelevant.

If you take a chunk of data out of /dev/random, it is not subject to copyright because it is not a creative work. Mathematically transforming a creative work does not remove the copyright. Laws are written to be loose enough to deal with corner cases like this.

Out of interest, I once saw a modern art piece that was a sculpture of an ouroboros made of pornographic magazines. Clearly the magazines were still under copyright. So is the sculpture a derived work? I think this is what is known as a transformative use. My understanding is that it is still an infringement, but that it is covered under fair use. (I have no idea how this is covered in countries without fair use!)

I suppose you could encrypt a recording and publicly destroy the key. You could then actively trade the encrypted file. I suspect this would also be a transformative use as a kind of performance art. But as in all fair use, it is still an infringement.

Copyright law is confusing :-P
You make a good point. Let's replace the word 'magic' with 'abstraction' as 'magic' is quite overloaded. Yes, there is a place and time for abstraction in computer programming but as developers gain experience they should start piercing the layers of abstraction to understand the whole picture.
CRISPR is a solution to just retroviruses. Bacteria through phages actually come under more attack than humans in this way. If you've got a single cell for the next generation you care a lot about this. Humans any old crap can happen to litterally trillions of cells without affecting the germ line. CRISPR itself has capacity to introduce damage to the genome.

So its a balance between error correction and error introduction. In Bacteria its worth it, in humans not so much, especially as we have a bunch of other subtler more complex ways of handling viruses before they get all the way to the nucleus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_interference Bacteria dont have this luxury as their DNA lacks this extra barrier. The biggest difference is simply cells dont matter in a human and can just kill themselves if all else fails.

The rest of the "innate" immune system has similar proteins involved nearly everywhere e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toll-like_receptor These are the components involved in cell surface recognition of sugars. But much more similar between all animals than animals and bacteria.

Answer to your second question is yes you could add a CRISPR construct with templates for known disease and add artificial immunity. However, finessing this so that CRISPR doesnt cause lots of damage from randomly cutting your DNA throught your life leading to a higher risk of systemic cancers... is a big hurdle.
Good point. Although in this case it's more connected that the brands are subsidizing content and a site which doesn't care about hate speech and childish discussions. And parents and concerned consumers who like certain brands can easily point it out.
A couple things here:

1. Profit margin is more like 24% than 15%.
2. Tesla energy generation is currently negative 1% margin, but there was a small note in the most recent investor letter that said they expect long-term margin to be similar to automotive with much faster growth rate - the automotive business has basically doubled year on year for the last 5 years. I think this isn't properly priced in.
3. Demand for MS and MX were way underestimated by most analysts and my guess is the same for M3. Especially with a rumored Model Y.
4. A lot of the execution risk has been worked out with the M3 on track
5. You get a free call option on Tesla roof + Solar City securities start paying out
The "end to end argument" in that paper reflects the issue of how dumb the network should be. This goes back and forth. With telephone switches and Plan 55-A message switching, all the intelligence was in the network. With the ARPANET, the network did reliable delivery, but the work was distributed among the dedicated network machines. IP was pure dumb datagram, which was controversial at the time. It still is; the last few years have seen the proliferation of non-transparent middle boxes, from the Great Firewall of China to Comcast to Cloudflare to Google.
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There are two points I think you are mistaken on.

1. History in the real world is very much traceable. That's what a paper (celulose or digital) trail is. The history may not be physically attached to the object but the interested parties should have the appropriate property documents. And when there are contradictory claims, documents trump spoken agreements.

2. In the physical world no to objects (above atomical level if you want to be pedantic) are the same and there is a limited supply. In the digital world, a copy is absolutely identical and indistinguishable from its original and from the potential infinity of other copies.
There is no excuse for not to understand the so called 'magic' even at a very superficial level. There are tons of blogs, videos, how to articles, books etc. Just search on YouTube and I am sure you will understand most of anything in just a few minutes.
I wonder if there are similar sites but more bootstrappers oriented (rather than investors' pocket burners).
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I call implicitly executing code magic. It is not like I could not comprehend it, but I should not have to, it should be obvious. I use the word to describe bad interfaces, giving me this feeling of little control.

Big fan of The Zen of Python.
Professor Deibert is highly sensitive to labeling and deliberately chose and insists on denying the use of the bare term "hacker" to categorize Citizen Lab activities, instead preferring terms such as "hacktivism", self-styling himself as a "hacktivist", and his team as "researchers" in interviews and his blog[1].

[1] https://deibert.citizenlab.org/
We are all hackers at one point of another. Here is one source of the origination of the word http://tmrc.mit.edu/hackers-ref.html
Pasteurized and UHT have about the same shelf space in Italy with the former tasting much better than the latter to me. I buy UHT only for the first breakfast when I come back from a vacation. Full fat milk tastes better than reduced fat, which is watery in comparison.

However micro filtered milk become common in the last years. It lasts one or two weeks and tastes as pasteurized. It's the one I buy.

The advantage of UHT is that it doesn't need a refrigerator so it's what I buy on vacation, when I don't have a fridge or where I don't trust the fridges of the sellers.
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I only brought up the distinction between closed shop and union shop to cite sources. You can call them whatever you like. The Supreme Court says unions can't require actual membership, only fees, and in 28 states they can't require that either.

Hiring halls are subject to the same laws. Individual cases of discrimination can be hard to prove, but patterns are hard to defend.

Federal law sets the terms of union representation. Some union members would be happy to have collective bargaining for union members and individual bargaining for non-members, but that isn't an option.
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> Twitter demanding a phone number to unlock a 5 min old account after saying it was optional and then pretending I broke their rules just to get my phone number.

Microsoft/Outlook is insufferably obnoxious in that regard, the last time I saw people signing up for it. At least Gmail asks for your number up front — Microsoft pretends you fucked up and weasels it out of you.
I think it goes beyond computers, for example you can hack a car engine to run on water instead of gasoline. You can even hack mind, look up hacking consciousness.
I agree, and that's a fascinating link. I think that "hacker" can be an accurate/valid description, but also a poor marketing choice at the same time.
Different people react differently. The first dead I saw was a women, falling to her death from the 9th floor. I was 3 at the time and there was no revulsion, just curiosity I guess. Maybe just because I didn't have enough of understanding of 'death' at that time.

I've seen people die (or dead already) many times since then and... It doesn't really make you sick. The unpleasant feeling is still there, yes, but it's more about disgust than anything else.
On the flipside - I'd propose in this simulation that there would be inner city civil unrest and the bulk of Texans, most of them armed, would join the force to squash that unrest or hunker down at home and mind their own property. I've spent a lot of time with Texans. Yes they have a ton of pride and many are more aggressive and have a distrust of the federal government. But they'd be more likely IMO to be against any movements terrorizing their cities, especially those that come from the city dwellers who have shown to be more violent historically in dire economic situations. Regardless of what happened, Texas is our #2 largest economy and we'd protect it federally with any means necessary.
I also hate to ask it here, but would really appreciate an invite.
Once a species is gone it is gone. Lots and lots of species disappear now and many of them we are not even aware about, let alone any DNA samples taken or research done (e.g. burn down rainforest). So you can't "have both".
If anyone has ever read the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F Hamilton (for those of you who haven't I highly recommend it), in this world there is no such thing as Retirement, your "pension" is actually just a savings bond to pay for your next rejuvenation, rinse and repeat as many times as you like and then when you are bored of it all you can either just die or download your brain into ANA (a post physical "afterlife").
Lets aim for this ;)
I would think that intelligence services not doing such an obvious thing would be considered negligent. Just like they would sponsor and run email mixmaster remailers in the 90s and run tor exit nodes today.
The wording is an example of loss aversion, and has been studied many times in behavioral psychology.
The company's intent is to change behavior (getting the driver to drive on a different day). Anyone would choose the better outcome. Is that manipulation? Or optimization? And the driver could benefit from having this information vs not at all (though of course the company benefits most of all).
My favorite telnet destination, and one of the few net destinations I still visit ~5 years later, is telehack.

telnet telehack.com

I've seen it mentioned a few times on HN, but only intermittently. I know they've recently added a system to exchange files (including BASIC programs, iirc!) with other users, which is pretty cool.
Ugh, I believed this too. Could you elaborate so that the misconceptions are cleared? (or give a link if the explanation would be too long)
I heard about SDF through telehack, and very much appreciate the similar vibe, to say nothing of the historical provenance of SDF!
Citizen Lab is famous for exposing activities of GhostNet, a "Chinese cyberespionage" operation. Which most famously was targeting the Dalai Lama's organization.
Certain models are inherently useless.

If you use a Taylor series to model a sine curve, you can get arbitrarily good results over an arbitrarily large range, yet the model will always fail catastrophically when the modeler wants to figure out the value that will give sin(x) = 2.

This seems like a system designed for the analyst who wants to make sin(x) = 2, and will blame the participants when reality doesn't match the model.
> Deibert’s group discovered an exploit in iPhone software ... before even Apple knew about it.

Yup, I know what you mean about the hollywood part.
My favorite hacking tool is a hacksaw :)
A DSP in the network card does quite a bit of work to make it work: Since the pairs are used at the same time, near-end and far-end crosstalk need to be cancelled out of the signals, it also removes the currently sent signal and it's reflection (echo cancellation), since each pair can be used in both directions at the same time (!). It also adjusts delay differences between the pairs.

Gigabit Ethernet is really cool and involved tech :)
Mind if I ask where in in SE Asia? I'm having a hard time coming up with a place where a couple of retirees could live reasonably on less than about $2k monthly (when factoring in age-related healthcare costs).

Which is still probably close to a 40% savings over living stateside -- mostly due to medical expenses, of course.

I suppose a follow-on question would be do these countries also provide for assisted living, once our retirees get to that age?
Just a heads up - we're moving on from the unums standard.

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Not sure why that would be your search, but here you go: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
I am doing this, full-time for almost three years soon. The company is at http://dochuddle.com/

So here is the warning: Medical startups are hard, really hard.
- It is difficult to apply research on 32x32 cat icons on 15megapixel xrays.
- It is difficult to get data without year-long contract efforts
- It is very difficult/expensive, if not impossible, to use cloud resources due to HIPAA and localization rules so you need to build your own on-premise GPU grids like we did
- It is difficult doing most medical things in the USA unless you are on the revenue side (e.g., collections, increasing yield, etc.) -- we got so many raw deal partnership offers in the US that we went overseas to trail our product.

The entire medical system in the US is corrupt from the ground up, geared to maximize revenue with minimal lawsuit risk. Patient care rarely enters the conversation internally. I thought financial services was bad (my past career), but at least the metrics were all agreed upon by everyone. In medicine, everyone has an agenda, often diametrically opposed to other parties.
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> I'm positive the people who maintain it are aware of the tradeoffs between fair and unfair locks and made the default fair intentionally.

I think you're neglecting a couple of less-technical factors here. Yes, fairness was certainly made the default for reasons at some point (but still, even then, one might argue that an opt-in solution might have been better). On the other hand, there's the likely possibility that those reasons don't really hold true anymore. Think of Scene Graphs vs. Entity Component Systems in high-performance videogame design - in this example the rise of caching made a whole architecture out-dated.

On the other hand, like removing the GIL in Python, such decisions are not to be taken lightly because of the things you will break. It's very likely that there are applications that would still have problems with starving threads, and just switching from opt-out to opt-in will make them break for no apparent reason in the strangest of circumstances. I know, Apple likes to break things more often than MS, but I'd guess that´s not a risk they're willing to take. Imagine you're updating your OS and a dozen apps that worked for a decade and don´t get updates anymore start behaving strangely.

So, it's not unreasonable to settle for a less-than-optimal solution that still keeps things working and only makes things slower in the worst-case scenario. That doesn't mean it's not open to criticism, though.
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Wow, to each their own. I prefer Japanese milk to anything I got at whole foods in SF and I prefer it to the UHT milk I had in Berlin, Brussels, Paris, and Barcelona. It seems richer to me.

On the other hand I think I might have become lactose intolerant recently. Trying to stop drinking milk to see if it helps certain issues
"Maker" is a good alternative to hacker though. It describes what people are doing. I suspect software developers want to use "hacker" instead because they actually like the illicit "doing some bad and wrong and so damn cool" connotations that the media ascribes the term.
This and the fact that when state pensions were getting good returns - they setup guarantees which became liabilities of the state. However, when investments went the other way - the guarantees were still in place. So they get to have their cake and eat it too.
That was also my first impression.

The main conclusion I drew is that even if it's an article about hackers, it's not written for hackers. It's written for the people who believe great hacking comes from geniuses pensively looking out their windows while dodging shadowy figures in suits.
This breaks the HN guideline against name-calling. Elevating everyone's rage level by calling the most awful names you can think of does nothing for thoughtful discussion except destroy it. Please don't post like this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14020489 and marked it off-topic.