skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, Watson Health is actually working on a lot of interesting work in the healthcare space that will eventually lead to improvement in care and outcomes. And hospitals are exactly the kind of clients that IBM handles well - complicated data requirements, government regulations, etc. It's a very difficult, and often frustrating, space to get into.
When you charge $60M to provide a solution, saying "Hey, it failed because we're not domain experts" is not a suitable response.
"Great Firewall as a service" :)
LT is probably the best free tunnel out there. I've tried most of them free and non-free.

thumbs up!
"Deep Learning Blockchain"
Permissionless ownership.
Meanwhile billions of dollars are traded in Alibaba stock through the Cayman Islands on the NYSE. Somehow that hasn't led to much trepidation.
What's new about this? Alibaba cloud has been around for 8 years, it's called Aliyun in China (literally Ali-cloud). They didn't build datacenters in 7 countries overnight.

Could anyone explain the sudden excitement about their service?
Do one with only assembly languages and we have to guess the architecture.
"Play it cool" https://youtu.be/BHIo6qwJarI Go! by Public Service Broadcasting.

(Sorry just discovered this song a few days ago)
It would be nice if there were flattr, Patreon, Venmo, BTC/LTC donation links all over it to pay for VPS/AWS charges. (Not PayPal, F them.)

It's good to ensure survival and utility of cool things such that Tragedy of the Commons doesn't spoil them.
Where are you from? 'Avocado toast' is an Australian 'meme' that has its origins of long before that Tim Gurner's 60 Minutes interview[1]. 'Avocado toast' (where toast is probably sourdough) is a staple on Australian cafe menus.

Also worth understanding is that Australian cafe culture is a bit different to the US and if you don't have or understand that, then I could understand how you struggle.

[1] Originally from October 2016 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-maga...
Mars was alright. I had a lot of trouble with one of the books. Took almost a year to read because it felt like there was nothing but political infighting in it.

Foundation was actually what got me started on the "future histories" kick. The civilization is a more fleshed-out character than any human in the story. But I was eleven and didn't read any further than the original trilogy.

My favorite golden-age sci-fi would probably be Heinlein's "The Past Through Tomorrow" collection. The parallels between Elon Musk and D. D. Harriman are amusing.
I'm curious what is contained in this bill. Is there an online link somewhere?

It would be cool to see Schneier break it down.
Rey Not in Star Wars Monopoly, Despite Hasbro's Promises
Doctors know you're lowballing the estimates, and they apply a nonlinear corrective factor to whatever number you tell them.

Not that this particularly changes anything, but they do know you're lying.
> $250,000 deposit on a Sydney 1 bedroom apartment.

Median house price in Sydney is 1.1M. Generally you need to put down a 10% deposit in AU. Just how fancy is this $2.5M 1-bedroom apartment you're looking to buy, that it's worth twice a median house?

Houses here are ridiculously expensive, yes, but let's keep it real.
How else would you estimate N?
> a $180,000 property

hahaha.

Average property price in Sydney or Melbourne is closer to 10 times that.
Transistor Aging Intensifies at 10/7nm and Below
Yeah, I usually pay $0.88 each. Sometimes they are even cheaper.
> millennials line up to pay it.

Sure, in the same way that people are lining up to pay $7 for a beer.
Renaissance is always cited in these conversations, but as you noted, isn't representative of the thousands of quant shops out there. That, and I hear their quant edge is disappearing with competition and they are relying more on HFT over the last decade.

Quant VCs just started appearing in the last few years, and it's not clear there is an edge there. As I said, my opinion is it's not likely.
The thing is Houston does have zoning, they just don't call it "zoning."

https://urbanedge.blogs.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youv...
Also, containerization.

Oh wait, that was 2016, too.
Why on Earth would you need to eat 3 avocados a month?
Funny, you say that. Today I got feedback from someone that my bullshitting skills are not up to snuff and that I still have the naive idea that actual results count in the end :-)
Step one: skip the toast.

Seriously, no toast. You don't really need carbs to eat avocado with, though it's true that corn chips go well with guacamole.
Check out http://docs.shippable.com/getting-started/byon-overview/

All the security and control of an on-premises solution with all the benefits of SaaS.
The smashed avo thing is really just saying that buying your breakfast each workday at $10/pop is another $2.5k/year extra you could save for a deposit. That something that seems so inconsequential does actually add up a little bit. It's not saying "1 avocado = 1 house", as all the recent histrionics seem to have assumed it to be.
Preventing stupid and costly mistakes. Same thing happens in AWS - you're limited to a relatively small number of resources until you ask for more. It's obvious for things that cost you money (stops you from reserving 1000 instances by accident), but could be applied for the same reason to all resources - you really want that many projects? Just ask for them.

Maybe you got an extra message like "watch out for Xxx as you create more projects" at the same time?
Multiple unrelated Go projects in different GIT/SVN repositories. GOPATH experience is painful.
Ha! Sign me up.

Actually, I like the idea of work. But, at some point, we will have to "artificially" employ people or, of course, implement a UBI. But, even with the latter, we'll have to re-imagine our relationship to work and its role as a source of self-worth.

There's this idea that without work, we'd all just instantly self-actualize and write poetry or paint masterpieces. Not sure why we imagine this vs. the more likely reality that we'd instead sit around sharing cat memes, making heinous YouTube comments, and generally getting dumber.

I'm not sure if society is really ready for a post-work world.
Not sure what part of IBM you're in, but I can speak as someone in an i Series shop.

The problem isn't the message. Everyone already drank the kool-aid. A lot of the problem is just the shoddy product, but really it boils down to the culture.

Put out comprehensive documentation _on the indexable Internet_ and not in PDFs, because for christsake if I have to open another Red Book PDF I think I might kill myself.

Make things that are open source -- and I don't mean Open Source™. Let me learn the platform. Let me hack away at an i Series or whatever on my own time.

Everything is so buried behind licensing and paywalls and PDFs and just general bullshit that I can _never_ invest in _anything_ IBM on a personal level. The vendor lock-in is so heavy that I resist even wasting time learning IBM products because in the back of my mind I'm always thinking "I'll never be able to take this with me to a new job."

The garden walls are too high.
Author here, great feedback, thanks.

My ultimate goal would be, if possible, to ask one of the SI's professional services developers out to lunch and pick their brain in an informal setting. Someone who has been there for a couple years and has seen some things and is ready to talk.

One of the challenges with the SI model is because people go to the vendor, they give you a lot of business and help keep payroll going, so you never want to badmouth them in public. But you don't have to badmouth anyone to say, "We think for your needs, this is the best solution." Problem is, you're not allowed to say even that when the lead comes from the vendor.

Perhaps the best question is, "Who has the best developer experience?" IMHO, that's the best sign of a quality product. Granted, still might not have the features you need out of the box like a bigger, older vendor. You need to weigh all pros and cons.
So it's a clone of Ethereum, managed by Bitcoin-style consensus (see UASF), that has no purpose or design goal, and right now isn't even finished. I can totally see how that's worth $250 million!
Better messaging? Clearly you guys are not getting it.
I've definitely heared of it a lot lately, Google Trends seems to show a spike not too long ago[0].

[0]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Avocado%20toast
Ok Watson
I'm going to pile on to everything else you're receiving here:

> I'd love to learn more about the kinds of problems you are trying to solve.

This doesn't sound genuine. This type of delivery almost never sounds genuine. You wouldn't "love" to learn about those problems, and even if you would, virtually no one will believe you because the same corporate speak delivery is used by people who have no commitment to action.

I know you probably just said this unconsciously, but when you use phrases like "I'd love to learn more about the kinds of problems you are trying to solve", it reeks of a comment written and vetted by a team, including brand/social/marketing/PR/whatever the team is in your org that controls employee disclosures.

I've been on the inside of orgs and watched this PR spin sausage cooked up. Someone wants to respond to a controversy brewing on reddit, oh wait, better run it by the the #social channel and make sure everyone agrees this is our best foot forward...wonderful, now we've essentially guaranteed that people don't feel empathized with whatsoever.

Just solicit feedback like a human being. It's okay to "disclose" that you work at IBM (although: jeez, what a corporate-y way to go about it), but speak to people in a conversational tone that doesn't sound like a customer support Twitter account.
It's popular until a company loses its market. Minimal expenditures mean minimal investment and retainment. That's not healthy in the long-term for a company.

If you'd like to discuss further then please provide more than a summarized sentence.
Interesting, depending on the amount of RAM killed that seems like it could be a bit overkill for what could just be a cosmic ray flip.

Though perhaps the rare frequency of cosmic ray flips makes that acceptable.
React Native and Redux and Realm (R3.js?)
Instead here your gatekeepers are speculators and miners and early adopters.
Try Shippable's Startup edition @ $499/year. Though Jenkins software is free, you still pay for master and slave nodes. With Shippable Server SE, you can spin up nodes dynamically when builds are triggered, which will work out cheaper since you probably utilize your slave nodes less than 50% of the time.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B072K2F5KF
Yeah, if he was like the Mexican immigrants I've seen at the beer shoppe, those 40s were "Corona" and therefore somewhat weaker than Bud. Just the thought of getting bent on that thin soup makes my kidneys hurt.
Before you can be with others, first learn to be alone
This Is How You Get Stuff Done
Everyone has access to image search results (from multiple providers). Ontologies such as DBpedia and WikiData with billions of triples are open source, don't see why they couldn't closely track closed-doors ontologies such as the one used by Google. The picture puzzles are useless - we already have superhuman ability to classify traffic signs and storefronts. Android debug data and map data are irrelevant for basic AI research.
Drinking -- at least for me -- has never about joy or being happy. The only happiness I really get from a drink is enjoying a new, novel flavor, not dissimilar from the joy of tasting a new food.

For me the main reason I drink is to medicate my anxiety. My anxiety is both a blessing and a curse. It motivates me to work harder, but at the same time causes me to fear social interaction. With alcohol I can temporarily tolerate being in close quarters with people I'm loosely associated with, such as acquittances, family and colleagues. But for me it's a medication primarily, not something to get "high" off of. I am certainly not the only one who drinks in order to maintain the appearance of some semblance of a normal life.
Cool, that was fast! Thanks!
True story one of the cofounders of segment once saved me from drowning in the Charles river. Great company all around.
I've ridden with people who drank while driving. To be honest it felt safer riding with them drinking, then when they were sober. I of course would not recommend this behavior, but a lot of the danger really depends on the individual.
I've got an avocado tattooed on me and even for me 3 sounds excessive
The thing I dislike is how such languages try to abstract away the filesystem representation of packages/modules/libraries/etc.

The conventions and resolution approaches that are needed to accomplish this often end up being opaque, less flexible, and harder to work with.

I much prefer the approach of C, C++, and even PHP to some extent, where the interaction with the filesystem isn't hidden.

When using C or C++, it's trivial to reference a globally-installed library, such as the standard libraries of such languages. It's also simple to reference third-party libraries, or even to include local copies of third-party libraries within one's own source tree. Relative or even absolute paths can easily be specified when referencing external code.

This also gives so much more flexibility with regards to how a project is laid out, and how it pulls in other code or libraries it depends on. I can follow an approach that works for me, for my project, for my team, for my version control system, for my development environment, for my deployment environment, and so on.

I want the language to conform to my needs. I don't want to have to modify my behavior and my environments to conform with what the language's developers deem to be the "right way" of doing things, especially when this isn't compatible with my needs.

Maybe this means there's slightly less consistency with how libraries and dependencies are handled across projects and libraries, but that's a cost that I'm willing to pay, and in practice it actually isn't that much of an issue when using languages like C and C++.

I'd much rather spend a few seconds specifying "-I" and "-L" and "-l" options when compiling or linking than trying to remember a bunch of conventions or how the high level package names end up mapping to the installed modules or libraries.

I'm not saying that the C approach is perfect, or that I'd want other languages to use a C preprocessor like approach of actually combining separate source files just prior to compilation or even execution.

But I would really like it if modern languages didn't try to hide the existence of files and directories so much, and didn't try to force conventions on me. I'd rather deal with the very small cost of explicitly telling the compiler where to find dependencies rather than relying on conventions or opaque resolution processes.
I have a drink in my hand right now and found the story entertaining so I upvoted it.
Actually it's a fruit.
While getting my undergraduate IBM said they were going to give an overview of the Watson system they used to solve Jeopardy . I skipped it but there were some professors that went to it. The professors walked out saying that they were using Watson as some kind of marketing term. They gave no technical details either . That's how I found out that Watson was a marketing gimmick.
I don't really want to offer unsolicited advice to a stranger on the Internet. That's not my place and it's not me.

But it sounds like you're telling me that you're not okay with your drinking, and maybe you haven't been for a while. It sounds to me like you're an inch away from saying "I have a problem with alcohol".

You should talk this over with someone close to you, whose advice you value.
our interests are different based on our daily interactions outside of facebook. How would an algorithm define that?
work on getting better at Haskell, and on making it more sucessful so there are more jobs using Haskell. See Edward Kmett's talks on failing at understanding Haskell 5 or 6 times (years). See Neil Mitchell's talk of drive-bye contributing to Haskell.
I'm of the school of thought that 'let investors come to you'. Focus on building your product to attract customers and the customers will attract investors. If you do it like that, you will always be the one deciding how much money to take for how much of your company you will give away.
To all the people who keep saying things like "I don't eat avocado toast but I can't afford to buy a house either. Counter example! QED LOL", you're missing the point. It's not about avocado toast obviously. The point is that millennials spend money on frivolous luxuries and then complain that they can't afford anything. He was using avocado toast as an example. Duh.
Oracle's Responsys is definetly dog shit wrapped in cat shit. I hope you'll never had to deal with that dumpster fire.
Why not just call it "Watson Systems"?
Only Google and Amazon are safe, they don't show data even to FBI /s
I was just about to comment that. Even their console url is similar.
It's very human to idolize your father, see them more than human, a super hero.
Have you tried Shippable? It's very focused on Docker based workflows for CI and also for building images, provisioning infrastructure, etc and then connecting all these jobs into a dependency matrix with configurable triggers.

https://www.shippable.com
I created something called "Dinosaur Eggs" in NYC that at least one restauranter has told me he "stole" and now features in his spot in vegas.

Halved avacdo; remove the seed; fill the hole with things of your choosing.. I like nutritional yeast, chia seeds, olive oil, sea salt, habenero sauce.

I've also done blueberries, other seeds, sprouts. All delicious.
Climate-Altering Gases Spiked in 2016
I'm not a VC but I think the quote makes sense.

Either you have a track record or a product with some customers. Cannot get funding without one of those.
Not a great first impression: Never got the confirmation email after two attempts to two different email services.
Old saying: "Life is hard, even harder if you're stupid."

We were too stupid to catch on that everybody else is lying.
> Westerners are infused with cowardice

That is racist and doesn't help. People all over the world are manipulated into fear. "Everything wrong is the 'others' people's fault" is as an old tactic as politics.
Most employers have been giving their workers steady pay increases for years - those pay increases just happen to go to health insurance companies.
I really never thought I’d be saying this but I think I trust Google and Amazon more with my data.
What's wrong with Germany?
you should call your state assembly person and have them vote yes on SB35. This bill gives teeth to the RHNA numbers and provides an accelerated pathway to approval for certain developments if the cities are not meeting their housing construction quota as mandated by the RHNA numbers.
I think the 60 Minutes segment was just marketing copy handed to them by IBM (how else could they talk for 20 minutes about cutting-edge ML without mentioning Google or Amazon at all?). Watson is introduced as "an AI" - singular - designed to play Jeopardy and then, after he wins, nobly re-purposed to medicine. Charlie Rose even says at one point that "they taught Watson to diagnose cancer", implying that it was the same Watson who won Jeopardy. The truth is the original Watson is on display in a glass case somewhere and the new "Watson" shares only the name and some of the underlying ML techniques.

It might be easy to understand what Charlie really meant when you are already familiar with the project, but the non-technical viewer will walk away thinking of Watson as a single, coherent entity sitting in an IBM vault somewhere. Conflating ML-based expert systems with anthropomorphic AI is farcical, supporting the accusations that IBM is overselling its product. It is also irresponsible, because it fuels the idea in the popular mind that machine learning is creating independent intelligences rather than mere tools.
Which you could argue is true of most businesses given how much stuff is manufactured there.
Wow... yea that's a great offer.

But their marketing just reaks of my local cable promotion offers that I get in the mail (selling really bad products with horrible gimmicks).

"Only 39.99/mo for the first 6 months"

And then it's like $210/mo after that.

And they only ever put the $210 in size 8 font on the back of the advertisement.

It's a great way to test out their infrastructure, sure. But the $300 credit they offer could afford the same experience.

Coming into an already highly competitive market with a gimmick like that and overall pricing that is double that of your competitors does not sound like a recipe for success imho.

I was really excited about a new competitor in the cloud space but was immediately turned off when I clicked through to their pricing page (after reading the offers on the homepage).
You can eat an avocado with almost anything and it its delicious.
How so?

I had assumed there would be an error in there about forgetting that years don't have an integral number of days, but even at exactly 36500 days per century, a nanocentury is still over 3.15 seconds.
Demonstrated how?
Nemo is the newest and smallest vessel for the Washington State Ferries
> main open-source AI frameworks

Do you mean UIMA, GATE? What else? These are frameworks comparable with Watson (at least the original thing, not the PR fuzz).
FWIW I have Liskov and Guttag (1986) on my desk. I haven't forgotten. I also explicitly address the "several since those days" in https://research.swtch.com/go2017#generics.
It's not uncommon for a single avocado to go for A$5 (US$3.90) in Sydney. $3.50/each is the standard price in supermarkets, occasionally 2 for $5.
Why Millennials Should Lead the Next Labor Movement
Why "trolled"? Those are all reasonable questions to ask. This advocacy has real world consequences.
I worked in the same co-working space as SA back in New York about 2 years ago and I can say without a doubt that the team behind SA hustled their asses off day in and day out. SA was the only crew in that space that seemed to work as much or more than I did, even going so far as to opening a cafe (https://www.adventurecafe.nyc) in the tiny little pop-up space in Lower East Side that businesses were failing in left and right. Kyle's post here is great, but it doesn't quite touch on the fact that this team was crushing it all week long to make it happen. Incredibly nice people as well.
Maybe the $300 new user credit or $30/year SSD cloud server is new. Probably not too many people knew about these things even if they weren't. Always fun to play around with something different at low or no cost. I actually didn't see too much excitement in the comments!!!
I have that concern about AWS and other American hosting, too.
This assumes that future commerce will always revert back to 'real money'.
AlphaBay taken down by law enforcement across 3 countries, WSJ says
This discussion already happened below.
Esports are ready to take a hit
> It's generally the opinion of the Go community that map, reduce and filter are bad ideas due to how easily they are abused.

There is a germ of truth here - sometimes list comprehensions make code harder to understand than if you just wrote an if statement or a loop - but you've overgeneralized. I don't think anyone on the core Go team seriously thinks that map and reduce are bad ideas when Google relies so heavily on MapReduce (and its successors).