skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I don't really get Instagram or Snapchat either, but they created something that has made tens of millions of people happy, and turned a thousand other people into millionaires (or billionaires!) basically overnight. By that measure, what have you or I ever done...?

I think this research is spot on, and can't wait to have it on my phone. And I love taking photos the old fashioned way, too.
Very sorry to hear about your wife. I assumed one of the other problems would be the blood brain barrier. Could this therapy overcome that too?
Yeah I'm not sure why it says 'recurring' that's our year over year direct sales only.

In other words, sales directly through sourcedadventures.com (not counting revenue through OTA's or third party channels)
The marketing has made it very hard to have a real conversation about IBM Watson. There is no such singular thing as "Watson". IBM offers a ML solution for health, for NLP, chatbots, etc. They all have very different capabilities and require different levels of machine learning. The marketing is BS, but most of the tech is real - if you give IBM your data, let them train a model on it, and communicate what you want, you will get an end-to-end custom solution. It's just not the magic IBM sells in its marketing videos.

Disclaimer: SWE at Watson Health
It didn't bug me until 60 minutes did a full blown 15 minute commercial for IBM on how Watson is saving the world. No I will not leave a link to that absurd piece.
Why not an X-Watson-Retention-Opt-In header?
Surely a parody
1 billion Unix time was September 8, 2001.
It's weird to me that there are all kinds of wacky theories in this thread except for you with the obvious answer: the supply of workers exceeds demand so the price (their wage) is not rising.

We had a really big recession in 2008-9 folks! You might have read about it? We've been recovering since mid 2010...adding 200k jobs per month or so. But these things take time.
Sure, you have to keep the herd together. Farmers do that other ways, but the outcome is the same. Facebook does care, and for the same selfish reasons: they're an eyeball farmer.
You are right that there's no way they don't know this. My Tesla sales guy said "I get a lot of people trading their Audi for a Model S". Then when I picked mine up, the couple who also had the same time slot to pick theirs up was trading a Audi.

Right after I got it, I took a friend to pick up his Audi from the service center. I walked in with him and the service guy said to me "You're dead to me!" He is a really nice guy named Ryan, but I'll be honest that I'm kind of tired of being so tight with the Audi service guy. I'm hoping the Tesla doesn't cost so much down the road. I've already avoided 3 oil changes, so it's off to a good start. :-)
It's really silly to think of labor prices as just being a matter of "people knowing what they're worth." The example given was painting jobs. If you're someone that maybe could offer such a job, there's a price at which it makes more sense for you to do it yourself. That price is a hard limit to the amount you can offer for such a job. If someone demands more, then you can't satisfy them because then you're losing out on the deal.

Only growing commercial concerns can afford to hire new employees. The world used to have a way of keeping people who would otherwise be economically impotent engaged, and that is cheap service work, but we've decided as a society that such things are not politically palatable.

So instead we just place more and more expectations on the people that participate usefully in society, and less and less on those who can't. The older I get, the less sympathetic I get to this viewpoint, but I suppose that's a quite common moral journey so I won't belabor the point too much.
I know in Seattle its even more culturally tolerated because we get so little sun year-round and you gotta binge in the peak summer month.
The t-cells would multiply? I thought they were created in the bone marrow. Do bloodstream t-cells go through meiosis?
The staff are downstairs, and they have their own cleaning equipment.
West’s distorted grasp of Russia’s objectives #oustputin #donaldtrump #nwo﻿
I up-voted you, even though we disagree a bit. A friend went to work in Hong Kong years ago because it was easier to get long term AI research money than in the USA. I think he is still happy with the support that he gets.

A little off topic: here in the USA, every medium and large company seems to be morphing into an 'AI company' which I think is generally a good thing since individually they can all take advantage of control over their own application stacks and data sources. Many people concentrate on the advantages of huge companies like Google/Microsoft/Facebook in AI development, but there is plenty of opportunity for smaller companies to enhance their own systems with machine learning.
I don't think I've ever seen an avocado in person. I was shocked to discover my apparent obsession with something I've never experienced was why I couldn't afford a house.
Yeah - guessing after reading that, nearly everyone's password is 123456789

If you can figure out what they use for user IDs (emails, or perhaps another 9-digit number), you'll own all these user accounts.

This is what happens when cleverness meets ignorance of security.
> know that both Java and C++ have a lot more issues than Golang ever will.

No you don't. But even if I granted that Golang has a bright future (I don't think it does) by any objective measure C++ and Java are more successful than Golang. LOC, number of devs, performance, install base, etc. Pick a measure other than current hype (not even peak hype) and either Java or C++ trounces Golang.

> I've used all three languages.

I have too. I program golang full time and have for 3 years. I'd switch tomorrow to either of the other languages if I could wave a magic wand (and I'm a fair hater of both).

> and runs in a JVM

I desperately miss the JVM (any of the ones I've used). The amount of sophistication and polish in comparison to the Golang runtime is embarrassing. Debugger support, operational sophistication, IDES, tooling, basically everything is better on any of the JVMs I've used in comparison to the golang runtime.

>Java has mile long class hierarchies, massive try-catch blocks, indentation as thick as my neck

And go has ridiculous copy/paste libraries, horrendous concurrency edge cases, terrible error handling, worse third party libraries and no story around packages.

> There are lots of cross compilation and static linking problems that don't arise with Go.

Because dependency management is not possible in golang. It is literally the worst story in any language I've used in 20 years. You have 2 choice in golang half baked vendoring or a monorepo where you have all of your code in one place.

> Compared to them Go is a very well thought out and elegant language

No, compared to them Go is a young language. There aren't any big projects in Golang yet. We shall see if there ever will be. My theory is that either none will ever happen as some other language will be a better choice, or golang will adapt and all the things people claim are benefits (simplicity, default tooling) will go away, crushed under the reality of complex projects being complex.
I hate to say it but this comment is a lot of problem. It reads like it was generated from Watson, then approved by HR and Legal with minor edits.

I don't want to say that's your fault. I get it, I have a job too.

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Honestly I wonder what IBM does these days.

Watson is a professional service Machine Learning thing, which can't be profitable. Onsite engineers enguaging one customer rarely is.

Power8/9 has flopped. Nvidia only appears to be on board to kick sand in Intel's eyes.

Then there's... Mainframes?

I know IBM has a cloud now, but honestly it's prices are far high then AWS or Azure.
This reminds me of a Linux Journal piece I did 5 years ago
on system administration of the Watson supercomputer (after they got their 15 minutes of fame on Jeopardy):

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/system-administration-ib...

They brought in a sysadmin after they got up to 800 OS instances. Before that, it was just 3 part-time researchers handling the system administration duties.
Remember, if you do end up quitting your job, be sure to tell your employer that they weren't paying enough. Then when they hire to fill your position, they may be more likely to offer a better wage.
What makes you think I am trying to solve?
And China...
I'm a SWE at Watson Health. What do you think was so absurd about it? It definitely didn't explain the constraints and limitations well enough (it won't diagnose any problem you can have), but for the cancer scenario the segment centered on, the Watson solution is indeed able to greatly assist doctors with a task that does not scale well for them.
somewhat off topic but I find their use of 'Watson' to be rather outrageous as he was a big part of IBMs Jew tracking systems installed in concentration camps during world war two. I suppose I already looked at IBM as an org that really does not own this as they should but its particularly bothersome that they would use his name as a flagship of their marketing efforts.
Don't you see? Whether one event led to another is not important. We don't need to know for sure.
It's like the end of Inception.
Frankly you get the cataloger(s) out of their office/cubicle/holding pen, sit the cataloger(s) down at the reference desk, and have them work from memory guiding people through the classification system. You won't have the same level of granularity in searching but by general subject you'll be able to get to where you're looking to go. Been there, done that, wrote the plan while I was Cataloger for a community college in an area at risk for tsunamis. Those call numbers are there for a reason and have very important meanings.
Ask HN: How to start blogging
Hi HN,

I'm currently a software engineering student, looking forward to start a master in machine learning and with some experience as developer. I really like to read blogs and papers, and I would like to have my own blog. Often I have some ideas but I can't create posts regularly. How did you start blogging? Did you have a schedule (blog weekly maybe?)? Where do ideas come from?

Thanks HN!
When Your Doctor Is Fitter Than You Are
This very much represents what I've experienced with it. The traction control in the Audi's I've had would REALLY retard the engine, and then take a really long time to recover from it. So it definitely does respond faster.

I also think that having two truly independent motors is vastly superior to one motor and a Torsen center diff sending it front and back.

The quattro would use braking of one wheel to send power to the other side on one axle, with a traditional diff. I haven't really figured out what the Tesla does from side to side. But it seems to work great!

We didn't get a lot of snow after Dec when I got it, but what I did get to play in it was very impressive.
So IBM Watson can do all the smart and complex stuff but we still need human to do the dumb stuff like importing excel files where the cost outweighs the benefit of getting Watson to do the smart stuff.
Family Business in the Age of Uncertainty
I'm going to have such a hangover in the morning.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbloomberg/2017/07/02/is-ib...
You sound like my kind of guy..

Just build the product! A company does not need someone full time yakking it up.
Beer is super fattening. Being fat degrades your life (try walking upstairs or sitting comfortably on an airplane). If you can drink beer, or other alcohol without ballooning, I suppose you could say it doesn't affect your life negatively. So far I haven't seen people able to make this work. At least for me, when I drink a beer, I know I have to pay for it with >1 hour of jogging later.
ML = Wisdom of Crowds
Watson, is that you?
It does and it doesn’t. It’s entirely unclear what the new laws are hoping to achieve. PM Turnbull appears to think that companies can decrypt messages without a back door, with the only thing stopping them to date is the fact they haven’t been compelled to do so.

This is an actual real quote from him : “The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only laws that apply in Australia is the law of Australia.”
As as side note this was the first time in over a decade that I've seen Honeywell mentioned or HTML Map tags in use.
> syntactically correct Perl

Not a high bar to clear, mind you ;)
What makes Bitcoin, not an in house currency, also not idiotic in your case?
So if I invest money into a manufacturing process and build an automated factory that can do with 100 people what used to take 500 people, and then I therefore lower costs to all the people buying things from me...that's now bad? And I get to pay an extra special wealth tax for my trouble?

LOL
watch date +%s
London has an extensive network of vehicle-dominated pedestrian-hostile pathways, but the vehicles in question are trains.
Very nice. Jung has some pretty good java vis libs.
Uber Offers a Thankless Job, and the Applications Flood In
You've never been to a grocery store? Avocados are by no means exotic...
Humans explored just 5% of sea floor;
In the jobs I've held, getting asked by the CEO to look into a technology means there is some underlying problem or opportunity.
the difference: finns don't WANT to pay their employees nothing and have them work infinite hours per week
Here's some feedback: sentences like "getting feedback is essential toward driving change" are the reason nobody likes IBM.

"Change", as used here, is a noun based on the verb "to change". If your sentence calls for a verb, you can just go back to the original "to change".

Something isn't essential "toward" something else. It is essential "for" something else.

"is essential" is unnecessarily passive. Use active verbs.

"getting feedback" is slightly wrong, because what you need is the feedback, not the act of getting it.

"At the same time" is used here because it sounds smarter than "but". Don't do that.

Try this: "Change needs feedback".
It doesn't seem like you have any behavioral problems with alcohol. Over an extended time span, you might face other issues [1].

Shorter life and a merry one vs. longer life and perhaps less enjoyment. A choice that merits thought and spirited discussion with friends.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_and_cancer
I'm not sure how it worked prior to 2.0 or if it was possibly, but you can build locally in 2.0 ($ circleci build) which I think is just a thin wrapper around a docker build + docker run + run unit tests (or whatever you want).

That said, you don't have to use Docker and for a small project with no dependencies or no system level dependencies, I think it's overkill personally, so I'd just test outside of Docker or use the new base images from Circle.

https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/local-jobs/
August 1 and the Potential Disruption of the Bitcoin Network
I'm in the same boat, but I know it's a problem.

Yes, I get everything done I need to and then some. I'm up by 7 every day of the week, I work efficiently 50, sometimes 60+ hours a week. I'm with my family nights and weekends. I exercise, I play basketball, I play music.

I'm 5 drinks in right now. I drink alone, every night after my wife and son are asleep. I'm usually working and drinking from 9 or 10 until 2 or 3 and then up a few hours later. I feel a little off for the first hour or so and then drink enough coffee to plow through the day. To be completely honest I think I've been drinking enough that getting a hangover would take a phenomenal amount of effort. I've acclimated to having booze every night. That's a problem. But it's not the big one.

The big deal is: alcohol is unequivocally bad for you long-term. If it doesn't kill you directly through fatty liver/cirrhosis it'll contribute to an early death through many, many forms of cancer, heart disease, dementia, etc. You won't find many doctors who will say that drinking is not bad for you. My doctor was shocked even though I lied about how much I drink. I lowballed it and my doctor said "whoa, that's too much"

It is a problem. A serious problem that is too often marginalized by alcohol's social role.
You only send that after they request it
Library that I created during my startup – diver.js
Large number of comments here acting like A/C is some wasteful extravagance, or that people who live in warm climates should just move or 'get used to the heat'.

I don't mean to spoil the moralizing fun here, but cooling uses less energy than heating. So perhaps you should put on a sweater when it drops below freezing where you live. You'll get used to it. Or you could move.
I think before you ask for help from a community like this, you should either offer a reasonable promise that you can deliver better results, or offer to pay people for their time.

IBM's Watson, for me, has been so much marketing fluff that it's in the Oracle class of "only bought by people who don't know better". A profitable business line, but not a problem solving business line.
This basically sums up my brief stint in healthcare.

Every hospital / doctor wants to talk about the wealth of medical information they are sitting on... as you said most notes are just transcribed ad lib, or input into rigid EMR systems, there is no middle ground.

Also the language spoken by healthcare software is HL7 which is another nightmare in itself.
Within the data science community Watson has long been viewed as snake oil. Glad to see less technical and business folks are finally smelling BS too.
The freeway outside my window is indistinguishable from wind at this point. The train "whistles" at the Amtrak level crossing, on the other hand, are still ear-piercingly deafening after months of living here.

It's politically conceivable that the freeway will be ripped out due to "noise," as you indicate, but meanwhile there's no chance of anything being done about the far greater menace of passenger rail.
Yeah, an Econ one is badly needed for all the libertarian economics experts
Unfortunately its an emotional argument for me as it led to a 30 minute discussion over the phone with my father on the limitations of AI and the current state of marketing from most technology products.

Theirs at least one post in this thread that goes into detail on the limitations of Watson Health (it mentioned oversold capabilities that led to a medical institution wasting ~$60 million dollars, but you would be right to point out that I have no direct examples from memory on why the 60 minutes coverage itself was 'absurd'. If anything its the effectiveness of Watson marketing (and other companies marketing of AI) that gets to me and how it is even becoming pervasive in cultural icons like 60 minutes.
> Or a nefarious hacker manages to destroy the database

offsite backups?
Everyone has an innate capacity for mental/physical stress where they can still operate, it just sounds like you are using your margin on boozing. Maybe try powerlifting or running marathons and see if you reach a breaking point where the drink has to go if you want to grow? Or maybe try sleeping less and starting a company?
Only took like 4 years for someone to catch on. I remember seeing right away when they put Watson on jeopardy it was going to be a giant pr stunt.
Oh, there are contingency plans for that. They're pretty easy. Writing down barcode numbers and then doing a mass "check out" event on a whole list when power is back covers things.

In an extended event, some backup supplies on-hand from Brodart to handle things Jersey-style with temporary card pockets is easily doable.
Too easy (15/15). Had only once to look a second time at the code snippet (elisp vs. clojure, but there were [] around the param, that made it clear).

Would be more fun if they would implement the same code snippet in different (but maybe quite similar) languages and one would have to label the (lets say six for an interesting difficulty level) snippets.
This article is bizarre. It starts off with a story that fails to justify why avocado toast is relevant, meanders through personal antecdotes, then drones on about the history of advocados in the US. Pass.
Sounds similar to my life for the past 10 odd years. Then one day, I woke up with that headache and blurry eyes, and said I can't do this again. I'll still have a drink a few times a year, for special occasions, but enough was enough. Hah. I quit drinking three years ago.
Agreed. But the community of problem solvers does not frequently overlap with the community of people willing to listen to salesmen.

Yes, there are opportunities. No, I do not believe IBM could solve mine, because of the overpromise, underdeliver. I would only speak with a sales team, or a PM, if my boss ordered me to.
> I love reading comments from throwaway accounts because I feel like you're getting a genuine opinion that someone is too afraid to share on their main account. And those opinions are the most interesting to me.

Yet, you are here rather than on Usenet or 4Chan or whatever.
As someone who has seen, and regularly consumes avocados for no more than about $2.50 per fruit, I too am a bit confused about what relationship this has with my inability to afford a $250,000 deposit on a Sydney 1 bedroom apartment.
A couple of psychologist made an algorithm on punch cards to diagnose stomach cancer in the 1960s more accurately than doctors. Grab a copy of The Undoing Project.
rms used to tell a story about NeXT approaching him to come to a deal to throw money at the FSF in order to avoid having to open source the Objective C gcc toolchain. The FSF (predictably) refused.

I wouldn't be surprised if the decision to go all-in on Clang was a reaction to a decade old grudge.
Bear in mind that these were not photovoltaic (electricity-generating) panels. They were used only to heat water for laundry; they did not replace the fossil-fuel water heating used elsewhere throughout the White House (e.g. in the residence, offices, guest rooms, sinks, tubs, or showers).

Far more energy was used in their manufacture and installation than conserved by their use.

This is not to say that solar water-heating isn't a good application for large-scale water heating over time (e.g. a swimming pool), or a campsite shower.
Yes, people can get crazy with inline anonymous function chaining/composition, and that can quickly get out of hand in terms of maintainability and readability, but deeply nested imperative loops is often much, much worse to debug and understand, because the intermediate steps are not nearly as explicit as in a functional chain/composition that simply takes data and returns data at every step.

Regardless, these are simply cases of people writing bad code, and nobody is claiming map/reduce/filter is a panacea for bad code.

Functional composition/chaining works best with small, well-named single purpose functions that compose/chain together into more complex functionality (with appropriate names at every non-trivial level of chaining/composition). You can't easily compose/chain imperative loops this way (at least not without wrapping them in functions that take data, and returns transformed data, by which point you might as well use map/reduce/filter to transform the data to begin with to get rid of the impedance mismatch).
Can I ask where you live? In the Americas avocado is fairly ubiquitous and for good reason: it's a relatively unique fruit that's high in fat, very flavorful, works on its own or as a condiment.

My advice is - if you've never seen one in person count your blessings. I could easily spend $200/month on avocados alone.
I can make a reasonable promise that any feedback I get will be put in front of the right people.
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I tried a style transfer network on one of your images . Here is what I got https://prisma-ai.com/p/3a91d082-feee-443e-8062-4e85d2720ea0
could you share the name of the company offering this real-estate analysis product?