skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a go using the Watson cancer decision making system.
This was the experience:
Web interface.
Log in. Add new patient.
Fill in many many different check boxes/drop down lists about the patient. Some of these seem irrelevant.
Push a button.
Treatment recommendations come up. Top recommendation is reasonable.
Evidence summary provided about the recommendation. This is explicitly marked as being human curated from the MD Anderson, not generated by Watson.
Links to possible clinical trials given - these were wrong, not applicable to the patient at all.

So in summary, this is really designed for a doctor treating a cancer that they aren't really used to treating. There is no 'magic' that I could see. Maybe I used the most simplistic version, but the major limitation seems to be that it requires very structured input about the patient's case. I can't indicate for example that there was something unusual about the how the cancer looked under the microscope, or that the patient has a rare other medical condition that influences the treatment decision etc. Not surprising, because these are factors that lack an evidence based recommendation. If you read the article this is the key point:

"I see technology like this as a way to really break free from our current health-care system, which is very much limited by the community providers. If you want expert care you have to go to an expert center," she said, "but there are never enough of those to go around."

This is quite a different goal to 'revolutionising' cancer care, or 'taking on' cancer.
There is clearly a lot of hype... But I laud the effort, it will likely end up being genuinely useful in the future. At the moment it seems to be a very thin machine learning layer on top of a highly domain-customised infrastructure.
The difference is the degree of knowledge you have of doing something wrong while transgressing the law.

It's like if my grand-mother with alzheimer accidentally entered the wrong apartment room or house where the door was unlocked. It's not like she should go to jail or get shot by the owner pretending she was a threat.

I haven't seen the website, but if they made it really easy to enter remote systems then someone could defend himself saying he didn't know what it was all about.

One could probably argue that some Popcorn Time users would enter this gray zone.

However, the providers of those kind of services are mostly aware of the illegality of their users behaviour, so they are infringing the law clearly.
time sharing
Wasn't the Tesla Powerwall designed to address this exact issue? It seems like there's a pretty clear path to meeting Hawaii's all renewable energy by 2045.
Manual forwarding seems like a sensible solution.
I mean... Was this as a byproduct of a cease and desist? Why so fast?
I'm building an online community of rappers, lyricists, and producers to write and share rap songs, collaborate, learn how to freestyle, improve their craft, etc.

Tech + creative tools (natural language processing, lyrical analysis, etc.) + community = best place to get better at making hip hop.

http://www.rappad.co

This is a side project for me, but it's been going pretty well recently and I've gotten excited about it. I'm looking for anyone that would like to help.

It is built with Rails.
With long ping times you want to split your upload into many parallel parts so the odd dropped packet doesn't bring things to a halt. Then it just depends on your bandwidth.

We were able to saturate the gigabit nic on an ec2 instance in Ireland uploading to S3 in Oregon. At that rate a 10TB will take a little over a day.
That was really cool, thanks for sharing that (also the music was awesome). Crazy how much custom machinery is there, like the circular railing for the Lego-like arms.
>Mathematical features of the standard make very little sense without a backdoor, and the original article provided essentially no justification. Rather, it attempted a distraction by pointing to alternative configurations and standards.

I agree and would happily sign a letter which made this case. The argument for a DUAL_EC_DRBG backdoor is overwhelming.

>Unfortunately, the authors focus on NSA skullduggery and misconduct, citing primarily to non-expert (and semi-sensationalist) reporting.

My primary objection, I can't speak for the other signers, was Wertheimer’s misleading claims that the NSA does have a history of such skullduggery when there is also very strong evidence to the contrary.

We cited:

1. propublica.org, as a source for a direct quotes from NSA documents.

2. reuters, who are the primary source for the claim that the NSA paid RSA 10 million to make DUAL_EC_DRNG the default.

3. blog.cryptographyengineering.com, Matthew Green's writing on this subject. Matthew Green has published an academic research paper at a top venue on DUAL_EC_DRBG [0] and is a Cryptography Professor at Johns Hopkins.

4. Mollin's An Introduction to Cryptography, a Cryptography textbook. Richard A. Mollin was a Cryptography expert [1].

5. Johnson's "American Cryptology during the Cold War: Book III" a History of the NSA written by the NSA.

Three of the five are experts within their areas. Two are from well established news organisations.

[0]: http://dualec.org/

[1]: http://leydenscalgary.sharingmemories.ca/site/Richard-Mollin...
It's more like entering an office or shop which didn't lock the door. Anyway, it's a loose analogy.
Correct. I was talking about general parallel workflows, not software builds in particular. In any case I would call these as hacks rather than solid solutions. Xargs us great for chunking up arguments and submitting them to a parallel set of consumers: Poor man's mapreduce if you will
I wouldn't estimate it that low - TWTR priced at $26 produced 1,600 millionaires http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_24486370/twitters-ipo... and that was at lower valuation with lower vesting numbers compared to where Twitter is today. And Twitter is fairly minor league.

You also don't need a big exit - every single big name out there keeps issuing stock and it keeps vesting in someone's account. E.g., considering the stock growth I'd be surprised if any AAPL or NFLX engineer who spent 5+ years with the company is not a millionaire.
Probably machine learning?
Intent is indeed the key word here.

This always becomes the main subject by lawyers in courts.
I'm afraid we have radically different visions here, mine is an incubator/accelerator model, yours is a consultancy model. I've deleted the rest.
It's a volunteer supercomputer network made from commodity PC's.
I'll try to remember to test, then I'll try to remember to post results ;)

It'll also be interesting to see drop-off at that point in the funnel - my signup form is a bit of a monster.
I had a similar idea for small businesses - a cost-plus based consultancy, to take on any technical or administrative task you had.

I'd be interested.
> The idea is that nothing should come between a founder and the idea/MVP. Nothing.

I think those barriers that come between founders and MVP are important obstacles to learn to overcome. IF you can't get an MVP off the ground, with all the distractions like incorporating, how the heck do you hope to survive the real challenges of a startup like figuring out how to make payroll when there is no money in the bank.

Maybe i'm wrong, but something about removing these barriers strikes me as self-defeating, and would likely lead you on a journey with lots of folks who never should be doing startups in the first place.

It's not like the barrier to entry is so big right now...but your belief that "nothing should come between a founder and an MVP" is fundamentally flawed. A better mantra would be, "A good founder wont let anything get in the way of launching an MVP."

Just my two cents.

Edit: Grammar
This is the WSJ we're talking about here: a Rupert Murdoch mouthpiece, not some bastion of balanced reporting. Utilities have peaker units that burn natural gas and are designed for absorbing and offsetting usage upticks.

Honestly I think Germany is a far better place to look at solar and the problems associated with it because they have fewer hours of sunshine and many more people, so their scale and storage problems are presumably that much greater.
The supply chain is the principle advantage. Go to Hauquiangbei and show me the equivalent in the US. Then try and get tools made. It will be half or a third of the cost. Get something laser cut/SLAd/vacuum molded etc and it just doesn't compare. There is a larger supply of suppliers hence more competitive prices. Just go on alibaba and order a sheet of aluminum and do the same from virtually anyone in the US. Energy is important but many of these materials and parts aren't originating from the US hence you are paying to ship all the parts, then assemble in the US and then ship to the customer. Instead the factories in China buy in mass from local suppliers and ship the end product once. The cost structure just ends up being superior. There are a lot of scraps also. Not shipping those as a result of shipping final products is huge as well.
you should switch to "news" on the google page first and then go to wsj

or use this link : https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Hawaii+Wrestles+With+Vaga...
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http://www.kurnik.pl/ (in Polish)

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Stage: self-funded, profitable

Who: full-stack developer with strong html5/hybrid apps skills; obsessive about design, minimalism, ux

More info in Polish: http://www.kurnik.pl/misc/ninja/
tech guy with domain proximiny.com

interested in playing around with ideas involving mobile/local based on user location.

if you share the same interest, hit me up at lbs@proximiny.com and let's chat to see if there's a match

located in nyc

matt
I'm looking for a technical co-founder for a geolocation app.
The expertise and worldviews one accumulates in piling up indecent amounts of cash, doesn't always help in it's eventual efficient distribution.
He means machine learning.
We're building a 'TurboTax for personal financial plans.' Think LearnVest but automated instead of using human financial advisors. http://www.nickelhq.com

I'm a product designer and my co-founder is a certified financial planner. We're using lean startup and as of our eighth prototype I've maxed out my programming skills. We're looking for a technical co-founder to join us.

Contact me at victor (at) nickelhq.com
If I were to donate it, it would go to Khan Academy. Education is the most important thing too invest in, IMO.
Ultimately, yes, I think it's unlikely there's any real magic there. If we use "Watson" as shorthand for "supervised learning logic agent" I think it makes more sense. It just means it's not entirely tied to IBM.
No, I would see that as taking the initiative to actually understand the projects that you're funding for yourself. In doing this you become more invested in that cause and the community surrounding it.
(Apart from using Octave i am unable to currently pursue any such opportunities)

I have one question; how do you foresee the competition's reaction to any sustained success? Certainly if you are successful, they are free to subtly change how MATLAB functions in small ways to break what you do. Right? Or am I missing something?
>It also shows that Erlang is 15X faster than Java

That's nonsense. jlouis challenged us to "Take the fastest webserver written for Java and for Erlang", not the slowest ones. And that's exactly what the TechEmpower benchmarks do and they give Java a ~500% advantage.

As for codesize, if you don't like netty then the very next ranked result is servlet3-cass which delivers nearly the same performance -- again, approx 5X faster than the fastest Erlang impl -- in just a few lines of code. Surely you were aware of this when you wrote that comment.
I just needed to write a simple shell script ...

If one is using Ubuntu Linux, then it is daft to begin with System 5 rc scripts, given that one already has upstart on version 14 and has systemd on version 15. Ironically, those "basics" are the bits that one doesn't need to write at all. See http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/200281/5132 .
I think eax is the only register guaranteed to have its value preserved by the ABI. So the other registers might end up with junk loaded during the exit() syscall.

Plus IMHO, the added confusion of having extra output channels doesn't seem worth it.
Don't take this wrongly, but this suggestion seemingly has cognitive bias; you're too focused on one issue. Even if you're really concerned about this particular issue, than helping the existing production/Logistics chain of salt manufacturing to add Iodine is a better spend than shipping $20,000 worth of iodized salt.
That is the nice thing about having a ports tree. On freebsd I've got a jailed instance of poudriere that automatically builds binaries of the ports that I'm interested in with the compile flags I want. Having a local build server is pretty awesome and makes a lot of things that would otherwise be difficult - very easy. For example, samba4 needs some compile options flipped on in bind that are not on by default in the binary package (bind isn't the default dns server in samba4). Just add the needed flags to the options directory in poudriere, and now everybody who cares to grab a binary package from the build server can have it - and it is always up to date. Of course the same thing can be done from the ports tree itself, per instance, but a build server starts to make sense after about five machines.

This is actually what got me to switch from linux to freebsd (though had I been around - systemd would have caused a ragequit), after I started running into problems related to how hairy my ~/bin and ~/lib directories were getting. Hopefully there is a nice linux solution that I just overlooked at the time, but I'd be surprised if the awesomeness of /usr/ports is approached.
The market is a tool, and a very good one for solving certain problems. But it is folly to think that it carries moral weight, or that it can tell you what "the good" is.
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This is an insider trading. Whenever you purchase equity/options on your employer outside of 10b5-1 program, the prosecution will assume you had some insider info to trade on. The onus is on you to prove that you didn't.
Ask HN: My startup has failed. What comes next?
My startup of about two years has failed. We were hanging on for the last couple of months in the hopes of getting a big break. We're out of money now. My motivation levels are also pretty low after so many repeated failures.

My question is, for other people that have been in the same situation: What did you do after?

Did you start looking for a job? Did you jump straight into your next startup. I'm also considering whether it's possible to pick up small programming jobs on Elance to pay the bills.
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I would also recommend the follow-up book entitled "The Design of Design" also by Frederick Brooks
Disclaimer: I'm in the adult industry.

Not looking for a co-founder. But looking for someone who can help with a current project with ML (Machine Learning).

My company is in the ad space. I built the platform which is a mix of an ad server, tracking platform and email system with the data sharable among all pillars.

We buy traffic globally on a monthly basis and are able to generate our own banners, landing pages and email templates.

Through that inventory, we can spin any text and images for multi-variate testing. In addition, we can capture things like referrer, category, geo-location, mobile carrier/isp, device meta (30 data points), time spent on page, funnel activity and come out with many many data points for reporting to see what works and what doesn't.

I am looking for someone to help with the ML aspect. To analyse the data and optimise campaigns automatically, that is change the headline, call to action, hero image for the banner/landing page/offer page and also decide what is working and what not working across campaigns, pages, offers, images, text, etc. Potentially there is a lot of data to pour over.

In addition, I'd love to start figuring out how to analyse and catelog images in our repository. To give them scores and work out if certain images rank higher than others for certain categories.

Where I would want to get to. Is to get higher conversions for what we are selling when a user clicks a banner and lands on a specific sales page. Depending on the origin, the ML bot would test the best converting headline, copy, image for conversion and eventually have a winner.

If you want to talk more, hit me up on my username @gmail.com.

Thanks
I'm not following your logic.

You orginally said:

> If STEM talent is expensive, that means there is not enough of it and we should encourage more.

(aside: correlation != causation)

Then "greenyoda" said:

> The fact that we're creating more STEM grads each year than we have jobs for seems to suggest that we already have too many of them, not too few.

To which you replied:

> The real test is: are there people who could be doing this job, but aren't

The answer to this appears to be "yes", for the reason "greenyoda" states and the article presents:

> Teitelbaum stresses a fact of the labor market: contrary to the warnings from a variety of panels and roundtables, public and private employers who might hire STEM workers have not been creating enough positions for all the people currently being trained to fill them.

Perhaps one of the reasons STEM talent is expensive is because there are many which acquire degrees in these fields, yet few which are skilled in performing to expectations?

EDIT: clarified the origination of the last quote.
The original commenter made a suggestion to exchange money for time on the giver's end and I think that's valid suggestion. I don't remember suggesting one to throw up his hands and give out money randomly. I was only arguing against the purely utilitarian approach that some HN commenters seem to have in selecting where to spend one's money.
This just sounds like "context switching" is your problem (I have the same problem where I work), instead of the number of hours you work. That's a well know productivity killer for programmers. If your job is flexible about the hours you work I think that's a separate issue than what's discussed here. Work late and come in late the next day or come in early and leave early. Maybe there's a few core support hours in the middle of the day where you need to be reachable for meetings or something.

I'm thinking about trying to implement a "quiet time," an hour or a few hour window everyday where you can expect some radio-silence. Even if it's once or twice a week I think it'd help.
Should checkout http://scienceexchange.com/ while not the target, you can get access to super computers through the marketplace.
> You left out the biggest cost of all: technology theft.

Or plain old fashioned outright theft. I did business for a few years with a Chinese supplier, the contact was made from a (local Chinese) reliable friend of many years who did international business so had contacts. After two years of a pretty seamless business relationship, one day the supplier decided to simply disappear with the $45k deposit on an order.
Surely it's the opposite. China pollutes far less per capita than the US.
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There are trading openings and you have to file a 10b5-1 stating your intended trading strategy. Otherwise SEC will assume insider trading, and the story rarely gets better from there.
Maybe they should learn how to be good Cultural Fits.
Ask HN: Is this the correct next step in life?
I'm currently a senior biology major at a State school on the east coast. Lately I've been unsure of the next couple of moves to make, and seeing how this community is the most intelligent I know, I would like to gain some input. I get decent grades (3.2 gpa) and I like my classes however I have not found that one niche I really love. I have also began glassblowing, which is off topic but at the same time is a growing industry. Ive been considering moving to California for a few years. There, I would hone in on my glass skills (many more artists on the west coast I can learn from) and hopefully begin to pay off my student loans (over 120k in debt, and glass pieces can take 1-15 hours to make and range from $60-2000), save some money by growing my own medicine legally (I spend about 100/week at least on it), and also getting a job wherever I can in my field working a minimum of 30 hours a week. Also I would be prepared to wait tables or anything else if I needed to. I was thinking of doing this and experimenting in a few different fields of biology until I found the subject I really loved. My question is does this sound like a feasible path? Or would I be better off working 2 jobs back here on the east coast trying to pay off my loans.
Depends how you define success. Can't beat Silicon Valley for investment opportunity, but by the same token as others have said its not all about getting funded as fast and highly as possible. If you can reach your customers from where you are then you can grow from where you are. Take for eg: Aus/NZ (where I'm operating), certainly not renowned for VC activity, yet has it's share of very successful startups (Xero, Canva, Atlassian, etc.)
> Their ability to influence the company's outcomes

It's not the outcome, it's access to material information. Anyone who has access to sales or revenue information can come to reasonable conclusions in regards to underperforming/overperforming come earnings time, and trade on that information.
Really impressed with that factory! I am a part-time Horologist, and the gears in a mechanical watch always amazed me. I wondered how they were made in large quantities. I now know.

For years, I wanted to do business(small quantities at first) in China, but always chicken out when I start to think about the risk of fraud.

Do you know of any service that vets these factories, and is not subject to payoffs? I guess you need to travel there if a big order is on the table.
US can never compete with Chinese slave labor. 7 year olds work long hours...until this is fixed, the US can't compete.