skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people - probably most - don't care. My wife buys new pop fiction hardbacks and gives them away when done reading them, she doesn't want to have the burden of the book to store somewhere or lug around. She used to throw them in the trash until I yelled at her about it and we gave a bunch to the library. The goal is to read the material cheaply and conveniently, not to own a copy of the material.
Fiber is most definitely not the immediate future, I live in a semi-rural part of my state and dsl is available (though it is relatively slow and costs close to 50 dollars). I would be lucky to get 2Mbit internet in the next 10 years.

Laying fiber is expensive, fixing and branching old phone lines... not so much.
Presumably, the Washington Post has lawyers that deal with this sort of thing, and they have a newspaper that can publish all the details to a wide readership. The Post journalist presumably took some journalism courses, where they probably teach you to not talk to the police in these circumstances.

The blogger probably had none of those, and just wanted to take care of his kids that night.
Nearest neighbor and k-means will return noise unless your data only has two or "at most" three dimensions, due to the curse of dimensionality. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality) This is the #1 trap that newbies fall into, since these algorithms seem deceptively intuitive but there's this huge unintuitive pitfall.

I agree wrt points #1 and #2. Especially #1.

My favorite supervised learning algorithm is decision trees. They have built in feature selection, and they are simple to understand and express in code.

Boosted decision stumps are my second favorite.

Both are "far better than" support vector machines for the real world problems I've ran into. Except the algorithm names don't sound nearly as cool as SVM.
Historic note -- prior to System 7.1, all Mac OS versions were freely redistributed and provided for a nominal fee from Apple.

We would get our copy from the local university bookstore for the cost of the media.
...But if all you'd be keeping is the CPU, why would this be desirable? You wouldn't even be taking your work with you in your pocket any more than you are now if it's largely stored on an external drive.
I disagree with your premise that a comparison can be made between SPAM and Sending-terrorists into the American Aviation system. SPAM is cheap because it is simply software than can be used to send out billions of copies. The number of possible jihad-motivated individuals that can be sent into the American Aviation system, between the screening, visa, and no-fly/selective screen lists (that you just _know_ are about to get a lot more aggressive in the next 90-120 days) is pretty limited.

There just aren't that many jihadists that will be allowed to fly without a lot of careful screening anymore.

Particularly after international airlines now have some experience with patting down and inconveniencing _all_ of their customers as a result of missing the christmas underwear bomber - there is now a pretty good incentive for them to start being cautious about those who were in gray area previously. No more gray area - if there are doubts (I.E. you are on the TIDE list) - you get checked carefully.
The procedural aspects of this sound good - multiple rings of security, compartmentalization of risk, etc. - but I have to wonder how well systems so dependent on the intelligence and intuition of individual screeners would work in North America.
It's time for there to be a clear law protecting these journalists from malicious government agencies like the TSA. Apparently, "Congress shall make no law abridging the ... freedom of the press" is not clear enough.
I also could have held ctrl and used the wheel on my mouse to make the font bigger. That was not the point of my comment.
A table will not replace a computer that is used for a desk job like programming, I think it will be a great multi-purpose device for more casual, every-day activities. Pretty exciting to think about the possibilities. Letting my mind roam for a few seconds, here are some ideas.

- Note taking: can it be good enough to work like a pen on paper?
- Clip to a portable dock to use like a laptop/desktop
- Perfect for presentations and meetings where a laptop may be too bulky
- Hang it on the wall and show photos
- Reading recipes in the kitchen
- Maps and GPS (especially with voice input/output)
- No more printing required, the tablet works as a companion to my desktop/laptop
- Video chat
- Browsing, reading, videos
- Access to light-weight web apps, email, docs, etc

Developers got incredibly creative with iPhone apps (like the Ocarina app), I'm sure there will be a ton of simple, surprising applications coming out of the ecosystem.
The big question for the tablet is "What niche does this fill?" To be successful, it's going to have a handful of pre-packaged use cases (the iPhone/Touch had web browsing, mail, mp3 player, calling) and share the iPhone's support for apps.

The niche question gets answered by 3rd party developers who are sure to come up with more brilliant ideas for use cases than Apple's engineers will on their own. Already in the comments here people have stated the niche they'd like this to fill for them. The draw for a tablet arises from the combination of nice form factor + portability + the apps that nails my niche.

Maybe I really should pick up some Cocoa...
The cool thing about this opinion is that you don't have to care about the consequences. Chacha wouldn't exist without cheap labor; the people who work for them wouldn't have jobs without Chacha. You get to make everyone worse off, while you feel better.
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It wouldn't. How many planes is El Al actually flying? How many planes do the majors in the US fly? This idea does not scale. It puts society on the wrong end of the cost equation.
A tablet isn't more portable than a netbook. It's less functional, doesn't have any protection for the screen, no way to stand up the screen to a good viewing angle, no keyboard.

It's a dead duck. Don't know why this is news to anyone.
the SaaS model is basically DRM.

How is that DRM? With DRM, you have the machine in your hands, and yet you can't do what you want with it. If you don't have the machine, didn't pony up any money for it, then I don't see that you have a right to complain.

Bits are not hardware, and hardware is not bits.
If the Expected Value in human lives is 6 billion divided by 330,000 (18,800), it might be a worthy project.
whenever i read these thread i think about the famous cmdrtaco quote about the original ipod launch:

"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257

and that was after launch. pre-launch speculation about how it isn't worth buying because of some hypothesized reason are mostly for fun!
Your classification of what people would do if it weren't for the grace of Cha-Cha paying them is offensive -- "soap operas", "Farmville", "watch TV". It's easier for you to make your argument if you color these people as "do nothings" who are lucky to get whatever work is offered to them.

If businesses should be able to pay certain people living wages and others whatever they work for, should McD's pay high school kids $2.50 and single moms more? Also, the work I do is at my own pace, does that mean my company should pay me less since I'm not being forced to produce?

The simple fact that it's work done from home doesn't mean the rules that regular businesses must follow need not apply.

Also, $2.50/hr overseas isn't $2.50/hr, it's whatever the conversion rate is. That's why that conversation is much more complicated. And I'm not a protectionist, so I have no problem with the notion of offshoring.
You keep using this word "jihadist" as if the people on the flights have spent a year running obstacle courses and stripping down kalashnikovs in the camps in Waziristan. That's not who they'll put on the planes. For every AQ op that can shoot straight, somewhere in the world there are 100 shmucks that can put a pair of underpants on and board a plane.

All AQ has to do is get better at taking mentally unstable people from unstable parts of the world and pointing them in the right direction. 90% of them will fail. Hell, 99%. But the 1% that succeed will make us react horribly to the other 99%.
Note taking is not just for real estate agents, either. One thing I'm surprised people aren't talking about more is that a well-designed tablet could be a hit in college and even primary school lecture halls and classrooms. Considering Apple's historical prominence in the higher education market, this seems like a natural target for them.
Also note that Shin Bet security levels require El Al to spend on the order of $100million/year to secure those 37 airplanes - and, when you are subjected to "Selective Screening" - you aren't dealing with the TSA and their seeming reluctance to actually _search_ you during a pat down.

[edit: I'd love to know what percentage of Muslims are subjected to "Selective Screening" on El Al flights. The TSA/United States can't get away with the same type of behavior that Israel can get away with. We have to treat everyone the same to avoid the taint of "Profiling"]
Accurately computing running variance
100% sure, everywhere in the U.S., as of at least the early '90s. Practices vary; some places will charge you with something meaningless and drop it when they release you.

According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_suspects
you can be held without charge for 2 days. I have been told by criminal lawyers the time is 72 hours (maybe that is with charge, regardless of if its dropped or manginess).
"What if they finally cracked the problem of voice recognition or handwriting recognition by doing the hard computations in the cloud?"

I wouldn't want my tablet to require an internet connection for the UI, but in my mind an effortless handwriting interface is what a tablet computer implies. When taking notes or writing letters,drawing, or even coding is as effortless as pen on paper, with all the advantages of a digital document, that is when tablet computing will have come of age.
No one seems to see the true potential for disruptive change in a tablet -- that you can ditch the mouse and use all 10 fingers (or some subset thereof) to control the UI. This is a much more natural way to interact with things and might increase productivity by an order of magnitude for a large number of tasks.
I think you mean Visualizing Data and not Mastering Data.
There's a large gulf in battery life between phones and laptops - there are plenty of times where I'd like to browse something on my laptop, but I don't feel like getting the charger from the other room and plugging in. So a device that gets 8-12hrs battery life under use would have a different use profile.

There are also apps like instant messengers, skype, email etc. that you'd like to be always-on. The iPhone is a one-app-at-a-time, goes-to-sleep often device that's not well suited to those applications.

Slapping in a user-facing camera for video calls would also differentiate it from the iPhone.
"me and 'cscott bought him a cheap cup of coffee, led him into our cramped meeting room, shut the door, and interrogated him for three hours."

Which, apparently, is still preferable to a visit to the dentist.
The problem is that with non-random screening the terrorists can be much more efficient. They can get a pool of candidates together and send them on flights without any explosives on them. They can then find out which of the guys get screened at a rate less than chance and send those on the actual attack. That's why random screening is the best system possible because any other system would have to be perfect, otherwise any flaw can be detected on dry runs and exploited for the attack.

This was thoroughly explored last time the TSA tried to be smart about screening and implemented its Computer-Assisted Passenger Screening System. MIT article exploring it:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/student-papers...
good work, can't wait all mainstream browsers support websocket, polling sucks!
The problem with the Israelification goal is that while Israel's airport security method is second to none, it is not scalable, and therefore not applicable to the US (or many other countries), at least not without major restructuring. The problem of scale is manifested twice:

1. Manpower - Israel has a huge pool of very talented young men and women who already received very good training in the army and the security services. It also budgets paying them well. Make no mistake, airport security in Israel is no McJob, it is a prestigious, well-paid position, manned by the top classes of society. America is relying on cheap, unskilled labour for these jobs, and transitioning to an Israeli employment profile will bankrupt the system.

2. Volume - Israel has only one major international airport (and even that one is quite small). As far as airport security is concerned, it is a very local problem which can benefit from focused attention. The US has to protect hundreds of very busy airports, and they all have their unique weaknesses.
Exactly what type of application are you referring to? Most server software does a lot of work in parallel. Many computationally complex algorithms are parallelizable to one degree or another. Video games usually have a lot of parallelizable number crunching, analytics very often run quite slowly, UI code requires at least a couple threads of execution, on and on goes the list... it's time to adapt the idea of traditional to include more than sequential programs
you don't actually need all of the traffic to make meaningful conclusions. Tracking a statistically sound random sampling of user sessions provides most of the benefit for pattern analysis uses.
I don't have a spartan work area (or computer desktop) but it is minimal and logically organized. I follow one primary rule: always put away what I've been using.
I couldn't agree more, but this comment isn't relevant to this discussions at all. You should have avoided adding it.
A caller of a function in an imperative environment cannot assume anything about the scope of that function's access of mutable state within the program. My characterization of the situation might be a little spectacular w.r.t. specifics (e.g. 316 arguments, etc), but I've not seen a robust refutation of the principle.

There's no doubt that there is subjectivity w.r.t. practices and methodologies, not to mention domain-specific tendencies and requirements. But it's a little absurd to claim that, very specifically, mutable state is on par with persistent data structures (or, at the very least, immutable state constructs) on almost any axis of reliability or ability to reason about a program's operation, especially in conjunction with any degree of concurrency.

"Pain" is definitely subjective. IMO, if you're not feeling at least a little pain, you're not pushing your skills, your craft, etc. Too much pain, and it's possible you've not kept yourself limber enough to stretch for the big wins, regardless of context.
The only reason why I advocate the easier algorithms is because most people understand how to take the mean of something and can intuitively understand what kmeans or knn will do to a dataset. And I'd even argue that most people wouldn't even consider something that was more than 3 dimensions.

Contrast that with SVM where you need to understand Lagrange Multipliers and differential calculus to see how those margins are setup.

Anyways, I think the author explained it far better than I could.
Oh, jeez, personal attacks already? Now I'm, what, a left-wing do-gooder who hates business and wants a welfare state? Awesome.
The final two phrases "how to use the data to make it as useful as possible to the algorithm, and how to fine-tune the parameters that each of these algorithms take" are just as influential in the quality of any ML process as the selection of training method. The data type and quantity, overfitting, sparseness, dataset shift, etc. are all constant challenges that affect the classification and require work to deal with.

When you see the effort involved at times in data wrangling, feature selection, equation optimization or parameter experimentation to overcome deficiencies in training sets, any notion of 'black magic' fades.
hi
i think about 2000 ameriacns die every day from heart disease righ why bother with the airlines? just eat right...
and btw i'm from israel
Let me introduce myself.

I'm a touch typist, and I keep my right hand on the AOEU keys and my left on the HTNS keys.

Cheers!
Rumor has it that some iPhone app devs were asked to retool their apps to allow "full screen" use by removing any assumptions about screen size. That supports the idea that the tablet runs the iPhone OS, not OS X.
SCPD at Stanford offers a certificate program in data mining

http://scpd.stanford.edu/public/category/courseCategoryCerti...

(if the above is broken, http://tinyurl.com/stanford-graduate-certs )
Nobody cares about your stupid secret sauce.
Why keeping secrets does not really work in today's business world
USA only. AT&T primarily.
Errr, the external drive is for backup, large media, etc. Everyday files would be on the device. And, please don't say CPU unless you are actually talking about silicon - you muddle the discussion. The iPhone is a complete computer, it's just unproductive without a full size keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
Also, Machine Learning Repository: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
Ha, I think the language is pretty mediocre (making JS superficially enterprisey is not a good idea), but the VM itself is pretty decent, especially on Windows.

The real problem with the Flash implementation is in the native runtime, not the VM. It just struck me that Flash is a ripe candidate for a Smalltalk-style turtles-all-the-way-down runtime implementation!
I'd love for someone to keep track of how long founders stay at their acquirer. Anyone know if this data exists for technology acquisitions?
Oh, yes, because the Israelis totally have their shit together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihXtbB-4GWw
one way to fix 1 would be to shift us spending from israel to internal security.

2 isn't clearly an issue; you need to consider something more like the ratio of airport / population.
I think this article isn't talking about random vs. profiled (which is what the mit paper is about), but random vs. 100% (where there 100% has been analyzed carefully to be sufficient to detect large bombs, etc.).
This advice is spot on. I read a lot of books before I realized I wasn't really challenging myself.

Actually putting something into practice will require hours of frustration every day, but it will lead to actual learning.

Pick one project to work on, and no matter what: stick with it.
Isn't scalability supposed to be one of their core competencies?
I just blogged on my predictions for the hot tech for 2010: wireless, analytics, modeling, data/text mining, micro business development with small very focused charge for use web apps, Linked Data, etc.

The thing is, choose something that is fascinating for you, otherwise you probably don't have as much chance for success. I would suggest going with what most interests you.
I believe the mark of a UMPC is its ability to be carried and not its size. IMO the mark would be a notepad, being a writer I can find myself carrying them around when I'm going nomad (either by choice or by force: air travel) and find a writing folder to fit the needs of 'ultra-mobile' useage. If a UMPC can fit in the same size and weight ranges as a writing portfolio then it will be infinitely more accessible than any netbook.

I've travelled for days carrying my writing portfolio's by hand, and I've never felt the need to put them down and due to the dimensions and weight I can frequently have usage of both hands (sticking the portfolio under the armpit) or often both arms (by sticking it down the pants, not exactly classy and certainly not for use in business meetings, but it works).
But what's the use of a robust cell tower infrastructure if my cell batteries run out?

Only if I think ahead and have alternative charging methods for my cell phone (e.g., car charging, assuming my gas supply doesn't run out) does this make any sense.
It is an issue, because the marginal cost of analysing an Airport for vulnerabilities and devising ways to defend against them doesn't decrease when you cover more airports. You have to Israelificate each and every airport by developing techniques and training a workforce which is not easily transferable.
He was hand-waving at the end about the 100% but that's not a solution. They are doing it randomly because 100% is simply not possible. My point was that in a situation where 100% is not possible, as in real life, any system is potentially worse than randomness.

Maybe this just means we need to come up with screening mechanisms that can be applied to 100%, but given the current capabilities, choosing random screening is better than profiling.
The cache may be small, but unless you're talking about something different - graphics memory is fast, and GPU clock speeds are moderate, so cache isn't as critical on a GPU as on a CPU.
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Be sure that you are aware of the laws on where you travel to. In the United Kingdom, the police can seek a warrant that requires you to either decrypt a specific piece of data or to surrender any encryption private key or password under Part III of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. Refusing to do so under this act is a criminal offence with a sentence of two years in prison (longer if they allege that the encrypted data is either related to terrorist activity or child pornography).

The crazy thing about the TSA: I flew back from SFO to London last month. I had three laptops in my carry-on bag. I also had a can of Red Bull. Apparently, the can of Red Bull is highly suspicious, but the three laptops are not. I had a perfect excuse though: one was running OS X, another was running Linux and the last was running XP.
That future is a long way off. Comcast has been basically blocking this future by convincing large apartment complexes to sign exclusivity contracts for cable that prevent competition, and since FTTP is a "triple-play", they get locked out.

Fiber will be the future if we could get rid of suburban sprawl, and get rid of lobbyists.
Putting a user-facing camera in a tablet device sounds hard. It works in laptops because they're fixed in place, and it could work in a phone because they're easy to hold with one hand. A tablet would probably be too big/heavy to hand-hold. Putting it on a flat surface wouldn't work either, unless the camera could swivel somehow, and Apple isn't really big on moving parts.
It's sad that you think the two are mutually exclusive.
Let's be honest... no one really knows.

The Taiwan papers aren't known for their accuracy when it comes to parts orders for Apple. Also, who's not to say that Pixel Qi is licensing their IP to Foxconn for the actual glass production?
You've hit the nail on the head with #1. The cause of all of our problems is that we have a large population, a large amount of land, and a relatively small proportion of our people are highly skilled and trained experts. Fixing that fundamental issue will solve most of our problems.

Israel is a very small amount of land, a relatively small population compared to us, and most of the people are relatively highly trained due to mandatory conscription.
A subset of the SW, Linked Data, seems to be gathering some momentum. I still think that we are going to hit an inflection point where there is enough linked data to enable great apps, which will drive more people to publish linked data. In this case, the uptake could accelerate rapidly. OTOH, you might be right. I like RDF+RDFS but OWL, while interesting, seems very heavy weight to me.
Whaa? R&D on techinques and machinery should have economy of scale, not diseconomy of scale. And the Israelis would be happy to tell us how to do it.