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I stopped here: The residency program is similar to a top Master’s or PhD program in deep learning.

If you accept that a Master's program is contained within a PhD program, and this residency is similar to a PhD program in deep learning from a top school, then this would be the fastest PhD-like (revised from equivalent which is too strong of a claim) program ever. Only 12 months and a google badge!
If you want to play around with some of these concepts I've built a synthesizer with the web audio api here http://robotaudio.com. I once had ambitions to make a full featured DAW out of it but I've gotten sidetracked. Still fun to play with though.
One day... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjuQRCG_sUw
I've arrived at the opinion that users simply cannot be trusted to keep their own credentials safe. It's literally impossible to secure a system based on trusting the user.

There are very successful businesses (mint.com) built around the concept of sharing extremely sensitive credentials for some reward.

In the tutum intro video I watched yesterday, the pitchman is asking developers within the first minute of video to enter AWS credentials into his website I've never heard of.

If anyone would balk at that suggestion, I would expect it to be developers, yet they are so successful, Docker is buying them for meeellions of dollars.

I'm really surprised no one in the thread has yet mentioned yubico as a solution. I like yubikeys because they are something users can't upload. Keys are a concept everyone understands, and despite what I'm told by friends, I've yet to lose mine. I've never lost my car/house/mailbox keys either though.

Maybe I'm odd in both respects. I keep my credentials and keys close to me.
That looks interesting. I would really like to learn how to do a Caffe-based CNN though.
CISA advances in Senate
In these cases it's really helpful to recognize the distinction between the Mozilla Foundation (MoFo), the Mozilla Corporation (MoCo), and the broader, open source Mozilla project that binds everyone together.

The non-profit Mozilla Foundation exists to support the project, and does truly wonderful, pure work on keeping the Web open. Advocacy, education, grants, etc. They also own the for-profit Mozilla Corporation, which is in trenches directly competing with other browser vendors to ensure that the project has sufficient influence to fulfill its mission.

Persona was housed in MoCo, which afforded it greater resources at the cost of greater organizational risk.

> Either Mozilla is full of it when they say they fight for the free web, or they massively misunderstand how important it is to get rid of proprietary authentication.

The Mozilla project is too small to fight effectively on every front; we have to focus on areas of greatest urgency and where we have the greatest leverage. In the instance of Persona, two major things changed: (1) Persona became less urgent, and (2) we discovered that we couldn't credibly leverage Firefox to boost Persona adoption.

To the first point, back in 2012 we were seeing huge startups, including Spotify and Pinterest, run without offering any means of authentication besides Facebook Connect. The lack of traditional authentication on these sites looked like an ill omen for the freedom of the future Web, but that didn't come to pass. Both sites now offer email-based authentication in addition to Facebook Connect. It's not as slick as it would have been with Persona, but the immediate threat to user autonomy isn't there anymore. If I had to guess, it seems like the tide started turning in late 2012 / early 2013, around the time of Mailchimp's "Social Login Buttons Aren't Worth It" blog post at http://blog.mailchimp.com/social-login-buttons-arent-worth-i....

Secondly, Persona's passwordless design wasn't suitable for use in Firefox Accounts, the development of which had become quite urgent. So not only could we not use Firefox Sync / Accounts to boost Persona's active userbase, the Persona team suddenly found itself with domain knowledge that was quite valuable to the Accounts and Sync efforts. Oops. :)

That said, just because we're not fighting as visibly on this front doesn't mean we're out of the fight altogether. Firefox Accounts has an active userbase orders of magnitude larger than Persona's. We may be able to reintroduce a notion of federated identity into FxA at some point in the future, which would help us break out of the "three-way cold start" that Persona faced.

But that's all hypothetical. If anyone wants to run with these ideas, do it! For the sake of longevity, I'd recommend any spiritual successors to either establish themselves within independent foundations, or design the protocol without the sort of centralized bootstrapping that Persona had.
Would there be a suspicion that this was because of sexism, if the genders were reversed?
Why are you making rate directly dependent on having a degree?
Funny, every GA grad says this on Reddit/HN, yet the ones I've talked to claim otherwise, and GA still has yet to release any sort of Employment Statistics. You'd think they'd use some of that 70 million to publish some official stats before starting up all these new expensive courses...
"... the labour of academics, freely give, paid for by the government and student tuition."

Even more, it is student tuition that underwrites for the exorbitant annual license fees the university libraries are forced to pay.

I always pondered how much of my tuition was going toward these subscriptions.

I was probably one of the library's top users of expensive journals by volume; I knew how much it cost the library to provide access and I knew I was paying for it. At one point one of the scientific journal search engines gave me a prize.
Students: use the library's journal subscriptions. You are paying for it. Download PDF's like there is no tomorrow.

There are exceptions, but for most students, after you graduate, you will never again have such access to so much peer-reviewed research.
Google Dataflow: A Unified Model for Batch and Streaming Data Processing [video]
I've had versions of this thought. A less punishy way of doing this is fill up the references with a few extra references to the journals you prefer. Over time, the metrics and citations will drift upwards, and this could lead these journals achieving some critical mass.
Which makes it a great deal!
I do that too, but I also check and if they don't leave a message I block them immediately[1]. It seems harsh at first, but I've cut down the number of telemarketer calls dramatically since I started doing it.

[1] If I'm (for some reason) expecting a cold call from someone I don't know yet, I'll tend to answer them. But that's not my norm.
Anyone know if this will this be a recurring program? As in beyond 2016?
I'm not casting any personal aspersions on the minivan. I actually respect the minivan. I'm just saying that the term/class "minivan" no longer seems cool, and car makers seem to be distancing themselves from it to varying degrees, replacing it with terms/classes like "crossover."
I'm curious, how is this different from Path's original concept, or Life360, or eFamily, or Close etc? What's different about Ourglass?
> The fact that the lower layers of the internet don't care about names is not a feature, it's a bug. The internet runs on 32-bit IPV4 addresses because in the 1970s when the ARPAnet was invented that's all we could afford.

We had the chance to "fix" this with IPv6... but we decided to give IPv6 addresses as well. I'm pretty sure having addresses that can be broken into prefixes to assign to different ASes and refer to in BGP routing tables is a feature.

(In IPv6, there are such things as Cryptographically Generated Addresses that are "identity-like"—but these still only exist within the last 64 bits of the IPv6 address, leaving the first 64 bits to function as a hierarchically-assigned routing prefix.)
Rant - speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way.

The article didnt seem like a rant to me. These are all valid criticisms of the built-in form elements.
I don't know who that is. As far as I know the first journal was the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, but certainly that was the model that dominated for centuries. Makes perfect sense, in an 18th century context.
Multi-channel network. It's a term YouTube originally coined. Basically, a content publisher on someone else's platform who operates multiple channels within that platform. In the YouTube world, this is someone bigger than a one-channel YouTube star and perhaps smaller than, say, a premium content provider like NBC or CBS.
Maybe "bank-issued" currency is more accurate for the more traditional kind?
I know right.

Google: Now offering PhD-like programs in only 12 short months!
You can spoof any phone number, it has nothing to do with verizon.
OAuth is broken by design. Among many other serious issues, it's ridiculous that Twitter and other major OAuth adopters still implement it in a manner that relies on native/mobile client applications uniquely identifying themselves with "secret" keys that are trivially easy to extract.

It's deeply unfortunate that so many of the people involved with the spec chose to shout down critics and hand-wave away serious concerns until it was too late to fix the problems. OAuth 2 should have provided an opportunity to address the issues, and instead it just rubber-stamped many of the worst practices used by implementors.
It's no match for my 12 week PhD bootcamp.
Just to clarify: you can substitute 'planet' for 'ship' in the above. We changed the naming scheme.
They're allowed phone calls, but not unmonitored ones. As in, there is someone listening to what they say on the phone.

That's part of the argument for why those phone calls are so expensive...

Monitoring what someone does on the web would be possible too, of course. At least if you only let them do it for a few minutes at a time like a phone call. Monitoring someone for an hour or more of web browsing is likely to be deathly boring for the one doing the monitoring.
The Real Reason Germs Spread in the Winter
I don't think he dislikes them - he's saying they are bland and a "one size fits all" shape. I read it more as a statement about convergence to a .... bourgeois middle. Or muddle.
GraphQL is still very undefined I've found. It can do basic queries and very limited traversals. The biggest problem is that there isn't really any real implementations for it, the spec is still a working draft, and it hasn't evolved much past defining schemas and doing basic queries.

I find what they have defined so far far more approachable than Cypher or Gremlin. As they have been adding features it is starting to sprawl and look just as nutty as the others. But I do like how it is defining the whole ecosystem around how graphs can be defined and interacted with, much like Gremlin has, but with a much more focused and disciplined approach.
> Passwordless works for users whose email providers are not also major OAuth providers, which is nice, but also pretty niche.

You're making a flawed assumption that just because a major email provider offers OAuth, that websites themselves will also integrate with that OAuth provider. Yahoo Mail supports OAuth, but that's not worth a damn if sites don't explicitly integrate with Yahoo and provide a "Sign in with Yahoo" button.

That's why we need email-based authentication. Because, in practice, sites are going to integrate with Gmail and Facebook and call it a day.

(On the flipside, there's a great opportunity for Passwordless to offer optional, transparent integration with major OAuth providers, while falling back to an email loop for everyone else so people don't get locked out. That's what we did for Persona, and it mostly worked wonderfully.)
Regression to the mean.
Boys have trouble being ready for kindergarten and having self discipline. But those that do make it, even though they are fewer, tend to do better than their female counterparts in later life.

Kindergarten activities and society's ideas of self discipline aren't really the conditions human life evolved under. Maybe fighting and looking for action/excitement are the same qualities that make boys successful later (if it doesn't kill or otherwise ruin them first).

Here is my theory (after hours of watching the discovery channel). You don't need many males biologically speaking. So for males, it's do or die from day one. Mostly it's die, but there are a few winners that pass their genes on. Women, as long as they are fertile, don't necessarily enter the same competition... they are the prizes.

Of course civilization doesn't work very well with all the males running around trying to kill each other and breed all the women, so we have laws and religions and kindergartens and diversity training classes. Which kind of puts males (and females maybe to an extent) in a biologically uncomfortable position. Those that succeed in this unnatural environment are those that channel their natural impulses into the pathways society has set up. The poor disadvantaged souls that aren't ready for kindergarten and wind up in prison for violent crimes? Well... they might have been leading the pack 20,000 years ago.
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The very next sentence is:

> The residents are expected to read papers, work on research projects, and publish their work in top-tier venues.

My reading of that they're saying that the program has similar activities not that it provides a comparable outcome.
Yes I absolutely believe that there are diminishing returns associated with arbitrage. I would personally think that exchanges should put some lower limit on the 'time resolution' of their markets to prevent HFT investment beyond a certain point.
" A white person's sweat smells like a distinct type of onion to me..."
I can relate. I'm black and african and its a common thing here to describe caucasians as smelling of onions.
I believe that is coming. The latest spec has variables for some use cases.
From the title, I thought the Google Brain Residency Program was the wetware version of Google Glass. Disappointing to find it's only a 12-month software development job.
Why the “Tone Deaf” Airbnb Ads Might Be a Work of Marketing Genius
It still could be sexism, it's a gender neutral term even though it is mostly applicable to women.
I submit the connections at Google are unbelievable. It seems reasonable that you could in fact learn substantially faster in that environment. I don't know if you can cram 6-7 years into one, but maybe in 2-3.
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> I can tell you that for them, it comes down to how big the system is and what benefits should be provided by the government or not.

While that's certainly not a bad thought, we have all benefited from larger government. History shows out that the more government spending and distribution of goods and services there is, the better the economic outlook. Even amongst most developed countries today, the government accounts for around half of GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending#As_a_perce....

'Small government' is nice as a political philosophy, however it hasn't been shown historically to be a great economic policy.

Not to mention, while right-wing politicians and economists argue for private enterprise, lower taxes, smaller government, less spending, etc..., they simultaneously use state institutions to their advantage. In most economies governments fund research, education, they are responsible for building most infrastructure, funding transit, etc... These things benefit us as a society, yet the same people who reap these benefits every single day argue against paying for them (ie. paying taxes).

The problem with left-wing economics is that they aren't intuitive. Right-wing economics is - it's simple, and reminds people of budgeting at home. The only problem is that when you study macroeconomics, you realize that it's more about behaviour than about finance. Government spending increases GDP, in most cases by more than the dollar amount spent. Social nets increase entrepreneurial behaviour, and reducing poverty always yields social benefits.

> So yes, that does mean that it shouldn't redistribute wealth, at least on the federal level.

No one would argue that the government should only build roads in rich cities. Or only build hospitals in rich cities. Yet creating infrastructure is a redistribution of wealth. When the US government creates a new military base, they're redistributing wealth. When they give money to schools, they're distributing wealth.

Yet for some reason we have it in our heads that 'taking' taxes and then giving 'cash' to others is wrong, but it's OK when the government uses other means to redistribute wealth.

Anyhow, the point is, we see it as 'fair' that we work hard and get paid. That we 'deserve' what we make. That we did it 'alone'. The fact is, wealth cannot be created in a vacuum. Whatever we do, we do because others helped us. We're more than happy to use the institutions created for us, but don't want to share the rewards. We see 'fairness' as more important than prosperity.
I was wondering the same thing. It might be gender, but it could also be a strongly gender-focused society.
Yep. REST for the most part is CRUD without the HTML.
Tutorial on Support Vector Machines for Classification
Persona didn't have the notion of a global password -- the ideal flow had you authenticating with your email provider, on their domain, which was often completely transparent in cases where you were already signed in to that provider.

Try logging into 123done.org with whatever you want @mockmyid.com to get a sense of what that would ideally look like. My talk from PyCon 2013 goes into a little detail about how the protocol works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJff23UdNAI
This earned a hearty chuckle. +1 Insightful to boot.
They are color palettes based on Swiss design that originated in the 1950s, and a big influence on the look of flat design now. Not so much the function; Swiss design (international typographic style) placed an emphasis on removing visual embellishments to make design an effective tool of communication. The minimalism and simplicity were a means to an end, not an end in itself.

Here is a fun example of the bright colors preferred by these designers:

http://fontsinuse.com/uses/3254/principles-of-wanner-gruppe

Traffic safety posters (!):

http://fontsinuse.com/uses/4263/campaign-posters-for-the-swi...
> Everyone ignores it and tries to reinvent their own idea of what the standard could be.

Sure, but that's not a failing of developers, the standard just happens to be too complex to validate without language or module support. If JS had an isValidEmail() function everyone would use it and be consistent, but without one the options are to google up some massive (but still imperfect) regex, or accept any string with an @ sign in it somewhere, or choose some random point in between.
Starting over is fine, but if you make choices that are deliberately awkward because the only reasonable ideas you have were done before, that's not a clean slate. That's a twisted mirror of existing designs.
The real obstacles to the path to AI is that we don't even have the right questions to ask and people are looking for answers to the wrong questions and announcing the next big thing in AI.
Meditations
Are Placebos Getting Stronger?
Ask HN: What are the best remote-friendly job sites for engineers?
Given questionable academia politics, low to non-existent pay for PhD candidates as TAs, grants being mostly consumed by the school, profs acting as middle managers rather than true mentors, race to the bottom for quantity over quality of papers because of desperate PhD qualifications in order to then jump start careers (not to mention wasteful research for the sake of a PhD badge)...I think this is a great initiative.
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My hate for Kendo is very biased, due to the fact that my use of Kendo was not by my choice, and I quickly left the company for many reasons - one of them being that the overall technical prowess was very low (programming was seen as a cost center there so this is no surprise).

...

I view Kendo as an attempt to create an all in one solution to UI, primarily used by 'enterprise' type companies (i.e. not very tech savvy). This is a fine goal but...

I hate the imperative syntax. The Razor based Imperative syntax for creating Kendo components is god awful. Simply look at what configuring one of those ridiculous grids imperatively looks like.

But you say, there is declarative syntax! Until you start needing some of the edge cases and you will start to find missing documentation that exists in the imperative syntax documentation but not declarative. There are countless subtle differences just enough so that you may spend hours trying to fix a damn kendo grid.

MVVM Kendo: Kendo has a half baked solution for MVVM which does not compare to other open source solutions. You are better off with using a more standard open source solution where there is an actual community surrounding the development.

I used to keep a list of all of the bugs I had found upon using declarative MVVM kendo, but it's been a long time and I will absolutely never work anywhere that uses Kendo again so I brain dumped all of my specific kendo knowledge.

When all things are considered, KendoUI trys to hold your hand very tightly, and it does a great job and spinning up complicated grids. When you want something that isn't explicitly accounted for, or combine things in novel ways - you are going to be in a world of hurt.

UI Kits I like better:

I think you will be better off with any widely used UI kit. I've played around with Material Design and Twitter Bootstrap. These are both significantly lighter weight than Kendo.

Over All Frameworks/Libraries to replace the MVVM portion:

I've fallen favor of React as opposed to Kendos attempt at databinding. There's tons of great resources out there for React so I won't even try to go into it but it's been a pleasure.
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That can't be right. There are so many spurious correlations that obviously imply nothing.

There's got to be some other required factor before correlation can imply causation. Like "if there's reason to believe something is relevant, and there is correlation, then that implies causation. "
Most of the wealth "created" in totalitarian states is in fact extracted by kleptocratic rulers. Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, numerous African dictators, Vladimir Putin, current the 3rd richest person in the world.

If you want to create exceptions for financial refugees, that's well and good. But global protection for every drug lord, terrorist, and petty dictator ain't the right way to do it.
I would put your phone in low power mode. It seems to have all the benefits of straight up killing apps without having to bootstrap them each time you want to use them.

Downside of course is lack of push notifications and the like.
Is it an investment? Or more like a gamble, bet, or speculative movement?
The Hivemind tells me there is no Hivemind.
Yes of course you should. This is no different than a lawyer taking a case on contingency. It provides people without the means to hire a legal team a way to take on more well-financed opponents.

While abuse of the legal system is certainly a problem, the way to solve it is not limit financing. That only increases economic inequality. It's like saying we can solve the SF housing crisis by banning mortgages.
Locating Social Entrepreneurship in the Global South: Development Aid (2013)
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Not evil but I have had a number of adjectives assigned to me. Many that are not great, but many that are totally awesome. The best is hearing people tell me they would follow me through anything.

But to hear that I am an asshole or other like term is just a note anymore. Generally I work really hard to prevent those terms, so when they are given to me, I wear them as a sign I did the right thing.
Last I saw (a long time ago, stock was <$100/share), the grants were $50K/4years ($2.5k/$7.5k/$20k/$20k)