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>How is the patent situation?

In the original Xconomy article[0], there's this quote:

“I could no longer wait. I’m still writing up the patents. But I am incredibly excited to strike off on this direction,” she says.

Doesn't answer your question of course, but the fact she's already writing patents is interesting.

[0] http://www.xconomy.com/san-francisco/2016/05/06/mary-lou-jep...
they are sedated. (the author say it in the wiki article)
My god, I swear they're ninja editing the thing on me! I'm really not normally someone to comment before RTFA. Thanks for patiently leading me through it. :P
> You need automata theory... Turing-completeness... PDAs and FSAs...

Why? I know that stuff inside and out, and across multiple jobs I have used none of it ever. What chance to use this favourite bit of my education did I miss? (Or rather, might I have missed, so that you might speak to the general case)

> You need to know how to compile a high-level language down to an RTL.

Why? Same comment as above.

> You need to understand what a fixed point is and why it matters.

Well, I don't, and I don't. I request a pointer to suitable study material, noting that googling this mostly points me to a mathematical definition which I suspect is related to, but distinct from, the definition you had in mind.

Otherwise... as I read down this thread I was all ready to disagree with you, but it turns out I'd jumped to a false conclusion, based on the SICP context of this thread. Literacy, what a pain in the butt.

In particular, the idea that ((the notion of an environment) is a fundamental/foundational concept) is a new idea to me, and immediately compelling. I did not learn this in my academic training, learned it since, and have found it be very fruitful. Likewise with lexical vs dynamic binding, actually.
The approach you describe is one of many. Traditional collaborative filtering using matrix factorization will "discover" the features you listed, or other non-intuitive features, from patterns in the data. They don't always need to be listed explicitly, and training individual asymmetric models (like your one NN per person) isn't always ideal. Per person models won't make a lot of sense unless each person has rated a large number of songs, which usually isn't the case.

In general, methods like this require an epic amount of data to work well for consumers. The Netflix Prize made a dataset with 110 million ratings available, and that was barely enough to make impressive predictions. The issue here isn't the statistical model being used, but the paucity of training data. If you trained this or any other model on one billion rated songs, the quality of the recommendations could blow your mind. They would however still skew toward the average musical tastes.
I'd like to dismiss this as a little bit of jealous gossip, but the more I read the more it fits. Not to say the things she's done haven't been impressive but she seems like a person better at winning awards and having fanciful features written about her than creating really wide reaching impact. Many of these projects really strike me as a feel-good ideas that are much more beautiful to the wide-eyed technologist futurist types, than to the intended markets / consumers / world at large.

But yeah, I'd like nothing more than to be wrong on this. All of these ideas, if true to their promises would indeed be worth the "visionary" labels.
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One of the weirdest is that there is no bug tracker. When things are found to be broken, they tend to get fixed immediately and there is nothing to track. Feature and incremental improvement work seems an arduous process, where you need to own your work and deal with extensive reviewing (no tossing it over the wall for others to maintain).
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That comparison is not valid. God is supposedly omnipresent, so when a baby is being killed somewhere he sees it and is able to stop it with no effort yet he lets it happen. Just imagine being in a situation where you see a baby being killed and you could save it at less effort than snapping your fingers. The mother is begging you (i.e. praying) that you save the baby. When a person doesn't save the baby in that situation we call them evil. You haven't said anything about natural disasters either. Most of the time this "benevolent" Lord also threatens you with eternal torture if you don't worship the Great Leader. It's a Soviet style dictatorship with a 24/7 spy line directly into your thoughts.

Religions are ancient cults that were successful in capturing a significant portion of the world's population in a time of scientific ignorance. It's as silly as believing in Zeus. Actually the Greeks knew that Zeus isn't benevolent, so that's less silly.
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I've seen this type of comments many times, in many different context, about many different open source software projects, and I never understood them.

> all (OpenBSD) development is decided solely by the developers and there doesn't seem to be much care for what others want

This implies this is not the case for every other project.

To pick on your SMP performance example, Linux doesn't have better SMP because "developer saw that people want SMP, and decided to implement it". Linux has better SMP because some people came and implemented it. Not at other's people request, that is never relevant.

Different open source projects attract different (developer) audiences, and different project have different audience sizes, but don't make the fallacy that some projects chose what to work on (architecturally speaking) because user demanded it. That is never the case. Everything big happens because developers want it.
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If a developer leaves they'll still have the plaintext of the keys from when they were working for you. You have to change your secrets at that point.
I've read parse.ly tech blog a few times, it was a great so I immediately recognized your company. As someone who's working in the publishing as well and gradually moving to a more data driven approach - thanks! :)
The visual studio one seems to cover just about every way you could use VS, and every plugin made for it. This measurement comments more on the neatness of the IDE(s) than any kind of language complexity.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11661138
Postgres is still going through the motions of a transaction for every query you issue it even if nothing else but that transaction is happening on the server. So obviously if you add extra load in the form of writes, you may slow your reads down, but this was not a full benchmark, but instead a comparison of the same workload running against multiple versions of Postgres.
Well, speaking of Italians, Dante is another great example. Reading a translation of the comedy that attempts to preserve the meter and/or rhyme is completely different from reading a prose translation.
P.S. Machine translation is often considered as one of the most typical examples of NLP problems, but it would be also interesting to see "machine simplification" to get more attention. Can we automate the translation from English to Simple English? Currently not very well.
Thing explainer is fun -- but I don't think the descriptions in it are particularly clear. It's just fun to see how he solves the problem of describing them given his self-imposed limitation.

Even more fun is Poul Andersons "uncleftish beholding": http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/complexity/people/st...
At Zemanta, we developed py-secretcrypt[0] and go-secretcrypt[1] for keeping secrets encrypted with Amazon KMS (Key Management Service) in our repos. They are then decrypted on the fly by the application.

Access control is managed through AWS KMS key policies, with EC2 instances running the applications having permissions to decrypt the secrets.

Blog post about this will follow soon.

[0] https://github.com/Zemanta/py-secretcrypt

[1] https://github.com/Zemanta/go-secretcrypt
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It seems like using a model that can estimate its certainty about the meaning of a sentence might be a good way of going about this. If the model is uncertain then it could recommend re-writing the sentence.
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Reminded me of a couple of quotes from the book "Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat":

The maximum rate of promotion is achieved at a level of crisis only slightly less than that which results in dismissal

and

Innovative organizations abhor little failures but reward big ones

That's satire, of course, but makes sense. After some basic competence requirements are met, there is no way to figure out whether a moonshot project failed because it is inherently hard or as a consequence of the manager's incompetence. Manager of the failed moonshot thus becomes a very desirable hire - at least he or she has valuable experience in tackling hard projects!
Not the best video, but here's Andy (the CEO of Tigera) talking about Canal. http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/datacenter/coreos-...
A self-learning, genre agnostic music recommender with a nice interface is http://www.gnoosic.com

It has been learning on it's own for years now and works pretty well for me.
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Ow the NN would be rather small though: like 1 or 3 layer kind. The bulk of the identification has to be done before. Although music patterns could be a problem.

And the skew toward the average musical taste is exactly my issue. Finding music is more like playing bingo to me.

Disclaimer:
I haven't used any note-wordy NN yet, so this might still required a ton of input. But if the NN could start recognizing thinks like for example: likes piano with male singer, but a penalty when it includes a violin in these genres (stupid example) it would IMO be an improvement.
That seems to have always been the case, all the way back to the Torvalds vs Tannenbaum debates.
The term inside-out tracking does not make any assertions about requiring fixed external reference points. The Vive is using inside-out tracking as well, since it utilizes photo diodes on the headset that interpret the external IR laser sweeps.
You wouldn't? That would be a waste of your time. Angular 1 isn't going to suddenly stop existing.
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Yes, I've read the parent closely. The downsides are still wrong, because they assume that Xamarin is a cross-platform UI toolkit, which is not true. The performance downside is wrong, the newer features downsides is wrong, the front-end code sharing is wrong, the third party libraries is wrong (Xamarin can generate bindings for other frameworks automatically), and the only debatable one is getting locked in a framework.
Not just sysadmin folk. I'm a long time Linux user (since 1993) who has just switched his main machine to Gentoo in order to avoid systemd and has just installed OpenBSD on an old laptop to try it out.
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"When you log in to Facebook, we use the power of machine learning to provide you with unique, personalized experiences. Machine learning models are part of ranking and personalizing News Feed stories, filtering out offensive content, highlighting trending topics, ranking search results, and much more."

So, everything that i hate about FB is related to the AI.

Ranking and Personalizing: Horrible ranking results and the "personalized" results that they push into my feed have nothing to do with me, my interests and is not something i would ever want in my social feed. Its almost as bad as their advertising results (which im guessing is based on the same AI).

Offensive Content: I could not give 2 f@@@@ about this, but i guess some people don't like strong language or pictures (only point that i see as acceptable use of the AI for now).

Trending Topics: FB, you are not Twitter, please stop trying to copy them. If i want trending topics I'll go to Twitter. My Facebook is a way to contact people i have not talked to in months.

Search results etc: What search??? Facebook as a search engine now? Or are you talking about the BS do you know John? You should know john! - FB: If I have not added John, it might mean i dont want to talk to John cause he is an a@@. Until your AI learns to detect aholes then please switch off this crap.

I know its a rant, but Im so tired of services trying to fill my feeds with crap, and also the crap BS about AI saving / ending the world. It might create nice cool articles for the news, and buzzwords in the bubble out west. We can only hope that Winter will not come this time, and we can advance far enough that AI becomes an actual useful product for more then spam filters, and detecting if John went to the same school as me.

* John is an invented person based on people i know.
* Swearing is blocked as I'm not sure what people prefer on here.
* Yes, I know AI is advancing a lot, and I'm a big supporter. I just don't like how its used, and how the PR makes it look like its the 7th wonder of the world.
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A lot of talk about Eco, not much on the article!
For my money, it's off the mark. The 'freedom' in open world games is mostly an illusion, and we seem to be getting away from it, as the technological demands increase. Generally the only freedom is the order in which you undertake the pre-scripted missions. Years ago in Morrowind, you could kill quest giving NPCs and wreck the story, but in Fallout 4 all essential characters are weirdly immortal.

Your 'choices' are overblown. For example, in Far Cry 4 you have the option to kill a character or not (on the orders of another). In your report, you refer to them as having been "taken care of". You can't even change the dialogue. Your reward is a different epilogue movie. It's all more choose your own adventure than choose your own War and Peace. You can see the game designers dilemma - why expend massive effort on branching paths when any given player will only choose one? Far Cry 4 also had an amusing bug - you could also choose to destroy a temple or not. However the bug meant the game would show you the non-destroyed model when past a certain range, suddenly popping to the correct model as you approached. The mask literally slipping!

Even non-open world games stuggle to provide meaningful agency. The much acclaimed Walking Dead allowed many choices, from which all resulting divergences were soon neatly resolved funneling the player to exactly one ending.

Honorable mentions : Fallout New Vegas, which offered so many options it almost collapsed under its own weight, and until Until Dawn, an interactive horror movie in which every single character can live or die.
There have been several different translators for Lem. Michael Kandel, Louis Iribarne, Jean-Michel Jasiensko + Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox, Marc E. Heine, Barbara Marszal and Frank Simpson, and probably others.

Of these, Michael Kandel seems by far the best.
> WordPress would not be any better or easier to use unless you already had PostgreSQL installed.

Sounds like a situation I'm facing: assisting a non-profit org that wants a new website. Some members push for using Wordpress as the CMS. However the org has an established pgsql db containing lots of data that optimally could be employed on the site, e.g., lists of members/events, searchable documents, etc.

Also, there's a separate web app for accessing the database using SQL features mysql doesn't support. Lack of Wordpress/pgsql compatibility makes integrating the existing db and folding in the webapp functionality just about impossible, at least I'm not seeing how that could be done.

Since Wordpress isn't going to embrace pgsql, I've recommended considering alternative CMSs. Decisions are still pending.
I think there's something in this. Constant complaint discussions are a way of applying social pressure.

If every discussion on an article with an egregious anti-pattern gets hijacked, people might tend to submit such articles less, or find alternate sources that don't have those anti-patterns. This costs page views for the sites that do them, and rewards the sites that don't.
Poses the question

So what’s the big deal? People have been recording
temporally oriented data since we could chisel on tablets.

Never answers it, but instead explains how Riak handles large time series. Certainly interesting, but I would like an answer to this question, as I don't understand the big deal.
VR is not inherently anti-social. Applications like AltspaceVR are very social. Also, I've had groups of people at my home to try out the Vive while projecting the headset content to a wall, and it's always a very inclusive and social experience where HMD wearer and audience participate alike.

In terms of eyestrain, I think you may want to check the IPD setting on your headset (if you own one that supports it), since due to being focused at a farther distance than regular monitors, it should be (and is for me) quite a bit less straining on the eyes.

Resolution is still sub-par for screen replacement though.
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PHP: a fractal of bad design (2012)
It's a pain to do, not always available, and doesn't always work properly when it is available (it's all heuristic based).

Far better if sites were readable to begin with.
"cal" is the only calendar on my OS, who needs that other bloat.

Try:

cal -m

I even have it aliased to "calm" :-)
Supporting and extending other peoples code, however old the code is. Greenfield projects with new libraries and frameworks get all the limelight, yet you will learn a lot more by developing and supporting existing software in an organisation.
> If I murder someone during an armed robbery, is it a reasonable justification to say "things happen in fights"?

No, but but it's hard to be sure of the details if the events in question are many years before.

> should my children feel guilty?

It depends, 'guilt' is too vague. But if you mean guilty for committing the crime, then no.

There's usually a complicated relationship between crimes of the past, and future wealth. Simplistic arguments don't capture many relevant details, but here's one: If I inherit a dollar, but a lottery ticket, win a million dollars then later find out the money was blood money - do I owe someone money? If so, do I owe $1 or $1M? What if I hadn't won anything on the ticket?

I also thing the magnitude and type of resource matters. For example, a stolen $1 is unlikely relevant to future descendants, while millions might make a big difference.

> If they do feel guilty, are they feeling guilty for my sin, or for their own?

If a tree falls in the woods...

>> the blood isn't washed off when the kids get it
> I wasn't using a metaphor

If you are talking about land/resources, you are saying they are literally stained with blood?
For me, Thing Explainer was like a funny joke at first which got old VERY fast.

To paraphrase an old Andrew Dice Clay quote : "It was like masturbating with a cheese grater. Slightly amusing, but mostly painful."

I lost all interest in the book within five minutes of browsing it.
As someone mentioned below, C can almost be seen as a portable assembly. Given enough time and optimization it will always be as fast as the hardware allows. I guess my point was it is meaningless to say "faster than C" because it always depends on too many factors.
People will be able to use contactless and oyster once the Reading side of the system is taken over by TfL in a year or so.

If I recall correctly, this is already the case on the other side of Crossrail (Shenfield/Brentford). It's also been introduced at Gatwick Airport recently.
The ability to sow the perfect amount of strife to create real change is a thing of beauty

But if the goal is to effect change, then it is (arguably) not a troll:

And the community has some good in common, and this the troll must know, and what things promote and destroy it: for he seeks to destroy
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I'm a fan of Guy Steele's Growing a Language, a talk about programming language design where he limited himself to using mostly only single-syllable words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
I'm sorry, I am not a native speaker and it was already late.
That price really doesn't make a lot of sense. I find it hard to believe that it bears any meaningful relationship to the cost of the MRI machine or the cost of running it or analysing the results.

After all such an MRI takes only a few minutes of machine time. Let's be generous and say it takes an hour and that it is in use for only 10 hours a day 20 days a month. That means it turns over 300kUSD per month, 3.6MUSD per year.

You can probably buy one that would do the job for less than 500kUSD; see http://info.blockimaging.com/bid/92623/MRI-Machine-Cost-and-....
A very good article every PHP programmer should read, regardless if you like PHP or not. It's good to understand why things are they way the are in relation to more (historically) thoughtful languages.
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If you are into novelty metrics, you might find the following interesting:

http://imgur.com/a/xhxtm

It shows how actively the gitignore files are modified.
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Agreed. Often you have to already know what he's talking about to get meaning from his words.

For example, his description of the Saturn V Rocket (he replaced rocket with 'up goer') has this description of hydrogen: "The kind of air that once burned a big sky bag and people died (And someone said "Oh the [humans]!")

I guess that's amusing if you already know about the Hindenburg, or something.

Also, speaking of the propellant used for the Saturn V's F-1 engine he states: "This is full of that stuff they burned in lights before houses had power". The propellant in the F-1 engine was RP-1 (kerosene). I assume he was talking about 'town gas' for lighting.
Can you ask your friend about the exact details? From what I've seen it seemed OK.
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I save 2 billion rows of timeseries data every year. I use a regular btree index for "hot data" that is less than 6 months old and BRIN index for older data. You can do this by writing a functional index.

You also have to spend some time to tune the query cost settings to avoid sequential scans if you're only gonna work with a subset of the data. Another optimization could be implementing table inheritance so you have a table for every year. If you work with data sets for a specific year you would get a big performance boost with sequential scans.

PostgreSQL's biggest weakness at the moment is aggregating data by using several cpu workers/cores. This is coming in PostgreSQL 9.6

Oh and I run PostgreSQL on ZFS with LZ4 compression,
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> If you actually care about living things, do something about the slave labor

The above would contradict that maxim. A better fit would be "don't waste resources on less important things, over more important things".
But note some people are allergic to [black|] henna and some people get left with permanent markings/scarring.
Socrates is mentioned in the article, as an example of not-a-troll.
It's only specious if your interpretation is correct.

> Getting a tattoo isn't even close to the worst thing that can happen

Isn't the same as "it's ok"; or "anything up to" (the distance is mentioned, implying it might be relevant to context).