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Author here!

I am the founder of https://snips.ai. At Snips, we are building an assistant that is private by design: what I describe in the article are things we actually work on today :-)

Happy to share my thoughts on it and contribute to the debate!

More details about what we do:

Like the big software companies (the G, the A, the F, the M), we want to build an AI to help you get what you want more effectively.

But we believe this can only be done if we take care of people privacy: your AI should ultimately know your favorite restaurant, your girlfriend’s name, but also your health record and everything else you might not always feel comfortable sharing with the world at large.

This is why an AI alter-ego will have to work with privacy-by-design. You should not have to trust any company whose CEO might soon be replaced by another not as trustful one.

We think about your data as your most intimate and valuable property, and we want to use it without compromising its safety!
I own a Motion Computing R12 windows 7 pro tablet. It comes with WinMagic's SecureDoc Disk Encryption. I have not needed it simply because it is not used in a corp. work environment nor do I travel a lot. I login with my fingerprint for simplicities sake. My desktop is also windows 7 pro and both it and my tablet have just login passswords. I did buy a yubikey nano for my desktop which I use with password safe for all my logins. For my desktop I would probably use DiskCryptor. My android phone is encrypted however.

If you do not have tons of sensitive data to hide I see no reason to encrypt at present.
Scaling Python to 1000's of cores with braxtonmckee from Ufora [audio]
How a colleague of mine managed to get internet access in rural Uruguay https://blog.scrapinghub.com/2016/04/27/a-not-so-short-story...
Only if the loss function is C^2 (continuous Hessian), otherwise a critical point could be neither an extremal point or a saddle.
As long as you're not on Windows, they have binaries available to try it out now-- I just went through their Getting Started guide (http://infinit.sh/get-started) on my Mac.
I read the book. But it was after that that Mr. Catmull got caught apparently keeping is employee's salaries lower than market rates by making illegal non-poaching agreements.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/pixars-ed-catmull-emerge...

Also, he never covered why Cars was so awful. (or Cars 2) which I believe both came out before the book? Maybe you disagree they were bad but rottentomatoes and metacritic has them near the bottom of the list along with The Good Dinosaur, Brave, and Monsters University.

I'd love to know what he thinks changed.

What I liked most about that book was how much he acknowledged luck. Examples: Luck they didn't get sold/disbanded before Jobs bought them from Lucas. Luck that Jobs was willing to blow 70 million on them as a computer company before they switched to being an animation company. And he acknowledges lots of other luck.
Yes, but I also know government workers. For every recorded instance of some theft ring, there are undoubtedly thousands of unrecorded instances of a TSA agents (or, really, any non-SES government worker) downplaying things or subtle manipulating situations to get out of paperwork.
Tesla tests self-driving software with silent “inert” updates to customers' cars
Were Uber and Lyft being required to perform a level of background check beyond what was required of existing taxi cab drivers? Or, were the new set of regulations simply bringing Uber/Lyft drivers in line with other professional drivers?

The whole thing is weird to me. I've used Uber a few times and the car that showed up has always been a licensed limo (just dumb luck, I suppose). Pretty sure I'd turn down a ride in some clapped-out Civic, should that be the car that showed up (but, perhaps that's why I usually use car services and not Uber).
+1 - not an analytical article / bit of authorship.

The author labels as "onerous [regulations imposed by Austin City]" (in the linked article he wrote) avoiding providing detail for the regulations he judges as onerous:

"It seems there’s no new product or service that meddling liberals won’t figure out a way to regulate out of existence under the pretense of knowing what’s best for you.

"Over the weekend in the liberal bastion of Austin, Texas, a handful of pro-regulation voters opted to keep in place a host of petty, irrational, and burdensome regulations the city council imposed on ridesharing companies like Uber and Lyft in December."

Ironically ending the unanalytical article with: "I know it sounds crazy, but it’s almost like they don’t care about solving these problems."

- http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/10/uber-lyft-were-driven-ou...
Pardon my amusement at the observation this conflagration is eerily like the City of Austin imported more California culture than it wanted - oh sure, everybody likes tech start ups, but the whole wasteful socially progressive government style that appartently tagged along isn't so loved. Hm, funny that.
This Discovery Could Help Us Hear the Sounds of the Big Bang
The Internet goes nuts when you use “her” to refer to a generic programmer
No one forces them to take the gig. If they're smart folks they should have already done the math that "Hm, we're pre-profit, raised $X million a year ago and burn about $15k * Y employees a month... We probably have about Z months left!"

Seriously, burn is not that hard to ballpark, engineers who are smart enough to code should be able to do this math and make a calculated risk.
I think I may have been confused, my bad. I probably didn't read it correctly when I first saw it.
Not really. The simplest explanation is that you are getting a discount relative to what the investors paid. Investors usually get preferred stock, whereas rank-and-file employees usually get common stock, which has far fewer protections than preferred. They should be able to tell you this if you asked them, though.
Apple reportedly working on smart speaker to rival Echo
Rails 5: New upcase_first Method
Now MS just has to squeeze them some more by cutting support for Win7 early,

That would surely result in lawsuits on such a scale that even Microsoft would be lucky to survive the results.

or maybe they could be like Apple and start pushing Win7 updates which massively slow down the OS, in effect forcing people to upgrade.

They already do seem to be crippling Windows 7 updates; there have been numerous reports of problems since earlier this year where Windows Update will sit there taking literally hours to do the most simple tasks, apparently including several controlled experiments using new machines to prove that it really is Windows Update at fault.

This doesn't bode well for anyone remaining on Windows 7, but of course it bodes even less well for anyone committed to whatever update mechanism Microsoft wants on Windows 10.

What are people going to do, stop getting security updates?

Probably.

Or switch to a different OS?

Possibly.

Face it, people and businesses are locked into Windows, and aren't going to stop using it no matter what.

There is rarely true lock-in within this industry. Usually there is only the relative cost of migrating to new systems vs. staying put.

The thing is, migrating to a new OS is already an extremely expensive, time-consuming and risky proposition for large organisations. Entire teams of IT staff spend months planning the switch, testing hardware and software on the new platform, and so on. That is going to be true even if organisations decide to upgrade to Windows 10 from whatever they're on already.

That is the inertia Microsoft really has to overcome if it wants to establish Windows 10, and it's the same inertia that meant some organisations were willing to pay millions for support beyond the official cut-off date with Windows XP because that was still better for them than risking a migration even to Windows 7, which had relatively few areas of risk in that scenario.

If they fail to do that, either by not making 10 an attractive proposition or by trying to degrade 7 until people give up, then those big corporate migration exercises do have alternatives they could consider, and sooner or later some big names will actually make the jump. And if a few of them do that and it becomes clear that they've done well out of it, that's very, very bad for Microsoft. That's why I don't think they'll let it come to that.
Everyone else can now go and put away their toy languages!
Uber/Lyft put more time on the clock in regards to viewing their employees as contractors. That is what this was all about.
Rendering is mostly I/O bound these days due to high complexity models and textures.
I think they mean that if the product doesn't launch for whatever reason you don't get your money back...it's gone.
Yes and no. While typically vectorised code will run faster than a loop (because its a loop in C) i.e. rowSums is faster than a typical apply call, there actually isn't that much difference between a for loop over columns to sum and apply over columns to sum.

The real performance penalty is growing objects as you go. If you preallocate a list or vector of the appropriate length, then there typically isn't much difference.

That being said, you'll pry lapply(x, fun) from my cold dead hands (lapply(x, function (x) g(f(x)) is even better :) )
Yeah, it's more of a peace of mind thing. The new Pebble is water resistant to 30m, which is really, really deep water. Though I could probably swim with my Apple Watch, it's not something I particularly want to risk since it's not an advertised "feature".
Can genuinely say that back when I was in Austin for a couple years, partying hard and occasionally linked up with some other go-getters, most of them had business cards for Taxis or Town Cars that would cater to well-to-do individuals, mostly college-aged party scene people. This was about a decade ago and I thought it was quite useful at the time.
But is it really more inconsistent than UI interfaces? It feels like every graphical coding tool I use these days, have the menu in a different corner. Some requires me to use a web browser, others run in heavy virtual machines that take an hour to start up.

Is's one thing to keep a consistant UI within your own application, but doing it across a hundred different ones is something I have still to see, in the graphical world as well as the text based.
but it may not be step 0 necessarily in this particular case because the OP wants to build it for him/herself first.
From what I remember, the jQuery implementation isn't as fast as the native JS implementation when it comes to this. This was true at least for Chrome IIRC.
Seems like it took them a few minutes per frame to render TS1 in 2011 [1], not sure if that's with the higher resolution.

[1] https://www.quora.com/How-much-faster-would-it-be-to-render-...
I had the same thought while reading this

I wish I could read an entire aggregator of different hybrid consulting+insight blogs.
+1 Time2. Bigger screen, more battery life, heart rate, cheap, and all the good Time 1 features.
Lol this is funny.
Show HN: Solenica will be on indiegogo very soon. Do you like Lucy?
Businesses are still buying new PCs with that "decade old OS" today. People will get off it when there's a better choice, but so far in the intervening decade, those have been lacking.
As a backer, I'd treat Kickstarter just like setting the money on fire.

As a project, I'd be unlikely to offer a complicated physical device that I was not yet able to produce. I might put weaselly bullshit about a reward being a great sticker and up to 1 device.
Wow, I stand corrected. Lazarus is a great name though since it calls out the fact that Pascal was dead ;)
Software That Predicts Crime Is Biased Against Black People
Turning User Hacks into Product Insights
Apropos character limits: maybe you could stop counting (2001) etc. towards the 80 character limit in submissions?

Because a few times I have left out the year since I couldn't find a good shorter title, and then you added the year afterwards. I would have done that myself. :-)
That's probably going to break all sorts of these customer service integration tools.
http://whatmoji.com/?i=148391ab065fc0104c28dbc67913f335

I thought this was a high five...
Preventing A.I. From Stealing Your Job
Automated trading strategies for Forex market
Both of which are results of slow incremental progress after decades (and china), which brought the prices of materials (PV panels and batteries) to affordable levels. Of course they are wonderful things, but i cant get very excited about either.
90 days? Wow. With stuff getting more and more cheaply made these days it doesn't make sense to assume that anything will last longer than the very minimum duration they're legally responsible for it. I'd be unwilling to spend very much on something that will only last 90 days.
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I've programmed in a couple of languages that one might consider verbose: Java and Common Lisp. The normal tools for both of those provide some form of name-completion. In fact, in Emacs+SLIME, I can do something like this: "(ge-in-ru", hit tab, and have it completed to "(get-internal-run-time". In any case, I consider the typing-out of stuff like that to be a minor part of programming anyway.

Edit: fixed stupid grammatical mistake
To script a UI application you also need the developers to stop moving things around. I suspect this would be hard, since they are not used to it mattering, if they swap the order of two input fields or such. In the text based world, there is much more aversion to changing the flags.
Startup culture is more libertarian than socially progressive. Socially progressive would be Austin providing a robust public transportation system, thereby removing the need for ridesharing.

Wouldn't it be more efficient for public transportation to be provided via taxes and user fees versus Uber and Lyft siphoning off of the flow of transportation payments for their shareholders? That seems inefficient to me.
>We (Blekko) couldn't even get enough people to give up an email address in exchange for more control over their search experience.

The venn diagram of "people who want more control over their search experience" and "people who are sick up to the back teeth with companies who insist on an email address even to take their product for a trial spin" is pretty much a cross section of an egg, and control over search is the yolk.
> If they were to start today would they have used Mysql

Uber built something similar in the last couple of years.

https://eng.uber.com/schemaless-part-one/

So did Dropbox.

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/05/inside-the-magic-pock...
Ordinary people, particularly young people, clearly care far, far, far, far, far less about privacy than you think. The average middle-class ten year old literally has more pictures of herself than the number of days she's been alive, and an enormous number of those pictures are already online. Moreover, she's constantly putting more and more of her life online.

If anything, I think people want to have more of the interesting parts of their lives be more public (in other words, they want to be "famous", whether just among their friends or on a bigger stage). They do want many things to be "private" in the sense that they don't want certain people to see certain things online. But I think we're deluding ourselves if we think they care at all about the fact that google is scanning their emails or search history, or that twitter is mining their tweets, or that snapchat is using their location data.
S-expressions for instance, which were popular back then. JSON is a modern reinvention of that particular wheel.
Just checking but you do realize Creative Commons Licenses have this same clause. They call it "moral rights". When I asked about it I was told it's a right many countries require them to respect so it's in the license.

Note: I'm just as horrified as you about that clause but it's in every CC license AFAICT
Pretty much what we already use.

I was hoping for something new.
Google Daydream is a contrarian platform bet on mobile virtual reality
I agree with numlocked that the option of opt-out from companies is less clear, in part because we are on a course where this becomes increasingly strange and irrational.

Reminded me of a post on algorithms (data) and conformity: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/01/the_risksan...
Or an A.I. telling us what to make.
Thanks for the heads up. We're on it.
Entering the post capitalist era where there is "no money" for anything not even continuing the species.
Glad to see the nosql hype blowing down to reasonable levels. Next up: imperative languages back in vogue.
Anybody sufficiently tech-savvy enough to know how to keep safe without auto-updates can easily prevent them - for most people, they're a good idea.

Security updates, if that's really what they are, are a good idea by default for people who don't know enough to handle it themselves.

General automatic updates, including completely reorganising how the entire system works and moving lots of UI around unexpectedly and literally overnight, are a bad idea for just about everyone.

It's strange how in the web world, everything is always up-to-date and full of telemetry in every sense, but nobody really complains about that.

Plenty of people complain about both of those things. They are the two most damaging trends to hit our industry in a generation, and that remains true whether we're talking about the OS, native applications, web apps, online X-as-a-Service offerings, or anything else.
Show them Valgrind. I think if one teaches C to newcomers it is an invaluable tool. If you compile via -g you get nice reports over undefined behaviour, memory leaks, etc.

Really I wish I had access to it when I learned C.
Regulation is necessary for health and safety reasons. Need for regulation beyond health and safety is quite small. Not zero, but on a relative scale quite small.

Uber and Lyft's track record for safety in the US is quite strong. As is the willingness of riders and drivers to participate in the system from no reputation.

The need for regulation has not been justified. Regulations shouldn't be passed unless there is a clear reason to do so and measurable way to declare that regulation a success or failure.
I'm not sure what to say about this other than it doesn't bode well. I really wonder what American society will look like in 50 years at this rate. People living with their parents until their 30s, a sky-high divorce rate, high rents, massive student loan debts, these are not signs of a healthy society, and as someone else pointed out, it isn't good for the birthrate either. We better get to work on extending lifespans to mitigate this I guess.
I think that'd be brilliant. Google are an 800lb gorilla these days. They have good products but they could be much, much better - there's no search APIs, the close down products seemingly on a whim, their search pages are overloaded with ads. It'd be a huge opportunity to bring some competition to the search and advertising market.
And yet it's true.

https://www.caoc.org/?pg=facts
"McDonald’s operations manual required the franchisee to hold its coffee at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit.
Coffee at that temperature, if spilled, causes third-degree burns in three to seven seconds."

I also highly recommend watching this movie which was a very interesting look at the erosion of consumer rights driven by a coordinate corporate PR campaign/agenda:
http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com/Default.asp
Soldiers have the means to defend themselves.
Good timing for Pebble Core? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11762535
Report: Apple to open up Siri to developers, release an Amazon Echo competitor
SkinTrack Turns Your Arm into a Touchpad
Is there a certain time period after which we can say it's not FUD? Like if we go 10 years without any additional clarification after the Snowden slides, is it still automatically FUD?
Frankly, to me a smartphone with any kind of fitness activity feels like a step 20 years backwards to the times of Discmans with "electric skip protection".. they are devices I end up having to babysit. No rain, no sweat, too massive to carry comfortably without the wonky looking massive arm straps or bike holders, unstable apps, a user interface requiring complex interaction patters not at all suited to fitness activities, and most of all, horrible battery life.

Meanwhile, my Garmin 810 sits on the bike and can go 12+ hours with GPS and display on. It has hardware buttons for the important stuff and a touchscreen that still works in the rain with a zero chance of ending up in some freaking "Google now" screen accidentally.
Perhaps there are situations where this is true, and I'd be open to studies on this, but my experience says otherwise.

I know people who did not own a car and instead mostly used buses and/or bikes to get around Austin. They knew they always had a reliable Uber ride to fill in the gaps. Taxis adjust to demand terribly in Austin so they are not reliable or pleasant to use. So, now these people are using cars more often because they don't have a reliable way to fill in the gaps.

2) Uber reduces the need for parking which means more parking lots and garages, which pushes business further away from each other, making walking between places more difficult. As far as I know, increasing density is a reliable way of reducing traffic because it makes alternatives more attractive.

3) I would love to see more buses and trains in Austin. Unfortunately, Austin has failed to pass much on that front largely due to incompetence in government all over the place. If I had my way, we would be investing heavily in buses, trains, walkways, all of it. Uber is a great way to fill in gaps between these. I see the fingerprinting battle as a giant distraction from real traffic problems.
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Yes. I still don't have it on T-Mobile.