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> so that with CRDTs designed explicitly for collaborative string editing you can provide perfect intent-preserving merges to the user.

I don't for a second believe this is event theoretically possible, given that if two people write collaboratively, it is not uncommon for the intent to change "mid stream" as a result of seeing the other person edit.

Add in some lag, and watch confusion ensue.
Not sure what else has changed, but the changes in personalization (including Cortana) and telemetry changes warrant that it be called a new version.

With LinkedIn in it's arsenal, Microsoft now wants to surpass Google in the amount of user information that can be collected.
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Are you really comparing a Model S to a Camry? Does that seem fair to you?
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If I buy a computer and/or pay Microsoft money, I think it's reasonable for me to expect my computer to do what I'd like it to do (and only what I'd like it to do). The problem isn't data-driven design, it's how the data is being collected.

I'd be annoyed if my home builder occasionally came through my house while I was gone in an attempt to analyze how I was arranging furniture and using my space. They could, undoubtedly, use that data to better their future work - but I'd still feel violated.
He has the 'infinite mile' warranty, which is offered with certain assumptions that definitely aren't holding in his case.
I would argue that no, it's not an assumption of malicious intent, it's an assumption that Microsoft will not keep this data private and contained. It will leak, either to governments (which Microsoft has time and time again helped without a question of whether they should) or to other non-scrupulous actors.
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If i had a choice to go to the airport for 40$ or for 92$ which would i (or >90% over people) choose? hmmmm. i'll go with 40$ thank you.
I get where you're coming from, but you're demanding too much rigor prematurely for my nascent idea :P Which, come to think of it, probably is related to my having browsed half of some Scott Aaronson paper on the philosophy of computational complexity.. You know what they say - neurons that fire together, wire together!

Just replace the "brains" in my post with "completely fictional abstract mechanistic brains whose behavior a human brain can emulate, hopefully not so far off from the qualia of The Real Thing." But I'm a big boy, and am all ears to PubMed-and-the-ilk articles that go into why I'm wrong!

I guess the point is, if you can sort of recognize these patterns of information process at a Very High Level Internal Logic and Monologue (tm? lol) in your experiences with consciousness - i.e. how would you explain how you thought internally from a premise to an answer - would it look much differently than this?

I doubt that the most pragmatic answer would include descriptions of the microsecond-level G-protein transactions, the millisecond tree diagram of where each synapse released how many vesicle molecules, how these were interpreted and then made sense of via an internal vocalization process, etc?

At the end of the day, how evidence based or proof based does arm-chair navel-gazing really need to be? :P

All tongue in cheek, of course. But maybe this discussion gives some people "intuition pumps" (ew, I just cited Dennett..) with which they'll make their own falsifiable claims that may even hopefully be worth sharing themselves.
>I think its clear Russia uses Kaspersky to make western intelligence look bad. Its more demoralizing to have a AV vendor point this stuff out than one's own security apparatus and its a good cover for the FSB's own hacking. Wired has written about the FSB/Kaspersky connection

This seems like the most relevant part -- it's not that Kaspersky is THAT much better, but that they have a lot of help from the state, which has way more resources than an anti-virus company. How much of that is true, I have no idea.

Also, "free" in the way you use it is a pretty shaky concept: In theory, you're "free" to record police officers acting in the course of their duty, but that doesn't mean the authorities won't ruin your life because of it. (To say nothing of how eerily easy it is for the government to issue gag orders.)
About as expensive as a high end luxury gasoline drivetrain, I assume. A replacement short block alone on my Lexus LS is $23k.
It depends what you mean by "Semantic Web"

Many companies are using RDF-based technology and are not talkative about it because they see it as a secret weapon. I find out about these by going to conferences, cold calling, etc.

People are slowly starting to understand about JSON-LD, maybe around 2025 people are going to realize that it's a problem that vanilla JSON lacks decimal math. (Even COBOL programmers know if you do money math with floats you will sooner or later cut somebody a check for the wrong amount) JSON-LD unobtrusively adds the "good parts" of XML (decimal math, date and time types,...) to JSON.

As for the model of "Linked Data" the deep problem is that the model of "I publish data, throw it over the wall, and my responsibility is done" does not work. As much as people like to deny it, there is a science of quality, and it involves forming feedback loops that just don't exist in the likes of DBpedia, Wikidata, etc. See the last part of this essay

http://ontology2.com/the-book/data-lakes-ponds-and-droplets....
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that's because people in america generally do not trust chinese companies. however, through a series of investments they still reach a large audience.

one example off the top of my head:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_Games

their giant shiny new office is right here in west LA, but they're owned by tencent in china.
You're right. The US has chosen state backed economical espionage as their method of choice.
I think in a way it has, just not in the purist sense that Semantic Web proponents have advocated.

Microformats, semantic HTML tags, and non-rendered meta-data can be found all over the place. Especially in eCommerce.

What hasn't caught on is the formal language of the semantic web. And for that my hypothesis is that it is so formal and so strict that it produces a barrier of entry that is too high for non-academics. RDF has a bit of a leaning curve compared to competing technologies. Furthermore, FOAF (Friend of a Friend) last time I looked at it had a lot of outdated domain specific tags. For example, there is a tag for ICQ (an instant messenger practically no one uses anymore but was very popular in the 90s) but no tags for new technology rather than, say, having generic tags that can be used for any messenger system and using attributes.

Summary:

- High barrier of entry

- Easier to use alternatives

- It hasn't really failed, it's just taken a form that is more friendly for day-to-day

Edit: Also, if you go the Semantic Web Meetup in Cambridge there are a lot of talks of the medical industry, database industry, and things like that which show it is alive https://www.meetup.com/The-Cambridge-Semantic-Web-Meetup-Gro...
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> I get the regularization part, but don't you get essentially the same regularization from using a sparse autoencoder? If the encoder realizes it doesn't have much information, it will turn on few units.

Putting a sparsity loss on z in a regular AE will encourage the code to have smaller magnitudes, and with relu those units will tend to saturate to zero, yes.

But the original point was that even a single continuous unit can be used to transmit an arbitrary amount of information. Not so much that this happens in practice, because the encoder and decoder would need access to something like modulo to do the most obvious kinds of cheating, but just that from an information theory point of view you can't really talk about how much information a continuous variable transmits unless you are transmitting it over a noisy channel and can measure entropies of distributions (and indeed you can formally derive how a given KL loss bounds the information transmitted by z).

> What I don't really intuit is: is it just basically doing regularization, or is the interpretation in terms of learning to infer the posterior meaningful?

Both, which I think is really nice. You can look at it either way.

The Bayesian interpretation is powerful because you now have a principled way to calculate p(x), which you didn't have before. And you can introduce multiple latent variables in your network (as long as no layers take inputs from both ordinary and sampling layers) and so you have some flexibility to do limited forms of graphical modelling that supports efficient forward inference and GPU acceleration. And the inference machinery can be trained via cheap backpropagation instead of expensive sampling.
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The one someone gave me died a while back and I was unable to revive it. 16 years is an incredible "lifetime" for a technology, particularly in the modern era. And the $75 gift card is a nice touch.
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Like any space, an office space is whatever the people occupying it choose to make it. We don't live in a videogame where all of the architecture and its uses are hardcoded. We aren't sims.

I've been in office spaces that were spaces for quiet work, heated discussions, listening to music together, nerf battlegrounds, emotional reconciliation, alcohol-infused parties, Quake tournaments, and philosophical debate.

Humans and their activities defy simple categorization, despite how much our industrial mindset might encourage us to treat them—us—as cogs in a machine.
It sounds like I should be updating my tz dependencies more often :o
> The US/EU has a stronger freedom of the press tradition

It's not that clear cut. The UK routinely serves 'D' notices and the press defer (leading to much abuse) - here's a nice primer https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/31/d-notice-syste...

Anyone stumbling across their own state's payload and attempting to publish details is likely to rapidly receive a visit and be put in the picture that they've to drop it.

The UK even uses the Wassenaar arrangement to stifle general discussion of virus and threats : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/03/northumbria_universi...

Admittedly there's no actual murders or suspected ones (that I've ever heard of) but the polonium tea example was not about computer virus revelations either.
Because only women are involved with parenting, right?
I use Inbox, which parses trip itinerary emails. I recently took a trip to London from the US and ran into an issue with a connecting flight, it was delayed by several hours.

My Android phone, with Google Now, alerted me to the delay before I received any communications from my booking agent. It also listed multiple alternative flights by the same airline which were up to an hour and a half earlier than my delayed flight, saving me a lot of time and frustration as I was able to easily contact the airline and change my flight for free.

Does Google know all about me and my cats? Sure.

Do I care? Does that scare me? Nope. The pros have thus far greatly outweighed the cons.
If they get hooked on one network, it's easier for them to connect, and easier for ideas and memes (in original sense of the word) to flow throughout the world.

If you separate the medium where people communicate, it makes it easier to separate the people from one another and otherfy other groups.

(You would say that language already serves that purpose, but anyone "educated" or "smart" knows or wants to learn English anyway, regardless of where he lives.)
Here you are, reading HackerNews. Schneier is basically a good CryptoNews aggregation site.
Are you really comparing the linux TCP stack with an HTML select tag and justifying React through that comparison? Are you for real?
Search by dimensions would be great. I've been wanting that for a long time.

Try to normalize unit prices, the absence of which I presume is for Amazon to move whatever product they prefer.
What should i compare it to? Riksha?
You should write a blog about the merits and submit it to HN, throw-away-account guy.
Most vehicle warranties specifically state using a vehicle for work or fleet is not included in the original warranty. Same thing for insurance.
That's a recent historical development, and one could even say it's rooted in deep gendered thinking in the roles of men and women.
That's true on a worldwide scale but not true in the US and EU.
It seems they've been running the experiment over the last decade? An executive will never get fired for cutting costs. Even if the cut costs destroy the company, she'll be off to greener pastures before that happens.
Why squash merge instead of simple merge?
I would wonder about the tire costs. Tesla is big and heavy with large blingy wheels and high performance rubber. I guess you can get cheaper than original tired but not a lot cheaper in that size.

Also curious about insurance costs.
I love it. Not only were the tricks interesting (I'll have to explore those more to see if they scale in some projects I'm working on) but the advice rings exceptionally true. Well at least in my opinion.

I've done web development for a little over 12 years now and the amount of times I've seen someone pull in a huge framework, fonts, tons of libraries just to make a simple page is astounding. I once worked at a job where they abused ASP.Net to such a degree that they were delivering a page to the user of over 70MB (about 60MB of that was only ViewState!!!) and while the application had its complex pieces that was only on a homepage that showed a very, very crude dashboard with only the functionality to re-order boxes. Boxes!

Frameworks have their place. Libraries have their place. They're helpful. But you don't need to bring them in every single time you write a web site or application. That code eventually has to be downloaded and viewed by a user and if you can do it with as few dependencies as possible your users will subconsciously thank you.
selfish, thoughtless, demanding, lack of understanding.

Calm down sir those are some harsh words. Subways are dangerous disgusting disease-prone place anyway for young infants. Maybe parents should use cabs often. Cab fares should be included as part of child-care costs which most parents include in their detailed plan before they decide to raise a child.
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Yesterday I needed to look some stuff up while on an RPi with just Ubuntu server. Using Lynx on Google and Wikipedia brought that back a little bit. It was nice.
As I've said before, electric cars won't mean a significant decrease in maintenance costs.

Gee, a niche luxury brand has higher parts costs than mass-produced Japanese cars. Who would have guessed? That might explain why brake pads on my BMW motorcycle cost ungodly amounts more than those for my last Honda.

Meanwhile, over here in the land where the other 90% of the world lives, we haven't done jack to our Nissan Leaf in 30K miles, save a cabin air filter and a set of tires ('cuz the stocks ones suck). Granted, for a Japanese car 30K means "it'll finally be broken in soon", but even our "reliable as a crowbar" Scion xB with 80K needs regular oil changes and gasoline. Had to do brake pads and rotors on the Scion once, too, whereas I expect the pads on the Leaf to last the life of the car (thanks, regen braking). In another 20K miles I expect things like starter and alternator to start failing on the Scion. OTOH, by 100K miles the Leaf will probably need a new $5K battery pack.

In the end, though, I think the difference in maintenance costs is going to be minimal for most. The only difference is the drive train (and arguably brakes), and modern ICE's are pretty darned reliable and long-lived these days.
> That said: do you have a better solution?

Local (each his own) Bayesian filtering. Works well for me, with both Evolution and Thunderbird mail clients, and I have my email out there in plaintext in the open web.
Something is wrong with his thinking if he is using Subaru as a taxi. Look at the reliability ratings.
The underlying assumption here is that information is control. Not that it's incorrect, but it's not like Google stops someone from running a web sever.
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I just miss http://csszengarden.com/ time.
This is a specialization of "let's form two tribes so we can argue about stuff." "Argue" is not a perjorative here; productive argument is a good thing. We must generally, though treat the other tribe as a customer to aid in making said discussion productive.

Perhaps with Web protocols, things are ... entangled in inconvenient ways ( for, you know, ... reasons ) such that the formation of two tribes is a solution.

I don't generally build Web things. When I do build a GUI, I intentionally give it an old style, because I'm really a systems programmer ( eek, a third tribe! ) and this invites someone else to express the resulting inevitable disgust in a replacement. But meanwhile, there's an interface for it.
Really? Websites I built up until like 2004 were optimized for display at 800x600 -- still roughly 50% of users at the time. This meant most of my content was somewhere around 640-700px width.

It wasn't until 2008 when 800x600 was below 10% of users and I finally started using a 900 grid.
It's hard for any product to sell itself, especially in a crowded Market. I believe good product is easier to sell.
Quote:

"In terms of censorship resistance, IPFS includes blacklists of forbidden content in the default distribution, though it's configurable so you can turn it off 'at your own risk'.

Personally I think all of this willful censorship stuff is just a phase to protect the protocol in its infancy. Blacklisting all forbidden content on a global filesystem is ridiculous. The only popular use case I see for that is blocking ads.

So censorship-free distributions of IPFS implementations that integrate with Tor will probably end up as the default if this ever catches on."

Unfortunately, IPFS' built-in censorship tools are not meant to be optional, nor are they temporary. https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47 is an FAQ entry written by an IPFS member. Quote:

"IPFS has as a strict requirement that content be able to move as fast as the underlying network permits. this rules out designs like freenet's and other oblivious storage platforms, as the base case."

"Oblivious storage platforms" are systems like Tahoe-LAFS or OFF, where storage nodes are unaware of the actual content that they are handling, usually due to some sort of encryption. Quote:

"IPFS has as a design requirement that nodes be able to only store and/or distribute content they explicitly want to store and/or distribute. This means that computers that run IPFS nodes do not have to host 'other people's stuff', which is a very important thing when you consider that lots of content in the internet is -- in some for or other -- illegal under certain jurisdictions."

So, IPFS is explicitly censorable; if enough IPFS nodes refuse to carry some content, then that content is effectively unavailable. Quote:

"users and groups can express what content should or should not be stored and/or distributed. This is required by users to (a) comply with legal constraints in their respective countries, (b) required by users with stricter codes of conduct (i.e. content that is legal but undesired by a group -- e.g. a childrens website)."

So it's possible to create walled gardens in IPFS.

What does this all mean? IPFS is awesome for making content highly redundant and highly available, but it fails at being uncensorable, it fails at being oblivious, and it fails at advancing the state of security for those using it. The analogy to BitTorrent is not just facile, but also very accurate.
> laptop

Is that what Macbooks are called these days?

Dammit munificent, get it right.
If you find someone with access to Nielsen sales data, it's enlightening. Walmart is very rarely the cheapest retailer. It's been a few years, but I believe the rock bottom, cheapest grocer was Aldi, by a huge margin.
I'm not a state or regulatory body, but it's obvious to me that Google in fact bundles their services along with their OS and makes alternative apps or services (like, say, the Google Play Store vs alternate app stores) awkward in some cases.

One can argue that realities of the implementation like trust, bootstrapping, having a minimum viable product, key exchange, etc. make it difficult to do it any other way, and in most cases, that argument is fair. But Microsoft famously got hit about both IE and Windows Media Player, so intuitively I feel either they're both in the right, or both in the wrong.

What's remarkable to me is how Apple has been able to escape such suits to date, as they're far more vertically integrated. Regardless of the jurisdiction and their particular propensity for monopoly-busting or protectionism, cases like this leave me the cynicism that as it's not really the behavior that's being regulated, but rather individual targets are in the crosshairs.
No, I'm saying that implementing something is usually harder than using something. The tutorial is about how to implement a select; not about how to use a select.
Another luxury sports car that would be absurd to use as a taxi outside of the novelty. A Lexus LS would be more apt if you want to keep the Toyota thing going.
Usenet is better.
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> big data is that it can't fit in memory on a single machine

A Lucene index can be much larger than your current RAM. It can be 100x that. The data will still queryable. Lucene reads into memory the data it needs in order to produce a sane result. Lucene is pretty close to being industry standard for information retrieval.

My definition is instead "when your data is not queryable using standard measures".
C# in VSCode is really good, and works on Linux. Have you tried it?
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You can't blame Arkansas on Wal-Mart. While in many ways it's a charming state, if you took away Wal-Mart what would replace it? Not everyone can work on a chicken-processing line at Tyson.
Thinking and generating ideas for me is easier without a computer. Computers are distracting. The more I practice thinking and writing my ideas down, the better I become at having thoughts that are useful. It's pretty elementary stuff, but I think the conundrum is that it doesn't feel immediately productive. This kind of thinking marinates and adds value to your work over a long period of time, versus something like answering an email, which has immediate results but usually is of little value.
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Good numbers gives good valuation. My theory is run after your clients/customers and investor will run after you
I think the buzzword abuse exists because of people who don't want to take the time to learn to real skill, and just want shortcuts to sound smart and relevant.

I am very skeptical of people who are "BizDev" or "Project Managers" or "Managers" or "Scrum Master" they generally don't know what they're talking about and rely on buzzwords.