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> If you already know a bit about Machine Learning don't read this, you will gain nothing. If you don't already know about Machine Learning don't read this, you will not learn anything here. I have no idea how this can be trending. Over-simplified, generalized bs.

indeed. much better off reading this instead: http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/
>trust a company with such personal information, and certainly I wouldn't either, but Uber as a company is very ethical and takes the responsibility that we are entrusted with very seriously.

HAHAHAHAHA Nice try!

> The ride-sharing company said that between July and December 2015, it had provided information on more than 12 million riders and drivers to various U.S. regulators and on 469 users to state and federal law agencies.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/uber-customer-data-priva...

>the company's blog titled "Rides of Glory." The company examined its rider data, sorting it for anyone who took an Uber between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. on a Friday or Saturday night. Then it looked at how many of those same people took another ride about four to six hours later – from at or near the previous nights' drop-off point. (...) Uber has deleted the blog post

http://www.marketplace.org/2014/11/18/business/final-note/ub...

>Earlier this month Angie Bird woke up at her home in London to discover she had been billed for a series of minicab journeys she had allegedly made the previous evening … in the Mexican cities of Guadalajara and Aguascalientes, more than 5,500 miles away.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/apr/22/uber-scam-hack...

>Uber is using GPS to punish drivers in China who get too close to protests

http://fusion.net/story/150389/uber-is-using-gps-to-punish-d...

>Study: Uber and Lyft have ‘pattern of discrimination’ against black passengers. Waiting times for black Seattle passengers were 35% longer, and Boston drivers cancelled rides for black passengers more than twice as frequently, study found

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/31/uber-lyft...

>According to internal Uber emails, the investigation began with a note from Uber’s general counsel, Sallie Yoo. The day that Schmidt filed the complaint against Kalanick, Yoo sent an email to Uber’s chief security officer, saying, "Could we find out a little more about this plaintiff?" The request was forwarded to the company’s head of Global Threat Intelligence, Mathew Henley.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/10/12127638/uber-ergo-investi...

>Uber as a company is very ethical and takes the responsibility that we are entrusted with very seriously

Please go with your bullshit somewhere else.
I know a local "artist" that lives off Instagram and not her "art".

She publishes all her "songs" on Youtube for free, and lives off sponsored content on Instagram and media appearances.

Is she lazy and getting "free-money"? no.

Is she talented? also no.
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The SJW crowd started their predictable shrieking as soon as this was published.
Exactly – everyone does know their retro consoles and home computers, I can't find anyone who would have some interest in the systems you mentioned. Bummers.
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When I write Javascript I don't feel like I need an IDE, but when I write PHP I need a good IDE for imports, getters and setters, stringly-typed frameworks like symfony, "doctrine" annotations. Java at least has some decent free IDEs that can generate the boilerplate that are by far superior to PHPStorm.
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Ok no religious talking . But I'd say that face to face. I don't say things i'd would not dare to say. But i understand, i'll censor all my religion comments from now on. Thanks for the clarification.
Ah yes, the old "Strictly speaking it's not technically censorship in the legal sense (according to US federal law) therefore none of the ethical concerns regarding censorship apply."
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It's not about what it says on the clothing, it's about how they act and what their intentions are.
> Modern PHP is a joy to work with.

Would you clarify that? I've not followed PHPs evolution but it never struck me as a particularly notable language except for the fact it used to be the easiest/cheapest to deploy apps for.
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Can someone tell me if I am understanding this right? If not, can you clarify?

This is how I understood it:

They don't have different cones cells for detecting color. Instead, their pupil is more like a slit, causing light to be diffracted, not unlike a prism. Because of the diffraction, different wavelengths of light fall on different areas of the retina. Their brain is mapped as such that they understand the location of the light as the color. Moving the eye around helps them refine this information.
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I wonder how many clients handle that correctly. How many log files will have timestamps at "23:59:59.1500" instead of "23:59:60.500"? If you are going to break APIs you might as well make a new one instead.

And if you replace a simple API with one that requires distributing leap-second tables…
So how did reality stack up against these predictions? A lot of comments in here seem to be implying that this article was overly optimistic, but I don't see any real numbers backing that up.

I do get the feeling that sales fell short of expectations, but is that really true? And by how much?
I have a bit of a trauma, regarding this whole niche thing.

10-15 years ago, I used to tell people about Meshuggah -- something like "My favorite of all time. It is the greatest thing since sliced <Cough>. Think of it as like modern jazz, but played a bit faster and heavier. I'm not that musical, I have to listen to a song dozens and dozens of times to get half of the stuff happening (I think, I probably get less). It is just efficient, you listen one minute and you get at least two or three minutes of other music."

They looked at me as if I was an idiot or was trolling them. (Both true, arguably. :-) )

Today, half of the university kids around where I am now seems to know more about Meshuggah than me. Literally. For an old favorite band.

Sigh, it is hard being a hipster when your stuff gets mainstream.

:-)
Am I the only one who think this kind of goes against the spirit of open source? I thought the idea is to allow everyone to contribute to shared solutions for the common good. Here instead one engineer has convinced his employer to share some of the code they invested on, so that he could then quit the company and go and charge a fortune working as a consultant.

The obvious solution would be to pass on the torch, or at least share the burden. But he's unwilling to do so. I guess being the main maintainer of Hapi is what allows him to charge $2k per day to his clients.
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You're probably not British, so I'll point out that the Daily Mail is on par with Fox News.

Don't link to it.
What exactly is so awkward about sharing a bathroom with females?
This is just celebrities cutting out the middlemen (gossip magazines), not a new phenomenon.
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At the end of every year I'll be bemused when my employer gives me a chunk of free money for essentially doing the job I'm paid to do. I'll say a slightly awkward "Thank you, you really didn't have to..." and wander away from the meeting.

I don't understand bonuses really, I've come to simply accept they're a thing that happens and I'll cross that bridge when I come to it each year.
I moved from coldish (20 deg summers, -10 winters) where I was born and lived 30 years to hot (40+ deg, 15 deg); I work best in well over 40. For me when it drops below 10 it gets annoying but then again people have trouble getting me out of workmode in any circumstance.
Good question! Brute-force searching to find values of a parameter is a start. But, you see the issue here, right? It'll take a longass™ time. Lucky for us, learning the weight parameters of a neural network can be accomplished using back-propagation (or other methods) to speed up this search, and we do not need to brute force all possibilities. That same technique is not always applicable for hyper-parameters.
Well, so says Uber.

Unfortunately their history has proven to me that they're an utterly untrustworthy company and some lofty PR bullshit certainly won't change my opinion on them.
I live in India, have written a tutorial on Go, https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo..., am decent with Go, am learning Vue.js, writing book on it as well, http://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs/.

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edit: changed book to tutorial
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What BinRoo called "parameters" are usually known as "hyperparameters" (parameters are the settings that are learned through gradient descent). There are methods to learn hyperparameters automatically [1], but they're extremely computationally intensive. Even with a single set of hyperparameters, it can take hours to days for training to converge. Now imagine having to run hundreds of experiments to find the best setting.

[1] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/4443-algorithms-for-hyper-param...
> but Uber as a company is very ethical

If it wasn't for the apparent money laundry[1], drivers exploitation[2], cashing out on desperation[3], and tax evasion[4], maybe I could believe that.

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-25/uber-lose... (How can the company survive?)

[1]https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/search?q=uber (Closing and reopening with different names in the UK. Apparently 4? times so far... Hmm...)

[2]http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/5/4/1523310/-UBER-s-Shari...

[3]https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1805286/uber-accused-of-cashin...

[4]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/20/uber-pays...
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You think VW gamed the system alone? The whole EU regulation regarding cars (pollution and sales among most notable topic) have been made for, if not by, the EU car manufacturer cartel. No wonder those dinausores do not want changes. And pressuring politics by waving jobs loss is their regular argument.
Make sure you're in a situation that's safe, have a friend with you who is more sober. Make sure the environment around you is positive + you're in a good mood before you do it.
Well, todays work music is selected.

When I heard Portal before, I was more into a bit faster.
Yep you got it right, except the voting system adds tons of reliability because we cannot trust the slice classification (2.5s) too much.
> Probably every company has said that

Does your company have a set of values to which it says it holds itself and its employees? Excellent - lets play Enron Bingo! Go through your company values and every time one of them matches or strongly overlaps with the list provided in Enrons 1998 Annual Report[1] - Shout "WOOOO" really loudly.

[1]
*
- RESPECT
- INTEGRITY
- COMMUNICATION
- EXCELLENCE
Too little to late for my dad. R.I.P.
I'm with Bill Hicks when it comes to advertising and marketing.

I adblock. I pirate. I don't use Facebook or other social networking sites.

I don't want advertising in my life. It's propaganda. It shits in your head.

If there's anybody reading this who works in those industries: you thought Generation X was cynical?
Ask HN: Why does Google's Alphabet (https://abc.xyz) has no GA Tracking?
Same experience with my friends mostly but seems them and their families are happy with how it goes and believe their gov is doing well for them. Which is more than I can say I believe my gov is doing.
Sorry if the 5 slices are misleading it was only for readability, the average song has 70 slices, which are all classified and used or voting.
It's curious how politicians, all around the world, almost never fulfill their sentences. At least that's how it looks.
Indeed you should be polite and direct in discussing this surprise with your manager. However, it's a common (and bad) sign of poor management when a company doesn't communicate proper expectations with it's employees.
In your field, and your city, and given the rest of the details you've explained, it does sound like an explanation is in order.
> I do get the feeling that sales fell short of expectations, but is that really true? And by how much?

No one actually knows at the moment, or rather: The people who know don't tell. There are many rumours flying around (e.g. "Vive was sold around 140k times" based on SteamSpy data) with corresponding dismissal ("We have sold many more than 140k units and are very happy" was HTCs answer) and so on. I think it will take a while until we can say if sales fell short or not. Maybe in a year.
I like this short article for a few reasons:

1. It makes the case that just because you don't like something, it doesn't mean that there's not a good reason behind it.

2. Just because you like something, it doesn't mean that it is good (or bad).

3. The things that the naysayers constantly bring up just aren't really that bad to begin with.

C is amazingly powerful, and I love it. I love JavaScript, too (especially since ES6!), but I don't confuse where I should use one rather than the other. I tolerate Python. ;)

Languages are just tools, and you should use the one most appropriate for the job at hand.
Haha that would be awesome ! I guess we'd need a lot of data, and probably use much more detailed spectrogram (time-wise and frequency-wise).
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No, I mainly used OCW to go deeper into more advanced dynamic programming and hashing techniques. I was more involved in the Princeton courses and especially Cracking The Coding Interview.
It's true that the validation set only contains genres I used for the training. I'll try this out this evening ;)
From TFA : "Such requests are encrypted with DES ( ECB mode ) however the encryption key is hardcoded inside the application itself (thus known to an attacker)."

The word "however" seems to imply that the first part of the phrase is not a problem, but the second part is. But DES? Seriously? I thought DES has been considered unsecure since the 90s.
And ECB mode? I thought we all knew you can see penguins through ECB...
I learnt to be very careful about anything that's about Google and not from Google :)
They exist to reward when times are good, but to not require pay cuts when times are lean.
Heh, kinda like kraft singles being so named because they are no longer allowed to call themselves cheese.

My grandmother, who grew up during the depression, occasionally complained about the decline in the quality of sweets and chocolates. I used to think she was exaggerating a bit, but seeing the decline in quality in my time, going from bad to worse, it's easy to see what she was talking about.

I also recall seeing that someone had placed a large bet on cocoa futures a while back, and I turned up this article to that effect. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/business/global/25chocolat...

Anyways, I just wanted to say that it has been a shame to see large companies move away from making proper chocolate bars just to maintain their bottom line, and I can only expect that this latest maneuver is in the same spirit.
FWIW, this is the same syntax as JSDoc (http://usejsdoc.org/tags-type.html#overview).
Its properties also help constrain nuclear physics at high A and Z, which is needed for understanding astrophysical nucleosynthesis and hunts for the island of stability.
Haha, I should have titled the article "How to build an internet music-genre-troll-bot"
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Can someone build a 3rd party service that can mirror all the websites pushed here ? :)
The system has ways to deal with this type of problem [0], it just needs to use them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootness#Voluntary_cessation
How does that explain winning states like PA, which voted for Gore in 2000 by 4%?
Having worked at a couple of places that did bonuses I've come regard them as a bad thing. Even when the formula for calculating bonuses is completely open and data driven it still feels unfair and quite arbitrary since on an individual level there is little you can do to control for most of the factors. There are few things that can create in-company animosity more than feeling you didn't get your bonus because some other team slacked off or not getting a bonus while another group does despite feeling you worked at least as hard as they did.
Ask HN: Using Couchbase in production? Feedback?
We are evaluating couchbase for a production setup where data consistency is paramount
(however the data is not relational and we would greatly enjoy the scalability benefits of a nosql).

From their website the platform looks really solid, but we were somewhat struck that there is almost
no independent discussion about it on the internet, almost no posts or anything, which is very unusual for a db that size. And where there is, among the ones advocating for couchbase there often are their employees.

Also there is unfortunately no Jepsen test... yet? :)

So my question to the HN community is: are you managing couchbase clusters in production? how is the experience? are is it reliable as it seems to be?

thanks!
It's also turning into one of the most boring things on the Internet, I would say all that's keeping it alive is chat.
The easiest way to start answering that question would be for you to share a traditional value with us.
Wouldn't it be just the opposite? If, say, 5% of the ketchup is currently left in the bottle when it's thrown away, that means customers who buy the new bottles will get 5% more usable ketchup for their money. As long as they're careful when pouring, they would have to buy new bottles less often.
It's true that having very different genres helps the model a lot. It would be much more difficult to distinguish between closer genres, especially when people don't really know which is which and argue all the time about it.
Mother in law has had it for about 15 years (so has lived longer than expected). Currently has implanted electrodes in the brain, which fixes some issues and leads to others.

Recovery is unlikely at this stage, but even preventing the disease from progressing further would be quite something.
> “You sell part of your soul. Because no matter what beautiful moment you enjoy in your life, you’re going to want to take a photo and share it. Distinguishing between when is it my life and when am I creating content is a really big burden.”

I didn't realize just how realistic that Black Mirror episode was.
Bill Hicks never figured out the meaning of life.

The entire purpose of life is to market.

You get up in the morning and brush your teeth so that you're more marketable than the slob that doesn't.

Everything you do can be traced back to marketing. The more people understand that, the better off they will be at handling life.
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That will never happen, and it would be also a wrong thing to do, as the example of python shows. One of the main strengths of PHP is a low barrier of entry, which also includes things like you google how to do something, and what you googled indeed works. This is often true for PHP. Nothing was more frustrating as googling how to do something in Python, as a complete newbie, and then after fighting with what I have found, realizing that it is a Python 2 solution, and I choosed version 3, since that's what "elders" advised.

Anyway, PHP is alive and well, people picks it for new projects too, and 7 was a big jump forward in the right direction, imho... it is just slowly getting better. People also thought that C++, my second favorite language, is also destined for graveyard...and, it isn't. :-)
Thanks for the kind words, I'll take a look !
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