skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have already explained the fact that the field now goes under a number of different names, and that it is very active, so I won't rehash this. A few pointers to things where you can keep track that are different from what others suggested so far.

1. Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning -- this is a journal aimed at publishing a very small number of well-written survey papers on various trends in ML. This is easier to follow than an entire conference (much lower traffic, higher signal/noise), and should be readable for a wider audience (assuming they are math-inclined).

2. Conferences like Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets are practically-oriented, well attended by a lot of industry, and involve a lot of AI: http://www.stanford.edu/group/mmds/. Look through the speakers and topics. This is one example, there are others.

3. A lot of important tech companies have teams that do AI and AI-type things, at least using the modern definition of AI (Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, even Apple with its Siri acquisition; there are others). This is not to mention people using this stuff in other areas, like finance and bioinformatics. These groups sometimes talk about what they're working on, so you can check this out.
Also, a large segment of the market for TI calculators is composed of high school students who wouldn't be able to use an iPhone app on a test (teachers often ban phones from tests since they could be used to get answers from a friend).
The folding one seems more useful. And that's a pretty impressive demo.
I took you up on the offer. ;-)
It's just a name.

I got an undergrad degree in "Computer Science & Engineering". If you have to nitpick, what I studied was not strictly about "Computer", "Science", or "Engineering". It has bits of computer as in how to build a computer, bits of science as in the mathematics and theories of computation behind it, and bits of engineering as in how to build a large-scale program.

Personally I like "Computer Science" just fine. It would be silly for others to mandate CS to be called "Informatics", "Computer Studies", "Mathematics: Computer", "Computational Art", etc.
There's a reason "mama" has the same meaning in nearly every human language; it's the first sequence of syllables a baby can pronounce, and in nearly every culture, babies at that very early stage spend all their time with their mamas. So it's the natural mapping.
Only quiet because we're working so hard. We're releasing the alpha on October 16th (at the jQuery conference in Boston) so we're a bit frantic at the moment. Either way we're hoping to get a blog post up this week.
"Just because something is important to someone else doesn't mean I have to give a fuck about it. For example, I am not going to be a vegan just because other people think it's bad to eat meat."

You're not being asked to do anything other than offer respect to a fellow human being. You're certainly not being asked to change your eating habits.

No one is choosing to make themselves a pariah. In fact it's your insistence on singling out a transgendered person as 'other' which is creating outcast status.

The fact that so many people upvoted your comment, made me feel that expressing a response was all the more needed.

What you're choosing to do, is belittle someone's right to express themselves in an honest manner.

The fact that you choose to do so with so much vitriol and lack of empathy, only confirms I chose the correct term to identify you with.
What about: let Java die and let something better take its place?... But it's true I live in an alternate reality.
Fractional reserve bankers don't lend out more than they have on deposit - they can't lend what they don't have.... and they have to keep some in reserve.

If the people borrowing the money then re-deposit that money in the same institution, then yes, you get a money-multiplier effect, and the institution ends up lending out more and more money - generally this takes place across separate banks with money moving back and forth though.

Assuming a 10% reserve, it's not like someone can deposit $10 in a bank and the bank can "magically" loan out $90 - they don't have it to loan out. The most they can loan out is $9. If that $9 ends up deposited in another account at the bank, they can then loan out 90% of that deposit, etc etc.... but that's slightly different and more limiting than what people generally think of with regards to fractional reserve banking.
Try searching on www.meetup.com - there's probably more meetups than you might think, across a wide range of topics.
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I can imagine that many people have uttered the very same sentiment in relation to black people and the n-word.

At the end of the day, we all deserve to be able to be referred to in whichever way we choose. It's about mutual respect, and I'm shocked that this kind of view is prevalent in 2010.
I've always felt like going to a "rock star" job interview with dyed blue hair in a mohawk, ripped jeans, chains, black string vest, black nail polish, black eye liner, leather jacket, walk in late and demand only blue M&M's.
This guide comes too late for me! When I visited the area while travelling through cali 8 years ago I couldn't find a hint of SV... but Stanford's campus is great.
It's gonna be funny seeing Hulu block this thing. It'd be even funnier if Google added in a "Desktop compatibility toggle" to report the user agent as vanilla Chrome to force Hulu to show up.
I have never minded terms of endearment and respect like "rock star". Much better than being treated like a lowly cog, if you're the sort of developer that has some ambition and self-respect. I think the term comes from coders who are a bit hipper and more arrogant in their attitude than your typical computer nerd. I understand some might find that attitude grating, but I don't really care. Their attitudes are boring and docile.
Speaking of CEO's has anyone here seen this wackjob? http://twitter.com/fahrenheit815
Legally blond: why you do not need a 50 page security schedule
yea. true.
Thanks :)
Glad you like the links, but I disagree with your disagreement =P

You can use factor graphs for either directed or undirected models. See this paper:

Extending factor graphs so as to unify directed and undirected graphical models
B. J. Frey
Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 257-264, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, CA, August 2003.
I read it in the late 70s. It's a very good book. It had a controversial title, and people made great assumptions about the book's contents based on that title. But basically it's a book about making sure that you don't allow anyone to (overtly or not) push you around.
Couple of minor corrections:

Endless Loop Drive -> Infinite Loop Drive
and
Sunnyvale -> Cupertino
Great Idea, I didn't realize you could run the app within the Facebook Fan Page. We are going to try that, I will let you know how it goes. Also I like the referral concept. I assume you saw forkly, when you sign up for their beta it asks you to refer 3 people to get bumped up in their waiting line - www.forkly.com Thanks!
Exactly, that was the point. Even Mark Zuckerberg primarily focuses on Product and Platform, whereas COO Sheryl Sandberg focuses on other Biz Dev things.

(From: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/business/03face.html)

"Ms. Sandberg has focused on building the business, expanding internationally, cultivating relationships with large advertisers and putting her polish on things like communications and public policy. That has freed Mr. Zuckerberg to focus on what he likes best: the Facebook Web site and its platform."
Corporate Censorship Creative Kills Innovation
It's a pretty good (and quick) read.

It has been retitled "To Be Or Not To Be Intimidated?: That Is The Question" due to people thinking it was actually about intimidating other people, rather than standing up to certain types of business intimidation.

It's a mostly autobiographical account of a real estate broker, and how he learned to stand up for himself against a series of different sorts of intimidating business types. There's nothing revelatory in any of this: go in prepared, have a fallback plan, don't buckle under to crazy demands. There is some interesting stuff about real estate brokering in there, which I found interesting, but which can easily distract from what the author is actually trying to discuss.

I read Trump's first book "The Art of the Deal" right after, and I think Trump's book does a better job of doing the same thing with much more interesting stories. First of all, Trump's arena is New York City real estate, which is more dramatic than Missouri real estate. Second, Trump talks about the actual personalities and organizations he dealt with, rather than the cutesy pseudonyms that the Intimidation author uses and the generic locales he describes. Third, Trump, for all his faults, comes off as a real guy with real ways (good or bad) of dealing with business problems, where the Intimidation author is mostly creating a hammed-up and semi-ficitional account of his modest deals.

Bottom line: "Winning Through Intimidation" is ok if you get it from the library, and you enjoy watered-down business parables. "Art of the Deal" is much better if you care about how someone who did some pretty spectacular things describes how he did them (which may or may not be wholly accurate).
It takes a level of cognitive sophistication to think that an image on one object (an iPhone) actually represents a different object in the real world. It's incomprehensible to a baby, goes without thinking starting at the age of 2 or so, and hence represents a certain intellectual or artistic sophistication to explicitly call into question later in life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
Further east, there is also a Coffee Society in Campbell (in the Pruneyard Shopping Center)
"Sounds like a deep religious belief which have no written support in the current laws or the Constitution of USA."

Actually, the US Constitution prevents the government from establishing an official religion or from prohibiting the free exercise of religion. Federal law extends this protection of religion into the commercial sphere by preventing employers from discriminating on the basis of religion (unless it is a religious organization, or the employee's religion would somehow interfere with the job).

"an especially funny one considering that the churches were the main driving force behind the Prohibition, yet carved out an exception for themselves."

Prohibition is an interesting case, as it was actually one religious group (low-church Protestants) lobbying for it over the objections of another (Catholics and some high-church Protestants).
This whole list reminds me of an idea I've had for such a long time that I've wanted to do, just to meet people and provide something useful.

Once a day daily email that highlights great places in an area. These are well known spots, but there are tons others that I'm sure long time residents haven't even heard of. Thrillist and all the others seem to focus on bars/restaurants, but there's just so much more to an area to see. I lived in the Valley for a year and still never got to see enough. I wish I had one email a day telling me of places to check out/unique things to see. I'd never get around to all of them, but it would have made my time there even more enjoyable.
There is no leap back into an AST, JIT works on hotpaths and applies optimizations to an AST (bytecode) directly to machine code, there is no reinterpretation of machine code. 'Communication' if you will is simple - everything has an address.
The decline of modernity?
Does anyone know if the Logitech offering will work with 'older' TV sets? I've a ViewSonic LPW425 that works a treat, but doesn't seem horribly compatible with digital hook-up.
The problem with this analogy is that while it's reasonable to think of oneself as the sole authority over one's own home, that concept does not scale in any meaningful way to the size of a country, unless the governing power is vested in a monarchy.

What are you talking about? The recognized governments of the world are the sole powers of the areas of land they control, in the same manner that I might be recognized as being the master of my domain; in fact more so!

In essence: enough other people agree that they are, so they are. I think you're reading too far into the analogy to assert that democratic governments as entities in and of themselves don't fit.

That done, we expect them to be indifferent to the question of whether 8-bit silken handkerchief designs will affect the US economy in positive or negative fashion - that's for the market to discover, not the customs inspectors, as long as there's no ongoing trade dispute between China and the US justifying their exclusion in accordance with treaty.

I'm not sure what part of the planet you live on where this happens. When and if we actually do establish it with trade, we can start worrying about immigration.
The GPLv2 patents provision is rather weak, and it is extremely unclear if derivate works of OpenJDK are protected.

In case you haven't realized it, Oracle's intent is to effectively kill open-source Java.
This does give him the flexibility to raise prices in 3 months though.
This scheme is very confusing for someone who used loan money to pay tuition directly. Why not just get a debit card from your bank or credit union? Is there some sort of barrier to entry, besides minimum deposits, that I do not know about?
They're adding Gmail labels at some point on the roadmap.
Well unless he's still trying to discover the sweet price point.. If he thinks he wants to charge $3 a month after 3 months, he will still have most of the early adopters ready to pay instead of waiting for a year for the subscription to expire for the early adopters
May 6th Flash Crash: Algorithmic Trading to Blame
His hairstyle is part of his religious practice. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafarianism#Locks
Instapaper on my Kindle is well worth $10/month.

I used to skim all the long articles I came across, now I read them all. The longer, well thought out ones are some of the best.

If he released a more native Kindle integration, I'd definitely pay for it.
Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees
Overall I like the idea and most of the design. There are a lot of awesome little touches in it. But a lot of small things seem weird. Maybe some of these can be smoothed out for the full release:

- The status item (why?) that doesn't have a
drop-down menu at all, but simply shows/hides the
application?
- The slightly-off-feeling fonts and buttons
(especially labelled buttons like "save" and "send").
- The hidden-seeming account preferences that you can
only access by double-clicking.
- Some sort of custom implementation of a toolbar
that bypasses the normal configuration option for
toolbars in OSX apps.
- No option for plain text composing. I know it's
minimalist so you might want to minimize options,
but nothing's more minimalist than plain text.
Like he says: PayPal takes a minimum of $0.30 from each transaction, so processing a bunch of $1 transactions is wasteful.

He probably also doesn't want to scare people away who might not want to spend more than $5. Spending $3 won't scare people away.
This was a large culture shock to me (Coming from the UK). We see California as some sun drenched beach babe area.

Imagine our shock when we visited some beaches and they were full of fog so you couldn't see, and the water was yellow and frothy. I guess we were still too far north, but it seems like to get a half decent beach you have to go down to Santa Cruz or further.
I went through the same thought process just a little while ago with my new startup. I'm proficient in .Net but I kept an open mind and explored other web technologies.
I thought I was somehow missing the boat by not using RoR or something open. But I had discovered what others have and that is that .Net scales just fine. I have government agency as a customer and they use .net and they have some very heavily utilized sites and the hardware spec to run them is quite manageable. Also there are legions of talented .net developers the world over.
In terms of the development cost, the express versions of the tools are free and they are not missing features that you would need unless you have a big team.
The server costs can be mitigated by joining the bizspark program.
The other reason I chose to use the .Net platform is that there are 3rd party components that I require. I would rather use these natively rather than wrapping them in a web service or something like that.
Personally I think the price between “free” and using .Net is in the noise floor.
Mine says it a lot when reaching for food/bottle. I'm wondering if it's being used as "me" or "mine".
Weekend Sherpa does pretty much this for the greater Bay Area, and focused on outdoor-type things.

http://www.weekendsherpa.com/
You might take a look at Amazon Payments.
Sorry, I think you misunderstand my point. I'm not comparing the terms' meaning, but rather the purpose of using them. You want to attract a certain kind of developer with a term like 'rock star' or 'ninja', just like you want to attract a certain kind with 'senior' or 'experienced'. That's all. The point is they don't really mean anything.
I don't even see an option to pay for any kind of service (logged in or not). Did i miss the link somewhere?
Hi Cory. Could you make it so that next button doesn't disappear? I tend to hover over next buttons so that I can click next, click next, click next, but it had faded away when I wanted to click it. Also, you might want to be careful of what videos you show, or have categories / ratings. One of first that came up was a man being mauled by a lion with a screaming crowd. It was quite shocking. I think the idea is good (the site, not being mauled by a lion). It's something that I think is lacking from YouTube, although it is now possible with music videos.
I guess what I meant was that it would make the hype that Deep Blue got at the time seem like a joke, since I believe Starcraft is an immensely more complicated game.

And I disagree that insane micromanagement will win the game. In the opening moves, there's only so much micromanagement you can do since you're limited on resources , technology, and units. And by the time where lots of micromanagement comes into play, there are already a lot of strategic decisions made that could easily affect the outcome of the game.
+10

I worked at one of these places, as a contractor. They never offer health insurance. They buy a lot of pizza and junk food, and give out lots of cheap praise, but will never send you to a conference or otherwise contribute to your well-being or professional development.

These guys offered me a permanent position, and I turned it down for a real job.
Why is Virgin America so Cool?
Virgin America knew that the only way to compete in the commoditized service of air travel, where competitors are forced to compete on price, was to invest in elevating the experience itself. That's why they're so cool (and financially successful)
Story of my first trip to Fry's:

Myself and my roommate (another startup guy) were pretty hungover. I think it was some launch party the night before or just playing Halo with drinking rules. We were sitting at Gelayo Gusto in Mountain View. We had no furniture at the time and our TV was this crappy trinitron we got from Good Will. (Keep in mind, we somehow negotiated a ridiculous deal on a townhouse 3 bootstrapped entrepreneurs could never afford otherwise). We decided it was time for furniture or electronics. My roommate suggested we go to Fry's if it were electronics. I said: What's Fry's? Fast food? His response? Screw furniture, we're going to get a TV, and you NEED to experience Fry's. $1000 later we walked out with a 50 inch TV and saved $100 of it to get some lawn chairs + a tent for the living room. Some of you may have even stayed in this tent before. It was kind of the guest house we set up, inside the house.

Tent picture: http://cl.ly/fbb39c0b2477b483de73

I have a ton of stories like this. My year in silicon valley was without a doubt the happiest time of my life.
For a hacker I cannot imagine a more amazing gift to oneself than the gift of ever-present Internet access via Sprint/Verizon/Whatever via USB dongle or expresscard.

It's ~$50/month -- but I would definitely give up lattes and buy black coffee for it.
Every time I see a good bye message , my heart just goes down.
That's not a folding shovel. It has a rotatable spade head.
Do you have a specific virtual machine in mind, or are you asking for general approaches to the problem? A simple approach is to only JIT function bodies, and deal with all function calls at the VM level. Then all function calls within JITted functions call back into the VM, e.g. by being compiled to some variety of _vm_do_function_call(function, params). Actual VMs include a bunch of other optimizations, of course; which ones are possible depends partly on the language's semantics (e.g. can we assume functions are statically defined, or can they be redefined at runtime?).
What's the killer feature?
Here's an example. Java Drive (no relation to the language) in Sunnyvale is five blocks long. According to Google Maps, the following businesses are on it. (Plus I'm pretty sure there's at least one Yahoo! building there.)

Supertex

Logic Devices

RGB Networks

Infinera Corporation

NStreams Technologies

CTT

Palo Alto Networks

Net App

I, personally, only recognize Netapp and Yahoo!.
Great list.

While living in Palo Alto I was surprised that there seemed to be more startup events in the city. SOMA definitely feels like part of the scene too.
Great app and this is exactly what gmail should look like to begin with.
Email pg@ycombinator.com
I just downloaded PayPal Wars. Any other page turners on this list that you can't put down?
I'm surprised that San Francisco is only mentioned in passing. This list seems to me like the old view of Silicon Valley. (Or, maybe, if you had to describe the valley geographically.)

It feels like the new Silicon Valley is in San Francisco, and that its heart is in Soma (or the Mission).
Thanks, I'm looking forward to it and trying to be patient.
hey rurro - working on something you might be interested in. do you mind emailing me? fsimmons at gmail.
What is it with the cromulent word 'atmos'? Second time in a pg article. Atmosphere too hard to type? Personal shorthand slipping past the proofreader?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JpwjnMFlJI#t=1m33s
The whole notion of software engineers having much in common with rock stars seems rather misguided. Being a software engineer does not usually involve making loud noises, trashing hotel rooms, having a shallow superficial personality, attracting teenage groupies of the opposite sex, repeatedly firing your manager or buying football teams.
Free coffee: http://hackerdojo.com/
Don't forget, Marco is not shy to charge $4.99 for Instapaper in the App Store. I do not have the statistics right now to back it up (although I'm sure a few Google queries could), but I'm fairly confident that's above the average price for an app.
Dependent method calls are compiled into the single image version of x86 code, these dependencies are resolved and compiled the first time the call is found in the bytecode.
"In case you can't tell, the founders are the ones leaning forward eagerly, and the investors are the ones sitting back with slightly pained expressions."

I like pg's new humor.
Humor on the web and how to stop it
Gonna go out on a limb and this is the more likely culprit: http://www.mahalo.com/answers/important-and-exciting-announc...
Sneak Preview of Google TV
The similarity of the UI to the iPad mail app really gives me the sense of this being a future incarnation of Apple Mail.

I haven't used it extensively, but Sparrow's adaptation of the iPad message list seems very usable so far. The Tweetie-style account navigation might even be better on the iPad than the iPhone-derived hierarchical menus Apple currently uses there.
Great another closed source client for the mac that might suck.