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> Music files are special: they're relatively big.

Dropbox supports delta sync (a la rsync), which means a change to music metadata translates to only a few bytes being transferred instead of the whole file. This is a killer.
From a quick glance to his profile - no, apparently he is not. Taking a personal jab like this really isn't good form either.

Edit: This was a reply to a post by the author of the blog post before he deleted it.
Yeah he's definitely manic and probably co-morbid with other issues. Manic people often develop inflated self-images to compensate for their repressed feelings of inferiority.

Just an all around neurotic. Generally miserable to be around and incapable of enjoying life.

He doesn't need non-jokers he needs a therapist.

What is sad is that guys like this have NO CONCEPT of how other people view the world. They do not realize that we can all sit calmly and enjoy life, that we can enjoy smalltalk, that we can relax with our family and not stress over the fact that we're "not wealthy".

He takes his business so seriously because he is mentally ill and he must excel at business (not just excel, but conquer) to appease his neuroticism.
I started out spending closer to 10 hours a week earlier on in the AI course. We initially had a local meetup and I spent more time reading the textbook for the first few units. Had to scale it back to 5 or so hours, which is good enough to get through it, but not enough to spend extra time discussing with others, reading supplementary materials, and coding.
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The headline is technically accurate, but I suspect most people don't know the difference between x-ray scanners and millimeter-wave scanners and assume if a scanner shows underneath your clothes then it is an x-ray.
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+1

also, what about the DB class ? will it be running again in 2012 ?

I couldn't "attend" more than one at the same time (especially the advanced tracks) and I already joined the ML class.
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> My colleague offered to do it, but he just had a baby and it would be ridiculous to keep him all night. No one else was available on Sunday night.

But then why make it a point in your argument?

> My staff like me [...] everyone is treated great [...] there's no task management

Nope, sorry, that doesn't make sense.

> I want people to be their best and keep their word. And again, that email was to business partners, not to employees, on what was supposed to be a very short project that dragged on.

Yes, precisely - it was to business partners, not the entire Internet.

> We tend to have fun, too.

Splendid - If you don't mind me asking: How many of your partners (or employees) do you retain for a long time?
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Generally, the most telltale sign of "not-smart" is someone being easily swayed by emotion or persuasion, gullible, pandering, and full of misplaced idealism or concern. Often not-smart people will exhibit these things and you feel embarrassed for them. Examples are people who fall for stupid sales pitches, executives that fall for buzzword technologies, blatant pandering to an authority, or someone is simply confused by basic conversations.

Some people get good at masking "not-smart" by doing things like repeating back what is said to them as their own idea later in the same conversation (very weird) or attributing their belief to someone else "Bill told us that Microsoft Bob was going to be big, so we installed it on all the systems at our company."
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I don't think Google should politicise its homepage, same goes for Facebook. Once you start opening the floodgates, you start to polarise your service to political persuasions.
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That's not why the TSA banned them. It ruins the security theater illusion and would bring on countless lawsuits.

The real way to end the TSA reign of terror is to force congresspeople, tsa executives and everyone else who wrote themselves into exemption from all scans and gropes - to actually have to go through lines and security theater. Then it would end quickly.
Could someone enlighten me what this is about and what is the context because while I can understand the point he seems to be trying to make (just make it happen) I have no idea who he is and what that was written for...

Oh and: he equals being "only" middle class with being a "joker" who hasn't risen to their potential but the wealthy people are the not-jokers and the ones to admire? Seriously??

> 99% of people you interact with in life are fucking jokers.

99% of all humans think that 99% of people are jokers, idiots or just dumb... very trustworthy figure.
thanks, I should add (and I hope this is somewhat obvious) that there is a team of about 7 or 8 of us in total. A lot of work goes into site/technical/video processing etc, and then there are 2.5 of us making the assignments.

The real hero behind the assignments is Jiquan Ngiam (http://cs.stanford.edu/~jngiam/) who is in charge and does most of the work. He is awesome, brilliant, very hard working, and I thoroughly enjoy hacking with him on the ML class until late AM.
The trouble is that the parking tickets may have caused the decline of the number of people parked in places where they prevent traffic or provoke accidents. In that case, the major annoyance is gone and the parking tickets is only the new minor annoyance, but now the biggest, that took it's place. Reversing the amount or height of parking tickets will not cause a decline in annoyance then.
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The caps/profanity to content ratio is way to high for my taste. Weird: usually there is interesting stuff on that blog, and the writing is Okay too.

not to self : never drink and post.
If I were Lee, I'd be scratching my head wondering exactly what it is he's asking of me.

If I were Sam, I'd wonder why he's decided to dick me about without apology, explanation or reward, then spend the next three paragraphs apologising to Lee and promising to "do something cool" for him.
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I agree - he writes quite a lot, but somehow it's mainly about his aspirations. If somebody can link to a post where he talks about actual and concrete success, that would be great. So far, all the aspirational rants make it seem like he is mainly contract-hopping and astroturfing.
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Most people who write novels never make any money of them, because they never get published.

Most of the ones that do, makes a pittance.

The percentage of authors that actually makes a living publishing novels is vanishingly small.

If the possibility of making lots of money writing novels is a big incentive for you, presumably you're the type of person who also think they have a good shot at making it big in Vegas.

I'm not necessarily dead set against copyright, but if these people are largely incentivized by money, then society could solve that issue far cheaper and with far fewer restrictions than what copyright provides for, and still pay these people more money than they get today, by creating grants awarded based on some measure of popularity.
This is very exciting news, very much an autodidact's dream.

I've been enjoying crawling my way through the great ML classes by Prof Andrew Ng, and had been wondering if by any luck other classes would be provided for future semesters. Seeing this just makes me really happy, and thankful to Stanford. Not only is it the future of education but also gives countless people around the globe a chance to learn topics they may otherwise have never had access to (I am one in this category).

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You don't like compensating people well? It's my goal. It's not always possible, but I'd like everyone working with me to be paid extremely well, have great resources, and produce rates of work that only happen in a culture of inspired well-equipped well-trained autonomy. I want top paid people, comprehensive benefits, complete healthcare, and serious investments in quality training.

Howard Schultz's autobiography "Pour Your Heart Into It" is a good read if you want to learn more.
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Well, for energy storage and conversion in gasoline powered cars you only have option. Gasoline stored in a tank and combusted in an Otto cycle engine.

I don't think that people's driving behaviour is divergent enough to support multiple battery chemistries in the long run.
> The fully generalizable things you can teach would be communication, consent, and respect.

Agreed. But this is rather a different kettle of fish to what it appears the grandparent comment was suggesting.

> People would think they're dirty perverts for coming up with something that isn't in the standardized curriculum.

Exactly my concern. There's enough of this going on already without unwittingly enshrining it in some form of sanctioned sex education curriculum.
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They work, but they're less usable than the db and ml counterparts.

On the other hand, the videos themselves are actually better (I love the pen-and-paper approach), and there's a lot more small questions within lectures, which helps keeping my ADD in check.
I keep track of the tasks via a desktop s/w called Grindstone.

Check that out.
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MIT OCW requires a far higher level of intrinsic motivation. Stanford has almost nailed it. While online learning has taken Space out of the equation, Time, it seems, is still a big variable. Having people do the course at the same time with deadlines is working. They just need to work through the technical glitches, which shouldn't be that hard.
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What age range are you in?

I'm in my mid twenties and feel exactly the same.
What's this: "If there’s grass on the field, play ball" ?! I think you'll find the actual phrase is, "if there's grass on the wicket, let's play Cricket."

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Whenever someone starts fantasizing about transitioning to a technocratic government, I start fantasizing about hoarding guns in preparation the coming civil war / revolution it would result in.

The very concept of a technocratic government assumes people know and agree what the goals should be and fully understand the consequences. If that was the case, the current political system would "work". Instead people disagree on what the goals should be, and will change their opinion on what the goals should be if the goals the initially chose causes changes they dislike.

E.g. if you present proof that legalizing cannabis would have only positive effects, don't expect most people who are against it to change their mind, expect them to change their argument for why it should remain illegal.

Any technocratic government would necessarily need to be dictatorial and heavily oppressive - one that wasn't wouldn't stay in power for any amount of time.

I keep seeing this idea prop up - especially over on Reddit. And it scares me. I've said there that I'd be first in line to take up arms against a government like that, and I'm serious, as I'd see it as a massive threat against my freedom.
Thanks for your work, the course looks very impressive. Probably the best introduction into the basics of ML I've seen.

By the way, will http://jan2012.ml-class.org/ be the same as the current ml-class? I mean is it the same course, or a more advanced one?
Exactly. It is a problem - I respect that Marco doesn't want to stich articles together, but I sometimes reach the end of an article to find myself unsure as to whether that really was the end, or just the end of page one. Would be useful to get some indication in Instapaper when this is the case. I am flirting with Readability for this reason.
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I wish it were this simple.

The school gives this guy a great amount of latitude and it's great that they do because he's truly knowledgeable, does a lot of research and helps his students a lot.

But, for every one of him, there are many others that, given the same latitude, will instead foist their pre-conceived ideas on students and insist that their view of sexual life, however either perverted or abnormally repressive it may be, is the way to go.

It's a hard problem with no easy solution because it involves a great many number of humans.

I really wish all sex-ed could be as great as this school has but I feel like a pessimist when I say that if that amount of latitude was given to every teacher that there would be a regular and constant amount of disasters created.

(Though I do agree that we can do way way better than our current sex-ed curriculum which is absolutely abysmal.. we need something that will at the very least address and provide some counter-points to the vast amounts of hardcore pornography now easily accessible.)
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I agree with you and there is a lot to learn from this public schmear campaign and from his very obvious failures. I am surprised how many positive replies he got on the blog, though... is this some cult?

First and foremost he seems to be suffering from severe reality distortion with the "we are amongst the 1% and should be multi-millionaires".

Second, this is an outrageous whining and bitching very alike to what little kids do: "but _I_ did all my work on the project, it is allll YOUR fault and none of it is mine!". This is business, if you really put your money where your mouth is on the "make a way" part then you need to STFU and reflect on what YOU did wrong. Obviously a lot, otherwise things wouldn't be so frakked up.

Don't compare yourself to Hannibal ever again or aspire to him unless you put your money where your mouth is. He did not lead his people from half across the world away, he was right there. He knew it is frakking impossible to lead his men unless he was RIGHT THERE.

> All of this shit was supposed to be done weeks ago.

It sounds like he is in some leading position for this project, so it should have never gotten to this point where he is NOW complaining things weren't done weeks ago. It is his fault for letting things slip and not managing it properly so it could finish on time. It is not enough to tell people now "here is my credit card, shut up and use it. but hey I am there for you, come ask me anytime" if you want to manage them - and then blow them out for asking you stuff or talking to you about stuff.

On top of that, I understand he is not with his partners/employees but frakking around in Asia somewhere and sending them emails like that? Well guess which critical human side of a project absolutely severely suffers from not-being-with-your-team? It is communication. Email and skype are great but extremely narrow communication channels; nothing can replace being there and seeing each other every day, having a chat over coffee or sharing lunch and working together. I have made this experience first-handedly when our startup boss frakked off to some other country and barely popped in. Do not under-estimate just how much information and communication is completely lost just because you are not physically there working with those guys every day.

> Look. I love you guys. All 3 of you are dear friends of mine, close friends of mine.

That's why you called them jokers and shifted all the blame on them and made sure to emphasis how awesome work YOU have done and how clearly everything is THEIR fault. Again, no conception or understanding of how to be a LEADER.

> You and I both live in a world where most people we interact with are fucking jokers.

Oh you precious little snowflake... don't fool yourself, you are no better than the majority and so far you haven't done anything remotely close to what your role model(s) have done so back to trenches with you, precious little snowflake and earn your stripes.
Will the materials for these courses (videos + ref material + assignments + solutions) be available for browsing after the course has ended?
Go check out Steve Jobs's Janitor speech he (allegedly) gave to new VP's. It was his outlook exactly.
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I don't think that's the right way to go. I think it's better to _change_ yourself in such a way you are more comfortable in talking/interacting with women. AND most importantly to _stop_ thinking they'll hate you just coz your a nerd.

Because there's an interesting effect in play here (this applies to both men/women): if you think other people don't like you, then the way you act towards will possibly cause that to be reality. On the other hand if you actually take an interest in others and try to get to know them, even the ones who were initially repulsed by you will have change of mind.
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Our commission did have a problem with Street View photos, but not with the SSID recording.
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My guess is AI and DB class will be running again in the fall of 2012. They will probably follow the schedule Stanford has on these courses.
Just a guess though
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I didn't down vote you and I do agree with most of what you've said regarding competition (I suspect the rest of HN also agrees).

What you didn't address though is Marco's past relationship with the founders. Specifically he says that he advised the founders, promoted Readability on his website and even created a white-labeled Instapaper version of Readability. Now they've created a direct competitor to Marco's app. This is generating the sentiment.
For the ongoing courses it will be available, so I guess it will be the same for these also.The thing you miss out on taking them later is the structure of the class with deadlines (very good incentive to really sit down and learn!) and personal letter from the teachers
I wonder if people have thought through the security problems and implications of moving state to the client side..?

Actually, that's a lie, I'm sure they have not ;)
My personal issue with the machines is that they are security theater and a huge waste of tax payer money.
Prof. Widom said that if she were to run the class again, it would be at the same time next year, because thats when she runs it at Stanford.
People love getting hung up on definite numbers, it's weird. All fines should be a percentage of income. A parking ticket for a billionaire should be thousands of dollars. Again: the exact number doesn't matter in this discussion, what matters is that it should hurt appropriately. $100 hurts appropriately...for who knows who.
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That's simply not true.

1) Just because you never ask or intend for that, doesn't mean that's your right: TV channels don't have to ask each person that passes on the street and happens to be filmed for authorization. There's a thing called expectation of privacy.

2) Google, at least in some countries, did in fact request permission from the appropriate bodies: here in Portugal we have a "National Commission for Data Protection" and they did authorize Google to collect that data and even to photograph the streets.
Much of web would be so much more pleasant if article based sites were formatted from the get go like they are in Readability. I would gladly put up with one or two ads and they would more likely get my attention.
They say it will be the same class as current at ml-class Q&A - http://www.ml-class.org/course/qna/view?id=3925
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