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There's more than one person in this thread that fall into that category...
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What a Bullshit post.
No it doesn't. Making a day not be part of any week breaks the strict 7 day cycle, and will be rejected be the vast majority of the world.
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I took both, the AI and the ML class, and completed them to the end. All this with a very demanding work schedule at a startup in the valley. I've also been a PM for a large scale ML product that is in production and used by millions of people. I say all this because the courses were perfectly geared to someone like me. I thought the courses were excellent and pragmatic. (of course, like anything, there can be improvements).

I think the issue here is what we are witnessing, aside from the awesomeness of open courseware, is the evolution and continued maturity of Computer Science as a discipline, as it takes more and more mathematical concepts into its fold.

Machine Learning is growing up as a foundational pattern / algorithm that has evolved from research to applied to basic-building-blocks-everyone-should-know. Yes, it took the Valley and Stanford to liberate it (as a poster indicates somewhere here), but that's ok. There is as much street cred in understanding how to implement/design practical applications using ML as there is in pushing the frontier on new ML mathematical techniques. That's how new commercial innovation takes place. You need both sides of the equation; the research and the practical. The course chose a balance that favored the latter, because prior to this little existed. You can hear it in Prof. Andrew Ng's videos... "this is big in the valley"..."you now know how to implement XYZ"... "if you ask these questions on an ML product, you can save your tea, time and money" (I'm paraphrasing).

Recall that at one point, logic/truth tables, sorting algorithms, graphs, etc. all needed to be derived mathematically with their proofs. But then they became axioms and codified as foundational building blocks of CS that just work, enabling us to focus on the next step in the evolution. We don't question or even think twice today when implementing "if (X && Y)".
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On that list, I think FB has the worst "bullshits".
I was going to mention this alternative (have read it long long time ago in some amateur astronomy book), but I had no idea about its origin. Thank you for providing it :)
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Yes, it's true the things listed are bullshit. Yes, I guess we can take it or leave it.

Sometimes the "take it or leave it" position ends up being presented in a way that it is framed that those of us who choose not to partake in the rape of our liberties are backwards luddites (non-facebook member here, also got their domains blocked to kill their insidious tracking). I hope that criticism of those who say "no" is not where this article series (if that's what it is) is headed.
Do we really want a group to model how to destroy a politician using data mining and potentially nefarious hacking, when it's an issue that WE support that they're being targeted for?

You seem to be assuming three things:

1. Industry does not know how to destroy a politician.

2. (And therefore) All politicians who have had their career destroyed (or marginalized) had it done fairly and as a natural consequence of their actions. Not because of Industry involvement.

3. Politicians are not also Industry players.

I believe you are wrong on all three counts.
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Marco why don't you transform the post in a poll ? ;)
Monthly billing tends to be superior because it reduces the "just one more" barrier by a factor of twelve. You do need to have a mean customer lifetime of at least a year for this to be significant.

Big, heavily bureaucratic institutions with weird cycles and policies may be different.
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How is this bullshit?
>"We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business. "

If anything thats being upfront that Amazon is a business in the business of making money.
Yes, it seems to contain a lot of prime numbers (36,500 to be precise). I haven't uploaded any data files since the total size is 3Gb.
OK, it breaks the assumption that quarters are a whole number of months.

12 is a handy number of months to have in the year. 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. Not by 5, but you can't have everything (unless we had 60 months of 6 or 7 days each... let's not go there).

13 is prime.

I think not bothering with months at all would be better than having a 13 month year.
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English is my mother tongue, but that's what I wanted to say, actually, that we shouldn't be afraid of people tagging random stuff as "terrorism", we should do something about it, otherwise we're just potatoes or vegetables waiting for bad things to happen.
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We are actually working on this at ChronicDB http://chronicdb.com

On 6ren's rigidity argument, relations and SQL are still not enough to guarantee you'll always be able to get the data you need; notably, when the data model changes. Backward compatibility is important and we might have they only solution that guarantees it.
This is not far from how most of Sweden operates. Most offices comply to the idea of "half-day before holiday" notion and as where fixing the dates wouldn't interfere with that too much, I doo believe that fixing Christmas to a Saturday would make a lot of Swedes angry.

For one, we celebrate the 24th, and having the 25th on a Saturday sure gives Friday and half of Thursday off. But the 26th is also a holiday, which would then be on a regular Sunday. New Years Eve is not a holiday, and having that on a constant Friday would open the days between Christmas and NYE as a work week. Where as now some years you can have a nice long (10-14 days) vacation with only a couple days of actual leave, because the rest are considered national holidays. (Example: 2012 I can get 14 days off with only 5 days of leave.)
Imagine a scenario in which you need to generate a large number of samples based on a discrete random variable with a large number of outcomes n. If you had a library that implemented both algorithms, which should you use?

Are you skeptical that a domain for that scenario exists?
When I think of something being "bullshit", I think it is totally false. But many of these points are part-truths, not complete falsehoods.

For example, Google tracks lots of personal data to make their products better. So the sentence "We solicit all of your personal information and track everything you do to make things better for you" is partially true. Of course, something is in it for Google too. When they add new features to a product driven by personal data mining, they seek to grow market share. They also use your personal data to target ads at you better. And they may be using it for further research projects that you don't know about.

But the statement has a lot of truth to it. That's not the normal definition of "bullshit".
"premium products at non premium prices" - second part is true, first part is not
I saw something along these lines recently: a calendar-clock. http://clackcolander.tumblr.com/
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I remember being frustrated, as a student in the early 2000s, that the C99 standard was not freely available. I really wanted it, so after many hours and days of searching, I eventually discovered that there were drafts, and that they were freely available. That was good enough for me :)

Same thing for C11, the final draft, N1570 is freely available: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf
Can you make a torrent of the data files and put the .torrent file on GitHub?
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With Apple, I'm the customer, not a marketer. This makes me comfortable with our relationship. I don't really care about Ping or app store approval policies, so, meh...

With Google, I can see their ability to become a shady company pretty easily, but it is just too damn easy to switch search engines. Bing isn't so bad you know.

But Facebook knows so much about me, and the network effects are so strong -- this is the company I feel most unpleasantly stuck to. Not "Comcast stuck" mind you, but still, more "stuck" than I'd like. It's like my friends keep having parties at a bar I'm not super fond of... and I keep going.
The variance you are exploiting in this arbitrage setup is a result of the inherent variance in information about the chairs, i.e. uncertainty. Since they are used, there is lemon's principle at work. You can argue that Aeron's don't really depreciate in quality that much though over time so that variance in unjustified and in fact there should be some exact market price (perhaps as a function of time used, or more simply just dependent whether its used or new). But the thing is, more likely than not, that variance IS justified. Some of the chairs may be less broken than others. Some of the sellers may be less dependable than others. You can of course condition on this stuff - pick the low price chairs and mark them up by being the most dependable supplier, vouch for the chairs, become an expert in the chairs and be better at out the lemon's, but those things all add cost, so NOT doing all that work is already priced into the market. But cool experiment nonetheless! I have also found that I can buy a used Aeron, use it for a few years, and sell it back for like the same price. Not really a quickly depreciating asset .... maybe better than the stock market the last few years ...
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Although not listed, Microsoft's ASP.Net is also susceptable to this attack.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/28/ms_zero_day/
Note that it would also likely work on something accepting json, not just post params.
I don't disagree, but I think in the context, bullshit is being used to mean PR-talk. As you say, PR talk might be half (or more, or less) truths, but it smells nonetheless.
Marco's use is consistent with "On Bullshit", Harry Frankfurt, 1986. Specifically: "Bullshit can either be true or false but bullshitters aim primarily to impress and persuade their audiences." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit)
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IANAL, but my understanding is that anyone who obtains a GPL'd binary is entitled to receive the source as well, from the source that provided them with the binary.

If you are careful with who you distribute the binary to, you could in theory keep the source sort of "secret", though I don't think it's a good general approach to GPL software.
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They're all bullshit except the 'Android is open' thing. That's just a plain fucking fact.

Despite the incessant barrage of snarky 'open' jokes from professional Apple frother John Gruber (typically redeemed somewhat by being funny) and M.G. "Mini-Gruber" Siegler (not so much), you can go download the fucking source code:

http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html

Sure, tons of manufacturers will sell you junky locked down Android-based phones (which they can do because... tada... it's open), you can also just go buy the unlocked phone that Google offers, and install whatever the hell you want on it.

And if you really want to root your phone and install your own build of the OS, it's basically as easy as ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA and boom-you're-done.

For any reasonable value of open, Android is. Claiming otherwise is just some weird kind of (apparently contagious) gobbledygook nonsense making the rounds among people emotionally invested in iOS. (Which I do use btw; although Android is open, it is still not good enough for me yet.)
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"For example, Google tracks lots of personal data to make their products better."

I think the post is discussing motivation.

If Google tracking you would make your life better, but somehow not help them target advertising, would they still do it?
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We distributed the intelligence from the mainframe to minis/workstations and then later PCs.

Then we re-centralized it to the datacenter/cluster with the web browser 1.0.

Now we're redistributing it to the browser (thin clients finally win).

Sadly, it appears that the democratizing effects of the PC revolution won't apply when the code is delivered from a centralized server. Doing the computation at the edge doesn't subvert control if the code comes from the center. That (absent possibly impossible in practice cryptographic measures) jailbreaking edge devices is possible isn't terribly relevant if 99.999% of folks can't even understand the things they could do with a jailbroken device.
>yet, Europe switched to the euro

And isn't that working out really well.
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You had me until "Dynamic typing will come to be perceived as a quaint, bizarre evolutionary dead-end in the history of programming."
The sentence from Google is a falsehood. It claims that the tracking is done for the user, and implies that this is their only intention. The actual truth is that Google only does what's "good" for the user as long as it improves their market position and/or makes them money. To have a position of "well, they do care about theirs users, even if it is to make money off of them" is intellectually dishonest because you're ignoring the implications of this -- that Google, in the end, has a drive to improve its own profits and market share. Obviously Google is made up of lots of different people and there are non-corporate wings that do actual good things, but this doesn't excuse the basic profit motive that must exist. Google doesn't care if you're getting the best experience from Facebook... they still want you to use Google+. They only want to target ads at me so that I click on them and they get more money.

Google cares about my online wellbeing as much as Colgate cares about my teeth.
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Except for a really long time, ie between Android 2.x and 4, you couldn't download the source code.

Edit: why is that being downvoted? It's a fact. HN can be a strange beast at times.
Or just write the spec, make the wireframes and hire someone to build it for you.
Apple's bullshit is strictly business. Google's and Facebook's bullshits affects peoples privacy, and, if they live in a country that values privacy, actually violates their fundamental rights.

Facebook and Google are engaged in open warfare against social values and legal restrictions that are prevalent in most of the world (especially outside the US), and the lies they tell about it can not simply be categorized as "bullshit" you can decide to tolerate on a individual basis.
Except Europe didn't simply switch to the Euro. Some members of the EU (plus a few others who aren't in the EU) switched to it, over a twelve year period, with some others pegged to it (and maybe switching some day), some other countries adopting it 'unofficially' (i.e. it's their official currency, but they're not officially members of the Eurozone), and some countries who theoretically must join, voting against it in a local referendum, and thus deliberately failing to meet the entry conditions on an ongoing basis so as they can't join.

(And this is, of course, ignoring all the logistical hassles involved in switching, never mind the much bigger questions, now very pertinent, as to whether trying to do all this may have been a cause of the downfall of Western Society, etc.)

So I suspect this example gives more weight to the 'unlikely' side, than the 'yet...' side.
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Mesoamerican (mostly known through Mayans, but others used the same calendar) had two ways of doing that.

First was the "Calendar Round", they had two non-synchronous "yearly" calendar of 365 days (Haab') and 260 days (Tzolk'in), giving a date in both calendars provided an exact identification in a repeating cycle (era) of 18980 days (~52 solar years).

Second was the "long count", a monotonically increasing calendar from a root date (think CE/BCE, except including days). A "long count" date is composed of a number of counters mostly in base 20: K'in (day), Winal (20 K'in), Tun (18 Winal), K'atun (20 Tun), B'ak'atun (20 K'atun) (dates have been found with even higher orders, but they're rare, those are the most common). A B'ak'atun unit represents ~394 solar years. This provides an unambiguous and very long term calendar. It's essentially what the UNIX system does, except starting from days (interestingly, a standard 5-units long count fits in just 22 bits, 31 bits [to account for signing] allows for 5.8 million years before wrap-around)
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I'm just saying that n has to be very large before the O(1) asymptotics kick in, that is, for:

c1 log(n) + c2 > c3

where, from what I can see, c3 >> c2 and c1 is low. And the setup time for the other algorithm is also greater (but, the same according to the O() measure).

In answer to your rhetorical question: I'd benchmark both. But, I already implemented the simpler algorithm in existing code, and bottlenecks for problems of interest to me are elsewhere.

Also, the more complex algorithm is more likely to have a bug -- which might be elusive, as they sometimes are with complex RNGs. I've found bugs in the published algorithms in DeVroye's book, for instance, and that book is considered authoritative. It's hard to convey just how subversive a parameter-dependent bug in a low-level RNG can be.
> but it is just too damn easy to switch search engines.

and personal email, and collaboration tools, and project mailing lists, and photo service, and maps service, and video hosting..

If you consider google as the search engine maybe not, but if you consider google the company the it's downright scary how hard it would be to get out of their grasp, IMO.
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It was done mainly by force and in a society that had almost no reading skills back then. The same methods are (thankfully) difficult to apply in the West today.

And it only "kinda" worked, because in the Chinese countryside, where most people live, 80 years later they still mainly use 农历, not the Western calender, despite all government stuff being done in Western calender dates. (I lived in China for some 6 years, just left the country yesterday, walking across the border to Vietnam).
> Now, you can see conflicting interest here, especially between employees and employers :)

Why would there be a conflict of interest? The point is that employees always get the same number of "days off" per year is it not? The conflict of interest would arise in countries where holidays are not carried forward (or stashed in leave entitlements), employers interest would be to have all of them fall on week-ends, whereas employee interest would be to have all of them fall on week-days.

Or did I miss something?
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I have higher hopes for hacker news. There is more to this than the morality of publishing emails.

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Specifically, of interest (at least to me), as the post claims that Stratfor themselves said this (I haven't actually checked/found external verification, please post URL if you do):
"In the past month Stratfor has drawn attention to a carefully assembled open-source report that asserted that last month's attack on Iraq wasn't intended just to punish Saddam Hussein for blowing off U.N. weapons inspectors. By sorting through thousands of pieces of publicly available data--from Middle East newspapers to Iraqi-dissident news--Stratfor analysts developed a theory that the attacks were actually designed to mask a failed U.S.-backed coup. In two striking, contrarian intelligence briefs released on the Internet on Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, Stratfor argued that Saddam's lightning restructuring of the Iraqi military, followed by executions of the army's Third Corps commanders, was evidence that the coup had been suppressed. Predictably, U.S. officials said the report was wrong."

Is everyone here happy with the claim that Anonymous hacked in and copied emails; is it too hard to imagine that it's a false flag op? Neither side can prove themselves, that is true, but there should be more trepidation before making claims or assuming we are being handed the truth.

Also, take a look at http://anonanalytics.com/ if you haven't, the PDF they published recently is a pretty good read. That's a faction of Anon that I have high hopes for.