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I've been pretty consistently disappointed with how EFF has been portraying this bill (which I don't support), to the point where it's causing me to re-evaluate the EFF as a whole.

The ACLU has had a much more measured response. Instead of trying to mobilize opposition to the bill by depicting it as "SOPA 2" (which it clearly isn't), they provided a list of suggestions for narrowing and refining the language in CISPA. The new draft reflects many of their concerns.

At its heart, CISPA is mostly a publicity measure meant to provide its sponsors with a veneer of having "done something" about the growing threat to industry by determined nation-state attackers (which is a real, if perhaps overhyped, threat to our national security). The kernel of intervention in CISPA --- the only thing CISPA actually "does" --- is an "official" provision for sharing information between service providers.

Some things you should know before you make up your mind about how dangerous that sharing is:

* It is already broadly allowed by the pre-PATRIOT 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which requires only that information be shared in conjunction with an actual effort to maintain services by the provider of the service itself, establishes no limits on the amount of information share or who it's shared with, explicitly carves out the ability for providers to share information with officials acting under color of law during criminal investigations (without a warrant!), and makes no mention whatsoever of anonymizing or stripping PII (ironically unlike CISPA).

* It reflects already- in- place common industry practice: providers are already sharing often-detailed information about attacks.

* The "monitoring" of your emails is already so commonplace and widely accepted that it forms the basis for products like Google Mail; the capture and sharing of your email during criminal investigations is, sadly, already allowed without a warrant in many US venues!

It is one thing to suggest that the state of affairs for electronic privacy is sad indeed, and to militate in favor of better laws. Count me in.

It's another thing entirely to attempt to twist every meaningless, do-nothing piece of legislation to come out of Washington as an attempt to rewire the Internet in favor of the MPAA, which is exactly what the EFF appears to be doing here.

I felt like the concern over SOPA was slightly overblown but at least fundamentally valid. Here I see virtually no validity to the concerns, and any epsilon of valid concern that is present is so outweighed by hysteria that the net effect on civic discourse is negative, not positive.

Support organizations that aren't trying to play off your emotions.
It's always going to be a little annoying with node's callbacks, but they dont have to be large. In connect all I do for an http test is (with mocha) https://gist.github.com/a5f796fff5fc72748e1b

A lot of it definitely comes down to API, but when it comes to callbacks I would agree
Based on the labor discussions here and on reddit, next time this year might be more like:

"I thought I had a good thing going paying my workers as 1099s, but then I was audited and all my workers were reclassified, the IRS went after back taxes and my workers sued for benefits, and the fact that I incorporated as an LLC didn't matter (since an LLC offers no protection against IRS recovery of back-taxes due to reclassification)."

I strongly recommend he seek out the services of an employment lawyer.
>> I think that point was completely lost of the OP.

Totally agree.

Here's the weird thing for me.

The title "Skill doesn't matter if you lack taste" is a gross oversimplification. One that can be countered with the another oversimplification "Taste doesn't matter if the work you produce is ineffective".

The two points he makes (Star Wars and Local TV ads), while tastefully written, don't seem to be (to me at least) fully fleshed arguments that support the post's thesis.
You just listed all the qualities we're going for - thanks! :D

Let us know if you need anything!
For NLP applications, which I think Aria's article is mostly concerned with, non-linear kernelized classifiers are often little better than linear ones. I think that's one part of the recent interest in SGD-style training algorithms (they work for linear cases nicely, less so for kernelized ones).

[deleted part about kernelizing pegasos, realized i dont know that area]
It could be so much worse. At least they're not going on about camelCase and Hungarian notation.
I'm the guy that wrote that post.

I would say yes, the Chromebook is great for non technical people. There's nothing to set up, nothing to back up, nothing to break.

The Chromebook is just Google Chrome. So if you think that a person can get by with just a browser, this is the way to go.
Real time analytics are an amazing tool in e-commerce.

Incremental merchandising gains can lead the huge wins in e-commerce. Real time analytics are one way to see what people are buying and what's hot right now.

Let's put this example out there.. you have a product on your site that is now featured on a hot fashion blog. Customers are coming to your shop and clamoring to purchase it. Problem is, it is already running low on stock and once sold out, you'll miss the benefit of the blog exposure. Real time analytics allow the merchants to make quick, informed buying decisions so that the product remains in stock.

I'm very interested to see what Chartbeat does for e-commerce analytics.
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There are so many pieces on what is wrong with the London scene, because the real scene (full of crazy people) is in Silicon Valley. You cannot compete with the insane people there who are happy to destroy capital and jobs in the pursuit of notoriety, peer adulation and the odd $1bn exit.
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To me this argument boils down to style over maintainability. The arguments for the latter seem so clear in my mind that I don't really want to dignify the other side with a response.
Itunes and Amazon work as long as you are the kind of person who deals with restrictions ok. How many times have I had non-technical friends come to me with their iPod and ask me how they can share music with another friend and be frustrated that it's not possible, I've lost count.
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I used cloud9 for a bit. It is nice and in the future I think it may be the way to go. I'm not a node.js guy though, which seems to be what cloud9 is best at.

Besides, I'm too used to emacs. I SSH to an EC2 instance and run emacs when I need to write code on the Chromebook.
Ugh. I hate this kind of article. It hypes a new technology without bothering to explain how it works or even what it does. It might as well be a tweet:

Martin Casado is hellasmart. Nicira is the VMware of networking.
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Every time I see something like this, I wonder- who made out with that money? Forget the commentary about why the startup idea was bust, why the website UX sucks, etc. Who made out like a bandit with $40MM in return for nothing? Whoever that is, this was a GREAT deal from their point of view.

P.S. Not surprising that government involvement plays a part in this. Sounds akin to Solyndra et al. here in the states.
No, it's not, because the law of the land already allows service providers to voluntarily share information about the usage of their service (ie, email if they operate an email service) to the government without restriction, so long as that sharing is incident to an effort to protect their own service.

In other words: service providers can share any information that is ostensibly about abuse of their own services; what they can't do is feed information about e.g. drug trafficking conducted over their service to help build a case against drug trafficking.

CISPA also relies on voluntary sharing and is also framed around efforts to protect services.

That doesn't make it a good bill. I don't think it is, and I "oppose" it (for whatever that's worth). But I oppose it because it's an ineffective measure, not because it's a threat to the Internet.
As a devils advocate.

1. How many times are we going to have to debug and rewrite code to work around this defect? If it were just this once sure add the the ';', unfortunately it is never just this once.

2. How much time will be saved by using a minifier that actually supports the javascript language. What other language features will break because someone didn't feel like supporting javascript in their javascript minifier?

3. How much mental effort is needed to support half a dozen different minifiers that all support a different subset of the language as well as the cross browser differences we already have to take into account.

It is a matter of trust. If your tools skip supporting language features because someone decided they didn't like language feature X, what other corner cases did they skip because they were unliked?
There is a risk associated with emulation research, but I'm not convinced it would so certainly lead to unfriendly AI as you suggest. Moreover, you yourself have stated how difficult FAI research is. The real question then is whether or not the risk of emulation research is small enough to outweigh the small chance of friendly AI succeeding before other AI projects succeed. I have yet to see a comparative analysis of these two possibilities.
Hmm.. I guess you are right. I suppose there will always be a market for "X for Y". Take successful "general" product and specialize it.
we are using chartbeat. we are measuring how many visitors got into the website right after the tv advertorials on our tv shows which have the highest ratings on the days they air. yes, we cross check with google analytics. :)

it is also helping us to understand at which point we fail. chartbeat really is a great service.
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My definition of a "deep understanding of ML" definitely excludes people who immediately try "the most sophisticated algorithm." Buzzword jockies try all the cool stuff first, but most practitioners I have met try basic statistical methods first. Then when they see what issue they need to overcome they bring in a method designed to help with that issue.
Architecture behind this is really, really good. Can't wait to get some time to start seriously testing it.
> Itunes and Amazon Marketplace work

The study is about emerging economies. Itunes and Amazon Marketplace barely exist for them.
No matter how clearly labeled, common-sense, or standard practice something is, people will always find a way to rationalize not knowing or push their dislike of it on to someone else, usually an undeserving person. It is a simple lack of personal accountability, and happens everywhere.

I worked for years at a bar, the number of people who tried get more scotch put in the glass when they ordered it neat (no ice), because it didn't look as full as their friend's on-the-rocks was astonishing (poured via shot glass, simple displacement effects here). These were ph.d level people who should know better. Of course the on-the-rocks people tended to complain about it tasting "watered down"... sigh.

Anyway, there is a highly amusing website: http://notalwaysright.com/ that will probably provide insight into this phenomenon. I believe most of those stories have happened, having witnessed most of the scenarios (albeit with my own customers...)

Point being, excusing people for not noticing the big rating that is on the front of the box is probably the wrong answer, at some point we have to accept that someone needs to be responsible. Otherwise, we just keep passing the buck, I mean how long until we can just claim "oh I didn't understand the rules for labeling, it is obviously too much to expect me to read all those rules, we need a better rule system from $oversight_org", and then the org says, "oversight is too hard, how were we supposed to know that those naked people actually meant nudity"... and on and on
Nice strawman. There was a single title suggestion -- yours. I explained why I didn't agree with it. I'm not out to get you, and I don't purposefully choose "sensationalist" headlines for my submissions. I admit that the "actually" on the headline was poorly chosen and shouldn't have been there.

FYI: There's apparently a time limit for editing a post. I can no longer change it.
I posit that this argument is true in proportion to how much freedom you have to accomplish a task.
With git, I don't have to tell it that I renamed file. It can even figure out if I moved the file from one folder to another. And with git, I can see the complete history without worrying about the fact that the name might have changed in the past.
I come from a Python background. However, thanks to work and school, I now program mostly in JavaScript, PHP, and Java (though I still use Python when I get a chance).

Now, I could use underscore_names in Java and JavaScript, but I don't. Even though I personally prefer underscore_names to camelCaseNames, I also realize that those languages are designed with camelCaseNames in mind, that the community conventions are for camelCaseNames, and that it is better to write code that looks nice and idiomatic in that language than it is to write code that looks nice and idiomatic in Python.

Not to mention that there are some cases where camelCaseNames are required - for example, when overriding inherited methods in Java - and if I used camelCase where required and underscore_names everywhere else, my code would be inconsistent, which to me is worse than using a style I don't like. So just because I could use underscore_names when I wanted to, there are a lot of reasons that I shouldn't.

A lot of those points also apply to JavaScript:

* JavaScript was designed with the use of semicolons in mind. Brandon Eich himself has said that ASI was only intended as an extra check for sloppy programmers.

* Outside the Ruby on Rails crowd, all the JavaScript I have ever seen uses semicolons. Even within the Rails crowd, this "no semicolons" thing is fairly recent.

* Since the majority of JavaScript syntax is intended to mimic Java syntax, which does require semicolons to separate statements, semicolons blend well with the language, and are therefore nice and idiomatic.

* There are situations where you have to use semicolons due to ambiguity to write straightforward code - there are workarounds, like tricks involving !, but they confuse the intent of the code.

One thing that I noticed is that most of the notable semicolon-haters - fat, mislav, and the GitHub guys - come from Ruby on Rails. Conveniently enough, Ruby does not require semicolons at the end of statements. I suspect this anti-semicolon fervor may come from a desire to use Ruby's conventions with JavaScript.
I think the problem is that we have a number of bills that are bad (PCIP, ACTA, SOPA), and some that are neutral at best because of the ambiguity in the way that they're written.

Personally, when it comes to ambiguity in laws like these, I tend to be suspicious, because it's almost inevitable that someone will end up being targeted disproportionately, whether intentionally or not. (I explained my reasoning in a post about SOPA, but the principle applies here as well, since the law is ambiguous enough that I'm not sure what powers it does or does not grant: http://bit.ly/HOfYnt)

But what we don't have is any bills that are actually good. Spolsky said it best[1]: we need to fight actively for what we want to see, not [just] oppose stuff that we dislike. But right now, Congress isn't doing any of that, and it looks like that isn't changing anytime soon.

I respect the EFF, but I can't imagine they have the kind of lobbying power that the MPAA does, so I'm not sure who would be the right person to push for the kind of bill that we do want to see. Whoever that is, let's hope that they do it soon.

[1]https://plus.google.com/117114202722218150209/posts/4GgaRiSy...
Exactly what recourse do you think you had in (say) 1998 to the sharing of your personal email by a service provider with (say) the FBI? 1998 predates the PATRIOT act and anything it did to defang the ECPA; your privacy rights were presumably at their zenith. So: specific questions:

(a) what could you have done if Hotmail decided that your mail was relevant to an investigation about an attack on their service?

(b) what protections did you have that once the investigation wrapped up, your emails would not end up in a database at DoJ?

(c) under what specific law would you have been able to sue Hotmail for sharing your mail illegitimately?

It should be obvious that my belief is that you had no recourse then, that you could not have sued, and that DoJ could easily have banked your mail or, to raise revenue for the state, sold it to direct marketing companies. But IANAL and it's wholly possible that despite the (limited) direct experience I've had with the ECPA and email privacy, I'm totally wrong.
Sounds like you're creeped out by copyright in general, not by anything to do with this article.
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I agree and might go so far as to say the transitions were in good taste. "Taste" seems to me like a fairly generic word that can be easily misused. To me, taste implies consistency with tradition as well as good design, etc., but the OP seems to think that taste is directly synonymous with good design.

If he really wanted to use an example of bad taste from the new Star Wars movies, it seems like everything Jar Jar would have been the easy target.
Agreed. Another ingredient is sustained engagement with the problem, so that your algorithm works not just for a pre-selected demo, but actually provides noticeable performance gains for real data.
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What kind of math skills? What would a programmer need to learn in order to work on ML stuff?
If there had been software development a thousand years ago we'd be burning people for using (or not using) tabs/semicolons/emacs etc.
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Wear what helps you feel the most comfortable. This will ensure you do your best during rigorous interviews. Also keep in mind that startup employees respect skill and expertise. They know these usually vary inversely with an affinity for suits and other business casual costumes.
Not a personal attack as Catch is a neat product, but these numbers are basically irrelevant.

This type of load can easily be handled by a simple SQL box. We did these types of #s with a single SQL Server box 4 years ago, except that your "total documents" was our daily write load.
Great question that was asked today was, "would you pay to see a dead artist perform in holographic form"?

Think about all the artists you could bring back and have perform for people when using this technology.
Site does not render well on the iPad and a really poor choice of fonts for the title were what lost me. Never criticize condem or complain, people in glass houses, well..

I'm not trying to be overly negative I'm just pointing out a few things I noticed *palmslap bad Kenrik.
Technically, yes. Practically, it only matters if they decide to sue you and can prove you did it. Which will probably only happen if you end up doing something competitive. Or if they're dicks.

In your shoes, I'd keep them very separate. A friend has a work smartphone and a personal smartphone for just this reason. But beyond the technicalities, it's only polite to stay focused on your employer's work while you're at their place or otherwise on their dime.
The report is actually from more than a year ago and is more than four hundred pages long. One of my favorite parts is the section on industry research, which begins as follows: "At the risk of over generalizing, we see a serious and increasingly sophisticated industry research enterprise embedded in a lobbying effort with a historically very loose relationship to evidence."
Disagree. This is so much worse than that. At least with Hungarian notation (which thankfully died a well-deserved death), its advocates were arguing for a relatively well thought-out system of readability and tying member names to their types for quickly-identifiable scope and type referencing.

But, to suggest that simply removing semicolons constitutes some grand gesture towards readability, simplicity, or something as grandiose as a "minimalist aesthetic," is...beyond absurd.

It is Bike Shedding Qua Bike Shedding.
The hologram is extra creepy, but is it legally any different than a commercial or picture? By now I'm sure contracts already had clauses about what happens in the event of someone's death, and whether or not they're allowed to use the person's likeness.
What does CISPA have to do with the MPAA?

The bill as originally drafted mentioned the protection of intellectual property. Because we're on HN, I think we're all wired to think IP means "DVD rips". But I don't think normal people or policymakers think of it that way; I think IP was a natural way to write "the things that we think of protecting from hackers who are trying to break into SSL CAs".

As evidence for my point of view I offer the fact that the very next draft of the bill removed intellectual property entirely.
That's not true. I rely on copyright as the foundation for lots of things (the code I write in my job and it underlies the OSS licenses that I use for code that I release freely). Copyright itself does not worry me.

But there are concerning moves to make copyright last essentially indefinitely and in the UK we've recently seen the Olympics be backed up by criminal rather than civil penalties for copyright-related offenses. Those things are worrying.

It is true that there's nothing in the original article about copyright or finance, but it is worth considering in the light of the fact that it's unlikely that the event or the other performers did this out of the goodness of their hearts. Follow the money.
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Yep. Could be interesting.
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Is this what happens to airlines? I was wandering that air travel is a very valuable service yet companies seem to struggle to survive. Thanks for the explanation, I wasn't familiar with the term.
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For those that think they can control EVERYTHING their children will ever see, hear and experience - I have news for you, you're going to fail. Not only will you fail in your attempt, your children will most likely be handicapped living in your bubble that lacks critical thinking.

Also, while you may be a Christian/religious person here on Earth, I don't see how that applies to a future with aliens, other planets, etc. With the way things are going, it's almost guaranteed that religious power will be a thing of the past as soon as we can prove other life/civilizations exist besides the one here on Earth.

One obviously does not need religion to have good morals or good values. Different doesn't mean wrong, and certainly not in this case. Homosexuality, polygamy, asexuality, and natural gender change (clown fish) already exists here on Earth in one form or another. It's not hard to conceive that these behaviors also exist on other planets even if we don't get to witness it firsthand today.

Anyway, if you want to live in a bubble, make yourself blind and deaf and just don't buy anything. If you choose to interact with the growing, ever changing world, expect to learn something new when you do it.
I assume you are referring to my spelling of arguement; the additional e is allowed in British English.
This is a long-outstanding bug, over 2 years old now:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-863

Obviously you can vote for them to fix the bug. But it's been two years, so I'm not sure it's really high on the priority list.