skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, man - I'm no ally of the Plaintiffs in this case, but I don't think I buy that argument.

What Comcast characterizes as "shakedowns" are really just negotiated settlements. The fact that the claims didn't go to litigation doesn't necessarily indicate that they aren't valid; it just means that they were settled before it became necessarily to file a lawsuit.
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The only thing that will save Pakistan is a complete disassociation with radical Islam. That, more education and less corruption. Godspeed.
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Im not american so bare with me on this question. So my credit score is based not on my repayment history or my financial stability but the potential profit of making a loan/credit to me? So if im cancelling credit cards before the interest free period is up this reflects badly on me? Why?
Plus, if you shift your work hours (assuming your boss is OK with it), your commute will be much better because you're not traveling during rush hour.
But most people never become good at most things they try. I don't know enough about photography to comment much more on it, but that phase may be a necessary part of the learning process.
"This poor education leads Zardari (a corrupt politician who has ties to the murder of Murtaza Bhutto) only coming to power due to a three way effect of a sympathy vote (assassination of Benazir Bhutto), bribery and threats to people who work on his land (he is one of the largest land owners in Sindh). Nowhere else in the world would a criminal become the president of a nation."

No it's not. I won't go further.
Bear in mind that RS is a magazine, not a newspaper. It's not just supposed to inform you, it's also meant to be a nice read.
So how would you propose changes are made to an "API"? Never? The change was made in a new version, with the changes clearly laid out in the changelog .. what more do you want?

It's funny. PHP gets a bashing for the rotten bits .. when the rottern bits get patched up it gets a bashing for breaking BC.

Anyway, I don't think you understand just how empty that attack was. Frankly it was nothing more than the ramblings of an obviously very inexperienced developer.
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This article doesn't mention it, but I wonder whether the fact that plaintiffs were pornography producers (http://paidcontent.org/2012/06/20/comcast-crushes-porn-owner...) was relevant to the court's decision. The decision is just a one-paragraph notice saying "for reasons stated in open court...", so it's hard to know. But I could see the Court being more worried about discovery being used for harassment in such a context.

On the other hand, given the lack of a written opinion, it's possible the Court didn't care about this "shakedown" aspect of the argument at all, and instead quashed the subpoenas for some more technical reason, like the improper-joinder argument that the article mentions.
Reading Schmidt I got the same feeling I get when reading Bill Gates talk about the teacher's unions: there's a lot of diplomatic-talk going on.

I think Schimdt is smart enough to see the truth. He's just playing the role of "diplomatic reporter" for the crowd. His calculus is probably that it's better to be very shy about exposing the truth and hope for change in the long run. It does not make sense to antagonize the people you will have to be working with in the future. Better to praise them slightly, acknowledge a few flaws that are non-controversial in nature, and express some sort of vague hope for the future.

Might work. Might not.
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They claim that their shader compilers/schedulers are part of their performance benefit, yes.

But they don't need to provide that source, just hardware specs. Gallium3d already has shader compilers and schedulers.
And how many mortgages do you suppose it would take to buy poetry.com? It's not even close to accessible to the average person. Maybe if the average person saved every penny they earn for a lifetime, they could buy poetry.com.
"Corruption is everywhere. Pakistan is hardly different. Even in the UK you'll find corrupt politicians or entrepreneurs. Perhaps they are less so (or simply better at it?) but this simply won't stop any time soon."

You can't even begin to compare the corruption of North countries and South countries.
The level of corruption in U.K. is far less, with surely bigger impact on the world because of the power of U.K. in the world than what you can find in a country like Pakistan or Nigeria.

In short, yes corruption is everywhere that in itself is not an argument.
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Thanks for adding detail, and suggesting a book for further reference.

While continuing to be numinous about the backers, it can be pointed out that there are also backers who can easily fund a movement further towards an even more pro-Islamic agenda. Not that I am arguing that this will happen or not.

I understand your point on the CHP losing its relevance, but partly that was also because the AKP tapped into the hitherto sidelined but more populous communities in Turkey, who are more pro-Islam. Correct me if I am wrong. These matters tend to always be intricate once you reach a certain level of magnification, so I am sure there are further factors at work behind the AKP's rise.

edit: removed redundant line on financial backers, cleared position a bit.
Well my point is not that everyone should be able to live off $18k a year. My point is that You don't need $500k a year to live decently. I have a new car, a good apartment and amenities such as cable TV and xbox live. Certainly geography plays a large role in individual costs. But again, I'm not trying to say everyone should live on $18k a year. I'm saying I (a single fellow btw) do, and it's a satisfactory lifestyle complete with all the necessities and a few luxuries.
I work with a guy like that I do something, he stands there watching and when the boss walks in he says "We fixed it!"
Issue here is not whether it can be fixed, anything can be fixed. Issue here is why in the world they have changed things in a such way to break the old code?! Was it necessary? I don't think so... I understand the need to re-factor, and making some old stuff obsolete along the way, of course, but it's not the case here. It's just that someone wasn't really playing attention to this. And this type of negligence to the details is really killing php as language. If after 10+ years in php I need to re-read the manual every now and then to make sure if the things are still working like the last time, it's just crazy..
Actually, the article title is technically incorrect, since this activity was actually an ISK sink, due to the use of ISK in part of buying items from the LP store (which removes ISK from the game). The trillions they made was from other players, not from ISK faucets like NPC bounties. What they generated lots of was the highly valuable items which were then sold to other players. So it would have a deflationary effect instead of inflation.
related link comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2936371
Thanks. So senones are not just fragments of phones - two senones could sound exactly the same, but be classified differently depending on their context within the audio stream.
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I'm his son.

Let's take the example of The Netflix Prize, a $1 million bounty that the movie shipping organization ran several years ago. Their purpose was to improve their ratings prediction algorithm, under the pretext that people frequently ran out of ideas of what to rent, and that a successful suggestion algorithm would keep people as customers longer after that point.

So, they carefully defined the success rate of their algorithm - that is, make it predict some set of actually-rated movies X on a 1-5 half-integer scale, take the arithmetic mean of (the sum of (the square of each error from the real rating)) - which we'll call root mean square error, or RMSE - and you have your "score," where towards zero is perfect.

Their predictor had a score of I think 0.973 something (it's been years, don't quote me on that.) Their challenge was simple.

Beat their score by ten percent, and you trigger a one month end-of-game. At the end of that month, whoever's best wins le prize. One million dollars, obligatory Doctor Evil finger and all.

Netflix provided (anonymized) a little over 100 million actual ratings, where all you had was a userID, a movieID, a real rating, and separately, a mapping "this movieID is this title." You were only allowed to use datasets in your solution that were freely available to everybody, and you had to reveal them and write a paper about your strategy within one month after you accept le prize, honh honh honh.

Seriously, it was awesome. They were going to do a second one, but lawyers, and the world sadded.

So, there, you've got a ten times larger dataset. So surely sixteen thousand cores is the drastic thing, right?

Well, not really. I was running my solution on 32 Teslas, which in the day were $340 in bulk and had 480 cores each. So I actually "only" had 15,360 cores, which falls a whopping four percent short of Google's approach, which several years ago cost me about the price of a recently used car, and which I was able to resell afterwards as used, but without the bulk discount, for almost exactly what I paid for them in the first place.

Swish.

And I mean, I've got to imagine that someone else chasing that million dollar prize who thought they were going to get it invested more than I did. There were groups of up to a dozen people, data mining companies, etc.

So if one dude sitting in his then-Boise apartment can spend like $11k on a ten times this dataset dataset over a commercial prize?

Yeah.

Cyc still pantses all of us.
I agree that CV is currently behind human sight. I just argue that this is more due to lacking input processing than to actual classification engine. The reason they used 200x200 px images, I think, was that bigger images couldn't be analysed in sufficient quantity.

In a way their first input processing of the real images was pixelisation filter. If you feed pixelised image to a person you see how much information is lost. If you make single pixels occupy significant portion of view person might loose ability to recognize the image at all. Feeding so little information to CV system is like trying to teach nearly blind man to see.

To improve CV we should focus on finding best ways of converting full resolution visual data to something of smaller volume in such way that important features are preserved.
This input data IMO should also include time. I, thanks to crappy eyesight often recognize people, actions, objects relying more on how they move not how they look to me. Even with sharp eysight sometime your vision just gets stuck and can't recognize what is in the scene you are currently looking at. You can't understand what you see until something in the scene moves or you move a bit.
Immigrants from where? How many of them were black and living in the inner city? Or white and living in rural poverty?

Post WWII saw the rise of the middle class, it's not really fair to compare it to now and tell poor people "hey, just do that!"

Bootstrapping is for websites, it's not a solution to widespread poverty.
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Looks like all the distributions are going to be signed with the MS key.

In which case, would it not be worth clubbing together to have a root key manager, who can take the place of MS in signing packages?
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Does this mean it might be possible to install Ubuntu on ARM devices preloaded with Windows 8?
The amount of polish that goes into VS is incredible. It's a pity these little useful features are quite hard to find
Then how would you know the loop wouldn't eventually halt? ;)
Oooh, that does give me a hint about what’s going on. It should be fixed. Let me know. Thanks
I'm around 2 generations post-Gaeilge (Irish). Phew...
Comcast has only recently started fighting back against this one law firm (Prenda) because they were not promptly paying Comcast's fee for handing over subscriber information.

Comcast charges $45 per IP address for civil cases. Prenda was late with payments in another case and the dispute even made the court docket. Comcast said to the court they discussed payment terms with Duffy (Prenda's main counsel) and resolved their differences.

I do not know if Prenda ever ended up paying Comcast, but Comcast's refusal to comply to me seem more rooted in the costs to their legal department than to protecting their customers.

Comcast had no problem giving out thousands of customer's information for two years to these black mailers until recently. The merits of the case have never changed. They sue people in favorable jurisdictions and only Comcast could have stepped forward with the contact information and fought that with real evidence.

Kudos to Comcast, but don't consider them for sainthood yet.
I think part of the problem with collaboration in shooters, is after that particular game, there's no reward to collaboration. So what if you teamkill, you're on a diferent team the next match. In EVE there are long term rewards to playing along with a corp, for both the corp and the player. You make money for the corp in some way and the corp provides you benefits (free play-time, ships, etc), security in risky places and the opportunity to explore places you can't on your own.
Where did I mention India exactly?
This is epic if it works as advertised. I was thinking recently that the dev tooling story is pretty bad for mobile apps, compared to desktop apps or server side. I find iOS apps particularly onerous to test and automate (and refactor and analyze).

I'll definitely be giving this a serious look.
You mean like a CA? Of course they could do that, but then it wouldn't be Windows Certified (it would just be Somebody-Else Certified), which is how OEMs want to brand their products. This is all about dealing with Microsoft's hegemony.
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From the source[1][2] and not on an advertising infested page.

[1] http://blog.canonical.com/2012/06/22/an-update-on-ubuntu-and...

[2] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/035...
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I switched from iPhone to HTC radar windows 7.5 and love it. It has its own app store though which may not have every app that iPhone has but I personally don't care.
This is exactly how I feel about it.

I think it's an example of how not to interact in a community, from both angles. Also, I can't stand the notion that open source developers are "volunteering" their effort. All programming is voluntary in the sense that you are making a free choice to do it and most likely gaining capital (social or financial) in the process. I voluntarily build software and give or sell it to others all the time.
Vim is extremely regular, as well as extremely powerful.

The thing that makes me rage when I'm forced to use an editor other than vim is "Ctrl-RightArrow / Ctrl-LeftArrow".

Will it stop on spaces? Will it stop on commas? Will it stop on parenthesis? If I hit Ctrl-Right->Right->Right then Ctrl-Left->Left->Left do I end up back where I started?

I cannot fathom how people blindly accept that their editing movement operations are inconsistent. In case it's not clear, by default in windows most text editor areas do not "properly" return you to where you started with a bunch of Ctrl-Right/Ctrl-Left pairs (although I can't tell you at the moment what characters actually trigger this issue).

Finally, by being a "modal" editor... when you want to type letters and stuff, getting into insert mode is an extremely small price to pay in comparison to having 26 function keys under your fingertips at all times.

"""Vi has the advantage that most ordinary keys are connected to some kind of command for positioning, altering text, searching and so forth, either singly or in key combinations. Many commands can be touch typed without the use of ⇧ Shift,Ctrl or Alt. Other types of editors generally require the user to move their hands from the home row when touch typing:"""

...the idea being that when you're actively typing, vim is just as crappy of a text editor as anything else (notepad, bbedit, etc.) but when you're not typing you've got at least 26 letters which all do something, then 26 more because you can type shift.

q == record macro, w == move by word, e == end of word, r == replace character, etc, etc, etc. (don't make me type them all out, we'll be here a while! ;-)
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| ^ 0 isn't some magic all-encompassing number. It means 0. NULL means no number based on your shitty incorrect input, and is the correct choice.

Best response to the whole thing except for Rasmus' awesomeness.
What a catch 22. We want commitment to OSS so we're GPL v3, but because of our commitment we can't supply OSS so instead we're going to go for something else that's not OSS so we don't disclose the key.

Someone, somewhere, has just torn their beard out in fury.
The article authors of the paper? How can you say they are deeply confused - have you not seen their previous work and presentations? Everything else you say I agree with.
Pressing tab in insert mode doesn't work for me :(
I agree.
It looks like all the Distro's will have to jump on the bandwagon so to speak in order to be used by the new Windows 8 boxes.

Then in this case, why are all the distro's having to shell out to get a licence key from Microsoft?
I know of a lot of small distro's that dont produce any income, and pay for their webspace out of their own pocket.
Why are we going to force them to purchase a key to allow their distro to run on a Windows 8 box?
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Vlingo, Siri, and others have been doing speaker independent auto-adapting speech recognition for years and talking about systems requiring 'training' and improvements there sound like this article is 5 years old. Great to see innovation in this space but this article is very light on detail.
It's been happening for a while now (2009 article)[1] and there are probably earlier reports.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/17/beware-the-reverse-brain-dr...
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Well, maybe. There are a whole lot of very different things called "The Singularity" and some of them are much more reasonable than others.

There's the Cambpellian Singularity, which says that we won't be able to predict what will happen next. Pretty non-controversial as far as it goes.

There's the Vingean Singularity, which says that if we ever develop AIs that can think as fast and as well as humans then due to Moore's Law they'll be thinking twice as fast as humans after 2 years, so they'll start designing chips and the period of Moore's law will fall to 1 year, and so on with us reaching infinite computing power in finite time. I think this vision is flawed.

Relatedly, there's the Intelligence Explosion Singularity (associated with Yudkowsky), which says that as soon as its AIs designing AIs, smarter AIs will relativly quickly be able to make even smarter AIs and we'll get a "fwoosh" effect, though not to infinity in finite time. I find this unlikely, but can't rule it out.

There's one I don't have a handy name for, but lets call it the AI Revolution viewpoint, which is that AIs will cause civilization to switch to a faster mode of progress, just like the Agricultural Revolution and Industrial Revolution did. This one will only look like a singularity in hindsight, and might seem gradual to the people living through it. I think this one is pretty credible.

There's the Kurzweilian Singularity, where thanks to Accelerating Change we'll someday pass a point which will arbitrarily be called the Singularity. As far as I can tell this is Kurzweil appropriating the hot word of the moment for his ideas a la Javascript.

Then there's the Naive Singularity, which equates processing power with intelligence and then concludes that computers must be getting smarter. This is indeed totally naive and not something we should worry about. I guess the linked paper is evidence that you can substitute a faster computer for smarter AI researchers to some extent, but probably not a very large one.
Some of these attitudes are familiar with the Irish language aswell.
This one law firm has had cases against tens of thousands of internet users. To this date they have never served a single one.

Here's proof from Prenda itself in a court filing:
"Although our records indicate that we have filed suits against individual copyright infringement defendants, our records indicate that no defendants have been served in the below-listed cases."

http://www.scribd.com/doc/83287284 (page 4 - all cases)
My uncle was a carpenter and as a kid I used to just watch everything he and his team did. I can pretty much attribute all my engineering skills to that watching activity. I think my son would turn up the same :)
Thanks for the background. When I first saw that Comcast was doing the right thing here, my head almost exploded. Now I understand :)
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Does grammar matter anymore? (LOL)
I misunderstood your defence of supporting groups that do terrorism against other countries. It was just too weird.

(And when discussing Pakistan's terror support, it is hard not to talk about the groups infiltrating Kashmir.)
"Sure the guy didn't test the parameter as being empty, but if you pass a string instead of a float, an error should be raised"

Just like you should not pass strings in place of numbers, in accounting software of all things. Why can't just everbody get it absolutely right the first time?

Any language that can do anything also allows you to shoot yourself in the foot. And I think that was the case here, brainless programming; PHP hardly pulled out the rug under something reasonable in this case, they simply defined previously undefined behaviour... and when that happens, that always breaks crappy programs that depended on it, no matter in what language they're written. It's the big problem with idiots; PHP has nothing to do with it.
>Some of the people who raise the biggest fuss about PHP are also people who never dealt with it (except through Wordpress).

That's clearly nonsense. The people who point out how terrible PHP is have huge, very detailed and very accurate lists of the problems with PHP. They don't get that from "never dealing with it".

>If you will ship faster and better with language X, go ahead and use it.

We do. Why do you think that means we shouldn't point out how bad PHP is? Did you know that for every stubborn dumbass that sticks his fingers in his ears and screams "LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!", there's an inexperienced developer who didn't know how bad PHP was or why, who was inspired to learn more because of that "PHP bashing" post, and who subsequently saved years of hardship by switching to a sane language? Just because you don't want to hear about how shitty PHP is, doesn't mean nobody else does.
efilinux looks to be BSD, so at least it isn't like they are using a proprietary boot loader. https://github.com/mfleming/efilinux
How does this compare to Microsoft's Old HTK (HMM Toolkit)? The language used on the website seems to point to a lot of the same things. Is this breaking it down to actual IPA phonemes?

I'm mostly curious because I used the HTK for my thesis and would like to know how they compare (besides, one being just 'newer').
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Welsh is doing pretty well as a language, compared to other celtic languages in that area.
By recycling LP into LP, they actually decreased the effect of the ISK sink (LP store). This means that ISK that should have been removed according to the intent of the design were not.