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Yes, and in fact this happens many times over:

Greg gets a loan from the Bank for $5000.
Greg gives Stacey the $5000 to buy her car.
Stacey deposits the $5000 in the bank.
Bob gets a loan from the Bank for $4500.
Bob deposits this $4500 in his bank account to spend.
Mark gets a loan from the Bank for $4000.
And it goes on.

In the United States:
Of less than $11.5 million have no minimum reserve requirement;
Between $11.5 million and $71.0 million must have a liquidity ratio of 3%;
Exceeding $71.0 million must have a liquidity ratio of 10%.

That means mosts Banks only have to retain 10% of their money as cash and can continue to recursively loan out the rest of it.
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could it be because they serve a specific purpose or niche, is the reason they are able to disrupt pieces of craigslist.
No, my argument was one of racism in the initial response to what was then the top comment, specifically about the term 'muslim countries' within the context of Pakistan. This is wrong as islam is a religion not a race, although as the comment was specifically in response to Pakistan is not entirely wrong, nor right. The correct argument is that the original commenter is an islamophobe who considers muslims some generic 'other' subhuman.

In response to your comment you asked me to document rights abuses in the US, which I did.
Senones are just tied triphone HMM states. A context dependent HMM recognizer has a 3-5 state HMM for every context dependent phone. Conceptually, each different HMM state in each different phone HMM has its own Gaussian mixture model, but this is awful because many of them don't get much data assigned to them. So people share parameters for different HMM states based on a data driven decision tree that clusters states together. Those clustered or tied states are sometimes called senones.
It would take extreme desperation for someone like Japan to call in their held paper. That's an entirely plausible scenario though, given their debt loads.

However, the US could push a button and 'print' $2 trillion tomorrow morning in a monster QE3, and then hand Japan and China each a trillion dollars and nearly pay them off completely. All it would do is probably push the dollar index back down into the mid 70's, where it was 9 to 12 months ago. The bigger problem would actually be confidence, such a move would freak everybody out. Instead the Fed prefers to gradually inflate the value of Chinese and Japanese debt holdings away (which is also why China has taken such a liking to gold).
I love it. That's the power of the internet. You can focus on solving of the problems that nobody has solved before
That's cool; but what is the point of haskell there? It sounds like you'd just as well could use, say, ruby; what does the specific feature set of haskell help here? (Apart from it being somewhat hard to actually write fortran code in haskell. :-)
What are the effects of consciousness, exactly? Is there a procedure to determine whether a given human possesses consciousness as you yourself, do? Is there a procedure to determine whether an AI possesses consciousness as you yourself, do? Is there a way to disprove the solipsist? This is the nub of the problem: there really isn't.

Consciousness does not present itself as just another thing in the world -- at all. It is the unique medium through which you experience everything you have ever experienced. It is the fact that the universe exists from a perspective. You assume that the universe also exists from other perspectives, but there is no objective basis for this belief -- in the sense that there are no phenomena solely attributable to true consciousness.
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For people interested in some (currently) undocumented research code in python implementing DNNs that is also on my website. Although the code is only an initial release. I will improve it later, but if I waited until it wasn't embarrassing I would never release it, so I just posted it.
My coding skills are not sufficient enough to takes on those jobs. :(
>Here's how I read it:
We have this public API that we're not exactly sure how it works version to version, and, oh, we've just changed our parsing code

Really? You read it wrong. It is "he have a public API that had a bug --that only surfaced when using it in a brain damaged way, anyway-- and we fixed it along with doing several DRY improvements to our code base. We also gave ample time of advance warning with our beta releases".

"so if it breaks your stuff then tough shit because we're a bunch of amateurs."

An ad-hominem? And its Rasmus that cones out as a little child, to your "mature" reading of the situation? Priceless.

>I especially liked this quote: "Wow, a classic case of how not to treat unpaid volunteers who provide critical pieces of your money-making infrastructure."
Perhaps it isn't about being paid, but about taking pride in the work you do.

That includes fixing bugs and brain damaged edge cases of the public API.

The complainer and your reading are so off the mark, I can't even begin to comprehend such attitudes exist...
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You missed something.

Look more closely. The deer hunter gives his dollars to the apple farmer. But he then BUYS SHOES WITH AN IOU FROM THE APPLE FARMER. And the shoe maker can then trade that promissory note to others if he desires as well. The point is that the promissory note is no different in function or substance than money. Money isn't a thing, it's just a universally recognized form of transferable debt.
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The author of this book probabaly didn't create a Craigslist, so how would he know? </ad_hominem>
Yep you are correct.
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Relying on a brain damaged non documented edge case was unanticipated, not the change --which had also been in beta before release.

What kind of programmer passes "" and null on a function such as this and expects ....zero in return?

And what kind of programmer does it --as he admits-- "all around the place"?

If you give right to this guy, that's a very very short and accurate interview question --no hire.
It's even worse for the NY Times. They derived a huge amount of their business from national and international news (rather than just local / NY City). At the national & international level, there is obviously tremendous competition online.
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People keep confusing the software and the currency.

An open source distributed software system is available for free and is able to offer privacy, cross-border protection and prevention of asset seizure. But these characteristics are properties of the code and its forks, not of a specific coin or Bitcoin in particular.

What offers Bitcoin value is the level of marketing that makes people pour money and graphic cards in this specific implementation of the code. It doesn't have any scarcity - the code is forkable, there aren't any laws making it mandatory to use it for commerce/taxes, nor any laws that prohibit alternative coins from appearing. In fact, many other coin systems do exist, with the same advantages:

- http://solidcoin.info/

- https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Namecoin

- http://litecoin.org/

- http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/1895/what-bitcoin...
Once you make movie A, the next million copies of movie A are essentially free. So we divide the cost of A by the number of units we expect to sell, rather than charging the full price of it to the first viewer, and giving it away to the others.

Crucially, and this is where the whole utopian post-scarcity dream falls apart, the cost of making movie B doesn't significantly depend on the cost of movie A. Because a movie isn't a "thing". Movie B is a different thing than movie A.
Yep, their stock price didn't crash with the dotcom bubble, they still had time to make adjustments without it being so dire. Their stock averaged about $35 / share, from mid 1997 to mid 2005. They had to take loans from Carlos Slim, and they could have just earlier issued stock with a $7 billion market cap.
The term "Deep Belief Network" has been abused in the literature (not pointing fingers, I've done it too). The DNNs used mean a neural net pre-trained with RBMs. Sometimes, when people say DBN, that is also what they mean. But really a DBN is a particular graphical model with undirected connections between the top two layers and directed connections everywhere else. The confusion comes from the pre-training procedure. The pre-training creates a DBN, which is then used to initialize the weights of a standard feedforward neural net. Then the DBN is discarded. It is a somewhat pedantic distinction. Since DBN is already an overloaded acronym (Dynamic Bayes Net) in the speech community and not entirely accurate for the pedantic reason I just mentioned, we decided to go with the DNN acronym.
The fact that the GPL uses copyright is just an implementation detail.

In actual practice, it does the opposite of normal copyright. Copyright is usually used to restrict access to some work. A public domain work can be accessed to anyone, but, as it evolves, future contributors can restrict access to it. A GPL work remains accessible to everyone in perpetuity, not just from a legal standpoint but also from a practical standpoint (no need to reverse engineer or disassemble). Not only are you allowed to use the work, but also nobody is allowed to stop you from using it in any form. It really is on the opposite side of the spectrum from normal copyright (we can imagine public domain to be the midpoint).

In the FSF's perfect world, the GPL would not be necessary. Instead, you would be able to access and modify all your software without restriction. The GPL is just a clever way of creating and enforcing such a world without changing existing legislature.

Also, "intellectual property" is an unfortunate and rather loaded term. For one, it covers several distinct concepts like copyright, patents and trademarks which all behave differently and have different ramifications. Secondly, it presents a false parallel to real property. Whatever you think of Stallman's ideology, you have to admit he is a good writer (certainly infinitely better than I am) and very clear; here is his case against the term "intellectual property": http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html

A final note: while the general software community is divided on patents and copyright, I don't think most people are against trademark law. If anything, trademark law is about fraud--you're not allowed to lie to customers about being affiliated with a known, existing brand. I suspect most people arguing for copyright and patent reform are fundamentally fine with trademark law as is, or want minor changes to it at most.
... or bored trollforum users start doing it for teh lulz.
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this is what twitter is doing with scala i believe.
Bitcoin is backed by the businesses built around it.
Yes but so what? You can't apply the same software to fiat currencies for international settlement. The attractiveness of Bitcoin is precisely the power of open source software and asymmetric cryptography. Bitcoin has value because it's one of the only few currencies with fixed protocols and definite "game rules". These are exactly the pre-requisites for a currency to be fundamentally "open-sourced".
At the moment only Greece (2,65% of eurozone gdp), Portugal (1,83%) and Ireland (1,82%) have received bailouts - which makes 6,3% not "half the Eurozone melting down". Spanish banks may get a €100b bankout aswell - big deal.

But I agree with you on the source of the problem - socialism or uneconomic regulation. That is visible in the doing business rankings of the world bank (http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings). Ireland(rank 10), France(29),Portugal(30) will hopefully be fine. Spain at 44 is troubling; I'm only really worried about Italy (87) and Greece (100).

However Portugal+Spain+Greece have voted in conservative governments, Italy has an interim economist technocrat government. There is the European Fiscal Compact (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Fiscal_Compact). And Germany is pushing very hard for economic reforms in the bailout countries.

Overall it is just a problem with a few countries with bad governments/regulation, not a "Euro" problem and certainly not a European Union problem... And we seem to be taking more steps dealing with it then the US or UK with their problems!

I compared to the US$ because the import/export in USD or GBP is incredibly more significant than the few currencies the Euro has done badly against, like the Swiss Francs or Japanese Yen or Norwegian/Swedisch Krones etc...
> Bitcoin has value because it's one of the only few currencies with fixed protocols and definite "game rules".

Yes, like I've said, the power of Bitcoin is solely in its marketing.
Exchange rates Euro to USD:

10 years ago: 1 EUR = 0,95 USD

today: 1 EUR = 1,3 USD

As European I really like the 'Euro crisis'. I'd be pleased to get more of it.

PS: What media has written about the financial crises since 2008 is mostly nonsense. In fact, we have seen a deep media crisis. Media is not able any more to give a remotely adequate picture of reality (not limited to financial aspects of course).
Rather, the article raises a common problem for many tech companies. Specifically, creating a more accessible culture.

Replacing the role of female entering FB's workplace - how would a conservative or devoutly religious _male_ would respond to the machismo described? Likewise: a feminist male, a homosexual male, a father, a grandfather.

The article offers another voice calling for an increased awareness of serious problems in our industry.
That's an extremely horrible story that I previously knew very little about. It was 60 years ago, but it felt a bit mentally violating to read it now (how Turing was treated).

It's worth noting that the claims by Copeland are seemingly just as unsupportable as those he's arguing against. For example this:

"immediately after his conviction had told a friend: "The day of the trial was by no means disagreeable. Whilst in custody with the other criminals, I had a very agreeable sense of irresponsibility, rather like being back at school."

"On the face of it, these are not the expressions of someone ground down by adversity."

It's just as plausible that Turing was lying to his friend about his real state of mind. That's an extraordinarily common thing for people to do, and some do it no matter how dire their current circumstances. Copeland doesn't do a very good job of supporting the notion that it wasn't suicide (and it may well have not been).
Did it? All I heard was that it had certain components hand-built and customized to each other (like the engine and the transmission). However, this is an entirely mechanical issue: since it wasn't really mass-produced, each motor and gearbox is different, so replacing them is going to be nontrivial.

Of course, I'm not an expert, and could certainly be missing information on other components of the GT-R. Either way, it's useful to keep in mind that the GT-R is a really crazy car :P.
That assumes zero fixed cost. Perhaps if you sold to all your customers at Mexico City prices, you would make a large loss.
Binding event handlers in a loop is an anti-pattern greatly promoted by jQuery during several years. You should use event delegation.
I think the point made at the end of the article is what we should take away from this. We will never know the truth about how he died and it does him an injustice to speculate as the coroner at the time did. We should instead celebrate his life and achievements, not let his death and persecution define him.
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> (...) are we able to simulate that neural network and see the same
> behaviours as in the living nematode worm?

No. With biological networks, wiring diagrams are only part of the bigger picture; (electro-)physiological differences matter a lot. This is especially true for small systems in which individual neurons perform highly specialized functions. (Mammalian neurons are substantially more generic!)

So the short answer is no; the longer answer is we're slowly getting there. Key problems are lack of plausible feedback from sensory etc. systems as well as currently inexplicable in vivo/in silico disparities.
At that point, one generally consults a specialist. In this case: please go see a doctor!
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I think if they add sum types and pattern matching or otherwise make this feature possible, it will completely change the way people write Go code and it would become a very different language.

Consider all the error-checks in Go -- these are all incorrect from a boolean-blindness perspective, and that would be a lot of code to rewrite if they add proper constructs to Go. Thus, I really believe it is just a mistake -- one that is only possible to make out of ignorance.
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You could just as easily say what's the point of ruby. Why would they use ruby over haskell? They probable use haskell due to its strong typing and so on.
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We can't know, we will never know and all speculation is facile and pointless. Your speculation, based on nothing other than a BBC web page doubly so.
> No. All contributions aren't equal. It takes someone
> special to write HipHop to compile PHP into C++.
> Engineers can (and do) do customer service in a pinch,
> customer service reps can't do engineering.

The sheer hubris on display here makes me gag.
It's interesting to consider digg... the canonical reason for its death (CEO replaced within a week, 40% of staff laid off two months later) was Digg-v4, a graphical overhaul that also removed features.

Google is definitely content over interface (most of the time). Facebook... not so much - millions of people join protest petitions against every minor interface change - but the value of having all your friends together is still so much greater than the alternative of changing service, whereas reddit was a short step away for digg users.

4chan definitely remains popular because of content - canv.as, a similar project by the same owner, has nowhere near the traction despite being more demographically targeted for mass-market appeal.

I think the lesson is, if you have a close-enough competitor and a fickle userbase, one screwup is all it takes to push critical mass over the edge. If i ran a large website i would study the Digg-v4 case very carefully. Going back to Craigslist, i don't think they have to worry too much about losing their top spot just yet.
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Wrong. Pretty much all currencies are imposed by law. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_tender
Noticed how your comment doesn't mention any actual complaints with the presentation?
we're using SSL on a custom domain at https://www.blossom.io in the trusted tester program and it works like a charm.
so you take her account of their behavior at face value?

the article makes it sound like sandberg did too and quietly "made things happen" on the strength of that.

that should legitimately concern men in tech.
And now the history repeats itself:

- In the same way that apple- and potato-certificates could have different values, how do you know which IOUs you can trust?

- Someone says: "Hey, instead of giving IOUs to each other, come to me. I'll figure out if the person is actually able to pay it back later and give him money." Instead of having the IOU accepted by everyone in the village (a seller won't accept an IOU unless he knows he can trade it with other people, so a buyer needs to prove his credit to everyone), there's only one person/system who needs to accept it.
Oh hey, I think you're missing a crucial part here (again :)

"I'm having trouble reading this one . . . can someone else help me?"
is NOT-equivalent to
"I am so closed to this issue that I'd rather demean the point, let's make the industry look bad AND lame. here ya go. <idiotic joke>."

...or at least there is a conceivable difference between the second and the first BESIDES just the idiotic joke. That said, I don't mean to imply that you can't actually mean the latter and dress it up as the former.
Your making several mistakes with that post. #1 the 14 trillion debt is not a single loan it's millions of them. People pretend that bonds are the same thing as money all the time, but there not. If the government started paying back 0.1% of it's debt a month you would see huge cash flows, but though taxes the same money would be used to pay down different loans several times.

PS: There are valid reasons for treating bonds as cash equivalents, but M1, M2, M3, etc are simply different ways of looking at the money supply.
This was foreseeable.
And then we apply the same principle to a song. Once you record the first song, the next million copies of it distributed via internet is basically free. Or is it. It would be nearly free if there were no fat cats in the middle.
Proof that you're alive?
By iOS? I do not remember seeing people walk the streets in protest against the closed nature of XBox, PS2, Playstation,…, or the Xerox 9700.

If you disagree, please give some proof of consumers (at large, as opposed to small groups, or at least in greater numbers than they do today) thinking of openness before iOS.
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