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> That is apparent.

I needn't continue this thread but how is this apparent? Are my comments sexist or sth? If anything, you are the one who sees a sexist angle in an article that doesn't have any. Does it mean you 're more sensitive to these issues - no, perhaps you feel you have to overcompensate for something even in a neutral environment.
SVMs require a linearly separable dataset. That would make them seem quite useless, but often that's not a huge problem, and sometimes when it is you can add basis functions as you wish, like on this data:

1 1
2 1
3 -1
4 -1
5 1
6 1
7 -1

This data set becomes linearly separable with the basis expansion {X^2, X^3} because there's a cubic function that matches the data perfectly for signs (e.g. f(x) > 0 on all the x's mapped to 1, and f(x) < 0 on all the -1's). This doubles the size of your data matrix (4 columns, for 1, X, X^2, and X^3} in comparison to the more typical basis.

The problem is that if your data are noisy, you can end up needing a lot of basis expansions to get separation, and then you have the typical problems of complexity.

As far as I understand it, SVMs are good when you know there aren't misclassifications in the data and believe the separating surfaces (which will separate the data perfectly) will be simple because you're not going to need to add a lot of basis expansions. It seems to expect a certain orderliness in the data.

Neural nets are extremely flexible on account of their large number of degrees of freedom, but rarely achieve "perfect" classification and it's often not desirable that they do (overfitting). What they seem to be strong at is finding a very good (but not perfect) answer, and unlike SVMs which don't work well in a noisy world (can't achieve separation) they seem to handle it well. Neural nets, in my experience, will learn something in a lot of different types of environments. The major negative of neural nets is that they take a very long time to converge, and if you use stochastic gradient descent (which becomes necessary on a large data set) they will actually never converge. Also, neural net problems often require extensive cross-validation.
How?

Someone approached me about one of my domains the other day at a price I found adequate, but then they disappeared, and I don't really know how to fix it.
If this was true (and I'm dubious of the "find"), it should be something for movie makers to consider when it comes to distributing their movies.

What this shouldn't be used for, though, is the default excuse by pirates when stealing intellectual property. "My theft actually helps, see?!?!?" Even if there is some financial gain, more is lost when the fundamental IP rights are stolen.
This is such a thoughtful comment. Thank you for enlightening me for a man I will never know.
> As all of my close friends know, I have not always been a teetotalling, drug fighting citizen.

He's pretending he wasn't talking about plugging MDPV on bluelight.ru recently?
I have plenty of evidence and basis in experience, and anyone can see exactly what I mean by following what I mentioned above.

>The only person who has made this conversation sexist is you and those who brought the topic up.

Ah yes, the same thing that anyone steeped in unchecked privilege says when they've got nothing left to argue. Black people are racist for complaining about discrimination, feminists are sexist for pointing out objectification, blah blah blah. Bored now.
Prankster Replicates Facebook Users' Profile Photos, Then Friends Targets
I am too lazy ... ummm busy to read the paper right now, but well, is it really causation, or some very, very weak correlation?
As of this writing, this article is only a couple spots away from the front page. It's clearly not front page material, though.

Separating a large, complicated task into multiple orthogonal pieces, and assigning each of these pieces to its own component, has been a fundamental part of software engineering for many decades.

Separation of concerns is what OO does. Separation of concerns is what UNIX does. Separation of concerns is what TCP/IP does. Separation of concerns is why global variables are considered "bad." Separation of concerns is not a new idea.

This jargon-filled, somewhat poorly worded article is merely repeating a fundamental principle that should be obvious to anyone who's ever written any program larger than a couple hundred lines.

What is meant by "[the] client is free to have full coherence of server's public domain including all its public API, domain objects and schemata"?

"CSDS regards hypermedia an important aspect of REST; it is a semantic web of interconnected resources. Client will have full coherence of the axes of such relationships and can effectively use to navigate the semantic web - since it is part of the public domain. But for it to become the engine of the application is server dominance." These sentences are a long string of big words, but I'm not sure that there's actually anything meaningful in them.

Reading this article makes me really wish I had enough karma to downvote.
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And here is one that some guys in my hackerspace [semi-jokingly] run: http://dongiverse.com/
it accomplishes the same purpose, but the filehandle gets closed explicitly, not when it goes out of scope and its destructor gets called.
Appreciate all the interest in this story.

As I mentioned in the follow-on comments, no service is perfect but I think Google needs to try harder for instances like this. The account was disabled and was also the Google Apps admin account. In that instance, I think Google is at least obligated to kick-off an email to the Google Apps back-up email address and alert to the issue with a time-expiring form that triggers a support request with a slightly higher priority. This could all be automated I would think.

I realize Google is huge and they provide critical services to many of us (I continue to use Google Apps for several domains) but the "can't be bothered" customer service attitude can have a significant impact on operations and I wanted to generate some awareness about that. Looks like we succeeded on the awareness front.
Before today, I never heard of Mark Crispin. After reading your post and the e-mails sent for him, I wish that I had. Like whitewhim, thank you for enlightening me for a man I will never know.
This is not meant to be a troll post, but just sincere curiosity.

From the site "My full name is Micah Elizabeth Scott, but I used to be Micah Dowty prior to Fall 2010. My friends call me Beth."

How can a woman who used to be a man can have a vagina? is there some kind of surgery? do you keep your sensitivity to be able to use vibrators?
I recall lamenting (well, only sort-of; last thing I need is a new addiction) that the use of GameCenter meant it's unlikely to be easily ported to Android (or at least an Android port wouldn't interoperate with iOS users). The funny thing is that, being written in OpenGL, it's be much easier to port to Android than if it used UIKit. Ah well.
I worked on the Netflix prize and haven't learned anything since then. There the RBM (or modified version per ruslan's paper) performed very well but not substantially better than the linear models (in apples to apples comparison.. ignore the time-dimension and peeking at the contents of the quiz\test set). And as I recall no one really made any progress with deeper networks on that problem. Has anything been learned since then that would suggest progress there?

I also don't recall anyone successfully incorporating the date of the rating into the RBM. Mostly this was useful in other models because on any particular day people would just bias their ratings up or down a bit. But also, as one can imagine, over the course of a year or two their tastes would change. Is it straightforward to include that time dimension into RBMs, and if so, is that a recently discovered technique?
For $200-$300/week, you can get one on one immersion with a teacher in Antigua. I spent 10 weeks. There are over 100 such schools in Antigua.

http://www.guatemala365.com/

Immersion is the best way for both time and money. Here's the one that I went to:

http://www.guatemala365.com/index.php?link_school=plfm
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The problem with Ubuntu is that if you ever move from the cloud to dedicated hardware, you will be in for a world of pain. None of the Tier-1 hardware vendors officially support Ubuntu, which makes it very difficult to perform firmware upgrades without custom solutions, or obtain diagnostic/monitoring software. We couldn't even get Ubuntu 12.04 to work _at all_ on our new Dell 12th-generation (Ivy Bridge) servers for several months after release. EL 6, on the other hand, was totally supported.

I hope that the availability of official CentOS AMIs will incent startups to think ahead and use it instead of Ubuntu, otherwise they could become a victim of their own success.

Another thing that's great about Red Hat and its clones is that they guarantee backward compatibility across minor releases (e.g. 6.0 -> 6.3), and ensure that if you deploy a given release it will be identical across all nodes. Contrast with Ubuntu, where an installation of a given LTS release (with "-updates") could vary depending on the day you deploy it.
This is actually much less taboo in Asia, where there are many startups in that space.
There are RFID readers made to read at short ranges and readers made to read hundreds of feet.
On the subject, important to the business of technology, of skating to where the puck is going, I'd like to add this is as important in the sense of riding waves in the market as it is in the tech sense.

You don't want, for instance, to get caught with your pants down by a new technology and become thoroughly obsolete. If, for instance, there were a breakthrough in quantum computers tomorrow and the day after they were widely adopted, any effort you were making on deterministic computers would be worth a lot less.

So you don't want to fall behind.

What about being too far ahead? Can you get too far ahead? Definitely. You can be ahead of your times, and the only thing you'll get out of it is, thirty years down the line, someone who already liked you will say, "huh. He was ahead of his time." Other than that, you have nothing but incomplete prototypes, inherently false proofs of concept, and possibly, some quaintly cocky marketing.

And not a dime.

This is all made worse by the pace of technology's advance. It can be fast. It is usually, exponential, when it's not sigmoidal. It can even seem retrograde, like a planet (I'm thinking of the fall of clock-speeds of chips that are adapted to the mobile space--they are "better", technology did "advance," it made mobile computing better than it used to be, but in a sense some other thing moved faster than it did, and it seemed to go backwards.)

Where is the sweet spot, not for the tech-savvy businessman, but for the business-savvy technologist? How do you not get fucked by the obsolescence of the old or the incompatibility of the new? Perhaps the best middle ground is founded in mathematics, but how you'd model this is anybody's guess.
Which of Ciresan's projects are you referring to? Everything I've seen by him uses convolutional layers of some sort.
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Ping me if you need beta tester for your site. I do day trading too.
It probably would be (assuming the ban on penis-related article titles could be circumvented). This is actually a seriously good article of the kind that frequently get upvoted and I don't think this case has much to do with gender.
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Monetizing Mobile - Perception vs Reality
Finally, a daily standup format that works.
> And absolutely nowhere in the article does it talk about how the cost of preventing fraud by single practitioners is the similar to the cost of investigating a single hospital.

This is not even remotely plausible. Forensic accounting and investigation has a cost roughly proportional to the number of transactions. Transactions do not become magically cheaper to investigate merely by conducting them on the same real estate.
Most of this irrelevant if your a tourist, I've backpacked through 40+ countries and have only a few times needed to provide any 'documentation'. However the word is needed, you can take the initiative and get away with things your not supposed to do, like bringing alcohol into Columbia's national parks, or bumping long ticket lines!

Where the OP is completely accurate is doing any business (illicit or not). I have much family in India, who own several large businesses and level of corruption needed just to run the company is insane. After a certain size, you pretty much need to be a little socialite, keeping several dozen relationships well greased. It's completely pervasive and everybody knows about it - to western eyes it's insane.
What the flying fuck holy shit. 5,105 doctors responded and 1/10 recommends their profession?!?!?!?!

The worst part is that some of my friends are doctors and are the nicest people who really care about helping and healing others, and I know will never ever strike since that would hurt their patients :(.
> Why does any article focusing on women's experience have to have someone come along and say 'it's hard for us men'?

For the obvious joke?

Immaturity can make the day so bright some times.
Your description of SVMs is a bit misleading. It matches with what are typically called "hard margin" SVMs, which do require linearly separable data. However, people talking about SVMs are typically talking about "soft margin" SVMs, which don't require linearly separable data. Soft margin SVMs are the kind implemented in practically any off-the-shelf machine learning library you might pick up online.

A concise description of the "mode of action" for soft margin SVMs would be: project the training data into an alternate space and then perform L2-regularized regression with hinge loss in that space. The trick is that, by using (valid Mercer) kernels, the solution to the regularized regression in the alternate space can be represented by a weighted sum of kernel functions evaluated at points in the training set (i.e. the support vectors). Thus, the solution can be learned without having to explicitly represent the points in the alternate space, which permits the use of very high, or even "infinite" dimensional spaces for the alternate representation.

In the context of the alternative space, the use of strong L2 regularization (formally effected by an L2 constraint on the implicitly learned parameters) dramatically reduces the risk of overfitting. Additionally, the combination of L2 regularization and hinge loss leads to a convex optimization problem which, to some people, constitutes one of the key advantages of SVMs.

I tried to avoid too much jargon, though the term "L2-regularized regression with hinge loss" may merit further expansion (if you're interested).
Agreed. My biggest issue wasn't that an error occurred, but the fact that there was no recourse available in a timely manner. I tried to be patient and follow recommended support procedures (post to the forums, etc) but losing email for over a week because Google has an internal issue and couldn't be bothered to resolve it didn't sit well with me (thus the post to CTOVision).
Micah, though traditionally a male name, is sometimes given to females. There is no reason to assume there was a sex change, maybe she got married or just changed her name.
What's your budget and location (country)?
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I spent 6 months in S america a few years back. Definitely learn spanish! Luckily spanish is probably the easiest language to learn, and you don't really need much. Once your there your skills will get exponentially better due to the immersion.

I did a 3 month after work course (1 3hr lesson per week, plus lots of hw), and then dived in.
Well one of the issues here is 'container waste' which is to say a container which is no longer seaworthy. It is not unusual to be able to go down to any reasonably active port, and 'buy' (you think of it as buying, they think of it as disposing) a container. A few folks I know have done this and then had it dropped off on their property as a quick and dirty storage shed. (They seem to be about $2k each on ebay but I know of at least one that was purchased at the port of Oakland for $500 cash.)
Yes; sexual reassignment surgery for male-to-female transsexuals exists (as does the other direction.)

The short version: They form a vagina in the pelvis and reuse the head of the penis to form a clitoris. The urethra is also rerouted.
Caveat: I am nothing more than a layperson on the subject. My short version may be wrong, and there may be other surgeries available.

The longer version: Wikipedia [1] has quite a bit of information on the subject. Use incognito mode if you must; I've always found it to be a fascinating subject.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_reassignment_surgery (No images if you're worried about that.)
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It's only shipping for a platform that isn't quite mainstream, and regardless doesn't exactly have a thriving commercial software market. Fairly low risk; and the publicity should more than make up for any "lost" sales.
You don’t need a problem-solving idea
Would you mind talking about it a bit more then? Tell us what aspects of Gnome 3 are great and what's great about them?
Do this if you want to be an abrasive dipshit who the host community rejects. This guy is a colonialist-tourist, not a traveller. You can feel his contempt for the people and the lands he is "visiting" seething through.
It's the one charge they could manage to stick him with. It feels a little ironic, considering all the other crimes he's known for.
No. Please. Stop it. Do not use symbols like ? ?* << <<* - -* in you DSL. Please, don't.
It sounds like you're saying that Gnome 3 is now targeting non-nerds and that nerds should use something else. Fair enough I suppose.

The thing that's incredibly frustrating from my perspective is that Gnome 2, for me at least, was perfect. It wasn't pretty but it let me launch applications, switch workspaces and use ALT-TAB the way that I wanted to and then pretty much got out of my way and let me get my work done. It was targeted at nerds and it's extremely frustrating that it appears to have been deprecated in favour of something that isn't.
While there's a lot there that's true, we should be careful to note that Mark Crispin isn't universally correct on how email should work, and has, occasionally, some fundamental misunderstandings. Here's why IDLE support was never implemented for pine:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.mai...

"I think that you misinterpret the purpose of IDLE. There is no reason to believe that IDLE gets you new mail notifications any faster. It may, but only if the server's new mail announce interval through IDLE is faster than the client's polling interval when not using IDLE."

Somehow he completely fails to grasp the concept of event-based notification and assumes that a server that supports IDLE must do so via polling -- a reasonable assumption for the traditional MDA/mail repository split on aging UNIX boxes, but not a correct one on UNIX boxes with push-based notification of modifications to files, and definitely not a correct one if the mail store and the mail delivery agent are connected. SMTP is real-time and event-based, and there's no reason for IMAP to assume that it can't be.

This is symptomatic of a more general assumption that the way that UW imapd handles things is the only correct way of doing things, and a bias against newer, larger-scale email servers like Gmail and Exchange -- servers that, I'm sure, would happily support IMAP in a conformant way if it were at all possible for them to do so. IMAP is a great standard for something like UW imapd and the assumptions it embeds, and a terrible standard for something like Gmail or Exchange, and the extent to which they do support IMAP is a credit to them and a sign of how terrible the protocol is. You might want to see Courier's documentation of Mark Crispin's FUD:

http://www.courier-mta.org/fud/

I have no stake in that particular debate either way. I'm a heavy user of alpine, and I love it, but I've come to see that the incompatibilities between it and Exchange are as much the fault of alpine as they are of Exchange, and in reading the IMAP protocol, I'm impressed anyone other than the reference implementation is able to comply as well as they do. It's true there's a lot that Mark Crispin did for the state of the Internet -- but there's a lot more that could have been done if he were a little more gracious about understanding how other people besides him want to use email and want to implement mail clients.
> Men getting antagonistic when their sexist behavior is called out

That isn't all that happens, as you can see from the comments like "Oh, yes, men have it so hard" whenever a situation that favors females over males is brought up.
You need these three things:

1. A book (http://www.amazon.com/System-Administration-Handbook-Edition...)

2. An infrastructure (http://openstack.org/)

3. A community (http://serverfault.com/)

Oh, and some fun (http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse)

:)
i think this is a very cool system
and why western lines are better? i dont get this? or was this sarcastic?
i would wish that more people her would be so patient like they are!

and i dont stand in lines i order it on the internet ;)
Does anyone have any data on the number of normal users vs power users that Gnome actually has? The worry has to be that, if Gnome stops targeting "people who tend to use Linux" then there's a strong chance that they'll fail to attract enough "normal computer users" to make it worthwhile.
Wow that was really interesting!
The feeling you get when you say a word a lot of times, and it seems weird
Impressive Cinder + Kinect Hack
> A private practice seems like a waste of resources. Imagine the unused medical devices or the large number of support staff around just one or two doctors.

Nope. Cardiologists maintain waiting lists weeks in advance to keep equipment utilization a close to 100% as practical. The large number of support staff are used to keep a pipeline of patients on standby so that when equipment becomes idle the next patient is standing there ready to begin. The patient experience is a lot like a car zipping through a Toyota factory. The steady stream of test results keeps the cardiologist busy analyzing and dictating results.

Moving this to a hospital gains very little efficiency. What it does is pay for hospital lobbyists.
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> First off, this isn't a pivot. They're expanding their service

Apparently the users felt differently. From the feedback and reviews, the users saw a different direction -- not an expansion.
Nice article, iOS developer must read
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