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Though Coursera's Stanford course and SEE's course are taught by the same professor, they are different. The Coursera one is 229A(pplied) and doesn't really explore the math behind the techniques; the SEE one is the original 229 that most Stanford students take, and is significantly more math-intensive. The 229A page explains the differences well [1]:

> Q: How does CS229A relate to CS229? Which should I take?

> A: CS229A is complementary to CS229, and provides more applied skills. It's okay to take both, though enrollment in CS229A is limited, and we may give priority to students who have not taken and who are not taking CS229. If your goal is a deep mathematical understanding of machine learning, or if your goal is to do research in AI or machine learning, you should definitely take CS229 (either instead of, or in addition to, CS229A). CS229 has a more difficult set of prerequisites. If you are interested in machine learning but aren't sure if you're ready for the mathematical depth that CS229 requires, then consider taking CS229A instead.

I haven't taken Washington's course, but it seems to be more comprehensive than both of Stanford's. It's currently only available in preview mode, though, so you won't have access to quizzes and programming assignments, which are vital for comprehension and retention.

If you're interested in getting started with machine learning and want to solving problems with it, I'd suggest the Coursera Stanford one. If you're interested in theory, go with the SEE one. I'm not familiar with the Washington one, but I don't recommend it as your primary course as it's still in preview mode, and only the lectures are available.

1. http://cs229a.stanford.edu/faq.html
That's possible of course (well, 'of course' outside the Apple world) but not very convenient in my experience except if you use the same SD card all the time. Everything else doesn't fit well with a portable device.

The question remains, however, how well the Surface manages data an SD cards, i.e., can you save everything you like on an SD card including apps?
btw, the current dev version of clang is broken for months. It crashes on a failed assertion when I'm trying to compile erlang or mplayer+ffmpeg. It also failed to build racket - the resulting binary eats all the memory and dies.) Gcc does the job. So, it seems that while running after C++ features they ruined the plain old C.)
> I would not consider a few exceptional single individuals (there were others, beyond the recent anglo-saxon part of history) to constitute a "movement".

Please read the post to which I replied -- no mention of "movement". The post said "The fight for gender equality is exclusively 20th century thing; never happened before." That's false -- this is not a new fight. All that has changed is the scale, a factor I addressed by using that word.

> WRT homosexuality - you are confusing cause and effect. The Bible was what brought homosexuality to such a negative light in the christian/western world.

The Bible is a historical record of old values and practices, and homophobia is included in that record for a reason. The Bible's influence on modern history is an effect, but its contents allude to causes that were present in ancient times.

I doubt that people are taught by the Bible to be homophobes, or to be intolerant in any other way -- that comes naturally to people with poor educations. All the Bible does is encourage the natural intolerance of the illiterate.
> If farmers are permitted to replant seeds then how are companies making the seeds supposed to make money ?

I'm not a biologist, but I assume it is possible to make 1G grains edible but infertile -- incapable of sprouting a new plant and/or growing 2G grains. That would render 1G grains useless for sewing, and still usable for anything else. Much like cross of horse and donkey is a viable, but infertile mule.

The way I imagine it, Monsanto have to grow two strains of grain, each giving viable grains when pollinated within the strain, but giving only infertile 1G seeds when cross-pollinated.

Of course that would generate extra costs for Monsanto: additional research, maintaining two separate strains and cross-pollinating them.
Crockford's book explains the best practice in a comprehensive way, but it does not explain why you would want to follow those practices. You need to have sufficient experience with the consequences of bad practice to recognize when and why you would use the practices from the good parts. I wouldn't say you need any javascript experience per se, but a solid background in software engineering is definitely helpful.
I believe one reason people like instant messaging is that with IM you are kind of constantly having a converstation. It is very much ok to skip the "handshake" and go directly to point. "Lunch 12:30?" "Yes".

Email clients could offer instant messaging style interface for this kind of messages. Instead of seeing list of subjects, then selecting a message etc you would directly see the actual question and just answer it.
Well, the current funding systems in many countries naturally result in Prof's being unaccessible, and it has nothing to do with the offices. A well respected researcher (at the time working in Germany IIRC) told me "Professor's here don't have time to write research papers, they write grant proposals".
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The Monsanto seeds are only beneficial if used with Roundup Ready pesticide (or a generic equivalent). So let me ask you a hypothetical question: If Monsanto's policy was to only sue farmers whose fields had been cross-contaminated AND who used Roundup Ready pesticide, would that be a fair outcome? It would mean farmers could still use their traditional methods without worrying about cross-contamination as long as they didn't use the Monsanto pesticide.
Yes, but they didn't. Your straw-man argument is pretty inaccurate here. The lawsuit isn't about the accidental cross pollination of genes. It's probably closer to duplicating copyright works by someone who bought one copy.
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In the courtroom of public opinion, it's a valid case.
I found K&R C to be refreshingly easy to follow, but that isn't saying much because prior to that I had learned C++ from Stroustrup's book (which I had to read three times cover-to-cover before I finally understood what in the world he was talking about). Any book would seem easy to follow after that pan-galactic gargle blaster.

And now I'm sure someone will respond saying that they found Stroustrup's book remarkably straightforward. To each his own I suppose.
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> As long as it provides value to the society.

Such a simple phrase, so difficult to implement. In fact, the only true and proven method of valuing something, in History, has been the capitalist market. I think you accidentally supported the parent comment author's point.
"A prankster could outwit many scoring programs by jumbling key phrases in a nonsensical order. An essay about Christopher Columbus might ramble on about Queen Isabella sailing with 1492 soldiers to the Island of Ferdinand -- and still be rated as solidly on topic, Shermis said."

To be smart enough to prank on a subject and pass would mean a pretty in depth knowledge hence the mark would be correct.

In fact a human would incorrectly say the student was bad at the subject so it makes the computer superior in marking students actual knowledge of the subject :)
> A FIPS 140-2 Level 2 compliant device to generate and managing your root certificate keys.

For those not versed in this particular jargon: "FIPS 140-2 Level 2" pretty much means "tamper-evident seal" (part of a sticker over the opening stays on the box when you try to remove it - this is only slightly more secure than I make it sound.) Note also that this does not appear to include any restriction on the computers which can say "please sign this certificate for me". Sensible CAs will have extensive physical security around such devices, but can we count on anyone with $BIGNUM dollars to get this right?

On a cryptographic level, there is the paper discussed at http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/06/bad-couple-o... (http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/70/47/90/PDF/RR-7944.pdf), which totally pwns some well-regarded smart cards using a (really nifty improvement on) a years-old crypto attack, then goes on to note that the authors really wanted to try their hand at a couple of HSMs too but lacked the funds. Which doesn't prove anything about HSMs, but doesn't exactly give one a lot of confidence either.

So yeah, they do seem to be handing out the keys and hoping that auditing/policies/insurance covers it.
My own feeling is that Germans guard quite strongly their societal and cultural goods; advanced degrees are a status indicator and it's not a surprise that incorrectly-gained degrees cause outrage to me. Perceived pollution in the shared consciousness inevitably causes punishment and expulsion.

Other ways in which Germans guard their societal structure:

-- highly regulated Sunday opening hours, even in big cities, ostensibly to protect low status workers.

-- strong rules regarding jay walking; it's the only country where other pedestrians got upset with me for crossing the street incorrectly.

-- strict adherence to rules and procedures in aspects of life that most cultures don't care about (clear your sidewalk of snow and ride your bicycle only on the correct side of the sidewalk, for example).

-- strict adherence to a close family model that promotes appropriate education, shared meals and shared community endeavours.

All these things make up a strong societal structure (if a little inflexible). I believe that there is a national desire for a straightforward, trustworthy communal structure. The 'obsession with titles' is simply a facet of the desire for a strong shared community which can act as a basis for a productive society. If people assume titles that they do not deserve then they reduce the quality of societal markers, make communal life more difficult and thus reduce productivity and progress. Add that to the somewhat natural tendency to tear apart any person of previously high societal status, and you have the current climate of Germans checking all advanced degrees (and to an extent, the British checking all the expenses claims of their own politicians).
True, but also, Apple is not active in a critical industry.

If they control or even mess up the computer industry, it's not the same as agriculture.
From what I understand from German friends you need a certificate from an "office management" school to do secretarial work. There are internships for the most mundane jobs. Not to attack, but as an outsider it certainly seems to me that Germany (as a generalization and especially outside the software industry) has a title fetish.
It's probably possible to do that with fruit (making seedless fruit), but probably not possible with edible seeds like soybean or corn. If we were playing God here, why didn't Monsanto just invent a plant that would produce all different kinds of fruit on one plant so that we didn't have to plant a bunch of different crops? It would be even better if the plant could position the fruit at known intervals on a branch to increase the speed of harvesting machinery.

So obviously some things aren't quite possible. Your suggestion is nice, but I don't think it's as easy as doing a few years of research.
PHP is terrible, but the following now is valid PHP:

$addOne = function($a){ return $a + 1 };
$result = array_map($addOne, array(1,2,3)); // now [2,3,4]

Or:

// Reference to intval() function.
$result = array_map(intval, array('1','2','a'));
Eh, I find NoScript a bit extreme. Really makes you realise how common Flash elements are...

Yeah, generally I have no problems with Flash, and I find having to enable everything or stare at gutted pages irritating. Plus, how do I know what an element is until I enable it - so how am I supposed to know which elements I want to enable?

(If you have any tips I'm missing, feel free to fill me in.)
This is very comforting. After all, it's not like any CA "trusted" under those programs ever did Bad Things; certainly, these programs loudly warned about DigiNotar, TrustWave and TURKTRUST.
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I did this for three months with Geddit, but mostly on creating the MVP with my cofounder rather than sales.

Unlike mindcrime, my employer did not know what else I was working on, and I did no work on my startup during 9-5 business hours. I had to keep everything absolutely separate - not so much as IMing my cofounder about the startup during working hours. I did keep a personal journal a work where I would write down ideas and other startup related things, as well as general thoughts, but that was it.

The 9-5 job was mind numbingly boring, and occasionally pretty stressful. I developed some tactics to make sure I kept going with the startup while still doing my 9-5 well. Firstly, I developed a routine together with my cofounder, and stuck to it religiously. 9 to 5, we were at our day jobs. 6 to 7 we were at the gym. 8pm we had had dinner and were ready to work on a weeknight. Work had a midnight curfew, no matter what. This helped to establish compartmentalised parts of the day, as well as an effective transition between one and the other. At my 9-5, I could focus on my job since I knew no startup business would enter. Weekends were devoted entirely to startup work, or leisure activities about twice a month.

Secondly, we established a goal where we could switch to working on the startup full time. For us this was saving the money needed to move to Berlin plus 6 months runway. Having this in our sights made the harder parts of the three months more bearable because we knew we were working toward a determined fixed goal. We were able to execute on our MVP through this sort of discipline and successfully switched to working full time on Geddit.

This stuff was very tough, but I had the support of my awesome cofounder and we had each other's backs. If you're going at this alone your mileage may vary, but we managed to succeed on the 'nights and weekends' route, at least for some time.

Eventually you'll have to switch to working on your idea full time - probably sooner than you feel comfortable - but it'll be worth it.
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In the run up to Valentine's Day :-)
I think a more careful reading of the whole post, and particularly the sentence immediately following the one you quoted, will show that Claudus was not claiming that this feeling is true. The statement is that a lot of people feel a particular way. Do you really disagree that is the case?

For what it's worth, I think one of the points of the blog post is that this bias is more difficult to spot than Claudus's statement would imply, and I tend to agree with that.
Then why not an infinite intersection between the primes and the numbers of the form 2^(2^n)-1? And yet we only know 5 of them.

Let me help your intuition. Take these numbers:

k(1) = 0
k(2) = 2
k(3) = 3
k(n) = k(n-2)+k(n-3)

For a given n, ask if n divides k(n) You'll find up to 10^5 or so this works if and only if n is prime. Does it work forever?

Consider the primes of the form 4k+1. For the first 10^5 or so of these they turn out to the be sum of two squares. Does it work forever?

Heuristic arguments are all well and good, but at the end of the day, these things need to be proven or disproven before we can be sure.
Not that I have seen. In fact, in my experience, even publications are not all that important! In the UK and Germany both it seems to be 30% of what you know, 60% of who you know and 10% luck.
Fuck them. If we gave out government grants for the research it would be cheaper for the public and more effective. Monsanto and big pharma are a net loss for society, so I find it hard to shed a tear over generic medication.
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I used to think that Assange was a bit paranoid but the case of Sami al-Saadi (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20715507) and the sledgehammer-to-crack-a-nut approach in the Arron Swartz prosecution has changed my view 180 degrees.
I'm developing several apps in Java and Play 2 and I haven't found any problems more than the templates being in Scala.
Given that the author is a senior mathematician and cites studies freely means that at least part of what you linked to doesn't apply.

However, I think that the use of 'Fact' as a section heading was more a rhetorical device than anything else/
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OT (but i am really interested in hearing the answer): how old is "too old" to apply for YC?
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On the other hand, your i18n approach is not correct, since you are using only the language and not the country code: en_GB is different than en_US in lots of aspects, i.e. currencies.
Internationalization is the first thing I tend to look at a framework and many fail on it.
So companies producing IP in a critical industry like agriculture have no access to IP protection? If anyone is allowed to sell 2G seeds, then Monsanto will make no money, and no future agriculture company will ever spend money on GMO research if they know they cannot make money from it.

GMO seeds enable greater crop yields which would actually be better for humankind, so making money on GMO seeds is important. The great potato famine in Ireland wiped out a million people. We use more advanced fungicides now, but the chemicals used have a greater chance of causing liver damage than GMO plants. Obviously it would have to be a fair and balanced decision, but we can't throw out common sense because it affects a "critical industry".

Monsanto is an easy company to hate, but we can't make the wrong decision here or else it will affect future generations of companies who want to improve crop yields via GMO products.
Just a note, the "virgin" that applies directly to Mary (Luke 1:34, "And Mary said to the angel, 'How will this be, since I am a virgin?'", among other passages) is written in Greek, not Hebrew. Granted, there are some prophetic passages in the OT that use virgin (e.g. Isaiah 7:14, "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."), but just make sure everyone's on the same page when challenging dogma. Is the Greek word thought to be mistranslated as well?
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The answer is quite simply, we are going to have to STOP having an economy that contains employment or money, at all. As I've put it before, either we all retire, or we're all sacked.

The economy, what little of it still requires humans, is going to have to run on vocations. And the part that does not, is going to have to run on allocation.
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No. Having a certificate is helpful but not required. For office management and several other jobs you have the choice between attending a specialized school or doing an apprenticeship in conjunction with attending a vocational school [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system
It's funny how 'sexism' is used as if it could only be against women. Let's just say it: a white straight middle class young male is a public enemy. Why doesn't she just solve one of those Millennium Prize Problems? That would be a really nice case against anti-women kind of sexism.
Ask HN: how does Google News selects its sources
After the agreement in France between Google and the press (HN thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5152443), few observed that Google News only index a subset of the available news sources.

Typically (and sorry for the French-only example), the news source http://reflets.info/ often breaks the national news, though none of its articles do appear on Google news.
However, these articles do appears among the organic search results.

Anyone has clues on how the selection is made by any chances ?
"The ONLY way that gender bias will ever end is to challenge these ideas and in fact show that these innate differences do not exist."

The problem is that if you really do proper scientific examination of mental capabilities between genders and races you might not like the results. Results might turn out to be ugly and incompatible with the modern democracy. What will we do then?
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I believe there is a variety of rice that is an infertile hybrid. I recall seeing it on some PBS show,l or similar, but don't have a reference at the moment.
In case you wonder, these screenshots come from games made for two revisions of the NEC PC-9801, a Japanese 8086 IBM PC-incompatible computer. To be fair, while I think they look good as is you've got to note that the PC-98 used a CRT monitor that would make http://i.imgur.com/18YHG.gif appear more like http://i.imgur.com/HNmUopH.jpg, hence the dithering.

The pixel art of the time, especially that in console video games, was designed with color bleeding, scan lines and other CRT TV artifacts in mind, which is why it can look "wrong" (oversaturated, overly sharp or lacking in detail) on a modern LCD screen. CRT scan lines are especially good at creating an illusion of detail since they add texture to large areas of flat color typical of NES-era graphics. For those reasons some console emulators today include so-called "NTSC filters" that simulate what a CRT TV would do to raw pixel data. See http://web.archive.org/web/20120313013017/http://www.slack.n... for what's probably the most popular implementation to date.
I wouldn't describe some people suffering from envy as "tragic".

Similarly, if a bunch of racists feel anger because black people can now eat at the same diner as them, I think the word "tragic" would be the wrong word.
Also, automation right now is bidding against the humans for their jobs. As the minimum cost for automation falls, it keeps wages from rising, then drives them down, then when they reach the inelastic point, replaces the humans.

So it's not just that this stuff will chuck a great many people out of work with nowhere to go, but that it will drive them to the breadline first.

To fix this, the basic assumption "you work for a living" has to be torn up. The work ethic has to end.