skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't judge your technology based on your marketing; as I mentioned, I looked for specific information about your technology but was not able to find any. The .pdf you linked is what I quoted above; I'm interested more in your papers or patents.

SRI is a respected brand with a great reputation and history. I wouldn't be so dismissive of marketing since, as you mention, you have recently exited stealth mode.
This sounds like nonsense to me. First of all, what exactly do they mean by "intelligent behavior"? I looked in the paper but I couldn't find where they define what they are trying to model. They do however use the vague expression "remarkably sophisticated behaviors associated with the human ‘‘cognitive niche,’’ including tool use and social cooperation."

Tool use and social cooperation, sounds interesting. Let's see, that seems to be figures 3 and 4 from page 4. Once you get over the idea of modeling an animal with a disc, it seems a little bizarre that figures 3 or 4 have anything to do with intelligent behavior. Figure 3 is about one disc bouncing off another disc so that a third disc goes into a cylinder. I would say that doesn't really capture the essence of how "non-human animals" use tools. Then the social cooperation example is about a big disc attached to a string, that moves differently when 2 smaller discs touch it at the same time, and then under some specific configuration the discs have "social cooperation" to move the big disc. As far as I can tell, whether or not moving the big disc is an intelligent decision or not seems to not matter in this example.

We then get very bold claims, such as "physical agents driven by causal entropic forces might be viewed from a Darwinian perspective as competing to consume future histories."
We have an app for that. http://www.tldrstuff.com

The "short" 25% view is pretty good on this. The summary doesn't read as well because it picks up the ReadMe because I didn't mark it as code snippet because I'm sucky at WordPress editing.
You judge the technology based on the marketing?

Nope, gavinh is judging whether the product is even worth looking at by its marketing.
Hah, you thought that was hard!

Try one of these: http://www.undocs.org/A/Res/66/2 (start from finding the end of the first sentence).

Or, you can have a go at a whole corpus of these broken at paragraph level at http://www.uncorpora.org/
The article quotes an analyst at the end: "IBM's troubles are indicative of bad news for the whole technology business".

A terribly poor & overreaching conclusion. It's an odd quote to single out in your conclusion too. The x86 server market is actually growing. What's down is IBM's share of that and more importantly the margin they're able to extract.

What is happening is that it's getting so big that it's increasingly commoditized. People are still buying hardware.

IBM is the biggest player in the x86 server market, but their share and margin is in decline. They still make great margins & growth on z-series.
I wouldn't say smartphones were on the way to what iPhone was. In fact, if you re-watch the keynote where the iPhone is announced, the reaction from the audience is fairly muted, because people were clearly afraid that a phone with nothing but a touch screen for an interface was going to suck really badly.
Richard Stallman response to Boston Police efforts
This is what Stallman wrote right after the suspect was caught.

My personal response is:

There will always be a situation that is worse or where more people died, but that doesn't mean this isn't a very emotional and trying time for many, where the police and people of Boston were desperate to catch a person throwing explosives and shooting magazines of bullets in their city. Telling people to stay home for a few hours does not seem unreasonable in this situation.

Have some decency and respect for the lives lost, and save your opinions for a more appropriate time.
Who are you talking to? Nobody justified anybodies work, not this terrorist, not the unabomber and not any other organized retribution in history.

No commentary was made except that the unabombers manifesto was enlightening. That is all.
It was originally posted six months ago. So if you wanted to see what the Streisand is all about, Google cache to the rescue:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FYBbAFU...
You might want to look into Startup Chile as a model as close to what you are describing as I can think. Equity free money to build things, with little oversight, and the only stipulation is giving back to the community. This usually happens via public workshops at universities, etc.

It's only 40k USD and only 6 months and the location isn't desirable for westerners to perm relocate and doesn't select for the top 5% of engineers but it's close.
On twitter a lot of people are essentially saying "Good, now we'll get answers." I'm sorry to say I don't believe there is typically anything satisfying about the answers of people who become deranged. Maybe this time, but if reading about madmen past is any guide, its very unlikely that we will be enlightened by any testimony.

Answer is really simple: in his own world /subculture he is a hero, a martyr and his name is being mentioned worldwide.
No you are right. You can compare this to almost any AI that uses a similar strategy, to predict the future and maximize some goal. The cool thing about this is that it defines it's goal as something general purpose enough to create interesting behaviors in a lot of different situations.

But the hard part of AI is actually predicting the future in the first place. Exploring a search tree with billions and billions of possibilities. Or worse, trying to figure out how the world works in the first place from a limited set of observations, then doing that. Figuring out the goal of the AI was never really the hard part.
Thanks, that's somewhat helpful. I am not particularly interested in the summarizer plugin itself (mostly because we have one, built in house), but I would love to talk about the underlying pipeline. If you have e.g. a named entity recognition library that performs as well as you say in Romance languages on standard data sets, you have material for at least one conference paper, and furthermore a product much more valuable than the summarizer itself.

My question about speed referred to syntactic parsing specifically. I am sure you can do entropy scoring faster than 200ms per sentence, but unless you have access to parses you are unlikely to be able to do more than purely extractive summarization. That's what Summly does, and every other summarizer on the planet as well. (Except perhaps Columbia's Newsblaster, but that's a bit of a different story).
That would be pretty awesome. Like an extended meditative & peaceful trance.
We are working on getting it in to the Azure Data Market place with a free monthly tier of a certain number of API calls. Microsoft is being slow (more than 5 weeks). We are looking at Mashape but we have not heard good things about their uptime, and their accuracy in billing.

As a developer I feel your pain. Balancing our building, business concerns, and support for an API is hard. We are a small company and are doing our best. But if you do email sales we will make sure to get you access to the API as soon as it is available.
No Miranda rights for Boston marathon suspect
So I guess whatever scientific insights you've gained that make you claim that linguists know nothing about modern English will remain unknown. At least the linguists publish.

It is too bad because apparently we wouldn't need to study language and cognition any more if we had access to your work. I mean, why bother with neurolinguistics or anything having the stink of biology or psychology? Brain mapping projects and experimentation have nothing to tell us now that we know that there are 3.2 million words in English. That has been the burning question after all.

You've made some progress working on the most widely and deeply studied language in the world with a richness of written data available that is unprecedented. But the linguist working to record, preserve and study a small Amazonian language that works nothing like English is probably just an idiot because they haven't figured out how language works yet.

Do you even know what linguists are?
Funny that you cite two projects that are still very "academic" (read: not market ready) as triumphs of PhDs. I don't think PhDs are useless and I know Google has some very good ones... but I'll bet dollars to donuts that they were good long before anyone called them "Doctor". For a pre-Google example of awesome projects not dominated by PhDs, consider Skunk Works.
> I am closer to Jobs than 99.5+ percent of them

How so.
There's a lot of practical information to be obtained, though. What the elder brother was doing out of the country for 6 months, through what channels he became radicalized, whether they were co-conspirators or the younger was just along for the ride, did they act alone or were they funded/goaded on by extremest groups, etc.
Will there be any competition between Sailfish and Tizen? Will it be a war among brothers?
I've been working with engineers writing production Haskell for the first time; its lack of a "null" concept is proving to be absolutely incredible. In a high-uptime production environment, it's at least as valuable as Haskell's enshrinement of purity.

We have a convention that all recoverable errors be captured in Either or Maybe. This policy is paying off in a huge way because the type system forces us to think about what error cases mean. This is driving us to write substantially higher-quality code than I've written with other tools.
Is it possible that a culture which is effective at producing "good" outcomes in one domain is ineffective at producing "good" outcomes in another? Should managers use the same techniques to manage steelworkers as they do software engineers?

Edit: steel works -> steelworkers
Care to explain? They use pushState or hashes for routing, and load data via XHR. If you are using pushState it is assumed that the URL must exist on the server.
It's amusing that today, of all days, you are making this statement. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/us/boy-scouts-move-to-lift...
> The word is they are throwing out Miranda for this

What does this mean?
Isn't free will he flip side to determinism? I am able to generate truly random numbers which are completely non-deterministic by any number of methods (deck of cards, pick a number 0|1 over and over, muscle twitches, etc). Doesn't that imply that I have, at some basic level, free will?
> "Never mind that Jobs is the quintessential malicious and inquisitive meddler,"

So, the bad definition of "hacker"?
A) Correct, you are ignorant to think it's absurd.

B) 7.01 was released almost three years ago. A number of things have changed in that period of time, and it's reasonable to expect that 352 files were created, edited, deleted, etc.
I think that will improve substantially as more and more applications like routing and SSL offload (and video encoding, etc) for CUDA/GPUs begin to take advantage of massive parallelization which has largely been ignored (even in OS multitasking) in general purpose systems. To me, that's the big deal: that it's coming to (from) the desktop (via gaming cards). All the specialized ASICs that drive things could be subsumed into commodity hardware. If we pour effort into getting massive parallel right, and if it winds up in even the cheapest SoCs, that will really be something to cheer for.
There is a recent tweet claiming a "public safety exemption" will be used to bypass Miranda rights. That said, I'm not sure exactly what that means, either.

https://twitter.com/abc/status/325417178927083524
Windows 1.0 came out in 1985, only one year after the Apple Macintosh. PARC invented the idea of the WIMP GUI, not Apple. I think it's a little silly to say that the idea would have died within PARC.
If I had to guess...

The information you're interested probably can't be easily/cost-effectively collected, validated or maintained.

Just ask yourself, where accurate, up-to-date, consistent information on 100M+ apartments and houses going to come from?
I'm not attacking you, relax, reread what I wrote, there's no attack there.

I'm saying that most of the time people who do bad things based on ideological grounds are "right" about certain things in some way. It's the norm more than the exception. Real bad guys often have significant and real grievances, but it's how people respond to grievances and wrongs against them that makes them bad or good.
Looks like many people are learning from the wrong side of coin (that was Steve Jobs). I am a big fan and have seen almost all his keynotes and read 2 of his biographies and I fully acknowledge that he was a terrible guy sometimes.

If you have to learn, learn from awesome things that he did in his lifetime, not being an d*ck!
Since I am not going to log into their blog thingy to answer their question as to why it was taken down I'll just answer 'Why the DMCA request?'

It's illegal in the United States to have the capability or share information on how defeat crypto that is used for the purposes of enforcing copyright restrictions.

Since DRM-style cryptography is fundamentally flawed technology (ie: you have to give the crypto keys, the software,and the hardware capable of decrypting the media to the people you want to protect the media from) in depends on government enforcement (ie: threats of violence) to stop people from making products that make it easy to break DRM.

We can thank Bill Clinton and friends for this lovely bit of legislation.
This is a stunningly elegant proposal. It seems to apply to any field as well, which inspires confidence.

The idea of all Life as simply the Evolution fitness function over the maximization of Entropy...!
How ICIJ’s Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files
There are at least a half dozen ways to get this information when it comes to property for sale.
And my point is that most of those ideas that get executed in the market aren't very impressive. I was a lot more impressed with SRI's machine learning technology, then Summly's execution of that technology in an iPhone app. That's a great case of the "entrepreneur" getting more credit than he deserved when the PhD's were the one that create real value.
Oh, and given that 'CipherCloud' seems intent on suppressing information about their cryptography it's probably a very safe bet that it's utter shit.
sigh ... Harper.

Justin made some very valid and mature statements. I'll keep an eye on him. Thanks for the link.
brew upgrade misses out then. I add Cellar/emacs to Alfred's search path and brew upgrade/cleanup more or less works fine.
The magical life of JavaScript properties
We do extractive summarization because we don't feel that changing the authors words is fair use. We could do rewriting. We actually have an in house demo that for lack of a better word build Wikipedia pages for animals. (animals have fixed traits so it is easier than if we were to try and do general people and the information on them changes much less frequently)

I don't have time to do conference papers.

Our pipeline requires almost every one of our capabilities in order to do TLDR.

We have to grab the page. We have to separate the content from the theme. We have to convert the HTML to a not HTML "thing" that lets us work on the text but maintain the HTML. Then we have to Disambiguate/Segment the sentences. Then we have to analyze the type of content to pick how we are going to summarize it, which requires all the noun, and stemming and keyword analysis, then we have to rank the sentences in importance based on concepts and causation, and readability, and emotion. Then we have to put all the HTML back, and present it to the user.

We set the goal that Tom Sawyer can't take more than 45 seconds to run.
i constantly wonder whether it's worth entering the startup world after finishing my phd, hearing of 'hire fast/fire fast', looking for 'unicorns'....is this rat race even worth it? What's wrong with just wanting to solve problems, why do you need to build fast as opposed to building something that's awesome and works well - find a niche and grow from there. I can almost feel the 'pressure of the job' for those engineering the system when reading posts from founders/ceos with regards to recruiting - here's a hint "it's always about finding the right employees" (well no shit sherlock).
Have to totally agree. Looking right now for a house around North Denver. The search part of the equation is horrible.
Yes, the increasing frequency of these homegrown attacks and school shootings should raise questions about our culture.

And explanation is not the same as moral justification.

I think compulsory public schools and undergraduate classroom-based colleges are very repressive against individuals, without fluid and free avenues for grievances to be aired and needs to be met. Sit up and shut up. The answer has been to use psychiatric drugs, punitive incarceration and behavior modification against individuals, rather than addressing broader social issues.

Partisan bickering between politicians about short-term reactionary policies sidetracks us. Gun control, enhanced interrogation, etc. -- those are not addressing the real underlying issues, and are just kicking the can further down the road until there's another attack.

I do not find it a coincidence that most of these young people accused of mass shootings or acts of terrorism, are current or recent members of our school system. I would absolutely explode and probably go to prison if I had to deal with today's zero-tolerance school systems.

There is something about mass public education which diminishes the individual, and makes small local corrections impossible because there are no outlets for grievance or ways to meet existential needs. As a result, anger, anxiety and depression build up in a person until s/he has no other outlet than to hurt others, no matter what the personal costs.

I find it very sad that media focus on whether suspects are members of certain "groups", or whether suspects have been labeled with pseudoscientific psychiatric labels, or whether their parents were "good" or "fit", when really, it's a much larger social context, and public institutions, which lead to the behavior.

A good book on this topic: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595230769

The War on Kids: http://www.thewaronkids.com/
Interesting. I interviewed at Nest and was on the way to getting an offer, but in the end ended up doing something completely different. Do you have any writings about Fadell?
If the engineering management sucked, then that was also Steve's fault. You're not the iron fist of Apple and get all the credit without taking any of the blame.
It depends. If the act is clearly motivated by religion and directed at perceived enemies of the religion then it is plainly religious terrorism. If the religion of the perpetrator is clearly irrelevant (e.g. a political cause, and the terrorists and perpetrators are of the same religion) then it is plainly not religious terrorism. In between are grey areas that can be argued case by case.
Who the fuck are you?

Just some dude who didn't write an article.
That was the first thing that occurred to me, too.

As the earlier discussion about chess suggests, interactions with other intelligent agents complicate matters. An intelligent agent shouldn't just attempt to maximise the number of possible states -- such an agent may well choose to be passive, and allow the other agent to run the show, which isn't a very useful outcome. Rather, an intelligent agent should attempt to maximise the number of outcomes WHICH IT CAN DETERMINE. And that is the will to power.
>4 people killed in a week is not a lot compared with the background
level of deaths in the US. It's not as many as in the Texas
explosion. Car accidents in the US kill around 100 people a day, and
surely grievously injure hundreds more.

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Difference being of course, one was a deliberate attack on human life, and the other a very _very_ unfortunate accident.

Stupid comparison to make for the sake of pushing his agenda of "free software". I expected more from someone so smart.
Using Zapier to do your dirty little work on the Web
It took hundreds of police and probably millions of dollars to catch a teenager who didn't even bother to leave the area or go into hiding - and even TWEETED after the event.

If we were attacked by real, organized terrorists, we are screwed.

I really do not get all the celebration and back-patting, it's disturbing.

Oh and while this huge distraction was going on - no background checks for guns, the most basic bill failed.

But several senators were quick to voice their desire for no miranda rights.
Indeed. I'd say intelligence tries to keep its environment in a state it can predict.
> Yes, you could record a vinyl losslessly and it would sound indistinguishable from the vinyl. But why bother, when you already own loads of vinyl and are familiar with that format?

I own nearly a thousand vinyl records, and I recorded them digitally and play them through my Audiotron (crackle and all). I bother because playing vinyl records is a bother. They need to be cleaned regularly, dinking around with the records is more work than just pushing a button. Some of them are warped and to get them to play ya gotta put slight pressure on the needle.

I did try various software to remove clicks, but it made the recordings sound muffled.

But I do like the smell of the turntable & records. It's analogous to the pleasing smell of an old paperback novel. Can't have everything.
It looks like you can do that with a proxy approach, there are active ietf drafts concerning proxies:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hampel-mptcp-proxies-anchor...

Encapsulating tcp/udp inside it probably doesn't work very due to conflicts between the layers of buffers and congestion control.
I wonder if the Kauffman foundation would be interested in partnering. http://www.kauffman.org/
You can explain almost any process with this theory, and that's why it's useless. Trying to "capture more future states" is not the reason certain traits evolve, they evolve simply because they are more likely to survive and reproduce.
It could just as easily imply that your decisions are essentially random noise, which we seek to rationalize afterwards.
You mean this Skunk Works, headed by Alton D. Romig, PhD? http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2018245979_i... ("Education: B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in materials science and engineering from Lehigh University.")

It's true that Ben Rich and Kelly Johnson had "only" masters degrees, but Skunk Works was started back at a time when that was a common terminal degree for research engineers.

There is of course nothing magical about the PhD. What's magical is working within a research institution that has real resources to do real research. You generally don't have access to those resources if you go off on your own.
I don't have enough points to post an answer there, so I'll do it here:

Anyone who posted in the original thread can file a DCMA counter-notification. There is a form to generate one at chillingeffects.org: http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca/counter512.pdf

After a counter-notification is filed the entity that filed the original notice has 14 days to file suit, after which the notice is no longer effective.
Then educate yourself. It's just a google search away.

Wikipedia:
There is also a "public safety" exception to the requirement that Miranda warnings be given before questioning: for example, if the defendant is in possession of information regarding the location of an unattended gun or there are other similar exigent circumstances which require protection of the public, the defendant may be questioned without warning and his responses, though incriminating, will be admissible in evidence.