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> When was the last time you saw a stat/math paper in machine learning with comments/structure? And guess what, its as undecipherable as code without comments/structure.

What do you mean? Academic papers are usually written in plain english with mathematical formulas when it's necessary. What kind of comments would you like to see?
Fantastic conference and gave me a lot of hope for the future of javascript. :)
> why not start with the Dodge 1500 pickup truck

Why not start with premium cars released at the same time as Tesla?
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Basically the problem is everyone is looking for the "Rockstar". News for all the employers out there -- if you want to the best then YOU have to be the best. If all they are hiring for is someone to write a web front end for a simple database backend, you don't need a "Rockstar". You don't need an MIT graduate with a PHD. You need a developer who can read documentation and figure out how to build your solution, and build it so that it can be maintained and upgraded. That is a lot easier to find then the greatest developer known to human kind.
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I suspect this problem will self-correct. It's not that we've run out of choices: it's partially that pharmaceutical companies had the narrow view that developing new antibiotic drugs is less profitable than developing drugs for chronic illness (e.g., to control cholesterol); once catastrophe hits due to bacteria being resistant to all current drugs, it will be extremely profitable to work on this class of drugs again. Take a look at this interview with Dr. John Rex M.D., (V.P., Clinical Research, AstraZeneca) [1]

"Dr. JOHN REX: If you need an antibiotic, you need it only briefly. Indeed, that’s the— that’s the correct way to use an antibiotic. You use it only briefly.

And from an economic standpoint of a developer, that means you’re not— you’re not getting the return on the investment you’ve made because you’ve spent between $600 million and a billion dollars to bring that new antibiotic to market."

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-techn...
Unless you read Nabokov.
http://mashable.com/2013/11/18/xbox-one-facts/

"The Xbox team has stressed that the motion-capturing camera Kinect, which is bundled with every Xbox One, is a much more sophisticated device than its predecessor. The camera can see a lot more of what is happening in the room; it can sense the number of people, see their skeletons, monitor heartbeats and even recognize faces."

At least Google can't see my skeleton...
That's a lot of egos in one place.
Is your website a pimply teenager?
Philadelphia airport has been like this for years already. The "airlock" isn't a single-person, but a small room that can lock a handful of people in as they pass individually through some unjumpable turnstiles. I'd post a photo, but there are signs around the room forbidding photography.
What do you mean by "gets directly interpreted"? Interpreting the AST? Writing a bytecode interpreter is pretty easy and can run much faster than a tree interpreter, especially when you use gcc extensions (taking addresses from labels and filling a jump table with it, which eliminates the long "if ... else if ... else if ..." like code a switch statement creates).
I remember using Winamp back in the day. At one point in time, it was the only mp3 player out there that didn't absolutely suck. It was pretty amazing how usenet and winamp opened up a whole world of music you just couldn't buy anywhere at the time. Truly a leap forwards in distribution! It's too bad the music industry reacted with such paranoia that they arguably still haven't adequately monetized it.

A couple of years ago I used OSX for about 6 months. One of the more minor reasons I was relieved to uninstall it was that I never found a music player I really liked. Let's face it, iTunes is crap even on the OS it was meant for!

On Windows, look no further than Foobar2000. It's not a super-sexy looking player (although it can be if you put some work into it), but it is eminently functional. It does practically anything you can want (with extensions), has an easy to figure out but powerful interface, and is audiophile-grade. This lives on my HTPC, which interfaces with my stereo, so it's what I'm primarily used to. Love it! There's one extension (foo_httpcontrol) you can add that allows you to control your stereo from any networked device (there are a few android apps designed to work through this interface), which is handy for flipping through music while reading in your comfy chair or sitting on the porcelain throne!

On Linux, Amarok. Sexier apps come and are abandoned to become bug-infested swamps of suck, but Amarok has been going strong for a very long time. I often try newer music apps, but Amarok is the default on KDE for a reason.
Have you ever been in a jail cell before?
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They will not rest until Musk is destroyed. Oil=>$=>Media.
Oil=>$=>Government. Oil hates Electric. So guess where Government and Media come down? Think that's crap? They have already outlawed the sale of Teslas in some states. They're just getting started folks. And then they're going to force Hydrogen cars down our throats. Talk about your fires! Anyone remember the Hindenburg?
XMPlay has to be mentioned here! Great player in not even 400 kB, but unfortunately Windows only.

http://support.xmplay.com/
Could you expand on why it's important to vote, because at the moment I can't see it. Arguably, lots of voting has got us to where we are now.

The main problem I see is that the winning party uses voting numbers to claim a mandate.I'm currently reaching the conclusion that the only way to get meaningful change is for enough people to avoid voting that any idea of mandate becomes ludicrous and the disillusion has to be addressed directly.
Yes, there's a confirmation dialog :)
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Not one that can lock on both sides at the same time.
While this may be true that doesn't by any means imply that someone with "only" a B.Sc. in Computer Science can't understand and use machine learning. In fact the only thing this implies is that those who have focused the most in the field are performing the best in competitions. Fairly standard wouldn't you say? The result shouldn't discourage anyone.
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Good point. However, the author does recommend using open source ML libraries, so applying the techniques may not require some of the implementation knowledge you suggest. It's likely more relevant to understand the semantic constraints and pitfalls (eg, am I over-fitting right now?) since the work of a small number of talented implementers can be easily reused.
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Unless the thing fires x-rays, I'm pretty sure they meant "it uses the data to extrapolate a skeleton".
It really kicked the llama's ass.
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Every music player is proprietary somewhere be it codec, physical IC, transistor technology, speakers, headphones.

Software is a teeny little bit of the whole thing.
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I have never encountered a situation like this before in an airport. If I were to, I would be very disturbed, and avoid that airport in the future. So, this is new and unusual to me. (Apparently, also, to enough people to make this video notable).

Subways that I have seen that require fare cards on exit do not actually prevent you from leaving; you can jump the turnstile or go through a gate on the side that possibly alarms. This is not the greatest thing, but at least while you are inside you can move freely inside a large subway system; being encased in plexiglass until a light turns green is a whole different degree of trapped.

Edit: And I guess this is an important part of the point: degree matters. The old boiling-a-frog story is just about slowly increasing the degree of something.
A better approach might be translating them into more uniform s-expressions. Mathematica does this. You can also check out a similar approach in Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics where tensor expressions are reduced to scheme expressions.
Isn't that Y Combinator, or any startup accelerator?
If it was designed with safety in mind, it would probably need power to stay closed. If there is no power it would prop open. But then, I got stuck in an elevator for an hour last month, so yeah, people would probably diaf.
Whatever problem you are solving, if you don't try k-means before spending a huge amount of programmer and computer time on more complex algorithms, you are doing it wrong.

Just as most programming is CRUD, most machine learning in practice is k-means or linear models.
At least on Linux. The original was x11amp, which becamse XMMS. But there are much better options, especially if you want to go text mode. MOC (http://moc.daper.net/), or even mplayer if you just want simple playback. And of course, the original mpg123. Let's just say, open source music players are a solved problem.
Automating stuff is great, and unlike the people in this thread crying "police state" I think it's just a bad idea + bad bureaucracy.
Impending happiness comes from the trying to prevent impending doom, scientific advancement just doesn't come out from thin air.

That said, I'm not saying that people can't be overreacting in certain circumstances. But keep in mind this line of reasoning (ie things happen, and we can't do much) can be quite misleading and even dangerous in some cases (human can't cause global warming, how do you think some puny tiny human beings can do anything to the earth etc.)
The post does do a good job of showing how easy it is to implement knn.

The post doesn't really go into centroid selection or evaluation, or the fact that clustering on text is going to be painful once you move to a larger dataset.
That very much depends on the subject, for instance popular culture is covered very well on Wikipedia with little delay.
Readability link: http://www.readability.com/articles/6ycbi4jx

I highly recommend downloading this extension for websites with crappy overlays like this one!
Awesome tactic.

These notes were great. I shared them around with the rest of the team who didn't make it to the conference as well which became relevant when we started discussing what sales platform we were going to be using.
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"steal your data" seems boldly libelous.
If even some of the land that was freed up by a fall-off in livestock production was instead used to grow plants, we'd actually have a food surplus, and a significant one.

EDIT: "even some of"
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That's great to hear (HipChat integration is my possibly favourite feature).

We do occasionally post about trouble that we've survived, http://blog.pagerduty.com/2012/07/a-utc-leap-second-vs-derec... caused us some mild stress but no missed alerts.
I don't know how they did it but somehow Porche found a way to get their small plug in a news segment about another car brand.
Unfortunately, you are right.

Startup idea: cheap consumer-oriented broad spectrum antibiotic detection kits for meat and fish.
Just like the global food shortage that Malthusians assured us was bound to happen, the ozone layer fading away and UV rays destroying us all, Y2K breaking every computer on the planet.

This time it's for real. This time, technology and human ingenuity isn't going to save us.
I can't help thinking about this reflection [1] on Brand's The Whole Earth Catalog, which ends with these words:

Years later, I learned that Stewart Brand had gotten off Ken Kesey’s bus and become one of the early inventors of the Internet; I can’t say I was surprised. I only hope he endowed it with the same impish spirit of merry mayhem that animated the Whole Earth Catalog.

1: http://freq.uenci.es/2011/09/28/the-whole-earth-catalog/
So what penalty do you think you deserve?

What penalty do the people attacking my clients' WordPress sites or SSH ports deserve? Would that penalty change if they mailed Digital Ocean saying "No, it's OK - me attacking that website is part of my Uni assignment!"? Who'd be responsible for checking that claim, and how much time would it take? And remind me again how much you'd spent with Digital Ocean?

You fucked up big time - deal with it and learn from it. There's clearly a whole bunch of things you didn't even think about before doing this (ad that you're still whining about and failing to accept responsibility for). Be glad it bit you on the ass for something as unimportant as a uni assignment - imagine how much worse this could be if instead of a few assignment files, you'd lost 6 months of your startup's code - because you hadn't bothered reading the TOS you agreed to and didn't bother keeping off-site copies of important files.

Sorry this is harsh - but seriously, think about this from anybody else but your perspective. You behaved like a jerk, then tried the "But I didn't know! Sorry, I'll stop now." justification. And you're _still_ whining that you're being treated unfairly.
The whole principle behind such vestibules is that there is an instant when both doors are closed at the same time, which keeps the cold draft outside from getting inside.
As an HTC-Android phone user, I'd buy a mug titled "<MS logo> keep calm while we steal your money". Not if MS is selling it, though.
I've done pretty well at Kaggle with just a Bachelors in American History: http://www.kaggle.com/users/19518/vik-paruchuri, although I haven't been using it as much lately.
A lot of competition winners have lacked advanced degrees. What I like most about Kaggle is that the only thing that matters is what you can show. I learned a lot, and I highly recommend it to anyone starting out in machine learning. I expanded on some of this stuff in a Quora answer if you are interested: http://www.quora.com/Kaggle/Does-everyone-have-the-ability-t....
Normally, but not surprising, given the source, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt#Mic...
In that case it would be better to write:

> If we really lost antibiotics to advancing drug resistance — and many experts agree we may not be far off
I love hearing about these types of unusual inbound marketing tactics for startups, congrats on the success!
> What exactly do you think should happen when a jagged metal object collides with your car with enough energy to rip through critical components?

An unfair characterization of the problem.

Gas tanks are in the rear of a car for a reason. Notice that we didn't see similar issue in the Roadster, which houses the battery behind the passengers.
> we'll then have a lot less livestock to eat

Even if that's true, while meat is tasty, it's a luxury, and arguably a step in the food chain that's a waste.

If the entire industrial meat sector evaporated today, my guess is the biggest impact would be an economic disruption from large number of suddenly unemployed and businesses no longer buying services/products, rather than any kind of food shortage per se.

But if we're talking about an antibiotic ban, the impacts wouldn't even reach that far. ABX don't enable production, they enable cheaper production. The most likely outcome isn't a serious collapse in supply, it's some combination of an increase in costs and modest reduction in supply.
Aw, come on, I'm sorry, but you simply don't know what you're talking about. Durante has some awesome skills and he sure as hell Gets Things Done, but this was much simpler for the original devs to do, and mostly a dreary slog of creating art assets, getting it to work reliably on all configs and running it through QA umpteen times. All that is very boring and just takes time and money.
Its a great app. Sad they are shutting down.
There's a lot of evidence that Wikipedia's articles are actually better than Britannica: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia#Compar...
Even the simple case of taking a PDF, finding the first use of any given symbol in that paper, and turning the PDF into an interactive document where hovering on any use of the symbol shows a tooltip showing the first use - now that would be both useful and feasible.

But... the Venn diagram of people able to do such a thing, people motivated to do such a thing (i.e. people reading academic papers who aren't math whizzes), and people with the time to do such a task... seems not to have a sufficient intersection. Most of us in this thread fulfill categories 1 and 2, but not 3... come to think of it, I have work to do... ducks.
I wanted a free TonidoPlug but no one read my mind and sent it to me for free, so they're just awful.
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Well I don't think any of the problems you mentioned are difficult to solve, even by a non-seasoned programmer.

For your first question, just use Euclidean distance. (In other words, sqrt((x1 - y1)^2 + (x2 - y2)^2 + ... + (xn - yn)^2). IMO, anyone who can program can do that.

Also for your second question - probably - but he's using a very simplistic model. To fix that, you simply fix the heuristic. For example, you could instead score groups by how frequently certain important words occur, like "team" and "support".
I never understand the decision behind blogs not putting a link anywhere on their blog to their actual website.

1. Mixlr in the header points me to blog.mixlr.com.

2. Footer links, all of them link to the page I'm on...

I know there is a link in the content of the post, but what about other posts? Why is there not an easy way for me to get to your main site without manually modifying the URL in the address bar?
A few observations:

1. While the linked blog post is new today, its mostly a link back to a different 2010 blog post.

2. The linked blogged post and the 2010 blog post basically discuss performance considerations that have been documented clearly in the PostgreSQL documentation for character data types since version 8.3 (and less completely for several versions before that) regarding the performance considerations ( CHAR(X) worse than VARCHAR(X) worse than VARCHAR and TEXT.)

3. The linked blog post says "don't use CHAR or VARCHAR", but really, it should be "don't use CHAR(x) or VARCHAR(x)". VARCHAR is pretty much identical to TEXT.
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No. Some people don't need money and they don't want to give away equity. They just want to work with, or near, like minded people.
Closed, but not locked.
This is as valid as someone stating that computer science is easy because they know HTML.
If I were in your shoes, I'd have checked the usage before using the word. I've no idea why you need my approval. Your usage was wrong. If you don't like that, go find another opinion.
Tesla used "quarter inch armor plate" (their words) to protect the battery. Some engineer picked that thickness and determined it was sufficient. These crashes show it may not be, in which case it needs to be improved.

This is not something terrible about Tesla, this is the slow process of iteration that creates good safe products.
That's all well and good, but let's take a look at what the trigger was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5615120 . If you ran a community -- and realistically there's nothing stopping you from doing so -- would you tolerate that kind of nonsense? I know I wouldn't want to hang around there if you did.

You're right (to continue going slightly meta), it's a policy of elitism, but in the same vein as Wikipedia. They too are still around as a result.

Side note: Quality is quantifiable to a degree and is by no means a fictional notion.
I didn't see the video, but the description sounds like basically every airport I've ever been to in Europe. I have Delta's highest frequent flyer tier.
To be more specific, it has to do with the nature of any positional-notation system, whether it is decimal, octal, hex, or even binary.
> "If an open source software solution breaks, who's gonna fix it?"

Oh my god that is gold.
love this bit from http://www.reaper.fm/purchase.php:

Honest Business Model
We offer a good product at a fair price.

We don't spend money and effort on marketing, complicated piracy protection, or other things that do not directly improve REAPER and the user experience.

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> Even if that's true, while meat is tasty, it's a luxury

No more a luxury than, say, cancer treatments.
Hey Kaizhi,

Small world, eh? Hiresync looks awesome! I wish you the best of luck with it. Really love the simplified interface.
Less cheap industrial meat in the overfed west (particularly the US) is not equal to global food shortage.
The recent data I've seen suggests that level of multi-drug resistant infections has actually leveled off or dropped slightly.

Is it a problem? Yes. Are we close to the end? No.
The trick is finding an unbiased person to look at the statistics.
I actually walked through this thing a couple of weeks ago. It was a little weird, but I didn't feel "detained" at any point. It just felt like going through a high-tech turnstile, as others have theorized it would.
That's not what the report claims at all.

It claims that they may have wanted Stuxnet to be exposed, for boasting/deterrence. It also claims that they likely lost access to the internal network, and needed more virus-like behavior in order to spread to the right computers. Virus-like behaviors that raise suspicion and make it discoverable.
I think the implicit question was meant to be "Who is up-voting this post on HN, bitter MS employees?"
This reminds of of a story I heard from a speaker about over-engineering:

A toothpaste company had a small rate of faults when producing the product, every couple of thousand tubes produces the machine would put an empty one on the production line, it would then be packaged and shipped, so every now and then a customer would complain he bought an empty toothpaste.

The company decided to fix that, hired a couple of consultants, and after a dozen of engineers looked into the problem for a couple of months and burned a couple of millions in research they came up with a brilliant solution.

before packaging the toothpaste, they added a very sensitive balance to the production line, every toothpaste would pass there, if the balance detected a difference in the expected wight it would pause the line, then a mechanical arm would push it out, go back to the resting place and continue the line.

After implementing the solution the managers waited a couple of months to see the results and compare numbers, to see how efficient the new solution was. It was amazing! 100%. not one complaint of empty tubes after the expensive solution was implemented. The board was so satisfied with the investment that they came to the production floor for a tour on the new QA perfect tool. But it was turned off.
They called the floor manager and asked what happened, they couldn't turn off that important piece of the production line, they could have all the complaints back.
The floor manager said he doesn't even remember how to turn it on, he said, I turned it off shortly after the put this thing here.

So how it is possible they have 0 complaints with if not because of the new tool?
The floor manager said it was slowing down production, every now and then it would completely stop the whole production line, so he turned it off and bought a fan, pointed out to the stop, the fan would be string enough to push any empty toothpaste case.
Not to mention we'd reduce water usage dramatically in a lot of places where water use is one of the most pressing issues people face.