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[Press Release] House Passes Innovation Act to Make Reforms to our Patent System
(This is from a press release from the House Judiciary Committee. Sorry if the text formatting is bad; I don't see the release online yet.)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 5, 2013

House Passes Innovation Act to Make Reforms to our Patent System

Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act by an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 325-91. This bipartisan bill takes steps to combat the ever increasing problem of abusive patent litigation.
The convolutional neural network code that pylearn2 and the Toronto group use is specifically tuned for GTX580 cards - users have reported factors of 2x-10x slowdown using Kepler series cards. In general, most users (of pylearn2 at least) highly recommend a GTX5xx device.

I personally use a GTX570, and it is pretty decent, though not spectacular. Costwise, it is reasonably priced, and "good enough" for most of the networks I have tried (minus ImageNet...)

A key problem is limited GPU memory in the Fermi series, as it is difficult to fit a truly monstrous network on a single card. Krizhevsky's ImageNet work had some very tricky things to spread it across 2 GTX580s, and the training still took a very, very long time.
Here's the scale of that thing

http://i.imgur.com/6S0WiRE.png
I don't dismiss the fact that the law is imperfect, but assert the fact that among all possible laws, the simple suggestion will probably still be imperfect.
RaspberryPi: publish & subscribe over WebSocket at 6000 evts/sec
They did a talk about parallel rendering 4 months ago : https://air.mozilla.org/2013-intern-presentations-august-13/
words, just words.

It is not that complex, it is called "End the Patriot Act" or lobby for that. Until just telling your customer that they are being watched is against the law and they could go to jail for that, nobody should trust ANY American corporation.

And no, not all countries in the world have this kind of totalitarian laws. Yes, companies could give info about you to the government, but under court order, and those are public or private only for a small amount of time.
FWIW, it's cheaper at Google Play: $9.99
I've used homejoy 8 times so far. I'm shocked at how cheap it is. Every one of my cleaners has been nice. One seemed kinda cracked out but still did a decent job. Good to see homejoy continuing to expand.
My point is that Gimp was pointed as a Photoshop replacement, but then excused for poor vector support.

Then, Inkscape was proposed for its vector support, but it neglects raster support.

Why use two solutions when Photoshop offers both capabilities?
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2003/pulpit_20030116_0007...
Not all "freedoms" are alike. As the saying goes, your freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose. And your freedom to make unproven medical claims for a product you're selling ends at my freedom to buy medical products with confidence that they are safe and will do what they claim to do.
I download my Gmail regularly via Thunderbird so I have a local backup. Horcrux looks useful - will try it once they have Mavericks support.
Objection (1) - a BJ creates no disincentive for work. You can earn $7.25/hour at the BJ or $7.50 at McDs.

Objection (2) - it reduces the incentives of immigration with the intent of collecting welfare, thereby reducing the objections to immigration.

Objection (3) - due to the fact that it has no disincentives for work, and the economic cost will be far less than a BI ( I did some back of the envelope calculations here http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/basic_income_vs_basic... ), it's far less likely to reduce growth than a BI.
Medical false-claims have a higher standard of due care for good reasons. Not only are there issues with potential non-reversal, but the search and diligence costs are un-economic for individuals to verify acting in isolation. That's doesn't justify anyone's bad behaviour, but dismissing the problem out of hand is not really helpful.
What about a Basic Job for non-citizens, Basic Income for citizens?
Still Google doesn't let you download your search queries log and clicked results.
"an excuse to learn Erlang, and wrote his own implementation"

Why even included Erlang if you're not going to share the source...
Beautiful time tracking app Timely launches
Asus R9-290X DirectCU II Images Revealed
There is also DeCAF, which actually includes a way to load a pretrained ImageNet network based on cuda-convnet. I have had pretty recent success using this blob as preprocessing for image classification, ala http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.1531.

Github is here:

https://github.com/UCB-ICSI-Vision-Group/decaf-release/

My current code as an example of combining sklearn/pylearn2 with DeCAF preprocessing (under the decaf folder, sklearn usage is under previous commits):

https://github.com/kastnerkyle/kaggle-dogs-vs-cats
I think this is fairly obvious but there's a clear difference between "data belonging to a user" and "data about a user". The first is what they are talking about, because this is how vendor lock-in occurs.
Solve your localization challenges with L20n
It would be nice to see Mozilla's app-store have more first-class support for open-source projects. The notion of Free software (apps, particularly) seems to have died with mobile, but I think Mozilla is in a position to bring it back.
To provide a counter-point to jwcooper, I've used both the original LESS and the SCSS version, and I have run into a couple of minor quirks (things like elements inside input groups not lining up correctly) with the latter.

While I've always personally preferred SCSS over LESS, when I'm starting new projects these days I tend to just use the LESS version of Bootstrap, as it makes it much easier to update, it's tested much more widely, and fixes for any issues that do crop up are available faster.
I didn't argue for Sweden's immigration policy - I argued that Sweden's immigration policy is possible.
Throwing in "legal" in a discussion that pretty much revolves around that seems like a poor way to communicate.

Also "drug dealers" is probably the epitome of a morally/legal ambiguous job. Purdue has no doubt eased the suffering of millions of people, yet they were still hit with felony convictions.
Depends, of course, on the architecture but you could be looking at a ~x50 speedup.
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I work 7:00 - 3:30 and go home early on Fridays.
Thanks. I lost my card years ago...but I don't think I forgot what it said. Maybe I can order a replacement to carry with me to show people at parties.
Engineers built communications and automation technology, which has allowed executives to outsource and eliminate jobs far more quickly than people here can get trained for new ones. The human toll of these changes has been higher than drone and surveillance technology combined.

I think this comes down to a conflict (not very well fought from the engineers' side) between cost-cutters and excellence-maximizers. The first category want to take something that's already being done and cut people out of the action. That's not always a bad thing, because they attack inefficiencies and should, in theory, make the world richer. However, they end up taking almost all of the gains for themselves (and externalizing costs). The second also want to cut costs, remove grunt work, etc. but because they want to do more, i.e. "now that I shaved clock cycles off of this operation, that frees up resources to do more cool shit".

Businessmen tend to be cost-cutters, because that's the one thing people can agree on in executive tussles. For executives, R&D, philanthropy, etc. all devolve into bikeshedding, but the bottom line is a common language. People with vision, on the other hand, tend to get into conflicts and causes that have negative expectancy for their political fortunes. Engineers tend to be excellence-maximizers.

The excellence-maximizers do believe that they're helping society and adding value-- and they're right, at least on the latter. They cut jobs and create value. The problem is that society is run by greedy cost-cutters who have no vision but a lot of greed, and who make sure that none of the gains trickle back. Thus, those affected by the industry changes never get the resources (time, money, education) to survive them.
Not necessarily. They might as well be named attribute_1, attribute_2....attribute_n. ML algorithms don't care about the meaning of the features.
Yes, Hebel doesn't have a ton of features and a kitchen-sink of different models yet, but I hope that's going to change. There are lots of things that are quite easy to implement in the current framework, such as:
- Neural net regression
- Autoencoders
- Restricted Boltzman machines

There's a lot of interest for convolutional networks and the best way to implement it will be to wrap Alex Krizhevsky's cuda-convnet, like DeepNet and PyLearn2 have, but this will require a bit more effort.

With respect to other deep learning packages, Hebel doesn't necessarily do everything differently, but depending on your needs it may be the best choice for a particular job.

PyLearn2 is big and monumental and although I haven't used it much personally, it seems to excellent. But as you mentioned, it's not necessarily easy to use and if you want to extend it, you have to learn the Theano development model, which takes some time to grok.

DeepNet is quite similar to Hebel in its approach (even though it offers more models right now). However, DeepNet is based on cudamat and gnumpy, which I have found to often be quite unstable and slow. Hebel is based on PyCUDA which is very stable and according to some preliminary tests I did runs about twice as fast as cudamat.

So, the idea of Hebel is that it should make it easy to train the most important deep learning models without much setup or having to write much code. It is also supposed to make it easy to implement new models through a modular design that lets you subclass existing layers or models to implement variations of them.
Are the tours done in English?

What level of Korean would you say someone (I'm Canadian) needs to be able to get by? I understand there is always a tour guide, who is a government official. But I just want to know if some Korean is recommended. Thank you.
IIRC, they were/are pulling tons of data with just a single FISA request. While the system you described is certainly much better than having a backdoor installed, I'm not sure whether that'll protect your data from being "accidentally" collected.
Applebee's to install 100,000 tablets at tables in 2014
>The theory "A tree falling in a deserted forest does not generate pressure waves in the air" is a theory that makes falsifiable predictions

I do not believe that the theory "A completely unobserved and unrecorded tree does not generate pressure waves in the air when it falls" is falsifiable. How would you falsify it?

I do agree that no-one seriously believes it.
Ryan Seacrest Wanted a Keyboard for His iPhone, So He Invested $1 Mill
Alan Mulally is staying at Ford through 2014, dimming Microsoft CEO chances
An alternative to this would be fetchmail and maildrop. The MTA (fetchmail) downloads the messages periodically and delivers them to the MDA (maildrop) which can store them in Maildir format (each mail is an individual file). Fetchmail actually has weird bugs with some mails, so I made my own version in Perl, but there's other options out there.

Alternatives: http://imapsync.lamiral.info/ http://offlineimap.org/ http://isync.sourceforge.net/
Can profile-guided optimization realise that a certain virtual function almost always resolves to a specific implementation and have a conditional check to inline or optimize when needed?

I'm not overly experienced with complicated OO systems, but sometimes it seems the OO is just an abstraction for convenience, but runtime will always take a particular path.
great and inspiring read! find ourselves in the same spot as when drew started - when he walked in to YC unprepared. Well we blew our YC 2014 application, it was so poorly written. So with a common starting point looking forward to cracking the code to success by - solving a problem that we have ourselves, and improving on things that are already around!
A Tablet App from Invention Labs Helps Kids with Speech Disabilities
Trifacta raises $12M to help make dirty data clean
It is USDA-inspected, however.
UTAustinX: UT.5.01x: Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers
The Emscripten recommendation is hilarious. How long before people are writing JS and bundling it with a JS interpreter which is compiled with Emscripten merely as an obfuscation measure to satisfy a very confused manager?

For a group supposedly keen on JS that's a really stupid recommendation.
Perhaps it's just being nit picky, but I think the author misread the original WSJ [1] article that he quotes.

In the OP: Gillette, for example, had a “memo culture”; P&G’s “Proctoids” favored face-to-face meetings.

In the WSJ article: Then there were culture clashes: Oral-B favored meetings while Crest liked memos

Oral-B is Gilette, Crest is P&G.

It makes me wonder about his conclusions. They seem logical enough.

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KItFlIl...
Yes, I'm sorry about that, but it's not going to change. I personally don't have experience developing for OpenCL and the deep learning community seems to very much have embraced CUDA.
Testimony of Ms. Soon Ok Lee (2002)
In the Theory Of Constraints "Thinking Tools" (a method to try and apply logic to group/systems dynamics/conflicts/constraints) they call this a "clarity reservation". I got caught up in a big discussion board argument about "gun control" before realizing everyone was arguing passionately about wildly different mental models that "gun control" represented. I could have said, "I have a clarity reservation on gun control" and spun the discussion out into several more simultaneous conversations.

It also got me thinking that most terms like this could be mapped on a 2x2 grid of "content" versus "signal". "Content" is the meaningfulness of the definition, and "signal" is the emotional impact of the word, or its ability to elicit certain emotional responses in the audience. "Gun control" could be seen as a high-signal low-content term, and that's the quadrant that you probably most want to avoid (or taboo).

This happens a lot in software engineering, too, probably more in the low-signal low-content quadrant (since most overloaded terms in software engineering are rather boring in the grand scheme). We regularly have confusion at work about words like "profile" (performance? user info? data type?) and "dev" (our test server? our git branch? our team?). This can also be hard when introducing layers of abstraction in a codebase - I feel like more than once I've struggled with running out of synonyms when trying to name certain classes.
Add fx traders in your country to the forex gem
I'm not here to troll anyone (intentionally at least). Maybe I did misunderstand, but here's what it looks like from my perspective:

There is a huge group of new HN users who just come in here, deliver some poisonous comments, get upvoted for it, and then mostly move on. Here's how you fit that description: The thread's subject is death and life extension. A guy uses a word you really, really hate in a colloquial form. You answer the upside of death is that when he dies the word will hopefully get extinct with him. You get karma for, to use your words, trolling someone by being cheerful of their impending demise.

HN is unpredictable, and sadly you'll sometimes get rewarded for completely dickish behavior, such as expressing glib joy over the death of a fellow commenter. I believe you should not have gotten away with this so easily, because chances are you'll continue to exhibit this behavior here.

Of course you can always say that I'm not the content police and I should just fuck off instead of complaining about things I can't do anything about. However, I hope this will have some kind of impact on you. Using the word "retarded" sets you off, and expressing a wish for people to die sets me off. When you weigh those two, it should become apparent how different they are.
Exactly. I would not be surprised if they had some sort of dumb clause basically stating that if a cleaner tries to setup a out of homejoy transaction they are banned.
We Americans are a panicked bunch. We scare easily the last decade or so.

It has nothing to do with actual risk here. It's all about "protecting us from the terr'ists."

Never mind the fact that the terrorists we fear so much don't even exist or are too incompetent or uneducated to carry out anything truly dangerous.
I recently bought a car, but while looking I would have liked to have a comparison tool.

I wanted to filter on price, color, and than see cars next to each other, to see how they look. They would have to be to scale. Hopefully you could also drive it around a little in the virtual space, and see how they accelerate vs. other cars, how wide are the turns, etc.

Now filtering on price does not mean that I want to see cars in same price range. I would have liked to see all sedans in one price range, and minivans in another (I was not shopping for suv, but that would be there too). So basically you should be able to group cars, and filter by groups/sub-groups.

I wouldn't pay for the service, but I would have bought a car from this service. I used carsdirect.com in 2000 to buy a car, and tried to use it now unsuccessfully, went through truecar.com instead.
I honestly didn't think I was nitpicking, just trying to gain some clarity on your moral perspective.

Also, in terms of grellas saying it better than you could, he specifically notes that we "ought to avoid being a proximate cause of something deemed wrong even though technically legal." This directly contradicts your comment, in which you implied that you would work for any legal organization if the money was good enough. I was merely asking if you could address this contradiction, in the spirit of provoking reasonable discussion about the intersection of money and morality. But if you feel my line of inquiry was nitpicking, then I apologize.
1.5 nanoseconds per call in the best case. In some huge monstrosity where you've got to go chase down object headers not in the cache, things may be quite different.
Pretty sure nobody anywhere thinks that.
I disagree. I don't think the original plays with the concept of sound, I think it plays with the concept of an objective reality. I don't think the thought experiment is substantially different in effect if it's changed to "does a tree fall in the forest if no-one is there to see it" or "does a tree have rough bark in the forest if no-one is there to feel it".
Can you please explain what you are talking about? I have no idea at all what you mean.
Yes, this is true. Theano is just a GPU-computing framework that you can use to implement any kind of numerical model. Hebel implements some specific models, but it uses PyCUDA as a backend.
who should read those book, i know for sure they are not for the average IT/Programmer guy

who is the right audience, and what would be a prerequisite reading
A meta-comment to your unrelated comment - there is a Chrome extension called "WhatFont"[1] that gives you a button you can click, which adds a tooltip to your cursor telling you what font it is hovering over! It's useful to be able to painlessly determine what beautiful font you're looking at :)

[1]: http://chengyinliu.com/whatfont.html
Has anyone analyzed the impact on monetary policy and macroeconomics?

The Fed has a dual mandate of low inflation and maximal employment, and as a result, is currently printing money indefinitely. The ECB only has a mandate of low inflation, and has had an excellent track record. However, the Eurozone is currently having an unemployment crisis. The BI (potentially with abolition of the minimum wage) would then mitigate the impacts of unemployment. With basic income, couldn't the Fed become more like the ECB, and drop the employment mandate? Then, we could potentially greatly curtail our money printing.

Also, what are the effects on macroeconomics? Couldn't BI attenuate the boom-bust cycle? Deflation would even be constructive: the real value of the BI is increased without raising the nominal value. The Fed can then take its time, during recession, in deciding when to start the printing presses again.
23andMe is incredibly naive.

Naive? To cynical me this dustup is a PR stunt, they want exposure and to put public pressure on the FDA to be allowed to continue just as they did in the past.
> 23andMe is incredibly naive.

Also, what is their lawyer doing, allowing them to make statements like "23andMe contends that the reliability of its test kits and data adheres to the highest standards, that its process matches that of a DNA test one would get through a physician" in the middle of this sort of agency action? Maybe the author's paraphrase is wildly wrong, but in this sort of situation, you don't really want to go on the public record doubling down on your position that your product is as good as what you'd get through a doctor, while arguing that it shouldn't be regulated as a medical test.
Last Spring, Clever was pitching me for a job (which full disclosure I accepted). I was dubious, edtech startups don't have the best track record, and they had barely gotten started (just got into YC). However after hearing the problem they set out to solve, and seeing how they planned to do it, I was convinced. Clever bypasses most of the biggest problems edtech startups run into, specifically selling to schools. Schools don't like to pay for things, and when they do it's shrouded in bureaucracy. Clever is free for schools, and instead sells to developers, easing their pain and in turn making it easier for them to sell and get setup with schools. From the Clever point of view a new schools takes 5 minutes to onboard.

This is one of the major points that allowed us to see this level of growth over the past year, and I'm excited to see where Clever takes education going forward.

We're also actively hiring so head over to our jobs page if being on the forefront of a revolution in the edtech space sounds interesting to you. https://getclever.com/about/jobs
And what I am saying is that Mexico would have a much easier time controlling its crime if there were not billions of dollars flowing southward from the United States into the hands of the cartels. The cartels are virtually invincible because of that money. If the US market for illegal drugs went away tomorrow, what do you suppose would happen to the crime rate in Mexico over the next few years? I believe it would go down dramatically as there would be much less incentive to be involved with the cartel.

EDIT: I should clarify that you are correct, you are statistically more likely to be randomly assaulted in certain parts of Mexico than you are in certain parts of the United States. What I am saying is that the problem is larger than Mexico simply being unable to effectively police certain factions of its citizenry.
> "I think these debates tend to dramatically overemphasize the size of group one, to the point of being misanthropic ("grow a spine"?). A fundamental fact of life is that people have vastly diverging belief systems and that those in the ivory tower don't always know what's right or best."

You seem to have not fully read my comment, or misinterpreted it.

I am not telling people who consider their (in my opinion, unethical) work to be ethical to grow a spine. Disagreeing with with other people, even me, on matters of ethics does not imply that somebody is spineless.

Performing a job that you consider unethical makes you spineless.

I am telling people to act on their own assessment of their work. Frankly I shouldn't even need to tell people that, it is practically tautological how common sense it is.