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I don't think that's been their motto since Otellini took over. Look where they are now in the mobile market. Otellini put the profitability of their Core chips above improving Atom in the first few years, even when it came to netbook performance, which was already terrible. Combined with the fact that they forced OEMs to not buy AMD alternatives during the same time, Otellini just didn't think it's necessary to improve the performance of Atom too much.

They only started caring about power consumption when it was already obvious to everyone that ARM is going to pose a threat to them eventually. I think if everyone sees something that's by definition not "paranoia". To be paranoid, you have to see and believe something before others see it.
I'm a big proponent of bandit algorithms (I'm a founder of Myna http://mynaweb.com/, something of a competitor to Synference). I think there is a bit of nuance here that is missing in the discussion.

Should Wikipedia use a contextual bandit system? Assuming the cost is equivalent, I say yes, for the following reasons:

- they have a shedload of traffic, and then some; and

- they have a limited time in which the campaign is running.

Let's address these in turn.

The regret bounds on contextual bandits are O(d sqrt(T)), where d is the dimensionality of the user profile you're using and T is time (see e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3352). In contrast, the standard stochastic bandit has regret bounds of O(log(T)), which is much tighter. The summary is you need a lot more data to explore the bigger range of possibilities you've created. So I'm not sure contextual bandits are viable for smaller sites, but Wikipedia definitely has the traffic to make them work.

If your test is running for a limited time you can just delete the code when you're done. This has several advantages. People running A/B tests typically want to answer the question "what is best?" (To crush your enemies, obviously, but you can't usually say that) under the assumption that you'll then display the best variant forever. Contextual bandit algorithms don't answer this question; instead they minimise regret (equivalently, making you the most money) which makes more sense in the limited time setting. In fact there is no "best" with a contextual bandit -- the best variant depends on the user profile. This means you need to run the algorithm forever: good if you're collecting monthly subscriptions based on algorithm use, but bad if you're trying to manage a site with an exploding number of variants under test that you can never delete.

Ob plug: If you've found this post interesting you should consider signing up for the bandit course I'm running: http://noelwelsh.com/data/2013/08/16/free-bandit-course-draf... It will cover contextual bandits, and a whole heap of other interesting stuff.
Google doesn't own the internet so it's unfair that they get to decide whether or not a concept like guest blogging should or shouldn't be allowed.
I have an ASD, and many of the same problems focusing. The only cure for being forgetful is a pen and a piece of paper. Keep a small notebook that you carry at all times. Don't write anything in it other than the things that you are supposed to remember to do.
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Luckily, efficiency projects with three to five year paybacks are generating significant current year cashflow through avoided energy or resource costs, meaning Spark can offer solid returns and short tenor notes, lowering temporal risk to our investors. Specifically, we generate returns for our investors based on the revenue we receive from lease payments made by the project recipient.
> A genius grade stuffed suit gets all the credit. A genius grade designer is a mere plumber to be used as a resource by the really important person, that being the stuffed suit.

I don't think that's a general rule though, compare Tim Cook and Jony Ive. (Maybe I'm reading too much MacRumors for my own good, though...)
Germany has a much better social security mesh than the US.
We've worked really hard to make sure it's a significant benefit to everyone involved. Investors can expected yields between 4-10% with durations between 1-10 years. While borrows save money even in month 1. They only pay back a portion of the savings they earn from their reduced energy bill. In as little as 1 year they'll be keeping all the savings.
I have tried to research whether Steve Jobs was 'suffering' from narcissistic personality disorder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disord... without finding much more than speculations. But if you look at the 'symptoms' list, and compare to the various reports from people having worked with him, it looks like it. Lack of empathy is a typical symptom.
They own Google search. Bloggers can decide if that means they own the internet.
Corruption/bribery is always a problem in politics. The US Constitution was written to grant the government limited powers; over time, explicit limits have been worn down to corrupt plain meaning of key terms ("interstate commerce", "general welfare", etc) and normalize the very perversion they were intended to prevent.

The ultimate solution to such problems remains intact: vote. Lobbying and voter persuasion is quite effective, so vote out those who create/preserve such loopholes and vote in those who close them. For all the whining consternation people exude about such problems, very few actually direct that energy toward meaningful solutions; the super rich and corporations have learned to direct such energy and exploit it accordingly.
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You can still guest post. Google just won't be ranking it for SEO. True guest posting is valuable regardless of SEO. You should be targeting the web site's users, not Google.
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> You had to learn how that one works,
> you just don't want to learn a new one.

That conclusion was quickly drawn. :)
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It is, but then again why compromise? Actual basic income schemes proposed by various economists are better than either propping up the minimum wage or using "public money" to pay workers enough to live.

One single unitary basic income system from which all benefit to the same degree, whether you are now poor, rich, lazy or driven should be our goal.
so because google's algos can not distinguish between spam and ham, we have to throw out the baby with the bathwater (sorry for mixing metaphors!)

we've already seen how google missed a massive and long running link scheme (rapgenius) and had to do a clumsy temporary manual change to save face... now we're seeing them try to stop guest blogging from being used for spam

well guess what, every tactic that can be used to create good SEO can be used in the wrong hands for 'bad' SEO. you can leave a great insightful comment or you can leave a spammy comment. you can do a great guest blog article which adds tremendous value or you can do a spammy terrible article

google is confessing that they are incapable of telling them apart so they want to destroy the whole thing just so they can go on saying that they still know what they are doing

well, let me reiterate what many already know: the emperor has no clothes!
I agree that it would greatly restrict the candidate pool. My thinking was that if the tradeoffs were significant (and positive) it might change the dynamics of space exploration.

Granted, this isn't likely to come about; I was just thinking out loud.
i'm a solo developer (still a student, so i don't get much time for coding). i see that node is growing fast and i just want to know is if it's worth using instead of apache+php, and can it be a 100% replacement.
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Will guest posts on high quality sites still count toward link building? I'm talking about well known sites that accept only a fraction of high quality contributors. Thanks
> Google just won't be ranking it for SEO.

Ah I mistakenly remember a similar post by Matt saying there would be penalization for that.
I am in the process of creating a build tool too (for a different language: Java)
I noticed that you have some magic variables (%f), like make ($<, etc..). I am trying to avoid that, but I cannot come up with a clean way without 'magic' variables (e.g. When using wildcards, one would need to know the set of files that have changed. Mine is something similar to

classes/**/*.class -> src/**/*.java:
javac [WHAT TO USE IF NOT A 'Maigc var'?]

Also:

1. Will fez support different dir for target and recipes? (like above example I gave) ?

2. What about targets that do not have a file dependency (e.g. .PHONY in make)? How does fez deal with it?

What I am trying to avoid is a big learning curve (or have a user need to read a book) :-)

Thank you and success in your project!
This is really, really cool and equally impressive. I can't imagine the amount of legwork that was involved with legislation and groundwork getting all parties involved interested.

I don't see it stated anywhere so I'm assuming you are running this as a for-profit? Are you going to disclose your take?
I.e guest blogging on SmashingMagazine etc.
I designed (any many others did too) something similar in like 2004 to 2005. Several Public Access TV stations used it to sync content between themselves, and AFAIK it is still in use.
Preface: I work at Househappy.org a real estate start-up seeking to simplify the search experience.

I completely agree with the article. I read the one posted last week and sort of chuckled (asking where the start ups are) because it's not the technology that's the problem, it's the industry and the market itself... Why?

As the author states, brokers live and die by their commission (my father happens to be one as well), and trying to get them to adopt a new technology can be harder than pulling teeth... And in a lot of ways it's completely fair! Not many tools actually do anything that improve ROI, if anything they're time and money pits.

Furthermore, Realtors don't often trust people who aren't because they don't "get" the problems they're facing. Our CEO is a broker of 27 years, and I will say, without his insight into the industry we would be missing a big portion of the problems they face. Engineering isn't the hard part, problem recognition is...

Real Estate is really for people already in the industry who are aware of what problem's its facing. Its extremely hard to get any footing with no experience. Plus, why bother now that Househappy is out and about anyway ;-) (sorry, can't help but shamelessly plug one last time-- we're also hiring!)
It's a constant disappointment, especially when the characterization of the lead role is questionably accurate. (Captain Phillips, or the Christian Bale one about a GI who escape a POW camp.) If you want to see a recent movie that is considered quite accurate, Blue Caprice seems to be.
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Patents and trademarks are different things, but I think in either case the idea of "prior art" would apply. In the U.S., you're granted a trademark automatically upon use. Brian should be able to say, "I've been using this since 2009" and be afforded at least a degree of protection. Of course, it's a lot harder to defend in court without a formal trademark, so he might not choose to litigate.
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Thank you, it's a very nice tutorial and I have not thought about this before (concept of trying to implement something you want to learn and get a better understanding of).
Really? I mean consider this scenario.

A developer works for an agency that builds websites. The agency sells a job to a client for $150k (an average size job). The project entails building an application that can sort tasks a user inputs. These tasks have certain data associated with them that are automatically pulled in from a resource the client provides. So as a developer you're thinking: "ok I can use Rails as the back-end and Angular on the front-end because I know it works great for that type of interface sorting".

For the sake of this post let's leave it as a high level example. From here the developer and a PM devote 10 hours to research the idea. A designer gets the client's brand guidelines and spends roughly 10 hours putting together some style tiles for the client to look at. From here the designer and developer work on some wireframes together and have something useful after another 10 hours. After some back and forth between the client the small team of 3 has come to a conclusion on architecture and design style in just 40 hours of work. The designer then starts mocking up the design in flat HTML and the developer starts building the rails app. Fast forward 50 hours each plus 30 from the PM and we arrive at 170 hours total at the end of the project.

If we go back to our $150k figure and divide it by the 170 hours spent we should arrive roughly at $900/hour. If the developer makes $100k per year that's $48.08 per hour. If the designer and PM both make $85k per year that's $40.87/hour. Add those three up and we've got $129.82/hour. That means the cost of production is roughly 14% of the total cost of the project.

So in what world is six figures too high for a developer with these very relevant skills?
Google owns Google. Feel free to keep guest blogging in spammy ways and working with Yahoo and Bing (or AOL or all the other search engines that show up at conferences). Still, it is a bit sad that this will discourage some of the extremely high quality guest posts that I've seen founders and experts contribute recently.
The housing industry in general is at least a decade back from any other industry because of regulation. I work in the apartment industry and can concur that tech could improve it 10 fold. However; this sector along with the industry has an old mindset and are against change.
I missed that the parent thread was limited to RIAA signed artists, and reacted to the blanket statement of the parent implying it was a truth for all artists (including unsigned and indie).

Yes, it is true that big-label acts made most of their money from touring and merchandise. My point is that that fact does not translate to smaller-time indie artists.

A lot of people tend to improperly point to the RIAA practices (of capturing most of the licensing/royalty pie), and use it to make the case that indie musicians should also not expect any revenue from their product and instead focus on touring and merchandise. It's a self-serving argument from those that are in favor of "free" streaming music. In other words, there's a difference between claiming that RIAA has historically captured most of that pie, and claiming that the pie doesn't exist.
Sweet. Should have take quite some time to format the whole tutorial.
The truth is that nobody took young Buffett seriously and he had a tough time raising money but once word got around in a couple of years that the "kid" knows what he is doing that is when he started getting big money.
The Baboom developers page links to 2 open-source projects. One of the web pages, for Mout (https://github.com/mout/mout), is © linking to http://www.millermedeiros.com/ so presumably he's one of the devs.

Satazor is listed as a dev on Mout and also on the other OS project on the Baboom site, Bower (http://bower.io/).

If you really want to know ... http://instagram.com/p/iGuGNvLpwK shows pics none of which are Kimdotcom AFAICT.
They did show that in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" !
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If you nofollow the links you won't be penalized.
> Feel free to keep guest blogging in spammy ways...

Make assumptions much? I don't guest blog, I'm merely asking a question.
I'm not sure how accurate Groklaw was during the SCO case, but as someone who understands patents more than the average geek: Groklaw was horrible when it came to patent matters. Let alone the obvious bias and snark, PJ was frequently either deliberately misleading or, if you want to be generous, completely confused.

I personally would not be so generous because I saw her use underhanded methods too many times, like quoting things out of context or cherrypicking sentences or even blatantly saying something completely unsupported by the very documents she refered to. And of course, when she could not twist things to match her agenda, she'd make subtle insinuations of corruption. Like the time when a judge refused to rule against Microsoft in some case, "Isn't it weird this judge flew out to take a case that's not in his jurisdiction?" -- conveniently overlooking the fact that the judge in question had 1) more experience in the issues at hand and 2) ruled against Microsoft in a previous case.
I think code is sort of a combination of literature, ToDO and shopping lists, and directions to somebody's house, written from your own perspective. There are recurring themes and characters, but it can get lost in a sea of detail.
I don't know what I'm talking about, but it may be possible for Canadian and Mexican investors to participate due to NAFTA. I understand there's something in there about investment.

Something to look into anyway.
Also, having reified generics is less important than you think. Scala for example can do specialization for primitive types and because the type-system is much stronger, coupled with an awesome collections library and pattern matching, the flow of the types is much better. For example, I can't remember any instance in which I felt the need to do a (obj isInstanceOf List<int>) check, immutable collections can be covariant without issues and for everything else there are type-classes, something which C# sorely lacks.

I was under the impression that Scala just used Manifests and type tokens (a la my colleague Neal Gafter's Super Type Tokens) to get around the problem of erasure. I don't see any evidence that this actually works better, though.
Lawyer here. I once received a C&D letter for my business, vblood.com, a vampire themed energy drink from a competitor claiming they owned the TM rights to "blood" for beverages. That was a little different they filed the TM in the wrong category and I claimed defense of "descriptive use" how else would a blood themed beverage be described?

However, the Candy Crush Saga creators are even further behind the 8-ball on the TM "Candy" vis-a-vis video games. Why? Hasbro (one of the largest toy makers in the world) filed a TM for "Candy Land" - for interactive video games, in addition to many other TM categories - well before Candy Crush even existed. See: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4809:el5e10...

It would be very difficult to maintain their legal argument (i.e. "Candy Slots" is likely to cause confusion with their TM "Candy") and simultaneously argue that "Candy" does not create likelihood of confusion with "Candy Land".

Advice: See a Lawyer and protect your rights.

Edit: USPTO does not permit a direct link to TMs, and the above link probably errors. https://www.dropbox.com/s/4lzhe7ah9t8fae3/Candyland.pdf

Edit 2: The 1st Dropbox link is a link to a "cancelled" TM, this is the current "Candy Land" TM registration for video games. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ev2wpx9o6bu1grc/candy%20land.pdf
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Here comes Google, the Internet police! Do as they want or say goodbye to 80% of search traffic.
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Actually, for a patent (and, as someone pointed out, it's a trade mark the orignal article is about) if there is documented proof of a previous invention (I doubt that would be a problem with IT) that is the easiest was to invalidate a patent.

For trade marks, fame does matter, but then again: documented previous existence of a smaller brand would be enough to stay. Having one large corporation buy a small existing brand, and marketing it beyond its original scope could put them in trouble, though.
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It's a good point. The next version will have no video.

I will keep some videos in the "learning" area.
All technology is amoral, and will continue to be amoral. If you don't believe so, you should just join the Amish or the Luddites, because that was their take on the world.

The things you discuss were possible to do before technology, technology just made it easier to do.

Ethics is therefore still important (and perhaps the enforcement of them via laws).

Nuclear technology makes cheap energy. It also makes gigantic bombs.

The libertarian in me says that workers who do not like their split-shift conditions should just quit them. En masse, this would force those employers to raise wages in order to attract people willing to put up with that kind of crap, equalizing things again.

Of course, this would require extending unemployment benefits to people who quit jobs. (There is no logical reason why this isn't already the case. I can simply stop showing up for work and make it so that I get unemployment benefits, but that is far more wasteful and is basically a trade of self-esteem for security.)

The thing is, if you ignore labor-saving techniques and keep labor for its own sake, that's quite a nihilistic existence if you think about it. I could take that to an extreme and demand that I get paid to manually move the bits around which generate the computing screen I'm looking at. It might take me over a year just to post this message, but hey, at least I'm getting paid and not forced to look for work that is better suited to me, right?

If you want to see a real-world example of money burned simply to keep jobs alive, look no further than this article about how the US Military spent its money last year https://medium.com/war-is-boring/ec86786aae30 . Read the story about the M1 Abrams tank. Then see how you feel.
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