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Paper accessible via http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811914... if you have an academic login. Your points on experiemtnal design are good but I feel you're grandstanding a bit here; the reason the press release is posted is because it's so hard to get access to the text of scientific papers thanks to the publishing industry, so citing essays about experimental design ends up casting implicit aspersions on the quality of the authors' work, as if the paper would be more publicly available but for some reticence on their part.

I would like to see drastic changes to the journal publishing model, but I don't consider article inaccessibility to be correlated with flaws in the findings. To bring up the latter out of frustration over the former is poisoning the well of debate.

Incidentally, I found the paper in under 30 seconds by searching for the journal name, the senior author, and a few technical terms, all of which were in the press release and which gave me a correct first search result. It would be nice if the press release also contained a DOI link and other identifying information, but I can't really blame press departments for supplying journalists with the information they want and omitting that which most of them don't.
Your criticisms are all from the perspective of "it keeps me from telling it how to implement the functionality", which is true, but not what Haskell's design (or pure FP language design in general) optimizes for.

Sometimes, you really do want to make commands to the bare metal regarding exactly how you want the program implemented. For general use, however, you don't: compilers are (at least these days) a lot better at finding optimizations than the typical user.

It comes down to abstraction levels: pick the one that matches the problem you're working on. The FP philosophy is "speaking about specific memory cells is way too low" in most cases, like telling it you want a sorted list.

In fact, it would probably be even better (from that selfsame philosophy) to define a sort in terms of the conditions the final list would meet (as opposed to nested, recursing conditions like in the example). Something like, "return a list where every element is <= the one after it, and where every element is also in the original list, as many times as it occurs there".

If you want to see the examples of quicksort in Haskell to enforce in-place and other requirements, see this discussion here, with links:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Introduction/Direct_Trans...

tl;dr: Yeah, Haskell is worse at letting you force the sort to be in-place, but that can be a very good thing.
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> Isn't it his right to vote how he pleases?

Yes, that was his right, and no one has ever said differently. But freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences in the realm of public opinion. Funding Prop 8 had a direct negative impact on the LGBT community of California. To expect that community to have no reaction to his actions would be naive.
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Maybe they reassessed their ability to ride it out independently after seeing the progress of Sony's Project Morpheus
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> Case in point: they made something like a 5-10x multiple on their investment in Oculus-- in 3 months.

Oculus is an exceptional case, but that's how VC funds work.

A minority of investments pay off big time and make up for often catastrophic losses on the remaining majority of investments.
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It may be inconvenient to keep as much of your holdings in cold storage as possible, but it's much more convenient than assuming the third party service you're using is secure/not a bad actor.
It's certainly extrapolation to go back beyond Jan 2013 but I don't think it's unreasonable extrapolation, since it's a strong trend. Let's hope some enterprising individual may volunteer transaction records from years past for continued analysis.
How is this different from a convention register model, where the compiler stores each result into a new register round-robin? That would be a belt too.
Official link as well: https://www.suse.com/promo/kgraft.html
> So what should I do to multiply these keystrokes given that there is a finite number of those keystrokes left in my hands? I write a blog post and I mail him the link. Then after I'm dead, my keystrokes multiple—every time I get a page view that's 5,000 keystrokes that I did not have to type.

I don't see how I can apply this to my daily life.

I've managed to whittle down most email to a few short sentences, but I can think of plenty of examples where I've written up intricate math notes and made them into blog posts that never got any page views because they were so hyper-specific.
I would say not skeptical enough.

Generating a result which looks like some combination of the inputs, has a little bit of 'Wow' factor if you just look at the pictures and don't think too hard about it. But ultimately its not an exercise in which they can be wrong, and since the image returned is always going to be a face, they'll always kind of be right.

An impressive result would be if they trained their system on the the 300 pictures, and then we're reliably able identify which picture the subject was looking at. That would be quantifiable and testable, and I presume the result would expose that this is all nonsense.
Great, now I can figure out who I slept with after blacking out.
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Apple was putting Google Search and Maps in front and center of iPhone experience among other things. This would be hugely valuable relationship, ofcourse.
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Jobs had a personal scorched-earth vendetta against Google ever since they stabbed him in the back with Android (as he seems to have viewed it).

I imagine if he thought there was any way he could accomplish it he would have banned Google employees from buying Apple products or getting within 1000 feet of an Apple store.
Um, it's wrong, but only because of the particulars of this example, in that the board is probably racist. And to close the loop on your example, it would be open season on the board once public opinion caught up with them.

I think you're presupposing that principles are interchangeable and I don't accept that. I believe in some inherent human rights, and the merits of this particular issue are incredibly relevant. The gentleman in question made a substantial monetary contribution aimed at denying a collection of people a set of privileges.

The reasons for why society ought to privilege views like his over the rights of other people are flimsy at best; it's just a lousy idea given that the basis is wholly religious. Substitute something interracial marriage if you prefer. The fact is that some views are not just immoral in the face of society's avowed principles but unsound as well.
Earlier blog post about it: https://www.suse.com/communities/conversations/kgraft-live-k...
Solid point. Sometimes I forget if I'm talking about Knox or BTC - either way, Reg E is NOT a CC thing
I have over 1000 karma, and I've never seen it. I know it was given a quick trial after it was first announced, but from my surfing since then it doesn't seem to have been turned back on.
The past tense is "malleableized".
China's great firewall works pretty darn well. Plus the fear embedded in the populace, if they are aware of things they're not supposed to know (i.e. Tienanmen Square).
Everyone seems to compare "doing YC" to "not doing YC", which is a false comparison. YC can easily be better than not doing anything, but that doesn't mean it's even close to the best alternative. You could've sold 4% of equity for x million $ and used that to grow your business, for example.
He's talking about one of these two things:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Microsoft+Co...

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/12/5404098/microsoft-consider...
This is one step closer towards space colonization, keep it up!
Those people voted privately. The CEO of Mozilla publicly contributed to the Prop 8 campaign. If any of those seven million people made it publicly known that they funded or voted for Prop 8, then they might have to live with the consequences of making that publicly known.

They won't have their careers denied at all.
So no-one can take action against stands and actions they disagree with?
Floating avatar heads doesn't seem to be the future of VR. Personally, I hope the metaverse has users strapped into a cockpit.
Forgot about this, thanks for re-posting.
Not really, when you consider that most people are first time founders, and the experience, network, and social proof they gain is worth significantly more.

Not every YC company is going to be the next DropBox, or AirBNB, but many do go on to grow to later stage startups.

Also, if you think the only value of YC is the $14k stipend you get, then myfriend, I think that YC and other accelerators are not for you.

Full Disclosure, I'm not a YC alum.
Yep if I ever started a company that became as prominent as google etc I cant imagine a scenario where some ahole ceo of another company like jobs calls me and bitches me out and I just say yes sir and roll over and start doing fraudulent illegal shit like these douches at google did.
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The first amendment does not guarantee freedom from consequences, but it's not absurd to expect people to also have a social notion of freedom of speech that encourages tolerance of different viewpoints.
In the US voting is not guaranteed to be anonymous. It's protected and (mostly) un-traced to prevent coercion. But the fact you voted is recorded. If you live in a district with few enough voters (or voters who all vote the same way) your voting record could be used to tell who you voted for.

I don't think the other ones you mentioned are particularly compelling, no. There are ways to protect the names of people who report crimes without guaranteeing absolute anonymity.
For me coming from outside the US, YC is just as much about getting a crash course and network in SV.
Man, that sucks. Do you have a project site for your real source code?
No. He activated it, but after a bunch of people complained, he turned it back off and said moderators could activate it again for special threads that they think need it (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7449857).
You can't expect actual content in these blog posts. It's vaguely self deprecating promotional post with a high-value name drop in the title crafted to get the link to the front page.
The Valley is also an expensive place to live. I was at a conference in San Jose; and the organizers donated a portion of their income to a local Charity.

The charity organizer spoke a bit during one of the keynotes and said that any income under $70K was considered below poverty level due to the cost of living.

With that said, a 6 figure salary is not hurting, but not rolling in it.
There was also a great talk at Defcon 21 (last year) walking through a similar process all the way to using a picture of the ROM and image recognition to pull binary data. The first half is about building the lab to do this kind of work so you can skip the first 1/3 - 1/2 if you don't care about that part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z4aF-qiziM
This argument is wholly disingenuous. This externality may actually not exist (the landlord may be the one putting the property on AirBnb) and in any case, you have no standing to object because this is a contractual matter between landlord and tenant. It's one of countless contractual issues that are spelled out in thousands of different lease agreements throughout the country, and can be resolved in the same way that these contractual issues have been resolved for hundreds of years.

As far as your neighbors are concerned, they're probably more concerned about the rotting car you have on blocks in your driveway. Or any of the zillion other perfectly legal but annoying things you do, like paint your house bright pink or let your kids run screaming around the yard at all hours of the day. At least with Airbnb properties, if you don't like your neighbors, they'll be gone in a week. Permanent neighbors you have to live with, no matter how batshit crazy they are.
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I strongly recommend he consider the University of Waterloo. It may not have that shiny Ivy League veneer, but since his main draw to CMU was its industry ties, he'll be at least as (if not more) happy there.

With his obvious drive and skill, he'll have no problems getting internships anywhere he wants from UW. And one you've got the internship, nothing else matters.
And yet the US, EU, et al, still sent their Olympic teams to Sochi. I remember hearing something about how companies are usually pretty happy when people call for a boycott because it means it's a vocal minority and nothing organized.

I don't really see how this is relevant except for a tit-for-tat comparison b/w Russia and the US, which is kinda pointless.
Experts? Conspiracy. Inside job... sigh Popcorn. Bored. Ambivalent. Shadenfreude. Apathy.
>Are you suggesting that a "western conspiracy" was responsible for the turmoil in Syria?

Who are you quoting? And is "conspiracy" just a pejorative word for 'intervention' or 'decision?'

>That their people did not have serious grievances with a regime that tortured and murdered tens of thousands of people for political reasons even before the current conflict started?

Are you suggesting that your first statement and your second statement are equivalent? That people did have serious grievances before the current conflict would lead me to ask 'why now?'
This is getting interesting - see the comments - apparently it may be part of an Aegis missile? Not something you'd want to end up in a grey market in Shenzhen!
A common and simple way to treat FP mathematically is by bounding the result with the machine epsion u [1]. For example, given FP numbers x and y:

x <fp_mul> y = (1+e)xy ; abs(e) <= u

The u ideally depends only on the FP format and rounding mode. I say ideally because library functions like sqrt may be less precise than the ideal (which is the result being equal to the exact value rounded according to the rounding mode). Note that the abstraction only as long as you don't go outside the range of normal exponents (it breaks when you reach infinity or subnormal).

EXAMPLE. Suppose we have a FP value L representing a length of something, and want to split it into segments no longer than the FP value M. Assume both integers are small enough to be representable in FP. The answer in exact arithmetic is:

N = ceil(L/M).

However if we evaluate this in FP, we may get a result N'<N for certain edge values. Which means one of the segment lengths we output will be greater than M!. So the result of the algorithm is incorrect!

We can fix it by multiplying (L/M) with a number sufficiently greater than one before the ceil, at the cost of sometimes deciding to split into one more segment than mathematically necessary. The fixed FP algorithm may then be:

N' = ceil(1.00005 <fp_mul> (L <fp_div> M))

After we apply the machine epsilon formulas we come to the conclusion that:

N' = ceil( (1+e1)(1+e2)1.00005 (L/M) ) ; abs(e1)<=u, abs(e2)<=u

We then show that:

(1+e1)(1+e2)*1.00005 >= 1.

This proves that what the algorithm gives to the ceil function is not less the exact value L/M, and that N'>=N. And ceil() can't make errors by definition, assuming the integer value is representable. QED

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon
Interesting. I wonder what people think of my name (a very strange and unusual name for Germany). I was once aske if it's Finnish which I guess doesn't really carry much negative stereotypes (if any, I think people generally don't think much at all about Finland).

Job wise my resume contains my birthplace and university education (which is from a "safe" first world country people usually think of a "white" - Israel) so if anything it must help (being seen as Jewish in Germany is usually more likely to get one "corrective" positive discrimination for obvious reasons).

Of course we can never know for sure which interviews we didn't get due to stereotypes so who knows.

But I'm sure I'd have gotten worse treatment if my name was obviously Muslim or African sounding.
That's just a strange logical leap based on essentially no public evidence of any kind.
"If use terms like 'mind reading' in our press release we can get picked up by a major news outlet, despite having no real notable scientific result."

Hypothesis confirmed!
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Its just an investment that may pay off in time in the future. Say you need to explain how to do something to a friend, if you write it up and keep it somewhere you should never need to type out that same explanation again if you other friend needs it at any point in the future. For a bunch of stuff its useless, but for setting up systems, giving similar advice on a subject to multiple people, or teaching a concept it seems like a solid plan. Even if you just keep it in a text file and the public doesn't see it, it still saves you time.
EDIT:

Sorry, I just took a look at your LinkedIn Profile (love drinking Karhu in a Sauna btw...)

It doesn't appear that you've created any startups, so I'm curious how you came to the opinion that YC is Hype and not worth the value to founders, if you yourself have not been a founder (and presumably) not gone through an accelerator?
Nobody's denying anybody the right to a career. They're questioning the appointment of a man who has contributed to the oppression of others into the top leadership position of an organization. This drives decent people away from associating with that organization, as has happened in this case. It's up to the organization to determine if that appointment is worth it, and it's up to the man who is now in a leadership position to try to make the situation better.
Googling for it without forcing a phrase match returns some limited results. Here's a patent for a "Spatial Sieve Tree", which is apparently invented by the parent, jandrewrogers: http://www.google.st/patents/US7734714
Thanks! I will look into it. Yep already had an internship last summer and sorting out my options for this summer. Totally agree and thanks again!
I don't think it's necessarily that other SV executives were weaklings, it's that they thought the non-poaching agreement was in their interests too. Jobs was definitely cunning and ruthless but he wasn't all brute force, he set up a deal whereby these other companies would see things his way due to their own greed.

I think that scenario played out a couple of times in Jobs' career. He would do something ruthless or somewhat distasteful, but because the people he was pushing his idea on stood to profit in some way they agreed with it, even though it enriched Jobs a lot more than it enriched them.
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Very good points. Especially if you are a tech-based startup, the "glorified co-working space" is a model to be wary of. I concede that perhaps YC is less an incubator and more of a bootcamp, as mentioned upthread.

I'd like to point out, however, that there several thriving biotech incubators around the country. Surely the demand must be coming from somewhere when tenants must be found to pay the bills. Indeed, I think the startups that enter an incubator space are well aware of the rent prices, and do so to to take advantage of the certified lab space provided which is impractical to build on one's own.

A takeway from all this, for me, is that I'm wondering what one could do to make a biotech-focused YC a workable model. Unfortunately, the (comparatively) glacial pace of biotech startups dampens a lot of enthusiasm.
Unfair against the people that deserved those jobs.
How many 32-bit RISC CPUs fit in an FPGA? Now vs. 1995?
Many Irish already had their names Anglicized by the English before they left Ireland.
Downvote happy people today huh?

Now why that was downvoted?
No, but I'd rather not have my credit cards have that option in them. Basically, I do not like the fact someone can tap my card and then get money from it. I just am not a fan of that type of payment, because it is too easy. I don't like the argument "don't use it" because it isn't an optional "feature," if your card has it, it has it. You cannot turn it off.

http://www.mymoneycoach.ca/credit_rating/how-to-protect-self...

"a $3 smart card reader purchased online can steal people’s credit card information if the thief can get close enough to your purse or wallet.

I know you're thinking "you're not liable for fraud." Doesn't mean I want fraud to happen, that it isn't a pain in the ass.

Especially unsettling is the RFID chips in passports.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09...

http://www.emc.com/emc-plus/rsa-labs/staff-associates/epc-rf...
Also cool about this is that you still have a timestamp column in the DB, which is just as indexable as ever
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It probably began as a friendly gentlemen a agreement. "Don't steal my engineers. I won't steal yours. Helps keeps costs down. It's all in the shareholders interests right?"
That's insane, unless you've also got tape/offsite/other-but-stable-fs-copy backup?
Some people opposed Prop 8 due to their notions of tolerance or acceptance. Being tolerant of Prop 8 supporters would be a consistent position for these people.

Some people opposed Prop 8 because they want to advocate for a particular worldview (homosexual marriage is a natural right). It doesn't follow that they would necessarily tolerate people who supported Prop 8.

I suppose people can belong to both camps, but this case surely crystallizes the idea that these motivations aren't the same.
Yes, the solution to all the ills of the world is to censor people who (society|the majority|intortus) decides are purely "prejudicial and hateful", because that will clearly make politics better and less oppressive!

I don't even agree with these people, but people who express views like yours - that we should censor views we find distasteful so they can't even be discussed openly - make it really hard to comfortably take a stand against them.

I'm not for censorship, even of views I find extremely distasteful, and don't advocating punishing people merely for holding or articulating them.

Is there any evidence he's done anything besides be part of the political process, such as discriminate in the running of the nonprofit?

*Edit to fix typo.
It means Bezos can't entirely relate to the AWS customer (which isn't retail, but a developer or technical organization), or fixing it isn't nearly as easy?

That's a loaded accusation, but its the best I can come up with as a response.
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It's because of this leak: Turkish top political and military leaders, organizing a false flag attack, to have an excuse to attack Syria:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-27/here-youtube-false-...
Yeah, at Amazon they wouldn't tolerate that forever...
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