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Google bought Thrun's self driving car startup, well after he led the team which won the DARPA Grand Challenge with Stanley; and subsequently acquired additional startups with autonomous vehicle technology. Apple purchased chip design firms to bootstrap its integrated chip capabilities, quite successfully. They've demonstrated the ability to assimilate outside technology.
Ha thank you 😄
Why can't you ensure it is zeroed in advance of destructor invocation?
It's good that the "Big Data" community is finally shifting the paradigm (back) to stream processing. I mean, it is the abstraction behind pipes, which were invented when data we now consider small was Big. Now if only someone will take the UNIX pipe and make it transparently multi-machine instead of writing an ungodly large Java framework to emulate them badly, slowly, and verbosely...

However, I was a little disappointed by the "probabilistic" methods. I was thinking of things like approximate kNN, online regression, that sort of thing, in which you actually trade speed and streamability for accuracy. Bloom filters don't actually lose any accuracy in the example given, since there is a fallback to a database in the case of a false positive. Instead they are an optimization technique.

The more interesting probabilistic methods to me are the ones that say: we are willing to give up the accuracy of the traditional technique, but are hoping to make up for it by being able to process more data. But of course "probabilistic method" is a broad and context-dependent term.
The next line is, which philosophy of meaning do you subscribe to? Ludwig Wittgenstein ("meaning is use")? Or are you an all out Humpty-Dumpty-ist ("when I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, not more or less")? Or maybe Sapir-Whorf: the language not only determines its own meaning, but your entire cognitive process.
Damit! Piped at the post with the name. (I had a working title of 'ohk' of my own k5 impl (based of rob pike's ivy) although like most things I do will probably never see the light of day.

A js implementation! This is something I can't wait to play with! Thanks!
I didn't even think of that... good point. Is this an issue with nest?
You might be able to use a water circulator to keep hot water in the pipes.
because you don't know how 'intelligent' the compiler is. As long as there's no intrinsic you can't be sure that it works/keeps on working.
Does anyone else use and/or have thoughts on some of the boilerplate nginx configuration projects?

https://github.com/Umkus/nginx-boilerplate

https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx
He's referring to several cases where they "foreclose" on the incorrect home. They break into homes, take everything in them, and auction it off and throw away anything they can't sell.

While malicious intent may be absent, to the victims that does not matter one iota.
Yeah, that's about what I've been doing, but AFAICT I lose the benefits of layering when I refuse to speak the registry protocol. Docker's export command dumps the entire image tree, so I'm stuck transferring GB-sized payloads to deploy the tiniest change to my app. appc manages to do layers without a coordinating registry. (Kind of funny that CoreOS bought Quay, on that note.)
This has got to be a joke. Firefox is not better than Chrome in the most important capability. Without the ability to precisely see what tabs are causing CPU and memory problems and to destroy those tabs, using more than a handful of tabs at one time makes it totally impossible to use Firefox. I get that the Firefox devs really, really don't want to expend the herculean effort required to make per-tab process management possible in Firefox. But that's really the core of it. I want to love Firefox. I want to ditch Chrome. But the fact remains: Chrome is the only browser with the granularity of control necessary to make browsing usable with my habits.
I don't... and have tremendous respect for people who build software and systems that are "mission critical."

They're in the same situation as civil engineers and the like. They build a bridge that falls down, they go to jail or are financially ruined. We make software that falls over and people pay us for updates.
Safari is the best browser on OSX hands down.
Correct. I misspoke. I should have said,

A better implementation will only check to sqrt(n), as there can be no prime factor greater than that without there also being a prime factor lower than that.
Is your problem the working capital required to maintain your inventory, or that your inventory is aging out, or that you simply don't want to be in the business of running a warehouse and putting together boxes to ship?

Your suppliers can't necessarily drop ship to your customers, because their items will need to be combined with others - if you have your suppliers drop ship to you, your gift boxes will take too long to come out.

Your core business (at least from the web site) is the ability to customize these boxes.

The good news is that you can keep track of which shipments your recipients have received, and that your buyers have purchased. As long as you vary the contents of the boxes if either one of those is a repeat for the same theme, you can get away with carrying a lot less SKUs in inventory - if I ship a "nerdy" gift to someone, I don't really care if someone else gets the same exact box, as long as I don't find out about it -after all, you're selling customization.
I don't seriously think that Carr was assassinated, but Andrei Sakharov (Soviet scientist, human rights activist) believed that the KGB killed people near him because he personally was too high-profile to be killed without international outrage.
Well, I don't know how they did it, but you could easily imagine a scenario:

- 3 human raters, one computer rater

- computer always agrees with 2/3 humans

- humans do not always agree with 2/3 humans
Like I said: the main feature of LinkedIn is a contact list of known people who I can approach easily.

To rephrase:

LinkedIn is a professional tool. The revenue model which makes Facebook a bit creepy (sell the contact info of the users to the world) is actually, in professional context a feature. LinkedIn helps its users maintain a professional brand and market it to other professionals. The difference is between an olde phonebook that would also contain info on all the personal details and the yellow pages.

Typically, professional indices have charged for inclusion. Linkedin provides the minimum feature set for free.

If one does not have any contacts in LinkedIn then the value of the service of course drops to near zero for the individual professional user.
Do you get extra points for finding the golden NEST?
[satire] At some level the blog seems like it's written by Microsoft PR team that is too ashamed to pitch IE as an alternative.
Much of the codius code is on github https://github.com/codius
In that case, I also don't want to appear "gratuitously ignorant" in front of such a lesser computer scientist who does care. :)

Maybe one thing like this doesn't matter, but if you make a habit out of sloppy use of technical terms, it will not go unnoticed.

Analogy: one neuron firing might not exceed a threshold, but thirty seven of them might.

> "look how smart I am, I know to say that this thing Perl does is called regular expressions by ignorant plebes even though it strictly isn't, let's high-five!"

That's rather verbose, making the cheesy scare quotes finger gesture an appealing alternative.
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On Mac OS X at least, you can just remap Command-Q to something that's harder to press by mistake in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts
Here's the gotcha though...

A smoke detector company sells a safety product, if that safety product fails they could easily be sued for the lifetime earnings of a dead individual (or even family in some cases).

So that requires that these companies have insurance, and in order for insurance to cover them they must meet certain insurance dictated requirements, which can be anything, but UL specifications are an easy thing to point at (to both protect the company from liability and insurance from payouts).

So while in some locations there might be no government regs, insurance is making regulations all on their own, and these companies can either play along OR risk paying out up to millions of they get sued.
I agree, the email access thing is crazy. Both from a feature side and that someone would agree on it.

However, I would claim the fully visible profile is actually a feature.

LinkdedIn is not Facebook. LinkedIn is a professional index, like the yellow pages, with the difference that the minimum inclusion is free.
It's not perhaps the prettiest, but 'about:memory' in Firefox can give you a good look into where memory issues are coming from.
> Luxury consumer product? Is that way of saying, you must be smart if you bought our product? It does seem to have some pretentiousness built into the marketing.

It says no such thing. You're just putting your own biases on it. Luxury means:
"the state of great comfort and extravagant living."

Nest products are premium products. They cost more and you're meant to get a better quality of product out the other end.

Nobody thinks they're "smarter" because they buy luxury, although they might try to justify their purchase on the grounds of its USP.
In Baltimore County you mean?

I have it here in Harford County.

I was under the impression there is zero FIOs build out in the city.
That looks like a useful tool

We're running on (mostly) raw lxc, with networking via openvswitch, cgroups, yada yada. so I don't think it's applicable to us at this point

A containerized world makes a lot of sense, but it still seems like a really young ecosystem. It's really the 'wild west'at this point.

To be honest, I'd rather back an accepted standard, then a specific implementation.

Don't get me wrong, Tools like this are super valuable, and generally make my day to day life easier
Not at all, and I did not mention SOAP. Most APIs on the web are not really RESTful, and the problem with the cowboy coder approach is that they appear productive but create tons of technical busy work that can't easily be automated.
To flip that around, it's a lot easier to F up an automobile than a simple conductor!
Chrome routes http://0.0.0.0:* to Google Search
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Hinton's Coursera class a couple years ago pulled me in. I wish there were more Coursera classes at that level.
Sorry, Google doesn't work that way.

You're probably thinking of Apple.
For people wanting to store their passwords, personal data and large files in a git-like fashion, I recommend Git-Annex: http://git-annex.branchable.com/
The post seems to be inspired by a hot question on Math StackExchange http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1143132/is-there-a-s... . Probably the author should also acknowledge it?
An Australian researcher has worked out how to store 1000TB on a DVD
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Not just any Google employee either!
Went back to Firefox as well, same issues as author, plus my system security frequently flags Chrome extensions, I also feel better about supporting Firefox and open-source, I also enjoy Opera's speed-dial for surfing & bookmarks. Opera speed-dial is fast on my slow computer.
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"All the people I consider professional equals can be found on mailing lists, blogs, weekly digests, stackoverflow, meetups,"

You have cultivated other networking channels. Great! But I would like to point out to you that now you make the basic cognitive fallacy thinking that anyone who is not doing it "your way" is doing it wrong.
No, that is terrible advicc! Saying "you should never do X because someone cold misinterpret it and bad stuff could happen" will lead to never doing X, or anything else for that matter. You just have to take that risk n real life that people might disagree with you, not understand you, or just not care. See the point about trolls in the article.
You should apply http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

I don't think the OP was making the assertions you are attributing to them. I think they are arguing that a flatter gradient in the improvement of computers would encourage the diffusion of comparable levels of computing power (the poor). And that if computers didn't become obsolete so quickly, we wouldn't be buying and throwing them away every year.

Early on the computation curve this was true, computers had 20k to 64k for a couple decades. Remember the 386 to 486 upgrade adapters in the 90s. We no longer have that upgradability.

"invalid in each word" is a bit rude.
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I'm wondering how much testing Nest did with the photoelectrics in the smoke detector. A teardown [1] seems to show a rather simple design for the led and photodiode beam path, as well as both of those components having places for light to potentially leak in around the diode bases. Other detectors [2], [3], seem to have much more complicated beam paths, with baffles and such, as well as better shielding to ensure the sensitive components are well-protected. Given this, I can see how all the differences in tolerances can lead to gaps which lead to lots of false alarms.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nest+Protect+Teardown/20057
[2] http://www.accuratebuilding.com/images/publications/educatio...
[3] http://st-nso-us.resource.bosch.com/media/us_product_test/05...
Why Quora?
Right, but the article's point is that they started working on cars. You are making the point that it would take them a long time to build it.. They have the cash and I don't see why they would be in any rush, if driverless cars are expected on the streets in 2020, or potentially 2023..

As a matter of fact, Apple's last quarterly profit was $18bn, while Tesla's valuation, is $25bn. They could buy a company like Tesla every two quarters..

Furthermore, maybe what they are trying to do is to create some in-house talent, in preparation for future purchases. Perhaps so that they can have their own employees join those of the acquired company..
"It indeed is just you. "

Now you are projecting otherness to people who do things differently than you. "Being a programmer" is not some weird club where everyone needs to behave exactly the same. Bytes and algorithms have zero tribal affinity, you know.
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If you stop paying them, they'll get the message.
Who said anything about any guarantees? Hopefully, we're all a little smarter and if all three companies each tried a few moonshots, we'd get a few really big advances.
+10 years on LinkedIn
+2000 connections
Lots of recommendations and endorsements

and I wiped it all

BTW, I'm running this tweet update series when people actually notice.

https://twitter.com/JayCuthrell/status/551254076164288513

Spoiler alert: < 0.2% of my "connections" noticed
It is only required when I used it remotely... Manual works even with internet down
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I see what Shykes is getting at though. I mean, if you want to use the rocket, then use the rocket. If you want to use docker, then how does adding another runtime help a docker user, when they could simply switch to rocket? I can understand how their might be a "convenience" factor, but if you're already actively deploying with docker images, then why bother with a separate image type?

Don't get me wrong, I think it's great the coreos guys are trying to make a bridge between the two projects, but so far, I don't see a need for this.
It only applies to mini games on the loading screen of other games. It doesn't apply to mini games on the loading screen of non-games.
> just do it in your own project and let the best project win
> Bullshit. If it's open, let the best idea win.

So are you suggesting docker should merge and maintain support for a container spec they weren't involved with which, was created because docker is "fundamentally flawed"?

I'm sure the pull-request author knew that this would do nothing more than cause fuss in the community. Shykes comment seems to me like it was a response to what seems like a hardly legitimate PR and much like a PR stunt.

Docker has 722 contributors on github, I'm sure the community will discuss and decide what to do with this while I watch this battle play out and work with both products.
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While that may be true, there is no denying that Yau is a pretty divisive figure. He seems as interested in building his image in China and making the Chinese nation proud, than he is in doing real math. I can see why this attitude would rub some mathematicians the wrong way.
I'd feel better about helping you if I knew who you were. For all I know, you represent a shady company who tried to make bank by scraping LinkedIn data and creating customized phishing profiles.
I think we're talking past each other here. There are many programmers that I could connect to on linkedin but there is no value that linkedin is adding since I also can get in touch with them through email and through friends or friends of friends that I know from other settings like meetups and conferences. The fact that I can do this and that it doesn't even require that much effort means there is some kind of disconnect between how you see linkedin and how I see it.

To me linkedin is just another digital silo capitalizing on the fact that it is de facto middle man between professionals because of network effects. Defending their actions in my opinion is also a very weak position to hold when even someone like me that tends to be on the anti-social side of spectrum has managed to build up a network of professional friends without linkedin's help.
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There's a general pattern of trying to dumb things down to a simple, inflexible interface, too often with half-baked "AI" bolted on. Good products still need attentive human supervision.

I installed Insteon motion detectors and webcams after a robbery, but the included software was such undependable and inflexible garbage that I replaced it all with a simple Misterhouse-based Perl script that sends texts via email.

If I see another tech product ad aimed at millenials featuring bright easter colors and indiepop music pitched by Steve Jobs wannabes who are unable to get any angry nerds to make their products actually work, I might snap.

By the way, the other HN article about malfunctioning Nest smoke detectors is a hilarious accompaniment to this. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048110 )
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Not false sense of security: suspending VMs to disk. The contents of previously used, free memory that has not been reused by the kernel are written to disk. Now it has a lifetime far longer than RAM.
My guess is Portal 3 will have these everywhere, with GLaDOS repeatedly uttering "can't be hushed here".
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They are indeed doing it wrong if the outcome is a company like linkedin. As technology professionals we can and should be doing much better but instead we are cultivating digital silos that add very little value.

I have opted out and nothing about my professional career has diminished so there is an alternative approach that requires nothing like linkedin. Since I'm a counter-example to all the claims your making and my way obviously leads to a more decentralized and democratic approach to professional development I don't really understand the continued support of digital silos like linkedin from people like you.

The claim that they are a digital rolodex is a very weak one since an email contact list serves that purpose just as easily. I'm starting to suspect you are PR spokesperson for linkedin.
There's a general pattern of trying to dumb things down to a simple, inflexible interface, too often with half-baked "AI" bolted on. Good products still need attentive human supervision.

I installed Insteon motion detectors and webcams after a robbery, but the included software was such undependable and inflexible garbage that I replaced it all with a simple Misterhouse-based Perl script that sends texts via email.

If I see another tech product ad aimed at millenials featuring bright easter colors and indiepop music pitched by Steve Jobs wannabes who are unable to get any angry nerds to make their products actually work, I might snap.

By the way, the other HN article about dumb smart homes is a good accompaniment to this. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9043524 )
Based on my experience with desktop software, I'd take the Apple software over pretty much any other vendor every day of the week. Funnily enough, nobody seems to question Google's chops when it comes to making self driving cars. Yet I have more problems with bad software decisions from Google than I do from Apple.
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I don't think it's true that regular smoke detectors are inherently reliable. In newer apartment buildings that I've lived in, all of the units are hooked into a central fire alarm system. If a smoke detector goes off in one unit, the alarm goes off in all of them.

In practice it's often been a nightmare. Some places that I've lived, the fire alarm went off multiple times a day, almost every day. Presumably a lot of this is from people cooking or something, but given the frequency I don't think that could explain all of it.

I think in non-networked smoke alarm situations, people are just less aware of the false positives they generate.
When there's too much data for a scatter plot, a heat map will do nicely.
Well,

May I ask what makes a neural network into "not-a-black-box"?

You do mention "proven results". It seems to me that an experiment where one approach does better than another is compatible with one or both approaches being black boxes, ie, there not being more of an explanation than "it works".

But if there's something more going on here, I would love to hear more details.
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And you are misinterpreting everything I say and not even trying to address any of the points that are made in the original post and my subsequent comments.

To get things back on track here are the points. Cultivating a professional network does not require mediating parties like linkedin and can be accomplished by more decentralized and democratic means that lets each professional maintain control over their own digital presence. Linkedin does not do that and in fact diminishes everyones' ability to do so and therefore it is a bad trade-off to make in the long term since I've already outlined several other ways of cultivating professional connections that are just as easy as keeping everything in linkedin.
I heartily recommend everyone with a Google account follow that link and double-check your security and allowed app settings. (Also take some time to go through your app-specific passwords and revoke any that aren't relevant anymore.)

In addition to being good practice in and of itself, Google is currently doing a promotion where they'll increase your Google Drive space by 2 GB if you go through their security checklist (see link below):

http://googledrive.blogspot.com/2015/02/safer-internet-day-2...
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