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You lost me at `With terraform, my HCL modules worked no matter what language the service is written in`. With terraform your HCL modules only work if they are written in an obscur…

Norvig addresses this at the end of f http://norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html . Basically these old AI techniques are now considered regular programming and modern AI is focused on ML. B…

I don't think it's always true, but in my case because the open source versions have more and better functionality, more flexible design, better documentation, are already known an…

I sometimes spot colleagues making design decisions that seem really bad to me. A common pattern is building something that already exists in much better form as open source softwa…

What is the rationale in making something like a hearing aid require a prescription? I can understand addictive drugs, you don't want them misused. What about the million other thi…

Ok, that's pretty wild. Can it work on earth too? That seems like a good starting point.

Imagine if we invented a device that gave people access to all the information in the world and then made fun of them for using it.

Fascinating paper but the benchmarks seem incredibly weak. 5000 features for a bag of words model is nothing,these models normally have tens or hundreds of thousands of features.

Privacy, as it exists today, is entirely a modern invention. For most of human history people lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else very well. It was not until in…

You're right, Japan has a long and very interesting obsession with poop, primarily due to their geography. Japan is a series of volcanic islands with, historically, a very limited …

You'll have to wait until those lectures are made available, but you don't have to complete the previous work to see the lectures.

It just started on Monday, there's plenty of time to join in. There have been some huge developments in neural networks in the last few years, particularly with respect to deep lea…

Hinton is a huge figure in the neural network literature and an important researcher in deep learning. After going through the first week of lectures, I can say he's also an excell…

Hynix (2nd largest memory chip maker after Samsung) and friends were fined just a couple years ago for price fixing memory, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10126755 . If competition isn'…

His point is that certain changes to the Google Market are making it harder for indies to get noticed. That is a legitimate concern that should be of interest to HN app makers. Whe…

I went to a solidly 4th tier university (out of 4 tiers, as I recall). I now work and regularly interact with people from the best universities, Harvard, Princeton, etc, and I can …

And you automatically grant Craigslist your first born child and all future earnings and your left index finger. Laywers love to fill these things with unenforceable outlandish cra…

If you're interested in comparing the various market shares, a simple bar chart is much easier to understand, just look at which one is taller. With these rectangle/tree map things…

I have 2 theories for why this happens: 1) The people drawing up these contracts know nothing about software. They are often non-technical, elderly, upper-management types that hav…

Another basic tenet of democracy is that its citizens must be informed. I think it's fair to assume that those who lack access to written knowledge are at a disadvantage in this re…

Unfortunately, this is not just an Indian trait, but a human one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error . Kudos to those who can look in the mirror and see the…

I'm glad the world's scientists are working on the most pressing troubles of our times.

Forgive me for kicking the hornet's nest, but is all this outrage about privacy or about the abuse of government power? The focus of the article and most of the comments here sugge…