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~or~ how to get a bunch of people to train your neural network

~or~ how to get a bunch of people to train your neural network

1 out of my 6 instances in the region was affected. It took me about an hour to get it back up (which was me clicking once and waiting). I wonder how much of that is fallout from i…

I'm pretty sure they have more profitable things to attend to.

...and this is why Windows 8 will crush iOS in the enterprise.

"Siri make me a reminder to delete all my to-do apps." "Ok, you're now a rain-dear caught in the headlights."

Smooth move Facebook engineers.

I've used one, it's just a laptop. Granted, I like to toot my own horn too, and my machines are no slouch so the performance benefit of SSD and high resolution was not something th…

I can hardly use it indoors the glare is so bad. Luckily my workplace also has the much more practical ThinkPad available. When you compare them side by side... I'll just say it's …

Tools are for tooling, not being a tool.

Why is this on Hacker News? http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-decline-of-reddit-hacker-... ...oh yeah

>>I sympathise with the sentiment expressed but must point out that there is no market force that prefers un-established open products to established walled gardens save for a frac…

Nice advert for Apple computers.

Employers disarm their employees right to complain by providing them services for free? What an awful situation.

It's not just about having alternative options, or "hating that people enjoy Apple" about doing things an effective and efficient way. Being efficient is something we all care abou…

Nope, you should blame a market that buys computers but doesn't care about computers. What you get is Apple.

No, they have command line interfaces.

I'm weary of using structured data, that is data that is structured in such a way that you don't need to understand what it's passing around. Keeping it simple means that the devel…

Because Apple solves all the hardest problems.

Large companies have known for a long time that your dataset is more important than your algorithms. Data is facts and algorithms are basically opinions of the developer. A smarter…

They are offering new self-service tools for lowering your bill, using your instances effectively.

Yes, there was an app that had a back-door built into it so the app could be secretly used to jail-break the device it was running on. This was pulled from the market.

I keep seeing this argument pop-up. That we should just ignore Apple because it makes their users happy. Or "whining geeks have no affect on Apple and it's users, we should just st…

The way I type changes dramatically from day to day, depending on my emotion. Sometimes I top very choppily at 35wpm, and sometimes I type like a waterfall flowing over rocks in wa…

This is how Apple users think, and this article is a prime example of the hyperbole and posturing that is Apple.