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I personally like the JetBrains model where one can pay yearly and get updates but if you have to stop paying due to some reason you can still use the version you originally paid for.
I am not American and don't live there but have American friends. Most of them anecdotally were happy about the op-ed you mention - they probably aren't members of your political tribe. But then they don't subscribe to the NYT anyway. My point is that the GP is right, this is survival. They tried to be neutral by publishing an op-ed the other side probably liked. Didn't work and therefore it pushes them more into one camp to survive. Just a guess based on anecdotal information.
When was this? I know someone there but haven’t spoken to them recently.
My friends and I have this theory that the top management at Google feels they are extremely close to general AI. With acquisitions like this we would hazard the guess that they want to see what data they are missing that could feed that borg and then buy a company that could supply the missing bits. They just have to promise that they won’t use it for ads. But if that AI gets better and better soon they have enormous new opportunities. Just a theory though.
If you consider communism as far left, then yes the far left has absolutely killed millions. If you do not consider communism far left, I don't know what to tell you.
Thank you for the great and detailed answer. I feel very strongly about using Facebook and since this app would focus on people I am close to, a future FB acquisition would mean more of my info in FB’s hands. I support acquisitions, just that my personal trust matrix has an FB exclusion zone.
To be clear, I am not saying they shouldn’t be acquired - if they get acquired by Twitter/Microsoft/AANG I am totally going to be a supportive user. It is the F word I consider unworthy.
Here's my question off the bat: Facebook is known for using Onavo to find networks that take off and then buying them (I forget names - tbh was it?). I know of course this early in the process you don't know what the future holds, but are you open to acquisition by Facebook? I place a very high value on using the product depending on that answer.
I think idea that this blog post is conveying is overrated. People said the same thing about Microsoft under Ballmer. Then he left. Nadella came in and continued many of the things that he did, and their stock price has soared. For Apple the opposite happened - their profits and stock price have soared, yet Tim Cook can't catch a break. Every little error leads to a chorus of "It wouldn't have been like this if Steve was around". Perception isn't everything. In my humble opinion, Sundar Pichai must go. Ballmer said it best - "I am a pattern"[0]. I think Pichai has been a great manager but he, from the outside, doesn't seem to be a great leader. If he steps down, the new person gets leeway to change some things and get some social capital.
[0]https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/outgo...
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I am not sure what all this is supposed to enable us as customers or users to do. What I can see is a bunch of ways to avoid human contact including no longer calling people like a real human or not even choosing my own words in an email. But from the perspective of someone who dealt with Google's awful customer service, maybe they could use this in that regard to actually have a voice on the phone even if it isn't human. Automation is a great thing until you see the human cost. At some point Google is going to have to use its vast capacities to not give people more time, instead give them more opportunities. For e.g. the DeepMind paper showing how to save energy - that was cool.
This company has been marketing one of its products as an automated burger maker. Not sure if they have McD's as a customer. They claim 360 burgers/hr[0]
[0]http://www.businessinsider.com/momentum-machines-burger-robo...
Completely OT but somehow relevant in my mind: this kind of submission getting up symbolizes how HN is now becoming mainstream - there is nothing even marginally "hacker" about this post - unless they were using some cool new optic fiber to make the statues "invisible".
I can only apologize - I presume I heard it somewhere and internalized it. Not like I am making fun of Venezuela, at least not intentionally.
Like many other people, I have family there and there is no doubt about it, this is one of the worst disasters to hit Chennai. We will have to wait out the storm to see the cumulative damage, but most of my family and friends are reporting Venezuela-like conditions of empty store shelves and lack of mobile and internet networks. In such a condition, I don't think The Hindu had a chance. On a more positive note, here is how startups are helping: http://yourstory.com/2015/12/startups-rally-help-chennai/
I changed the heading so that non-Indians could figure out relevance from the heading.
As a citizen of a country with many such cities[0], I would advise the people of this city to relax, nothing bad is going to happen. The only real issue most Muslims have with any non-Muslim country is that it is a general perception that they're Muslim first[1](just one reference but I can get more). For e.g. in India, most Muslims hate Israel[2] even though Palestine has nothing to do with India's foreign policy objectives except at the UN (which is its own story). As for the liquor ban, that kind of thing happens in many places. For e.g. in India an Indian state (Maharashtra), banned beef, even though it is only the cow that is sacred in Hinduism and one can slaughter buffaloes. I am not Muslim and I don't like religion as a concept, but as long as the act of violence is not perpetrated, I don't see what the residents of Hamtramck, MI have to worry about. [0] http://islamicpopulation.blogspot.se/2010/07/indian-cities-w... [1] http://baltimorechronicle.com/muslimsfirst_nov02.shtml [2] http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/they-call-me-muslim/2010/01/...
Looking at India, this can be conflated with a global level ending of the dizzying ride. [0] gives a good overview of this. In short, the free lunch is now over and people are asking for results. I am sure it has a lot to do also at an economic level with the Fed now talking of tightening- that means interest rates are headed higher and there is more aversion to risk. I am not an economist, so others might have different opinions.
I have worked and work for competitors of Tobii. The article is kind of biased. The cheapest eyetracker in the world is The Eye Tribe tracker ( I have worked there). They've not been able to solve the battery drain problem yet (running IR LEDs costs you) and therefore mobile gaming is out. I would assume Tobii has had similar issues. Tobii's EyeX is the only Tobii device cheap enough to go into the consumer market but it cannot do a high resolution head pose estimation at a high frame rate. The other awesome company for eyetracking in Sweden is Smart Eye which is targeting a different industry still has issues with high precision at low frame rates. In short, eye tracking is important and progressing fast but we aren't where we want to be in terms of using less power and also kind of supplanting the hand controlled devices for typical use cases like aiming in FPS games or changing POV based on head pose. We've used Tobii as part of competition research and the EyeX API is a bit limited also. I would give this article a 7/10.
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One of my classmates has worked with several of these, starting with Myntra, moving on to Jabong, Hopscotch and Lenskart (by Flipkart) before moving on to becoming an EIR at some VC firm. According to him, most of these are operating at hair-trigger margins and it is the funding that is keeping them going, waiting for the day when they can either increase prices and still win or make enough volume to become profitable. The main wildcard is the internet penetration and the transportation structures in tier II and tier III cities - if they can manage deliveries at scale for cheaper costs to enough people, it should work out for them. Otherwise they will all lose to local stores anyway which have decades of inventory management skills.
The overwhelmingly male youth that are immigrating are the reason a bunch of conspiracy theories are afloat on the internet. The next few years will be interesting. By all accounts Europe is headed for a recession and recessions usually foster xenophobia.[0] As an Indian living in Europe, I haven't yet noticed any changes but I assume that it will only get worse since behind all the talk about "humanity" most people still have to get 3 meals and when you have thousands such young hungry and tired men who can't get a job, I agree with the parent. Hopefully he and I are proved wrong since this is a real crisis.
[0]http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/racethmulglocon.4.2.183?...
Absolutely, and the tougher on crime motif is one of the things that makes DF very popular. In Gothenburg, Sweden for instance the Roma are everywhere, outside most large stores and have a bustling begging operation and there is plenty of theft which make them highly unpopular. You're right that crime (especially in Scandinavia which is highly peaceable) is one reason why certain communities are despised. But I feel that refugees also have certain other problems - they've never been to school in many cases and therefore their children have disadvantages in such high tech nations, which causes inequality to rise and so on and so forth. This topic is going to lead to many PhDs in the future, but in the mean time lets see what happens...
I upvoted you. I live in Sweden and used to live in Denmark. In both places the rise of right wing parties (Danske Folkeparti and Sverige Demokraterna) is precisely due to the conflicts between these two groups. It isn't Islam that is the problem though. There are several Muslims, especially in Sweden that have integrated quite well. I can't put my finger on what it is that is a problem though. Indians by all means(I am one) don't integrate that well either (in clothes or social and religious habits) but they don't seem to receive that much vitriol. I feel the inequality of women is one reason for the negative reputation of Muslim residents(I can't find precise stats online right now but the percentage of non-working Muslim women is much higher than in other religious groups) and the amount of children they have per family is more leading to more welfare[0].
[0] I don't have stats right now so I can't prove this but I can anecdotally prove it based on conversations with many Swedes and Danes.
I found this highly relevant so posted it - India being a nation where the rule of law is weak, corporatism and scummy behavior like this works really well. Considering that the only way to hit these companies where it hurts is by letting their investors come to know, this is a post relevant to HN where hopefully some of the investors read it.
I read into that that they'll make business Lumias, for value customers not make Lumia but instead make cheap Androids or Ashas and only make Lumia flagships otherwise - basically far fewer Lumias and basic phones. I could be wrong of course.
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This should be a boon to religious Hindu coders (if there are any). LOL - Based on Brihaspati' proximity to Mangal's orbit (I have no idea what I am saying) you could choose to not release to minimize your bad luck. I love this - and you actually have a use case. You should shop this around as an app to the big Indian outsourcing firms. All the best!
This is a big story in Indian news today. The current prime minister, Narendra Modi was elected partly because he promised to bring black money that was stashed abroad, back to the country. A Herculean task and one that he hasn't done much about so far. It interests me how this information can be used against the relevant people. Will it be a mere name-and-shame or can they use a leaked source in a court of law? I don't think so. People in many countries avoid taxes and in India this is especially egregious since close to 97% of the population does not pay any income taxes[1]. For a population of 1.25 billion with 400m below the poverty line, this is not good. [1] http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-11-04/news...
Patterns are uniquely generated in almost all types of information. What has been missing until the great rise of the World Wide Web is intent to monetize. Earlier companies sold you products like Microsoft Windows, Coca-Cola and Apple Macintoshes. Advertising paradigms like television advertising, radio, newspapers while really nice, had a "last-mile-connectivity" problem - you never really knew how you got your customer - through TV, radio? I do understand Nielsen and other ratings companies and some TV analytics historically try to ameliorate this, but the internet has been the greatest driving force in the last few years. Google and Facebook etc. and internet driven content engines have all traded eyeballs for content or products. As a result, the intent to improve advertising for the eyeballs (since presumably the eyeball count has a theoretical upper bound) has become the force du jour. Hence the ability to identify stuff was there, except for the machine learning part which has grown up from academia tremendously. It is just that now we have the intent to use all this to identify and collect patterns from all sorts of data. Whether that is good or bad or gray is another matter.
Just a tip, in case you find your way to adding it - while browsing through the India selection, I find that there are movies from different languages - I found Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil movies. My suggestion is that if you find a way to add a language filter, in addition to a country filter, that might help? This might be useful for others as well - for e.g a lot of Spanish speakers might look for movies from South America etc.
This made me well up inside. Being from a country that considers homosexuality to be illegal (India) and having a close friend who left that country as well as his religion (Islam) solely due to being gay, I applaud this man's spirit. It is not only the government that must accept equality of different ways, but so must society. Religion, culture and political climates are no reason to deny fundamental human freedoms - the right to have consensual sex with the people of your choice being one of them. Amazing that the one thing that we hold up as a pinnacle of political theory - democracy - is the one that keeps many minorities from exercising their rights. I am sure, for example, that a referendum on Article 377 would fail in most small Indian towns. Someone correct me if I am wrong. I hope that prominent Indians take this up as well (there are at least a couple of Bollywood directors who are rumoured to be gay as well as at least one business tycoon) and come out of the closet.
I recently moved to Denmark for a job and I have met a lot of people here who came from their nations in order to get into Scandinavia. If you can put up some money, you should get a Green Card which allows you to look for jobs. Beware though that the job market in Scandinavia is quite competitive because of the high wages. Australia and Canada are giving out visas as well for many workers. Look those up too.