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Give them a break. Based on how much it cost to buy a house in the Bay Area, I don't blame them. /s

Thats exactly what $1 apps do in the App Store, no?

Depends on what contracting work you are doing. The average web/mobile dev can't charge that much anywhere in the US. Company that I work for itself (an app dev company) does not charge more than $120/hour/dev to their SF clients.

Title should be this:

"An always listening device that record all your private conversations, that may or may not have been compromised (or will be compromised) by the private and government entities for surveillance and profit purposes has been the best selling product in the USA (where people refuse to give-up rights to own guns because they don't trust the government)"

I think the main feature of Functional programming is not avoiding side effects but abstraction. You can compose different kinds of powerful abstractions and programmers are free to choose their "language" of abstractions, compared to "X Oriented" languages that forces programmer to think in certain terms and limits in ways you can create layers of abstractions.

So basically it will replace all heuristics/greedy optimization algorithms. I am wondering if ML can come up with better sorting algorithms, or I guess when you can use ML for end strategy of optimization you don't have to sort!

Shouldn't their investments already been moved to Bonds/Money markets? At 85, if you have to worry about stock market, you are doing it wrong.

I feel like we need a permanent solution to this so that we don't have to panic and raise awareness every year. If we create a fund to protect Net Neutrality and "out-lobby" the ISPs in Washington would be great. If we just donate 10% of our internet bill every month we can definitely become a force they can't out-lobby without going bankrupt.

>> The mining has been controlled by China for years.

Can you elaborate on that? Afaik the very advantage of Bitcoin is that no single entity can control it.

I wonder if the gravitation waves stretches the Space-time in such a way that it takes 2 seconds longer for the photons of GRB to travel "on top of it" and reach earth.

I think Facebook should not be allowed to advertise anything other than commercial products/services. It should not be a platform for propaganda.

No amount of salary will give you clean air and tidy streets. Some people will just prefer that as part of their package. But I guess few months / years of experience won't hurt westerners.

I think they should just make any cash transactions more than 1000 rupees illegal.

I think innate intelligence/ animal intelligence is developed by evolutionary algorithm. You don't need to do back prop for it. If the network is wrong, the animal just dies.

I think Unsupervised Learning is fundamentally connected with the mission/goal of the AI. Whatever the mission is give to AI, it need to start learning information landscape by itself and make classification and use that knowledge to make predictions and act accordingly to optimized the outcome of the mission its given.

Dr Harvey and Irma are replicating that science for you.

Can't we just have Sales tax only. People who buy more will pay more taxes. You can exempt certain items like food, education, healthcare. Why do we need complicated income tax model? In the Sales Tax Only model, wealthy investors can invest as much money as they like but they will only be taxed if they liquidate their stocks and buy a fancy car or a yacht. I am trying to understand why we need Income tax at all?

Prospects of this data used to hack the next elections are frightening.

- Quickest way to make more money is to reduce your expenses. See where you are wasting money and optimize for that. Work remotely for the same amount of compensation and move to a place that has very low cost of living/rent etc (even within US).

- Decide how much more you want to make? Is it purely a greed or do you really need that much money. You alway have to pay some cost to increase your income beyond certain point, it could be your time, safety, health. Calculate those factors in. Earning $50k more then if you end up spending that much on health would not be a good idea.

If you see a photo of an object that you have never seen in your life and have no analogy to draw from, it will indeed be very hard for you to accurately guess its volume. However as humans we come across millions of objects to learn from. Same way you can train a neural network to learn from millions of objects and that would enable them to make similar guesses.

If this algorithm manages to be as good as humans in estimating volumes of everyday objects, I can see it being helpful in Self Driving Cars.

Facebook pays $50k to relocate to Bay Area!

Great thing about Deep Learning is that decades of "old school" machine learning research that was way too math intensive is far inferior now. DL is actually pretty approachable and intuitive.

Even in this scenario, where Tesla is not the market leader in EVs, Elon still wins. That was his goal from the beginning to move automotive market toward EVs.

In other words, "When we are looking to eliminate pay gap from data, job differences seems to be the right place to look".

Google trained their AI Go algorithm by playing against itself. It kind of has the same feel to it.

This is going to make all the Go players out of job pretty soon. :)

Just travel with a dedicated traveling phone and have your main phone mailed to your destination.

If you are just giving demo, why not use Google hangout?

>>Waymo's driverless cars are during various points of the garbage collection cycle.

you can say the same thing for rockets. There is entire field dedicated to this, its called Realtime Systems.

Reason is simple, very few people love programming and even fewer love to keep learning to stay up-to-date with new technologies. Its simply hard if you are not much interested in doing programming and were in the profession to get a nice job because everyone else was jumping on the bandwagon while you were in college. It is also possible to lose love for programming after initial interest fades away. It has happened to me multiple times. The only reason I stayed as programmer is because I hate management even more.