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learningman··on The Alexa Prize
Geez, I hope not. Remember the disaster when AOL Research thought releasing search history was a good idea?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

learningman··on Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
Great point. They created an MVP, it worked, and then put resources in when and where the needs declared themselves (stability, scaling...).
learningman··on Self-Driving Cars Must Meet 15 Benchmarks in U.S. Guidance
Considering the millions of miles driven each day, even if the networked signal wasn't heavily weighted, a spoofed emergency brake advisor signal could still do significant damage.
learningman··on Dear Al-Jazeera: Why Steal Our Code?
> If I'm in the jury and I can easily cut/paste - than that is on you.

A copy-paste litmus test is silly. You don't get to copy and paste Harry Potter just because it's in plaintext. Creators don't surrender their rights just because it's easy to steal them.

learningman··on Introduction to Functional Programming in OCaml
I'm with you but the F#-Websharper stack already exists for isomorphic ML coding in both the front and backends. Reason/bucklescript is only on the frontend and is an entirely different "dialect" compared to OCaml.
learningman··on Announcing BuckleScript 1.0
Will you integrate with React Native?
learningman··on Amazon EC2 Beta (2006)
Serious question, what are you doing better compared to AWS? Efficiency wise, what can't you offer your own cloud services and cash in on 40-50% markup?
learningman··on Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package?
I can think of one-- we had a 96-element datatable (12x8) and limited space in our biochemical journal article. We were looking to graphically show differences in orders of magnitude to help explain the assay. A 3d column chart fit the bill because we could show lots of data in a small space, and readers could quickly see the range of values.
learningman··on Run Chrome apps in Electron
Wow. Google deprecating Chrome apps will hurt the Chromebook ecosystem, who will develop apps that can only be run on a Chromebook? What's up their sleeve here? Expanding the Play store to desktops?
learningman··on Is Microsoft Excel an Adequate Statistics Package?
Agreed for the most part, although there are rare valid uses for 3d graphs. I think most contemporary data vis people would say that Excel makes it possible to make pie charts at all means it may encourage bad practices.
learningman··on Interactive Guide to Tetris in ClojureScript
Awesome! What graphics library are you using?
learningman··on The Rise of the Platform Economy
My theory is the tortured (pompous) language exists to make articles seem more complex and important than they actually are.
learningman··on I've Been Waiting For The Oculus Rift, But Now It's Sitting In My Closet
No direct value, but he may otherwise share their stories and "upvote" them.