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The cost of living in Beijing is not low any more.

This is a repost. The original link should be: http://hunch.net/?p=3692542 .

Other discussion from Yann Lecun https://www.facebook.com/yann.lecun/posts/10153426027052143 and http://www.information-age.com/technology/applications-and-d...

I hated the writing style of Wired guys. The blog from Dropbox is much more clear: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/03/magic-pocket-infrastr...

Actually, Larry Page himself thought from very early beginning that Google is an AI company:

AROUND 2002 I attended a small party for Google—before its IPO, when it only focused on search. I struck up a conversation with Larry Page, Google’s brilliant cofounder, who became the company’s CEO in 2011. “Larry, I still don’t get it. There are so many search companies. Web search, for free? Where does that get you?”… But Page’s reply has always stuck with me: “Oh, we’re really making an AI.”

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligen...

Minor correction: Xing Wang was an ECS Phd candidate at University of Delaware, and he studied electrical engineering at Tsinghua University.

I am proudly noticed that it is developed in China.

It is a really great guide. I had a failed plan to translate into Chinese years ago. Fortunately, the companion website has Google Search feature: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8350.html

Can not agree with you anymore. GitHub is two things: 1. LinkedIn for Programmers, 2. Development Platform/Toolchains for Programmers.

Considering Atlassian valued at 3.3B in last round, GitHub has more potential. However, GitHub should prove itself with real money sooner or later.

Maybe this is an explanation: https://medium.com/@492727ZED/steve-jobs-made-warner-music-s...

Can anyone explained to me that why Grooveshark did not convert into the same model as of Pandora or Spotify?

Microsoft said Bing is a multibillion business and pay for itself. http://marketingland.com/microsoft-bing-sustainable-standalo...

Microsoft is quitting from Internet Business？It also sold part of map business to Uber

In China, there is a hot trend called de-IOE (to remove IBM，Oracle and EMC or other big foreign IT companies' technologies and products from IT systems) in enterprise IT.

Instead, we use open sources, or cloud/ X as a Service, or local technologies.

I wonder if it is the same in USA or other countries?

How does it compare with Impala？

Project lead Eric Xing has a nice talk about Petuum on Big Data Technology Conference 2014 in China: http://petuum.github.io/papers/eric_bdtc2014.pdf

The web page from the TouchDevelop team at MSR is more helpful to know what the project is: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/touchdevelop/

Peter Norvig wrote an article "Google's Hybrid Approach to Research" http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/38149.pdf

Why is it approved in Feb. but published in May?

Thanks!

Where is $1500 per month from? I can not find it in the pricing page.

The rate is not growing: 2015Q1 49%, 2014Q1 69%.

Nowadays most of younger generations' Chinese use 3 letter names again.

Notable features from Linux Weather Forecast by Jonathan Corbet:

- Basic support for applying patches to a running kernel, allowing the application of fixes without the need to reboot the system. There is still work to be done to get to a fully featured live-patching system, but the foundation is there in 4.0.

- The remap_file_pages() system call has been removed. Emulation of its functionality remains, though, so applications should not break.

- The kernel's support for large nonvolatile memory devices has improved considerably.

- The lazytime mount option allows for more efficient and accurate tracking of file access times.

- The kernel address sanitizer (KASan) is an important new development tool for ensuring that the kernel is not accessing memory that it shouldn't.

A comparison of notable free and open source configuration management software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_confi...

Previous discussion is still valuable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7901991

The link can not be opened. Any mistake?

His creativity is amazing: founder of a number of database companies, including Ingres, Illustra, Cohera, StreamBase Systems, Vertica, VoltDB, and Paradigm4...at MIT, where he has been involved in the development of the Aurora, C-Store, H-Store, Morpheus, and SciDB systems [1]

And his students:

-Daniel Abadi (co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hadapt)

-Michael J. Carey (faculty at UC Irvine, formerly at U. Wisconsin Madison, NAE Member and ACM Fellow)

-Robert Epstein (founder and former VP of Engineering of Sybase)

-Diane Greene (co-founder and former CEO of VMWare)

-Paula Hawthorn (founder of Britton-Lee, formerly VP of Engineering of Informix)

-Marti Hearst (Professor at UC Berkeley)

-Gerald Held (former VP of Engineering of Oracle)

-Joseph M. Hellerstein (faculty at UC Berkeley)

-Anant Jhingran (VP and CTO for IBM's Information Management Division)

-Curt Kolovson (Sr. Staff Research Scientist at VMware)

-Clifford A. Lynch (executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information)

-Mike Olson (former CEO of Sleepycat Software and founding CEO of Cloudera)

-Margo Seltzer (Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, founder and former CTO of Sleepycat Software)

-Dale Skeen (founder of Tibco, founder and CEO of Vitria)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker

Thanks for your efforts. I retweeted this on Sina Weibo: http://weibo.com/1642316384/C8ZE7mf0a

Can you share more details about your experience? I think HM is a very good case study of technology publishing industry.

Can I say Facebook is just a copycat of Wechat, Weibo and other Internet services on this feature? Hundreds of millions of Chinese have used these feature for more than one year.