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an0nym1ty | 9 years ago | on: The race for autonomous cars is over. Silicon Valley lost

One billion people get in and out of a car every single day. They go to work, they go home, they shop, they play, they do a billion different things. Knowing where they're going and what they're doing can be very valuable. And then it can be sold to anyone.

It will be a sad day if and when real innovation loses to the sale of personal information for the purpose of surveillance and advertising.

an0nym1ty | 10 years ago | on: The Master’s as the New Bachelor’s (2011)

Can that really be asserted for anything but standard development/architect roles? It seems to me that anyone who wants to get into serious algorithm design (or the big buzz in ML), does need more advanced technical background. If you look at the technical foundations of a BS in the US, it is actually quite shallow from a technical perspective.

an0nym1ty | 10 years ago | on: The sad economics of being famous on the internet

The difference that the article is trying to highlight is the contrast between fame and economic security. Van Gogh wasn't famous while he was alive, so it's a straw-man argument. The modern Internet Star, however, is quite known.

an0nym1ty | 10 years ago | on: Stack Overflow and the Zeitgeist of Computer Programming

Anyone have comments/inisght as to why Clojure would have lost traction over the past year? Just curious as my impression of the language is that, relative to other functional languages, it's very useful for highly parallel computational analysis (see: ML/AI, data science, CFD/FEA, numerical analysis etc.). Many of these sub-fields are "in vogue", so I would have expected to see the opposite trend...

Anyone have insight they could offer? Thanks

an0nym1ty | 10 years ago | on: State of emergency in France

This is completely tangential to the discussion of this thread, but so much of google search is forecasting based on user's search history these days it's hard to tell if it's just biased towards HN because we all visit it.

an0nym1ty | 10 years ago | on: Software developers describing their work in 1973 [video]

I once had a mentor who was fond of saying "Git doesn't solve human problems", in reference to git-conflicts while explaining the system to less technical team members.

Technological advancements have, to this point, had fairly limited effect on mitigating error in human input.

an0nym1ty | 10 years ago | on: Google Brain Residency Program

It seems to be listed as a software engineering position (and are likely paid through the same construct, since participants are required to be eligible for work in the US). I would think they are paid as entry level software engineers, but that's all conjecture.

an0nym1ty | 10 years ago | on: Google Wins Appeals Court Approval of Book-Scanning Project

>Google has scanned more than 20 million books since 2004 without the permission of the authors.

I am blown away how this is ruled legal, but in many cases scanning books as an individual is considered copyright infringement. As though they don't reap financial benefit from expanding the scope of the data they control? It's their entire business model...

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