Maybe they could circumvent the law by signing a contact where google pays the news organisations, but they in term pay google back for the "exposure". That way both parties would comply with the law and they would still maintain the status quo.
Except as Google is demonstrating by just outright closing Google News Spain, they don't have to put up with that bullshit. They are so big in so many countries dropping one won't do anything for their bottom line (especially when Google News itself makes them no money directly) and the news lobby in Spain gets to rip itself a new one destroying itself out of greed.
Exactly. For Google's long term credibility and success, they must close Google News Spain (at least temporarily).
Spain is both small enough and large enough to serve as a convenient demonstration of Google's power. Going forward, fear will keep the local publishers in line. Fear of the wrath of Google.
In Germany all public universities (which are the good ones) are free. In Holland it is not free, but Dutch citizens a sort scholarship by default. Which is arguably even better.
> The bill, H.B. 161, directs municipalities like Bluffdale to “refuse support to any federal agency which collects electronic data within this state.”
What about the IRS? Doesn't actually every government agency collect data?
NOAA and the National Weather Service, within Commerce, came to mind for me. No more weather forecasts for Utah, since municipalities would be prevented from providing utilities to federal agencies that collect data. Like the temperature.
Thankfully, reading the bill paints a little more optimistic of a picture, but I can still see several interpretations of the wording that could have unintended consequences.
Most data scientist these days use scikit-learn or R. Weka is really out of fashion. Mahout and mllib are difficult to use and perform less. Often it's better to just down-sample or rent an EC2 instance with a lot of memory.
Weka is definitely more old-school, but it has a LOT of algorithms available. Weka and Mahout are the two biggest ML libraries on the JVM, but we couldn't find any direct head-to-head comparison so this was the result. In the future we plan to also add scikit and mllib and more in the future.
Your point about being difficult to use is exactly the problem that Algorithmia solves.
I can't find my own H1B in the database. I don't think the data is complete.
EDIT: I found another page that actually did have my own H1B: http://h1b.myftp.org/ . However, I believe it did show one H1B in my company as approved which is actually denied.
My first thought was: I can't image how anyone could work for a place like that. That HR person should have been fired on the spot.
My tolerance for bullshit this is quite low and luckily I work for a start-up where I have to take very little of it. When stories like this come up, I keep shaking my head.
