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by koide 14y ago
I truly doubt this challenge can only be won by technology. There will always be physical parts on the technology that can be controlled by those in power, by force if needed. Just look at China.
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by koide 14y ago
As you yourself have showed, "homeless person" != "dumb person". I'm fairly certain a not despreciable amount of homeless people are totally capable of using complex designs. Not that we should aim to making designs complex, but we shouldn'
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by koide 14y ago
Hard manual labor can be very refreshing and enlightening. One of my most elightening periods ocurred when I was packing a product at a factory. If you keep your body busy with repetitive and tiring work, your mind can do wonders. Not forev
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by koide 14y ago
The fact that a country as a whole is relatively non corrupt doesn't say anything about specific people and their corruptibility. Also, the U.S.A. is number 24 of around 180 countries on the Corruption Perceptions Index and appears below co
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by koide 14y ago
> * How do you restart apache on Debian? "/etc/init.d/apache restart". On Redhat? "/etc/init.d/httpd restart". Ah, so Redhat is in the habit of renaming all of their init.d scripts after the protocol of the service? Nope, turns out they
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by koide 14y ago
I guess that what bothers most of us oldtimers is that better things have existed all along! :-) better = in a better "programming language design" sense only
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by koide 14y ago
Transcription is the textual output of the speech recognition process, be it phonetic, LVCSR or direct. All current applications of them do take some context in consideration, usually via a transition matrix and lots of training data. What
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by koide 14y ago
and by Americans, you mean people of the United States of America. I wish police and court systems all around the world bent over backwards to the chileans, mexicans, peruvians, bolivians, etc.
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by koide 14y ago
I'm thinking of the following: audio track of the video ---[process (language recognition)]---> transcription ---[process (classifier based on textual language model)]---> answer to "gibberish?" So good transcriptions would be good,
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by koide 14y ago
Speech may be much looser, but a classifier to (try to) detect absolute gibberish from real content doesn't look too far fetched to me. Its only action would be to disable the subtitles by default if gibberish was detected. It may be comput
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by koide 14y ago
That's not the case, I'm sure.
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by koide 14y ago
I find it curious that Google has a very good translation software but they don't pass the generated subtitles through their language models to detect when they are gibberish. It's not your fault, but YouTube's. I just find computer generat
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by koide 14y ago
I love the hilarious youtube's subtitles. For instance (3:34): "without a student to conduct a kidney advocate" or (3:19): "registers configure troop went upstairs don't just goes up" But you should disable them by default, they are confusi
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by koide 14y ago
I'm not aware that the ycombinator sense of value is profit (or maybe income?). Not saying it isn't, I'm just unaware of that. And when I said system, I meant the law forcing the companies to pay, not the troll using the law as a tool to cr
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by koide 14y ago
Depends on what's your definition of value. Yours seems to be "profit". In the typical entrepreneur sense, you are selling/renting something that the other people want or need without any coercion whatsoever. I bet the people being sued did
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by koide 14y ago
You should certainly increase font size though, that might make the italic/bold thing less necessary
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by koide 14y ago
I get very upset when junior employees try to keep me from doing the 'dirty work' I'm preparing to do or already doing. I'm not sure where this whole nonsense of "people who lead can't get dirty or do menial work" comes from. If I had somet
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by koide 14y ago
Only in how it shows the level of opportunities. But it's a good idea to experience it for myself.
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by koide 14y ago
This only emphazises how different the world for programmers is in the USA (especially in the SF area) compared to the rest of the world. I only get three or four emails a year on linkedin, of them one's from Facebook, the other from Google
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by koide 14y ago
You are misunderstanding both of my comments. Regarding network effects the point is that they do make the service more useful (read better) for the users, and in a significant way, many times more significant than a new UI. So, Craiglist's
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by koide 14y ago
It's a childish complaint. The new startups simply aren't better, because they don't have the network effects. They may have better looking UI, better text classification, better customer service, or whatever you want. But as long as they d
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by koide 14y ago
Everyone can take a bite at this type of problems for free, with online results evaluation on topcoder, interviewstreet and probably a few others. Worth a visit a couple times a week, unless you are actually working on a hard problem yourse
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by koide 14y ago
Could you illustrate the phrase below with some examples? "anyone attempting to trade in truly non-dollar- denominated terms will eventually find themselves on the receiving end of a SWAT team."
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Big data analysis in a RDBMS near you (MADlib)(wp.sigmod.org)
2 points by koide 14y ago|0 comments
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by koide 14y ago
myname.wordpress.com is not ok when compared with myname.com, but my.babe compared with mybabe.com or myba.be is ok
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by koide 14y ago
I've said it on the previous Dave Winer's article about it. I really don't get what's the big deal as long as the all the previous TLDs continue to exist and operate just like they have been operating. Some enterprises will have the new fan
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by koide 14y ago
Question from ignorance: Couldn't you internally buffer the geometries and, say, send them to the GPU every 5 frames or so?
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Oracle agreed to accept "zero" damages (computerworld.com)
1 points by koide 14y ago|0 comments
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by koide 14y ago
What's the solution when your phone is stolen/offline/out of order?
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by koide 14y ago
And what I've understood he's done is not to retransmit static geometry every single frame, but to use an array to send batches behind the scenes. This is, the exposed API doesn't force any particular implementation. And that makes a lot of

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