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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Awesome. Thanks for the reference!
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Nice work! By the way, now that you're here ;) do you perhaps also know if there's a way to address fjcaetano's concerns if you have access to a full video feed?
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I'm curious about how to interpret their 'Face Recognition Evaluation' data though. I'd like to use this for authentication purposes but if I'm interpreting it right their performance is close to existing solutions,
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
From what I've understood polygraphs aren't actually lie detectors but 'emotional distress' detectors. That means you don't know whether what's being said is true or not, but you do know when you've found
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Indeed. That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about, although from what I've heard access times for DNA are still a bit steep though ;)
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
My bet is still on a break-through in write-once storage, which wouldn't just be useful for life logging but could also work wonders with a storage system like Datomic (with persistent/purely functional data structures.)
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Good point. I imagine you could make a pretty penny by hijacking credit card detail entry forms. To evade detection you can even have the hijacking code only included on pages that actually collect credit card info.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Ah OK. If we're talking definitions then indeed; as far as I'm concerned discriminating based on cultural norms of a specific country is still racism. I can imagine that in the US racism more commonly concerns the traditional noti
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Exactly ...
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I made this comment below as well, but just try replacing Turkish with gay and see how your comment sounds then. Somewhat related; when I was gay I one of the easiest giveaways of a closet homophobe was if the first sentence out of their mo
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
If you choose to correlate two generally unrelated negative events based on race and imply they are a symptom of an underlying failing of character of the culture, that is very much racism. Just try replacing Turkish with gay, which is abou
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
OK. That's completely unnecessary and racist; very racist. Please take a couple of minutes to reflect on how wrong what you just did here really is.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I'm mostly just surprised that it seems like they didn't include a trainable gesture recognition app. It should be pretty doable to hook it up to a neural network and train it to recognize some of your own gestures. I was already
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Oh my god; I'm getting old. That was about 8 or 9 years ago :) Just to be clear, 95% of people sitting at McDonalds would just be eating their schlep, while these couples would sit starry eyed between them. Also, if you're talking
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
This rings so true from what I took away from living in another ex-communist country (Czech Republic.) Very few people understand that for most people life was pretty good in Soviet times. It just turned out people preferred the outcome o
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
That reminds me of how one of my favourite memories of the Czech Republic was seeing young couples having romantic dinner dates in McDonalds. It actually took me several weeks to understand that to them the McDonalds was a special place;
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Ah; I forget that Hypercard was a visual interface and replied as though you were just looking for a higher-level shell creation utility. But yeah; maybe LightTable + Stevedore could get you halfway there...
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
> Bash scripting in the style of hypercard. It sounds like the Clojure library Stevedore [1] does what you're looking for there. [1] https://github.com/pallet/stevedore
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
> Such concerns are not too surprising in thoughtful adults who are going through mid-life crises. However, it is a matter of great concern when these existential questions are foremost in the mind of a twelve or fifteen year old. Such
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Indeed. A thousand times this. I had exactly what was described in the article in response to a car accident (being hit while biking) that 'should have been fatal' at age 15. The author's recommendation of a daily hug also re
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Since you're still 18, I'll give you the advice I wish someone had told me 13 years ago: You are not a head in a body. Your mind is intertwined with your body and your body is what connects you to reality. Keep in touch with your
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
A bit late to the party here, but if you want to help non-technical people manage their personal SEO, Brand Yourself [1] is a pretty cool startup that helps with this. [1] http://brandyourself.com/
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
According to the video 16.000 of them are still alive and it seems they apparently already have been granted some form of pardon.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
They say that they couldn't because it would also have included men who had non-consensual sex or sex with minors. Turing's is largely a symbolic pardon to at least help address this concern to some degree. It's not perfect,
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
Good point. Wouldn't this actually be an impeachable offense for Obama?
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
No, but so many top executives could have informed the public of ... even if that would, for all intents and purposes, be a resignation letter.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
I went from cassettes to CDs to MP3 all before I left high school though.
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
There are ways to store a password in your subconscious [1] but they are relatively gimmicky. The more logical interpretation is that he doesn't have the decryption keys and has given partial keys to multiple people, thus making his se
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
You might want to check out the essay "Magic Ink" by Bret Victor [1] which explains what the parent comment is alluding to. I do think that he's describing something orthogonal to Flat design though, since you can do the same
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by mtrimpe 13y ago
By the way ... one big use case I'm seeing for jQuery replacements lately is being a drop-in replacement for BackBone apps, since they need just a tiny fraction of jQuery's capabilities but do carry around all it's weight for

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