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by sigil 15y ago
I went to a talk by Yann LeCun [1] a few months back, "Learning Feature Hierarchies for Vision." The current state of the art in this field is mind-blowing to an outsider. The final demo was a program that he trained in a matter of seconds
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by sigil 15y ago
> Find a key person who knows the retail end of the consumer market. Where's a good place to start? Most of our contacts are in live entertainment or distribution for live entertainment. We've gone to some industry conferences like LDI,
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Ask HN: Successful hardware startup in entertainment. How can we go consumer?
6 points by sigil 15y ago|5 comments
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by sigil 15y ago
> Oh I get it: this is one of those "man, the Fed is messing up" rants! Imagining a rant, and a classification for the discussion, is not helpful. Your two points (a) and (b) I agree with.
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by sigil 15y ago
Compare those two graphs from say 2006 on. I am mystified that you would look at a graph with a giant, dominant spike, and conclude my point was about the shape before the spike. Edits: To make it clear I'm not arguing with the statement th
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by sigil 15y ago
So you agree that in the long term, money supply should closely follow real output. It's only in the short term that the Fed is allowed to untether them for the purposes of intervention. Let's not forget that the Fed's monetary policy in th
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by sigil 15y ago
Milton Friedman disagrees and measures inflation relative to output in his book on monetary phenomena [1]. Since you're an economist (right?) I'd be interested in why you think he's got the wrong measure. [1] http://books.google.com/books?
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by sigil 15y ago
> As they should be, given that populations increase. Is the U.S. Population increasing like this? [1] That's what the U.S. monetary supply looks like. More correctly, fiat money supply should ideally match total economic output, not po
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by sigil 15y ago
This is correct, the invention is in the control system / hardware. We are not a fan of software patents.
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by sigil 15y ago
Thanks for submitting this -- "Dancing Hackers" is apt. :)
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by sigil 15y ago
> Just curious - what aspects of the performance was she controlling live? ... I would think the entire thing would have been completely designed beforehand ... You're right. It's mostly pre-choreographed, with manual cue points for pe
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by sigil 15y ago
Hello there, iLuminate hacker here! My partner Miral and I founded iLuminate 2 years ago. It's been extremely fun, both on the technical side (we built wearable embedded hardware from scratch for wirelessly controlling lights) and on the pe
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by sigil 15y ago
I second this approach. Instead of building a laptop from scratch, try rebuilding existing laptops. Start with minor upgrades and repairs. Work your way towards major ones, and eventually do a complete tear-down and rebuild. I suspect this
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by sigil 15y ago
Do yourself a favor and get a Picostation 2 from Ubiquiti [1], it's a hacker's dream. They're $59 over at netgate [2]. * The Picostation 2 has 8MB of flash and 32MB of RAM, which is enough to install and run quite a few interesting things b
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by sigil 15y ago
Given the roots in Perl, which has the %INC hash, it's surprising that Ruby started with an array for loaded modules. Can anyone shed some light on this design decision? Surely there was a reason at some point -- and maybe there still is.
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by sigil 15y ago
This looks interesting. Questions: (1) What do you mean by a processing topology -- is this a data dependency graph? (2) How does one define a topology? Is this specified at deployment time via the jar file, or can it be configured separate
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by sigil 15y ago
> Guess the only valid point is 3: "Not novel at all — it represents a specific implementation of well known techniques developed nearly 25 years ago" Probably true.. Unfortunately, the USPTO does not agree. MapReduce was patented in 20
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by sigil 15y ago
"Index" is the wrong word. He's not calling for Google to open up their index, but rather open their webcache.
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by sigil 15y ago
> 2) You don't have to respect robots.txt. If you need to crawl a 1 million page site, and its robots.txt restricts you to 1 page/second, then you'll have to wait for a long time. Yeah, consider a site like Hacker News, where the crawl
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by sigil 15y ago
Yeah, I usually use awk or perl for this (depends on my mood). Just find it annoying that the unix program whose stated purpose is to number lines is basically dead to me.
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by sigil 15y ago
> That's because numbers look better when they are right justified. They don't look better to a computer though. And that's what I don't get. Why are the defaults geared towards typesetting (human consumption) while cut/sort/join friend
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by sigil 15y ago
They're both annoying. For use in pipelines that is, as they seem more geared towards typesetting. Which I've honestly never had a use for. Consider this input file: $ cat > test.txt one two three five Let's try to numbe
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by sigil 15y ago
> Vertical splitting screen has. Is vertical split in mainline screen now, or do you still have to patch it? I use both tmux and screen but prefer tmux. Here are some (non-ideological) reasons: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19456
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by sigil 15y ago
Yes. If you replace "programs" with "systems," I basically agree with the article.
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by sigil 15y ago
A good programmer could write large correct programs, but prefers small correct programs.
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by sigil 15y ago
> When he adds X, we can run Firefox inside Linux inside Firefox inside Linux :') Reddit has a meme for that. ;) (downvote away, I've earned it!)
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by sigil 15y ago
Perhaps he's able to produce great stuff like this because he has a normal job in a normal company.
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by sigil 15y ago
This is completely awesome. When I saw http://cb.vu a few years ago I thought hey, someone has finally done it, but that turned out to be a hack. Kudos to Bellard once again. Nitpicking: the terminal emulation is messed up. It keeps resiz
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by sigil 15y ago
Okay, so it's an interpretation of Riemann zeta on positive real integers. It's still neat. ;)
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by sigil 15y ago
If you click through to the mathworld page [1], there's a pretty awesome geometric interpretation of the Riemann zeta function: "If a lattice point is selected at random in two dimensions, the probability that it is visible from the origin

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