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by tacos 11y ago
This rainbow is interesting precisely because it shows that "perceptual uniformity" is not as useful as you might think. This is why people are still futzing with UX around volume controls and light dimmers. It's not just the
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by tacos 11y ago
Every time a thread like this appears on HN I jump in and make angry monkey noises. But this is great! Note how it's the only one that looks like the paint chips in the store. Color is one of those things (like music software, or image
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by tacos 11y ago
Huh? I just transferred from a Kawasaki train car to a Canadian bus with an Isuzu Engine to board an Airbus that was routed to JFK via British flight controllers, fueled by imported oil. Glad we got it nailed down.
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by tacos 11y ago
I'm a designer. There is no "blue". There's the blue in the logo. And then there's the blue saturated a bit more when it's on a gray border. And there's the blue brightened a bit when it's on white. I
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by tacos 11y ago
His previous blog post berates vendors for using vendor prefixes in CSS. Presumably because this conflicts with his desire not to automate the process by using a tool. Take an unpopular stance and write a weak blog post in support of it --
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by tacos 11y ago
Most of these "complaints" could apply to tools of any form in any discipline. If you've been in tech a while you've heard it all before. Hang around woodworkers and you'll hear people bemoaning progressive use of f
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by tacos 11y ago
That wasn't what I Googled. And Microsoft is announcing bash and Linux shell subsystems today for Windows so y'all are really missing the point. Maybe dev goes one way and ops goes another. But probably not. I'm not betting
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by tacos 11y ago
Y'all are still missing the point. We live in a world where people use CoffeeScript to avoid typing a semicolon. When you Google a PowerShell problem the Google results come back looking insane. You can play code golf here all you want
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by tacos 11y ago
Got a directory full of files with underscores in the names? Want spaces instead? Easy, type this: dir -recurse | where {-Not $_.PsIscontainer -AND $_.name -match "_"} | foreach { $New=$_.name.Replace("_"," ")
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by tacos 11y ago
Windows fanboy here. Powershell made the mistake of combining a bad command prompt with a bad scripting language. It is not a "shell" at all. It is bad Python. The excessive verbosity and object safety is great for admin scenari
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by tacos 11y ago
You're missing the point: each of those things is something that you wouldn't hire a fifteen year old to talk about on Twitter with your corporate name attached. So they automated one and had it tweet 6000 times per hour. "Do
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by tacos 11y ago
You solve it by having her NOT GO THERE. Just like you avoid certain topics at the office. IBM did it with Watson to make him safe for Jeopardy, which was a taped program. If only there were an easily parsed list of topics to avoid... http
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by tacos 11y ago
"The mistake to grow from" had absolutely nothing to do with AI. In fact, it was a repeat of the oldest AI error in the book: zealous overoptimism. By researchers, sci-fi authors, HN posters. Whether it's marketing people ov
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by tacos 11y ago
Here's a start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_controversia... Not a neural-net cure all, for sure. But took me precisely ten seconds to find and would've prevented this whole situation.
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by tacos 11y ago
Second paper in particular is pretty fascinating. I'm sure you see the parallels to convolutional neural networks. Thanks for posting.
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by tacos 11y ago
Mostly I'm confused why a nearly 15 year old, poorly-written journal article appeared on HN today with no comments. And I wasn't kidding: I'm familiar with the state of the art and reading it from the title on down it really
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by tacos 11y ago
I'm pretty sure this paper was generated by a bot. Aside from phrases like "The evaluation of the WHTs product needs only real multiplications by +1 or 1" I see phrases culled from expired patents. Googling pulls up a more in
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by tacos 11y ago
This is explicitly mentioned in the Watson/Jeopardy papers from five years ago. Even in the absence of common sense you'd think MS Research academics would've noted the requirement. I'm a Microsoft fanboy but this whole
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by tacos 11y ago
Chatbots have been around for fifty years. Getting them to say dirty things has been a sport since 1964. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA Launching this on the open internet in this state was pure stupidity. Doing i
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by tacos 11y ago
That's my point. Ten years ago 75 people in Red West were so heads down putting together a MySpace competitor and an online service to promote musicians that they didn't have time even to try the competing site they were knocking
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by tacos 11y ago
Microsoft seems perpetually five to seven years behind the culture. You can see it in their ads, their product names, their outreach. Ironically it can actually be quite lucrative. I remember talking to people in the music group about MySpa
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by tacos 11y ago
Downvotes aside, looks like the anonymous postcard showed up right on cue: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/technology/apple-fbi-heari... Apple shouldn't have been surprised by this. They will howe
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by tacos 11y ago
You might want to review the Xamarin bug reports as the slash alone nearly put them out of business at least three times.
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by tacos 11y ago
No offense, but this sounds exactly like the experience I had, and many friends had, before we actually learned how to use the service. If I had to guess, you're using the smallest possible 128MB config and not calling it very often. T
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by tacos 11y ago
If you're tied to AWS then Lambda is great. If you don't want to be tied to AWS or if you need more control over resource allocation/longer running jobs then that's what all the emerging "container engine" serv
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by tacos 11y ago
Doesn't matter. The Judge merely collects all the pieces and then Orders them to work together. If it reaches anything approaching this point (it won't) stopping it basically requires an individual to commit to doing the work then
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by tacos 11y ago
1) Judge rules that Apple must disclose the information. 2) Judge issues a subpoena to an employee that another employee has said is capable of retrieving the information. "Do you have the capability to retrieve this PIN number?"
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by tacos 11y ago
A Judge can issue an Order saying whatever they hell he or she wants. A Judge can order you to leave work and sit on a Federal Grand Jury for 36 months. A Judge can order an innocent bystander to testify or sit in jail until he agrees to do
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by tacos 11y ago
"Apple Encryption Engineers, If Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist" Um... no. Perhaps until they get a whiff of a professional, um, "motivator" in the guise of an FBI agent or carefully-chosen warden. Some of you guy
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by tacos 11y ago
It goes right back to the spec. The W3C drones on and on for 132 words as to what "NO CONTENT" means. But devotes merely seven words to commerce. From that, all that follows. https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc26

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