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by tjr 12y ago
Did not Apple buy Beats?
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by tjr 12y ago
From the paper: Our core insight is that we can leverage these large image-sentence datasets by treating the sentences as weak labels, in which contiguous segments of words correspond to some particular, but unknown location in the image.
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by tjr 12y ago
A fair observation. In the example of handling HTML input, I would suppose that's not a problem with individual developers, but a problem with the industry. Such a relaxed format should not have been allowed to exist, if the industry c
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by tjr 12y ago
I think sheer brute force would be far less organized. How do you suppose designing and constructing a building according to designs and building codes is a more advanced, less brute-forced activity than building software according to requi
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by tjr 12y ago
That is engineering, software projects with today's tools and techniques are not. This will happen some day in software. We are not there yet, by far. Sure we are, at least pretty close. Commercial avionics software developed to DO-1
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by tjr 12y ago
So with about 7 billion people on the planet, on average our personal data is worth about $22/year? Rather than getting that $22 sent to me directly, can I pay $22/year and opt out?
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by tjr 12y ago
I've been using Namecheap for several years, following HN recommendations. No complaints.
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by tjr 12y ago
It (or I should say, a variant of it) is bundled with the Arc interpreter: http://arclanguage.github.io/ http://arclanguage.org/
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by tjr 12y ago
In my area, some people have a separate "mailbox" for newspaper delivery, clearly marked.
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by tjr 12y ago
The net effect of taking that cash out and burning it or spending it on an Apple 1 assembly is the same. How so? Now, whoever sold the Apple 1 assembly has $900k. What will they do with that money? Presumably not burn it.
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by tjr 12y ago
From his website: In the mid 90s I had bad hand pain, so bad that most of the day I could only type with one finger. The FSF hired typists for me part of the day, and part of the day I tolerated the pain. After a few years I found out that
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by tjr 12y ago
I've taught a course like that. I think your topic ideas sound good. For the programming component, maybe look at Scratch, or perhaps do some scripting with Microsoft Office. Mobile (iOS, Android) development might be even more interes
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by tjr 12y ago
For some people, it seems to be. I suspect part of the issue is how abundantly available it is. For example, you go to the theater, and you can either buy a single bottle of water, or a cup of soda with free refills. Many restaurants offer
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by tjr 12y ago
This is the web representation of a mailing list email, and the software that prepares the message for viewing on the web conceals email addresses like that, to help mitigate people receiving unwanted mail (e.g., and probably especially, sp
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by tjr 12y ago
Paraphrasing some actual experiences I've had: I want to install GNU Guile 2 on my Mac laptop so that I can write a prototype of an AI program. To install Guile 2 I need to install some prerequisite library. The prerequisite library wo
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by tjr 12y ago
I haven't done any Python web application stuff for a while, but most of what I have done was with CherryPy. I liked it a lot.
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by tjr 12y ago
Part-way through a trip from D.C. to Boston I ordered a sandwich and a can of ginger ale on the train. I did not specify a brand of ginger ale, but the clerk told me that they were out of Schweppes, and that he didn't want to bother ch
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by tjr 12y ago
It's been reposted lots of places. Here's an ostensibly more official source, if you prefer: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41487
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Free Software Foundation Statement on the GNU Bash “shellshock” Vulnerability(fsf.org)
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by tjr 12y ago
Not sure if it's "ergonomic", but I've been using this for several years, and enjoy it immensely: http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Hacking-Keyboard-Lite2-White/dp/...
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by tjr 12y ago
Some industries have decided that software really does matter, and go to greater lengths to make sure it works. It'd be annoying if Things for iOS crashed and lost all of my data. It'd be horrifying if flight control software cras
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by tjr 12y ago
Some very skillful work, though I have a hard time imagining a museum accepting such copies as originals, at least assuming they had a print of the original to compare with. The basic structure is there, and pretty perfectly from what I can
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by tjr 12y ago
The ArsDigita story is interesting. http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/ might be the best textual source on the web, but if you can rustle it up (download link not working for me), Greenspun's IT Conversations
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by tjr 12y ago
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg021...
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by tjr 12y ago
In some event photography situations, where the subject is not deliberately posing but engaged in some action, you can take a huge number of pictures and come up with only a few usable ones. I've photographed some indoor dog agility ev
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by tjr 12y ago
Right, that was unclear. Languages that rely on garbage collection can't realistically be used in flight. "Something like OCaml" but with manual memory management might be better than Ada. But with recursive functions also fr
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by tjr 12y ago
I have never heard of anyone not using DO-178 though. Me neither. I can imagine that would be harder than just using DO-178, as the auditors are used to dealing with it. Have you seen level A software written using C++? Not personally.
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by tjr 12y ago
Weirdly, avionics development seems to be moving away from Ada toward C! I personally think something like OCaml would be a better choice... I think the problem is, there is so much momentum built up around Ada and C usage in the avionics w
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by tjr 12y ago
Dynamic memory management is inadvisable in avionics code, making languages that rely on garbage collection (perhaps pointlessly) challenging to use. But in general, there are no restrictions on what language is used. The particular versi
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by tjr 12y ago
"Computer science" tends to be a pretty ambiguously-defined term, largely because it's a pretty awful term. Everything from AS/400 business programming to combinatorial mathematics could be plausibly lumped under "c

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