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I guess it was inevitable that Javascript support for this would lead to people yet again rediscovering the bad idea that is Seaside-style continuation-based web programming.

Please don't actually do this. It completely violates all expectations of how both user-facing web servers and REST endpoints are supposed to behave.

The stateless nature of web programming is always frustrating, but attempts to use continuations to pretend a sequence of http requests can be treated as a single linear thread of execution simply don't work.
I agree, but again using Cracked as an example, they have many times linked to a 30+ minute video to make a one-sentence joke. That's far beyond fair use as far as the law is written. They also obviously do not get prior permission from the publisher; a typical older article from Cracked will have embedded videos that show "this was removed for copyright violation" placeholders.
Yes, I did. Please see my sibling comment and EDIT addendum.
Modern-day tech journalism: cut and paste together some quotes from Hacker News comments.
Links 3 and 4 in the readme return 404.
I thought that Tech Crunch was "social blog"? So of course there won't be any real journalists there.
Some Canon cameras can do phase detection autofocus at f/8. Let's put a 35mm lens on the camera. That means that light rays that are used by the AF system are separated by 4.375mm. Very comparable to the distance between the two iPhone lenses.

The way depth information is determined with phase detection autofocus is very similar conceptually with how you'd generate a depth map in software from two separate cameras.

Granted, not all cameras can do phase detection AF at f/8, and at 35mm you have enough DOF that the accuracy of the AF is not that critical. But they can do AF at f/5.6 accurate enough for a 50mm lens. That gives you 8.92mm separation. Still comparable to iPhone.
If innovation is motivated by competition

Your implication is that competition has to be with external agents. It’s perfectly possible to compete with the status quo.

The private sector has a profit motive at its core: make more money for shareholders. The public sector also has a profit motive: save more money and be more effective for tax-payers. They’re both examples of efficiency, two sides of the same coin.
He describes the origin of the name ("Bride of Son of Cheap Video") here: http://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/KimKlone/BrideOfSon%20...
it's highly misleading to quote someone saying "told TechCrunch" rather that citing actual context for the quote. Misattributing like this implies a stronger and more deliberate relationship between the information source and journalist than actually existed.
2 years is a long time in mobile cameras at this point. The Nikon D700 from 2008 shoots at 12MP but still one of the most highly regarded DSLRs (used is still ~$800).

More important than MP is the quality of the sensor and lens, and I bet there is a lot of development and improvement in the "small" category.

Just because Zeiss made the lens doesn't mean it is better than anything else. Your only guarantee if you see the the word Zeiss is that it will be expensive ;-)

I'm not an Apple fanboy or anything and definitely prefer any SLR (digital or otherwise) to phone potatocams, but they are getting better so quickly.
I thought about some fancy, meaningful prefix. But in the end I decided, it doesn't really matter as long as it's unique.

So mt stands for my name (Maurice Tollmien).
Just read. One book that has stayed constantly on my bookcase, in my suitcase, under my bed, [alternate preposition location + noun location] is Blaug, Economic Theory in Retrospect.

It is quite fantastic.
It's not that no one understands, it's that journalists don't know that their's research that has addressed this question. The problem with intuitively understanding neural networks is that most of the weighted edges are spurious. Meaning you can remove most of them (WiJ -> 0) without negatively affecting the mapping function solution. Failing to do this we stare at a fully connected neural network which gives us no clues why it works. However , once you get rid of these spurious interactions (through perturbation analysis), then This will reveal the underlying circuit diagram for the network.

Often these threshold integration neurons are just approximating a simpler Boolean function so it really comes down to digital logic.

Techniques for pruning networks can be found here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2538912/
Not much wrong at all with quoting a comment or twitter (maybe it's lazy).

Misrepresenting those quotes as a direct discussion? Horrible, because it is misrepresentation.

It seems pretty likely that TechCrunch reached out and confirmed the comments though, so that wouldn't be a misrepresentation.
check him out, there's a lot of videos about him in youtube.
There is a great book on poverty called "Poor Economics" [1] which has a relevant point about why people choose to buy TVs:

We asked Oucha Mbarbk, a man we met in a remote village in Morocco, what he would do if he had more money. He said he would buy more food. Then we asked him what he would do if he had even more money. He said he would buy better tasting food. We were starting to feel very bad for him and his family, when we noticed a television, a parabolic antenna, and a DVD player in the room where we were sitting. We asked him why he had bought all these things if he felt the family did not have enough to eat. He laughed, and said, "Oh, but television is more important than food!"

After spending some time in that Moroccan village, it was easy to see why he thought that. Life can be quite boring in a village. There is no movie theater, no concert hall, no place to sit and watch interesting strangers go by. And not a lot of work, either. Oucha and two of his neighbors, who were with him during the interview, had worked about seventy days in agriculture and about thirty days in construction that year. For the rest of the year, they took care of their cattle and waited for jobs to materialize. This left plenty of time to watch television. These three men all lived in small houses without water or sanitation. They struggled to find work, and to give their children a good education. But they all had a television, a parabolic antenna, a DVD player, and a cell phone.

Generally, it is clear that things that make life less boring are a priority for the poor.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007CI81IQ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
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You don't need prior permission if it's fair use, and it can still be fair use even if the video is removed (the DMCA ensures it has to be taken down regardless, at least until the uploader sends a counter-notice, and YT goes even beyond that).

Still, the 30m for a single joke might be infringing, yes, but so what? If it would be infringement if they served the video from their own servers, why shouldn't it be by embedding from YT?
Like which ones and how would they go about taxing a foreign entity?

They would tax the individuals when they repatriated income.
> You didn't state a single reason why you think that grabbing multiple resultsets in a single trip to the database is a bad idea though...

It's a bad idea for the same reason that having a function that returns back multiple values is a bad idea. Yes it's useful sometimes but on the whole it ends up being confusing. From a result set processing perspective it's also a pain in the ass as your app code is now tied to handling multiple results in a particular order, i.e., more/tighter coupling.

> (I bet you've UPDATEd multiple tables in one query though.)

You'd win that bet. There are a lot of ways to do this and it's a legit operation because you want N things to change at once (where N isn't in the same table).

> Reasons are often given, sure...but they're almost never based on that persons experience because PGSQL users don't have this feature. So, they'll never know just how awesome it is to have real stored procedures like TSQL has.

> Anyway, it's not about "jamming" things into one query. It's about composability and PGSQL is lacking it.

What's your goto "killer example" of what this could be used for?

I've used SQL Server quite a bit[1] and while it's not a terrible database, on the whole I don't like it. Rattling off at random: lack of MVCC (sure they have it now but it's not the default and still has warts), explicit locking that drives you nuts, defaulting to case insensitive string comparison, lack of built in functions. The inane licensing options don't help either.

I'd take Postgres over SQL Server any day of the week and twice on Sundays (i.e. side projects).

[1]: Officer I swear! It was already like that when I got there!
The author seems a bit confused. I'm guessing the usual paths are to raise finance or bootstrap while his third path seems to be to wander about lost:

"... no conclusions to share with you at this time, as I’m still trying to find my way"
Wow, that is confusing.
Good point. That said, easy enough to augment an expert data scientist with 4:1 data engineering support, whereas a data scientist working solo will spend 80% engineering data. With all the hype and inflated expectations, IMO much easier to hire aspiring data scientists than talented engineers who are satisfied with the data prep and admin aspects. MSPA programs are realistic that the bulk of their graduates will be spending much of their time as data janitors.
> amount taken

Since a link doesn't take anything from the original work - it only references where the work may be found - then this amount is zero.
Sounds a lot like my first startup out of college:

* Focus split between two products
* No real revenue
* A blog to catalogue our path to wild success (I think it lived at diariesofastartup.com)

Long story short, it didn't pan out for me (too many cooks, differing levels of commitment, cluelessness) but I've had some good successes since then.

Best of luck - the path does become clearer as you learn the lessons of growing a business.
You CAN link to a particular page. Here, page 14.

http://kupershmidt.org/pg/10_Things_I_Hate_About_PostgreSQL/...
This will go as well as the war on drugs, poverty, terrorism, et al.
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Going from the specific to the general.

Are you denying that particular people or even groups of them could have failure modes?

It seems like a reasonable proposition to me that humans have developed strengths and weaknesses.
It still doesn't count as "told TechCrunch".
There's a light on a main road near my house that has a one minute cycle. It only changes for cross traffic if someone trips it, but still does a 15 sec countdown on the crosswalk every time.

I've lost count of the cars that speed up to beat the countdown timer.

It is useful for my 5 AM commute though, when there's not a soul around, and I have to turn left. If I come to it and the timer hasn't started I'll do a right-on-red and then u-turn on the main road.
I remember back in the late 90's listened to a talk which I dismissed as conspiracy. The key points were

1. Moving people away from cash to credit so easier monitoring of society and transactions

2. Moving communications to the "information super highway" with constant listening in

Our grand kids will live in a vastly different society. I fear we may be heading to a reality covered in so many dystopian works of fiction.

The chilling effects of the constant surveillance we currently have.

This was previously posted on HN:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-09-07/why-you-should-be-p...
...neither of which had access to 'common'/appropriately researched medicine of course
Assuming this article is serious, exactly how do they plan to phase out the higher denomination bills? Is it actually feasible?

"Rogoff says he doesn't want to get rid of cash all at once. First, he would phase out 100s, then 50s, then 20s, leaving smaller bills in circulation for the foreseeable future. "I want to have a less-cash society, not a cashless society," he said."
The machine learning coursera course listed on the page covers bias/variance and validation.
Yeah, I guess that's probably good enough. I knew I could do this but was sort of thinking it would be nice to have a little dedicated tool that filters out or separates all the "known should be suid" -- and maybe tracks changes over time ... An interface to check periodically to quickly keep abreast of what's changing ...
I have heard that the anti-corruption reasoning is why China's biggest note is 100 CNY (worth less than 20 USD)
The list of reasons he thinks it's a good idea reads like a list of reasons I think it's a bad idea. Strange how differently people think we should organize society, though I'm not surprised that someone so involved with the system believes that the system should be given considerably more power.
I love living in a country where cash has already been killed. Haven't seen a bill in many years.
Does anyone know any good tools to make that sort of page quickly in Python? I mean, I could cobble together a web app, but I feel like dataset annotation is so common that there should be something out there already.
And the last thing you need is those recruiters finding qualified employees in the US when you hire by h1..

I find that companies are very much opposed to seriously finding those matches where the employees are convertable since longterm employees cost twice as much as the untrained new hire in a role that now uses half their abilities. Further, if they are "certified" as competent in both fields instead of eliminated from the market as tainted goods, they can be snatched by better managed rivals who know how to get full value of a programmer-accountant instead of paying for both skillsets and not being competent to consistently manage profit from either one.

401k plans managed fairness by making sure your top and lowest employees got reasonably comparable benefits. It helped, but also lead to outsourcing the low roles. In this case, I think companies should be limited to h1s that cost more than the greater of: the average inflation adjusted salary they've laid off, the average salary they still have and the average market salary for the specific role. If that's too expensive for them, maybe its fine to let them workout their problems without crying about the labor market not matching their inconsistent needs.
I guess companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, LinkedIn, eBay who run their entire core business on NoSQL databases don't know what they are doing.
If a government keeps monopoly on money creation and all banking system is tightly regulated by the government but at the same time there is no cash in the economy, then government have ultimate power on everybody (since they can't burn cash in your pocket but they can freeze all your bank accounts anytime) and therefore your freedom at mercy of government bureaucrats.

Hard cash (and now also cryptocurrencies) is only little freedom you (still) have.
Indeed. "f/8 and be there." as they say.

The shot that you make with the camera that you have with you is always better than the photo you don't get with the camera that you left at home. Having paid my dues learning to operate a 4x5 view camera, I grok that fully.

As I once told a friend who was berating my closet full of Canon lenses because "everyone knows Leica makes the best lenses" I said: "Take a look at your last vacation photos. Now take a look at any randon issue of National Geographic. Ask yourself: Am I really being limited by the glass?"

Somebody that understands composition and light can make better photos with a phone than a hack with the best "big boy" camera.
In some countries (like where I live) it's hard to come across US Dollar bills other than 100.
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> No need for metaclasses simply to make the class construction locals dict an ordered dict. ORM library devs will be happy.

understatement with that. Saw someone trying to avoid using a metaclass for that, "had" to use descriptor objects which all used the same global counter to work out their order
You could pay them more. That's the Singapore model of good government (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-01-25/why-singa...).
Wells Fargo still facing suits from customers, employees over bogus accounts
The international keyboard mapping on Ubuntu makes ç come out as ć, so I gave up on trying that. :-)
It ia happening in UK already. 50 GBP note is all but outlawed. You cannot get it from ATM, some note machines do not accept it, if you need bigger quantities of it it - you must fill paperwork weighting more than the notes themselves.

I love the 500 eur note, and think we should move to a 1000 soon.
I don't have the ping :-(.
I've met a lot of academics that think like this. I find them terrifying in their inability to recognize adverse feedback loops. I'll keep my paper, thank you.
On the other hand, the Byzantine Empire as all cash, but the fiscus managed to keep tax evasion at reasonable levels by taxing items where they cannot be hid. The main points of taxation was real estate at village level and wholesellers at merchant fairs.

Getting rid of cash would prevent tax evasion, but only for those that cannot afford tax shelters like Panama or the Double Irish with Dutch Sandwich with profit moved to the Cayman Islands.
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And yet, here it is on the front page.
> In a conventional enterprise setting on the other hand, a DB trumps NoSQL etc solutions any day of the week.

For a data warehouse yes people are still using RDBMS like Teradata.

But in enterprise environments most are now ingesting this data into Hadoop based data lakes and using NoSQL systems to drive the core analytics.
Stop printing them. And remove them from circulation when they enter the financial system. It is easy.
Can you not read?

I said the lozenge was to assist deaf people.
DanBC asked for a clarification that I meant deaf people rather than not blind people, and cross-compared to a UK pedestrian button.
I clarified that blind people can hear the sound that Australian buttons make.

You missed the point entirely, downvoted my post and started talking about how not all UK buttons make sound.

That's nice, but not what everyone else was talking about. (twit)
Curious what projects have already been considered and why they were rejected.
No single local action can increase the standard of living in any measurable way. To even think in those terms is to utterly misunderstand the scale and depth of the problems that face Africans as they work to construct a functioning economy and its institutions.

Do you even understand what creates a "standard of living"?

It is things like, "if I start a business, and people don't pay their bills, can I take them to court?"

If the answer is "no" then you are stuck with a cash economy, no credit, no trust. Everything becomes more expensive.

How do you create functioning courts? You need honest politicians. How do you get honest politicians? You build coalitions of power that boot out the thieves. How do you build such coalitions? You spend decades slowly growing your economy so the commercial middle classes get wealthy enough to become politically relevant and interested. How do you grow your economy? You cut the cost of transport and communications. How do you do that?

Etc. etc. I'm not giving a recipe, I'm giving examples of how complex this is.

The scale is such that you'd need absolutely staggering amounts of money and political will to run studies that would show useful data. I'm talking entire regions, even countries, changing policies. Cases like Rwanda focussing on the Internet. Give it a decade, then compare to Burundi, which focusses on (e.g.) child health and political stability.

Anyhow, there are no easy answers for this and forgive me if it sounds like I think there are.
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> and having them coexist in adjacent physical space and intersect each other inevitably requires some set of rules describing who will have priority and when.

Zebra crossings (where pedestrians get right of way unless it's dangerous for vehicles to stop) seem to work pretty well.
thanks for clarifying
All crossings have lights.

Not all crossings have sounders.

Deaf people can always see the lights. Blind people can't always hear the sounders.
Phasing out bills is definitely feasible. Bills usually pass through a bank fairly often, at which point they can be removed from circulation. In general banknotes have their design changed every 10-20 years, and very old banknotes are no longer legal tender (though they can sometimes be exchanged at the central bank). A regular bank won't accept a deprecated banknote.

The ECB is currently phasing out 500s, first by removing those it can get its hands on from circulation, and after a few years by declaring the rest no longer legal tender.
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Sounds like the real problem is the power subsidy.
This is an interesting case. What if a law is passed that is impossible to comply with? For example, what happens if all CEOs are required to flap their arms and fly to the moon to sign something? How does that get overturned?
No one I have mentioned the map to knew about it before. It's kind of like progressive enhancement; if you need it it's there, otherwise it's unobtrusive.

Just push the button.
I work at a shop that does these kinds of post mortems. I find them highly beneficial.

They require us to actually do the work of identifying the issues and writing up what happened and why. I realize that having a customer contract to do this shouldn't be a requirement but human psychology is funny thing. I can turn to my pm and say "I have to do this it's part of the contract" and they immediately back off.

I agree it might not be the best solution but it's definitely better than not doing them.
We need to go the other way -- introduce larger-denomination bills. Assuming there was a good reason to make the highest bill $100 in 1969, calculating for inflation would allow us to have $500 bills. I'd argue for bringing back the $1000 -- and then indexing it to inflation from here on out.

With negative interest rates on their way in, people and organizations are going to start stockpiling big piles of cash. The least we can do is try to make it more cost-efficient.
The concept is actually more commonly called "human computation" (which includes stuff like digitizing books using CAPTCHAs).

It has academic journals/conferences under that name: http://hcjournal.org/ojs/index.php?journal=jhc
yep that was what I thinking aswell.
Reminds me of the Euro. Was blessed as such a grand simplifying project by academics and technocrats in the late 90s, and critics were often dismissed conspiracy theorists.
> Law-abiding citizens rarely have need for $100 bills,

Law-abiding citizens rarely have need for Kenneth Rogoff.
Rather than a "beautiful" button, I'd rather have no buttons and no need to press anything.
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