skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surveillance technology is one such application already in use (location of faces and people in images), video analytics on google.
A much larger market is robotics. (Factories use robots that are custom programmed with vision for each application and don't really do recongition in the sense of object recognition in an arbitray scene). Recognizing common household objects would be useful for a company building home robots (of which there are a few) right now.

There is a recent startup doing image recognition using humans, on photos at flickr.

Search engines relied on letting a single algorithm go out and process data. There isn't yet an artificial intelligence algorithm that can just go out and do what it needs (unsupervised learning algorithm that works well). The currently available algorithms (supervised learning) require labelled data, and since there are millions of categories of things (that we as humans can percieve and so are useful to recognize), it would require at least a billion labellings of the data (1000 data labellings for each category).

The trouble with companies and groups engineers is that you would have to fund them, organize etc. and only a few groups would form (there are only an handful of video analytics companies probably, all of them probably do recognition of a handful of the same things).
Besides, the system advocated above is pretty simple, hardly any engineering in the sense of specialized technical skill is required. You would just collect and feed data into the classifiers. Others would combine data from classifers into yet more classifiers.
I don't usually downmod for it, but I generally find meta-discussion distracting. Saying something like "This might be controversial, but..." in place of "I'm going to get downmodded to hell for this, but..." just sounds more natural. Could anyone imagine saying the latter in person?

Also, reflecting on ones' comment usually leads to irrelevant commentary (like comments I come across with 10 points and an edit asking why they were getting downmodded). I mean... anybody could be voting on your comments.

I'd almost (but not quite) prefer it there was no visible point count and votes just factored into the sorting of comments on the server.
Explanation's not needed because, in general, it's simple. You got modded down because what you said was interpreted as contributing nothing. How can you say something and contribute nothing? There's many ways:

- Trolling (examples: "you're clearly a mac fanboy", "you want fries with that?")

- Be trite or redundant (examples: "lol", "i agree", "+1 interesting", "upmod parent")

- Personal attacks (examples: "I bet if you were him you'd say 'go away customer, I only write my software in Rails/LISP/Haskell'")

- Poor attitude (examples: "shut the f*ck up", "that's dumb")

- Being incoherent, in jest or in seriousness (examples: "mahler called, he wants his symphony back")

- Rambling on without saying anything (examples: "then i went to see my dentist, but that's a whole another story...")

- And, last but not least, disagreement. Theoretically, you will not be downmodded for saying something disagreeable. In practice, however, downmodding on disagreement does happen. Some misuse is to be expected, and all we can do is live with that.
Ahh that explains it. I too agree it was an amazing app. The competition is pure crap. Elements of the interface aren't centered, padded, etc... just simple things like that were thrown out the window and the app is disgusting to look at and use.

But now I know why :)
I mean if you downvote someone for saying congrats for the 46th time, as per GGP's post, you can just put "dupe" in the explanation, if such a system were implemented.
At 30 frames per second you would start to earn dollars in just a few minutes of video. The price of 1 dollar per thousand would actually be too high for most applications - there might be thousands of object recognizers applied to each image.
Well, Robert Morris is part of YC. I'm sure if anyone understands accidentally overloading a system because of programming curiosity, it's RTM.
Augh. That thread is a trainwreck in so many different dimensions.
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I think the reference to the old link was made to complete the joke for newcomers, not to tout credentials. That was a very old thread.
The screenshots of this app are horrible. It looks like whoever made it didn't use native iPhone GUI elements... the corners and edges of the toggle between SSH // Telnet // Raw TCP look like total crap. The text for the nickname, port, etc... seems to be squeezed a bit and it appears blurred (unless of course this is due to a photoshop edit later on).

And for $5... come on! PuTTY is free and open source, why isn't this too!

I upgraded to 2.0.1 and lost all my jailbroken functionality in exchange for stable and bug-free core features. I'm definitely going that route again once they catch up and release their latest Pwnage tool.
As somebody who is pretty new (a few months), I would have to say HN is THE BEST community I know of.

It actually blows my mind that the site is 100% public, most sites get trolls (or even just douche bags) no matter what, but all that is rare here!

Though its kind of a shame that it blows my mind when I find a community is civil 99.99% of the time, I wish the whole internet was like it... :)
I really don't understand the desire for a heavy and resource intensive IDE. Emacs + Unix is the best development environment I could ask for. Don't call me naive either, because I've worked in some big companies where the engineering team was on the same wavelength.

Emacs is lovely since you can customize it to your flavour of IDE intrusiveness.
Another application is in mobile phones that recognize objects, already being done in japan for certain objects in stores. There was also an application developed for the android platform that did some type of recognization of outdoor environments.
I understand developers wish to be rewarded for their effort but paying for a terminal program just seems so wrong.
I really think it would be better if we just got rid of karma per user or at least get rid of the leader board. It just encourages karma whoring and ends being counterproductive. Slashdot figured this out a long time ago.
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Especially one based off of FOS code!
A recongition task would take at most a second, to earn 100 dollars would require a little over a day of computing at that rate.
You know, more than a place to exchange interesting information, we are a community, and having that community congratulate a team for their success has value.
I don't think it adds any information. Nobody ever read even the first congratulations post and said "Oh! That's interesting!"

Second, if so many people do the same thing consistently and you're about the only one who seems annoyed by that behavior maybe you should reconsider your reaction? Maybe it was a more "light-earthed" thread so people were less strict about redundance.

Another commenter has mentioned doing the same thing in the same thread.
If noncompetes are such a bad idea, why are they so common?

It could be a Prisoner's Dilemma where everyone's defecting (a similar situation to hockey players voting for a rule mandating helmet usage, but not using them without the rule: http://www.econport.org/content/teaching/modules/NFG/Hockey....).

That said, I agree with you that there should not be laws about what contracts you can make. There's been plenty of harm from that.
Or maybe have a checkbutton "dupe" instead of just downmodding it.
You don't have to rebel, but you gotta resist.
I don't know. In normal interactions, I get the impression that the reasons for positive responses are a lot more honest than the reasons for negative ones -- e.g. "I already have plans," rather than "You smell like bark. All the time."

It would be helpful to know why people mod us down, but it might just make people bitter.
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Your version of B is actually distinct because it still requires the individual to explicitly limit his choices beforehand. It would still leave open an option for the following to happen,

A farmer after a poor harvest faces the prospect of starving to death, goes to a local landlord for money in exchange for which he becomes a bonded labourer for life. The next season he tries to run away. But the government, which operates under principle A, catches him and forces him to return to slavery.
I am uncomfortable with the government actually doing this and this is why i reject A.

There is an argument made in the context of minimum wage that it actually hurts the people whose work value is less than the minimum wage as employers wont hire them anymore. I am not arguing for or against minimum wage, but want to point out a counterargument which might work in the example given above.
When the landlord knows that if one person refuses slave labor in exchange for money, he can hire some else. But with a law forbidding such contracts in place, the landlord doesn't have this option. In effect, the law enhances the bargaining power of the labourer by restricting his options.

In effect, this is the same as the as argument pointed out in the thread above of there being a Prisoner's Dilemma.
I meant ability to convince people to do what one wants.
I've been thinking about that. It's not true of all fields. It's true of painters, but not mathematicians.

Maybe it depends on whether a field has a lot of fakers. Painting and VC both do. Math has few to none (I can't judge well enough to say for sure).
I am sure most users here are very smart and well mannered in real life, which translates in the way they behave here.

Another thing that helps is that from the start HN was seen as PG's baby. What does it have to do with it? Well, I think it helped attract like minded people. "Game recognizes Game"

For the first time in the history of entrepreneurship (at least for what I know) we had a successful person answer the "average joe"'s (like me)question 1 minute after he hits reply. I am sure everyone enjoys it when PG answers. Well, I did the few times it happened to me.

Other successful entrepreneurs quickly joined and started to interact with a community of smart, hungry, creative hackers and business guys. Do you see what I am seeing? All the banner ads and Adwords campaign in the world will not attract the same audience.

"When a few individuals were gathered in the name of Software, HN was born as democratized news and resources channel, the rest is History in the making and one better glad s/he is part of it".

EDIT: If you must have a resume or portfolio, you should most definitely add your HN username and link to it.
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Just tried out awesomehighligher, I found it really useful - would recomend it to my friends and workmates for sure.
No, I believe you need some small amount of karma. You needed 25 karma to downvote when I joined, maybe it's gone up.
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I'm not just looking for tech articles, there's DZone for that. Rather, what I value more from HN is the first person viewpoint, rather than the commoditized views channeled through a reporter/editor to serve a general audience, rather than one personally engaged.

That said, there are general audience articles that I think are significant because they reflect a viewpoint that's important to to entrepreneurs. But they're few enough among the submissions that I'm scanning URLs before I even click, tending to avoid NYT, businessweek, etc. since my experience is my time is better spent elsewhere. I can get the mass media viewpoints off my Wii. ;)
Average, maybe 2-3 months from Demo Day. But the range is wide, from a few days for a small angel deal to many months for a series A.
Good luck to them, I feel that they do not have any special advantages to offer vs. other colocation/hosting companies.
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Slinkset seems to be a poor medium for conducting polls since the results degrade over time (like Reddit) and that's not what you want in this case. I would have gone with something else for that purpose.
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If you can bypass the rules they don't count, eh?
I've noticed this too and tend to agree with your observation, but I don't think this is necessarily because certain people don't get or are not naturally talented in a specific subarea of mathematics.

My math professors told me that math majors tend to fall in love with the second upper-division math course that they take, because in the first one, you're still struggling with the details of moving from mostly computational to proof-based problems. Usually this first course is either real analysis or abstract algebra, and since all analysis and algebra classes tend to build on the fundamentals of these courses, this may show up in the subsequent classes that you take within these fields.
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My kingdom for the TAB key! Seriously, when you're using one of these little guys, be it Apple, Nokia, whatever, autocomplete is your friend! The tab key is always missing, or 3 clicks or taps away.
Designing rave flyers, DJing, and producing a public access show called VJTV.

I wanted a different life experience and refused to go dot-com.
I'm so glad to see Django inching closer to a real release. Their last release (0.96) is woefully old, so the only choice most developers have is to pick a random SVN trunk revision and develop against that. Deploying an SVN Head build of anything to production is just plain scary.
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I'd almost (but not quite) prefer it there was no visible point count and votes just factored into the sorting of comments on the server.

I actually thing that this is a fantastic idea because it would reduce the amount of "bandwagon voting" that sometimes seems to go on. When you see a comment with 40+ points, there's this strange compulsion to just chip in another. I guess its "back the winner syndrome" or something.
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With digital cameras anyone can take professional looking photos and we can bring in a lot of special effects on to our photos through digital manipulation. What is the use of all these? Are the photos that we take going to be developed and saved in the albums or as usual put one or two of those on to a photo stand and place it on to our study desk?
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Personally I think we should try to expand what we do with our community. We should do more in person meetups and hackathons. There is a lot of value in networking that shouldn't just be limited to those selected for ycombinator. We're a niche community and it stands to reason that we can all help each other. How cool would it be if people could find co-founders based on relationships formed from HN?
there's another app that sounds like it will have more features that's still in the app store approval queue

http://www.zinger-soft.com/

post by dev: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=5977302&postc...
Most mathematicians are "lopsidedly talented" in one area, typically that of their Ph.D. You rarely see modern mathematicians who are able to understand--much less make significant contributions to--current research in many different fields.
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Great idea. Start working on a prototype and make sure you apply in time for the winter YC session.
Being a programmer isn't necessarily a prerequisite for starting a tech company. Thoroughly understanding the technology you are pitching is though. If you don't have the technological knowledge base to do this, your chances of getting funding on your own are probably not very good.

Assuming you have a solid grasp of the technologies you wish to work with, and just not the implementation skills, you might try to develop a design of the concept first. This is as important for you as it is to anyone else.

Do you have the funds to hire a contractor to put together a small proof of concept? Or even complete the product? If you are looking for capital for marketing purposes, a finished product may go a long way to helping your cause.

Take everything I said with a grain of salt. I've been in front of investors a few times, but I am not a VC, so their opinions may differ.
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If there was justification for such a feature, I think this comment here just satisfied the use case.

That is to say, +1, lol, I agree, and upmod parent ;)
For the first, I know that it's true for me that if I don't actively create things, my ability stagnates. If I actively create things right at my skill level, I stay the same, and if I actively try to learn new methods to deal with problems my ability increases. If my ability were to stagnate far enough, all I would have left would be opinions about the methods that made up my previous ability. I could probably still argue in their favor, but not do much else than that.

For the second, it's a bit vague to me. I guess if you don't have much in the way of ability, you may start defining yourself by your opinions - which can lead to narrow-mindedness and exclusion because you are stuck in a mindset where your opinion is "correct" and have not experienced the other side of the debate, whatever it may be.

I'm pretty sketchy on my guess on that second one.

"I mean, I'm all for creating over not creating, but this sounds like feel-good but completely unsupported assertions."

You may be right, but I have the feeling that it has more to do with the format of twitter than anything else.

"(Also, are there any people who do not in fact create anything?)"

Unless you're speaking of the obvious physical limitations on "not creating anything", yes - tons of them.
I wonder if it would be against the NDA to write and distribute a targeted parser/rewriter that transforms a particular bit of FOSS code to something that runs on the iPhone?

You wouldn't be distributing your iPhone app's code. You wouldn't be distributing the FOSS code -- presumably it's already being distributed by someone else. What you would be distributing the source code for wouldn't be running on the iPhone.
I think you're defining artificial intelligence too narrowly.

If you branch beyond the classic uses (speech, vision, text-classification) to some of the things that have been more recently branded 'Collective Intelligence', there's really a large (and quickly growing) field out there.

Bayesian filtering is standard in anti-spam solutions, recommender systems and price modelers are huge in online shopping and rental verticals, and social networks are starting to use things like clustering to connect people.

AI is making some huge advances (especially in the past 2-3 years as the 'open data' culture gains steam and the tech catches up) and I think there's a lot of room for startups in the space serving niche purposes like custom recommenders, especially when you throw data-visualization into the mix.

Examples off the top of my head include Farecast, the airline backend at ITA Software, and some of the upcoming work in the automated rss recommender area.
"that all you need to spend is about 1 DAY in tinckering around, until you make both Windows and Linux as usable as your Mac."

you can turn windows into a unix in a day?

As for linux, I used it professionally for a few years and it is not as usable as a mac. One example is that I had to spend hours getting my sound to work again after an OS update on more than one occasion with linux.
Not even more pervasive advertising? Perhaps they could use the cash influx from an IPO to do more ads?
Ouch, that must really suck. They also could have been "the first iPhone terminal app" if they were just approved sooner.
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Well, explaining why you thought a point was wrong is a little different than trying to hide dislike or indifference towards a person. The former isn't personal.
If your reader is filtering noise from your signal, they're getting more out of your writing than you are.
The “Do Not Track List” is a VERY bad idea.
Almost bound to happen eventually in a collection of over 100 C programs. (Though, if someone knows of a shop that has a demonstrated reliable method to eliminate buffer overflow errors in their product, that would be dandy to know about.)
"... Everything is happening in the web browser now, and Microsoft completely dropped the ball there. I use Firefox now, and I have very little interest in an OS designed to run IE better ..."

Note the core of Dave Winers code is binary and runs on Windows & Mac. I think he means consumption and data.
Reminds me of coming across a guy who mentioned that he was in kindergarten when Kurt Cobain killed himself...

Jesus Christ, it was forteen years ago, and seems like yesterday. I'm getting old...
For moderation, Slashdot uses a menu that not only indicates the up/down vote but a one-word description for why. The author can then see a breakdown of their comment's score. That's quick and easy for the moderator, yet it gives good feedback to the author.

It would look far less minimalist than the up/down arrows, which for many would be a downside.
"... If your reader is filtering noise from your signal ..."

In the processing of writing you are filtering your own ideas into words. This for writers is the main benefit. Through writing you clarify your own ideas. The difference between brevity and verbosity between writers could indicate greater skill in writing converting the ideas into words.
Tell everyone who doesn't know that particles with even greater energy have been hitting the Earth for billions of years. So if something bad could happen from operating the LHC, it probably would've already happened.
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What service do you use to vidcast?
Very misleading headline - this is not opting out of ads, it is opting out of cross-site tracking. (By having an opt-out cookie set.)
limechat. ruby, gratis. not bad.
why can't you institute a consulting wing of the business?

might not be as fun as writing your personal stuff, but if 1 week of consulting will carry you for the rest of the month on personal stuff, why not?
hmm that's an idea. But I've found it's hard to do a full-time occupation (school/internship), keep the product side afloat, AND do consulting.

Plus, most clients I've worked with want sort of an ongoing commitment for the project, not like a week here or there kind of thing.
Disemvoweling tends to pique my curiosity. I'd like to puzzle out what's said and see what they were disemvoweled for. I think the color fading is a better technique for this reason -- there's no mystery, only muting.
The "Been Too Busy For [X]" books would probably sell well to pointy-haired boss types who have big egos and just want the "10,000 foot view."
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This plays a bit like an good user-made game made in my middle school obsession, ZZT. The sliding puzzles, rock reflection puzzles, simple inventory, and real-time fights could all be built easily in ZZT.