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ASE is a basically a scripting environment to automate tasks using python (or LUA, etc.) by running scripts.

You can write scripts and then launch them using the ASE.

This fails in a few ways, but the big ones are:

- You need the ASE installed to run your scripts.
- You can't make an 'app' with it, because there's no ui.

This lets you build a stand alone .apk using python including a user interface (well, opengl surface anyway); very, very neat.
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We're a tech startup in Vancouver. If you're interested in coming back to Canada, please look us up. We've build up our company to be very much like what you can find in the US (i.e. ownership, high quality of talent, cool things to work on). We're always actively hiring, and we compensate very fairly, since we know we're looking for the best hackers in the world. :)

Ya, I know this sounds like a pitch, but if anyone in the US is thinking of moving back to Canada, please contact us. We've written about our reasons for opening up our primary dev shop up here, and one of them was specifically for the really great devs that wanted a cool place to work in Canada.

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It might look like a social games development shop, but it's actually much more. ;)
It was a huge pain for me. Was considering going to an Apple store to get it fixed. I did the full "recalibration" technique, and I haven't had issues since then.

Granted, this is anecdotal. But at least for me, it did the trick. I have a iPhone 4 iOS 4.2.6, if that helps.
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Does anyone know if fb face recognition can actually work for all 800 million users or does its tagging do something like nearest neighbor to your friends which I imagine is a simpler problem.
Actually, here are the 100k tax rates for Waterloo, Ontario, Canada vs. SF, California:
Waterloo:

26% Federal + 11.16% Provincial = 37.16%
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/fq/txrts-eng.html

San Francisco:
28% Federal + 9.3%x(0.72) State = 34.7% <-- (9.3%x0.72 because you can deduct your state taxed amount in certain scenarios)

http://www.efile.com/tax-rate/federal-income-tax-rates/
https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/catxrate_exmpt07.shtml

Once you get above 174k/year, it's sill similar, with:

Waterloo:
29% Federal + 11.16% Provincial = 40.16%

San Francisco:
33% Federal + 9.3%x(0.72) State = 39.7%

So at 100k, Canadian taxes are very slightly higher higher, and is almost even at 174k.

If you're working at a startup, Canada may even be more advantageous because of how capital gains taxes are treated on privately held CCPC's. Also, you have health care. :)
You would opt into it implicitly just by having your pictures on Facebook. Not necessarily just by having an account, mind you; your friends might upload and tag pictures of you.

Yes, it would be a huge privacy violation. Facebook just likely wouldn't care.
Is this really a problem? I can't imagine taking a clear picture of a stranger's face rather than exchanging a few words and introducing myself.
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Right. Japan excels in robotics, but for a variety of reasons didn't excel in the particular type of robot needed in this instance.
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It's not that I believe them to be unwilling, not any more than I believe they would be unwilling to delete your account. I just am not convinced that they want to delete his account any more than they want to delete yours. All I know they want is for him to stop sending his robot.
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I'm still trying.

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edit It's more likely the cafeterias seat only 4,000. I guess that's better.
Thanks for the replies! Not sure if this changes anything, but here's a little bit more background info.

The business is web-based, but will not be profitable without a large amount of offline business development which the guy in question will be doing. It's also quite a niche business, and as this guy has previously run businesses in the industry he has the contacts/networks in place that stand to get this business off the ground.

Thanks for your input!
Except that you deduct your state/local income tax from your federal income tax.
"is this something you'd actually participate to as a player? Does this sound fun?"

Yes, and yes!

However, I really hope you have a solid grasp of the IP laws in different locales, and what "prior art" means in those locales. I don't and I suspect many HNers don't either. For instance, I often read on HN that the iPad isn't innovative, because it resembles the PADD communicator from Star Trek, calling that "prior art". I don't know, maybe it is. Maybe I can design a flying saucer, and I won't be able to patent it because hundreds of Sci-Fi movies provide prior art.
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Yes, it's infuriating. You'd think Google would want creative using it; I'm on the point of getting a used iPad 1 or something just to have some decent tools in portable form.
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> But I will say this, do you think this guy made up his post about using Ruby to try to write this game? If you don't think it fabricated, do you think he's alone?

I neither think his story is fabricated, nor do I think he's alone. (I didn't say I really thought your story was fabricated, either.)

> While I appreciate that none in your Ruby group would think this, I'd also ask why do they believe this?

I don't know that we would all choose C++, were we building a game, but the performance of Ruby is frequently a topic of discussion. We are lucky enough to have several members that have significant experience working with/around Ruby performance, and they share their knowledge. In other words, were you to choose one of us at random, we would more likely be able to tell you why Ruby is not a good idea, as opposed to why C++ is.
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China has plenty of social networking sites inside of China. China doesn't allow major foreign social networking sites, but they do allow minor foreign social networking sites.

Out of curiosity on that last sentence of mine, I just checked MySpace. It works. If the Chinese government doesn't even care to block it... how the mighty have fallen. :)
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It'd be great to see the iSight script if you're up for sharing. I also wonder what was wrong with your MBP, from the photos it looked like there was some initial activity and then a lot of nothing, then a final check and I guess they returned it fixed? Hilarious, thanks for sharing.
Probably doesn't matter. It'll be done by someone, somewhere (most likely a government).

Technology stops for no man and no laws. It may be time to start rethinking what we mean by privacy.
The whole presentation is superficial, I think that if we suddenly lobotomize whole population, the man made machines would not suddenly become smarter and more intelligent but physically would stay the same. Yes in some time after hypotetical dumbening of people, the new form of machines would dumben down too (because man would create worse and worse machines.), proving they are not really autonomously intelligent but its intelligence was tied with human intelligence. on 1:1 relation.
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I would bet this is true. That kind of processing is not insignificant but Facebook seems rather casual about it.
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He's performing in NYC on January 31st.
Haha good point. I worded that badly, I was adding to the list in general for other HN readers, not saying that you should actually add them to your post.
Edit: Your statement that you can deduct income tax is True IF you don't take the standard deduction. Basically in your deduction, you can choose to take the standard $5800 deduction, or deduct the total taxes you paid for california (at $100k, it is only marginally over $5800). At over 200k, you are likely to get hit with AMT, so the deduction would be limited.

I've updated the tax rates above to be more indicative of the adjusted rates in the best case scenario, but California vs. Canada is still VERY close.
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It's not nearly good enough for this. While I don't know what they're doing, it doesn't matter -- the state of the art in face recognition is far lower than what this requires.

I would also assume that Facebook's recognition performance is heavily dependent on the fact that everyone has a limited friend circle, because then the requirement is only that you can be distinguished among the few hundred or thousand people you've ever been photographed with, not the 100s of millions of users you haven't.

While not directly related (nor the method they are probably using), here's a project that describes how using others in your photographs can help recognition: http://lear.inrialpes.fr/pubs/2008/MV08/
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According to This American Life, it's an excerpt from "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs".

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Given the US Gov (and I'm fairly certain most other govs as well) has wiretapping laws in place (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_L...), I don't see why anyone would be surprised that the hardware providers also provide a mechanism to allow for tapping.
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Ok... since nobody else has commented I'm assuming this isn't very interesting to most people.

I at least found the read interesting. I admit, I disagree on a lot of points, but Google does need to work on their public image.

Instead of elaborating, if you've read the article, please reply with your reaction. (I'm not sure anyone will.)
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Until we shift the cash balance away from deep corporate pockets, it is going to matter little how involved people get in politics. Unfortunately, I can't see the kind of reform that would take (and I've seen at least one good idea for it) happening. Those corporate dollars have to much to lose if they can't be spent owning the government.

All hail your new corporate overlords. Makes me want to make my company be successful just so I can have a say in my government. :(
So, what if once you upload the "missed connection" photo, Facebook tags it with GPS and filters possible matches against your current location? That would narrow it down quite a bit. I assume they have enough GPS data from other users' photos and status updates to at least place them generally within a state or city at a given time.
Fair enough: perhaps I should have been more specific about the context and thought of a better title.
I'm not quite sure by what you mean by "this is true," but computation is not the bottleneck here. It's an unsolved research problem.
Asimo is a marketing toy. It wouldn't be able to navigate through a child's playroom, much less an environment full of hazards. The walking technology they are using is exactly one hundred percent wrong for anything "real world".

Looks great though.
It's not because it would not be wise to write a Gran Turismo 7 in an interpreted language such as ruby or python that writing any game with such language wouldn't work.
Not all games have such specific requirements as Gran Turismo 7 where huge teams want to extract the most power out of some very specific piece of hardware.

Nowadays it gets easier and easier to use interpreted language as the hardware gets more and more things delegated.
For some games, it may be better to do everything in C/C++, some others C/C++ with some interpreted language on top for some parts, and some others whatever language you prefer.

Given higher level language usually help you write code faster, I would definitely give up some performance (which is not really visible usually) in exchange for some efficiency. Even for some 3d game.
But then again, not everyone is writing the next Gran Turismo :)

Although I can't speak of ruby or its vm since I never used it, but have used python + OpenGL or pygame quite a few times.

In his case not only performance suffered too much from ruby but writing code in ruby didn't make him more efficient. So ruby didn't bring enough value.
This was discussed a bit in the Issacson book, both the NeXT factory being overdone and Jobs talking to President Obama about business in the US.
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Reasonable comments - thanks for the HN feedback. It's not for me to say if I'm an expert in Ruby or not, but I don't think attempting something to push some boundaries is mutually incompatible with experience or knowledge. If I'd succeeded, it would have been awesome for Ruby (far and away my favourite language).
Fair enough: thanks.
I'm not following how or why this is a leaky abstraction. My understanding of leaky abstraction is an interface or API that fails to mask the implementation details of it's functionality.

A library that does more than you want, without addressing your specific (and probably custom) application needs seems inevitable. I don't think that's a bad thing and I don't see how this library is any more insulated from that problem.
Reminds me of store self-checkout scanning machines. A lot of the time, they aren't actually faster than waiting in one of the staffed checkout queues—especially if they have a queue themselves, as customers operating the machines are inevitably less experienced at it than the cashiers are at operating the POS.

But people still prefer them. Why? I think it's a social anxiety thing. You don't want to think that you're wasting someone's time on your goods—showing them what you've bought, having them fuss over each item and acknowledge that you bought that—when you could instead check yourself out in relative anonymity. You don't have to make any small-talk, or even take out your headphones if you don't want to. It's really about eliminating the "friction" of the social norms involved with the manual checkout process as much as it is about automating anything.
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That's a shame: I didn't mean to come across like that. I love Ruby: it's far and away my favourite language. Anyone reading the rest of my blog can see that very quickly.

And I'm not sure Ruby will be the wrong tool forever: there just isn't a way through some of the environment and implementation issues (yet).
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Very interesting. I wonder if it allows interaction with existing Android libraries / capabilities (eg. for building UIs) or if it's separate.

Also, would be great if there was a sample app to download and try so one can get a sense of what the final product looks / feels like.
Curious, I realize this is a node module, but is there any reason I couldn't be run directly in the browser (I'd go through the code and try it myself, but it's bed time for me).
I think the author's problem is not choice of language, but rather choice of architecture. He notes that he was passing a lot of float objects between Ruby and C, eating up valuable garbage collection time. The problem here is not the bridging of Ruby to C, but rather the wrong choice of data structure and design. Ruby should pass high level requests to the (C-based) rendering backend; instead of passing "push a vertex at (1,2,3)", the requests should be like "draw a spaceship at (1,2,3) flying forward with velocity vector (1,1,0)". The means you're going to be writing the core of your game in C, but things like AI and level design will all be handled in Ruby. (I think pretty much every commercial game works like this.)

Another thought is to treat simulation and drawing as separate concerns. Every 1/60th of a second, interrupt the simulation and draw the current state to the screen. This means that you can do things that take more than one frame to calculate without reducing the framerate. (Does Ruby have a good coroutine library?)

Rewriting your entire game because your design is bad is silly. Switching to C++ just makes your mistakes less obvious. (And now you'll be debugging memory leaks and segfaults instead of slow frames. If only there was One Perfect Tool...)
I looked at this, but the stop the world GC would still kill the frame rate from time to time sadly. Also there's a large amount of inefficiency in the object translation layer between the two languages.
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> However, we're not good at figuring out what we want in life and thus not spend time on leisure, family, hobbies, and things that are fun. Instead, we seeks certain job because they're prestigious, buy things merely for status symbol effect, and so on.

Doesn't that just mean that "what we want in life" is status?
One of the nice things about going back from Ruby to a C language is, it's hard to think of anything you could do in the C language that would be as non-performant as Ruby. As slow as ObjC's collections are, they're faster than Ruby's.
One thing nobody has mentioned is also that most Waterloo students come out of there with more money than they had going in. No crippling student loans to deal with. Co-op terms aren't just great experience they also pay quite well.

(Unless things have changed, I graduated in 1993 and this was the case back then)
Of course, there are modern big companies that fix some of the problems, but that is another mess altogether.
Yeah, thought about it (Gosu was great for getting started), but decided I wanted to get back to fundamentals and switch to a slightly lower level framework to aid my understanding of what's really going on under the hood.
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I'm not really arguing whether he's using "worst" in the right way, because it can always be worse.

I'm pointing out that what he does, and what he says he does, are opposites.

Perhaps we miss the point because he's not clear about it and isn't describing it accurately?
This is incredible storytelling and is very humanist. I'd really recommend listening to it. We use these devices everyday and don't even think about it.

Here's an article from Gizmodo about an undercover journalist: http://gizmodo.com/5542527/undercover-report-from-foxconns-h...

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do you have a substantive critique to link to or should I take it on faith that such a thing exists?