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I've been using acme for a long time (previously vi was my editor of choice). One property of acme that I think isn't so obvious is the way that text becomes higher-order, in the same kind of way that S-expressions in Lisp are higher-order.

Much of the power of Lisp comes from the fact that the result of executing an S-expression is also an executable S-expression itself, so programs that write programs become trivial.

This property is true of acme too - we execute text with a middle-button click or drag, and the command that's executed can produce more text, which is itself executable text.

Thus I can extend the functionality of acme by writing tiny shell scripts that print useful commands. I can run a command that produces a list of stuff, use structural regexps to transform that stuff into an acme command, then execute that to transform something else.

The power of structural regexps combined with proper Undo/Redo is also great - rather than pipe something through sed or awk, I'll often iteratively build up an expression or set of expressions that perform some particular one-off transformation, rewinding and retrying as necessary.

I could go on!

Acme certainly isn't perfect, but it is wonderful.
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Maybe they need to tackle the underlying drug problem, rather than twitter fix it's downtime problem? The world revolved before twitter, and it will continue to revolve long afterwards.
You don't want EC2, you want AWS Elastic Beanstalk. However it only supports Java, .NET and PHP: http://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/
Those words were indeed ill-considered; the concept dates at least into the English Bill of Rights about a century before the US one -- and of course it was also a value in the French revolution.

However, the point of the comment you're replying to still stands. If I merely say "We will only maintain a business relationship if you stop saying X, Y, and Z," then turning down that business relationship is not a free-speech issue. My sending you money to change the way you speak is not an abridgement of your freedom of speech, because accepting it is purely voluntary. It might be a matter of "selling out" but it's not a matter of "freedom of speech."

Cf. the FunnyJunk/Oatmeal debacle happening right now, where there was a tangible legal threat: "Take down your blog post or I will sue the crap out of you. Oh, and pay me thousands of dollars."
Is this really Eric Schmidt? How do we verify a Plus account?
The images from anywhere in orbit won't be in real-time - users will pick a spot in the upcoming orbit where they want the picture to be taken (and frame it using a 3D model with a simulated image of what you'll be able to see in that place in orbit), and if they see something they like, they add that image to the capture queue. Once the satellite gets there, it will snap the picture and download it next time it gets in range of a ground station.

If you'd like, maybe I can put the link budget calculations on the Kickstarter?

Cheers,
Joel
I think this is the most important aspect of this paper. Throwing more computing power at the problem increases performance significantly. It is possible that our algorithms are adequate but our hardware is not.
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What you say - if you think the info in the book is actionable, you could have answered my question with "yes".
There is an issue open[1], looks like a fix is in the works.

1. https://github.com/wooga/Pocket-Island/issues/2
Thanks for your insight. I guess as an Aussie I'm used to seeing a slightly different amount (usually within $1) of the quoted USD for a transaction... however maybe US users are different. In any event, I think given that my own business is only just launching I'll have to go the less than pro route of offering paypal along with direct payment (in AUD) and hopefully that will garner me enough business to start looking into direct USD transactions.
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The commercial GPS sensor is more for testing on the receiver properties, it won't give location data. Location data will come from a space-rated GPS we have in the bus.

As long as you're below the GPS constellation (at around 26000 km: http://www.navipedia.net/index.php/GPS_Space_Segment), and you use a GPS that doesn't have the altitude restriction, you can use it for orbit location determination.

Cheers,
Joel
I read about two pages of the article and there was nothing of the sort you describe, just anecdotes. Not even real anecdotes, more like atmosphere descriptions. Apparently it gets better, but I simply can not read every long winded opinion piece on the internet. If their message is important, they should aim for a more concise writing style.

The only indicator that it might be worthwhile to read is a couple of people here claiming it is important. But there are also people who claim reading the bible is important. I was simply asking for some convincing reasons to invest my time into reading that article.
I think much of this is overhyped as well, but I disagree that whether modeling human brain structure is relevant. The term "neural network" has historical baggage (responsible for some of the hype), but these days refers to a class of mathematical approaches with only historical connection to "neurons". Those can be interesting on their own for AI purposes, and imo accurate modeling of the human brian, while interesting for neuroscience research, is not necessarily the way forward for AI research.
I agree, and getting used to using j/k for up and down also offers the advantage that a lot of web apps are supporting it recently.
It is in gmail, google+, github, google reader and probably more, having the habit of using j/k for navigating really helps.
Do you have a link that explains what exactly a "three bid system" is? The top hit on Google for the term describes a card game...
Every endangered language we can categorize is an insight into our more primitive selves. Languages reflects so much of a society's culture, and so many of these languages come from isolated areas that have had little contact with the developed world.
Nope, it's usually something done to you.

Whether or not victims could overcome their actual victimhood through some intense effort on their part is a different question.
Interesting to see how the pitch improved when the explicit problem statement and value proposition were dropped. Those are instead implied in the single-sentence pitch, which I guess partly is what prompts the "How?" question.
"last company was in computer vision."

Did you sell, leave or did it fail? Why? I have some ideas that I think are novel applications of computer vision, and just within the range of what's feasible, but it seems that most computer vision applications look like that at first, and then after 90% done find out that the second 90% is exponentially harder and, realistically, infeasible. How could I test my ideas against that? Or am I asking from wrong premises?
They are feeding 10M frames from random YouTube videos, 1 frame per video. Only 3% of 60x60 patches from those frames contained faces
Its definitely possible to create a successful life style business for the founders and earn a good to great profit - but its hard to make the numbers work enough to grow past a few employees or get an exit.

Most small mom and pops are complacent about their problems. They either don't realize a solution exists, aren't actively looking for solutions, or are content with their inefficient work-arounds. This means you have to seek them out and sell them directly, whether its by phone, email or walking into their business - some products require a combination of the three.

You have to charge enough to pay a sales person, reinvest in the company and probably pay your own (and any other founders) living expenses as well.

If you're bootstrapped its likely you can only afford to pay a small salary (usually not even that though) plus commission. This means you cant pay enough to attract talented sales people, so you either get the bottom of the barrel or you get someone inexperienced who will leave the second they find a job that will earn them more money.

If you are charging a one time fee, its extremely hard. A subscription service is much more doable. Even then, you have to be charging $xxx-$x,xxx/month - and unless its a SERIOUS pain point its likely the small business could/should/will spend their money more wisely somewhere else.

- I've started one b2b SaaS company targeting small businesses and worked at another in the same industry.
AMEN.

ICANN's failure to abolish TLDs entirely simply confirms what we already know: It's a scam organization, dedicated to doing essentially nothing except setting up as many of these rip-offs as possible. First there was the $60K rip-off for registrar applicants (even when they were rejected), and now this even more offensive money-grab.
So true ... Programmers should be lazy and write the minimum amount of code. This goes hand in hand with Larry Wall's virtues of a programmer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Virtues_of_a_program...
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Here's a better link to the actual project.
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/

This is really awesome. One of my good friends is a linguist, and when I first started learning about languages, I couldn't figure out what all the hype was about. Yeah languages are dying... So what? A single language where I could communicate with anyone in the world would be the best, wouldn't it?

A language is like a toolbox for idea transmission, we want to share what we see on the inside, and language is one of our best ways to do it. It's the most universal, it's one of the first things we learn, and it has the ability to incite the most powerful imagery (books vs. a movie).

Say a language is the average mean of a group of people's ability to speak to one another. These people were likely geographically isolated and their language developed on it's own, they saw things in the world and described them with their language. Their culture, their ideas, their perceptions of the world are all encoded into their language. When all the native speakers of a language die, we lose more than just the language, we lose the insights that the language carried, a language that was likely crafted over many thousands of years.

Take for instance color blindness. Attempt to explain to someone with color blindness what colors look like. It will never work, they will never experience what you experience, but they can share your experience through your description of colors, they can imagine what the world could be like if you give a good enough description. We lose analogies for human thoughts when languages die, and if we ever want to begin to understand what a consciousness is, preserving these analogies is an absolute necessity. We could wonder for millions of years whether or not a language could ever come to be that didn't have counting words, but luckily we found the Piranha[1] that do just that [2]. It's like all the species we're losing in the rain forests, what if the cure for cancer was present in one of the now-extinct mushrooms? What if we never could find the cure for cancer because we just didn't have that mushroom? It likely won't happen for cancer, but for consciousness we need every piece of information that we can get.

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_...

[2] http://phys.org/news/2012-02-math-words.html
From the article: "It is worth noting that our network is still tiny compared to the human visual cortex, which is 1,000,000 times larger in terms of the number of neurons and synapses."
I only recently started using but I'm still using it in it's "trial" mode, was planning to purchase later but your point actually makes me wonder. So far tho, it's been excellent and for my needs - amazing replacement for my previous IDEs, yes I know, technically ST2 isn't a "full IDE" :)
You'd be surprised at how little precision this much computing power gets you, even on very basic classifiers. If anything, working on this kind of stuff has given me an appreciation for just how far away the singularity may be.
I think between themselves doctors and carpenters do talk about their jobs?

Besides for many people programming is their hobby. And hobbysts generally talk about their hobbies a lot.
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Babies can outperform any CV model with less data than that.
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This is such a tired bunch of FUD. Domain names are no different from any other conveyance of trademark.

Corporate entities already have all kinds of specialized domains that could be bullshit. Verizon Wireless's is vzw.com. What does that tell the user? Jack diddly.

Limited TLDs should be abolished. If you can't be bothered to read the name of the domain or type it in correctly, then don't shop online. Good luck with that new Louise Vuiton purse, BTW.
"and studying ML for a few months"

Could anyone with expertise say if this would be enough to build a foundation? How much math background do you need?
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Really fun, you should introduce it on April 1.
My understanding is that it is simply a closed bid system where three separate banks submit bids (interest rate that will pay on sums invested with them) with the highest one winning.
What are you trying to say? The argument that "everyone knows it's crooked" does not make it legal. It does not make a prosecution impossible.
"I use it for some piddly shit because that's what it's good for."

The bigotry from this community when it comes to PHP has left me sick to my stomach.
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scotty79 means to showing a human only the 10 million 200x200 images. We probably see a lot more than that, in 3D from different perspectives with continuity in motion, and in a lot more detail and possibilities for filtering.
I appreciate your response, and appreciate that Reddit existed at the time it did. I'm willing to believe that this level of deception was necessary to allow that existence, and thus the net result was positive. I'm not trying to be holier-than-thou: I'm sure I've done worse, and in your position, I might have done the same. Still, I do view this as cheating, as deception.

I worry that if people "bend the rules" in cases like this, they are likely to bend other rules that will cause harm to me and others. I'm very leery to do business with anyone who appears to boast of prior deceptions, as I have to presume they will attempt to deceive me in the future. I probably shouldn't have used the word "crime", but as with attracting subscribers with false profiles on a dating site, I'm not certain that it shouldn't be one.

I don't mean to single you out in particular. Talking about what's necessary to get a site like that going is better than everyone doing it in silence. I guess my real worry is that it's all a downward spiral, with ever more egregious tactics necessary to make a site stand out from the crowd. Maybe it's just a convenient excuse for my personal relative lack of success, but I've never been comfortable with the moral compromises that being in business seems to require.
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I loved the photo of the Hudson River sunset.

But generally, maybe you can swap out "mediocre photos" with "better" ones either by yourself, or by others who gave you permission? Not because your photos are so bad, but because there are sweeet photos out there, from photographers who would love to help / show off - and photos that "say something" would help drawing people in, and keeping them reading.

I'm thinking of the Luminous Landscape (google it, explore it, wear it like a funny hat) here, which tends to have articles that explain something, and then a photo that illustrates the technique -- but without talking a whole lot about that specific photo. Maybe you can draw some inspiration from that, and try to "decouple" the photos and the articles if you will?

I'm saying this because I LOVE the general idea of the site, and that it's without clutter (though personally I think the font sizes are a bit huge). It's bookmarked to help out newbies when I run into them; now if you kindly could turn it into the best there could possibly be? Thanks :) I like what you're trying to do, and wish you all the best doing it.

Oh, and I think the whole point about art is a bit, uhm, besides the point. Yes, if you want to make great photos you don't read about shutter speed -- at the same time, if you want to learn about shutter speed a book of art photographs is perfectly useless, too :P
Whoa there. I merely questioned the notion that simply educating everyone will solve all of our problems. I was implying that there's a lot more to it than that. Look at the media industry, for example - we have developed technology which makes information freely accessible to everyone yet we have a considerable amount of resources being thrown at locking that down, which makes no sense in the grand scheme of things.

I agree that education is a must, but it's also about addressing the social structures we currently have in place and recognising that they will fight tooth and nail to keep things the way they currently are.
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There may be some confusing to tea beginners about the names of various teas. Sometimes a tea maybe have different names on different websites. For example, Iron Goddess of Mercy Oolong Tea is also being called Tie Guan Yin or Ti Kuan Yin.

Here is a list of the tea names to share with every tea enthusiast. You will no longer worry about the tea names by using this lists.(include How is Tea Classified, About Tea Name List)
great read - but in the process of painting a peachy picture for the future, he glosses over a huge core problem that pakistan has. The fact that a significant part of its identity is based on being the anti-india.
While I think credit cards have great benefits (see stevenwei for an excellent summary), getting the card does have a consequence in my experience: every card I've ever had has an annual maintenance fee (perhaps not the case in the USA?).
Yes I wish I'd done that 2 1/2 years ago!
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I thought that the best so far was simulating 1/2 a mouse brain compextity at 1/2 speed.
Actually, that is not just a thesis at some point in the future, that is an active field of study and has been since the 1980's. Some keywords are "machine ethics" and "AI rights". One of my friends wrote his PhD (in the 'real' sense, i.e. from a philosophy department - just to say that this is not (only) a CS topic) thesis about a question related to this in the early 80's.
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I wonder, if you wrote a program, that generates all valid javascript programs, given enough time, do you automatically have copyright on all these programs? Or do you need to actually run the program and save the results somewhere?
The "check" icon next to the name on the profile page: http://i.imgur.com/Jzg8Y.png
The following article by a Pakistani-Indian is a good read and explains the fundamental problem that Pakistan faces. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230491110457644...
I strongly doubt that. I think babies have much richer input than any CV system up to date. In my opinion movement is crucial for understanding image.
What about a creative approach to the problem coupled with questioning our basic assumptions - why should anyone be relatively poor in the first place? Do we really need money in a high resource environment? When society is, in effect, dependent on everyone doing their part then why should someone be poorer just for the part they play? Why do we not run more social experiments on different ways of structuring things? We could section off a few islands and let the idealists create their perfect societies on them and see who does best. We could take lessons from those experiments and integrate them into mainstream society.

I'm just saying, education has been improving steadily over the last century yet the wealth gap has increased. It's clearly only one element of the solution.
My impression of Fee Fighters was pretty low before I read this, but after reading your apology I can't even begin to imagine how terrible this company must be.

It's one thing for them to disregard the utter failure of letting a billing service unattended and broken for three weeks, but another thing to contact their clients and force them into a public apology. The tone of your message ("I'd also like to apologize to Sean and the team for not trying harder to contact them personaly...") really makes it seem like you're being threatened here.
By "silence" I meant only image, no other input for example no labeling images in any way.
Anarchism!
So the good solution is make a test that finds it out, for example in configuration script and set proper preprocessor constant and test that constant instead.
> scotty79 means to showing a human only the 10 million 200x200 images

Then, what kind of thing are you measuring? Recognizing patterns ? We know humans are very good at that. We can see thousands of different people everyday but we can recognize in the blink of an eye a familiar face. A computer or computer network is very, very, very far from being able to do that yet.
Wow, this is so hacky and yet so cool :)
Instinctively I know I must have misread or misunderstood something, but...

"$4000 a month is about twice the amount it takes to pay for my entire family’s living expenses. It’s also enough to pay the mortgage on a $900,000 house, "

How does $48000pa pay for a $900,000 mortgage? Old skool was 3x your income. Pre-crash, 5x was possible. This is 20x (ish).

What blindingly obvious point have I missed?
"This bug report highlights the problems you run into if you use it for serious work"

Why? Because they fix bugs that break backwards compatibility? What's your point? That to do "serious work" you need a language that never changes or that you need a language that gets everything right the first time?

Of course can do whatever you want in PHP, you just need to account for its faults and shortcomings. If you cant do that, no language is going to save you.
That's true for the military complex he mentions and the government. The middle class is less about 'anti-India' and more about keeping up with the Joneses. There is often a feeling of "we could be where India are right now" if we simply weren't embroiled in internal corruption scandals and government overthrows.

Of course, when it comes to a cricket match between the two, you're spot on.
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