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World Lens is able to do this real-time on live video.

Not for Polish, they're not. They also sadly don't support my beaten-up old ZTE Blade. Google translate has them beaten for both.

Edit: regarding the "everything is free" philosophy, I would glady pay for Word Lens. If it ran on my phone. And supported Polish. Neither of which I see as being terribly likely in the future. goes on rant about how much I'd pay for a Polish lexicon in a format I can run some fun statistics against
That's the only way to make the argument, though, which seems to speak to the validity in and of itself.
There are a lot of interesting signals for web spam and poor web content. I don't know if this one is very good. In particular I see this scenario:

1) Google algorithmically genreates take down notices on youtube, they move this over to search results.

2) Algorithms 'err on the side of caution' with regard to fair use.

3) Every page that quotes or excerpts a copyrighted work gets flagged.

4) So Google 'manually' makes exceptions for sites they strongly believe won't engage in poor behavior (NY Times, Techcrunch, whatever)

5) No new web site that reviews products or provides critical analysis ever makes it to Google's front page.

That might be a stretch, the auto-flag stuff on YouTube is out of control, and then trying to use that as a signal in results is just inviting abuse. Black hat SEOs are malicious enough without dealing with 'Copyright joejobs'

[ Full disclosure: I work at a search engine blekko.com ]
You'll like the Chromebook solution then. Flip a hardware switch and you can boot whatever you like.
Speaking of deteriorating Google search results, my latest peeve is when a search shows dozens of results from the same domain. There used to be the much more sensible "show more results from this domain" link. I have a hard time imagining why Google thinks the new way is better, my guess is some designers wanted to remove the link because they thought it was "cleaner".

More signs that designers, lawyers and MBAs are moving to the fore forcing engineers out of the way at Google Search.
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I think the Opera Unity approach is probably the best for this; perhaps such peernets will have their day.

I see the Unity approach being popularise via social networking (https://alicious.com/opera-about-to-change-the-world/) enabling users to retain control over their data and shop for suppliers to present a front-end to unify the data-streams of their associates.
Walmart does this currently - charges different prices at different stores - changes them daily. Their data is collected from:

- Their Sam's club loyalty card program (different chain of wholesale stores)

- Trending sales sorted by demographic

Also helps them potentially pay off suppliers sooner, but they hang on to the money for 60 days, and instead use the data for just-in-time inventory ordering (i.e. their bills are paid well in advance of them being due because of this process in place).

More information on this process is outlined in their financial statements, available on SEDAR.
Make a prototype, make a decent video of the prototype in action, collect pre-sales on kickstarter to fund a first manufacturing run, scale up production until your market is saturated, re-invest profits into the next invention.
Thanks, but the chrome on my iPhone/iPad leaves something to be desired
I've still got faith that with enough patience the editor itself can be made ubiquitous.

Pentadactyl is perfect because it creates it's own verbs. Once you grok that a tab is it's own buffer it works as supplement to vim, not as replacement.

The rest is all zshell/vim.
This is fantastic - I tried it just now for Polish => English, and the interface is very good, letting you highlight parts of the image that you want translated.

Until now, when I've found a notice that makes no sense to me, I've resorted to taking a photo and then translating with a dead-tree dictionary once I got home. This app is going to make it a lot more difficult not to give in to temptation and cheat with Google.

Whilst Google's Polish translations are pretty bad, they do the job for translating random verbs, which give you enough. Something about using sitting down with a paper dictionary helps the words stay in my head though.
Massively risky. It always is when your proposition is 100% reliant on someone else's with no promises or contracts. What happens if Stripe suddenly say no (a la Padmapper), or they make their own? Just saying.
My first reaction on hearing this is the by demoting unauthorized content they will end up indirectly promoting authorized content.

And I don't know how I feel about this. From what we've seen with Youtube where unwarranted claims have taken down videos very much under fair use, I don't want Google automatically demoting search results because of a claim made by another party.

I foresee this causing no small amount of contention.
If somebody left a sticky saying "stay the hell out of my code" I'd reply "code it so nobody ever has the need to even think about it"; Which would be the polite reponse. You learn so much from others code, what to do and what not to do.

Remember once doing a lovely JSP COBOL program only to have it butched into something with goto all over the place. Turned out that was the standard, no matter how right or wrong, standards help for consitency. Now if you have wild cards who end up obviscating there code, just to stop people touching it then they need help or you will only end up needing alot more help later on when things go wrong and they will. So politicaly the best way and just winning move is to push the standards and if they don't have any then you instigate them. Always some higher up manager who will easily be be swayed, especialy if you can say it will help to eventualy get some standard like BS5750 or ISO9002 or whatever the flavour of the month is on that front. Remember code motivates the CPU, but what motivates your company managers to do the right things. office politics is alot easier when you get it fighting itself and you can just get on with what you like doing peacfuly.
One way would be to take a course on a topic that uses linear algebra heavily, rather than taking a generic linear algebra course. Since all the ideas from linear algebra are then being used to actually do something, you'll get at least one example for why you would use whatever it is.

I would suggest trying these videos: http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/ee263/videos.html. The prerequisites are very low and a main focus is on interpreting the abstract concepts in applications.
...use some inferior readline clone.

I hear that. At some point Ubuntu screwed up and linked the MySQL client with libedit instead of readline, which has caused me much wailing and gnashing of teeth. Don't get me started on all the ways Ubuntu / Debian has fucked up the packaging of MySQL.
Allowing lenders (or providing greater incentive for them) to modulate rates on loans based on (a) the institution attended, (b) the major chosen, and (c) individual performance metrics, e.g. GPA, would be a solid step towards resolving education debt insolvency.

This could be achieved by switching government subsidies from loan guarantees to payment-share plans by which the government pays a portion of each payment but ceases to do so in case of default. These loans should be absolvable in bankruptcy - an immature decision made in one's adolescence shouldn't be a lifelong burden. Thus, the credit risk is retained by the lender while financial impact lessened on the student.

Unpopular as measures radically increasing costs on liberal arts majors may be, the present situation is a clear example of artificially locked markets producing inefficient outcomes.
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> I support environments that enable and encourage the production of new creative works

And when something comes along that makes it so easy to share/steal those creative works? What do you do to it?

It easy to say "I support free speech and the internet", "I don't support government surveillance of it's citizens" and "environments that enable and encourage the production of new creative works" because saying those things is meaningless.

Where do you stand when those things come in conflict with each other and tradeoffs need to be made?
I think you might be missing the point that he's trying to make, which is that having the Lua VM is one thing, and great and everything, but you do still need some interface to the raw devices - input/output - to make use of it in any sense.

You can't build a user-application with the basic Lua VM in any fashion other than as a command line tool. If you want more sophisticated GUI, you do have to wrap it somehow to get this working in the context of the Lua VM.

(Disclaimer: I'm currently developing professionally using the MOAI toolkit..)

There are plenty of solutions to the problem of not having a GUI/user-interaction built-in, of course - you can emit .png files, or you could get raw framebuffer support somehow, or you could even interface to the native GUI .. but all of this has to be done extra, its not something that works, out of the box, with the basic Lua VM ..
w3schools.com is a questionable resource, at best. (The most compelling thing they could teach is SEO...)

See: w3fools.com
Nice one Kirill. Looks great. Looking forward to seeing where you can take this.

Lots of luck

Holger, Co-founder of http://meer.li
There isn't really a 'break into the business' there is a process for filing a patent. You can look it up at uspto.gov. There are filing fees etc, they have been reduced for 'small' inventors courtesy of the JOBS act. Generally the application in by registered mail, and then answering all the questions that come back is sufficient. If you pay an attorney to do that its about $20K these days but it can be done for much less than that on your own. The risk you take by doing it on your own is that you don't write claims in your patent that hold up when challenged, or allow people to avoid your patent while still implementing your idea.
Heh yeah, that is amusingly unaddressed
There are few inventors a la Da Vinci nowadays because our society is based on industrial standards, and as such, rewards specialization.

The most innovative work will come from people spanning multiple areas of human knowledge: informatics and biology, chemistry and physics, sociology and medicine...
You are assuming that having takedown notices does not correlate with a lack of quality. I don't have any inside information about this change in particular, but I'd guess that is a bad assumption. I'd bet that indeed, this signal is useful to predict search quality on some set of traffic, and that's why Google is using it.

There tends to be a high bar to meet to push out search quality changes at Google.
I tried to use the Mint .debs on my system (Ubuntu 12.04-amd64) but there was a dependency to libc6-amd64, which I didn't feel like fixing, so I downloaded the sources, opened the project in QT Maker, built the project and ran it. Works fantastically, and its nice to have a look at the sources too ..
Misleading title IMHO. Because it wasn't best advise, it was opposite. The bottom line: stay out of the companies/jobs that give you that advise/attitude.

Guy did his job, he didn't dig in the code to look others stupid. He had a very crappy task to go into sewage, find problem and fix it. Yes, there were programmers that knew why it was slow and had other priorities. Well, his priority was to fix it. Not to mention he worked on weekend and evenings.
I just said that 50% of Americans don't pay Federal taxes and about the same amount are on the receiving end of benefits / entitlements. I never called them freeloading losers, I simply stated that those kind of economics are not sustainable.
I found it thought provoking, but I am not sure I agree with the classifications he arrived at. People sure do love putting names on things and classifying things into buckets!

I did find it interesting that he considers himself a liberal (both in software and politics), then then goes on to create a "type system" categorization for programmers (and programming languages) to be placed into.
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In your example, if both developers are using TABs instead of spaces, why would it matter that one sees it as 5 spaces and the other as 8? It's still just a single TAB character either way.

Plus, each developer has the freedom to choose how many spaces a TAB is - I like 8 when I'm using my big monitor, but I prefer 4 on my laptop. With TABs, I can see it both ways depending on the machine.

On the off chance that I'm ever actually editing in a smaller window, I can even set it to 2 characters instead, but when I open that file again on another machine, I can see it as 4 or 8 characters.
Oh wow, I didn't realize they weren't affiliated with the W3C. Thanks for the heads up.
A constant state of curiosity is essential for "invention". The article gave me a sense of smugness that wouldn't let one sustain such a mental state.

Now, I'm off to get my antidote fix of Richard Feynman ;) !
You seem confused. Perhaps I was not clear enough. Let me reiterate.

Companies hire people to make things or provide services if the company believes it can sell those products or services. If, for example, a company is making 100 widgets a day and selling only 50 widgets a day, the company will not hire new employees at any salary, even a low one, because it already has more widgets than it can sell. If a window-washing company has 6 window washers, and enough work to keep only 3 of them busy, it will not hire a 7th window washer, even at a low salary, because he'll just join the other 3 guys that are already sitting around the office doing nothing. In fact, if that state of affairs is projected to last for a while and laws don't prevent it, he'll fire 3 of the window-washers he already has. As soon as people start wanting window-washing and there is too much work for 6 window-washers, a 7th will be hired.

Unemployment is thus driven by demand for goods and services. The supply of workers is immaterial. Companies don't hire extra workers just because they're cheap.

The U.S. has high unemployment across all sectors. There are no sectors that are booming. Thus, retraining yourself doesn't have any immediately useful benefits during the current recession. ALL fields are slumping.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/opinion/27krugman.html
Where did you go to school!?
Windows phone translator app from Microsoft does the same thing and works very good... Probably there is a third party app on iOS that does the same thing.
Yes, education is our generation's (18-30) problem.

Schools are lousy and degrade basic skills, as well as degrading deep cultural literacy and history. Idiots are held as heros. College costs are skyrocketing and dysfunctional buildings are being built by the colleges. The list of problems could go on... reams of paper have been spent documenting them.

Yes, there's a problem. I argue the essence of the problem is the deification of money.
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I'm currently building something pretty similar to Aviary using Adobe's Scene7 technology, and Aviary seems like the best looking all-around image editor I've found. Do you have any examples of file-upload/edit tools that look better?
The main thing is that the rover only has about 8 minutes a day to transmit to the orbiting satellites.

The optimal thing would be a satellite in areostationary orbit over Mars' equator such that it is always reachable by the lander.

Unfortunately such a satellite wouldn't be well-placed for many other potential landing sites.
That's inaccurate. We have corporate cultures which value the possession of a certificate of achievement, not a culture which values education.

Depending on the survey you have up to 50% of the US denying evolution. A process that is clearly evident without any leaps of faith. That's not indicative of a culture that values education. There are many other aspects of math, science and technology that large swaths don't understand or misunderstand that would not occur if education were truly valued.
People still pay for movies, music, and SW today, so our current balance still creates economic rewards for production, despite piracy. Would you call our society today a "SOPA-style surveillance system" ?
I wonder what the secondary incentive effects of this will be. I see three possibilities:

1. Encourage copyright owners to send more takedowns to Google Search, since those takedowns will be "more powerful".

2. Encourage targeted sites to send more counter-notifications since a Google Search takedown has an effect on an entire site's ranking, not just a particular link.

3. Encourage shared sites (hosting providers, etc.) to shut down particular users or areas that get a lot of Google Search takedowns, to stop the spillover effect on the rest of the site.

I don't know which of these effects will matter the most, but I suspect at least one of them will be behind a significant unexpected consequence of this change.
To be fair this is exactly the same as it has always been. Google provides exclusive features for its services via private APIs that only Android can use. Everyone else has to use the public API, including Apple. As a result Google-developed applications for their services that can utilize those private APIs are better than the Apple-developed programs that hook into Google services.

The good "iOS first" or "iOS exclusive" apps still are and still launch that way. Google services have always been different story. Just like Gmail before it and Maps before that, Google has no problem acting fair and while slowly and deliberately widening the gap between their private API and their public one.

Recently it bit them in the ass and they lost iOS mapping which brings in plenty of real advertising revenue. I'm not sure doing it again with your core business, search, is such a great idea.

It's worth keeping in mind who is really being hit by karma here. When Google shafts iOS like that, it cost them more money than anyone else. It really is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I found the race factor particularly odious. I'm pretty sure a large majority of white college students take out loans.
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Well, my experience redesigning large-scale enterprise applications built to be "generic" is that almost nobody gets the balance right but by far the worst applications to work with are the over-architected over-generic solutions.
Thank you for this. I had wanted to brush up my knowledge on vector spaces for a while and this looks like the kick I needed.
You are making up an intellectual dishonesty which isn't there. I'm happy to call it a handout in any case - I said that I understand handouts for the reason of social mobility and also a general opposition to handouts. Fundamentally it doesn't matter what you call it. I am not guilty of some kind of diabolical framing here, that is nothing but a distraction.

Commentary on your word choice isn't a distraction, but your brazen attempt to dismiss it is rather amusing.

$10,099/semester is a reasonable amount of money for a college education, at current market prices.

That caveat there is the only way you can possibly say that. For current market prices, it's not bad. What I'm saying is that the market is charging too much for college education.

You could have gotten cheaper but presumably you did not want to - your choice.

And still go to a university? You're incorrect.

When one has kids, and wishes them to college, one is normally and reasonably expected to save up for that purpose.

Are we just going to completely ignore my comments there? I addressed this in my earlier statements. Federal funding does not consider past income, yet there is an expectation that college should be saved for then. That's dissonant.

So your argument seems to reduce to 'my mother shouldn't pay this money.'

And your argument seems to reduce to "your mother should pay this money". When you reduce things to their simplest terms, everything sounds stupid. It's a logical fallacy.

That implies someone else should pay it. Why? What makes it so much not reasonable?

It should be a distributed burden across the populace via tax, for the exact same reasons that all other education spending is done that way. Education should be a public service, as it's the cornerstone of a modern economy.

After your total costs are paid, your mother is still making $81,802/yr. She can't live on $81,802/yr?

This is a foolish argument. First, since it's a post tax expense, the more relevant number is net pay, which works out to be roughly $55,000/year. Which she can live on, but that's not the point.

Education is completely inelastic. It is a requirement for any kind of middle class job in this country. If it costs $10,000 a year, or $50,000 a year, I have to pay it, if I don't want to be a second class citizen in a post-industrial economy.

This is why it needs federal regulation (Or more ideally, provided for via a tax), for the same reasons that utilities and the rest of the education system are.

She should be getting money from people who don't even make $81,802/yr because you are going to college and you think that the cost of tuition is not 'reasonable'?

...That's not how it works. Do you receive money because everyone helped pay for the road you use to drive to work? Without it, you would have no job and no income. But you aren't arguing that you should pay for your own road.
The middle ground is certainly not imaginary. Life is not black or white. The people I associate with don't share things, because they almost universally recognize that if people don't financially support movie studios/music studios/authors - that this incredible flow of high quality content we all enjoy will disappear, almost overnight.

The right approach to managing copyright infringement is to continue to pursue the worst offenders (those who knowingly publish copyrighted content) while continuing to make that same content available through non-drm, inexpensive sources.

I applaud google's approach - which is to make it increasingly difficult to find these sites which persistently make copyright-infringing material available. Hopefully the other major search engines will do so as well; though, last time I checked, DuckDuckGo got a significant portion of it's content through Yahoo BOSS, and Yahoo get's it's content through Bing - so, in theory, if Bing adopts the same copyright friendly search indicators, then 90%+ of the search engines will now be obscuring this material)
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Your mixing a lot of different things. I support copyright but don't support SOPA. I'm pro-consumer and freedom but believe content creators (software, music, film etc.) should be allowed to protect their content (to a certain point).

There is a big difference between a free exchange of information and wanting everything available to you for free with no restrictions.

And copyright != censorship. North Korea's big problem isn't copyright enforcement. Drawing a comparison between North Korea and people who support copyright is a stupid exaggeration.
Thanks Holger!
You are completely ignoring the point - if demand increases but producers don't need to hire people to produce more, employment does not increase. I.e., demand may be correlated with production, but production need not be correlated with employment.

If you looked at the fed stats I cited, they show precisely a lack of correlation between production and employment.

Nothing you have cited disputes this fundamental point. Krugman doesn't even try, he just declares victory and insults those who disagree.