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It could also be considered tortuous interference if they are intentionally trying to disrupt the business of someone. In this case, if the sales rep did somehow get people to leave many negative Yelp reviews, that could be considered interfering with the business.

All in all, it seems like just another bad PR day at Groupon.
As an NYC resident, I feel that Bloomberg has made the city a remarkably better place. Probably the most transformative effect of Bloomberg's initiatives has been making the outer boroughs appealing. Young people who might have otherwise lived elsewhere because of ridiculous Manhattan rents (~$2-$3k for a studio in downtown Manhattan!) are now flocking to neighborhoods like Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant. These young people with disposable income create demand for more great restaurants, shops, and venues like the Barclay's center, all of which make the city a much more fun place to be.

It isn't all roses. The poorer residents in Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant are being forced to move elsewhere as their neighborhood gentrifies. However, this is part of the typical cyclic trend: artists / poor people move into a cheap neighborhood, make it trendy, then get forced out when the rent goes up. The starving artists move to another more affordable neighborhood, and the cycle starts all over again. Trying to stop the cycle by preventing development is just delaying the inevitable. Bloomberg has simply accelerated the trend of creating more upscale neighborhoods. I can understand how someone in a less fortunate socioeconomic situation might feel differently, but it's hard to argue that the changes haven't been beneficial from an outsider's perspective.
Oh right. Not defending the sales guy. Saying that all businesses are now vulnerable to social media attacks by folks by folks who in the past you could ignore. Should have been clearer.
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He asked for performance not for build quality. Anyway I think you are talking about appearance quality 'cause I find hard to say that the thikpads are not the top scorer in build quality these days.
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That's the second option in the article (pngquant2).

Last time I checked GIMP's palette generation wasn't very good - it supported only binary transparency and truncated bits unnecessarily.

I've wanted to replace GIMP's old algorithm, but haven't even managed to compile all the prerequisites for the monstrous codebase :(

One more thing I do in pngquant2 and haven't seen it done anywhere else is dithering only areas that need it, rather than dithering entire image. This minimizes noise added and makes files look and compress better.
See, this is what I mean (see my reply to eschaton).

I take it then, seiji, that you also completely disagree with Levesque's program as expressed in section 4.4 of his paper?
Note that one could also do "area mapping" with nearest neighbor instead of 4-pixel interpolation (if speed is more important than smoothness) to avoid the white dots. This is the most obvious "naive" approach to me -- basically the same cost as the white dots approach (loop over every destination pixel just once, grab just one pixel from source) but with some repeated neighboring pixels instead of missing information.
Ah. I see what you're saying. Thanks for the correction!
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Well, I have never had the opportunity to visit San Francisco but if the OP thinks that London has good transport and parking, then he must really be having problems!
I have thought about this long and hard. There was a time in my life when I thought I could create something that had intelligence. Here are some of my thoughts. Intelligence isn't something that is instant, it is something that is acquired. To acquire intelligence, the being must have an environment in which to interact and learn. My idea was to mimic the way that animals and plants become adaptive to their environment. They all can die, and only the strong survive. So, each being, or thread, would have the ability to die. Well, what happens if they all die? Then the experiment would be over and that wouldn't be fun would it. So, threads would also have to have the ability to reproduce. And, what good would it be if all the threads were the same? They must be able to mutate. What about intelligence? Forget intelligence, it just represents the ability to survive. All the threads will die off that can't survive anyways, so what we are left with is a pool of survivors.
Uh oh. The environment exists in a virtual realm. So my threads wont be very beneficial in the real world realm that you and I live in. We need eyes and ears into the real world. OK, no problem, we will purchase cameras to capture light, and microphones for sound. Now we have a money issue. I may be able to afford a couple hundred micro controllers, microphones, and cameras. Not bad for a little expirement, but wait "Scientists estimate that there are one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) ants living on the earth at any given time." according to hypertextbook.com http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/AlisonOngvorapong.shtml. How can my intelligence be smarter than an ant, if there are this many ants, who are trying to survive, and have the ability to reproduce and mutate? I don't think I can.
I began thinking about this more and more. We would have to speed up the evolution of our intelligent being. What are different things we could do to speed it up? Perhaps we could create more mutations, but not too many, we don't wont our bot to become extinct. Oh crap, how is it going to reproduce? I totally forgot about that. Each of our species would have to have an electronics factory built inside it.
I know the solution, don't try to create your own intelligence. You can create as much ARTIFICIAL intelligence like search engines all you want, but this is not intelligence in any way shape of form. It looks like intelligence, but it is not. To achieve truly something more intelligent than a human, you will need to take what nature has already created and mutated, and then provide environment enhancements(schools?). There I said it. Schools and all theses GNC drugs that are supposed to make your brain function at an increasing rate. I am afraid we are already trying to become more intelligent every single day in the world. And yes, it is working, but we can only work as fast as nature allows us.
On a closing note, Computers will never be able to think like a human, because they cannot reproduce. Nature is much more efficient.
> Today, that whole area is basically Disneyland.

I am sure lots of entities public and private have contributed to and accelerated this situation, but we must also keep in mind the nationwide trends in violent crime in the last few decades. I think this sets the stage more than any particular mayor, police chief, development company etc. can do.
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I think we can infer, from Levesque's failure to even mention it, that the answer has to be no. I admit I am curious exactly what Cyc can and can't do, and why. I haven't looked at it closely, though.
This guy should look into research labeled as artificial general intelligence (AGI) or deep learning. If he really understood for example what Watson can do or the leading research using things like autoencoders or hierarchical temporary memory for natural language understanding then he would have a better informed and less pessimistic attitude.
I was born in 1973 and by the 1980s a lot of people were convinced intelligent machines and nearly general purpose AI was just around the corner. There was tons of university and military funding going into projects to achieve this.

Of course, now the idea of that sort of blue-sky research is almost universally dead and the most advanced machine learning will likely be developed at Google as a side effect of much effort put into placing more relevant ads in front of us, which is kind of hilarious.
I'd also recommend his collection of short stories (Exile and the Kingdom), though I suppose it would depend on the translation - much of the depth of Camus is in the poetic and carefully chosen words. He's technically a very interesting writer, and I think his stories capture a certain existential ache that everyone feels at some point in their life, observing how absurd and cruel the world can be without trying to offer answers. Not really sure they should be set as school texts though, as it ruins them for a lot of people.
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I think we could help improve the field by making CAPTCHAs with these kinds of questions.
> That's a pretty negative perspective. Not everything has to be about money and getting ahead.

Nor was every possible motivation given about money/getting ahead - intrinsic motivation (happiness) was mentioned, too.
He drove on the right on the way to the post office, but I thought of the UK, too, before I noticed that :)
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...Not to mention what they're putting in our water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8
I've thought for a long time that the US political system will someday realign along the lines of urban vs. everything else. The "tough on crime / livable cities / pro environment / social programs" platform resonates with a huge swath of urban America, be it in Pittsburgh, Dallas, Detroit or New York. Bloomberg could well be our first urban candidate for president, and I think he would have broad appeal beyond NYC.
I'd say considerably better. You have to understand the backround though.

In the beginning (or at least the beginning for me, I was pretty young during the Koch era) there was Dinkins, and the city was a crime ridden cesspool. You weren't supposed to take the subway at night, or go anywhere near a park. Parked cars routinely had their radios and sometimes tires stolen. There were very aggressive beggars all over the place. Whole parts of Manhattan, much less the outer boros, were no go zones.

Then came Giuliani. I think most people that lived in the city under Giuliani have very mixed feelings. The crime rate dropped, which was great, but there was very much a sense that a deal had been made with the devil. While to this day stop and frisk is a major issue for minority communities, back then there was a sense that the NYPD was killing and beating up people for no reason. Then there was the whiff of corruption (around Kerik and others), the messy personal life, fights with the unions, and the drama around the Senate race. I'll skip the post-9/11 apotheosis because it's not really relevant in the long run.

So that's when Bloomberg came in. He continued to preside over a drop in crime, but without as much visible divisiveness (though as mentioned above stop and frisk is still very much alive). Ditto with the public sector unions, they were still unhappy but there didn't seem to be the same sense of crises surrounding labor affairs. Meanwhile the finances of the city are very much improved, in spite of looming pension and health care problems the city is in very good financial shape as compared to any other large American city. No one thinks he's corrupt -- people think he's too rich to be corrupt. Then there's the nanny stuff, there's mixed opinions about that, but even smokers seem to be okay with having no smoking in bars. The biggest knock on him is that he only cares about Manhattan and the rich people that live there. That may be true from an emotional standpoint, but from a practical standpoint what he's done has benefited all layers of the city. The gentrification of Manhattan has generated a ton of revenue which is being plowed into services across the city. Honestly other than being better at feeling people's pain, I don't really see the argument.
I am a little confused, not living in SF (visited once by accident in the 80's). If I read this right, most of the tech companies are not in SF, but the employees really like to live in SF. So, the tech companies bus their people on exclusive transportation to the tech company.

Is part of the problem that the suburbs (that I would imagine benefit tax-wise) are not doing a good job at being an attractive place to live? Is it an industrial park situation? It seems like some land developer has a custom audience for a development.

I have read jwz's blog for the DNA Lounge for a long time and get the vibe SF doesn't want those type of venues. It would seem a more entertainment friendly community would prosper in attracting young SF residents.
Essentially, the article accuses AI researchers of searching for their lost keys under streetlamps. Fair enough, but I wonder if the best use of AI research is to get computers to solve problems that a person could easily solve. I thought the point of, e.g. a search engine is to solve problems a person can't easily solve.
Computers will never be able to think like a human, because they cannot reproduce. Nature is much more efficient.

Bzz. Wrong.

I'm curious -- what's your background? Also: try using paragraphs.
> I found an exploit, here's proof, but I'm having difficulty conveying information due to linguistic barriers.

> Nope that's not a bug.

What did you expect him to do? Learn English on the fly? Conveying specific technical things is a difficult skill to learn even for native English speakers.

Sure his communication isn't the best, but neither is "I can't click that link" nor "This isn't a bug."
This just demonstrates that the problem, for laypeople, isn't so much the programming as the debugging. What does "your mom" do when she realizes the kettle is on for nearly 18 hours every day because that's how long her car is there?

Being able to communicate effectively, in a bidirectional manner, with a computer is a skill. It's a skill people will probably always have to learn, one way or another. It's more likely that more people will learn these skills than that we'll devise a way for computers to be the smart ones in the conversation any time soon.
Good start!

Some useful feature additions would be:

(1) Tunable number of requests per connection: it's often useful to be able to see how webserver performance differs when multiple requests are made per connection (Connection: Keep-Alive) vs. a single request per connection (Connection: Close).

(2) Tunable concurrency: webservers have to serve requests from different clients concurrently. It's much more illuminating to see how a webserver performs when multiple requests are coming in simultaneously than sequentially. Simply divide the total request rate by the number of threads/goroutines created, and assign each the fractional request rate.

(3) The ability to specify custom request headers. Enough said.
I wanted to arrage for watson to go on "are you smarter than a 5th grader" and give it all sorts of questions like these (but even easier).

For example:

"Think of a giant flightless bird. Now, name a color that starts with the same first letter."
Sure, but that was not reflected in System Profiler when I actually tested it. Unfortunately I can't test it again now, as my old MacBook's battery will hold up for approximately 14ms before the computer shuts off.
There has also been a nationwide trend of aggressive policing and aggressive prosecution with statutes like RICO, largely pioneered by the work of people like Giuliani in New York. Abstract trends of decreasing crime didn't break the Mafia...
I give a different name. My problem isn't so much that no one knows how to say mine; it's that no one knows how to spell it, and since someone else reads it, they generally fumble the totally weird series of letters the other barista wrote down. So I started to think of it as less about providing my name -- I don't care about fake familiarity -- and more about providing a uniquish identifier. So I optimize for that: pick a name that everyone knows but few people have. "Art" works pretty well.
If Cyc has failed then why do there seem to be so many people trying to build XML schemas that could be used to reimplement it.
True. Isn't anyone from Groupon reading HN? I thought they'd pull a Nathan Bedford Forrest and get in here the fastest with the mostest mea culpa, but so far, I don't even think they know what's going on.
For example, as mayor of NYC, Bloomberg governs about three times as many people as Bill Clinton did as governor of Arkansas.
I noticed that 'mark' doesn't work if you have spaces in a directory name which you can't avoid on the Mac (I tried to mark an interior folder inside the iPhone Simulator which is inside "~/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/". Wrapping in quotes seems to do the trick:

function mark {
mkdir -p $MARKPATH; ln -s "$(pwd)" $MARKPATH/$1
}
Actually, I could see small businesses paying for a service that tracks Yelp and other review sites for "interesting" activity based on patterns like this one. Perhaps getting information from other sites to figure out who the reviewer works for.
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> The streets are filled with Porsches and Teslas driving by the many homeless people in SF everyday.

One might argue that the homeless people wouldn't be there if the fabulous wealth weren't also there. That they can even be there should be a testament to the city's tolerance. In many places, local government does everything they can to remove them. SF has much more social conscience than a lot of people give it credit for.
From what I can see, it is still pretty rare to release downloadable images at a decent resolution, so it is excellent that Getty is getting good press for this.

For example, the National Gallery has high-resolution scans, but they aren't downloadable (perhaps you can scrape them, but that isn't accessible to most people). LACMA has only low-resolution images.

Off the rest of your list, Rijksmuseum and the Brooklyn Museum have only low-resolution images, Cooper-Hewitt and Europeana have almost nothing (only very low-resolution). I haven't checked everything.

Maybe you are right that it is becoming more common, but I can't see that myself. The Met is the only example I know of that compares. The Met does have decent resolution downloads available, but the Getty's downloadable scans are still much better.
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Tools like (trace ...) in Lisp are helpful, but most of the time you want an actual debugger. If you are using Eclipse as your Clojure IDE, the plugin Counterclockwise integrates with the usual Eclipse debugger and let's you do all the usual things:

http://code.google.com/p/counterclockwise/
I remember very well what New York was like 10 years ago. And 20 and 30. I can't say that Bloomberg's policies have made the city any safer than it was 10 years ago. That is, I can't say that his policies are responsible for the reduction in (certain type of) crime. (Some types of crime are actually on the rise in NY). What I can say is that violent crime statistics have been in severe decline nationally since the end of the 1970s. New York pretty much follows the trendline exactly and doesn't seem remarkably exceptional in this.

Certain neighborhoods are still high crime. Yes, I would say that 99% of Manhattan is about as safe as Disneyland, but the policing has been especially disproportionate between the use and effectiveness of things like Stop & Frisks, constant & disruptive patrol car drills crosstown during rush hour, and "Show of Force" demonstrations of the ESU in full body armor and M4 rifles stationed outside popular tourist areas. Some see these things as safety and security and others see them as waste and symbols of a state abusing its power.

A lot of the revitalization efforts for areas of the city have been in the works since the 1950s (pay attention in NY to how much is named after or dedicated to Robert Moses). Case in point, the Times Square Redevelopment Project (though that was completed under Giuliani). When I was a child growing up in this neighborhood, there were porn theaters, street prostitutes, hustlers, con men and pickpockets everywhere. People got mugged in my elevator or at the payphone on my corner regularly.

Nearly 80% of the storefronts in Midtown were vacant. My mom was a corporate real estate broker in the 70s and had a listing on 57th street and 5th avenue going for $5/sqft (in what was later the Playboy Enterprises building). Let that figure sink in for a second.

I'm not nostalgic for those times, but back then we also had a bit more community than now. I actually knew by name the homeless people and the street hustlers in my neighborhood. My mom took care of most of them in her nursing work at St. Luke's Roosevelt. That sense is totally gone. Nightlife and entertainment in the city is _dead_ (we'll see how the Space nightclub does when it opens though). You used to regularly have people playing music on the street without too much bother. I remember a lot more people just being in the street and friendly (for NY standards) all the time. Everything is much more conservative and elitist than it used to be, but that's just as much times changing and culture moving on as Bloomberg is lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

I get really passionate about this topic and am being a bit rambly, but two years ago I left New York City. I'm likely returning next year, but I had to get away and it's no longer somewhere I could imagine living the rest of my life. It's just not that much fun a place to live anymore. Almost every NY-native I know in my age group either can't stand to live there anymore or has been priced out. Most of my friends have moved away or want to. We're going to places like Portland and New Orleans...or moving to Europe.
My first reaction was to scroll down the page, as the scroll bar was indicating there was more below. Apparently I was not supposed to do this as it basically flips out.

This is your typical 'fancy flash website' syndrome
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you should read "fluid concepts and creative analogies". There was some good headway made in this direction that got lost.
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Heh, back in the days when you didn't go above 96th or below 14th (except to the Financial District) and you didn't leave Manhattan for any reason except to visit Grandma.

If you want to find one group who completely and decisively hates Bloomberg though, just talk to cab drivers. The things that he did regarding new medallions and all of the bullshit with the TLC the last 8 years have made most old-timers quit. The mere mention of the guy's name will bring out some pretty big curse words.

The funny thing is though, most of the crime in the city peaked during the Koch era. He started some of the things that Giuliani and Bloomberg later got credit for. Dinkins gets saddled with a lot of the worst memories of it mostly because of how ineffective he was as Mayor.

Koch did some right dickish things to outerborough New Yorkers though. The closing of bike/pedestrian traffic on the Queensboro Bridge will always stick out in my memory. Caused a 3000+ bike protest down Park Avenue... and a couple years ago they named the fucking bridge after him. >_<
Absolutely. 4.4 is a full endorsement of Cyc (and don't get me started on "Cyc" vs "OpenCyc"). Second 4.4 looks a little like "graphplan reborn" or "generic AI approaches from the 80s."

Discrete codified knowledge is not the stuff the universe is made of. The problem Cyc will never solve is the "a picture is worth a thousand words" problem. Describing everything in a relational, hierarchal, predicate calculus arrogantly ignores the unrelated multidimensionality of, well, everything.
any thoughts here on the parallel terraced scan, as implemented by Hofstadter in "fluid concepts and creative analogies"?