skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This is useful, thanks. Though I wonder if the connection is causal.
I'm pretty sure that jaw clenching happens with pure MDMA. I've experienced it on every roll, with stuff sourced from a variety of highly rated Silk Road vendors.
If your stock is accessible to more people, there's higher demand, which should drive up the price, benefiting those who hold the stock (and make the decision to split).
Believe it or not, LFW does not include a whole lot of rotation variance in its images. One reason for this is because LFW was originally selected by an automatic face detector in the first place, which doesn't detect rotated faces very well. Here are some sample images from LFW: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/number_11.html In almost all of them, the person is usually facing the camera (no profile shots!) and the in-plane rotation is not very large (their eyes are parallel to the horizon; they're not upside-down)

The fact that we aren't shooting for rotation-invariance is a problem with LFW, not necessarily this algorithm, but you're right to say that the authors' paper would be much more convincing if they tried their approach on several different datasets.

(In particular, the "Multi-PIE" dataset aims to specifically stress rotation-invariance, even though it's not quite as popular as LFW. These guys do use Multi-PIE as part of their training and they do in fact measure their algorithm's performance on Multi-PIE; see page 24. They don't seem to talk about it much since everyone is crazy for LFW and since Multi-PIE is "easy" for other reasons...)
Honestly, it's just for our own reporting purposes so we can understand the traffic on the network a bit more. We don't use it in any nefarious way or to monetize, it's just informational to help us scale.
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In Rust, garbage collection is just a library type (akin to the Boehm GC for C++). And because the language expects to get by 99.9% of the time without any GC at all, other facets of the language design will necessarily restrict the strategies of GC that can be supported. For example, Rust allows you to store pointers directly into data structures, which means that a moving GC would need to be able to know about all references to any data that has been moved and update all pointers in memory appropriately. Rust isn't a language that's willing to pay that sort of dynamic bookkeeping cost, so the GC in Rust's stdlib will probably never be moving or compacting.

Disclaimer: not a GC expert!
Why on earth i did not have read anywhere about USPTO officials return a letter to this so called patent troll with simple reply: "Explain this pattern in layman language."

USPTO officials should have the power to inquire pattern applicants about their pattern until complete understanding, not to work alone and try to understand it by them self. It is hard to understand something technical, and it is utmost difficult to try understanding technical stuff with only 'lawyer' language as interface.

The fact is, many of this pattern applicant try to hide their 'Obviousness' of their pattern behind lawyered up and jargon filled language that proven to be hard to understand and open to misinterpretation.
Wow. Look at all those lawyers.
Can you write off the time spent as a charitable donation?
Baked chicken beasts:
This recipe is only moderately quick and
cheap, but it is extremely simple and gives consistent results. Also, most of the time is inactive baking tine.

Requires: chicken breast, plain Greek yogurt, Italian bread crumbs (they come in a large canister)

-Preheat oven to 425

-Spread Greek yogurt all over raw chicken

-Roll yogurt covered chicken in bread crumbs

-Put the chicken breasts on a foil covered baking sheet and cover the chicken with foil (foil is on top and bottom)

-Bake about 25 minutes (internal temp 165), varies depending on how thick the breast is (cut them in half if in a rush)

I like to do multiple chicken breasts early in the week and reheat them for meals. The beauty of this recipe is that the chicken turns out really moist.

For quick clean up, line the baking dish (I use a cookie sheet) with foil. Then when they are done you throw the foil out and the dish is clean.
Re: "Cargo Cult" as a well-enough-known idiom:

It's basically a shibboleth for "Are you a fan of Richard Feynman". I doubt very many people have actually heard of it directly, but his "Cargo Cult Science" commencement address (http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html) is moderately famous.
This would be pay for play(speed) though. Not efficiency for play(speed).
Efficiency should rightfully be encouraged, but pay for speed effectively means the first entrant is the winner for the rest of time no matter their improvements in efficiency (obviously depending on the nature and implementation of these rumoured policies).
So what then is there about "human"?

Everyone took the same courses and more or less familiar with the basic algorithms. The task of recognizing a passport-like pictures is nearly trivial, while a "random, on the street" face recognition is a different problem.

People are using environmental and contextual cues (so, does facebook's system) and they mostly guessing rather than "exact matching" peoples.

Anyway, as long as it is not a passport photos the task of face recognition has almost nothing to do with basic NN algorithms, but a lot with contexts and cues.
How is 'drugs taken for fun' a definition that excludes liquor? GP is right to point out that intelligent people should not blithely assume a distinction between illegal drugs and liquor; the distinction depends on jurisdiction.
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Agreed! A huge part of what you can do to help is just parse the legalese into human language, so that any knowledgable person can see right through it.
Pixels can't capture calories. There's a much better chance of having location-based menus with calories data.

Are you sure that you want something sampling your blood all of the time? I'd rather enter stuff manually and lose a bit of accuracy.
There's something to be said for lifetime appointments: "we trust you enough to give you this job and pay you enough to be comfortable for the rest of your life. If you clearly violate that trust, we'll impeach you and you will never again be trusted."

I could be wrong, but I don't think federal judges and Supreme Court Justices participate in the revolving door. Supreme Court Justices are deeply political, but they're not sell-outs like Chris Dodd.
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BTW: your case on "this" is not JS, it's the the DOM interface (not part of the language). From the point of view of the DOM it's probably right: The element applies itself to a callback function (the event-handler), which is triggered by the DOM interaction. The right question is: Who is the callee?

The JS built-in solution to this problem is "Object.handleEvent". (Since anything is an object, this is a general approach.) Anyway, there is no need to overwrite one of the few predefined variables to store a reference to anything, may it be to "this" or any other.
> It seems some people prefer duckduckgo (as search engine i mean, not just for the other features), but most i heard people couldn't get the same results (including myself).

Try https://startpage.com/ instead, then.
The goal is to allow for "fair" comparisons.

But I agree with you in general. I suspect even LFW's creators might; I don't know if they expected the benchmark to still be tested on this many years after creation.

I've always felt that all benchmarks in vision should come with expiration dates, because eventually everyone starts implicitly overfitting to them.
I even got a simple .NET app running on Elastic Beanstalk, and it's almost been up for two years with no downtime. Quite impressed.
The balance between advantages to existing firms and advantages to startups is very much set by political and regulatory choices (like this). Given how much other legislation and regulation there already is affecting the balance, this is only one variable in the mix, and I'm hesitant to believe it shifts the balance in the right direction (where "right" is what's best for society).

Furthermore, ISPs seem to me to be a far cry from the "free market" (I have very few options for my ISP), so I don't believe simply reducing regulation will lead to the best outcome.
Basically it seems to me the distinction between the more contemporary, non-crazy, parts of the austrian school (i.e. not the goldbugs) and the chartalist position is how to deal with it. Austrians would suggest that debt is not fundamentally bad, but dangerous, and the market should price in the risk of debt (which it does not, because of things like bailouts and backed reserve lending), and that any attempt to stabilize the swings caused by lending activities will backfire and create moral hazard (the specific economic term).

A modern jubilee might take a form like, legally not permitting any debt to last beyond X years.

There is a particular moral hazard associated with sovereign and government debt - Unlike debt accrued by you or I, which is discharged upon our deaths, leaving the lender holding the bag (a risk that should be priced in the loan term), sovereign debt is unlimited. If you believe in the principle of "no taxation without representation" which really boils down to the idea that legitimate government should not act (i.e. spend) without the consent of governed - then is it really morally permissible for future generations to be legally bonded to the profligacy of previous generations? Where are the checks and balances? Can our grandchildren go back in time and vote against spending policies that they are responsible for paying back?

So generational debt, which is generally considered to be immoral along the lines of slavery, especially among progressives who see it as a means of keeping the poor poor, is suddenly okay when the state does it.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the state itself is also reverting to this feudal practice. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/social-security-treas...
Correct. Oppo is a different company, with a similar phone.
And it goes even further back than that: when Acorn got first silicon back for the ARM1, they were hoping for anything less than 1W so that affordable plastic packaging would be sufficient. When they booted up that processor, their multimeter on the power supply line didn't register anything. Further investigation showed that the supply line wasn't actually connected, and the processor had booted using a total of about a tenth of a watt of leakage from other components on the board.
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Exactly, and I don't.
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I'm not making an argument. I'm just providing another perspective. I entirely agree that both situations need improving.
For me the ORM provided some comfort here but this is one of the concerns that caused me to revert to MySQL.

Essentially you end up with an a lot of linking by item IDs as you would with a traditional relational database but the "eventual consistency" was where I thought there may be issues in the future.

I personally never saw problems stemming from this but my projects using MongoDB never really even hit a million objects in a single collection (not 100% sure on that). Again, at scale is where I'd lose confidence.

This is entirely speculation but when it comes to critical infrastructure I can't leave anything to chance.
Also, one huge reason why we might "limit ourselves to small datasets" is because that's the only way we can compare many algorithms.

Outside training data has a huge influence on algorithm accuracy. For example, since Facebook has access to bajillions of face images that they could use to train their classifier, and since they can't share those images with the rest of the community, it's unclear whether their excellent performance is because they have gobs of data or whether it's really a better algorithm. I bet that a simple algorithm like a naive SVM might do leagues better if we could train it on Facebook's (hidden!) dataset and test on LFW. It just isn't reproducible---a measuring stick is only meaningful if everyone uses the same measuring stick.
Um, the point isn't about photo quality in the comparison. I have to agree that it's confusing, but actually they're trying to highlight the fact that their phone has a wider viewing angle. (If you look, their picture includes more people.)
no

edit: source: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p526/ar02.html#en_US_2013_pu...
Tell that to the mountain on my left.
Because you don't have an automatic right to be entertained. I might want to watch Game of Thrones, but since I haven't seen fit to buy a HBO subscription I do without, and HBO is under no obligation to give it to me.

A lot of people seem to assume that HBO and similar publishers either have no interest in or no understanding of new technology, but the fact is that they're as eager to exploit it as anyone else, hence the availability of HBO Go to Amazon customers later this year. That won't have the latest and greatest shows on it, though; not because HBO is trying to make your life worse, but because they have signed multi-year contracs to provide their product exclusively to cable companies for a minimum period. Cable companies want to be able to offer their customers something that they can't get anywhere else in order to retain them as subscribers. Exclusivity or first-refusal deals are the norm in the publishing world, because it's hard to run a business without them.

Again, why do you assume you have the right to be served entertainment through the channel of your choice? You wouldn't call up your local pizzeria and demand they deliver a Big Mac and fries, would you?
You are only looking at a tiny subsection of CPUs, which happen to be the niche intel dominates. CPUs are in a lot more devices than just PCs and laptops.
I used to work in this field as well... it's laugh-out-loud insecure.
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> Do you want a luddite making technology policy, for example.

Would that be worse? Say 50% of the time they get the policy right where the corrupt policy maker gets it deliberately wrong all of the time.
Tom's having trouble logging in (same IP issue?), but he said to email him at tom@blonk.co and he would be happy to chat.
Filing a patent application costs around $180-$280 [1], not including the other Patent Office fees for Examination/Maintenance. Add onto that the legal fees for marking up the claims, charged out in the $XXX/hr range and you are looking at a few thousand easily.

A quick search turned up a 2011 American Intellectual Property Law Association survey suggesting a median cost of $10k [2].

Having in house legal team to take care of it may reduce the costs but Patent Office fees still make it at least a grand to get one. If the community can chip in a few hours to crush the patent then I would think it is time well spent.

[1] http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee010114.htm
[2] http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-average-cost-of-a-software-pa...
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Well, the GP is talking about Apple's overall margins and the 70% figure is simply wrong. (Retail price - cost of goods is not margin.)
I entirely agree that we are both being robbed and that everyone's rates can be a lot lower. I was trying to offer some perspective. The geography and population size means that telecommunication costs will always be higher in Australia.
For what it's worth, the graph (Figure 4) on page 10 features the label "Human, cropped 97.53%" and later again in the comparison section but not in the abstract. Still, the whole thing raises some red flags!
As comparison, the deepface paper also puts human performance at 97.5 %, and also isn't mentioned by Erik Miller.
https://www.facebook.com/publications/546316888800776/

EDIT: The authors also seem to have presented a paper at ICCV 2013, so they aren't nobodies.
Isn't small datasets the reason for using SVMs? You are, after all, operating in linear space preprocessed with a kernel trick. Far less expressive than a neural network.
It's crazy slow. Most ACH moves through a modern stack and then into COBOL that runs nightly batch jobs that then update the stuff in the modern stack and in on its way. Nevertheless, it takes the nightly batch job.
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This is the first time I read this point of view. I don’t think it is as widely shared as you believe. Every complaint I read about the 5C is that it is not cheap enough.
Sort of. Personal income tax (with the exception of half of social security and medicare) is paid by the employee. Some economists say it shouldn't matter whether it's the employee or employer who pays, on the theory that people will contract around it either way. They will sometimes but not always. In practice it creates a psychological advantage for the party not paying the tax during salary negotiations, because the number being negotiated is generally pre-tax. If the taxes subsequently paid are paid by the employee then it gives a perceptual advantage to the employer because the employee will actually receive less than the number agreed upon, and vice versa if the employer pays the tax on top of the salary.

It also changes who is affected by changes in the tax rate for all the employees whose compensation was negotiated before the rate changed. Making the payee of US payroll taxes the employer rather than the employee would similarly be a de facto raise for almost all US workers at the time of implementation because the employer would effectively begin paying your income taxes.

So what I mean is, make the corporation pay it, not the employee. Assuming you actually want a tax on labor at all, given that it discourages hiring in your jurisdiction.
Really? It seems that the pdf is somewhat broken (24 pages is 12 pages of the proper paper and the next 12 are from a slightly older version(it seems))
yeah, because everyone can install all those new games in ...cue music... the cloud.

if a side effect of their greed for your data or not, you cant deny you will need an upgrade every year or so to keep up with app sizes.

heck i cant install firefox on the first three nexus had i not hacked the kernel to allow apps on sd.
Worse, patent obfuscation is baldly contrary to the purpose of patents, which is to make the knowledge contained in them available to the public.

Were someone to start a startup where users got paid-by-the-view for making educational videos, that would not be too far off from the original intent of patents.
even phones without sd card still have to have the Sdcard dir nowadays. there is no going back.
I think they used the correct ROC curve. Actually, it looks like they cherry-picked a few results from the Commercial and the Academic categories, but everything is from the unrestricted class.

We should wait until Erik Learned-Miller lists this on the LFW results page. He'll know how to interpret their results.
In some sense, the 97% is indeed the more fair number to compare against, assuming that this paper also restricts the algorithms to only see tight crops of the face.

Obviously using more than just tight crops will give you more information, but our point in differentiating those cases when measuring human performance was that the way LFW was constructed gives you MUCH more information when using loose crops than "normal" images would. For example, many images of actors are at award shows (the Oscars in particular), and so if you see that kind of background in a pair of images, you can just say "same" and have a very good chance of getting it right. That's what the "inverse crop" experiment shows [1] -- when you block out the face in LFW images, you can still get 94% accuracy!

In normal images, however, the background won't normally give you so much information.

I do feel somewhat bad that our human verification performance experiment numbers are now being used to create linkbait titles like, "computer algorithms can beat humans," because that's obviously not true (nor have I ever believed it), but in my defense, in 2009 we didn't really think about what the press would do in 2014 when algorithms started saturating on LFW =)

[1] http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~neeraj/projects/faceverifica...
I can't speak for Mr. Cook, but I wished to myself "please split AAPL" just the other day.

I hold AAPL and I would like to let my dividends roll over via a DRIP managed by my broker. But at current prices, yield, and dividend frequency ($525, 2.3%, quarterly) I would need to hold $90k of AAPL for a dividend payment to buy a single share -- a bit rich for me. But after the split, that number goes down to $13k.
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Not exactly what you're looking for, but certainly Hexels is an interesting tool for creating cool art

http://hexraystudios.com/hexels/
That's the beautiful thing about DVCS, no?

Please elaborate where the official git sources are.
Wait, can lawyers write off pro-bono work? If so, why can't we?

Edit: They can't. However, if an employer were to pay you to work for a qualified organization, they could write off that expense.
lol. im the same. but we learned, and here we are. most people just cashed checks and screwed, even if unintentionally, lots of folks
project idea: machine learning program that decrypts legalese to find similar patents

i wonder if uspo would be interested in licensing it if it was effective enough
Just a quick note re:dbmail -- Archiveopteryx (http://aox.org/) looks like a (possibly nicer) alternative.
In fairness to whom?
I hope nobody tells him about Eve Online.
A race to the bottom (tax rate) hardly seems like the only/best way to address this.
after they offered eeepc with linux snce 2006 and nobody bought :)
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I have not been involved behind the scenes. I'll point out liquidity seems like a likely advantage of splitting shares. You can do smaller trades with a wider audience/more frequently. The added liquidity would also make the shares more valuable to certain classes of traders which may raise the price.
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This mindset baffles me. You're entitled to Game of Thrones, and are justified in pirating it because you don't agree with the terms under which it's made available?
> Bandwidth must be treated as utility, just like electricity and water.

While this sounds good, it is fairly arbitrary. Why should my connection be asymmetric 20/1 with mediocre latency? What if I prefer 10/10 with less latency? The status quo QoS benefits some types of content providers and harms others.
Keep in mind that this is the costs for filing in one country. Each country where the invention needs to be protected needs its own filing, though this would generally be cheaper since much of the work (patent attorney fees) is already done when filing the first one. I have heard that big companies end up something half-a-million dollars for pursuing, what they consider worthy inventions, in all significant economies.
Heh, not only that but the person who fired him got sacked for doing so [1] and Nutt ended up helping start what is, essentially, a political competitor to the organization he was thrown out of [2].

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8349300.stm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Scientific_Committe...
great work!

i did one the runs on osx a couple years ago. might be broken now, haven't run it in a while.

https://github.com/helloandre/cam2ascii