I'm sorry to have to worry about this, but the fact that a chinese security firm bought Opera sets off lots of red flags to me. What, if anything, is it sending back to the mothership?
It doesn't hide anything that you are doing, so the signal is still there, but it sure puts up a lot of noise. If you are technically minded, please consider improving the software / forking and trying different things.
I don't see this at all. RT has high scores on some pretty obscure, niche movies; they seem to like arty, symbolic, deep, foreign, etc.. It seems to me that if you have broad cross section, anodyne, bland movie, it will get 60 or 70%. The reviewers will say 'meh' to it, and you'll think 'It will be fine'. It takes a pretty bad movie to get a low score. However, it takes a pretty good movie to get a high score. Mass-market stuff gets a medium score. It seems (to me) to do its job really well.
The guy said: "I’ve seen some great movies with really abysmal Rotten Tomatoes scores,” I'll ask you since I can't ask him. Like what? What low scoring movies (and we're talking below 30% on RT) did you actually like?
Rotten Tomatoes is an aggregator, and so it is very limited. You have to look at the individual reviews to figure out why the reviewer didn't like the movie. That said, if a movie is sitting at 27%, there is a really good reason. There is something wrong with a movie that is less than 50%. Maybe you will like it, but there is a flaw in there somewhere that caused most people that review movies to not like it.
My movie watching time is severely limited. My book reading, exercising, hobby and other time are severely limited. So, I have to decide pretty severely what I'm going to watch. Are there movies with a 30% rating that I might like? Maybe. But, why on earth would I bother going to see it, when there are movies with 70, 80, 90% ratings to go see?
What are the terms of service of the VPN service? I know that an ISP has onerous terms and I really don't have much of a choice. If the VPN wants my business, they will have to have decent terms, and that means that if they sell the data then I can sue them. You can shop around for a VPN that 1. has been in business for a while and 2. has a document that states they won't sell your data. Done.
By national law enforcement (FBI) and others (NSA, CIA), I'm sure it is. However, your ISP won't have access to it, so they won't be selling it. If the Feds have your browsing info, you are unlikely to get a popup saying 'Looks like you are shopping for a hooker, try these!' Or whatever it is that you've been googling for. And, more importantly, it won't be popping up when your significant other, parents, children, siblings are browsing.
The Feds are scary and we need to have better ways to prevent them from abusing civil liberties. But I think that commercial interests are really bad too, and are more likely to actually negatively affect your life.
Can you please elaborate? Person A posts a video, person B (completely unrelated to A) sues them because person A's video doesn't have good closed captioning. How is that person A's problem?
Well, it's really machine learning, and of course machine learning is 'just' pattern matching of a sort. The important thing is that the ML system (in particular deep learning) is learning what to match. Before deep learning, the features that object recognition used were usually hand-created, consisting of SIFT points, HOGs, etc. and then the image would be represented by some array of these features that could then be classified (using a SVM or other technique). the deep learning part is that it learns what the features are, how to group them (intermediate representation), and then how to classify them.
The summary references Fei-Fei Li. Google her, read her papers. She's a leader in the field and is the originator of ImageNet. It's real machine learning.
DEKA made the iBot wheelchair for years. Not this advanced, but a whole lot better than a standard one. At $25,000, it was too expensive and didn't sell much. This would be even more expensive and would sell less. You would think that $25k would be not too much to give someone their freedom, but people that need them just can't afford them.
The problem, unfortunately, is not technology, it's money.
By definition, that's impossible. Natural language is too ambiguous, so cannot specify a computer program of useful complexity. Programming has to know what you really want, handle edge cases, handle errors, etc. By the time you have put all the requirements into a form that is useful, you've created a programming language. That's not to say that what they are doing is not useful, since DSLs are really useful and inferring some of the rest is helpful. If you can translate DSL into an existing (or new) programming language, and then have the computer identify what the edge cases / failure mechanisms are and provide ways to handle them, then you've made programming better. Much of modern computer programming consists of converting the user's requirements into a little bit of custom code, putting it in a framework, and adding whatever code snippets from StackOverflow you need to handle your problem.
Actually, buses DO clock a lot of miles/kilometers..... That's 150mi in a single day. For a single bus.
Apparently we disagree about what a lot of miles is. An 18-wheeler will do, say, 8 hours at 70 mph; that's a long way. 150mi is something that a current electric car can do. A bus can have a higher percentage of it's mass devoted to the batteries. So, range is no problem whatsoever in this scenario (looping). A long range run could easily be too far, but that's not most of them.
Yes, the battery will weigh more than a engine + fuel. You'd have to do the math to determine if it is favorable, if you include efficiency, cost of electrical, maintenance, cost of gas, regen, etc.
Why the lead poisoning? Yes, your head will heat up (and if you are lucky it will explode and make a nice mess for someone to clean up. See 'Infinite Jest'). But what does lead poisoning have to do with it?
The casinos know who has problems, just like they know they tamper with the air to make people feel more euphoric
How do they tamper with the air? Do they increase the level of oxygen? That's insidious! It would also make cigarettes burn faster, assuming people were allowed to smoke indoors.
Only, people are allowed to smoke indoors, as long as it is in a casino. See http://www.riverfronttimes.com... for example. (Note: not true of all locations and casinos; however, in general, casinos are able to carve out special exemptions for themselves.)
I interview people and help hire them for my projects (technical lead, not hiring manager). I would prefer github. 1. It means that you're more 'up to date'; 2. it's just easier to use. Honestly though, don't put your software links on your resume unless it is _good_. Having a crappy piece of software on there is concerning, since then you are advertising crap, and you clearly are proud of your crap. Don't want that. You have a reasonable readme for it, it has to build with a script, has to have code comments, be well organized, not have a zillion issues.
You want to impress a developer? Point out where you contributed to a team effort. Find a feature request in a known open source project and implement it, and have it accepted. Or fix a bug, and make a pull request. Then, be able to explain why it fit into the overall effort. If you do that, someone will think to themselves, 'hey, this person makes something other people think is worthwhile, and they worked in a group, and solved a real problem.'
Multiple companies work by providing free software, advertise that they produce it, provide services for it, etc. For example, cmake is produced, supported, and advertised by Kitware (see: https://cmake.org/). It's great advertising for them. (Note, I am not associated with Kitware, but I know some of the developers.)
There is a possible a business model for a company to create the software that the person wants and release it for free and use that to advertise their services. And there is a distinct possibility that the person has come up with an idea that the company has not and would be interested in. So, how would that person make the idea known to companies looking for ideas?
I do wonder if he actually released the videos if he'd have a better case. Put up a crappy web site, with the videos, etc. Making the claim that the business was owned by someone else, claiming business contacts, etc. is fraud, but becoming a pornographer is pretty trivial. If this guy was so far into it as he is accused of, it seems like he would only have to go a little further to make it semi-legit.
gotta love idiots like you. you contradict someone's claim and post a link defending their claim.
The claim was that there is no such things a fraudulent sex (or 'rape by fraud'). The link indicates that there wasn't, but that the law was changed that made it illegal. The article says: 'The decision angered victims advocates and state lawmakers, who changed the archaic law in September 2013 to protect "unmarried women who are defrauded into having sex with a person," the district attorney's office said.'
It's a very convenient place to put your code to share with others, since everybody knows about it, has an account, and trusts it not to screw over the developer too hard. Sourceforge is not trustworthy and running my own is a pain in the ass. Just throw it up on github, publish the URL, and everybody gets to use it. If they do start screwing people over, they will move just like people moved away from sourceforge.
So do the vast majority of NSA employees, as in every government bureaucracy. the only ones that can make policy are the high-level political appointees. The rest are the people that have to carry out the policies, as best they can. If you can only follow orders, why not be paid a large amount of money rather than a small amount of money?
No, the jobs of bank tellers has dropped dramatically with the rise of the ATM. The number of cashiers in grocery stores / Home Depot has already started dropping due to self-checkout. The price of automation continues to drop, and so if a job can be automated it will. If the minimum wage is $15, it will be replaced sooner than if the wage is $10, but the only difference is just a little more time. Sure, there will still be the occasional bank teller, cashier, just as there is currently the occasional farmer and factory worker, but the number of jobs available will be small compared to now.
So, it doesn't work for you. What if you were paid a reasonable amount? what if you could set it so that only riders with 4.9/5.0 for cleanliness could ride in it? Either the business model is going to work (using other people's cars) or not, and that depends on the flexiblity / price / benefits. And if it doesn't work with Uber, the try Lyft, or one of the other competitors that is going to pop up.
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I'm sorry to have to worry about this, but the fact that a chinese security firm bought Opera sets off lots of red flags to me. What, if anything, is it sending back to the mothership?
Try the TrackMeNot plugin: https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ and source at: https://github.com/vtoubiana/T...
It doesn't hide anything that you are doing, so the signal is still there, but it sure puts up a lot of noise. If you are technically minded, please consider improving the software / forking and trying different things.
I don't see this at all. RT has high scores on some pretty obscure, niche movies; they seem to like arty, symbolic, deep, foreign, etc.. It seems to me that if you have broad cross section, anodyne, bland movie, it will get 60 or 70%. The reviewers will say 'meh' to it, and you'll think 'It will be fine'. It takes a pretty bad movie to get a low score. However, it takes a pretty good movie to get a high score. Mass-market stuff gets a medium score. It seems (to me) to do its job really well.
The guy said: "I’ve seen some great movies with really abysmal Rotten Tomatoes scores,” I'll ask you since I can't ask him. Like what? What low scoring movies (and we're talking below 30% on RT) did you actually like?
Rotten Tomatoes is an aggregator, and so it is very limited. You have to look at the individual reviews to figure out why the reviewer didn't like the movie. That said, if a movie is sitting at 27%, there is a really good reason. There is something wrong with a movie that is less than 50%. Maybe you will like it, but there is a flaw in there somewhere that caused most people that review movies to not like it.
My movie watching time is severely limited. My book reading, exercising, hobby and other time are severely limited. So, I have to decide pretty severely what I'm going to watch. Are there movies with a 30% rating that I might like? Maybe. But, why on earth would I bother going to see it, when there are movies with 70, 80, 90% ratings to go see?
What are the terms of service of the VPN service? I know that an ISP has onerous terms and I really don't have much of a choice. If the VPN wants my business, they will have to have decent terms, and that means that if they sell the data then I can sue them. You can shop around for a VPN that 1. has been in business for a while and 2. has a document that states they won't sell your data. Done.
By national law enforcement (FBI) and others (NSA, CIA), I'm sure it is. However, your ISP won't have access to it, so they won't be selling it. If the Feds have your browsing info, you are unlikely to get a popup saying 'Looks like you are shopping for a hooker, try these!' Or whatever it is that you've been googling for. And, more importantly, it won't be popping up when your significant other, parents, children, siblings are browsing.
The Feds are scary and we need to have better ways to prevent them from abusing civil liberties. But I think that commercial interests are really bad too, and are more likely to actually negatively affect your life.
Nah, they just make the yellow shorter to cause more people to run red lights. See: https://www.motorists.org/blog...
Sure it scales: record the video of you lecturing and the interpreter.
Can you please elaborate? Person A posts a video, person B (completely unrelated to A) sues them because person A's video doesn't have good closed captioning. How is that person A's problem?
F. UC Berkeley (note the extra 'e') requires UC Berkeley students to view the videos as part of a course.
Well, it's really machine learning, and of course machine learning is 'just' pattern matching of a sort. The important thing is that the ML system (in particular deep learning) is learning what to match. Before deep learning, the features that object recognition used were usually hand-created, consisting of SIFT points, HOGs, etc. and then the image would be represented by some array of these features that could then be classified (using a SVM or other technique). the deep learning part is that it learns what the features are, how to group them (intermediate representation), and then how to classify them.
The summary references Fei-Fei Li. Google her, read her papers. She's a leader in the field and is the originator of ImageNet. It's real machine learning.
DEKA made the iBot wheelchair for years. Not this advanced, but a whole lot better than a standard one. At $25,000, it was too expensive and didn't sell much. This would be even more expensive and would sell less. You would think that $25k would be not too much to give someone their freedom, but people that need them just can't afford them.
The problem, unfortunately, is not technology, it's money.
By definition, that's impossible. Natural language is too ambiguous, so cannot specify a computer program of useful complexity. Programming has to know what you really want, handle edge cases, handle errors, etc. By the time you have put all the requirements into a form that is useful, you've created a programming language. That's not to say that what they are doing is not useful, since DSLs are really useful and inferring some of the rest is helpful. If you can translate DSL into an existing (or new) programming language, and then have the computer identify what the edge cases / failure mechanisms are and provide ways to handle them, then you've made programming better. Much of modern computer programming consists of converting the user's requirements into a little bit of custom code, putting it in a framework, and adding whatever code snippets from StackOverflow you need to handle your problem.
Actually, buses DO clock a lot of miles/kilometers. .... That's 150mi in a single day. For a single bus.
Apparently we disagree about what a lot of miles is. An 18-wheeler will do, say, 8 hours at 70 mph; that's a long way. 150mi is something that a current electric car can do. A bus can have a higher percentage of it's mass devoted to the batteries. So, range is no problem whatsoever in this scenario (looping). A long range run could easily be too far, but that's not most of them.
Yes, the battery will weigh more than a engine + fuel. You'd have to do the math to determine if it is favorable, if you include efficiency, cost of electrical, maintenance, cost of gas, regen, etc.
First, it should be "routers may affect the monitor". Second, well, there is no second, because the rest makes sense.
Why the lead poisoning? Yes, your head will heat up (and if you are lucky it will explode and make a nice mess for someone to clean up. See 'Infinite Jest'). But what does lead poisoning have to do with it?
The casinos know who has problems, just like they know they tamper with the air to make people feel more euphoric
How do they tamper with the air? Do they increase the level of oxygen? That's insidious! It would also make cigarettes burn faster, assuming people were allowed to smoke indoors.
Only, people are allowed to smoke indoors, as long as it is in a casino. See http://www.riverfronttimes.com... for example. (Note: not true of all locations and casinos; however, in general, casinos are able to carve out special exemptions for themselves.)
I interview people and help hire them for my projects (technical lead, not hiring manager). I would prefer github. 1. It means that you're more 'up to date'; 2. it's just easier to use. Honestly though, don't put your software links on your resume unless it is _good_. Having a crappy piece of software on there is concerning, since then you are advertising crap, and you clearly are proud of your crap. Don't want that. You have a reasonable readme for it, it has to build with a script, has to have code comments, be well organized, not have a zillion issues.
You want to impress a developer? Point out where you contributed to a team effort. Find a feature request in a known open source project and implement it, and have it accepted. Or fix a bug, and make a pull request. Then, be able to explain why it fit into the overall effort. If you do that, someone will think to themselves, 'hey, this person makes something other people think is worthwhile, and they worked in a group, and solved a real problem.'
Multiple companies work by providing free software, advertise that they produce it, provide services for it, etc. For example, cmake is produced, supported, and advertised by Kitware (see: https://cmake.org/). It's great advertising for them. (Note, I am not associated with Kitware, but I know some of the developers.)
There is a possible a business model for a company to create the software that the person wants and release it for free and use that to advertise their services. And there is a distinct possibility that the person has come up with an idea that the company has not and would be interested in. So, how would that person make the idea known to companies looking for ideas?
I do wonder if he actually released the videos if he'd have a better case. Put up a crappy web site, with the videos, etc. Making the claim that the business was owned by someone else, claiming business contacts, etc. is fraud, but becoming a pornographer is pretty trivial. If this guy was so far into it as he is accused of, it seems like he would only have to go a little further to make it semi-legit.
gotta love idiots like you. you contradict someone's claim and post a link defending their claim.
The claim was that there is no such things a fraudulent sex (or 'rape by fraud'). The link indicates that there wasn't, but that the law was changed that made it illegal. The article says: 'The decision angered victims advocates and state lawmakers, who changed the archaic law in September 2013 to protect "unmarried women who are defrauded into having sex with a person," the district attorney's office said.'
It's a very convenient place to put your code to share with others, since everybody knows about it, has an account, and trusts it not to screw over the developer too hard. Sourceforge is not trustworthy and running my own is a pain in the ass. Just throw it up on github, publish the URL, and everybody gets to use it. If they do start screwing people over, they will move just like people moved away from sourceforge.
So do the vast majority of NSA employees, as in every government bureaucracy. the only ones that can make policy are the high-level political appointees. The rest are the people that have to carry out the policies, as best they can. If you can only follow orders, why not be paid a large amount of money rather than a small amount of money?
No, the jobs of bank tellers has dropped dramatically with the rise of the ATM. The number of cashiers in grocery stores / Home Depot has already started dropping due to self-checkout. The price of automation continues to drop, and so if a job can be automated it will. If the minimum wage is $15, it will be replaced sooner than if the wage is $10, but the only difference is just a little more time. Sure, there will still be the occasional bank teller, cashier, just as there is currently the occasional farmer and factory worker, but the number of jobs available will be small compared to now.
So, it doesn't work for you. What if you were paid a reasonable amount? what if you could set it so that only riders with 4.9/5.0 for cleanliness could ride in it? Either the business model is going to work (using other people's cars) or not, and that depends on the flexiblity / price / benefits. And if it doesn't work with Uber, the try Lyft, or one of the other competitors that is going to pop up.