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the MSR video of decision-tree based body recognition/segmentation was pretty neat http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/145347/CVPR%202011%20-%20... . is there a list of good applica…

Well, about 4 or 5 minutes in they switch to a PIP view, with the majority of the screen showing the slides.

An "Open for another X hours" badge might be even better. I find restaurants are always closing within a half hour or so of deciding to go out to eat.

Haha, that makes me think of 'voting' for clojure as voting for Nader. Funny, since I wrote my blog in clojure/compojure and found it easy going compared to Rails (which, to be fai…

This looks neat, but it appears to be an 'academic' exercise. I couldn't find any source code written for the JOP (the only project in the Links section was down) after scanning so…

I noticed the R packages for various functions in the text can be found here http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn//Rfun.html . Their names are pretty catchy; I'll admit…

I'd buy that. For me, listening to music while coding is an engineering problem: how to minimize the tendency to let the mind wander without overwhelming it with new input. For me …

Of course that 'solution' eventually led to the great schism and many different versions (king james, etc.). So maybe the deeper truth is that people enjoy arguing?

Ah, thanks, that makes sense. What I was thinking of was the many times I've crashed java by trying to load/render decently sized images in memory (something about how heap space t…

They should have called it clay (you know, model stuff, like with clay ;); the first thing I thought of was http://www.cray.com supercomputers. Maybe that was intentional. After br…

Not really. Although that's a funny thought. I'd go for a system that enforced a payment based upon a baseline # of listens on pandora, last.fm or youtube.

Hmm, you definitely have a point. People have rarely felt musicians should be paid (a lot) for their self-expression; I can't really recall when it was a lucrative career. What I s…

See, but this is very much the problem. Records provided an unequal distribution of wealth amongst performing artists before the internet. Why pay to listen to an up-and-coming cla…

I imagine the startup/VC|Google relationship to be like my first girlfriend: neither of you is sure what it is exactly you're doing. She knows if you want anything to do with her, …

What an imbecilic name for a company

I've always been a fan of roundabouts, especially for smaller intersections.

Although interestingly, as I post this, Bing returns the one (correct) result while Google attempts to redirect me to a Sopranos Wikipedia page and clutters the main results with a…

What's interesting is that after reading this article I've realized I always expected e-mail search to be bad. Why? Possibly because, when another entity holds a large portion of m…

previously submitted http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=694545

Mostly tangential, but I have to code in MFC at the day job (legacy code base). God, the winapi guys must have had a sadistic sense of humor when they designed it. My guess is they…

I agree that users should participate if they want to make the site better. And yes, there still are interesting posts. Still, I see people getting modded up for saying "go with th…

Why is this at -2, exactly? All mILK did was respond to a question. If people don't like the response, they should at least post a reply.

Maybe. But it's still sad to see this site change into a big site with a wider audience. I definitely care less and less for the "discussion" that takes place here, which is frustr…