It looks nice, and I’ve used similar solutions in the past. The problems are; when you update your server’s local library to a new version of iTunes or the operating system gets updated, the web app breaks. Webserver goes down, breaks. Sneeze, breaks. 2 years from now, project unsupported, breaks.
Music is one of those things that you just want to work 100%, all the time. For this reason I don’t have any Wi-Fi speakers. Everything is hardwired, except the remote.
For the last 10 years I’ve been using apple remote on top of iTunes. This allows me to create persistent connections between my iPhone iPad to my Remote iTunes sever which is an old MBA in a closet. It has a battery backup for power outages, I can play any music in the 16,000 song library, buy and download new music from my iPhone and instantly be able to play it on the server and the interface looks nice. This system has been more robust than some of my client’s AV systems designed by a pro audio team with whole-home solution costing $$$$$. Let’s just hope Apple continues to support Remote.
> All of the slippery slope arguments have already been possible for nearly a decade now with the cloud.
That doesn't make it ok. The fact that you and my mom have normalized bad behavior doesn't make it any less offensive to my civil liberties.
> Am I the only one who finds no issue with this?
If you only think about the first order effects. This is great, we catch a bunch of kid sex pedos. The second order effects are much more dire. "slippery slope" sure... but false arrests, lives ruined based on mere investigations revealing nothing, expanding the role of government peering in to our personal lives, resulting suicides, corporations launching these programs - then defending them - then expanding them due to government pressure is *guaranteed*, additional PR and propaganda from corporations and government for further invasion in our personal lives due to the marketed/claimed success of these programs. The FBI has been putting massive pressure on Apple for years, due to the dominance and security measures of iOS.
Say what you want about the death penalty, but many many innocent people have dead in a truly horrific way, with some actually being tortured while being executed. That is a perfect example of second order effects on something most of us without any further information (ending murderous villains is a good thing) would agree on. So many Death Row inmates have been exonerated and vindicated.
I travel the northeast (Acela corridor) by car and I can attest this map for voice coverage is not accurate to what you are actually capable of using.
Ironically, there is an area marked with coverage from all major providers that locally is of great contention because there is no cell service even for EMT, and ATT wants to put an antenna on the mountain over looking an untouched lake.
The locals would be quite happy to see there is no need for a giant ugly antenna to toxify their natural odyssey as they (according to the map) already have great coverage...
Not exactly VX, but Amiton (also known as Tetram or VG). It's about one tenth as toxic as VX, and similar in toxicity as sarin.
In 1975 the Iraqi ministry of agriculture negotiated with a U.S. company, Pfaudler, for a contract to build a pesticide production plant. The deal eventually fell through because Pfaudler did not understand why the Iraqis insisted on manufacturing Amiton instead of some safer alternative.
That's simply not true. If he were in jail for downloading child porn there would need to be proof. There is none. He's in jail for contempt of court, not child porn.
Except that it is true. That's exactly how I read the article, so it is guaranteed to be a true statement about how to find a readable version of the article.
I didn't say to subvert the paywall with google. I said that you can google for sites that have the article.
These photographs aren't very good. Yes, hundreds or thousands of photos per day is a lot. The difference between a good picture and a really good picture might be hours more setup and post processing.
This is stereotypical Chinese manufacturing tactics being applied to modeling. Cut workers rights, cut quality, setup, safety, compensation, and time to market.
In shear numbers it's impressive but when I see how they doing it, it's a face palm moment
This might be one of those (quantity === quality ) situations.
What's that parable about the pottery class? The class is split in half at the beginning of the semester. Half A has an assignment to produce as many clay pots as possible, Half B just has to produce one perfect clay pot by year-end. At the end of the year, Half B has failed to produce perfection, while Half A has produced a dozen perfect pots by accident just in the course of cranking them out.
You gotta dig through a lot of dirt to get to the gems, but at a certain scale, the gems get really good.
Maybe it's the Indian in me but I thought it was great. Yes quality is not going to be as great as a shot that takes hours to set up, but at the same time, do we really need top quality for every single photo? Do we need to spend hours for catalogues that are going to be thrown out the next day. No, you just need to quickly display the clothing. I think there's something to be said for getting the job done effectively.
They can get the setup right before the model shows up. They didn't show the post processing, so obviously you have no idea what's involved in that. I don't see any reason it'd be lacking compared to some other effort.
I think Netflix probably did it because people are inherently bad at being objective. For the average person, 2 stars for a movie and 4 for another isn't based on anything measurable, even they couldn't explain. I'm shocked at some of the amazon product reviews, most of which are 5 star reviews even if the product is absolutely terrible. Movies are different than products, but it's the same people doing the reviewing. Remember, the average user is not a thinking analytical HN user. Average people are much better at bool choices.
I know I'm in the minority here, but I am a big fan of the new system. I would torture myself trying to decide between, e.g., 3 or 4 stars for movie. And then go back and re-rate other movies that I realized I liked more but rated lower than the just-rated movie.
Their % match numbers are fairly accurate, but I have had to go into the watch history and delete the occasional movie watched and finished that we actually hated. No number of 1-stars (or thumbs downs) would eradicate its effects on the recommendations.
5 - Absolutely loved it, will buy a disc
4 - Good, but won't buy a disc
3 - Movie was okay
2 - Not a good movie
1 - Stopped watching 20 minutes into it
My problem with binary choice is that 1 == 2 and 3 == 4 == 5, whilst 1 and 5 were very special for me. :(
Plus the scale bias differing vastly between people and cultures makes the data a mess. Like say or me a 5 means 100% perfect, Why discreet choice stuff is all the rage in the market research world. (unless that's changed in last few years)
Asking people "which of these 3 things you like best" vs. "rate these 3 things 1-5" will usually give you much more useful data, plus be easier for respondents.
Popular recommendation algorithm like collaborative filtering by matrix factorization takes into account the accounts for user and item biases (the simplest method is to normalize the ratings of a particular user by the average of ratings of that user).
Couldn't you control for that by weighting people's ratings by the range in which they provide them? Like weighting a 5-star review a bit more from someone who averages 3's than someone whose ratings average 4's? Far from perfect sure but I bet it could save a lot of results from needing to be thrown out.
With stars you can cross compare with others to see if they have the same score. With simple thumbs up recommendations you cannot compare the ratings as the score is whether it appears to you or not.
The bro who hits on, and strikes out, fist bumps is ok in my book, it was an honest appeal to date. It went down like the Hindenburg. He tried to move on. She's holding on to it, though it seems innocent. The rest of this is terrible. I can't believe... I believe all of this is. I know all of these people. These are 'dudes' you and I know, neighbors, co-workers, roommates.... family members. Is the solution just "hey bro, STFU!"?
One possible solution is to talk. To keep talking and amplify different opinions.
I've lost count of how many times I've seen men "quiz" a woman when she says she likes sports or managers saying they cannot "lower the bar to prioritize diversity"
One thing that can be done is pause for a moment and reflect how the same sentence might look if said to a male. Would you "quiz" your buddy when he says he likes sports? If not, don't do it with a woman.
Exactly it is extremely unprofessional to do that when you see a co-worker for the first time, especially when they're only an intern and there's a major power difference
I absolutely agree with everything you said with one exception.
> "Protect and Serve"
Everyone thinks that the police's job is their motto. It was some strategic messaging, but they came up with that. Police weren't created to protect and serve. Going back to the foundations of the country's policing strategy, police exist to maintain order. That's why they arrest protesters, shoot unarmed guys who are noncompliant, arrest people for selling cigarette singles. That subtle shift in how we perseve their job explains vertically all of their behavior as of late.
Interesting you chose those specific examples. Police killing black men in those instances did the opposite of what you claim. They turned orderly to disorderly.
> Going back to the foundations of the country's policing strategy, police exist to maintain order
Very un-Peelian policing. Could you give more background on how and when the foundations of US policing strategy were laid, because it seems to be very fragmentary and local?
Music is one of those things that you just want to work 100%, all the time. For this reason I don’t have any Wi-Fi speakers. Everything is hardwired, except the remote.
For the last 10 years I’ve been using apple remote on top of iTunes. This allows me to create persistent connections between my iPhone iPad to my Remote iTunes sever which is an old MBA in a closet. It has a battery backup for power outages, I can play any music in the 16,000 song library, buy and download new music from my iPhone and instantly be able to play it on the server and the interface looks nice. This system has been more robust than some of my client’s AV systems designed by a pro audio team with whole-home solution costing $$$$$. Let’s just hope Apple continues to support Remote.