kashifzaidi1

my father is deaf and mute, particularly the Pakistani sign language, one particular utility i see this can be really useful for is if the model can be trained on detecting different sign languages, then it would become possible for live translation to happen and in a distant future all people like my dad can talk with each other beyond their small communities. I don't think something like that exists.

< your abilities don't scale

True, but making a good process to replicate it further can scale

If you'd like to read how they are misinterpreting islam, here is the longer version in the book : http://www.amazon.com/No-god-but-God-Evolution/dp/1400062136

the gist is, They are interpreting things literally without any history and context of what a verse of Quran meant and revealed for, one would argue that should have been fine, but it isn't because it reduces islam to their interpretation.

Arabic is a very diverse language, with tens of meanings for a word (often contradictory) and which one you pick and choose depends upon what type of a person you are, if you are a hate mongering terrorist, you would find those meanings to justify your terror like isis is doing, if you are a peace loving feminist, you would find plenty to justify that (using the same verses). This would mean that their interpretation would depend alot on their socio economic status, the kind of society they live in, the world view they have etc.

People often judge islam by the norms of 6th century arabia, Islam has a evolutionary process in place called ijtihad, which the intolerant people don't seem to use. But if you would have to judge islam, you would have to either assume yourself to be in 6th century to see why they were relevant at that time, or to remove them so to understand the general direction islam gives.

I use meldium, it has teams, and the chrome extension is a life saver.

Kudos, never knew that!

I am in that same trap, any advice for someone to break the shackles? especially for someone located in Pakistan?

just to reiterate, i am saying to change the mindset we handle the privacy, They can have you in a hundred different ways without you noticing. all i am saying is we (as users) make them care enough to be on our side and not collect info without telling us in the best ux possible.

Yes, good point, That would be traumatising to handle, all i am saying is, its a debate we need to have, and this cannot be left in the dark corners of modern web. This is just a proposal which imho covers all the bases, what we choose to do with it may change according to local geographical conditions and mindsets.

The point is not weather people are fine with it or not, the point was if they aren't they should have that choice to control the things they share. you dont always know what will come and bite you in the ass after a while. In my country, there has been an active targeted killing going on of a particular sect of the mainstream religion, We don't know who is involved, but in conditions like this, even information such trivial can be vital for your security.

yes, i second that to the letter, only if we lived in that perfect society.

interestingly, we have seen such demo's before. The fear is these things will fade away like many interesting computer interfaces in the past due to no industrial application. I personally think it will be a great help in logistics. But when you put that in numbers, it would cost much more and will be ignored.

Well its not fair if you judge the extent of privacy by some teens deleting there facebook photos. Things are systematically designed online to make people okay when they are potentially giving up privacy. More thoughts on http://kashif.io/thoughts-on-privacy

You should take a different approach. Your target audience aren't the decision makers. a. Try to sell the product to the decision makers in that business (school management etc.). Pitch them about saving resources. (employee time) b. If for some reason you still wanna target the employees. Let them use it for a small number of cards (say 5% of what the general average for an employee is) and then make them pay for more. (they will only realise there time and effort saved when the witness it.(Pitching to them isn't really gonna help)

Well definitely it is an interesting idea, outsourcing your QA. But as you pointed out the problem really is to validate if people want it or not. Personally, when you outsource such a core part of your service, co-ordination becomes an issue. But it is a valid idea.