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Author of Python port of Unidecode here. I wrote a comment previously, pointing out that Unidecode does the reverse of Mimic. But then I actually checked the tables of characters that Mimic uses and deleted my comment.

Mimic chooses replacement characters solely based on their visual similarity with ASCII. Unidecode, while still doing character-by-character replacements without deeper analysis, tries to optimize the replacement tables for transliteration of natural languages.

For example, mimic will replace Latin capital H with Greek capital eta (U+0397), because they look similar. However, Unidecode will replace U+0397 with Latin capital E, because Latin E is typically used in place of Greek eta when transliterating Greek text to Latin.
On top of that, Etsy will be/is facing extra pressure from companies like Amazon with their soon to be offered Marketplace (I think that's the name). My wife has an Etsy shop, and talks with a lot of other Etsy shop owners in her space, and Etsy is not well thought of in the handcrafted world. So far she's had nothing but nice things to say about the Amazon experience, and is eager for it to go live.

Couple that with Etsy's continued lack of support for sellers at some really basic levels... let's just say people are still on Etsy only because a good number of people still think Etsy means handmade.

This is on top of Etsy's complete lack of communication in allowing Etsy sellers get in early on Etsy stock despite the misinformation in suggesting that it had made it possible to do so.
Yes, it sounds hilarious to me, but I think it says more about the technical knowledge of the population they are trying to communicate with than TalkTalk's own technical knowledge.
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Yeah, yeah .. I'm not the one thinking only old guys know about System font.
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That doesn't stop software patents on literally millions of long established practices.
Why is the Stack Overflow website so fast?
If Uber works, you won't be happy about it, period. Their top management has constantly demonstrated sociopathic behaviour over the last few years. They show no respect for law, dignity, privacy and are willing to screw over journalists and their own drivers alike. What exactly do you think will happen if they win? Will the company suddenly discover God and become a good citizen?

Their tech is good, but they are a menace to society.
How will the total stock of vehicles decreasing result in cheaper Ubers? It seems like that would lower supply (fewer cars to provide transport) and increased demand (fewer people with their own cars => more people turning to Uber).

The article agrees that a more efficient use of resources won't cause (net) harm. It claims it might harm transportation and benefit everything else, for a net benefit.
It's a matter of the font size. At the size they're usually displayed, the characters look quite different [1] [2]. The real problem is that there's no way to mark a character as Chinese or Japanese on HN. So if it actually was the same character it would've been displayed identically. A common character that looks very different in Japanese and Chinese is 直 [3] and there's only one Unicode codepoint for it.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AF%8F
[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AF%8E

[3] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%9B%B4
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There's no such thing as a PhD in deep learning. Your best bet is going to be doing machine learning at a top-tier CS school that has someone who is interested in it. But you're still going to have to take architecture, algorithms, OSes, TA, etc.
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Uber is providing transportation options that didn't exist before they did, at least where I am. There are something like 15 taxis in the entire corner of the state where I live, and they are expensive, and generally terrible.

Uber is keeping a lot of drunk people off the road, which is a big win for us and for them.
Wtf is this garbage website all it does is link you to the actual article.

Not to mention that the article itself doesn't even mention bigger e-commerce platforms like Demandware
Judging by past experiences, I am specifically avoiding Amazon-branded electronic products. Amazon, the store, is great and very convenient. But Amazon-branded stuff always tends toward lock-in and lacks interoperability with other services. No thanks.
It's not the same. It's written differently.
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People have done this with small mirrors for a long time.
I'm not sure I agree that Tyler's point is of major significance, but yours seems even more wrong.

I think Tyler's point is, there is a stock of underutilized cars that gets converted to Ubers. Hypothetically, I needed a car for work, and I decide to drive it for Uber on weekends.

In the long run, I decide I don't need a car because Ubers are so available. The supply of Ubers then goes down, while demand goes up, since I don't have the option to drive myself.

I don't think there is any mechanism here that would drive the cost of an Uber ride down. Total transportation cost goes down because the total of Uber plus self-driven cars go down, but the mix goes to more Uber, less self-driven cars.

I think as Uber over time ceases to benefit from an 'arb' where it piggy-backs on sunk-cost cars and personal insurance, the cost of Uber-ing goes up, but overall transport cost goes down because people don't have to pay for underutilized cars.

It's possible that over time the mix of cars goes to utilitarian electric models, and a 'fun' car becomes a specialty item like a high-end sports car is today, and some people don't love their new options.

But if you believe in free markets, you would have to say that the market has spoken and arrived at a revealed preference for paying less for transport in a utilitarian vehicle that is not underutilized.
Sure. That "If" kind of makes it moot. That's all I was trying to point out - that it's a documentation thing rather than something in the design of the chip and how it works.

Edit: What do you mean "still treat it as xchg"? On those chips, isn't there no distinction between xchg and what we might retrospectively call "nop"? Perhaps this is something I'm missing.
Yes, I can imagine it.

I think revolution is more imaginable than war and even though we've made a lot of progress on war, it's not unimaginable. I'm not a Marxists and I don't think these things are deterministic, but I do think certain societal conditions make revolutions more likely.

If you look around the world today, most "wars" are civil conflicts or centre around civil conflicts or something in that neighborhood. Ukraine, Syria, Israel, Korea, Taiwan… The line between civil conflict and revolution is pretty blurry.

The dominant revolutionary paradigms are religious, national and economic-ideological. The last one's big examples are the US-French revolutions and their communist descendants. It's not as much of a big paradigm now. I think the intellectual zeitgeist has moved passed it. New paradigms emerge though and old ones like religion and nationalism have a long half life.

To go back to the quasi-marxist point… I think economic inequality plays a role. If enough people have little enough of the income generating power, whether that's capital or labour (or land and privilege or whatever the system), they have no interest in maintaining the status quo. I think capitalism's "raises all boats" promise is a key promise. If it holds no power, I think revolution becomes a greater possibility.
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No mention of the fact that CSS actually has a mechanism to use OS system fonts? 'caption', 'menu', 'message-box' are all, for example, available system fonts.

This is actually a bit of a quirk in the syntax of the CSS 'font' property - http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-shorthand - in that it's not strictly only a shorthand for size/style/family properties, because you can use 'message-box' as a complete font specification, but you can't use '20pt bold message-box'. On the other hand, you can stack 'font: message-box; font-weight: bold; font-size:20px;', so thats not actually a limitation.

Not sure what the browser support situation is, as 'caniuse' and 'quirksmode' haven't dug into the details of support for the CSS 'font' property, but it looks to be doing what you'd expect in chrome on OS X. YMMV.

Looks like this isn't the first time someone's missed this? http://furbo.org/2015/07/09/i-left-my-system-fonts-in-san-fr...
Cool! How do you do that?
That seems useful. Can you share it?
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This would be a question for a copyright lawyer.

My unenlightened guess would be that you would be breaking the terms of service of the website, and if you argued that you "never agreed" to the terms of service, then you didn't have a license to use the media anyway, so you would be infringing copyright.
Dual EC specifies two standard curve points. The "kleptographic" back door is the relationship between them, i.e. the knowledge of d in the equation P = dQ. This hidden relationship was apparent to cryptographers pretty quickly, see http://rump2007.cr.yp.to/15-shumow.pdf.

What would it mean for a curve to have a "kleptographic" back door? Only one base point P is defined in the curve parameters, so there is no hidden relationship to take advantage of. It is possible there are weaknesses in the NIST curves, but if so:

1. They must lie in the curve parameters themselves, i.e. something anyone could conceivably discover.

2. They must rely on a significant advance in ECDLP, e.g. a new class of weak curve.
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That's great, and hopefully more such services become available - apparently there's a market there.

I'm not questioning their tech, or even the value of service they currently provide. I'm only very, very seriously worried of a company with such weak moral backbone dominating the market. Does anyone seriously believe they won't start exploiting their position if they win big?
Thankfully there is no broad copyright protection of fashion designs, otherwise we might see numerous cases like this brought to court and bogging down the industry.

It's unfortunate that this designer feels he was 'stolen' from, but his designs are incredibly similar to older designs anyway.
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How can breaks not stop the engine?! Parking break being a different thing, but the main ones?
I've started using a private slack team for sharing with my partner and it's been brilliant. I'm not sure I really want a service where the communication channel is any less about integrating other services and rapid communication.
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> IMO there isn't a single thing you can do with a AGPL licensed piece of SW that you cannot do with a MIT licensed one

Sure there is. You can prevent others from imposing restrictions. If someone takes your non-copyleft software and uses it to build something that forbids people from knowing what's in it, how it works, or what it does with their data, then you are helpless to stop it.
When you think an submitted website adds no value over the original source you can email the mods with a link to the HN thread and a link to the better source.

They seem responsive and happy to make that kind of change.
> all-hand-crafted philosophy

I write software for desktop CNC machines, and am a maker myself who periodically sells his work. I constantly am thinking about what it means to be 'hand-made'. The machines I write software for can only make one thing at a time, it isn't large scale manufacturing. The designs are hand-crafted, I suppose, but they are of course made digitally. The machine is controlled by the computer, so the process of carving doesn't involve any manual skill. However a piece is rarely 'finished' the moment it comes off the machine. An added level of complexity, for myself at least, is that I am writing the software that controls the machine. Does that make the things my machine creates any 'more hand-crafted'? I like to think it does, but I'm not sure!
I could rule out cultural aspects. If I wanted to ignore the long history of gendered culture in both places. As well as centuries of male dominance.
So the article seems to suggest that for smaller clusters use Kubernetes, for larger ones use Mesos.

Would people agree?
"win"?
I feel like the dynamics are way too fuzzy to point at one group of people an say "this is the cause of outrage culture, and that is the dominate driver of unexpected inequality flux". The US has a host of initial conditions (heterogeneous population, very young age, combination of high overall wealth as well as extreme wealth inequality) that makes it very difficult to compare apples to apples with much of the world.

It appears that there are only ~2.5k genders studies majors matriculating at any given year [1]. I doubt that's pushing the needle appreciably in terms identity politics. IMO I'd look more too the cognitive dissonance between the gap in achievement of the wealthy vs poor and the taboo in talking about any sort of income inequality in this country as a more potent driver to the under-directed efforts to impose a slanted "equality" in the name of social good.

[1]http://www.nwsa.org/files/NWSA_CensusonWSProgs.pdf
> Not sure it would help any, it's not exactly hard to find very low quality code on Github.

Because it's open and findable. I think that was the point.
Can we get a patent on prior art itself?
If you say so. Explain how am I running 2K DPX 10-bit in realtime with color correction applied on Lustre then? Does my machine and Autodesk software perform magic?
The top management of every company is sociopathic. Uber just isn't experienced enough yet to appropriately hide it.
But if you are alt-tabbing, you no longer have the full suite of Sublime Text tools to work with. You don't have multiple cursors, and you can't use goto file, you don't get nice syntax highlighting, you can't select and execute SQL embedded in other source code files.

In the grand scheme of things, I think it all depends on how much you interact with a db. If you just run an odd command here and there, $30 may seem like a lot. If you work with databases for an hour or more a day, this could be a huge time-saver.
I added a link in that thread, but I'll post it here also as this is currently front-page and may be of use to readers:

Pastebin message reported to be from the hackers [1] contains Islamic State references/language and some samples of the data breach.

[1] http://pastebin.com/HHT4BxJA
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A PhD isn't so much about learning the material as it is about learning to manage and complete projects. Your job is to identify unsolved problems, come up with ideas to solve them, and carry it through to a few completed research projects. Depending on your field, a lot of this can become more managing logistics and people than "pure" research.

In my experience (which, admittedly, has only involved much less flexible corporations than Google), you don't get to the level of responsibility you have as a PhD student or postdoc until you've been with a large corporation for >20 years.

I admit I have a slightly skewed view, but I've very skeptical that this is anywhere close to a complete PhD program.

It looks a lot more like a 1-year internship on an R&D team. Still a very good and useful thing, but you're not the one responsible for completion of projects.
Is this not basically saying the same thing that is shown in the double slit experiment?

Short video on the double slit experiment for the layman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc
If this was supposed to be a solution to a beaver overpopulation problem, I'm really interested in how the government planned on scaling this to an effective beaver volume -- since the video only shows two or three beavers being dropped from a fairly small GA taildragger.

It'd also be interesting to know if this could have applications as a discreet bioagent delivery vector (either as a weapon, or as something less destructive).
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Pastebin message from TalkTalk databreach hackers
So you would argue that men (particularly young men) do not exhibit greater risk taking behaviour than women? Or do you have some other explanation for this propensity?

Non-humans do not I think enter into the discussion, and a strategy doesn't have to be universal to have a big enough effect on our psychology to be worth worrying about at the level of education policy.
Hopefully competitors will spring up, especially if Uber behaves "badly"

Also once driverless cars are available, starting competing businesses should become trivial (aside from having the necessary capital), and in fact it's quite possible that the final outcome will be the car manufacturer themselves offering an Uber-like service instead of selling the cars.
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Global wages have increased, US wages have fallen in mean reversion t to the global average.

Immigration makes workers participate in paying for your society's taxes and paying for its social expenditures. Outsourcing is a vote against your own standard of living. But it helps more people than it hurts, if you ignore national interests!
https://www.ispyconnect.com/

I've used this with cheap ($100-150) IP cameras and I believe there are mobile applications that can make a smartphone act as an IP camera as well, although I'd imagine they may not always be ideal since they're not meant to be running/recording like that all the time.

Still, I've done exactly what you describe before getting a NAS with surveillance/IPCam monitoring software. Run iSpy on an old computer in a closet, set it up so the recordings go in your Drive/Dropbox/etc. folder and set the max archive size depending on your available storage or how much you want to eat up. That way your stuff if stored locally and you can still access recent recordings elsewhere via your online storage. You can skip the online storage part if you want, or I believe there is a "pro" service with iSpy that gives online options but I never used them.

On its own, it's a great bit of software and once you tweak the settings a bit (recording quality/format, motion detection sensitivity, etc) it's pretty flexible and you should be able to get it working reasonably well on even older hardware. I've run it on old Core2Duo laptops as well as my more modern desktop. Encoding lots of streams can get demanding on the old gear but for a cam or two it's not too bad.
I wonder if the author has protested at any point (getting into an unmarked vehicle, not being returned to original destination, being ordered to take the clothes off (!?)). I also wonder if he was formally informed of the reason behind the detainment.

And finally: if ever faced with such a situation, does a person have the right to a) record everything that happens on the phone (including faces of the police officers + audio), and b) if asked to stop, would it be ok to say "i have the right to record all you do" or something similar?
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Not true. Observation can happen on a continuum. See quantum backaction of a variable strength measurement by hatridge et al
>The better Uber gets, the more people can do without cars

Perhaps, but fares would have to drop by about half.

My daily commute is 18-25 minutes each way. Current Uber rate is about $20-25 to get me between home and work (midwest metropolitan city). That works out to 249 * $ 20 * 2=$9960 / year to take Uber currently. True cost to own for my current vehicle is between $4000-5000/year.

My wife has a car as well and needs one during the day. If Uber became close to cost effective with owning, I'd drop my car, take Uber, and we could use my wife's car for all our other transportation needs.
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Corruption is, by definition, bribing government officials for personal gain. Therefore corruption can only exist in the areas that are not fully free, but are regulated by a government.
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Deleting the app is a very reliable setting as well.
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Persona works by proofing you "are" that email. Your email provider needs to adopt this. If you run your own mail server you can do it yourself, if you don't, you can register with mozilla as a fallback.
Is someone trying to market mobile gaming as a therapeutic?

It looks like it does the same thing than other click-fest-attention-grabbing games on mobile OS. The claim that as you progress you need to "multitask" more, seems familiar. They maybe adding their on twist on it. So, Minion Rush with a metric based difficulty generator?
This is the first I've ever heard this viewpoint! I'm surprised. Why is Etsy not well thought of in the handcrafted world?
Well, I do for one. At least a Nexus 5 and an iPhone 4s (and I think some low end Windows phone I picked up for $60 when I was getting the N5 repaired one time).

As someone below mentioned, a lot of us have the "too old to use/still too good to toss" pile that we keep for repurposing. My other project is to build a charging wall mount for one of these to use as a controller for Hue lights, Nest, and stuff like that.
When a video game is backed by clinical trials, you could charge a ton of money for it. Like $100s per month that insurance plans will negotiate down to fewer $100s, but still 100s, per month. At least for a few years.

The difference is that games, unlike drugs, are not mechanistically patentable (correct me if wrong please). Someone could create a close-enough lookalike, and sell it for $1. And if it really works, which I sort of don't believe, then it would improve access to real therapy. A lookalike would not have some of their proprietary evaluation system based on ever-questionable psychology metrics, but I bet a few hours with the game would show the gist of it: "You're paying attention! High score!" "You're old and also can't rearrange the blocks like you used to," -->poor executive function and memory, maybe dementia, etc

And yet given the ubiquity of the standard cognitive battery tests like MMSE and Minicog, I do question whether any therapist would ever recommend a substitute. The difference is these tests are often printed out on paper and royalties are not paid to the owners, whereas a tighly controlled Saas model would really cut down on illegal distribution and encourage alternatives.
Yes, that's a very good point.
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"Brakes" are at the wheels. The only time stopping a car from rolling also affects the engine is when everything remains engaged (manual transmission, manual clutch; in gear, clutch not depressed to the floor.) In a vehicle with an automatic transmission, the transmission begins to disengage from the wheels as the wheels spin slower than the engine is pushing. (Very simplified explanation...)

i.e. brakes on cars are not designed the stop the engine but to absorb the vehicle's momentum.
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You set it up as "punishment prisons" vs. "humane prisons".

I don't think anyone says prisons should be inhumane in order to punish criminals. The imprisonment is the punishment, not the treatment inside the prison.
I don't think so. There are many bad and many good companies. Sure, over time, market pressure may push successful ones towards more and more antisocial behaviour. But here, such behaviour is an exception. I guess Uber is just far left on the normal distribution of young companies over evil/good axis.