skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For everyone who seems to be getting false negatives, it's because you're tracing a space too large.

I was initially getting robot returns, but it seems to have a higher tolerance for not binding the entire target, rather than trying to get the entire thing and having non-target space in the enclosure.

With that out of the way...this isn't safe. Interesting idea, but not safe. All that's needed is an algorithm that finds the object existing in both images. This is trivial with your current setup because size doesn't matter, recognizing two clocks is pretty easy even if one takes up a full picture and the other takes up a corner.

Some possibilities, and problems with each:

1. If you try a more rigorous system, where there's two pictures full of images in both, then you might have a better chance. But you'll still be giving text instructions to specify which image is the one you need to trace, and this can be automated as stated above. As soon as you state the word of the image, it's going to be algorithm-able, unless you make the image so blurry or incomprehensible as to fool both machines and humans, which defeats the purpose.

2. You could specify nothing, and instead tell the human to trace two matching objects. Regardless of whether or not there's more than one matching set, you can still automate this and pass with a machine.

I think this is an interesting, and perhaps capable idea, but it's far away from having any practical or secure utility.
No pop-ups, but lots of weird Asynchronous loading going on in the background. I found that deleting the advert that's about halfway down the text from the DOM tree improved matters.
I appreciate how the article frames it as a matter of Google preserving their own reputation, as opposed to principle, or it being "the right thing to do." They have been receiving information requests with gag orders attached for years, but are only fighting it now that the cat's out of the bag and they have something to lose. Until then, it seems that Google was fine with the situation as it stood.

I think it's an important distinction to make, and underlines how companies ultimately serve their own self interest before anything else; they're not acting nobly, and the ultimate responsibility lies with the individual.
So meta-data of that would be "[Beep]"
Ok. Someone please debunk the last point about the coroner. If that's really true there should be legitimate attention brought to this.
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From the beginning, G+ games were forbidden from polluting your stream. You only saw your friends' game activity when you explicitly went to the Game tab.
Worse, it /did/ work that way in Python 2.4 but Python 2.5 stopped throwing an exception for invalid codepoints which broke the Twisted library which broke their canonicalization function.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/30/no-answers-...
Yet another solution to drive down the storage costs for NSA? ;))
Oh absolutely. Have you tried the Chromebook Pixel from Google?
No popups, it definitely helps to just use Chrome's builtin javascript white-list.
It was a really dumb question for me to have asked; it's like I dared them.
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If that were the case, we'd need separate codepoints for every letter used as a unit of measurement, from A for ampere onwards. In fact, it's just there for legacy reasons, as pointed out elsewhere: the convention for units of measurement is to use normal letters, regardless of whether those are Latin or Greek.
what i usually do is right click, select inspect element, and delete the element (and any sort of blanket/covering over the actual content). This gives them no opportunity to force javascript popups.
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The TL;DR is that the app store EULA is incompatible with the GPL.

The main issue is that the GPL stipulates that the licensor cannot restrict distribution above and beyond the GPL's terms. Because apps must also be distributed under Apple's ToS, the app author would violate the GPL (e.g. due to DRM and regional restrictions).

Basically, this is Apple protecting their asses as well as the developer. Any downstream dev could sue you for using their GPL library (or at least force you off the app store). This is why build of VLC was yanked.

The FSF has a good article on it: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/more-about-the-app-store-...
While, as others pointed out, the well-known Collateral Murder video is in part about the US Government murdering a team of journalists, I don't see anything on that page or on the timeline it links to saying the US Government was involved in murdering Don Bolles.
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But of course you're also free to fork the last published open source version of the documentation.
So is the GPL, imo.
I hate car crashes. It's such a waste of life. We have the technology to prevent these, it's just a matter of investing in getting them into every car on the road.
I had a similar experience whereby I basically walked in to buy a screen cleaning solution. Upon checkout, the agent flat out told me "You know, this is really pricey and you could get a cheaper one for more value at the target just off a block from here".

I must say, I was quite surprised and thrilled at the same time. Sure, I could get an inexpensive one.. But for that kind of thoughtful service, I actually just felt like buying it! I didn't though, still a college student..
Doing a clean reinstall (not just restoring image) seemed to solve similar problems for me in the past; I probably could have debugged exactly what files were messed up, but a fresh install was a whole lot easier. I've had this happen a few times, particularly on systems which were 10.7 and then various 10.7 and 10.8 Developer Previews finally updated to release 10.8.

I'm having a weird problem right now where iMessage doesn't work on an iCloud account for a system which had iMessage installed separately (on what, 10.7? I forget), then upgraded. Presumably the same fix will work.
wasn't this the premise of the Israeli startup, Better Place? which just went bankrupt?
It might have done better if it was open. They only allowed a few companies in with the idea that later they would open it up. Treating a web gaming market like consoles did not in fact work. Chrome Store was open so this always boggled my mind, considering Facebook was open as well.
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You're completely missing the point.

Let's take the worst-case disaster scenario: Terrorists are going to get a nuclear weapon and blow up a major city every year. Millions of deaths per year.

Here are two ways to prevent this:

A) We read everyone's private correspondence without prior suspicion and arrest anyone who we think has obtained nuclear materials necessary to make a bomb. Obviously if we hadn't arrested them they would have killed millions of people, so reading everyone's private correspondence without prior suspicion has saved millions of lives per year.

B) We track down and secure all the nuclear material (e.g. what the Russians have lost) using traditional investigative work so that terrorists can't get it. Since it's too hard for them to make themselves, this prevents them from obtaining a nuclear weapon, problem solved.

C) We send undercover operatives into terrorist networks and disrupt them before they ever get off the ground.

You don't need A if B works. You don't need A if C works. You don't need A if any of D through Z works either.
Ok, it wasn't entirely clear to me that you'd been in court over this after the law was enacted. That certainly is good news.

Does indeed sound like the directive is tailor made to make ingress/egress snooping on data useful. The kind of snooping we saw with NSA's "secret rooms". Such illegal wire tapping would fit very well with meta data stored at the ISP level -- and could also explain why anyone not at that level are not required to store meta data (it would be redundant).
>>Theres an ethical responsibility ... that the OP is blatently neglecting

Did you not see the "I am not a doctor" disclaimer?

I'm serious. I personally talked about this to my doctor – the same guy who told me a year ago that the best thing I could do to be healthy is eat a varied, vegetable-rich, meat-low, Pollanesque diet – and he thought it was a good idea. And I recommend people do the same thing.
The problem with top list is it rarely changes. Day after day, you are seeing the same and expecting the same. What's the point?
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> Were it not for all of these shenanigans maybe we could have all healed from 9/11 by now.

This thought created a particularly deep reaction in me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Reynolds
It sounds really tinfoil hatish to say that but I worry about that too. Nothing like jumping into war to take the citizens minds off what ever it is they are going on about. I'd prefer it was some sort of 'good news' distraction of course.
OK, so FB uses SSL on all their pages. Assuming the NSA is FB's ISP, how does that help the NSA obtain any of FB's data?
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""" If a grand unified theory of programming language existed, its implementation would be called Scala """
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1. The exam is qualifying you to operate heavy machinery in public.

2. You can re-take the exam if you fail it the first time.

3. You can operate a bicycle or be a passenger on any bus or train without a driver's license.

Your argument is not applicable. Riding a plane does not involve operating a giant machine on a public road around other giant machines and pedestrians.
I haven't read it yet, but a book was published about this whole affair a few years ago, Claim of Privilege. http://www.amazon.com/Claim-Privilege-Mysterious-Landmark-Su...
I'm not listing this as an actual example, it's just for fun in the name of conspiracy theories in regards to powerful political figures murdering people:

The Clinton body count (and I'll admit, it's a freaky list, but probably only because so many people have crossed paths with the Clintons)

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/bodycount.asp
So you said something that was completely wrong, and now you're backtracking in a way that also seems wrong.

Soy protein is 19% BCAAs, not very far from whey (the gold standard in protein quality IMHO) at 22%. And 85 g is significantly higher than nutritional bodies tend to recommend; the IOM recommends 0.8 g protein per kg bodyweight, for example, which works out to less than 85 g for most people.

If you work out, you probably want more than 0.8 g/kg, and probably more even than 85 g. I would actually agree with that, and plan to increase the brotein on the next mix I make. But this one was designed with ordinary people in mind, many of whom will find 85 g quite high.
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Missed, or ignored on purpose? Once they've discredited the messenger by attacking him personally, they feel justified in ignoring the message. Which is why they attack him personally in the first place.
That's nice. But I click on one (Wavii) and find that it has been discontinued due to acquisition by Google.
Isn't restricting the use of open source software to those who are "really interested" part way to destroying it?
The article talks about that.
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I'm doing some research on the dynamics of founding teams. One of the core elements is understanding patterns in technical founders - particularly how much they code.
This is part of our general interest in how successful people spend their days: http://blog.zenlike.me/category/how-they-work/
But it'd be able to quantify some of our research with data. Thanks for any help!
I tested out my new MBA on battery for the first time tonight. It's pretty incredible. Streaming Aereo in HD over wifi the whole time, coding and doing other tasks on normal brightness. I went 4.5 hours before reaching the 50% mark.
70-80%
38 comments, and no one mentions his problems with addiction: http://trueslant.com/michaelhastings/2009/04/28/a-case-of-th...

4:30am on a residential street - the CIA/NSA couldn't kill me that way if they tried.

(The video is horrendous - bad way to die.)
A Better Place's problems were getting car manufacturers onboard, and building infrastructure. Tesla ARE a care manufacturer, and they're already building infrastructure (their charging stations)
Plus the obvious problem that it presumes all automotive batteries will be electrically and mechanically identical... or at most there could be a small number of variants that they keep in stock. If all the world's a Model S it could work, but if electric cars become the future it seems likely there will be variation for different body styles, price ranges, etc.

Battery swapping might have a niche future for urban fleet applications (taxis, police cars, ...) where battery ownership and vehicle diversity aren't issues. Maybe Tesla is trying to make moves there?
Why do you assume that internal network traffic is not encrypted?
And quite a few minor gramatical errors.
From the article: Conviction rates for espionage or sedition would be low. Embarrassingly low. However, convictions for possession of marijuana and copyright infringement would skyrocket.

And here we finally get to why a huge frickin, ritalin-infused dragnet with snakes for teeth and a laser strapped to its head will get lobbied into further existence. Legacy gatekeeper media needs deep packet inspection of every single packet to decide if "IP" "theft" is taking place. Getting such inspection funded by taxpayers means that "Rightsholders" don't have to pay much. Having a legal basis in place for such inspection decreases the "Rightsholder's" legal costs when the time comes to give us all 3 strikes or 6 strikes or whatever.
"So every other country with half-decent spies can just tap the whole country's communications and blackmail any and everyone in power with whatever they find using the systems we set up on our own."

I'd imagine the spy world has already realized this, and we're already at a level of mutually assured blackmail. :)
Probably why this article is on the MariaDB blog.
> The government is constrained in what it can do, surveillance and omniscience doesn't change that.

When, before or after they do it anyway, legal or not?
I'm reminded of a something Neil deGrasse Tyson once said of optical illusions : "They should be called BRAIN FAILURES!" We get a lot of them and they're not all optical.

People hate unhappy, depressing or otherwise hopeless situations and will seek out the easiest outlet to escape. I think it's a survival mechanism of sorts where you're more focused on being happy and alive vs. disillusioned and not procreating.

We're genetically ill-equipped for righteous indignation by and large so X-Idol-Housewives-Celebrity-Factor-Dance will do nicely in a time of genuine crisis.
Another interesting bitwise trick: flip bit 5 to swap the case of an alphabetic letter.
There was a fifth Powerpoint slide published by the Guardian[1] which clearly distinguished between PRISM and "Upstream" methods which collect "communications on fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past."

The PRISM program mentioned in the Powerpoint slides is very likely the same program that is mentioned in unclassified documents such as Army Field Manual (FM) 3-55, Information Collection[2]:

> 6-12. Two joint ISR planning systems—the collection management mission application and the Planning Tool for Resource, Integration, Synchronization, and Management (PRISM)—help facilitate access to joint resources. PRISM, a subsystem of collection management mission application, is a Web-based management and synchronization tool used to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of theater operations. PRISM creates a collaborative environment for resource managers, collection managers, exploitation managers, and customers. In joint collection management operations, the collection manager coordinates with the operations directorate to forward collection requirements to the component commander exercising tactical control over the theater reconnaissance and surveillance assets. A mission tasking order goes to the unit responsible for the collection operations. At the selected unit, the mission manager makes the final choice of platforms, equipment, and personnel required for the collection operations based on operational considerations such as maintenance, schedules, training, and experience. The Air Force uses the collection management mission application. This application is a Web-centric information systems architecture that incorporates existing programs sponsored by several commands, Services, and agencies. It also provides tools for recording, gathering, organizing, and tracking intelligence collection requirements for all disciplines

[1]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-prism-server...

[2]http://armypubs.army.mil/doctrine/DR_pubs/dr_a/pdf/fm3_55.pd...
OP here.

> I like food. The smell, experience and taste.

So do I. I cooked food for a living for two years, and am planning a dinner party this weekend.

> Why in god's name would I eat powder to save myself the "hassle" of eating food? That's like promoting adoption as a method of avoiding the "hassle" of having sex.

That is a poor analogy. A better one is this:

Imagine you were forced by biology to have sex three times a day. Personally I'm a fan of sex, but anything would get old if you were forced to do it 3x/day, every day. ("Really? Now? I have to go to work, I don't have time for this.")

I love food, and soylent lets me enjoy food on my own terms.
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Like the author, I've been using Scala more and more as of late (mostly after finding it to be a viable alternative to Java on Android). Perhaps the biggest thing that I've had to get over is the "feature freedom" of the language after being walled in by Java on Android. I know I'm not too far off in saying it, but it's like Martin Odersky created it in direct response to the nanny-like restrictiveness that Java has, but perhaps went too far in some areas (as the article describes a bit). He did write the current java compiler, so he's well familiar with how Java is. I just sometimes get the feeling someone pressed accept to every feature enhancement to the language at some point as just about any feature you can think of in a modern language has found its way into Scala. Generally, I find that to be a good thing, but I can see how it would be off-putting to some and makes Scala somewhat of a controversial language for both imperative and functional language advocates.

If one is not careful and adhering to a formal style guide, it would easy to end up with an unreadable mess of inconsistent code. Anyone with some grounding in programming already at a professional level shouldn't have a problem, but someone that's relatively new to development might want to look into another language. For example, all of these are valid ways to create a class with some parameters/properties:

https://gist.github.com/yareally/5811498

After having to use Java on Android for the past three years, such freedom is both liberating and shocking at the same time. I use C#, JavaScript and Python pretty frequent as well, but it's just I'd say Scala is even more liberal than any of those feature wise. It's more like Perl (not quite, but close), but not quite in the area of a Lisp variant. Scala is definitely written from the viewpoint of the developer and not the intended users though. It's also nice to have access to features that are standard in languages like Python, Ruby, C# and functional languages. Seeing 13 lines of Java become 1 line of Scala[1] is a great feeling.

I'd say if you have experience with Java, C#, Python, Ruby or any functional language you'll pick up on Scala pretty quick. If Java is your only language experience, it might be a bit rough at first, because of the expressiveness and freedom of the language, but don't let it detour you. If needed, you can mostly stick to the imperative side of Scala and slowly work in more functional features as well as some of the useful syntactical sugar stuff (like operator overloading) that Scala provides.

[1] https://gist.github.com/yareally/5810767
If the NSA is going to be the CIA, who is the CIA going to be?
This gets into the issue of where rights originate. Do they originate with the government (or its founding documents) or are they an integral part of being human?
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I'm not sure how they can avoid storing both.

They need to store the verbatim username in order to know how to display the username in the UI.

They need to store the canonical username in order to efficiently know whether a given canonical username is in use.
Nit-picking your copy:

Going from 10-14 seconds to 5-7 seconds per Turing Test isn't a 100% improvement, it's a 50% improvement. A 100% improvement would mean each run took 0 seconds.
Or alternatively, a much bigger crisis (which is scary).
I'd like to take up that offer if it's still valid. Sent you an email a couple of days ago. Haven't heard back yet.
Depends what stage you might be in. I started at pretty much 90
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JS isn't inherenttly OO. Crockford wrote a whole book chapter on twisting JS into make it OO.

JavaScript is inherently a blurry mess, and intentional but hacky hybrid of Scheme and C-style.
It appears to work just fine in Mobile Safari for me. I just dragged to draw the box and it worked quite well.
Maybe because I'm a software guy and not a lawyer, I can't imagine my mother wanting to see my office. In fact I can't imagine anybody wanting to see my office. Well, except my daughters, but even then they are mostly looking for an opportunity to miss a day of school.
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