skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly, I'm not very impressed. This problem is a very very well known problem in Image Processing. Usually people call it background subtraction or the more general form is image segmentation.

There is many really well working algorithms in this field. A google search with the major research conferences (ICCV, ICIP, SIGGRAPH etc) will give you the latest and the greates of these algorithms. You'll also find good (image segmentation) work if you limit the search for csail.mit.edu.

If you want your uploader to help you, you can also go for one of the supervised image segmentation algorithms. Otherwise you'll need an unsupervised algorithm.

Given that the authors also want to detect what is in the image, this might be helpful for them:

http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/papers/ObjectDiscovery-cvpr...

This guy is also doing some great work in that field:

http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~cmli/
Does the question only apply to apps that aggregate news like those mentioned in the post? Personally, I use the BBC News app a lot. Very good interface, clearly delineated sections, stories automatically downloaded for offline reading (something that's annoyed me about other news apps). It gives me an overview of the important things going on, so I know what I want to read about in more detail.
Stop posting a direct link that crashes the whole web browser, that is down right malicious!

It's some sort of regression and a patch is already in review: https://codereview.chromium.org/178003011/

Stop karma whoring with this irresponsible shit.
I imagine it could be coded to allow you to open a complaint case against the customer, and the site would force them to choose between paying a fine to you or having their account stopped.
> He believes that big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas he prefers the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," he says.

While I don't believe that big business is necessarily parasitic, I love this metaphor.
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> With our custom parser you can replace or delete confidential information from your logs before they're stored on our servers.

This is both error prone and utterly defeats the purpose. Why would I pay a bunch of money for somebody else to manage my logs when I'd just have to keep them all anyway so I can get at the unredacted versions when there's a problem?
This.

The text editor people don't seem to get it but _not_ spending significant amounts of time each day looking up method names / parameters does add up.

The other reason is because.

It annoys the shit out of me when something that could be automated isn't.
I can't think of a more worthy cause, and it would be chump change compared to what we spend on bailouts/wars/petty politics.
I don't know what I expected.

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Much of the public infrastructure in the UK is paid for based on gasoline(petrol) excise taxes. Before tax you actually pay about the same as Americans per gallon of gas. I wonder how the government will handle people switching to EVs and effectively dodging the tax.
Of course we do our fair share of this, even though I'm pretty sure there's still an order of magnitude difference, but that wasn't my point.

My point was that the real story here is understanding is that we have someone with both the means and the motives to trigger a world war showing signs of destabilising. That risk is the real story here.
>And yet... this is where the majority of the next generation of developers (and the current gen, and the one before) come from.

To say nothing of the innumerable medium sized businesses that use these kind of "throw away" techniques to generate vast revenue. Companies that were profitable long before node or mongo entered the collective vernacular and will likely continue to be profitable long after they've faded from popularity.
The best approach seems to be a hybrid approach. Flat fee + per use on top. With something like this, you don't want stores to feel like they're getting the short end of the stick if they are suddenly facing a torrent of bathroom users.
Hopefully a combination of superchargers, EVs in public parking spaces in shopping centers (for example, to attract wealthy EV owners to shop there) and arrangements to have EV charging points near work places will serve people in this situation.
> One reason not mentioned already is that HR does not have the technical expertise to understand if someone is a good candidate

This may be true, but it's often doubly true for recruiters. The best recruiters I've spoken to admit that they know very little about the subject.

No matter what, the candidate always has to be judged by someone who does have the required expertise, which means someone who's not HR or a recruiter.

I'm no fan of recruiters, but the good news here is that recruiters who have the exclusive right to offer candidates to a company, tend to be the better ones: not too expensive, not getting in the way too much, contracts without non-compete clause (because they have this exclusive deal anyway), and they really try to add some real value, because otherwise they might lose this exclusivity deal.

The real problem are the recruiters who try to get in front of those exclusive recruiters: they take the job descriptions from the exclusive recruiters and spread those all over the place, including in our mailbox. They have a much higher rate, often taking $10 off our hourly rate (for freelancers at least), insist on non-compete clauses that limit your job opportunities later, and try to make as much money with as little work as possible by simply shoveling piles of CVs towards anyone who might be looking. And they get in the way of communication between candidate and company, though that effect is unintentional.
I'm still looking for a white to transparent filter.
This program fails to do that properly, if i look at shadow in the transparent examples with the boot.

Any recommendations other than keeping Photoshop CS5 around just to use KillWhite [1]? (Why Adobe axed Pixel Bender[2] is still just beyond me.)

MathMap for gimp looks promising to create pixel-filters, yet I haven't tried it yet. Being able to to this on commandline would be nice, but isn't a requirement.

[1]http://mikes3d.com/extra/scripting-plugins/killwhite/

[2]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pixelbender.html

[3]http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/mathmap/
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The European car makers are already competing in the low cost EV market - e.g. a BMW i3 is available from £25K or so and has been getting pretty good reviews.

[There are other low cost models from Smart, Renault, Peugeot/Citroen etc.]
I didn't discuss Saddam because he was largely irrelevant to our strategic goals. The supporter I'm referring to is the ordinary citizen who helps to facilitate and fund the jihadi. Those 100k civilians were the medium for the message.

If those insurgents are largely focused on local state control that is a net win for the United States in my opinion.
This is good news for trans and gender-ambiguous people if you could make sure it marks (and can be searched for) the availability of gender neutral facilities where they won't get hassle.
exactly what I came here to post.
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Sounds like somebody used an eventually consistent nosql database to handle monetary transactions and discovered why that's a bad idea...
Opera 12 shows a big warning dialog warning the user that the site uses outdated and unsafe encryption.
This might be of interest, to people looking for a more human guided approach, where rough edges are defined by a human:

http://www.alphamatting.com/
Head & Shoulders doesn't appear to contain any palm oil, at least according to the product's Material Safety Data Sheet.

http://www.pg.com/productsafety/msds/beauty_care/haircare/he...
I was trying to be diplomatic about why I thought US car models hadn't traditional done well in Europe.... :-)
"Getting a bank account is fairly straightforward, and most don't require a SSN."
I don't know about this. It's pretty much impossible to open a bank account without a SSN or TIN.
This is somewhat old news in the field, but it's nice to see some mainstream coverage of science. I'm glad that they mentioned to off target effects. I think that editing with Crisprs is supposed to be somewhat noisy, so any uses outside of the lab (eg clinical) will probably be limited. But, I haven't worked with them, so who knows where this will be in 5 years.
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I would guess because there are security issues and thefts happening. I, for one, cannot imagine the number of untapped hacks that still exist in the bitcoin infrastructure. To that end, I just don't trust it.
Sorry if there was any confusion, this question applies to all news apps. I'm thinking about building a news app so I'm trying to see if people are satisfied with current news apps and what features they enjoy. So thank you for the feedback, I'll check out the BBC News app!
There's a wide range of urgency between sending a reminder after 3 days and ringing someone up to demand one right now. A Rebump works on a message that the recipient intends to respond to, but didn't, due to wide range of logistical reasons. If misapplied, it is the sender that will suffer the consequences.
Relevant Chromium issue: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=348987
The EU manufacturers have an eye on this market; you have the Leaf (made in Sunderland UK, as others have pointed out), the Renault Zoe, Vauxhall Ampera (rebadged Chevy Volt), BMW i3.

However, I wouldn't describe E30k as "budget"! I might be tempted by an ex-dealer secondhand Leaf at £10-£15k: http://www.autotrader.co.uk/used-cars/nissan/leaf
There are still many taboos around menstruation in India. Women can't visit temples or public places, they're not allowed to cook or touch the water supply - essentially they are considered untouchable.

Every religion has elaborate rules to oppress woman. FYI, the Hebrew Bible has all the same stuff. (So I read in The Year of Living Biblically.)

It's a question of "how literally does society obey those rules?" Will Americans who use the Bible to justify their bigotry against gay people ... also agree to lock up Sarah Palin for five days/month? Not so far.
Ok - how difficult was it to get on the Optional Practical Training? She'll be interning at a major company in the valley this summer(assuming the export control process doesn't pose an issue), and will most likely be doing so next summer as well. Basically, finding work shouldn't be an issue for her after graduation.
I want a curated news aggregator that persistently covers important topics for the long haul, keeping an eye on activity even if it's not particularly interesting for now but remains an important topic. Example: the topic "Benghazi" is not particularly news-worthy at this time, yet important processes are underway and the consequences could topple the US administration, so I want to be kept aware of what's progressing and reminded that it is, still, an important topic. Another example: space probe FooBar 12 is launched making an interesting headline, then for the next 15 months it's not newsworthy but I'd still like at least a one-line "FooBar 12 is now 37% thru its trip to Saturn" reminding of its progression and maintaining awareness that things will get interesting when it arrives. Pick the top 100 matters and dig for ongoing material for them; conversely, note when subjects make headlines and are unlikely to have further impact (say, Oscar winners) and present them in a distinct separate view.
In standard gimp this functionality is available in Colors - Color to Alpha. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're looking for.
Sounds like a saliency detection algorithm would be appropriate as a pre-processing step prior to edge detection or thresholding. The choice of algorithm may depend on the image characteristics; eg, [1] utilizes a global center-surround, works well for large and distinct foregrounds, while [2] uses a FFT, works better for noisier backgrounds. There is a lot of literature on saliency detection, segmentation, etc.

[1] http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/135217/files/1708.pdf

[2] http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~xhou/papers/cvpr07.pdf
Not to sound like the classic idealist libertarian, but isn't this how uber and lyft will be better? You ride with someone who's clueless or an asshole, rate them 1-star, the ratings compound, and unless they improve quickly they're tossed out of the driver pool. Immediate impact.
Another automated background removal method that worked best for me on complex backgrounds was Graphcut Algorithm, by Microsoft research. Gives the best results and has a implementation in OpenCV.
And AppCode...

AppCode is the reason I still have hair. If I had been using XCode for the last 2 years I'd have it all pulled out by now. Or I might have given up on iOS altogether.
This was posted on HN a while back, really impressive: http://clippingmagic.com/
I am working on a similar problem and came up with similar methodologies. I also used the Canny filter which worked quite well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canny_edge_detector).
However, it all broke down with complex patterns in the foreground/background. I'm currently trying to incorporate more structural information about the foreground objects.
Learning algorithms is probably another option here? Just not sure how to frame the problem for a learning algorithm.
"I do have to offer this disclaimer, though. I never worked on the West Coast."

LOL okay I guess that explains it. I've been in the Bay Area since the dot-com times, and the type of behavior you describe is something I've never seen, not even once. I've worked for some real assholes, and I don't deny that this probably happens here, but not often for it to be a discernible trend.

Yes, you had a bad experience, but no it's not all like that, at all. I work for a YC startup, something I never thought I would do, and the cofounders are genuine, smart and people I'm ready to put my career and financial future behind even though I'm roughly 15 years older.
To me it sounded like a pretty stupid race condition. Anyway, at least they reacted better than MtGox.
Z�rich also has 99 public toilets which are cleaned twice a day. Some are also staffed.

https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/zueriwc.secure.html
Cool post. I would be interested in a follow-up post about how web frameworks handle user registration, authentication, and sessions.
Hmm, I think the difficulty would then be how you train the neural network, I'm not sure that'd be an easy task.

I think you'd have to apply a fair amount of pre-processing anyway before you passed it over to the ANN.
To clarify: if an email is spam, no number of Rebumps will rescue it from the spam folder. In fact, if it was just ignored the first time, it makes it more likely to be marked as spam with every bump.
I thought that this was going to be about auto-completion of config files for Postfix...

Neat idea, reminds me a bit of Reverse Polish Notation, Forth & friends.

Now it's got me wondering about a text editor built on RPN lines, kinda like an inverted emacs + ed...
"We fucked up, so we're deducting the losses from everybody's accounts so that people don't immediately withdraw all their money."

If my bank sent me this notice, the FIRST thing I'd do is withdraw all my money - there's every chance it may be "an absolute necessity" to steal more of it at any time...
I'd be curious how that would shake down. If someone were to claim that they lost $USD 500k worth of Bitcoin, I imagine there'd be someone at the IRS who would be quite interested to look into how much this person paid on capital gains / income tax on the appreciated value of said bitcoin.... The person could be in for quite a tax bill!
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Awesome site, I've had this idea many times I hope it takes off.

Question: How general will catalogs be? I collect keychains, will something this general be supported?
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It's the same kind of exploit that plagued many web games in the past; it's just something most programmers do wrong, because it's not a requirement in most cases.
The corpus of product images at Lyst seems to be quite diverse. How many of those algorithms are good at very generalised segmentation, i.e. equally good at segmenting boat shoes on decking as they are say a tank in a field? What are your favourite papers on the subject?
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The reason new math failed is because it was organized and administered by committees (comprised of people who don't do math). So your example is humorously evidence to my claim.

What does a committee do when they are tasked with designing a curriculum or standards? They identify what should be tested, and then they pick the order that the topics are taught, likely outlining a time constraint on how long should be spent on each topic.

This is the problem. If you're looking for things to test your students on then you will invariably add pointless content.

Physicists are no exception (they invented the elaborate and pointless notation for vectors, the bra and ket). I don't propose we test students on mathematical notation, not at all. I propose we actually have them do mathematics (craft proofs, make conjectures), and I assert that any committee trying to craft a curriculum would ruin that. They have already ruined proofs in high school geometry.
Perhaps your council will install a EV charge point in your road if you ask them, then you can charge it for free and get a dedicated parking spot ;)
Dang it people. Race conditions. Security.

I know it's not easy but it is important to get it right.
Their supposed fix doesn't seem like it would address the problem anyway. They should use optimistic locking.

edit: optimistic
On the one hand, the much higher population density of Western Europe means that range and charger density issues are much easier to solve. On the other hand, for precisely that reason many people don't have drive-ways to home-charge their cars.
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Image segmentation is one of the most studied problems in computer vision. A really good lectures about this topic is by Prof. Daniel Cremers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpw26tpHGr8. In one of the talks, he describes methods that were popular in 80' and that are pretty much what the author developed.
Shorter distances is a good argument, but there also others differences which aren't advantage.

Most of my observations are from France, since it's where I live, but it should be correct for Germany, Spain, UK at least.

Plus :

* shorter distances

* higher gas price in EU than US

Minus :

* people usually commute by public transportation. In big cities, they don't even own a car. There is no place to park it, and it's kinda useless, since it take longer to go somewhere by car than by public transport.

* For medium distance (100~1000 km), people use both car and train. It's maybe 50/50, depending on the need of car at destination. You are always more independent by car, but by train you arrive quicker, and rested (a good rail network helping).

* On the 'social' side of things, the car ownership is not a thing the way it is in america (or is it a generation thing / Hollywood exaggeration, I don't know). European young adult buy a car when they need one, not as soon as possible to show they can support themselves.
I just thought up a couple of solutions that might give you what you want. Thanks for the valuable insight.
I used to write PHP before I got into Ruby. I'm glad PHP is getting it's shit together, but it's still a no-language for me.
In your mind, is this limited to sexual abuse without consent, or does bog-standard torture without consent count as well?

In your mind, would this include images/videos of cartel beheadings? Killings by religious extremists? Killings by oppressive regimes? Images/videos of the results of war? Images/videos of the results of war that your particular government is responsible for?
Well, I have got it from Fefe's blog [1] directly as the link. I tried it out before submitting, i.e. I opened a Chromium browser and put the link. The title says what it does - I do not think it is link bait. And Fefe's blog gives as explanation (rough translation from German): The TLS handshake of this site kills Chrome browser.

I too want to know what goes on and I actually think that HN IS the place to submit this kind of bugs.
our housing stock is, on average, 75 years old

Tangential but relevant here: "15 Facts That Reveal The Utter Insanity Of Britain’s Housing Market" (http://www.buzzfeed.com/dlknowles/britains-dysfunctional-pro...)
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Sounds more like he forgot to wrap multiple mutually dependent queries in a transaction. It doesn't require advanced technology to make a mistake.
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