skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would preserve all the JPEG artifacts, which are the main reason the naively upscaled version looks so crappy in the first place.
> I don't know where to begin this journey

Do you have any college under your belt? I went back to school when I decided to switch careers (I was a banquet manager at the time).

> how much time it'll take

I already had a few years of undergrad (completely unrelated to tech...I was a Political Science major "the first time around") so I pretty much didn't need to take any classes outside of my major and it took two years to complete (that was with working full time). Started my first job as a developer just a couple months before I graduated.
To be fair, the demo site provides a configurable level of artifact reduction. This article uses the highest level. Here it is with none and some:

http://imgur.com/a/cVVnC
Yeah, way to many messengers seem to assume "Well, everyone has just 1 phone anyways, and where else would you want to use a messenger". I get that desktop clients etc are not the first thing on the priority list, but still it is very annoying (and the first one which gets that right I'm pushing everybody to.)

(Threema actually recommends a workaround: "Just create a groupchat for each of your contacts with all your devices in it and always use that")
Please don't recommend Thesis to folks. :\ Genesis or X are better more modern options.
That is right – using WhatsAPI might be illegal.

But developing the tool isn’t illegal in any way.
SVG animation demo
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Many of us have always had that mindset about the NSA.

However, it takes a special type of odd personality to work there (doing amazingly cool stuff but not being able to talk about lots of it). The personalities that fit there well don't fit elsewhere very well.
I have not - although that's an interesting idea, thank you! Relative to my other projects this is a very low-priority exploration. I was very interested to see if there could be a "cheap win" for this particular sub-problem that I will be dealing with, should I get around to digitizing these books.
Cripple software is not monopoly based system called "Royalties."
Interesting article. So, more confirmation C++ is inferior for writing predictable or high performance applications. I actually see an opportunity for a C-compatible or C-competitive systems language here to beat C++ at its own game. Zero-cost abstractions plus solving C++'s specific problems, painless C FFI, and compilation to C (or LLVM) to leverage their compilers. Might make a nice combo. I doubt we'll see much takeup, though, as the technical merits rarely dictate that.

On a related note, I'd like to see the results of it being coded in a modern Ada or SPARK with one of the best compilers. I'd be interested in seeing it with full runtime checks on and off with conservative optimization. ZeroMQ with strong implementation assurance could lay the foundation for all kinds of secure networking and middleware schemes. Heck, I'd like to see a team formally verify a version of it with an executable for common architectures. I'd have fun with that. :)
Bitcoin died in March 2014 with the collapse of Mt Gox. This was a blow it has never recovered from.

All since then has been decline as people lose interest. Literally everyone who's bought in the last year is underwater. The fundamentals don't exist; there is no reason for the price to go up and no floor below which it can't go.
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I imagine it was trained on 'typical' anime-style art of black/bold character outlines and mostly flat colors.

A common solution to resizing anime characters is to create a colored vector of an image. The differences between these vectors and the original stills are minimal and usually 'satisfactory'. There is an entire scene of people who create these vectors and another scene of people who use the vectors to create wallpapers and other graphics. [0] Waifu2x can help replace the need to vector these images by increasing the quality of upscaling them.

This is the prevalent 'style' for anime - at least from the past 8-10 years or so. There are a few outliers and I imagine Waifu2x would work poorly on them. For example, I do not see it working well on a still from "The Garden of Words". [1]

[0] http://img04.deviantart.net/96b1/i/2015/105/8/d/oumae_kumiko...

[1] https://24framesps.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/the-garden-of...
According to Wikipedia, Auburn and Michigan State are land-grant institutions.
What is ironic is that I actually have Dave Mcclure's email/number, I reached out to him personally and he didn't so much as respond. It was quite a realization of how things work in SV. This week has been very tough, and disappointing. We will continue to bootstrap using grants from the NIH until something better comes along our way.
Here's the scary part:

As Peter Winker, an economist at the University of Giessen
in Germany who co-edited a book about poll fraud, put it in
an email: “If the faker would have been a bit cleverer in this
procedure, I doubt that the fraud would have been found this way.”
I believe 2.7 will be supported until 2020, and RedHat has indicated they might support it until 2027.

Having said that, porting your stuff to Python 3 isn't that bad. The automatic conversion tools get you 99.5% of the way, unless you're doing really crazy stuff.
Sorry to hear you're having a bad time of it.

From my experience with VCs I find them busy and skeptical rather than mean. They hear wild ambitions every day, so have a strong filter.

I have to ask, what was the nature of the cruelty?

It's hard to imagine anyone, VC or otherwise, being cruel to someone who was (a) raising a round in good faith and (b) holding an 80% effective cure for cancer... so I'm wondering what exactly happened?

How many VCs have you spoken to? Are their investment mandates compatible with your products? Have you done this before?
If you read part II (the link to it is near the end of the post), you see that one of the things he wanted was intrusive linked lists.

From what I have read so far, implementing intrusive lists is not easy in Rust. (If you know of a working intrusive doubly linked list implementation in Rust 1.0 that does not invoke undefined behavior, please tell me; I'd like to know how it should be done.)
I also prefer a nuanced view to this issue.

Yes, Snowden's leaks did end up causing damage to US interests, and some would rightfully condemn him for it.

But we also need to keep in mind that there really wasn't any other viable option to shed light into these programs and raise public awareness (and yes, the public did absolutely need to be aware of these programs). The agencies were set up to hide information about their programs from the public at all costs and it was clear that traditional whistleblowing wasn't going to get any results.

I'd think another important consideration for Snowden when making this decision was that a more persistent effort at traditional whistleblowing from within the US could in fact have led to even more dire personal consequences.
Interesting. Do you know of any good, recent benchmarks of Rust? I haven't seen a whole lot. The Benchmarks Game mostly appears to show Rust being closer than that in general, though the Rust benchmarks seem to be kind of crap.
Context, via @ddailey at Ello:

<quote>

Amazing animation from Bob Hopgood.

It may take a minute to load in your browser (use Chrome -- Bob writes: "There is a very unobvious green square bottom right that you have to click to start it."), but this is what people do with SVG:

http://www.iw3c2.org/svg_animation/svg_animation/WWW2013/pla... and
http://www.bahfrah.org.uk/florence/playviewbox.xml

Bob has done the graphics for the opening welcome at the International WWW Conference for the past umpty years, perhaps since CERN hosted the first one. They are meeting right now (today) in Florence.

https://ello.co/ddailey/post/9HJhzeQ_gf_QyenXlNYd7w

</quote>

David frequently shares his own and other's experiments with SVG, particularly animation and other effects, I highly recommend his posts.

https://ello.co/ddailey
Damn, but the "some" looks great.
Yeah, on second thought, after seeing the low noise reduction result again, I suspect that may be an even better result for what I'm looking to achieve. Many of the details in his rope are preserved and the calligraphy appears to be in better shape.
There was recently an article from a person working at Microsoft who implemented AIM support in MSN Messenger back in the day who had similar experiences.
I've never raised before. It's the first time we create a private company based on the research we are doing. I contacted somewhere around 700, which includes partners, associates, juniors from about 100 VC firms.
I think we need more of this type of mindset if we want to upset the chemo market and make new treatments viable.
right, my point is just that the money is already committed to the VCs for the next 7-10 years so can't change that quickly.
GamerGate critic posts death threat voicemail after inaction by prosecutor
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I really don't think there exists an international terrorist al-Qaeda at this point (at least not in the sense we imagine, with a Cobra Commander in some hollow island). It's more like a franchise, and regional groups use the name since it gives cachet and suggests a global, the-Caliphate-is-coming kind of power that makes these guys feel good.

It's also in the interests of the United States and other Western powers to sustain the impression of an international terrorist conspiracy potentially capable of harming people in the West. The branding has switched to Isis now that al-Qaeda has kind of fallen apart. I don't know to what extent this is a cynical ploy, and to what extent it's a natural dynamic where we kind of manufacture our own enemies by showing how scared we are of them.

All politics in Yemen is grassroots and local and foreign governments forget this at their peril. There's a tendency to assume the various Yemeni factions are puppets being controlled by Iran, the Saudis, the US and so on, but in practice the local factions are very adept at manipulating their various sponsors. The important divisions in Yemen are regional (north, south, and Aden) and tribal, and the tragedy of the country is that it is trying to stitch together very dissimilar regions while outside powers work hard to destabilize it.

With regard to al-Qaeda specifically, the Yemeni branch has always been quite distinct. Bin Laden has deep ties to Yemen, which ironically has made AQAP even more of a tribal, regional force, since unlike Afghanistan it's a bunch of locals.

I think it's good to remember that southern Yemen used to be a highly ideological, Marxist state(!). The fact that all these Marxists have vanished without a trace suggests how hard it is for any transnational ideology to gain a foothold in this deeply conservative, tenacious country.
A very nice business model these universities have.
18 year old clueless kids borrow as much money as they need, and hand it over by the truck-load. It's for the children!
> evading China's exchange controls.

I do see that use case (buy electricity in yuan, sell bitcoins for dollars), and I strongly suspect it's a thing that happened, but I don't have any data on to what degree this was a thing that happened. Would you have any? Cheers :-)
> If you, your friends, and/or your family were subject to the "merely verbal" abuse that has been carried out under the Gamergate banner

In other words, what happens pretty much 24/7 in online gaming circles to pretty much anyone who participates in online gaming (as least for "you"; "your friends" and "your family" would also be included if any of them, too, participate in online gaming).

Welcome to the Internet. While I agree that death threats are abhorrent, I get the impression that the folks complaining about them in a lot of these contexts are complaining because they aren't yet acclimated to the sheer volume of such obscenities that are transmitted and received by online gamers every waking moment. You're talking about hordes of PFYs whose pasttimes involve "reking n00bs" and yelling into microphones about sexual intercourse with maternal figures; the fact that Ms. Wu received a mere 100 such threats from this sort of crowd is outright miraculous when one can easily amass twice that in minutes with such inanities like "Sonic is better than Mario".

If we want to pity someone, let's pity Rebecca Black, who has amassed millions of such comments (with threats of murder, rape, and other violent abuse) simply because she or her parents (inclusively) got swindled by some shady music video producer to make a mediocre song about the days of the week, and she was (possibly still is) a goddamn minor.
When I lived in London, and used buses fairly regularly, I started thinking about ways to improve the service and stop bunching. I considered the reason stated here, and some of the solutions, but later realised that the root cause was that the drivers liked to stop and chat and perhaps play cards with each other at the (presumably unsupervised) "bus station" at the far end of the route. Once I'd observed 3 of them waiting for each other, chatting, and then all leaving at once on the same route, my interest in trying to think of ways to fix the problem waned.
>I actually see an opportunity for a C-compatible or C-competitive systems language here to beat C++ at its own game.

Go or Rust? They might not quite match your dream outlined above, but I think in practice they are pretty much used with the purpose of achieving something similar. They both can be "unsafe" as needed and integrate well with C and ASM.
Unexpected Uses for Quora
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Oh yeah, hi! By all means, and bring your camera :-)
Do you mean "unsafe" instead of "undefined"?

Here's what I found after a Google search, by one of the core Rust devs (unsurprisingly).

https://github.com/pcwalton/multilist
You may have missed it in this article, but he does address variance (in the section explaining external incentives coaches include in their decision-making).

I believe you are rephrasing the oft-repeated adage, "The [stock] market can stay wrong longer than you can stay liquid."
>I think that Go approach to error handling i so much better because of exactly the same simplicyty as C.

Not to mention Go having multiple return values IMHO also takes away the major pain point of returning errors in C; using up your only return value and having to take pointer arguments when you would rather not.
Consider using something such as SoftBound that transforms your code into one that defends itself against most memory attacks. There's a significant performance hit but immunity by design is better than hunting for every bug. Still try to code well, anyway, as the tools are usually limited to select platforms and you might want more portability.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/acg/softbound/
Can you give more information on this? It actually sounds like an easy problem to solve to me.
The comment you replied to seems to be a fairly specific and verifiable criticism of uTox, which, like all security software, deserves to have its claims approached with skepticism.
Take technical interviewing head on. You can't have fear and worries run your life.

Unless you have a strong network, (or a personal brand) and people who have worked with your prior recommending you, it's unlikely that you will be able to escape some sort of technical screen early in your career. Especially if you are in the valley (are you?)

Some other ways to mitigate the screen that you could try, are:

1. Giving talks on a certain topic you are passionate about and can do well.
2. Writing and maintaining a blog on those same topics.

Even then, it's unlikely that you will be able to totally bypass a technical screen for a developer role at a company worth working for (simply because they are getting a lot of applications and hence they just need a decent way of filtering candidates).

In the long run, it's better to take technical interviewing by the horns. Learn it, practice is, focus on it, and get it over with. There are books, there are websites, there are friends, and then there are classroom courses (Disclaimer: I run InterviewKickstart.com, which is a classroom course).
I didn't really see the original comment as "hateful". It's a legitimate point.
Of course, this already happens.

"Bitcoin is limited, 21 million only!"

"Altcoins."

"You don't need altcoins, we have sidechains! They let you do all that stuff inside Bitcoin!"

"Except sidechains don't exist yet."

"They will, it'll be fantastic! Sidechains!"

(This is leaving aside that altcoins have somehow managed the amazing feat of being even scammier than bitcoins.)
The truth is we didn't want to sell to big pharma, they would have shelved likely. Cures don't make profit, treatments do. This is why we wanted to create a company that could put this out to market in less than ten years, get it approved by the FDA as a breakthrough and have it in market in 5 years. Subsidize it to people with need and low income.

These are the reasons we felt being in control of the destiny of it was the safest bet. But so far, it seems that the easy way out is to sell it, which would mean it would not become what we want it to be, a cure to various diseases.
> it's no longer "your" bus, so you aren't upset when it passes by

It's not always so easy to trick people. For me, in SF, there are often bus stops with either only one bus line, or with multiple bus lines that will all take me to my destination.
I don't think they're implementing this idea. The only times I have seen a bus fly by a stop is when the bus is clearly completely full.
Non-sequitur.

Cryptocurrencies are a great invention and have a great future, they will change the world in unimaginable ways. But there are shortcomings right now that need to be addressed.

Ignoring them is like netscape or altavista ignoring the elephant in the room.
Thanks, I definitely did not think of looking at the trademark section first.
Most companies fail to compensate for confidence bias at the interview stage, which is what I'm guessing has bitten you here. It's not a problem which is going to go away soon, sadly.

The way I see it you've got two options:

Firstly you could try to work around the problem: Find companies with enlightened hiring practices. Find second-rate companies who aren't so fussy. Start your own thing. Or get your Github/OSS profile up to the point where work comes to you.

Secondly you could address the problem, which (assuming I've understood correctly) is confidence under pressure. You could talk to a professional therapist or coach. You could try rejection therapy. You could book yourself some technical speaking engagements. Maybe taking up an adrenaline sport might help?

Just some thoughts. I'm not a professional therapist/coach. I don't know you, etc. etc.
I know what pattern matching is; I'm not unfamiliar with Scala or other statically-typed languages with pattern matching. I was referring to what user morsch is saying in his/her comment.

The problem I see is in the sender, who doesn't know if the message makes sense for the receiver. Isn't this like programming in Smalltalk or Ruby, with their "doesNotUnderstand" or "method_missing"? How does this mesh with Scala's static typing, which aims to give you compile-time errors when you screw up?
My school-appointed mentor, who graduated in 2004, paid $4,000 a year. I see this as unfair, not only in the sense that my generation has to take out extraordinary loans to access education, but also in the sense that I am forced to pay $100,000 just to participate in our justice system.

Abraham Lincoln could become a lawyer simply by studying books from the library and passing the bar exam. No tuition was needed. Virtually all professions should have entry based on passing tests and paid apprenticeship. There is zero reason why entry needs to be mediated through expensive academic institutions staffed by professors who are generally not practitioners. If people want to go to law school as a luxury, that is fine, but it should not be required to participate in the justice system.
Thanks for the tip. I have this problem all the time.
This was shared on my G+ post on the topic.

Note that it discusses pr0n though there's no nudity / sex acts portrayed IIRC.

"Things You Learn Designing Porn Banners for a Living"

http://www.vice.com/read/this-girl-designed-porn-banners-for...

In the beginning, I sent my banners and the trafficker told me, “it’s too pretty. The picture needs to look homemade”. He introduced me to this amazing keyword: “amateur”. It opened up a whole new world of pictures I could use! I had no idea. When I started, I didn’t know the genres.
At least in vim, you can remap just about anything that you want to.

The reason the feature doesn't get included as often is because of exactly this. Even someone who could make use of the feature, and is annoyed by the current keybindings, doesn't take advantage of re-binding. The reason it is available on video games, on the other hand, is because its necessary for controller support, which a large enough portion of the video game community uses for it to have high demand.
This screwed me over. I couldn't get any financial help because my parents wouldn't fill the FAFSA, it wasn't until the year I turned 25 that I could get any aid or loans.

Now I'm a computer science professional pulling down a decent salary, the government lost out on about 7 years of taxes because of their policies.
That last part is enough to ditch them unless you were fighting with them in IRC. Were you?

Your claims ring true for vast majority of new, COMSEC schemes. Far as Tox, this is what I found on their GitHub page: "Current build status: build failing." I'll add that NSA and malware authors have 0-days on the platforms the tool will likely run on. It will be bypassed like all others on such platforms.
In the non-digital world, you can't enforce that people won't murder each other... should murder not be restricted?
There's already a decorator @asyncio.coroutine which "async def" replaces. It's used for error checking, but also for some functions which are coroutines but don't use "yield" - they just return a Future
mostly-uniform areas of color that have slight variations

That's precisely what it's attempting to smooth over - and it works well for anime images because in them, those variations would be considered noise.

Wondering if it would anime-ise it, I fed Waifu2x the standard Lenna image - twice - ended up with this:

http://i.imgur.com/iNWRjIS.png
Icmd – Command line interface to OS X Messages
Maybe open WhatsApp access is damaging to the WhatsApp community (spammers...).
Since the readme doesn't give much details, I recommend looking at the example: https://github.com/minrk/clingkernel/blob/master/cling.ipynb
The comment was:

> He only had to take asylum in Russia because the US revoked his passport and prevented him from going anywhere else.

That implies that it's the fault of the US government that he is currently in Russia (I think it also forwards the misconception that Snowden was in Russia when his passport was revoked). He didn't have to flee to Hong Kong to begin with. When the US government requested extradition and revoked his passport in order to keep him inside Hong Kong, he fled using what turned out to be an invalid travel document. Snowden has ended up in purely out of his own actions. The US isn't preventing him from traveling - he can walk down to the embassy at any time he wants and get a plane ticket home.
Fortunately, reliable TCP/IP networking and chip foundries producing ASICs are expected to remain readily available in the post-apocalyptic Mad Max gasolinepunk future.
Really, it's speciesist to not be attracted to the pandas as well.
"Future of Instant Messaging"

Not with that UI.