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by discardorama 9y ago
> VIPS instead surmises that, after WikiLeaks' Julian Assange announced on June 12, 2016 his intention to publish Hillary Clinton-related emails, the DNC rushed to fabricate evidence that it had been hacked by Russia to defuse any
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by discardorama 9y ago
That's exactly the mistake that Robert Morris (of the infamous Sendmail worm[1]) made: he kept re-infecting the machines. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
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by discardorama 9y ago
SO many fake passports... I bet she was an East German spy. People in such a line of work usually don't have labels in clothes, because the labels might not match the rest of the story.
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by discardorama 9y ago
In some languages, it makes sense to add the "bell", otherwise the sentence is incomplete. In my native Hindi, you would say "X's ship's bell". If you drop the the "bell", it becomes "X's sh
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by discardorama 10y ago
s/Berlin/San Francisco/g Same shit, different place. From a US perspective: The world is changing. The (American) ideal of a McMansion with a 2.5 kids and 3 cars is gone. People want to live in cities; in particular, tolerant
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by discardorama 10y ago
Instead of a chime, you should be hearing a cha-ching!
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by discardorama 10y ago
Yes. On a serious note: these are the 2 primary languages at companies like Google, so it can't hurt.
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by discardorama 10y ago
> The rational was to ensure duties were paid and screen for "bad guys," drugs, weapons, diseased fruit, etc. There's always a perfectly-sounding rationale for such giving them such powers, but in the end these are always
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by discardorama 10y ago
Given the accuracy, could it read your fingerprints while you're doing the gesture? From the paper, it looks like the average displacement accuracy is 0.4mm. I wonder if that's accurate enough to read your fingerprints. If it coul
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by discardorama 10y ago
Author is Marketing Director of Dine, one of the apps listed, and a competitor to the other 3. It can't get more biased than this. And all of submitter's comments (all 3 of them) are on stories to do with Dine. Flagged for astrotu
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by discardorama 10y ago
Why don't these startups apply it first to countries where the patients are there but the doctors are lacking?
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by discardorama 10y ago
I've been interested in application of ML to healthcare for nearly 20 years. In the early days, researchers just refused to share data; they were worried that you (using some fancy math or ML) would upstage them. I actually heard this
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by discardorama 10y ago
The actual paper: http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/radiol.2016161315
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by discardorama 10y ago
> I basically got 0 value out it, considering I'm young and healthy I would not have to pay much for insurance, you're mostly footing the bill for the pensioners. And when you are a pensioner, who will foot your bill?
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by discardorama 10y ago
For some reason, this reminded me of "Pied Piper" of "Silicon Valley" fame.
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by discardorama 10y ago
SSDI eligibility is based on not where you can do a job or not; but whether you can do a job that's available locally or not.
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by discardorama 10y ago
People on SSDI are not counted as "unemployed", IIRC. Which makes the actual unemployment rate much higher.
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by discardorama 10y ago
Hmm... I wonder if this is Yahoo's way of getting out of the deal?
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by discardorama 10y ago
On a tangential note: > Meanwhile, the ICIG’s handling of what began as a whistleblower complaint against Ellard sends an encouraging signal to those who may report wrongdoing at 17 US intelligence agencies We have 17 intelligence agen
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by discardorama 10y ago
> but the system would need to be restarted before the ME would read the changes. # shutdown -r now ?
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by discardorama 10y ago
> the fake news was created by the left to discredit the alt-right I would have a hard time taking a guy who's the "godfather of fake news" at his word. Who's to say he isn't making this all up?
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by discardorama 10y ago
> Trump actually won. By talking about real issues that nobody else even dares to touch. Like Obama's birth certificate? Or Benghazi?
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by discardorama 10y ago
> For example, Donald Knuth lives in Silicon Valley, Maybe because he works in Stanford, which is in the heart of Silicon Valley? And he's been a faculty there for 40+ years, so he probably could afford a house there. AND Stanford
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by discardorama 10y ago
Are there standalone packages that can perform t-sne, or are we limited to using the versions in R, etc. ?
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by discardorama 10y ago
Anybody who has spent even 5 minutes in a public library knows that this is a big problem with public computers. So why was this a surprise?
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by discardorama 10y ago
If you want to play around, take a gander at Kaggle.
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by discardorama 10y ago
Country singer Willie Nelson?
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by discardorama 10y ago
While we're at it, why not just get out of the car, take off all our clothes, and just lie face down on the pavement, butt naked, arms and legs spread wide?? This reminds me of stories of slavery, and how slaves were supposed to act ar
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by discardorama 10y ago
It's always like that. A company that wants adoption will make things all "open" and "free", and let the developers do the hard work. Once the users are there, turn off the API (or severely restrict it) to keep the
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by discardorama 10y ago
What is not mentioned here is that many of the welfare recipients moved to SSDI (Social Security Disability Income). SSDI is paid for by the Federal government, so the states were incentivized to encourage this move. In fact, there are comp

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