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by afhof 13y ago
The golden ratio method looks neat; but I think it can be forked into two algorithms. In the site version, they know ahead of time how many colors are needed. If you need n colors, you could use the multiplicative inverse mod n to pick an
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by afhof 13y ago
Why did use Lenna? "Two reason was stated in "A Note on Lena" by David C. Munson. First, the Lenna image contains a nice mixture of detail, flat regions, shading, and texture that do a good job of testing various image proces
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by afhof 13y ago
Its not so much that the image is pornographic, the interesting part is that most computer graphics group is male. If there was a 50/50 male to female split, I doubt this image would have become the de facto test case.
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by afhof 13y ago
"The workers work and live in the factory dormitories – allowing flexible time and really quick manufacturing, something which would never happen in US or the Western Europe." Its not like thats ever happened in the US.
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by afhof 13y ago
A law that isn't currently enforced is a dangerous one. What would happen if all cops started pulling over anyone driving +5 over the speed limit?
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by afhof 13y ago
From a completely selfish standpoint, shouldn't you try fixing yourself first rather than "fixing" other people?
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by afhof 13y ago
Do not do this. This goes in the bucket of ideas-that-sound-good-but-aren't. If screen diffing is how you want to test your program, you should use / write an independent program to do so. That said, there are some serious probl
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by afhof 13y ago
It would be a lot more convincing if they could say Microsoft Stack Ranks And No One Else Does. Google, for example is a strictly stack ranked company and hasn't folded (at least in my opinion) into a caustic environment as described
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by afhof 13y ago
The Youtube lua script in VLC breaks often. If you don't keep your VLC at head it becomes very noticeable.
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by afhof 13y ago
Arguably these are great advertisements for the places they represent. If you were choosing between places to travel to, I think this would be helpful.
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by afhof 13y ago
5000 queries a day https://developers.google.com/google-apps/tasks/pricing
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by afhof 13y ago
Real property isn't quite the same. With real property the owners have to pay taxes based on the land value which incentivizes owners to make use of the land. With a short domain name, the owners waste the short name for the cheap pri
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by afhof 13y ago
Before you make a knee-jerk decision about this, read the (very short) bill here: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1401-1450/sb... ---- There seems to be a number of other provisions
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by afhof 13y ago
This is wasteful of people's electricity and inefficient at the same time. Opting people in to wasting their battery life or raising their electric bill is treating users as a means rather than an end.
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by afhof 13y ago
I think you missed the point: image the filters should be applied before pictures are distributed rather than letting the browser do it. The reason to resize it and sharpen it is because browsers do a poor job resizing, where doing it you
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by afhof 13y ago
Percentiles I think greatly help the appearance of rankings. Knowing you are in the top 95% vs. knowing you're a measly 2 standard deviations above the mean.
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by afhof 13y ago
This is isn't specific to Google, and I would go further and say that ISPs are a much juicier target than Google. ISPs have the raw access to all your traffic and wilt more easily when pressed by law enforcement (eg Carnivore). I don&
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The Gambler's Fallacy(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by afhof 13y ago|0 comments
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by afhof 13y ago
Yet another case of Betteridge's law.
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by afhof 13y ago
So if the buyer just left a bad rating, but no words, could she still be sued? One one hand voting seems like an extension of free speech, but on the other it feels that online voting shouldn't be counted as slander / libel.
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by afhof 13y ago
I dont believe so. Since the heart rate could be much higher, it would alias, and the camera wouldn't be able to tell the difference between normal heart rate and low heart rate. This is what I suspect could happen, with two possible heart
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by afhof 13y ago
The webcam framerate should be at least double the heart rate to get an accurate measurement, not the other way around.
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by afhof 13y ago
It seems that the Nyquist-Shannon sampling rate would be too low for the results to be accurate.
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by afhof 13y ago
Its too bad that most people don't have a basic appreciation of statistics or probability. Its too bad Schneier only spends a tiny paragraph on it: "Even though this will be in the news for weeks, we should recognize this for what it is: a
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by afhof 14y ago
One wonders what Go was doing with that extra 36% time in the previous version. Was it all due to map memory allocation and associated cache misses?
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by afhof 14y ago
The Drip Stream is kinda cool, since it effectively prevents "everything" from becoming popular, but also makes it easy to bootstrap if there aren't a lot of users playing. I am very interested in how these approaches affect user return ra
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by afhof 14y ago
I suspect that the kind of scaling Go was intended for was programming scale. A lot of the design of the language seems specific for large scale projects (statically compiling everything, not having unused variables, explicitly naming all
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by afhof 14y ago
Could you post the exact commands you used? That high connection time for google looks like SSL setup.
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by afhof 14y ago
You did work together, or more accurately, you did all the work for them. You took the risk of making an app that users like, 9gag saw that the risky work had been done (and that people would use it) and now knows that they don't need you
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by afhof 14y ago
Borrowing is a such a weak word for stamping their obnoxious logo on unoriginal pics. Its somewhat saddening to me how popular they have become due to their sleaze. (Seriously: Why create anything new when you can rise to popularity on th

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