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by ageitgey 9y ago
This is a bad article like most mainstream media writing on ML/AI. The original is a bit better and has an interview with him: https://globalnews.ca/news/3984789/voynich-manuscript-comput... He only claims
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by ageitgey 9y ago
> None of the data that was available sounds like sensitive PII so I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised by this. The first sentence says employees would "view the personal contact info and ride history of the startup’s pa
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Google is literally using you as unpaid labor to label/validate their image datasets. My guess is that either (1) your first attempt at validation didn't match what their automated system identified so it didn't have high eno
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Yep, this is a pretty simple CAPTCHA picked to illustrate a concept for teaching purposes. But more complex CAPTCHA images don't necessarily make anything more secure depending on how the whole system works. In fact, one of the most ef
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Cool idea and thanks for sharing! One of the challenges here (which I'm sure you are very aware of) is that perception tricks that fool computers like flickering images also can block out users with different types of visual impairment
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How to break a Captcha system in 15 minutes with Machine Learning(medium.com)
257 points by ageitgey 9y ago|99 comments
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by ageitgey 9y ago
For those who don't know, Adrian is both an excellent jazz/acoustic guitarist AND the co-creator of Django :-)
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by ageitgey 9y ago
USB-C is pretty standard on Android now. Most newer Android phones have moved to USB-C, including Samsung's S8 and Note 8. All of Google's own branded phones have used USB-C for a coupe of years now.
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Super Mario Maker uses "New SMB" physics for all themes. It doesn't actually mimic the exact physics of each game (aside from small tweaks like not letting you wall-jump or carry shells depending on the theme). They did this
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by ageitgey 9y ago
To catch and block scripts scraping Yelp in ways they don't like. If you fetch that url, you are most likely a bot that isn't following the rules and can be flagged or blocked outright without impacting any real users or search
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by ageitgey 9y ago
> First Steps: check if it exists and if it's patentable. It's great to share your ideas! But to anyone who posts patentable ideas, remember that posting an article like this potentially starts a 1 year clock on being able to p
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by ageitgey 9y ago
So a person who writes web apps prefers JS over Python. Cool. Pick the right tool for the job. If your job is writing client-side-heavy web apps that share code between the client and server, then JS might be a better choice than Python. Lo
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by ageitgey 9y ago
The arguments made in this article are misleading in my opinion. The article claims that the Facebook patent grant is no big deal because: (1) Yes, it has defensive termination, but defensive termination is standard. (2) Even Apache&
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Of course the medium changes the context. It has a huge effect! Phone calls are typically person-to-person communication where you can hear the tone of voice of the person you are talking to, so you can better read their meaning. Also, you
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How to Intentionally Trick Neural Networks(medium.com)
1 points by ageitgey 9y ago|0 comments
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Some people (like me) write programing blogs on medium because it's much easier to get an audience there then on your own domain. It has nothing to do with technical issues. Like it or not, often more people will discover and share med
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Lots of large companies are not using React because of the licence. It's just that companies generally don't talk about legal matters like this openly. So you only hear about who is using it, not who isn't. Often the large co
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by ageitgey 9y ago
I have used Internet Archive in the past for this kind of hosting. They charge nothing and provide a great (though sometimes confusing) service. But I'm all for paying my own bills as long as they are reasonable. It seems crazy that IA
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Ask HN: Cheapest way to host and serve large-ish files?
6 points by ageitgey 9y ago|7 comments
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Yep, it's called adding a language model. Check out this paper (2011) for a good summary of the pros and cons: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub36984.html
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Speed up your Python data processing scripts with Process Pools(medium.com)
3 points by ageitgey 9y ago|0 comments
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Learn How to Use Static Type Checking in Python 3.6 in 10 Minutes(medium.com)
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by ageitgey 9y ago
A good companion article to read is "Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved" [1], written about a year ago by the guy who founded The Verge before he launched The Outline. The basic argument is that these media companies are chasin
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Your experience will depend a lot on where you live. I live downtown in a large-ish city and many of my Prime orders give me free same-day delivery. There is no other service that comes close.
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Yep. I agree with patio11's comment. I've had more success due to writing technical blog posts than anything. It's way more useful / beneficial then fluffing up a GitHub profile. I have several GitHub personal projects i
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by ageitgey 9y ago
I think it's a pretty bad idea to try to judge a developer from their github profile. For the vast, vast majority of developers (no matter skill level), their github profiles are somewhere between "non-existent" to "a co
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Thanks for sharing. My humble feedback would be that the website and README would be much more helpful however if they showed pictures of sample output. That's the main thing we want to see :-)
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by ageitgey 9y ago
You can do even better - "YC PG Rust Rust Rust" gets 99.7%!
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by ageitgey 9y ago
The url for this post is 45 characters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245119 If you encode it with this shortener, you get this 35 character string: mNb:w9iIp7u8di:AKB2xrPUVYUFhfRUWHwA Assuming you were using this
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by ageitgey 9y ago
Try any search for a phone accessory like "mobile phone vr headset" or "usb battery pack".

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