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by ajays 14y ago
I just moved to Pelican, and am liking it so far, except for one thing: the lack of mobile support. The theme I'm using, tuxlite, looks great in a browser; but on smartphones, it's squint city. I'd love it if Pelican automagically generated
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by ajays 14y ago
I stopped reading at this point: Commercial hacker hunters -- who refer to the team as the Comment group, for the hidden program code they use known as “comments” ..... /facepalm
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by ajays 14y ago
On the other hand: does the glut of tech workers drive down wages? If you strictly look at it from a supply/demand angle, one could argue that if these companies wanted more techies, they could just pay more. Being able to increase supply a
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by ajays 14y ago
Presumably because Deans are about the same level as full professors? I doubt that a fresh PhD would be appointed a dean anywhere.
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It's mainly because (a) sales taxes are much less than these occupancy taxes, and (b) socking it to the visitor has no political repercussions; they're not going to vote in the elections anyways.
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by ajays 14y ago
Do UPS, FedEx, etc. pay separately for the privilege to use these roads? No. The money to pay for these facilities comes from gas taxes (mostly), sales taxes, income taxes, etc., all of which are paid by the Uber/Lyft/Sidecar people too. Th
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by ajays 14y ago
Who writes these things? " In 1886, a bottle of Coke cost a nickel. . . . . In 1899, . . . Coke was sold at soda fountains. But the lawyers were interested in this new idea: selling drinks in bottles." So was Coke sold in bottles in 1886 or
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by ajays 14y ago
The deck is stacked against Uber, Lyft and Sidecar. You have to realize that the taxi industry is a government-cab collaboration, with the customer getting fleeced. It is not as simple as "government grants license to cab operator, cab oper
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by ajays 14y ago
Handwritten addresses aren't fully OCRed for the system to work. I worked on the first systems that were released (in the 90s), and the basic algorithm was as follows: first, try to read all the numbers in the address, and identify the ZIP
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by ajays 14y ago
My NN knowledge is minimal, but from what I recall, the claim always was that you don't need more than 1 hidden layer; and too many hidden neurons results in over-fitting. What changed?
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Such a tablet would be great for travellers too. I have a friend who's planning on doing extensive travel throughout Asia, and I've convinced her not take her Macbook Air. However, I'd love to recommend something like this to her, so she ca
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by ajays 14y ago
"Journalists get access to privileged information. . . , then evaluate, filter, and order it through the rather ineffable quality alternatively known as “news judgment,” “news sense,” or “savvy.” This norm of objectivity is how political j
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by ajays 14y ago
A related question: are there any credit cards which don't charge exorbitant fees when used abroad? A friend of mine is planning on travelling extensively in East Asia, South Asia, Turkey, etc. for several months, and I'm looking for recomm
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by ajays 14y ago
The only reason Microsoft is making DNT the default is because it will directly impact Google's bottom line (and Microsoft loses money in its online division, so they won't hurt as much). Since when did Microsoft really start caring about t
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by ajays 14y ago
Eat less meat. Exercise. Take plenty of naps. And have lots of social interaction.
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This article was probably dug up because the movie Argo just came out.
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Why is he a victim? He chose to make his identity known to people! He attended Reddit meetups. People knew him. Was he not aware that he was trolling and doing nasty stuff? If he was unaware, then I can understand him feeling like a victim;
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by ajays 14y ago
This looks very interesting, but can anyone tell me how scalable is this? All the examples I've seen are small scale; but can it support, say, 1000 clients? 10_000 ? Higher?
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by ajays 14y ago
I hear you. I do feel that, like many other skills, this also can be learned and mastered. There have been times when I've been pretty adept at recognizing and responding to signals. But over the past few years, I have lapsed. Just as an ex
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by ajays 14y ago
I drink (black) tea with milk. So here's a _very_ anecdotal/hypothetical thought: my brother switched to drinking black tea without milk. A couple of years later, he had a kidney stone; and the doctor claimed it was the tea. Some of the tan
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by ajays 14y ago
This brought a huge grin to my face. I think I'll be smiling for the rest of the day, just thinking about it. It's wonderful to see people tinker and explo(r|d)e stuff!
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by ajays 14y ago
I can't say for sure what Jobs would have done, but you can bet that Jobs would have known about Maps' limitations on Day 1, and he would have addressed the issue right away instead of waiting for 2 weeks like Tim Cook. Remember: Jobs used
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by ajays 14y ago
It is interesting (in a sad sort of way) to see how this article is being flagged into oblivion. Even though it has 130 points in 3 hours, it has been relegated to page 3 of HN. I would have assumed that this topic was of widespread interes
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by ajays 14y ago
We are not talking about leaking here; by declaring Wikileaks to be EOUS, _any_ contact with them is verboten. FTA: "the military is effectively declaring that any contact with Wikileaks or its supporters could be deemed "communicating with
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by ajays 14y ago
There is a lot going on behind the scenes that we don't know about. For example: whatever happened to the BoA emails they were going to reveal? Isn't it convenient that some "rogue" guy in Germany ran away with these emails? Given Assange's
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by ajays 14y ago
Just out of curiosity: are the Russians classified as "Enemy of the US"? How about the Chinese? Or the DPRK? The Chinese military and government, for example, is way more actively trying to get military secrets out of the US, and not for al
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by ajays 14y ago
This reads like a PR release straight from Snapjoy (nothing against Snapjoy, of course). Isn't there a law that bloggers (or news outlets) must disclose that they've been paid to run such pieces?
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by ajays 14y ago
And I still have mine from 3 years ago (a 3GS). I have never used a case; carry it around everywhere; and have never broken it. 16? Really? Then you must really, REALLY love the iPhone. At what point does one say 'enough is enough' and swi
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by ajays 14y ago
Don't forget Greece.
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by ajays 14y ago
1 year away? It looks like we _are_ in a period of global riots: Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Yemen. The sectarian violence in Iraq. Anarchy in Somalia, South Sudan. I don't think we've ever seen so many independent conflict areas

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