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by graue 14y ago
That algorithm is likely to stay hypothetical for some time. Facial recognition has a long way to go before it's practical. Your scenario also would require a lot more cameras being added at great expense, and/or cooperation among the many
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by graue 14y ago
Thanks for the info — I wasn't aware of this practice. I found a video of a protester filming the people in the CCTV cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cztfKB8SGCI This protest, I can get behind. The equivalence is much greater and the
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by graue 14y ago
This is nothing like public surveillance, just as Google's use of tracking cookies is nothing like having a random stranger look over your shoulder and stare as you search the web. This cameraman walks up to and harasses specific people. Wh
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by graue 14y ago
Like you, I hit wrong turns learning programming as a kid. Perhaps I got a bit farther than you, but I spent years writing in crippled languages like QuickBasic and Visual Basic, and bought poorly written, unhelpful programming books I coul
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by graue 14y ago
The following is a dead comment by seanmcdirmid... reposting since it seems perfectly legitimate and I have no idea why this would be voted down. (Glitch?) Debugging is one of the problems with FRP/signals, or functional code in general. No
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by graue 14y ago
That just changed, then. Thanks for the update! I checked those very same pages an hour ago and all three models (16, 32, 32 with HSPA+) were listed as “coming soon”.
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by graue 14y ago
Sounds like pip (popular package manager for Python) avoids this problem because you don't use pip to install or upgrade itself. If using the package manager to install updated versions of itself is an intended use case, then I agree with o
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by graue 14y ago
Yeah, up to a point, the maturity of a language's ecosystem matters much more than the quality of the language. That's the main reason I still choose Python for my web-related projects. Haskell, Clojure, Go, Racket or Arc might all be more
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by graue 14y ago
I've been hearing good things about Elementary: http://elementaryos.org/discover
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by graue 14y ago
Also not everything is purely economic. If we assume that Candidate A would cost the US $7 trillion while B would be revenue neutral, then A's election would, on paper, be terrible. But how much would it actually make your life as an indivi
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by graue 14y ago
This is possibly the most reasonable and cool-headed analysis of an upcoming election that I have ever read. I love how he concludes that voting is rational. I'd never thought to multiply the, potentially massive, cost of the candidate I di
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by graue 14y ago
Research, sure, but it doesn't ignore the last decade of practical experience writing programs. A programming language is a user interface. The theory isn't all that matters.
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by graue 14y ago
Nice job riffing on a criticism of Clojure from another of today's threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4697874
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by graue 14y ago
If you end a line with two spaces, the line break after it is kept. Not intuitive, sure, but it works. Perhaps an alternative "profile" could be specified that preserves all line breaks, and sites focused on poetry or song lyrics could use
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by graue 14y ago
This post is pretty overboard with its exaggeration. But one thing I find interesting is the concept that Facebook is a paid publishing platform. They'll deliver your posts to 15% of your followers as a freebie, but to reach 100%, you pay.
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by graue 14y ago
Yup. There's a microblogging app (Twitter clone) called TentStatus, available hosted at https://tent.is , or run your own instance of the code: https://github.com/tent/tent-status . Several people are working on iOS and Android apps to su
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by graue 14y ago
I was just looking at this as something that could be combined with Tent. From what I've heard, the v1 docs are inadequate to develop a working implementation, and this draft for version 2 of the spec isn't done, and hasn't been updated in
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by graue 14y ago
> Larry Pogemiller needs to go. Earlier today, he said Coursera-affiliated universities needed to register (and, pay up) "to prevent people from wasting their time." I can find no such quote attributed to Pogemiller. The closest I see i
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by graue 14y ago
The link shortening compounds the issue because it’s opaque — it hides the URL of the spammy site you’ll get redirected to.
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by graue 14y ago
I said nothing about “every person who works for Reddit”. Wikipedia says Reddit has 20 employees. I would sure hope that at least one of those employees doesn’t hold harassers as more worthy of privacy and protection than their targets. But
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by graue 14y ago
You quoted only part of the sentence. “...but it's not okay to call someone out on that.” Reddit has decided to allow one form of legal(?) content (invasive, sexually exploitative photos) but disallow another (publicizing the name of people
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by graue 14y ago
Absolutely. And I think it’s worth noting that by allowing creepshots, but banning doxxing those who post creepshots, Reddit is expressing the moral preference that it’s okay to harass women and photograph them in compromising positions, bu
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by graue 14y ago
Agree, and I'm disappointed that the conversation on HN is still in terms of “free speech”. Do people know what kind of content Violentacrez posted? According to Zeynep Tufekci’s account: Children focused “jailbait” forums typically
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by graue 14y ago
Yup. I used to live in DC, where the public transit system insists on calling its riders "customers". We all found it stilted and patronizing. Your attitude toward your users/customers/whatever matters. The word you call them, not so much.
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by graue 14y ago
Cool demo. The 'gm montage' step isn't working for me and I'm finding its options completely non-intuitive. I produced a series of 1979 PNGs from a 66-second video, and when I stitch them with: gm montage -borderwidth 0 -geometry +0+0 -
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by graue 14y ago
Your original, short comment seems much clearer about the point you're trying to get across: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4597584
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by graue 14y ago
Looks great to me on Ubuntu—very similar to the screenshot two levels up, only slightly differently spaced.
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by graue 14y ago
I would love to use that "one sentence per line" approach, but I can't get lines to soft-wrap in a sane way in Vim. The closest I got was this solution: http://contsys.tumblr.com/post/491802835/vim-soft-word-wrap But it wraps at the full
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by graue 14y ago
There you go. So for future reference, if anyone wonders how many HN commenters it takes to iterate over a linked list correctly? The answer is four. :P
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by graue 14y ago
You are setting currNode and prevNode in the wrong order in your loop incrementer. Also, the variable name "prevNode" is misleading because it is not the previous node, it's the link from the previous node to the current node. Let's change

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