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by maurits 14y ago
Two critical notes to the general "holland is fantastic" fuzzy feelings. The Netherlands are European leaders when it comes to wiretapping communications. Its laws gives the intelligence communities extensive powers to tap, filter and store
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by maurits 14y ago
Zurich (and Geneve for that matter) consistently lead the list for the most expensive places on earth to live in not to mention that it is damn near impossible to find a place to live. Geneve's rental market currently has less than 2 promil
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by maurits 14y ago
This is hardly the point. In my experience as a person and engineer I find that there are really no easy solutions or answers to anything. Not in life, not in technical stuff, nor in politics. As such I have a healthy disdain for people who
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by maurits 14y ago
"Found To Be Corrupt" suggest an official inquiry of some sorts. Not the opinion of the author.
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Misleading, unproven and sensationalistic.....
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by maurits 15y ago
One basically looks for roundings caused by quantization and places in the image where the compression (again quantization) is either inconsistent or non-optimal. A nice tutorial (and a lot of articles) can be found on the Dartmouth site of
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Circuli: A game like ambient music generator(earslap.com)
19 points by maurits 15y ago|2 comments
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by maurits 15y ago
Build safe bicycle infrastructure and the cyclists will come "How the Dutch got their cycle paths" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBdf9jYj7o
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by maurits 15y ago
Me personally, I am not so much shocked as I do have an overwhelming feeling of deja vu. Similar stories of greed, power and also corruption are a regular occurrence (everywhere). Actually, I find a bit candid honesty refreshing. And out of
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by maurits 15y ago
I definitely agree that the lingering wide spread implications are quite serious as more of our data and services are hosted by third parties. But for the Megaupload users, I would like to quote one of the boards I saw held up by SOPA prote
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by maurits 15y ago
Although I don't find MS to be the worst of all suppliers, it is yet an other prime example how companies fail to grasp that the only way they will ever compete with pirated content (be it right or wrong) is by service and by service only.
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by maurits 15y ago
Interesting, I am not in the US, so perhaps that is the reason. Slightly odd though, because I can darken and see darken pictures in other streams.
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by maurits 15y ago
To bad the Whitehouse photo-stream is exempted. http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/
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by maurits 15y ago
Very interesting story, but I do wonder if its assertions universally hold. This looks like an excellent research question for the guys at freakonomics ( http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/ ) to me.
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by maurits 15y ago
Not having a shower hardly invalidates an entire transport system. Nor do I believe that much of the populace has a medical condition that makes it impossible to bike. After a couple of years in Netherlands I strongly believe that to make t
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Computer Vision by Simon J.D. Prince pre print pdf free available(computervisionmodels.com)
2 points by maurits 15y ago|0 comments
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Also, these 15 objects will in the event of an emergency become flying objects bouncing around the cabin.
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by maurits 15y ago
Thanks for your answer, I do appreciate that.
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by maurits 15y ago
build a finite state machine from the dataset Could you elaborate on that? Or provide a link for the novice?
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by maurits 15y ago
Not to ponder into conspiracy theories, but here is another thought. Markopolos wasn't the only one who figured this out. But investing in a pyramid scheme can still be brilliant fun if you get out early enough and enough new victims keep j
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by maurits 15y ago
No guarantees though, choosing an existing handle/username with a tarnished reputation seems like a pretty good strategy to me for online shenanigans.
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by maurits 15y ago
Sorry, but I couldn't disagree more. Quality comes from the authors and the volunteers who peer review submissions, not from copyright Plagiarism, or detection of (academic) plagiarism has very little to do with copyright. Academics has it
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by maurits 15y ago
Sure, I have done many elective classes including a couple on a military academy. The latter helps me understand the evening news a lot better. But my degree was in engineering and as such, all these other useful classes did not count as of
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by maurits 15y ago
In all honesty, I do not think a photography class that is recreational should be part of the official curriculum. Seriously, the Harvard course advertises itself with "what the difference between sports mode and portrait mode on the camera
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by maurits 15y ago
Of the top of my head, - Machine Learning by Tom M Mitchell http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html For general reading and introductions I also like: - Pattern Classification by Richard Duda - Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by
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by maurits 15y ago
You gave me a new idea. I have two hobbies, one is a niche, and its subredit is dead in the water. The other is so broad its subredit suffers a bit from the fun&games comments. Which brings me to this. HN is a pretty nice community. Wha
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by maurits 15y ago
I deleted my account yesterday. As a community it has given me nothing back, except pictures of funny cats (ok slight exaggeration) It seems as if every single comment that hints to insight fulness, knowledge or that comes accompanied with
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by maurits 15y ago
Let me compress this list, for those people in CS programs which focus on theoretical/more abstract paradigms, it is useful ( and fun ) to code. SO 10 Write code in <language> for <project> based on <technology/idea>
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by maurits 15y ago
Interesting package deal, as the French also have a pretty stringent anti piracy law. Other side effect, assuming that the VPN is fully encrypted and the server is in a, shall we say more liberal country, is that it will become more easy to
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by maurits 15y ago
One can also have a look at the stanford course "Mining Massive Datasets". No video lectures (yet) but course information here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs246/cs246-11-mmds/handouts.h... The book here: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~u

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