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by roddux 9y ago
"No", respond taxpayers. How do they intend to record this?
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by roddux 9y ago
What a terrible headline and article. TL;DR: face-recognition AIs trained on predominantly white faces aren't as able to reliably detect a dark-skinned face. When updated with a more mixed training set, the success rate rises.
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by roddux 9y ago
Unless my reading comprehension has taken a serious dive this morning, all the sources NationMaster lists appear to be a good 5 to 10 years out of date. In other words, that would exclude information about crimes since the recent demographi
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by roddux 9y ago
'Dockless' bikes have recently made a large appearance in London, too. They're suddenly everywhere, little orange ones. I'm not sure if it's the same company but it's the exactly the same principle. I'm qu
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by roddux 9y ago
The service has fees, where does "free" come into play?
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by roddux 9y ago
This one is shiny and new! /s
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by roddux 9y ago
Haha, I fondly remember this game. If I recall correctly, this was (is?) in the Debian repos about 4 or so years ago. Shame to hear it's been abandoned these days!
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by roddux 9y ago
I've never seen such a distinct pattern for display burn-in. What monitor do you use? That's quite interesting.
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by roddux 9y ago
Okay, so this is not a joke and apparently not an advert either. A dubious claim. I'm so confused. Paris Hilton must be close to the last celebrity on earth I would have thought to endorse a coin sale. Who exactly is the audience, here
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by roddux 9y ago
I'm glad to see that HGST have the lowest failure rates across the board for the 3rd(?) year in a row. I was concerned they'd lose their place when they were bought by Western Digital.
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by roddux 9y ago
Such an extraordinarily clickbait headline. I'm saddened that mainstream media has fallen to such lows. Anyway, the bots started speaking "shorthand English" (gibberish) to each other -- which probably wasn't very useful
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by roddux 9y ago
Both Facebook and Google have actively influenced political events. >[..] on election day in 2010, Facebook sent ‘go out and vote’ reminders to more than 60 million of its users. The reminders caused about 340,000 people to vote who othe
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by roddux 9y ago
I immediately thought of ELIZA, with it's DOCTOR script. ELIZA was a chatbot from '64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA There will no doubt be privacy issues with people spilling their hearts to a Facebook
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by roddux 9y ago
Interesting idea, but oh, the irony!
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by roddux 9y ago
This particular map looks to be curated by the author of the GitHub repo.
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by roddux 10y ago
I would assume that the host/Observer only found out about the professional sound system after the party! Not exactly something a shady guest would inform the host about up front. I am also puzzled why the guest isn't being pursue
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by roddux 10y ago
I've never seen an autonomous vehicle drive with traffic before, let alone keep pace. Perhaps I simply haven't been keeping up with the latest advances in the technology, but this looks very cool. It's mentioned in the video
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by roddux 10y ago
This is related to the Chrome caching update; as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13492483 Two wholly different strategies, which has ultimately split how the browsers handle caching.
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by roddux 10y ago
Has anybody managed to dig to the bottom of the D-Wave marketing hype? As far as I knew, they've yet to actually produce results of a quantum effect. And yet, Google invested in them. Does anybody have any more on this? Am I just way b
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by roddux 10y ago
I would assume that avenue has been tried -- so this project is to pressurise him into opening up to the idea. No idea though.
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by roddux 10y ago
I think perhaps po1nter meant the actual 'KeePass': http://keepass.info/
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by roddux 10y ago
You would have to merge entries added on different devices manually, however.
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by roddux 10y ago
Judging from TFA it's due to KeePassX having one maintainer, so the pull requests all bottleneck with him. Also mentioned is that one desirable outcome of this is that KeePassXC developers are given co-maintainer status of KeePassX and
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by roddux 10y ago
Isn't this what the Firefox Hello demo was for -- to prove that it's possible? Multi-user screen sharing (I didn't realise this), video conferencing, chat and audio. From your browser. It's since been discontinued but th
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by roddux 10y ago
Moral of this story is that shakycoder needs to find a new job. A junior developer earning 20k more based on a supposed 6 months experience?
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by roddux 10y ago
Seconded with the "well thought out PR" part. The piece was worded well, all fault points away from Samsung.
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by roddux 10y ago
Ah, seems I'd completely missed this one! Thanks for the link.
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by roddux 10y ago
I'm not much for conspiracy theories, but it's interesting to note that The Guardian actually recommends people concerned about surveillance to stop using WhatsApp, without offering any alternatives. >If you use WhatsApp as a
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by roddux 10y ago
The backdoor referred to can be applied to any Android app that uses Google Maps. Also mentioned is that using the built-in Google keyboard is a vulnerability, because in theory it gives Google the ability to keylog you. I supposed this boi
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by roddux 10y ago
I'd play "Speedy Doggo"

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