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> VIPS instead surmises that, after WikiLeaks' Julian Assange announced on June 12, 2016 his intention to publish Hillary Clinton-related emails, the DNC rushed to fabricate evidence that it had been hacked by Russia to defuse any potential WikiLeaks disclosures.

This is laughably stupid. Why would attributing the hack to Russia instead of Wikileaks or whatever make any difference to the contents of the hacks?

That's exactly the mistake that Robert Morris (of the infamous Sendmail worm[1]) made: he kept re-infecting the machines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

SO many fake passports... I bet she was an East German spy. People in such a line of work usually don't have labels in clothes, because the labels might not match the rest of the story.

In some languages, it makes sense to add the "bell", otherwise the sentence is incomplete.

In my native Hindi, you would say "X's ship's bell". If you drop the the "bell", it becomes "X's ship". Obviously it's not a ship. And if you drop the "ship", it becomes "X". That would mean the bell's name is "X". So the only complete, logical sentence has to be "X's ship's bell".

s/Berlin/San Francisco/g

Same shit, different place.

From a US perspective: The world is changing. The (American) ideal of a McMansion with a 2.5 kids and 3 cars is gone. People want to live in cities; in particular, tolerant, safe, cultured cities. Old timers in San Francisco (where I live) will blame the "tech boom" and "techies" for this phenomenon, but it's not limited to tech, and is not caused by tech. It's just the cycle we are in currently.

Instead of a chime, you should be hearing a cha-ching!

Yes.

On a serious note: these are the 2 primary languages at companies like Google, so it can't hurt.

> The rational was to ensure duties were paid and screen for "bad guys," drugs, weapons, diseased fruit, etc.

There's always a perfectly-sounding rationale for such giving them such powers, but in the end these are always abused.

Given the accuracy, could it read your fingerprints while you're doing the gesture? From the paper, it looks like the average displacement accuracy is 0.4mm. I wonder if that's accurate enough to read your fingerprints. If it could, you could ensure that only your gestures are recognized and not someone elses!

Author is Marketing Director of Dine, one of the apps listed, and a competitor to the other 3. It can't get more biased than this.

And all of submitter's comments (all 3 of them) are on stories to do with Dine.

Flagged for astroturfing.

Why don't these startups apply it first to countries where the patients are there but the doctors are lacking?

I've been interested in application of ML to healthcare for nearly 20 years. In the early days, researchers just refused to share data; they were worried that you (using some fancy math or ML) would upstage them. I actually heard this first-hand from a faculty member.

Fast forward to today, and there is more openness. I did skim the paper mentioned here, but did not see any links to the actual data, which is a shame.

The actual paper: http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/radiol.2016161315

> I basically got 0 value out it, considering I'm young and healthy I would not have to pay much for insurance, you're mostly footing the bill for the pensioners.

And when you are a pensioner, who will foot your bill?

For some reason, this reminded me of "Pied Piper" of "Silicon Valley" fame.

SSDI eligibility is based on not where you can do a job or not; but whether you can do a job that's available locally or not.

People on SSDI are not counted as "unemployed", IIRC. Which makes the actual unemployment rate much higher.

Hmm... I wonder if this is Yahoo's way of getting out of the deal?

On a tangential note:

> Meanwhile, the ICIG’s handling of what began as a whistleblower complaint against Ellard sends an encouraging signal to those who may report wrongdoing at 17 US intelligence agencies

We have 17 intelligence agencies?!??

> but the system would need to be restarted before the ME would read the changes.

# shutdown -r now

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> the fake news was created by the left to discredit the alt-right

I would have a hard time taking a guy who's the "godfather of fake news" at his word. Who's to say he isn't making this all up?

> Trump actually won. By talking about real issues that nobody else even dares to touch.

Like Obama's birth certificate? Or Benghazi?

> For example, Donald Knuth lives in Silicon Valley,

Maybe because he works in Stanford, which is in the heart of Silicon Valley? And he's been a faculty there for 40+ years, so he probably could afford a house there. AND Stanford has a program where you can lease a house on campus? Lots of reasons, all containing the word "Stanford" :)

Are there standalone packages that can perform t-sne, or are we limited to using the versions in R, etc. ?

Anybody who has spent even 5 minutes in a public library knows that this is a big problem with public computers. So why was this a surprise?

If you want to play around, take a gander at Kaggle.

Country singer Willie Nelson?

While we're at it, why not just get out of the car, take off all our clothes, and just lie face down on the pavement, butt naked, arms and legs spread wide??

This reminds me of stories of slavery, and how slaves were supposed to act around white folks.

It's always like that. A company that wants adoption will make things all "open" and "free", and let the developers do the hard work. Once the users are there, turn off the API (or severely restrict it) to keep the users in.

What is not mentioned here is that many of the welfare recipients moved to SSDI (Social Security Disability Income). SSDI is paid for by the Federal government, so the states were incentivized to encourage this move. In fact, there are companies that specialize in applying for SSDI for welfare recipients, and charge per successful application.

There's the feel-good story, and then there's the harsh reality. The reality is, SSDI enrollment has gone up by a factor of 3X since this "welfare reform" thing passed.

I have a neighbor who is reasonably fit (he can move 100lb+ stones in his side gig as a landscaper), but he is on SSDI and collects a cool $3K/mo for doing nothing. Once you are on SSDI, it's very difficult to kick you off.