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kimolas··on Mailchimp Is Shutting Down ICO and Blockchain-Related Emails
I bought a fair amount of crypto to flip in the short-term, but on the other hand I don't believe the technology has proven itself to be anything more than a fad. I'd like to see a lot more regulations put on it.
kimolas··on Mailchimp Is Shutting Down ICO and Blockchain-Related Emails
FYI, MailChimp is based in Atlanta, GA. Maybe you mean to use "Silicon Valley" as a catch-all for tech, but I don't think it's fair to associate SV with anti-ICO attitudes in this way. The anti-ICO sentiment is coming from everywhere, and I think it's pretty legitimate.
kimolas··on The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info ever
You would use a PIN that is generated at the time of freezing the account. However, this doesn't prevent a future attack from obtaining the PINs.
kimolas··on The Equifax breach may be the worst leak of personal info ever
An alternative? You mean user-created passwords?
kimolas··on New lubricated mussel-proof coating
Even a cubic foot of water would be well under 100lbs. I doubt a cubic foot of mussels + water to fill the rest could weigh a ton.

It may be possible for (especially stationary structures) to accumulate enormous columns of biofouling materials, but for such a layer to reach > 20 feet thick (possibly closer to 50 feet without counting the interstitial water) sounds unreasonable. But I'm not knowledgable in this area.

kimolas··on VPN crackdown ‘unthinkable’ trial by firewall for China’s research world
My Chinese friends tell me it's no longer mandatory for students to take English classes, but it'll likely never be banned outright.
kimolas··on T-Mobile adds 1.3M customers in Q2, continues to grab wireless share
I've been using the free unlimited roaming from T-Mobile on several trips to Japan, Argentina, France, and Italy. Often, the speeds are actually faster than EDGE, unless the network is busy. I have had no issues using Google/Apple Maps or booking hotels, etc. through this connection. The only thing I miss is having Hotspot capabilities, even at the reduced speeds.
kimolas··on T-Mobile adds 1.3M customers in Q2, continues to grab wireless share
They have a new unlimited data plan which has replaced all of their other plans. This model is now being adopted by the other carriers.
kimolas··on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Review
It sounds like they're referring to the Wii U; they're suggesting (correctly, arguably) that the Wii U is essentially dead now, and that no one will buy the Wii U just for Zelda. If anything, people will instead buy the Switch, hence their point about Zelda "saving the Switch" (although from what, I'm not sure, since it does have over a hundred games confirmed).
kimolas··on Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
No money is needed to get the devices to communicate, because the devices are no longer expected to communicate. iOS has been fully independent of macOS (to end-users) for half its life.
kimolas··on Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros
I think I've figured out why I'm seeing a delay. It must be related to the Caps Lock delay that some keyboards have, wherein the keyboard will prevent Caps Lock from engaging (or even sending any signal at all to an app, apparently) unless the key has been engaged for more than just a tap.

It looks like the only way to fix this would be to buy a keyboard without this feature.

kimolas··on Show HN: Blink Shell for iOS, an Open-Source, Mosh and SSH Terminal for Pros
I'm a long-time Prompt user, and I just purchased Blink on the App Store after seeing that mapping Caps Lock to CTRL is supported. It does seem to work, although not really as consistently as I'd like it to. I'm using an iPad Air 2 and the Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard, for reference.

When I try to use, say, CTRL+V in Vim to do a block selection, it will assume I pressed V by itself unless I hold Caps Lock for about half a second before pressing V. Furthermore, it will toggle the Caps Lock light on my keyboard (which I understand can't be fixed), which is a problem because if I exit Blink, the Caps Lock key is now reversed if I exited Blink while the Caps Lock key was still active.

Perhaps there's a way to track if Caps Lock had been pressed an even or odd number of times, and send some signal back to the OS to correct this behavior?

I'm not sure what needs to be fixed in order to get the Caps Lock functionality to work without a delay.

kimolas··on Statistical Machine Learning, Spring 2016
Well, now we have 10-715 as the ML PhD-level course that corresponds to 701. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/Class/10715/
kimolas··on Is your JavaScript function actually pure?
I thought it was a bit pedantic as well, at first. But looking at Haskell, I can see why the author made this point. Haskell functions won't accept random values as input, since they're monadic values.
kimolas··on A Beginner's Guide to Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks
This is the right perspective. It seems the OP believes actual photographs are privileged in some way. In reality, any visual input from our eyes counts as training data, as you said.
kimolas··on A Message to Our Customers
iCloud backups are 100% encrypted. Only some iTunes backups are not, and only if the option to use encryption to protect the backup is not selected.
kimolas··on A Canvas Made of Pixels
Which monitor would you recommend that uses the same display as the 5k iMac? Apparently Samsung made one half a year ago that costs as much as the iMac itself.
kimolas··on Can I name my company after a computer science algorithm? Like YC
Did you mean "In the latter case"?
kimolas··on Machine Learning Done Wrong
It was written by someone in my PhD cohort—it's available for preorder now. http://www.statisticsdonewrong.com