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two is one and one is none

If I'm not mistaken, the algorithms (and their names) usually come directly from the literature. ie: to understand them, you could read books on AI / computer vision, or look up the research papers from which the algorithm comes from.

This, for me (in Canada). I now regularly throughout the day check several facebook groups related to my various hobbies. For example a group where serious cyclists from my area are buying/selling parts. Yes, I also check craigslist/kijiji, but the Facebook group is much more responsive, you can ask questions and comment, and I don't have to sift through a bunch of cheap parts I don't want. Also I trust it more because most people are somehow connected.

In fact I hardly ever check my facebook feed anymore, I mostly just go directly to the group I'm interested in.

Nothing happens for me where I press enter either, I have to click on the search icon (firefox on linux).

> I'd rather be poor today than rich twenty years ago.

This makes it sound like rich people 20 years ago had it pretty bad... What did technology add to their lives aside from convenience?

It says in the readme he uses wxPython (wxWidgets). You could also use Qt as I believe both use native Cocoa underneath. You can't do everything that is possible if you were coding on Obj-C or Swift, but the stuff you can do looks native. Both have bindings in many languages.

The link on the website should work now: http://ring.cx/en/documentation/mac-osx-installation

Should be fixed now.

The home page[0] seems to suggest that there are also audio and video capable clients... are they still in development, or is there something functional already?

[0] - https://tox.im/

Both iOS and Android now have pretty good accessibility features for the blind. I think iOS is still slightly ahead though. Basically the phone reads out the button or action when you put your finger over it and you have to double tap to click. When you go to a new screen, it reads out the contents.

You can try it yourself if you have an iOS or Android phone by enabling the feature. But I've met blind people who use their touch screen smart phones every day.

OT, but it seems that in Canada all of the Foundation series is available as ebooks (on Amazon, Google, etc) except for the very first one... very annoying.

I'm also on Arch. I had to install the 'gst-libav' package (possibly in adition to the gst-plugins-good?) for it to work. Thanks.

You're right, the page you linked shows that my browser doesn't have support for H.264... though then I'm confused as to why the first GIFV loads for me when I open it on a separate page...

I don't know if its just me, but the GIFVs embedded on the page dont load for me, unless I click on them to open them in a page on their own, and the second one doesn't play even in this case.

Firefox 32.0.3 on Linux

I think the idea is to encourage people to make stuff in India, rather than a list of things already made in India... but yeah, it threw me off too.

What is your background? I know that for a lot of corporate type gigs HR is really more concerned with whats on your CV than what your actual skills are. For many, a good GPA in a programming related program will get you an interview and the rest is soft skills. So, I feel like if your background isn't directly programming related then you really have to look for smaller companies/startups or via recommendations.

Really? How young are you talking about? I graduated about a year ago and almost everyone I knew who was really interested in writing software read at least some of his stuff from joelonsoftware...

(Article is from October 9, 2013)

Selling an iPhone app for iOS8.

git is not a website...

The protests are not about the deal with the EU or Russia. The protests are against the current corrupt government in general and its brutal response to the initially peaceful protests. Having spoken to Ukrainians who have been participating in the protests, they told me that they would not care whether or not the EU nor the Russian deal is signed, they just want to get rid of the current government either way.

Yes, you can add to the dictionary.

I went from using SwiftKey to Minuum. I would say SwiftKey has better prediction, at least for predicting the next word. Minuum isn't very good right now at predicting the next word you want to type based on the previous words, though I think it has been improving. However, I think on average I probably type at about the same speed on both because Minuum allows you to be much sloppier and there is only 1 dimension.

Overall, the only real advantage of Minuum currently is its smaller size which allows you to see more of the screen... which is point. SwiftKey has more languages and currently allows for faster switching between 3 of them. And since its been around for longer is probably slightly more polished (less weird behavior when encountering weird input fields).

Oh, the other thing about Minuum is that people who haven't used it might have trouble borrowing your phone :P

Which smartwatch is this?

Dunno, but my MBA ran cs:go way better than my linux box with a dedicated (low end but new) ati card can run cs:source. I'm sure it's a driver issue, but point is that macs current can outperform many linux setups.

> NOT giving these ALLEGEDLY crazed Islamist terrorist criminals the same rights as the rest of us is like spitting in the face of every victim of 9/11.

FTFY

It doesn't mention over what sort of volume/area it re-enters... 70% of smoke from one chimney distributed over the whole neighborhood/town would be more subtle.

edit: "near-by" is a relative term

Well, I assume that burning pretty much anything that is solid will produce some sort of micro-particles... which even if they are not cancerogenic are probably not good to inhale...

Interesting idea, but I wouldn't expect it to work out well for long. It would probably require a lot of regular maintenance, and if one breaks down while your bike is on it, you would be screwed until a tech with the master mechanical key comes to rescue you... which might then also make them liable if you locked a stolen bike there...

What sort of locking mechanism will be used? I live in Canada and ride my bike all year round, in the rain, snow, sleet, below freezing temperatures, etc. Sometimes I have to leave my bike outside during the winter. I've had trouble opening my key operated lock before when it froze in the middle of the night... luckily I was able to get it open with rubbing alcohol and chain lube after about 20 minutes.

I'd be worried that this thing won't handle the weather, especially if its only battery operated (no key).