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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 eviden…

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 s…

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 becom…

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 wa…

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 suc…

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 acc…

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) a…

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…

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 …

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 1…

> but the system would need to be restarted before the ME would read the changes. # shutdown -r now ?

> 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 makin…

> 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…

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?