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As a KS backer of Light Table I always get sad about what might have been[1] if they hadn't gone the YC + VC route that basically lead to abandoning LT before it was near ready for…

They were not talking about through-hole LEDs in that section as Alps styles switches (Matias is resurrection of the simplified Alps style) cannot have both a through-hole LED and …

There is little I dislike more than generational labels. It's lazy and reductionist thinking that allows people to arbitrarily draw lines in whatever way they feel will best push t…

I'll take "Apocryphal Socrates Quotes" for $500 Alex

Yes, that is the one-line throw away dismissal of the whole affair if you innately believe that everything we do will always devolve to the status quo. I reject this form of behavi…

I find it sad (but not at all surprising) that this is the state of the Bitcoin community. The level of discourse for what is supposed to be a technology that is billed as "liberat…

Great to see a more generic pure-.NET image processing library. When I was doing this 5 years ago we basically had AForge.NET which was focused more on correctness of algorithms th…

It's not just that, it's also the people who want to trot out "hur hur hur, only uneducated people voted for Trump" I'm just so sick of all the navel gazing going on between the Be…

Could be, but personally I'm done with being silent and just chuckling silently to myself or rolling my eyes when people pull out these infotainment zingers disguised as "insight".…

> 59million liked all new age sjw stuff That is such an absurd and reductionist dismissal of this election that is no different than the equally wrong people saying "59 million peo…

The hardest part of an open source poll would be anonymization. Demographic information in some areas could be enough to come pretty close to uniquely identifying an individual. Th…

I for one am thankful for Jest and Yarn. I recently switched over to Jest and I love most everything about it and the built in watch with caching reduces friction immensely (now if…

Definitely an Infinity Ergodox, the full hand has the I:C logo on it.

It's much more nuanced than that though. Increasing the evaporation rate also makes exploitation much harder, not to mention that the positive feedback cycle on previously very goo…

One of the biggest drawbacks with things like ACO (ant colony optimization) are actually more in dynamic environments rather than static ones like these. Pheromone trails tend to r…

Excellent. It's a little funny how when you start problems like these you start becoming an expert in fields you never thought you'd have to play in like color spaces, color percep…

On the contrast topic: adaptive thresholding can be very helpful (I believe Bradley Local Thresholding was one I had particular success with) however most of these algorithms work …

It's definitely happening on the device. Document recognition like this moved onto the device about 3 years ago, and in fact if they didn't do this device side they would have a ha…

Having worked with several of the commercial products in this space almost all of them lean on OpenCV for the hard parts, and I'd be surprised if this didn't either.

Worked on this problem exactly 2-3 years ago (developed automated document processing in the accounts receivable and accounts payable sector for a decade plus). It's a fun iceberg …

What you're actually calling for is to completely remove the Senate since what you want is exactly how the House of Representatives is structured. Also due to the fact that the wea…

"Black people were targeted in 72 percent of thousands of investigative street stops that did not lead to arrests during a recent summer." If that's not racial profiling, I don't k…

He open sourced (GPLv3) the whole engine at: https://github.com/AlwaysGeeky/Vox

The cash payout is ~$500 million, and after taxes you may end up with $309 million. So, yeah, probably not a winning strategy.

I spent a decade working with and writing software for LTL freight and 3PL companies on the receivables automation side and all I have to say is I hope these companies are successf…