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> pay a lot in ATM fees If you use ATMs with any frequency, you need to get a free checking account and debit card with a bank* that will refund your ATM fees each month. Once you …

Marketing? A sane password policy doesn't get you to #2 on HN.

I hadn't seen the detailed documentation - thanks so much for the acknowledgments there! And thanks for correcting me about CCV's support for custom architectures and training -- I…

As a user of and contributor to Caffe [1], I have to take the opportunity to plug it here. Like the CCV classifier linked, Caffe is fully open-source [2], has a downloadable state-…

Thanks for the DeCAF plug! Here's a demo of the classifier with the pre-trained ImageNet weights in action: http://decaf.berkeleyvision.org/ I also have to take the opportunity to …

> The passphrase can be brute-forced significantly more easily than breaking the encryption itself. Furthermore, as xkcd so accurately pointed out, a hostile government will throw …

I don't know about a "few minutes", but spending a couple hours putting together some type of system for automatically installing your system configuration is SO worth it - probabl…

Ah, providing it at the terminal level does make more sense (that was probably obvious to anyone with any familiarity with the basics of Unix terminals, sorry), and now that I hear…

I think it would be neat if SSH provided an API or a set of special characters so that the remote shell could tell SSH to switch back and forth between remote and local echo. For e…

> I don't. I simply play the first result that youtube returns. I had thought of a similar idea to what this website does (using song metadata from a cleaned source like Spotify an…

Why? What you copy-pasted makes no claim of causation (e.g., it does not say anything like "if you sleep 6.5 to 7.5 hours a night, you will be happier"); you just chose to read it …

Agreed. And this might be just me, but I greatly prefer talking on a computer (laptop or desktop) to holding a phone in my hand up to my ear. Especially for long personal calls or …

From a 'security' perspective, this seems like an objectively good thing to me. If having this data publicly available is a good thing, then this map is a good thing - the more exp…

> As a Netflix subscriber, I'd rather see them signing more non-exclusive deals than fewer exclusive deals. It seems like a deal like this would be more intended to attract custome…