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Automating Card Games Using OpenCV and Python
Disclaimer: My area of research is databases. This post is about computer vision, something that I am not an expert at. Please consider this an amateur for-fun-only post!A friend introduced me to the...
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Faltering Economy in China Dims Job Prospects for Graduates
Gilles Sabrie for The New York TimesA job fair last month at Minzu University of China in Beijing. Companies have limited positions to offer graduating seniors.HONG KONG — A record seven million...
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New DRM Changes Text of eBooks to Catch Pirates
New DRM Changes Text of eBooks to Catch Pirates | TorrentFreakHomeAboutArchivesCategoriesAnti-PiracyBittorrent SoftwareBreaking NewsCopyright IssuesLegal IssuesOpinionPirate TalkPolitics and...
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China Dissident Says He’s Being Forced From N.Y.U.
BEIJING — Chen Guangcheng, the dissident legal advocate whose escape from house arrest to the American Embassy in Beijing last year provoked a diplomatic crisis, said he was being forced to leave New...
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Choosing Hong Kong Is a Brilliant Move by Edward Snowden
I live in Hong Kong. And when the news broke that Snowden had decided to take refuge in my city, I was puzzled at first. But then, as I read and listened to pundit after pundit in the US declare that...
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Repository Next
Today we’re proud to announce a redesigned repository experience focused on your content, built for everyday use.We’ll be slowly rolling out the ability to opt-in to this new design over the next few...
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Cryptography is a science, not engineering
Thomas Ptacek tweeted yesterday that "If you're not learning crypto by coding attacks, you might not actually be learning crypto." Judging by the number of twitter "favourites" and "retweets" of this...
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How FPGAs work, and why you'll buy one
Today, pretty much everyone has a CPU, a DSP and a GPU, buried somewhere in their PC, phone, car, etc. Most don't know or care that they bought any of these, but they did.Will everyone, at some future...
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Buying the new MacBook Air
Buying the new MacBook AirA very helpful Apple salesperson helped me save $750 and here’s how he did it. I’ve had a 15” MBP for a couple of years now, but it is just too big to use when traveling. I’ve...
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Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists
Get Rid of the App Store’s “Top” Lists – Marco.orgJune 17, 2013 • ∞http://www.marco.org/2013/06/17/app-store-top-lists•At the bottom of my recent post on App Store pricing, I ended a three-paragraph...
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Low batteries on your Tesla? Swap ‘em out
||Tesla Motors on Thursday will demonstrate a quick way to swap out the batteries on its all-electric Model S sedan as an alternative to recharging on long road trips, CEO Elon Musk revealed...
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Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims
The men, all whistleblowers, say he succeeded where they failed.ReutersUSA Today has published an extraordinary interview with three former NSA employees who praise Edward Snowden's leaks, corroborate...
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Creative usernames and Spotify account hijacking
Usernames a bit too clever for our own good?Spotify supports unicode usernames which we are a bit proud of (not many services allow you to have ☃, the unicode snowman, as a username). However, it has...
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Google challenges U.S. gag order, citing First Amendment
Google is preparing to ask the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to...
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MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL
It has recently been brought to our attention that the MySQL man pages have been relicensed. The change was made rather silently going from MySQL 5.5.30 to MySQL 5.5.31. This affects all pages in the...
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'World's oldest calendar' discovered in Scottish field
14 July 2013Last updated at22:01 ETAn artist's impression of Warren Field about 10,000 years ago showing burning material in one of the "calendar's" pitsArchaeologists believe they have discovered the...
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Probably not for hackers
Essays. by Don Kuntz.14 July 2013It seems like lots of software being built these days is "for hackers". Turns out most of it really isn't.We should first have a common definition of a "hacker",...
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Sustaining git-annex development
My sincere thanks, and your name in the credits page on the git-annex website.And my sincere thanks, and your name in the credits page on the website.Support git-annex development, and get your name...
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Do Things that Don't Scale
July 2013One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something,...
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Why We Can No Longer Trust Microsoft
If the NSA is spying on Microsoft products, why would anyone want to use them?July 12, 2013 03:32pm ESTIf anyone should be mad at the NSA for all the snooping that appears to be going on, it should be...
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