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In this same vein, the other day I pulled up a Crowded House station and Spotify's assumption was that I wanted to hear only Australian musicians, not that I wanted to listen to 80's and 90's rock.

What an insane ruling considering Co-Star is entirely an astrology app and was picked as an app store "Editor's Choice" at some point.

Hey thanks! Glad you like it.

Great suggestion. I'll try and get that added in today. I was debating adding in score checkpoints that unlock other permutations, but I might just add in a shuffle and make sure it doesn't reveal the wotd. Thanks for the feedback!

Great callout. I forgot to update the help modal when I put in that 3 letter minimum. Sorting is a great idea, too. Thanks for the feedback!

Edit: Both things added in. I appreciate ya!

Alyssa is such an inspiring individual. I'm glad she's working on the things that interest her.

Not the A variant, which is what USAF flies.

not every tp-link model (or revision, or locale, or firmware version) that shares a web interface with the c7 requires you to manually set a password. even if that were the case, there are bound to be users who aren't security savvy and chose a very weak password (e.g. "password", "admin").

many tp-link routers also have configurable vpn servers built in, which can open up the whole network to malicious actors.

I know you're joking, but someone has actually done that: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/antar...

What a great writeup! It's awesome to see the process all the way from component selection, through code, to a final working demo. I'm definitely saving this for when I have time to do more hands-on FPGA learning.

That's pretty impressive performance given the hash size and speed. Thanks for sharing!

Great write-up! We did something very similar when trying to find duplicate product images for a consumer review site we were working on. Our implementation desaturated the image, broke it into a fixed number of tiles, and generated a histogram of each tile's values. Then we put a threshold on the histogram values, and had each value in the tile represent a bit. Combine the bits, and we had a hash to store in the DB. Our hashes were a bit larger, so images within a certain hamming distance were flagged, rather than just looking for exact hash matches. It took quite a bit of tuning for us to get good results, but it seemed to work pretty well. Do you see many false positives with such a small processed image size (the 9x8 one, I mean)?

great idea. i'll have to keep this in mind for future projects.

this is great. i have a strange compulsion to buy awful domain names, regardless of their usefulness. is there any rule against multiple entries (aside from the possibility of exchanging with yourself?)

your reply wasn't really grumpy, and i understand it's a touchy subject for many people. the content of the article wasn't what interested me so much as the topic of it. it had never really occurred to me that the movement of potential suicide notes to digital media allows the opportunity for prevention.

what the fuck merited this response? i've read and re-read my comment, and i can't seem to find anything that would suggest that i'm seeing people simply as numbers here. are you honestly so jaded and cynical that you think someone talking about suicide prevention doesn't realize there is a human element to the matter?

this is great. the positive responses you've seen combined with an interesting article i read a few days ago [1] make me want to write an ML suicide prevention bot for social media channels. a 20-30% positive response to suicide prevention would be astounding, and the cost is so small.

[1] http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/6451/what-suicide-n...

i wouldn't be surprised if this was less of a multi-market strategy and more of a play to get a games platform for tumblr. just a thought, though.

they're most known for their main product: player.io. here's a link to that: http://playerio.com/

Here's the tricky part: they do ask for permission to post on your behalf when you open the app. It's pretty muted, at the bottom of a popup, and dwarfed by a larger, more colorful call to action.

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/oWDstiC.png

It's also not entirely obvious to me what happens in every case. If I close the popup, does it still count as my giving consent? If I close the app? My guess is that most people skim over the copy and click the big blue button, totally disregarding the checkbox down there.

My best advice (not that it's valuable): Take a weekend to yourself and learn something new with a personal project. Build a Facebook game, make use of the Twitter API, learn some basics of functional programming. Anything you can do to show that you are motivated and interested will help you significantly.

Maybe it's the orange, but my phone is having hell trying to figure out the prettified code. That being said, it's a nifty idea.