I'm not sure on the details of how it's done ... but it certainly is done :)
Honestly, the library/libraries used are kinda moot - those things change all the time (ie, it doesn't matter if it's OpenCV or something else)
Most government-issued IDs are intentionally designed to be very hard to OCR (it's why they have barcodes/etc on them for automated scanning) - and any advances in image processing are more-or-less immediately countered by improvements in ID construction
I don't have the site live yet, so there isn't anything you can interact with.
The idea is that you can have different views for different jobs, but all the data stays the same. So if you're looking for a system administration job, you might leave out some of your robotics experience. If you're applying for a position working with hardware, you might want to include it.
The views are created as you need them, deleted when you don't- and you can revoke access to them at any time by re-generating the url.
When I was in the Army, everyone hated the Red Cross, although the reasons shifted depending on who you ask. I've never heard about the doughnuts before. Most commonly, other soldiers claimed that they sold donated blood, although how true that is, I don't know.
It's not just blood. If you donate your organs, those are also sold. And the cost of the donated blood or organ is passed on to the recipient (or their insurance at least), probably with additional markup.
There is much, much more recent reporting on this matter. Blood and blood plasma make up something between 1.5% and 2.5% of the United States' exports. Which is weird.
"All too often cries of "free speech!" are about not being able to say something that legitimately hurts or offends someone else"
This is exactly what free speech is. The freedom to say things that are wrong, hateful, misinformed, misleading, vicious, cruel and hurtful as long as no actual violent or criminal acts are incited.
As I've said over and over, the key problem with freedom-of-speech on the internet and harassment is how to handle people using the point-to-point facilities to antagonize others in volumes beyond what they could filter reasonably.
Having ten thousand people on twitter continually tweet at one person, or email them, or whatever, is kind of like a psychic DDoS. This is a thorny problem for freedom-of-speech absolutists who can recognize the harms such things may allow.
However, shitty subreddits? There's nothing there to offend anyone until they go to the subreddit and become offended. People in those cases are basically autoharassing themselves.
It's just so shitty to see a few crybabies and a few shitheads drum up enough drama to cause everyone to forget just how awesome it is that we had this nice, open platform for idea exchange--even the ones the majority dislikes.
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And lest we forget, the newsgroups and BBSs and everything were more than happy to allow people with nonstandard gender configurations and sexual tastes to merrily congregate, as they did other weird and sometimes hostile subcultures.
That people want to remove the facilities to support such formations, now that $PREFERRED_CULTURE is mainstream enough, is pretty harmful.
> However, shitty subreddits? There's nothing there to offend anyone until they go to the subreddit and become offended. People in those cases are basically autoharassing themselves.
Fatpeoplehate would often brigade other subs and other sites.
I agree with you. I think that was a poor way for engadget to end the article. It was probably meant to be more along the lines of this quote from earlier in the article "It was all because they thought Reddit was restricting their free speech, something they have no actual right to on the site in the first place."
I was a heavy drinker for about two/three years. When I say heavy, I mean a fifth of rum every afternoon. I do my best not to drink like that any more, but I still have the habit. So if I'm not paying attention to what I'm doing, my beer will vanish in about a minute and a half, and I'll have another one, and another, and another etc.
or dead; possibly both (i dearly hope not for both cases!). a working fusion reactor with advertised properties will disrupt the current political balance of power on the planet. intelligence agencies of certain fossil fuel-driven countries might get orders to not let the situation go that far. hopefully certain other intelligence agencies will be able to protect the effort.
This is needlessly conspiratorial. Oil companies and sovereign wealth funds are some of the biggest investors in renewables on earth. Everyone knows we will reach peak oil at some point, whether through increasingly costly extraction/taxation or increasingly cheap renewable competitors. There is no 'grand conspiracy' to quash alternative energy sources.
He takes it a bit far... but its true that fuel is a primary driver of politics in our current times. What that means though is a bit less known. Honestly i'd assume it would be a stabilizer more than anything. It could lead to the end of propping up regimes in the middle east for instance.
i'm not talking about any grand conspiracy, i'm far from it. what i'm concerned about is what is happening about a thousand miles east from where i live - in eastern ukraine - and what happens to russian economy when europe stops buying their natural resources because we don't need them anymore.
Something I thought of coming home from a birthday dinner this afternoon:
In order to get a better idea of what the viewer is focusing on, you might consider going to a vertical gradient instead of a pointer heat-map.
Most people don't read to the bottom of the page before they start scrolling. Imagine two lines on the screen- the bottom line is the point at which the viewer will begin to scroll. The top line is the point that the viewer wants their reading area to be located. The space in between the lines is your "target" area.
As the viewer scrolls down the page, you could average their scrolling speed, and increment the intensity for that area of the heat map only when they slow their scrolling speed drastically, or go back over an area.
Just from paying attention to my own scrolling habits, I think the top line would probably be just above the horizontal center of the screen, and the bottom line would probably be about an inch down. You could do some testing to find the average line positions.
* The account creator provides a photo id and an EIN
* You verify that the id is valid (visual/ML inspection?)
* Extract the expiration date and make sure it's unexpired (OpenCV/Tesseract)
* Extract the name from the id image (OpenCV/Tesseract)
* Check to see if that id matches the registered agent for that EIN.
This assumes that there is a unified API for EIN/TIN lookup in the US and I don't know if there is.