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<?php
function mmstrlen($str) {
  $standalones = array("ဤ", "၍", "ဪ", "၏", "၊", "။", "၌");
  $consonants = array("က", "ခ", "ဂ", "ဃ", "င", "စ", "ဆ", "ဇ", "ဈ", "ည", "ဍ", "ဌ", "ဋ", "ဎ", "ဏ", "တ", "ထ", "ဒ", "ဓ", "န", "ပ", "ဖ", "ဗ", "ဘ", "မ", "ယ", "ရ", "လ", "ဝ", "သ", "ဟ", "ဠ", "အ");
  $numbers = array("၀", "၁", "၂", "၃", "၄", "၅", "၆", "၇", "၈", "၉");

  $len = mb_strlen($str, "UTF-8");
  $count = 0;
  
  for($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++) {

thedamon

$('div.modal').on('show', function() {
	var modal = this;
	var hash = modal.id;
	window.location.hash = hash;
	window.onhashchange = function() {
		if (!location.hash){
			$(modal).modal('hide');
		}
	}
});

potench

OSX Arcanist Installation Guide

Note, please replace "WWW/tools" with where ever you store your web tools.

$ mkdir ~/WWW/tools
$ cd ~/WWW/tools
$ git clone https://github.com/phacility/libphutil.git
$ git clone https://github.com/phacility/arcanist.git

iandees

I've been interested in computer vision for a long time, but I haven't had any free time to make any progress until this holiday season. Over Christmas and the New Years I experimented with various methodologies in OpenCV to detect road signs and other objects of interest to OpenStreetMap. After some failed experiments with thresholding and feature detection, the excellent /r/computervision suggested using the dlib C++ module because it has more consistently-good documentation and the pre-built tools are faster.

After a day or two figuring out how to compile the examples, I finally made some progress:

Compiling dlib C++ on a Mac with Homebrew

1. Clone dlib from Github to your local machine:

victorkristof

def datenum_to_datetime(datenum):
    """
    Convert Matlab datenum into Python datetime.

    :param datenum: Date in datenum format
    :return:        Datetime object corresponding to datenum.
    """
    days = datenum % 1
    hours = days % 1 * 24
    minutes = hours % 1 * 60

mojodna

sudo yum -y update
sudo yum-config-manager --enable epel
sudo yum -y install make automake gcc gcc-c++ libcurl-devel proj-devel geos-devel
cd /tmp
curl -L http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/2.0.0/gdal-2.0.0.tar.gz | tar zxf -
cd gdal-2.0.0/
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --without-python
make -j4
sudo make install

kgjenkins

brunosan

This is a list inspired by some of our current or potential lines of work at the World Bank Innovation Labs. The “Innovations in Big Data Analytics” program helps to strengthen the World Bank capabilities to effectively use big data in its operational and strategic work.

We are always looking for great Data Scientists. If you can solve any of these [using open software], you'll be heads down helping us from day one. Email us to brunosanchez@worldbank.org

(This list is updated frequently).

1. Nightlights from Satellite

We are building an open stack to process nightly data from satellite and query light output from all known villages. Currently we are doing 20 years of nightly data for 600,000 villages in India.

ryanflorence

Turning Off Github Issues

My friend Michael Jackson turned off github issues on one of his smaller projects. It got me thinking...

Maintainers getting burned out is a problem. Not just for the users of a project but the mental health of the maintainer. It's a big deal for both parties. Consumers want great tools, maintainers want to create them, but maintainers don't want to be L1 tech support, that's why they

tomchristie

Visa requirements for UK conferences.

First you'll want to check if you need a visa to enter the UK.

• Nationals of the EU, Switzerland, and EEA countries will not need a visa, and are free to work and conduct business in the UK.
• Nationals from some designated countries such as USA may travel for tourist or business purposes under a visa exemption. The link above will detail what documents you need to provide in order to travel under a visa exemption.
• Other nationals will need a visa.

The rules for allowable business travel under a visa exemption are covered by the same rules as those travelling under a vistor visa. If you will be travelling under a visa-exemption and the conference is covering your costs in any way you should make sure to read the relevant section below.