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by GrantS 14y ago
If I had to guess, I'd say better public schools, less crime, and affordable houses (which also makes bigger houses more affordable as a side effect).
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Show HN: Generate a 3D Model of Yourself as a Neanderthal, Homo Erectus, & More(trimensional.com)
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by GrantS 14y ago
Apple already allows this and more, though it is not obvious and there is no free/paid app distinction. http://gigaom.com/apple/how-many-apple-ids-should-your-famil...
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by GrantS 15y ago
I had a toy sheep like that as a kid, so it seems like a legitimate app to me, sorry to hear it was rejected. I noticed those fake fingerprint scanners -- at least two of which were consistently in the top 100 -- last year when I was creat
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by GrantS 15y ago
I would have thought the primary reason an iOS app would be removed from the store (once already approved) is that the developer stopped paying the $99/year to renew their account.
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by GrantS 15y ago
>but whatever happens either (a) I'll find out eventually or (b) it'll happen after I'm dead anyway It's not your main point, but I think you're leaving out an important option: (c) you can choose to be intimately involved in making the
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by GrantS 15y ago
It was news to me that Safari supports WebGL -- the "Enable WebGL" option was sitting up there in the Develop menu all this time when I've been switching to Chrome for WebGL pages.
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by GrantS 15y ago
Your example was the subject of a famous lawsuit as well, so whatever your feelings about the issues, Apple has acted consistently over the years in going after those who they see as copying their products: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App
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by GrantS 15y ago
Regarding embedding hidden words in these binary images, I'm sometimes alarmed that people seem unaware of how well computer vision can work in restricted scenarios like this. After all, we've had realtime face detectors in cheap cameras f
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by GrantS 15y ago
Hmmm, I would say that honor should go to Richard Dawkins who coined the term itself 35 years ago: http://www.rubinghscience.org/memetics/dawkinsmemes.html
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by GrantS 15y ago
The original Ender's Game series covers are some of the best science fiction art I've ever seen, by an amazing artist named John Harris (examples below). Did your edition have a different cover? Ender's Game: http://www.igorstshirts.com/b
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by GrantS 15y ago
To illustrate your point, here is a java applet plus source code visually explaining not only the discrete cosine transform but also principal components analysis and Haar wavelets as all being the same exact operation with a different orth
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Scientist creates 3-D scanner iPhone app (w/ video)(physorg.com)
5 points by GrantS 16y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Replicate physical 3D objects with your iPhone(trimensional.com)
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by GrantS 16y ago
I'm curious: How are you presenting the upgrade option to users? (The most recent version of my app which includes in-app purchases has been submitted for review, but hasn't gone live yet. Otherwise I would report on my experience.)
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by GrantS 16y ago
I grew up reading Asimov's robot stories and knew I wanted to work on artificial intelligence growing up. I realized when I got to college that computer vision was the closest thing to what I had always thought AI research would be like.
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by GrantS 16y ago
To provide another data point, I had a top story one day in January of this year, with about 5,000 visitors linking straight from Hacker News and about 10,000 total unique visits for the day. I wonder if the variance is primarily due to the
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by GrantS 16y ago
"All it needed to do was get rid of the universal front page in favor of Twitter- and Facebook-like individual front pages, where everyone has a different front page based on who he or she is following." If I recall correctly, this was one
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by GrantS 16y ago
Interestingly, those shots were filmed using a technique called slit scan photography. Though not quite what you were asking for, someone has reversed that process in order to reveal the original images used to create the effect: http://s
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by GrantS 16y ago
This could be useful if placed along a timeline in an interface for seeking to a specific scene in a movie or video. Representations like this are also sometimes used for automatic shot boundary detection (vertical edges in this type of ima
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by GrantS 16y ago
Word count is a medium-independent statistic that would be useful here, but strangely this is not provided for eBooks. Meanwhile, Amazon's physical books with the "Look Inside" feature come with a "Text Stats" link that provides the number
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by GrantS 16y ago
Good question. Version 1.0 only saves/emails images, but trading 3D scans and exporting the raw mesh is certainly on the feature list for future versions.
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by GrantS 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I was expecting to have this weekend to pull everything together but Apple approved the app in 2 days (which is great, but 5x faster than for my previous submissions).
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Trimensional: 3D Scanner for iPhone(trimensional.com)
153 points by GrantS 16y ago|36 comments