NathanKP

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by NathanKP 10y ago
99% of the cool, elegant "tricks" I've seen have been applications of the following computer science concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash
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Personally I've always favored a JSON HATEOS approach with my API's, where the JSON response contains the actual URL's of the resources referenced, not just URN. Example from one API that I maintain: https://change
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Okay that makes sense, sounds like someone at UC Berkley took a risk thinking that auto captioning would be enough but it isn't good enough yet. I hope the auto captions improve over time. I feel like Facebook auto captions are already
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One thing I don't understand, maybe because I'm hearing, but how is the UC Berkeley YouTube not accessible to deaf people? Doesn't YouTube have a CC feature designed to make videos accessible for the hearing impaired or just
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I don't think coops are necessarily anti maintenance or investment. Obviously they have to maintain their core business just like any other business. The difference is a for profit company distributes extra profit that they have on top
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> That's actually why they passed the measure in the first place, the taxi lobby was incredibly strong. No the measure passed because Uber and Lyft failed to understand Austin culture and shot themselves in the foot by annoying Aust
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Yeah I can understand that. Honestly, the non profit / coop thing is just a big part of Austin culture. Not only are food coops a pretty big deal in Austin, but when I lived in Austin even the electricity company that I got my power fr
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Yep I wasn't clear. Austin banned some of the wild west behavior of Uber and Lyft, and they refused to follow along with reasonable restrictions and decided to protest by leaving Austin.
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They work fantastically. Ride Austin is actually way better than Uber in my opinion. In fact even if Uber and Lyft decided to start following the city regulations and return to Austin I would probably never use either in Austin again, simpl
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I'll be really interested in seeing what happens if Uber can't recover from the burn rate and make a sustainable business without self driving. I can see in the best possible scenario we end up with more cities like Austin, Texas
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I wonder what the options would even be for investigating for the presence of such neurons in humans. Obviously even if I am donating my brain to science when I die I won't have the fluorescent gene that they used in these mice.
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Tagging local images in Mac OS X using AWS Rekognition(github.com)
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I was doing this while I was a broke college student. Luckily for me the coding experience I got building this system out and scaling it to handle the amount of traffic we were driving to it from Google Search helped me get a job for a star
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I made a service that implemented Google AdSense type title and body text examination with the Amazon Product API to automate ad selection. Place a JS widget on a webpage and it would automatically examine body elements for keywords, dispat
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by NathanKP 10y ago
A lot used to be different about Amazon Affiliate program. 7 years ago I used to make ~$100 a day off of it (although I did get banned a few times for sketchy experiments I was doing with it, my own fault for exploring the edges of what the
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(AWS employee here) First of all I can assure you that Amazon is 100% committed to containers. Amazon's compute strategy is aimed at three levels of abstraction: instances, containers, lambda. All three are equally important to Amazon.
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It's useless because a real world application will take some non trivial amount of system resources to actually serve the request and that is going to be the actual bottleneck, not the HTTP module. So for example lets say your applicat
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I don't see this as assuming that open source is only Github, its just a matter of practicality. If you want to build a tool that interacts with git repos it is easier to use the Github API than it is to deal with bare git repos, SVN r
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> To be fair all the contestants (including Go) were running single worker process. This makes the benchmark results much less impressive. Sure its cool that this micro framework allows you to serve a million requests per second with a
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I agree with you that those who don't talk on topics outside of pop culture and other shallow topics fail to develop the skills to listen to and understand deeper speech. But also those who spend too much time thinking to themselves wi
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by NathanKP 10y ago
I've also been working on a search engine website, and personally my approach for the search/directory UI has been to keep it as minimal as possible, like early Google. Not sure how inspiring it is, but here you go: https:/&
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The difference is Google Daydream is really making the fabric texture very, very obvious. It almost looks like a soft American Apparel tshirt or something like that: http://i.imgur.com/F2iR3nm.png On the other hand in Oculu
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I think the approach of giving it a fabric look and feel will be huge for the non techy consumer market appeal. This device looks like something that I can put on and relax on the couch with. The other VR headsets I've seen are much mo
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Yeah ECS is a pretty much just a dumb layer on top of docker that handles two things: placing your containers onto instances (and restarting them or replacing them if needed), and adjusting the settings on an ELB, or ALB so that the load ba
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Direct container to container communication isn't the recommended pattern when using ECS. Instead you let ECS associate with either a legacy Elastic Load Balancer, or one of the new Application Load Balancers, which can direct requests
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Airtime is also using ECS to run docker containers in production. We ran into a few issues early on due to early adopter status, but the AWS team was very quick to add many features we needed. I have no complaints about ECS now, and in fact
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Ironic: http://i.imgur.com/RGApTVz.png
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Interestingly the dock in Mac OS X has a similar bug. I have to do a `killall Dock` from time to time to fix it. My guess is there some kind of difficult to handle race condition around the states on this type of system UI, particularly for
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Very inspiring story. I wish they had gone into more detail on how she learned without internet access. I did not have internet access either when I was growing up, but I learned to program from reading books I checked out from the local pu
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The same crowded street problem happens where I live in NYC, but it generally works out as people get into a rhythm of either raising their umbrella up over the level of the other person's umbrella or lowering it down below the level o

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