Osmium

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by Osmium 12y ago
> The blurry photo of (I assume) the audience of a lecture just doesn't work - what's it supposed to do? It has links to a bunch of lectures/videos right below it, so I'm guessing that's why it's there...
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by Osmium 12y ago
That's a really cool re-design. Two things I liked about it: collapsible comment threads, and comments that are readable on mobile. Honestly, if the HN design remained exactly the same but fixed those two paint points I'd be happy
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by Osmium 12y ago
Double Fine Productions is definitely worth checking out. They've recently released Broken Age, a successfully-kickstarted effort. Act I is out now and is absolutely wonderful (in my personal opinion), with Act II still in development.
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by Osmium 12y ago
Some great general advice here, but regarding a specific point: > An illustration software: I personally prefer Inkscape, but the industry standard Adobe Illustrator or newcomer Sketch are just as good. Use it to post-process your plots
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by Osmium 12y ago
I wonder how difficult it'd be to write OCR-style software for Gregg. It'd have to be more sophisticated; character recognition alone wouldn't be enough, you'd have to do a bit of Markov modelling with most probable sent
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by Osmium 12y ago
> a huge amount of largely unnoticed work that goes into simply keeping up with RAW formats for new cameras Could this be largely mitigated by only working with DNG files and letting Adobe handle the conversion? Their RAW->DNG convert
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by Osmium 12y ago
Seconded. I was recently trying to find a good resource to simply and concisely explain (or at least give a 'feel' for) artificial neural networks to someone and came up blank. Everything I found was either assumed too much domain
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by Osmium 12y ago
Very cool. What's the current best tool to help make the .srt file? e.g. the current best-of-breed text recognition / text alignment tool. Last time I looked at something like this there didn't seem to be a particularly robus
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by Osmium 12y ago
Reminds me a lot about 'optional chaining' in Swift (among other languages I'm sure), at least on a superficial level. What I'm not sure about at the moment is where best practices suggest you should use them–it seems li
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by Osmium 12y ago
Possibly because Welsh English is quite close to Australian English according to this blog post: http://gameswithwords.fieldofscience.com/2014/05/the-english...
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by Osmium 12y ago
Worked very well for me, correctly guessing my dialect which is spoken by relatively few people (not one of the 'standard' ones). I definitely found this surprising, especially considering I haven't lived in my home country f
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by Osmium 12y ago
It's disappointing to see this comment at the top of this thread considering the amount of work that Apple has poured into OS X over the last few years. Criticism is great, but comments like "Apple continues to apply lipstick to t
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by Osmium 12y ago
Question: It sounds like the Xcode 6 beta is available on the dev center but I can't find it. Do you have to be a paying developer to have access to it, or does anyone know if it's going to be made available for free to (unpaid) r
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by Osmium 12y ago
So so happy to see the SceneKit API make it to iOS. Even though 'minor' compared to some of the other announcements, it was the number one thing I was looking for in today's keynote, and it was nice to see it featured. Can&#x
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by Osmium 12y ago
Perhaps it was just for the benchmark, but it seemed ambitious that they're testing encryption algorithms with it already. Does anyone know if Swift, by design, could help avoid issues like they've had recently with Secure Transpo
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by Osmium 12y ago
First thing I thought. I wonder if Bret had any input into this? Very happy to see his ideas in a production environment anyway.
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by Osmium 12y ago
Thanks for the link; that's actually very informative. My interest in DNSSEC came from reading that it provided a mechanism to securely transmit SSH host key fingerprints, though I'm not sure if there's a better way of doing
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by Osmium 12y ago
Off-topic, but speaking of spurring adoption of DNSSEC: does anyone know of any good (dumbed-down) guides on setting up DNSSEC on personal domains / using dnssec-keygen? I keep seeing it mentioned in HN threads as a Good Thing, and I k
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by Osmium 12y ago
This sounds like a great project! Worth bearing in mind though that computer screens only output in RGB, whereas the colour vision of bees is shifted to that of people; it's more G-B-UV than RGB.
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by Osmium 12y ago
I think "vapourware" is a bit harsh. They have a roadmap, and so far they've done pretty well with it. This is the next step. Tests of the landing mechanism are planned: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/spa
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by Osmium 12y ago
Here's a high-res image of the control panel: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bo0_-6iCMAAmCL8.jpg:orig Very retro chic with some 2001 vibes. Some interesting speculation on the touch screens and vibration damping over
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by Osmium 12y ago
> This thing looks so...empty! I imagine it will be a welcome change to the incredibly cramped Soyuz. I agree, though I wonder what it'll look like when it's full of cargo too!
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by Osmium 12y ago
As I understand it, it was actually a point of contention whether a NASA astronaut or a SpaceX astronaut would fly first. I think they decided on a NASA astronaut in the end, but it seems like SpaceX definitely has plans in that direction..
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by Osmium 12y ago
Depends what you mean by 'astronaut.' One of the interesting things about the space shuttle is that it allowed large crews (up to 11, but typically 7) of which only 2 were absolutely necessary to fly it, so you could have relative
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by Osmium 12y ago
Completely fair point – I was reading "digital" in this context as something ephemeral, like a computer file (mp3s etc.), rather than a physical object such as CD, even though as you say CDs are digital too.
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Beats is inferior to Spotify (or other competition such as Rdio) in my opinion. > Beats is quite rudimentary in terms of music management, and requires way too many taps to add multiple songs to playlists or even just shuffle play a
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by Osmium 12y ago
What's uncontroversial about that? The iTunes Store did make (legal) digital music mainstream. That's not to say it was the first store of its kind, but it was certainly the first to have widespread success.
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by Osmium 12y ago
The reason for the purchase might be the people, but it doesn't mean the people are the only thing determining its value. They had > $1b in revenue last year, and that can't just be ignored when determining a fair value for t
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by Osmium 12y ago
Google's is nice (unsurprisingly) but I'm not sure what the free tier limits are. If you want to try out a bunch, I recommend GeoPy: http://geopy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ I used it for a personal proje
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Can Amazon turn evil? Sure. ... If they do, you can replace them tomorrow. That's precisely the concern though. That, if one day Amazon were to turn evil, the landscape will be so radically changed that no viable competitor woul

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