UglyToad

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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   That's a good idea, thanks. It might challenge my limited JavaScript but it's definitely worth adding. At the moment you can get the full data from a graph using the API endpoint. For Tensorflow: http://eliot-jones.com:
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   This is a fair criticism and from the feedback represents a fairly major missing functionality in the site. For what it's worth I only realised this might be a useful feature after I finished version 1. From my write up[0]: "Allow
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   You can use the "Display as % of stories" button just above the results plot which should account for the growth in the total submissions per day, or did you mean something else?
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   Thanks for the bug report, I should probably add some front end validation for the search term since in the current design Lucene will only index letters and numbers (which is a problem for searching languages like C++).
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   This should be possible using the "Display as % of stories" button, or does that do something different to what you want?
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   Ah, OK, sorry to hear it doesn't work. It's strange, it shouldn't be attempting to use https (though for security reasons it should so I assume Ive been testing against outdated browsers). Sorry.
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   Thanks, yeah I agree, the percent view smooths this out a bit but it still gives a false impression. I've been considering various different solutions to it today but I've not settled on the correct solution yet given the data as
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   Does Firefox do this by default or is there a setting to upgrade http to https? As mentioned briefly on the blog I didn't want to spend any money on this (currently not employed and living off savings) so it's sitting on the dropl
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   by UglyToad 7y ago

   Some more background on what this is and why I built it here: https://eliot-jones.com/2020/1/hackernews-trends And the source code here: https://github.com/EliotJones/HnTrends As I mention in
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    Show HN: Hacker News Trends(eliot-jones.com)

    137 points by UglyToad 7y ago|68 comments
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    You can buy Clean Code and it's not going to hurt, but I increasingly believe the only way to "step up" is to write code, lots of it. Things like Clean Code are a bit too dogmatic for my tastes now, there are some reasonable
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    Grief for a lost future and an eroded past(theoutline.com)

    2 points by UglyToad 7y ago|0 comments
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Yeah, I don't have much experience with microservices but the one time I worked with them they were a nightmare and I think the major cause was there were too bloody many of them. I feel like if you end up talking about eventual consis
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    Drug makers signal interest in exiting vaccine development during crises(statnews.com)

    4 points by UglyToad 7y ago|0 comments
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I'll try my best to answer but I may be misunderstanding the question. The current layout analysis algorithms don't do much normalization as far as I'm aware, the Recursive-XY Cut algorithm uses page level font-size informati
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Thanks! I think there's definitely room for rules-based enhancements to the underlying algorithms. My area of work on the project has been the core file-reading and file-creation stuff so I haven't had much of a chance to review t
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I had to check we hadn't worked for the same company! Yeah, text extraction and layout analysis from PDFs is a super interesting challenge and still relatively underdeveloped. I'd put table detection at about the hardest challenge
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Agreed, perhaps it's something like the difference between top-down vs bottom-up learning in teaching. People don't all use the same mental models and allowances need to exist for both groups. But I suspect this is true of most co
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I think there's a perhaps irreconcilable disconnect between 2 camps here, but I also think that's ok and different people are allowed to like different things. My experience, having gone from dynamic typing to static typing and no
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    Work and Success(ericlippert.com)

    2 points by UglyToad 7y ago|0 comments
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Yeah, pretty much exactly what you said. Since PDF is focused on presentation rather than content it can write text content in any order, and the rules for converting the byte values to unicode values are extremely complex, supporting many
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Funnily enough I was thinking an almost identical thing this morning. We had IKVM [0] for.NET, which if I understood it correctly allowed Java to run on the CLR (I probably misunderstood this). I'm not entirely sure why Microsoft don&#
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    Hmm, it's perhaps a valid point but as far as I can tell the only English paper missing is The Times (other than small mad ones like the Daily/Morning Star). I'd take the opposite interpretation. It probably says even more ab
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    There was even a study which found that there is an actual, quantifiable, bias against the opposition. http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/assets/documen...
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I think that's one of the main changes which would help address the problems in the current media landscape. How many people would continue to treat The Times, for example, as a serious news source if they'd had to retract their &
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    This article was probably slightly too early to catch the latest development in an extremely concerning election so far. The latest coordinated disinformation was around a photo from a hospital in Leeds where a 4 year old child had to lie o
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    To be annoying, Company C. I'd definitely recommend working for a startup at that age and (almost) no matter the startup it will really level up both your software dev and business knowledge but I think the salary is a sticking point o
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    What a dead fish can teach you about fMRI and statistics(boingboing.net)

    2 points by UglyToad 7y ago|0 comments
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    SUVs are worse for the planet than previously thought(wired.co.uk)

    5 points by UglyToad 7y ago|0 comments
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    by UglyToad 7y ago

    I'd imagine people criticise Java for the same reason they criticise PHP, or C++, or many other languages. It's very easy to attack a strawman based on outdated best practices from more than a decade ago ignoring the fact that bot