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by ageitgey 8y ago
Maybe you are joking, but there are several companies trying this, like https://zenus-biometrics.com/
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the additional insights!
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Haha, true!
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by ageitgey 8y ago
That's an interesting approach. San Diego Comic Con takes the approach of making you jump through so many hoops that only obsessives can make it through the processes. To buy a ticket, you have to create an account to buy a ticket befo
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by ageitgey 8y ago
I agree that is one factor at work, but performers have caught onto this in the last couple of years and have started to offer a lot of exclusive VIP packages to try to capture this price-insensitive market. I'm thinking more about mas
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by ageitgey 8y ago
This is super sleezy and I think Ticketmaster is one of the most awful companies in the world. But given the ridiculous levels of scalping that goes on every day (including all the companies that attempt to normalize it, like StubHub), does
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by ageitgey 8y ago
I write a lot online about machine learning (especially for a broad audience). I don't do it intentionally as a marketing strategy, but people researching those topics naturally read what I write and some email to ask if I can help the
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Ghost 2.0 basically has an exact clone of the Medium editor which is important to some people. But of course it depends on how you prefer to write.
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by ageitgey 8y ago
And if you want to move over your existing medium content to Ghost - https://github.com/ageitgey/medium_to_ghost
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by ageitgey 8y ago
No matter how you slice the numbers (SF, Oakland, San Jose, all of them combined, etc), the homelessness numbers for the bay area are terrible and way beyond London.
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Ghost 2.0 uses Mobiledoc format now. But you could get Markdown + Images out of this with a little hacking and passing the output to https://github.com/yuloh/mobiledoc-markdown-renderer
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by ageitgey 8y ago
For anyone that wants to move from Medium to Ghost easily, I made this thing to do that: https://github.com/ageitgey/medium_to_ghost
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by ageitgey 8y ago
SF has more unsheltered homeless people than the entire country of England according to these numbers. So even if SF's per-capita homeless rate is lower when you include some surrounding SF suburbs, it's still absolutely terrible
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by ageitgey 8y ago
NYC shelters nearly 95% of it's homeless population. SF only manages to shelter about 11% of it's homeless population (about the worst rate in the country). Thus there are more homeless people on SF's streets despite a much s
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by ageitgey 8y ago
This is very misleading and doesn't mean what it sounds like it means. NYC has a homeless population of 76,501, but according to HUD, only 5.1% of NYC homeless are unsheltered. In SF, the unsheltered rate according to HUD is almost 90%
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Agreed 100%. I live in California which has the same massive homelessness issues as Seattle. I also travel to Europe frequently and have noticed the same stark contrast where they seem to do much better at this. To try to understand why hom
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Facebook has been product-managed and algorithmed to death - two real sicknesses of short-term thinking common in SV companies. If you've used Facebook continuously for the last decade, you won't notice as much because the changes
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by ageitgey 8y ago
For writers who feel stuck on Medium given it's recent downward trajectory, I'll just leave this here: https://github.com/ageitgey/medium_to_ghost
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Yes, sorry.
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by ageitgey 8y ago
I'm always trying to quantify things because when I walk around SF, the homeless problem seems insanely bad but my pro-SF friends say things like "homeless has actually been stable or slightly improving for years and you are being
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by ageitgey 8y ago
> One thing I would like to say is my qualm with the obsession with unsupervised learning as the quintessential technique. Unsupervised != no human input. I'm not sure I follow the qualm you are trying to get across. Are you saying
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Thanks, that's a great suggestion!
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Show HN: Move your Medium.com content to an open-source Ghost blog(github.com)
19 points by ageitgey 8y ago|6 comments
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by ageitgey 8y ago
This is a great article and I highly respect his opinions. However, since you are probably eagerly reading this to see how fast the new RTX cards are, so you should know upfront that the numbers he has so far are just estimates based on spe
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by ageitgey 8y ago
This is vital if you are designing apis or clients that deal with charging a user money. It should be literally impossible for a user to accidentally get charged twice due to a flakey connection if you design correctly. The trick is to have
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Text Classification Is Your New Secret Weapon(medium.com)
2 points by ageitgey 8y ago|1 comments
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by ageitgey 8y ago
I'm glad you had a good experience! But it's also true that the most recent random macOS update thread on tonymac86.com (10.13.6, a minor update) has 44 pages of user comments ranging from the update worked perfectly to the compu
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by ageitgey 8y ago
I can tell you from experience that building a Hackintosh is a terrible idea for almost all people. I have no moral objection to it and I totally understand the motivation. Apple is completely failing to provide hardware that runs at a frac
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Here's a fun fact about Azure Kubernetes: 1. Deploy your Linux service on k8s with redundant nodes 2. Create a k8s VolumeClaim and mount it on your nodes to give your application some long-lived or shared disk storage (i.e. for process
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by ageitgey 8y ago
This is specific to the field of public health software: Step 1: Figure out what group might want to pay money for this. In this case, options might be orgs like the UN in Geneva, CDC in Atlanta, NGOs in Washington DC, people give give mone

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