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by ampersandy 14y ago
The algorithm requires that you compare the current iteration to the source image, how does that constitute good compression? Not to mention the final image required 904314 generations to reach it.
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by ampersandy 14y ago
For everyone else reading this, if you live in the bay area, you should seriously visit the Computer History Museum. It's absolutely fascinating to see how far we've come in such a short time. I had assumed I wouldn't get much value from th
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by ampersandy 14y ago
I totally agree. It would even be easy to find old, well-received HN submissions that have likely been forgotten and to queue them up for resubmission to your new service.
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by ampersandy 14y ago
I feel like (2) isn't difficult, in absolute terms, but is simply computationally expensive. Reddit is _still_ crashing all the time. They certainly don't have the resources to throw a bunch of machine learning or algorithmic muscle into pr
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by ampersandy 14y ago
My comment is aimed at business users, not casual users. Several friends of mine have hit the cap with their business accounts and have had to consider alternative email providers because now they can't use their email accounts.
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by ampersandy 14y ago
Why hasn't Google offered an option to increase from the default 25GB of email storage? Drive has an option to increase upto 16TB, but Gmail is locked at 25GB? What gives?
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by ampersandy 14y ago
As great as it is that a few of these people have been caught, the reality of the situation is that not enough resources and person-hours are being dedicated to cracking down on these scammers. The tl;dr of the article is that 14 corporatio
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by ampersandy 14y ago
This was posted 60 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621731 . It also turns up as the first hit for "hacker news parody" or "hn parody" on Google.
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by ampersandy 14y ago
Please, let's not make generalizations about an entire country because of one comment.
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by ampersandy 14y ago
The Google Contacts OAuth authorization includes both read and write permissions, though I'm sure the intent is just to get emails to invite friends, share stories, etc. https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/#autho...
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by ampersandy 14y ago
One thing that's tough to get right is timing email updates, and I think that Prismatic's default is great. If I get too many emails from you, I'll filter you out of my inbox (<cough>Quora</cough>). I also enjoy that the upd
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by ampersandy 14y ago
I'd say #3, similar to other top schools, is that your fellow classmates inspire you with the work they do and the projects they create. It's hard to not want to push yourself to really improve your skills when you see your friends win a gl
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by ampersandy 14y ago
Photo Sync only syncs your photos, you have to selectively publish them. Even if someone did take a nude photo, no one else would see it unless they shared it explicitly. https://www.facebook.com/help/photosync
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by ampersandy 14y ago
Reyner's response is the correct answer.