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by bfirsh 9y ago
I just got a 20 year old Land Rover and, after having attempted to repair consumer electronics and modern vehicles, I am stunned at how easy they are to repair. Firstly, it is an entirely mechanical car, which makes everything much simpler.
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by bfirsh 9y ago
If you’re on a phone, here’s an HTML version of the paper: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1802.07740/
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by bfirsh 9y ago
I will never forget the feeling of awe when I entered that hanger and saw the butt end of the Saturn V. It is really is something that needs to be seen to be appreciated. And then, after walking quite a distance down the length of the rocke
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by bfirsh 9y ago
If you're on a phone, here's an HTML version of the paper: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1712.03280/
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If you’re on a phone, here’s an HTML version of the article: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1712.00676/
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by bfirsh 9y ago
Here's an HTML version of the paper: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1712.01815/ Table 2 is broken, but the rest is much more readable if you're on a phone.
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If you're on a phone, here's a responsive HTML version of the paper: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1710.08864/
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So much this. This is one of the main reasons I wanted to build this. https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo/issues/127
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by bfirsh 9y ago
We haven't implemented many of the LaTeX packages used in papers that aren't machine learning papers yet - sorry. :(
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by bfirsh 9y ago
This is fair. If somebody stumbles across this thinking it is how you intended it to be displayed, I can understand you'd be unhappy. We should make it clearer that we're just a conversion tool, not a source. If you want us to rem
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by bfirsh 9y ago
Yeah, even building upon Pandoc's LaTeX parsing, 3 months of grunt work got us this 20% working. Over the next 12 months we'll get the other 80% working. :)
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LaTeX is hard, but we'll keep at it! That issue is being tracked here: https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo/issues/12
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What Arxiv URLs were you trying? LaTeX is really tricky to parse, which is why you're seeing those "failed to render" errors. Judging from our logs, it works about ~80% of the time. That's up a lot from plain Pandoc thou
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Yeah, that's a good point. Andreas's site is a bit out of date. I've made them link to more useful places. Thanks!
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A bit of wordplay on our favourite Arxiv tool. :) http://arxiv-sanity.com/
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Yes! This is a great idea, and something we have been thinking of. https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/arxiv-vanity/issues/67
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Those problems are normally Pandoc parsing errors. Considering it's open source, perhaps we should print the error message so people can actually help fix it... The MathJax failures are either things that MathJax doesn't support,
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Because we didn't know that existed! That looks so much better, thank you. The pandocfilters library is really hard to use. https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo/issues/160
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A lot of things. LaTeX and its packages have so much surface area. Our approach so far is to just make the papers that we read readable. That probably covers the 20% of LaTeX features that 80% of people use. Here is the broken stuff we ar
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by bfirsh 9y ago
Ah, looks like we don't support theorems. You can track it here: https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo/issues/157 Thanks!
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by bfirsh 9y ago
We were frustrated by the experience of reading machine learning papers on screens (particularly phones/tablets). There are lots of good tools for authoring HTML papers (Distill, Authorea, etc) but nothing that deals with the vast numb
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Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages(arxiv-vanity.com)
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by bfirsh 9y ago
I have a similar setup, but using Docker images instead of Heroku buildpacks. Buildpacks are horrible if you want to do anything custom. To make this work, I use Codeship instead of Travis. Codeship builds a Docker image, runs the tests aga
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by bfirsh 9y ago
My favourite HP calculator stories: Woz sold his to fund the development of the Apple I, and they were used in the later Apollo missions as a backup computer. http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html https:/&#
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by bfirsh 9y ago
As I understand it, using the hashtag #ad or #sponsored is pretty widespread now for this reason.
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You are trying to blame the user, but the design of this flow is to blame. It does not explain clearly what is going on. It's funny seeing this now to see where I tripped up. When you say "enable access in /Users/ben&quo
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by bfirsh 9y ago
Extra PSA: I deleted my files from that page a few months ago and they have now reappaeared. (See my other comment.) I would recommend emailing them to delete your account and data, including backups and so on.
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by bfirsh 9y ago
It sounds like they changed something after I signed up. I am not super paranoid, but I am pretty savvy about privacy and keeping my data safe. There is no way in hell I would have agreed to upload all of my data to their service. I was a
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by bfirsh 9y ago
If you want to see if they have any of your data, check: https://kite.com/settings/files I have zero faith this page actually works though. A few months ago I deleted all of my data and I checked back today and it has
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I fell for this. I enabled it because I was curious about trying new development tools, only to find out later it uploaded all of the source code on my computer to their service. What the hell. It took me months to get through to a human

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