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by blixt 11y ago
This kind of stuff is really cool. I imagine the future of Google being the same old search box, but instead of entering a search query, you engage in a conversation with Google so you can delve deeply into a narrow topic and get back tailo
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by blixt 11y ago
The only viable RFID would be a passive chip, which would require the scanner to be in close proximity to the notes anyway, so putting them in a mattress would be equally efficient. You could probably build a superpowered scanner that would
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by blixt 11y ago
Yeah, even if Swedes were hiding away their cash (which most people don't), they certainly wouldn't be hiding it in their microwave...
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by blixt 11y ago
While the solution going forward is most likely to go back to dumb terminals (thin clients, if you prefer) I think just putting it in "the cloud" as it stands today is not the solution. Granted, it's not very clear what they
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by blixt 11y ago
Nice! There's also this one for getting LaTeX SVGs on the fly: http://tex.la/
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by blixt 11y ago
I wonder if these will be capable of lending spare (encrypted) bandwidth to anonymous mobile devices. I.e., can Google Fi[1] users benefit from Wi-Fi when walking past a house that has an OnHub running? [1] https://fi.google.com&
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Show HN: Tex.la, create SVGs from LaTeX on the fly(tex.la)
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Show HN: Web Worker that encodes MP3 in real-time from microphone(blixt.nyc)
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by blixt 11y ago
Example of the package being used to proxy calls to a Web Worker running Lua: http://blixt.nyc/js-luaworker/
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Show HN: NPM package workerproxy (proxy calls to Web Workers made easy)(npmjs.com)
2 points by blixt 11y ago|2 comments
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by blixt 11y ago
I think the benefits of HUSL are kind of explained backwards, with technical details first and practical applications later. But once I saw their comparison of contrast (60% brightness random colors HUSL vs HSL) and the demo, it's pret
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by blixt 11y ago
I agree with you mostly, but let's also consider the value of lowering the bar of entry. Once upon a time "software engineer" meant someone punching cards and running them through one out of a handful machines on Earth to exe
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by blixt 11y ago
The best example of this happening successfully that I can think of, albeit in a much narrower scope, is the recent shift in game development. Game engines used to be super expensive to license and tricky to develop for, but just in the pas
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by blixt 11y ago
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. Today, only about 20 million people[1] are building software for over 3 billion internet connected people[2] (and even more who can get access to software in other ways). That's only a
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by blixt 11y ago
Here's the explanation of the "evidence-oriented" wording for people who also had a hard time finding it: http://www.quorumlanguage.com/evidence.php
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by blixt 12y ago
I actually have this book but haven't read it yet. As someone who joined the web startup world when I was 14 and never went back to school, I need to work on my math skills. I believe strongly in building knowledge by layers (start wit
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by blixt 12y ago
This is all very vague theorizing of course, but I believe that once we reach a level of artificial intelligence that resembles biological intelligence, scaling it will be quite feasible on a silicon platform. You've also removed the e
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by blixt 12y ago
Steps are certainly being made, but I don't think anyone in the field said any of the technology that exists today can be iterated upon to get even close to the kind of AI that would eventually become superintelligent. But yes, I do be
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by blixt 12y ago
Here's one project simulating the C. elegans (earth worm) in a virtual environment. If they (or any other project out there working on similar problems) can prove that the simplest organic life form can be simulated in a computer, I th
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by blixt 12y ago
I would agree with this article that every independent solution today does not have the slightest chance to be iteratively improved to some kind of real intelligence. Even the "generic" game playing AI is very limited outside the
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by blixt 12y ago
This is my first CocoaPods pod (I just got into iOS a few months ago) – all feedback appreciated! This library gives you a swipeable table view cell which unlike the others out there just focuses on the physics of swiping and lets you deal
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Show HN: FSCSwipeCell – Makes it easy to build that Inbox clone(github.com)
1 points by blixt 12y ago|1 comments
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How to build swipeable table view cells in iOS apps(medium.com)
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by blixt 12y ago
I believe the only reason you think that previous generations managed it is because previous generations of programming were tremendously less open in terms of visibility. I would even go as far as to say that if you could collect and objec
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by blixt 12y ago
The solution the article is proposing isn't realistic. You can't reach anything resembling "craftmanship" without a lot of failed projects preceding it. Craftmanship or quality is not a binary state, it evolves organical
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by blixt 12y ago
I mean, it's not wrong... But I think the analyzer is missing a detail in this picture... http://i.imgur.com/MLt4BsX.jpg
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by blixt 12y ago
I was playing with Ionic (and Cordova) this weekend and wasted time figuring out how to set up the Git repo for multi-developer support as well as making plugins work, app icons resize, etc. So this template is the beginning of something th
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Show HN: A straight-forward Ionic+Cordova template(github.com)
8 points by blixt 12y ago|2 comments
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by blixt 12y ago
I don't understand this fear mongering. First, all apps out there have the capability to do this, once given the permission to do so. And yes, you do have to enable this feature for it to work at all, so you're in control. Second,
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Pher – generate CGI executable from HTML templates with inline Go(github.com)
2 points by blixt 12y ago|0 comments

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