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by brad0 8y ago
I really wish this was written up as an article rather than a tweet storm. To that end: --- In @stratechery @benthompson offers this (subscribe as you should for entire analysis). I totally agree on the general analysis but want to dive in
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YouBionic adds creepy hands to SpotMini, the creepy robot dog [video](techcrunch.com)
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Aussies owe more than $900m on Afterpay-style services(theage.com.au)
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Evernote is an interesting case. They store every word that MAY be in the scanned document. So their OCR engine will find a lot of legitimate words, but it will also find a lot of words that don't sense too. When putting in a term for
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by brad0 8y ago
According to the Textract preview sign up form there is the following features: - Printed text detection - Handwritten text detection - Key-Value detection - Table detection - Checkbox detection - Other optical marks (e.g. barcode, QR code)
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Very exciting! I’m curious what type of workloads these will be used for. Will this be much cheaper than Intel instances?
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Did you mean sed by chance?
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I’ve heard of VMware fusion, is that different from workstation?
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What hypervisor did you use?
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Work out what your values are. Clearly you value money but if you only valued that then you wouldn’t be writing this post on HN. Do you value good people? Do you value working on your own ideas? Work out all your values and what makes you h
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by brad0 8y ago
Just took a look at this, here's my guess. - Pretend they're a crawler such as Google and pull down the HTML, potentially executing javascript - Once it's pulled down, clean it up using open source code such as readability h
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Anecdotal though the home page is working for me
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Big changes: - 8th gen 4 core CPU in the base model, upgradable to 6 core - 16 - 64 GB SO-DIMM RAM - Upgradable to 10 gig ethernet - 4 thunderbolt 3 ports
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You can use Charles proxy to see all the traffic. There’s an iOS app but I highly recommend the desktop app. It helps for greater discovery.
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Personally I don't think that gRPC is a good step forward. However, if the community at large moves away from REST + JSON to gRPC I'll follow. Why? - I don't want to be like the guy who refuses to use anything but XML + SOAP
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If you want to find out a file type on the command line there's the file command on linux/macOS: https://linux.die.net/man/1/file
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The problem here is that you only have your own perspective. You may feel that you answered the technical question flawlessly but the interviewer may have felt the answer was so wrong they just moved on. What were some of these technical qu
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by brad0 8y ago
Here’s something that shits me up the wall. Here’s the patent: - convert a 2D value into a single value - divide that value up into 3 values - there’s a 1-1 database of values that map a value to a word Pretty much everyone on this site cou
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by brad0 8y ago
It could be the slow response times. With other DHTs such as the BitTorrent DHT it takes a long time to setup a connection to a peer.
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It's been scheduled for shut down March next year: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17848500/google-inbox-shu...
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I'm looking for more of a large set of links (say 10,000) that are representative of a wide range of URLs used over the web. Theoretically I could use a web scraper but it's better to see if there's already something out ther
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Ask HN: Where can I find a text file with a set of representative URLs?
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I can see where they’re coming from. TBH though when I look at my watch with complications I want to see a specific complication (date, upcoming appointment, etc). I’m not trying to take in every piece of information on the watch at once. I
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What do you mean by management issues?
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I've been hearing about the USD causing issues with economies such as Turkey recently from several sources. As far as I can tell it's because a lot of loans in Turkey were backed by USD. Now that the USD is a lot stronger it'
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This looks really cool! I have no idea how you would even solve the first one with bounding boxes. I guess you would progressively build up a scene using the raw depth data then move onto more complex shapes at higher levels?
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Is this similar to http://json2table.com ?
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How does this compare price wise with t2 instances? It specifies how cheap the t3s can be but not the difference between t2 and t3.
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There's a great tool called mdv on macOS if you're interested in using this in the mac terminal https://github.com/axiros/terminal_markdown_viewer
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Using the internet without the Amazon Cloud(theverge.com)
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