daturkel

17 ms·

121.
by daturkel 11y ago
Readers here may appreciate: I spoke with the dev for a piece on OptiKey: http://www.businessinsider.com/an-eye-tracking-interface-hel...
122.
by daturkel 11y ago
It's funny, I used to be a heavy Google Reader, and then Feedly user. But eventually I switched over to newsletters for "push" news discovery. I think in some ways, an inbox is an appropriate way to consume news (and seems to
123.
by daturkel 11y ago
Not to poach—I'm a big fan of Read This Thing!—but I've been semi-frequently updating great reads to a side-project site of my own. Reads, etc.: http://readsetc.com/ I recently started working full time so I'
124.
by daturkel 11y ago
I think a successful kickstarter to trigger funding is better than a fully funded product which has a kickstarter as a launch. The latter isn't really "fundraising" at all and so seems to stray from the KS mission.
125.
by daturkel 11y ago
Is that allowed on Kickstarter? Kind of defeats the purpose...
126.
Show HN: Reads, etc.(readsetc.com)
12 points by daturkel 11y ago|0 comments
127.
by daturkel 12y ago
.italic { font-style: italic } from [0] This is certainly odd considering how far we've come in embracing semantic markup and styling. [0]: http://www.basscss.com/docs/utility-typography/
128.
by daturkel 12y ago
Several other reads for those looking to learn more about the situation or hear commentary: Also from CJR: "What was the single point of failure at Rolling Stone? The authors of Columbia's investigative report answer that and more
129.
by daturkel 12y ago
The licensing would be every bit as justified if the gear were cheap. This is how he makes his living, he's under no obligation to give it to anyone for free.
130.
by daturkel 12y ago
This was posted almost a year ago and enjoyed a decent conversation in the comments [0] I'll repeat my comment from the time: "For what it's worth, the presence of seemingly significant signal in the difference between the or
131.
by daturkel 12y ago
Glass actually offloads most of the work to your phone, rather than fitting all that hardware inside the frame.
132.
by daturkel 12y ago
Edit: I missed this: "Plus, Echo is Bluetooth-enabled so you can stream your favorite music services like Spotify, iTunes, and Pandora from your phone or tablet," which obsoletes some of the below. The point on monophonic audio st
133.
by daturkel 12y ago
Certainly ties into the discussion about google making two of everything [0]. It's not clear how this product is meant to co-exist naturally with gmail. [0]: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/google
134.
by daturkel 12y ago
I'm a fan of xiph but hadn't seen these two before, thanks for the heads up.
135.
by daturkel 12y ago
Hey, as I mentioned in my response to klodolph, I used 128 CBR because I knew it would likely not be transparent and wanted to demonstrate false positives, hits, misses, correct recognitions, etc. I wasn't trying to make some authorita
136.
by daturkel 12y ago
Hey, thanks for the feedback! Some of your criticisms point out things which exist mainly because the piece was originally written for a class assignment. e.g. Digital audio was not covered in the course, so I added some information in orde
137.
Perceptibility of Lossy Audio Encoding as a Signal Detection Problem(danturkel.com)
18 points by daturkel 12y ago|9 comments
138.
by daturkel 12y ago
I'm not the author, but it seems like you're certainly right. Here's an example from the wiki page about how a single-pixel camera utilized notions of compressed sensing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comp
139.
by daturkel 12y ago
Minor correction: on Chrome you can still get to the page if the browser doesn't trust the CA, the option is just hidden.
140.
by daturkel 12y ago
That used to exist! And it was even called unbaby.me for a while, then it was called Rather, but now it's gone :( https://twitter.com/GetRather
141.
by daturkel 12y ago
The Nobel Prize in Literature always has been and likely always will be a controversial category. No doubt any book-lover can name a handful of authors that ostensibly deserve the honor, but there are a lot of great authors and only one Nob
142.
by daturkel 12y ago
We don't currently have ebooks available for our Modiano titles unfortunately, though reprints are already being scheduled so it's possible ebooks might be a part of that. I can't personally make any promises. Edit: The offic
143.
by daturkel 12y ago
A heads up that Honeymoon, Missing Person, and Catherine Certitude (a children's book) by Modiano are all available from David R. Godine, Publisher, for those looking for English translation. [0] To the best of my knowledge, English tr
144.
by daturkel 12y ago
Thought this came out pretty well: http://maxbittker.github.io/Mojulo/#cip0aW1lKih0aW1lKnNpbih4... Speeding it up (increase the first "time" to "time^9") you can see that it eventually "heats u
145.
by daturkel 12y ago
The site is also mentioned in a good episode of the design podcast 99% Invisible. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-23-you-are-lis...
146.
by daturkel 12y ago
Will do right now.
147.
by daturkel 12y ago
Is there support for alternate math fonts (not sure what the proper term is) like \mathbf, \mathcal, \mathbb? Couldn't get it working. Looks fantastic though.
148.
by daturkel 12y ago
Came here to post the same link. English adjective order is one of those things that we're never taught as speakers of English as a first language, but I'd imagine it's taught to those learning it as a second language.
149.
by daturkel 12y ago
See the recent redesign for USPS http://grand-army.com/work/projects/project.php?project=usps...
150.
by daturkel 12y ago
Pinboard is one of a few services I happily pay for. Honestly, I'd probably pay a subscription price for it. I've got 1041 bookmarks, it's fast, searches and tags flawlessly, the unread functionality is super useful, and I&#x

More ›