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by feniv 7y ago
I've only recently started learning Erlang (via Elixir), but I'm absolutely amazed by the underlying technology and the brilliant minds behind it. I'll remember Joe by the several insightful, entertaining talks he's give
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by feniv 7y ago
Is it possible to use the Apple Face ID sensor to perform a kinect-like 3D mapping of an environment or is the range of those sensors too limited for that?
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by feniv 8y ago
Here's a gif from a 1995 supercomputer simulation of the reversal process - https://imgur.com/a/jgpZZBF "The tubes represent magnetic field lines, blue when the field points towards the center and yellow when
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by feniv 8y ago
Earth's magnetic pole has been known to switch sides in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal "183 reversals over the last 83 million years... A brief complete reversal, known as the La
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by feniv 8y ago
Interesting link at the end of the article about a mini helicopter NASA's sending along with the Mars 2020 mission - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/science/mars-helicopter-n...
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by feniv 8y ago
Anyone have a good resource on how variable fonts work? What kind of programmability does it support?
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by feniv 8y ago
Congrats of launching! Some suggestions: Would be useful to see the descriptions for each episodes. The save feature you mentioned, as well as some basic history of which episodes I've already heard, would be great as well. I currentl
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by feniv 8y ago
Livestream link of the SpaceX announcement with a lot more details on the BFR - https://youtu.be/zu7WJD8vpAQ?t=1712
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by feniv 8y ago
Reminds me of this OneLang HN post from several months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16415051 It's an IDE that lets you code simultaneously in several different languages https://ide.onelang.io&
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by feniv 8y ago
I highly recommend Norvig's (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) as a very short, practical introduction to implementing a language. http://norvig.com/lispy.html There's also a followup article impleme
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by feniv 8y ago
The multi-syntax support is really interesting. https://www.luna-lang.org/ is another language with a similar concept, with both a visual and a textual representation of the same code. Would love to read more about the immu
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by feniv 8y ago
The WebAssembly format is better designed to be served over the web (compact representation, streaming compilation, low startup overhead, etc.) There's a discussion thread on this topic in the WebAssembly github: https://git
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by feniv 9y ago
Congrats on shipping! Love the instant search queries and the fuzzy text matching.
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by feniv 9y ago
Eventually, Amazon could also combine their predictive ordering with their lockers to stock common goods before they're ordered (some combination of a vending machine and a pickup locker).
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by feniv 9y ago
The article doesn't go into much details of the stock award. Musk is proposing not taking a salary for the next 10 years and receiving a 1% stock award each time he meets some insanely aggressive milestones: https://cdn.tesl
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by feniv 9y ago
You're right - it looks like it's available as the text-x-amphtml MIME part. I missed that on the initial read-through.
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by feniv 9y ago
Coin-operated vending machines for food was actually somewhat popular in the US in the early 1900ds before fast-food. Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat
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by feniv 9y ago
Besides the ideological issues, is the HTML tag for AMP emails seriously going to be <html 4email> (html lightning-emoji 4email)? I wish they implemented this as a separate MIME type so emails could specify multi-part messages w
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by feniv 9y ago
For context, the author is the notable fields medal winner Terence Tao - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao - and finding the lower bounds for this constant has been a long running endeavor in pure mathematics -
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by feniv 9y ago
Here's another video about the mirror's construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP9HNVuGb-g
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by feniv 12y ago
Here's something similar for the US with a gallery of wind activities during the past (like Hurricane Sandy) http://hint.fm/wind/gallery/
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by feniv 12y ago
I bought this camera several months ago and I just want to chime in and say it's takes some AMAZING pictures. For all of the complaints about how bad Samsung's software is, its UI is a lot more intuitive than what I've come t
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by feniv 13y ago
The unit of performance in these studies is reaction time, which isn't a useful measure in a field like programming or design.
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by feniv 13y ago
Most of the other novel computer interaction peripherals (like Leap Motion) are in the $100s price range. The $10 price point could really make this popular, especially with the hacker and maker community.
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by feniv 13y ago
Ballmer building any of that would be equivalent to Microsoft actually building some of the technology from their latest "Vision" clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0 All of those things seem simple in
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by feniv 13y ago
Very cool! Can you give a brief overview of the underlying technology you use to extract the distance data back out from a 2D image?
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by feniv 13y ago
So is it legal to ride this on sidewalks and bike-lanes?
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by feniv 13y ago
Microsoft is becoming more and more of an integrated software and hardware company than a purely software one. Maybe it's time to change the name to something without the "soft".
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by feniv 13y ago
It would be nice if rather than using the hash (which you have no control over), the algorithm looked at the distribution of languages I program in and used that to pick the colors. That would be a better representation of my programming id
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by feniv 13y ago
The NodeBox linguistics module is another nice wrapper around NLTK (and other natural language processing libraries). I used it for extracting actions and details from sentences, but it's also great for spelling correction, pluralizati

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