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by frabcus 8y ago
Weirdly it seems to be because of scale - YouTube is just so big with such a high volume of videos, user data, and new videos, they can't yet run the ML algorithms they'd really want to over the whole corpus. https://ww
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by frabcus 8y ago
I had problems with SyncThing's reliability, and although it is proprietary am using Resilio Sync (was BitTorent Sync). Hope SyncThing is much better now and I can switch back next time I set it all up! Still nice to control my syncing
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by frabcus 9y ago
The Firefox Extensions Challenge ( https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2018/03/15/firefox-quantum-e... ) with prizes for winners has just ended... So Mozilla are at least aware this is a problem for some users
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by frabcus 9y ago
Gortex is very good these days...
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by frabcus 9y ago
My conclusion (quite a while ago now!) was to use Atom as it is a more consistent and reliable format, but to call it RSS in any user interface as that is what users know it as.
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by frabcus 9y ago
Not knowing what to do is a tricky problem, and lots of people seem to be suffering from it at the moment. The negative side of middle age is knowing the bad effects of things like new technologies, so finding it harder to get excited about
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by frabcus 9y ago
Job: Software Engineer, Remote (Golang desirable) Sensible Code build software for economists and statisticians to access modern data science techniques and machine learning. We’re looking for a software engineer to work on TableBuilder, ou
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by frabcus 9y ago
It is, alas paid listings only. However it is decent. I don't use Amazon, and find I use Google Shopping to find suppliers a lot.
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by frabcus 9y ago
The original plan was to sell related software and services to telecoms companies. The parent company that funded development of Matrix already has similar business relationships with them. Think e.g. a Brazilian phone company. I think the
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by frabcus 9y ago
I use it as an IRC/Slack alternative, and it's pretty good - especially for the equivalent of public channels. The apps are better and easier to explain than IRC ones, and it is easier to join and more open than Slack. Naturally,
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by frabcus 9y ago
Let me know when it is overrun by open, federated ones.
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by frabcus 9y ago
I'm paying for FastMail and using their calendar and contact book. On Android I had to buy CardDAV and CalDAV sync apps. They're cheap and it is a one off fee. Works well for me! I particularly like that Android (like Palm back in
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by frabcus 9y ago
This is what drives me mad. Professional therapy that actually works and can help patients solve the underlying self-esteem issues from childhood isn't easily available to people suffering from anorexia. More generally, I would argue t
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by frabcus 9y ago
Jio is really really cheap... Last year when I was in India they had an amazing launch offer where you got 3 months 4G free, with 4Gb / day (yes per day!) bandwidth. It worked really well, and roamed easily between states. I'm goi
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by frabcus 9y ago
I don't really understand the Apple policy on payments. How come, for example, they don't demand their cut from Monzo person to person transfers?
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by frabcus 9y ago
I tired of it when I realised the obvious way to get better was to learn all the tiles, so I'd know exactly when what patterns I left were blocking or not. Learning all the tiles, and tile counting, both just seemed too dull and annoyi
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Ask HN: How do you license a neural network as free software?
4 points by frabcus 9y ago|2 comments
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by frabcus 9y ago
Anyone recommend any good resources for learning to use Edward? The tutorials on the main site are good? http://edwardlib.org/tutorials/
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by frabcus 9y ago
I'm not sure I'm explaining this well - would love to see a proper psychological and economical analysis by someone.
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by frabcus 9y ago
At a basic level, it is 1/280th the market cap of BitCoin. So just a bunch of people holding BitCoin selling <1% of their holdings for diversity would cover it. It is an error to compare it to an investment in a product. It isn&#x27
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DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode(duckduckhack.com)
209 points by frabcus 9y ago|83 comments
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by frabcus 9y ago
Surprised not to see mention of the fundamental modern tech problem with regard to insurance. As soon as you have big enough data, and artificially intelligent enough algorithms, the insurance becomes too predictive. The whole point of in
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by frabcus 9y ago
I had that problem, and fixed it by doing these four things: * Train the built in Bayesian filter fully * Setup SPF * Setup DKIM * Point MX records at Fastmail directly (rather than forwarding via some other service) More of a pain than GMa
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by frabcus 10y ago
In the market for Twitter data that we were in at ScraperWiki, it wasn't the price per Tweet that was too much, but the minimum spend and the difficulty of getting access to the data at all. https://scraperwiki.com/2014
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by frabcus 10y ago
The protocol cjdns and its distributed deployment at Hyperboria is the largest scale starting point I'm aware of. I think doing this might have advantages increasing freedom at the other end of the stack too - if you can drop out to ch
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by frabcus 10y ago
The ability to focus in VR using your own eyes requires a light field display - that is something which sends light rays from arbitrary angles into your eyes, and your eyes focus them. Magic Leap has an augmented reality device that does th
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by frabcus 10y ago
The cited source https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21102016/melting-ice-glac... makes it clear it means ice above land, such as Greenland. It also doesn't use the phrase "sea ice" which seems a con
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by frabcus 10y ago
This was puzzling me (as a UK citizen). A clue in another comment hinted that it is about insurance. Still not sure why a dolphin would be covered in a policy but not an orca...
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by frabcus 10y ago
I do too. People tend to want decentralised alternatives partly for privacy, partly for competition, partly for resilience (hurricanes, wars). Lots of arts people I speak too also talk about cultural diversity - the lack of competition is p
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by frabcus 10y ago
Indeed, I recommend this blog post about Dash by Simon Wardley, to see where it is inevitably going: http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/04/so-amazon-fired-warning-...

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