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by iamwil 8y ago
Ugh. I still have mine. I ordered two. One is still unopened. My forearm got too sore trying make a fist, or spread it for the gestures. If it was more sensitive, it was too easy to inadvertently trigger an action. If anyone wants to buy th
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by iamwil 8y ago
What about using the video magnification technique to detect fakes? I'm guessing, in the same vain that the training dataset doesn't have blinking, it probably doesn't have a regular heartbeat. This is the technique I'm
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The Theory of Interstellar Trade(standupeconomist.com)
4 points by iamwil 8y ago|1 comments
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by iamwil 8y ago
> Unless there are other demonstrated needs that blockchain solves there aren’t going to be more apps, or more anything. I hear this line often. As an aside, I'll just share some of the things I've seen so far. 1) International
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by iamwil 8y ago
But then if that's true, you wouldn't get lots of devs in the Bay Area California. Lots of great weather here.
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by iamwil 8y ago
"I originally copied the terms from MySQL, and now they are the way we call things in Redis, and since I do not believe in this battle (I’ll tell you later why), to change the documentation, deprecate the API and add a new one, change
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by iamwil 8y ago
ants do communicate with chemical trails of some sort.
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by iamwil 8y ago
I had thought the author meant airport terminals, and was waiting for an insight to come that never did.
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by iamwil 8y ago
DIRT protocol | Mountain View, CA | Onsite, Full-time | https://dirtprotocol.com DIRT is a protocol for decentralized information curation. Communities can crowd curate trusted data. DIRT defines a set of rules for writing and m
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by iamwil 8y ago
You're right that there's often lists that people make, but usually ends up outdated. Often in these cases, the incentives for reading the list are usually more than those maintaining the list. People in the earlier days of the in
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by iamwil 8y ago
It can depend on the contents of the registry and who depends on that information. For example, with a list of top 100 colleges, readers might use it to decide which colleges to go to. And hence, writers would be incentivized to submit thei
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DIRT Protocol raises $3M to build a Wikipedia for structured data(medium.com)
106 points by iamwil 8y ago|91 comments
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by iamwil 8y ago
> Perhaps the unreplicable advantage of YC in its early years. I think PG had said she was their secret weapon for many years, when there were other accelerators copying them left and right.
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by iamwil 8y ago
Funnily enough, attention is one of the things that help deep neural networks learn.
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by iamwil 8y ago
Did you find their advice helpful? Could you tell ahead of time who was going to be more helpful than others?
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by iamwil 8y ago
Sup Eddie. Besides books, did you go and ask people about how to be a great CTO? Who did you pick to ask, and how did you find those people?
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by iamwil 8y ago
I've seen other people's browsers with about 40 to 50 tabs open. I think the fact you close them is atypical.
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by iamwil 8y ago
It's really important to put feedback loops in place in your life to change it in the direction you want it to go.
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by iamwil 8y ago
You didn't read his last sentence.
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by iamwil 8y ago
...Well, that is until everyone tries writing them.
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by iamwil 8y ago
Well, the one thing the moat map clarified for me is the 'killer app' framework isn't always applicable. If your company has differentiated suppliers and the network effect is externalized, then looking for the killer app mak
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by iamwil 8y ago
I don't think so. People have also tried to domesticate hippos for meat. Also motivated. Also not successful.
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by iamwil 8y ago
Your last question was touched upon in "Guns, Germs, and Steel"--though I don't remember the book giving a reason, other than, if it was easy to domesticate [presumably compared to domesticating an alternative species, or jus
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by iamwil 9y ago
Not if it weighs 20 lbs.
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by iamwil 9y ago
The credit card company charges really high fees (on the order of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars if you have any significant volume) if you have more than 1% of all your transactions as chargebacks. The CC company doesn't swa
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by iamwil 9y ago
from: http://cryto.net/%7Ejoepie91/blog/2016/06/19/stop-using-jwt-...
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by iamwil 9y ago
By secretbox, I assume you mean NaCl's secretbox. Cool, thanks for the tips, and helping make the web a more cryptographically secure place.
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by iamwil 9y ago
1) Huh. Weird it exists at all then. 2) Hrm. I guess maybe? As I understand it, the reason for a client token is to have stateless servers, so the server doesn't need to look up a valid token upon every request--which scales better. In
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by iamwil 9y ago
Ah, didn't know he also worked on it. It wasn't obvious in the article. Then I have two basic questions (for either you and tptacek): 1) Given I just need to hash the contents of a file for content-addressed data (like in git), it
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by iamwil 9y ago
Do you also agree with the recommendations given in the article in 2018?

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