iplaw

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   by iplaw 10y ago

   This article is from March 2015, and shows that the writing has been on the wall for quite a while. The "safe spaces" movement is a plague, and I am sick of it. I hold extremely diverse viewpoints which span the political spectr
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   by iplaw 10y ago

   Hilarious!
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   by iplaw 10y ago

   H.265 gets you twice the resolution for the same bandwidth, or the same resolution for half the bandwidth.
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   by iplaw 10y ago

   Where can I source reproductions?
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   by iplaw 10y ago

   YC should have cut ties with EP.
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   by iplaw 10y ago

   Right. It's an image PDF generated from a text file, so there are no digital-to-analog-to-digital errors introduced. These files should be perfect OCR candidates, but everything that I've found is full of errors, missing portions
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   by iplaw 10y ago

   Apologies for not being clear in my OP. The PDF is a digital-native image produced from a text document, but without embedded or searchable text. Looking at the PDF in full resolution, there are not artifacts, blurry characters, or any alig
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   by iplaw 10y ago

   Apologies for not being clear in my OP. The PDF is a digital-native image produced from a text document, but without embedded or searchable text. Looking at the PDF in full resolution, there are not artifacts, blurry characters, or any alig
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   by iplaw 10y ago

   Apologies for not being clear in my OP. The PDF is a digital-native image produced from a text document, but without embedded or searchable text. Looking at the PDF in full resolution, there are not artifacts, blurry characters, or any alig
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    Apologies. The PDFs that we deal with are digital-native, but do not have embedded text and are not searchable. I simply want to OCR the PDF and spit the text into a Word/text file. I don't even care about perfect formatting, that
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    Another partner and I came up with a similar solution. It hinged on detecting the typeface and using a bitmapped (or otherwise rendered) font package to OCR letter by letter. The PDF files that we are dealing with do not have embedded text
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    SolarCity is not the solution. I contacted them about getting a large array installed, and the actual arrangement is much different than what is conveyed via marketing materials and during the sales process. Many, many customers end up payi
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    HOW is there not a better, almost 100% accurate OCR tool? I routinely (daily) need to OCR PDF files. The PDF files are not scans. They are PDF files created from a Word file. The text is 100% clear, the lines are 100% straight, and the ty
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    So this attorney's problem is that rather than ambiguously granting a license to the patent claims necessary to implement this software, they decided to explicitly grant such rights? I see no problems.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    The press release says that they play nice with lots of devices ... but then list only one device. The Google Pixel. Which isn't even available. Where's the iPhone app and compatibility?
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    Wow, $2400 a YEAR? No wonder they just lost their entire dev team. That'd be a week's pay in the US for an experienced developer.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    How in the world will this new policy be enforced? I see only one possible outcome: The reviewers who used to begin their review with "I received this product at a discount in exchange for a fair and honest review" will now begin
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    So basically a * clone, where * is any prior app/service/website that facilitates the sale of items with pictures?
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    Has anyone shown that this isn't simply a hollow black box with a slightly outdated conventional computer inside? Based on performance metrics alone, this would seem likely.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    I thought that it looked like praying hands. The thought process was powerful core -> planet core -> hot lava -> volcano -> stylized and unrecognizable volcano with blue lava. Sorry designer, it just doesn't work.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    That was your take away from the comparison? Wow ... I fail to see how the jpeg.io is worse than the other two examples.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    I would also note that the Photoshop export has very visible artifacting, and the tinypng compression killed the gradient. For the minimal size trade-off, the jpeg.io compression takes the W.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    So I was at Burning Man ... shit, shit, shit.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    Depends on the subject matter and the willingness of a plaintiff and defendant to negotiate a fair settlement. In some areas, big money comes with big litigation.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    I've started appending "forum" to many of my queries when I am looking for answers from users.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    And even then, power surges do happen. Circuitry get fried from time to time. There is still a level of plausible deniability.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    They haven't performed any testing with the USB Kill connected to a USB to Apple lightning adapter or to a USB-to-micro-USB adapter. I think that the device with a micro USB adapter would function identically, as it's just a pin m
28. 178.▲
    by iplaw 10y ago

    You've struck gold.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    My problem is that he scrapes Hacker News data and then infringes the Hacker News name right there in the domain name to hock his wares.
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    by iplaw 10y ago

    Let us know how the Amazon referral program treats you.