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by jacobn 8y ago
Hi, I'm one of the authors of this tool, happy to answer any questions. It's basically a little image processing algorithm for restoring rasterized vector art that's been degraded by various forms of abuse (noise, JPEG, print
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Show HN: Clean up images damaged by noise / JPEGing. 100% in-browser(pixfix.com)
6 points by jacobn 8y ago|4 comments
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by jacobn 8y ago
Having run a business (in an unrelated field) that offered both a subscription and a paygo model, the reason was pretty clear: you lose more from people who would have subscribed opting for paygo than you gain from people who would never su
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by jacobn 8y ago
If you don't have perfect pitch and want to get a better understanding for what your guitar is doing, try using a spectrum analyzer app to visualize how the sound changes as you pluck a string. The el-cheapo guitar I bought once just d
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Ehang’s passenger-carrying drones first test flights(theverge.com)
1 points by jacobn 9y ago|0 comments
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by jacobn 9y ago
From the post: "all PV instances in EC2 are using this"
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by jacobn 9y ago
That sounds like the user will have to right-click and choose "Save As"?
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by jacobn 9y ago
How does this compare/relate to the AWS "enhanced networking"?
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by jacobn 9y ago
That there's not a balanced zoning requirement (housing, jobs, services) seems to me as a lay person to be really weird. I'm sure there's a ton of good-sounding legal reasons for it, but seriously?!
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by jacobn 9y ago
Most educational spending is state/local. In 2012 they spent ~1/3 of ~$2.6T = $826B, which corresponds to 21.5% of the federal budget. http://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives...
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by jacobn 10y ago
The wealthy people I personally know do not follow the pattern you describe.
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by jacobn 10y ago
It's more like a mile and a half from Caltrain to FiDi.
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by jacobn 10y ago
I don't know if interest rates will go up or not, but when rates do go up, they can be swift. The Adjustable Rate Mortgages offered by for example First Republic Bank are referenced to one-month LIBOR, and it went from 1.11% in May 200
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by jacobn 10y ago
Scalable = can expand, both "up" and "out", but you'll need a lot less "out" if you're willing to go "up".
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by jacobn 10y ago
Current planning has a "star-topology": urban office core with rings of gradually less dense, gradually more residential development. This creates a natural transportation bottleneck at the center, and creates areas that are &quot
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by jacobn 10y ago
I've used it for years and love it. Came from a C, C++, Java, Ruby (on Rails), and Delphi background. I'd describe it as a love child of Ruby and Java that turned out great. It offers great flexibility, which means you can definit
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Call for Economic Impact Report on San Francisco’s Zoning and Land-Use Regulations(medium.com)
2 points by jacobn 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Thoughts on an alternative to Public Key Pinning (HPKP)?
5 points by jacobn 11y ago|2 comments
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3D printed, light-weight, environmentally friendly supercar(divergentmicrofactories.com)
1 points by jacobn 11y ago|0 comments
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by jacobn 12y ago
There is substantial difference between income and wealth. I work in tech in the Bay Area, so I have good-to-great income, but I have not accumulated much wealth. The people I think offend you are the (seemingly idle) rich who make most of
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by jacobn 12y ago
The site was developed in Scala + Java, and the dev-version uses Play Framework, but the public site is statically hosted on S3 + CloudFront. Each page takes O(10 seconds) to generate and the machine that does the generation needs ~20+ GB o
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by jacobn 12y ago
Neighborhood shapes are from Zillow (link in the site footer on pages with neighborhoods), the city block shapes come from the Census. They have shapefiles for all their geographical entities (state, county, tract, block group, block) (I&#x
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by jacobn 12y ago
You get fooled into thinking you're on to something, when in reality it's a zombie. Which can be a great lifestyle business, but your (potential) VC backer may be less enthusiastic.
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Show HN: StatisticalAtlas.com: demographic charts and maps down to the city block(statisticalatlas.com)
51 points by jacobn 12y ago|19 comments
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by jacobn 12y ago
Someone, for the love of god and everything that is holy, please actually solve the password problem. The countless caveats, the catch-22s, the madness - are any of the existing efforts actually getting somewhere? In the real world?
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by jacobn 12y ago
There's been a number of questions in this thread about Amazon killing off a payment product. Here's an excerpt from the email I got from them back in October: "We want to let you know that we are retiring the payment process
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by jacobn 12y ago
Does anyone have a link to the presentation itself (e.g. ppt/pdf)?
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by jacobn 12y ago
"We simplify the causal discovery problem by assuming no confounding, selection bias and feedback." That's a pretty big caveat. Not saying the paper is not important, just that it's not (yet?) a full solution to the over
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by jacobn 12y ago
And this is why software schedules are always off. Any schedule for that matter. If you're into this type of psychology, check out "Thinking Fast and Slow" by D. Kahnemann. http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-
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by jacobn 13y ago
I thought it worked ok? http://clippingmagic.com/images/4953782/public/86ede827aa2fa... You need a couple of extra markings, but that's life on images with background colors close to the foreground color

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