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by jc4p 10y ago
I own a lot of Photons (and Spark Cores! :P), I've even bought large amounts for hands-on classes, but I've fallen in love with the ESP8266. You can program it using a custom build of the Arduino IDE (if you want), one of my proje
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by jc4p 10y ago
since the sprayers have a configurable spray width I think you could get pretty far with some sort of wide-angle sensor (a few ultrasonic range finders, or maybe a Kinect?) placed at one long-edge end of the lawn and use that to trigger spr
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by jc4p 10y ago
on systems where wget isn't installed the common practice to download a file is `curl -O`
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by jc4p 10y ago
Bah did the link in my comment not work? I tried updating my original comment to link to http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/state-department-email... but now there's two versions of my comment, one pr
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by jc4p 10y ago
I tried updating my post but because this post was flagged away it seems to have duplicated somewhere else: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12037507 -- This article explains it a bit, it's also light on the detail
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by jc4p 10y ago
I hate this argument because Colin's actions were so overt that extra regulations were passed after he left to flat out make what he and and others did against standard operating procedure. Stop using this as your argument.
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by jc4p 10y ago
> you have to have a cable subscription which offers the local broadcast I watch all NFL local broadcast games over a cheap digital OTA. Can the same thing be done here for people without cable?
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by jc4p 10y ago
I think one of the points Adam repeatedly mentions in the article is that a contract in itself isn't really transparent. I get exactly what you are saying, it makes logical sense from the perspective of someone who knows what's go
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by jc4p 10y ago
I don't think you can do anything here once a culture's already been set. I also think that repeatedly pestering execs to ask about their efforts on this (as I've done at my current company every few weeks for the last 6 mont
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by jc4p 10y ago
I know it _just_ launched but oh my god how do you launch such a slow site. I'm trying to load the "System.Drawing" API docs and Chrome inspector just shows a GET pending alongside a _lot_ of analytics and marketing calls bei
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by jc4p 10y ago
I agree with you on the IT mindset, but there's a huge difference between getting users in a small company to run updates or whatever the IT need there is vs overriding settings on something someone actually owns. My company's IT
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by jc4p 10y ago
Are we just talking about API documentation? Stripe's the obvious go-to for that, but for big business stuff I was pleasantly surprised with HubSpot's API and documentation. Their own UI uses the API, which means debugging a lot e
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by jc4p 10y ago
This is really good news. Plaid has an amazing API, it makes it very easy to get your own financial data. I'm trying to analyze my own spending habits / make a budget-allocator using my own patterns, so it's been insanely hel
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by jc4p 10y ago
An option isn't equity, but I would wager that a lot of people who subscribe to the "if I have equity I'm family" model are naive enough to not know that. I definitely agree with your attitude on them, I really wish star
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by jc4p 10y ago
What about if your equity is in stock-options that haven't been exercised, and after you leave you only have 90 days to exercise them? :)
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by jc4p 10y ago
This is so 100% on point. I think the Netflix NYT article from yesterday had a more realistic tone regarding the "family" aspect: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/magazine/can-netflix-survi...
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by jc4p 10y ago
The community around Tensorflow is great (lots of people that try to recreate results from new papers using TF), but if you're worried about putting all your eggs in one basket (or want to be a higher level up) you should checkout Kera
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by jc4p 10y ago
From my experience the scrobbler only work with music I own in Apple Music, not any music I'm listening to from Beats Radio or any of the recommended playlists.
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by jc4p 10y ago
I tried doing this with my own Last.fm data, if this slow badly coded Heroku app is still live you can see mine: http://lastfm-seasonally.herokuapp.com/user/pvam Basically, I listen to what I like to listen to no matte
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by jc4p 10y ago
This is really cool! I love playing with my own Last.fm data. Some suggestions: - Manually (or using your Facebook timeline?) place out big events in your life and see if you can see what kind of music you listened to before/after them
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by jc4p 10y ago
I've been working on something similar for a long time. You can get far by using Last.fm to track your own music listening history and analyzing against notes (break-ups, rainy days, etc).
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by jc4p 10y ago
I love these blog posts. The timing is perfect for me too, I committed some code a week ago that said "I'm doing this manually because I can't figure out how to use `fit_generator`", thanks for the write-up Francois!
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by jc4p 10y ago
In an environment like ours where the split between genders is so drastic small bits of humor like this do less to make people laugh and more to help people who already feel excluded feel even more excluded.
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by jc4p 10y ago
This is rad! I have a bunch of LED matrices I currently use https://github.com/hzeller/rpi-rgb-led-matrix for, I need to spend some quality time with Anypixel to see how it compares / if I can combine the two. I w
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by jc4p 10y ago
Neither does a lot of Android! Luckily the product I'm using uses https://crosswalk-project.org/ -- that sounded like an ad!
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by jc4p 10y ago
That's wild, I didn't expect any security-centric website in 2016 to be HTTP-only! The reasoning for not doing it is weird too, they could at the very least move the update logic over to a separate SSL endpoint. Anyway, I'm n
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by jc4p 10y ago
yeah I use nginx-rtmp for local video capturing (basically the functionality of a mirror) and the lag that needing to re-encode + chunk + starting off at the beginning of the chunks in the playlist introduces is meh. I think I'm going
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by jc4p 10y ago
This is awesome! There's a lot of interesting things that can be done with just the level of sequence generation AI we currently have, transforming the real data into a format for it is the most difficult part, I think. This similar pr
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by jc4p 10y ago
Have you seen this demo of Jack McCauley's new laser based tracking? http://www.roadtovr.com/mts-virtual-reality-vr-tracking-syst...
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by jc4p 10y ago
I have an Oculus CV1, I had the DK2, and I've been making VR side-projects using their SDK for a couple years now. I'm really disillusioned about Oculus as a platform, though. I didn't even consider buying the HTC Vive becaus

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