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Show HN: Fourhands is a P2P MIDI jam room for pianists(fourhands.jminjie.com)
50 points by jm_l 6y ago|25 comments
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by jm_l 6y ago
The economic context has also changed a lot. In 2012 SF's total GDP was 350b, today it's 500b (a 40% increase). It shouldn't necessarily be that surprising that as the economy grows the government's spending does as well
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by jm_l 6y ago
Yes the point-in-time count is 8000, but a lot of homelessness services go to preventing people who are on the edge of homelessness. If you use the estimate here ( https://sf.curbed.com/2019/11/20/20973811&#x2F
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by jm_l 6y ago
I think this is a common line of thinking that doesn't actually reflect the reality of how much the city is spending per year. SF's spending in 2019 was 12b dollars (roughly $12,000 per resident). Of that, 1.6b went to MTA ($1600
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by jm_l 6y ago
You would definitely notice a 21ms lag while writing. Ideally you want to get below 10ms, but for physical-object-like responsiveness 1ms is the standard. See this old video from Microsoft research which demonstrates https://www.
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by jm_l 6y ago
I did something similar using Github pages (no serverside stuff needed) for an e-zine I recently published. Hopefully removing the server-side component makes it easier for other creators: The zine is here: https://jminjie.github
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by jm_l 6y ago
I used a similar method to write a dynamic poem using javascript several months ago ( https://jminjie.com/@Jordan/from-the-eyes-of-birds-bd5bbe0c9... )
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by jm_l 6y ago
GiveDirectly ( https://www.givedirectly.org/ ) gives 88% of the money straight to recipients and offers a nice baseline for charity work. There's also better metrics than "how much money does the charity take off th
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by jm_l 7y ago
I don't believe Firefox reader saves bandwidth, just alters the users view.
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by jm_l 7y ago
I don't understand your complaint, isn't average tax rate a percentage of income? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rate
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Show HN: A chrome extension which replaces hyperlinks with blue underlined text(github.com)
1 points by jm_l 7y ago|0 comments
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by jm_l 7y ago
A fun little hack on Android phones (or at least Google Pixels -- this may be disabled by some OEMs). Starting last year the Android Recent Apps screen allows you to select text from the carousel of screenshots of apps. The way they do this
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by jm_l 7y ago
The whole point of AR directions is that it uses data from your camera to figure out your orientation
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Show HN: The Poetry of Smartphones(thumbpoems.com)
1 points by jm_l 7y ago|0 comments
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by jm_l 7y ago
On AOSP master I believe the new setting is: net.tethering.noprovisioning consumed here: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/opt/tel...
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by jm_l 7y ago
Hey HN, I built this using GitHub pages and a few lines of JavaScript, you can see the source here https://github.com/jminjie/thumbpoems
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Show HN: A collection of poems written on phones(thumbpoems.com)
1 points by jm_l 7y ago|1 comments
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by jm_l 7y ago
This is a sarcastic reference to a famous essay published by Jonathan Swift. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal )
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Show HN: A Changing Poem(blog.jminjie.com)
2 points by jm_l 8y ago|0 comments
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by jm_l 8y ago
Worth noting that by blocking all Google IPs, the author is not only cutting out Google services, but also any other application that relies on Google services. For example, there's a bit in there about not being able to use Dropbox be
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by jm_l 8y ago
The requests wouldn't be synchronized, so probably wouldn't cause a DoS
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by jm_l 8y ago
Then maybe someone could make a kit to turn a rented kit into a personal one.
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Pepsi vs. Coke: The Power of a Brand (2011)(designshack.net)
2 points by jm_l 8y ago|0 comments
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by jm_l 8y ago
No participant is incentivized to alter the cake if they agree that it's value is already equally split in 3. The person making the trim is also not incentivized to make it 1.5/0.5, because they don't get first choice of thos
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by jm_l 8y ago
What's more important for mitigating my future disease risk? Diet and exercise, or a satisfying social life? (A sample of the questions that I might be able to answer with actual specifics based on an analysis of my genes)
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by jm_l 8y ago
My landlord's son-in-law was telling me about his adventures building a house. He seems very capable and takes on a general philosophy of "this is actually not that hard" which makes everything seem more accessible. He's
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by jm_l 8y ago
To understand propriety/coherence (about 2/3 of the way down the page) you'll also need to have an understanding of enharmonics, and perhaps some context on why it's important to be able to know whether an interval is e.
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by jm_l 8y ago
> But do it because you want to, not because someone suggested it one time. Does this author live in a world where people write books unwillingly to appease their friends?
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by jm_l 8y ago
Is your best guess at why this might impact someone's trust in Amazon products really that people would think it was an intentional design choice? (Seems kind of straw-man-y.) If not, then you should generally address the part that wil
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by jm_l 9y ago
Couldn't you settle this by controlling for initial mental health in two groups, having one group start using Instagram, and tracking any changes? If your point is that it would take work to separate correlation and causation then yes,

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