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by nervechannel 16y ago
Quite -- it was innovation that killed Digg wasn't it?
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by nervechannel 16y ago
I'm sure that's what Streetmap and Multimap thought. EDIT: and any web traffic analytics company you care to mention.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Google cache isn't much use for a site where the humour comes from the random response you get each time you reload :-) I can't help thinking a single txt file with all the answers in would have been much more HN-proof.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
In the case of Basic Maths, there's examples of it on the designer's own demo page, depending on your browser settings. Some people might say this is the user's fault for overriding the original font choices. I'd say not all fonts are pleas
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Let me explain this slowly. From the article: "Optimizing typography is optimizing readability, accessibility, usability(!), overall graphic balance." If you lay out your text in a way that only works right when viewed in the typeface and f
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Not only that, but Basic Maths makes assumptions about the size of the rendered text which aren't universally true. On my display, that means you get horrible artifacts like the words in the "Information Graphics" tag at the top overlapping
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by nervechannel 16y ago
People can bang on about typography all they like, but any browser that won't let me override the designer's choice of fonts with ones that actually render nicely on my display won't get used. (I'm looking at you Chrome) Over here, font fan
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Steganography.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Genetic algorithms work pretty well for obvious reasons.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
The truth is that a lot of the sites that you use on a regular basis -- Google, Facebook, Amazon, eBay, last.fm, your bank, your webmail provider, etc. etc. etc. -- all rely on different kinds of AI for parts of their functionality. You are
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by nervechannel 16y ago
... I like the fact that 15 places above this post, currently, is this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1754357
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by nervechannel 16y ago
The skills and techniques required are very very different between the fields though; my PhD was in natural language processing but I don't have the first clue about machine vision, for example. Hell, I was working on parsing biomedical tex
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by nervechannel 16y ago
One might point out the irony of this being posted on a site called "Hacker News" where many of the most popular posts are about venture capitalists, investment, business models blah-di-blah-di-blah.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Argh, couldn't they have come up with a less clunky name??
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by nervechannel 16y ago
"I'm sorry, but who said the current situation is network neutral?" Err, that's exactly the point. Net neutrality already doesn't exist in a lot of ways, the Google proposal is seen by some (e.g. TorrentFreak) as an attempt to regulate some
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by nervechannel 16y ago
The main thing Kurzweil has missed is the even though we something like the 'source code' for a human brain, we don't have the compiler. If you're taking the (pretty weak) 'source code' analogy further, the compiler is... A host human embry
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TorrentFreak: Don't bash Google for Net Neutrality, it never existed anyway(torrentfreak.com)
137 points by nervechannel 16y ago|68 comments
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by nervechannel 16y ago
"When I need new programs, I try to write them myself" Good times...
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by nervechannel 16y ago
My thoughts exactly -- forward planning fail
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Just because it doesn't make any guarantees about order, doesn't mean you'll get a randomly-selected element if you pick the first one.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Maps have an entrySet() method that returns a set of key-value Entry objects you can iterate over. Is this what you were after?