rayalez

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   Artificial Neural Network Writes Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality(medium.com)

   1 points by rayalez 10y ago|1 comments
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   by rayalez 10y ago

   > No, it really isn't. The fact that you can change does not mean that people will change. Defaults and all kinds of tie-ins have led to google being the way in which people navigate the web. "The fact that you can change...&
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   by rayalez 10y ago

   So far, the best book about startups I have read is Traction, it's extremely useful overview of all the ways to get traffic/customers. I also making my way through GEB, it's relly interesting, though hard to read. And I am re
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   by rayalez 10y ago

   There's an excellent website, http://deepart.io , it does the same thing, and allows you to upload your own image to use as a style.
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   by rayalez 10y ago

   About a year ago I have launched http://rationalfiction.io (a platfirm for publishing hard sci-fi). I'm still working on it, it's growing gradually, slow but steady. 900+ users by now. A few months ago I have launched
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   by rayalez 10y ago

   Society is made out of individuals. You want to live in a society that doesn't screw individuals over, so that your own human rights wouldn't be violated. Property rights are pretty fundamental as human rights go. Intellectual pro
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   by rayalez 10y ago

   Recently I have bought the book "Deep Learning with Python"[1], and I can't recommend it enough. Very gentle introduction into deep learning, through creating several practical projects. If you know the basics of ML - you sho
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   by rayalez 10y ago

   If you like crash course, you probably want to read this list of educational youtube channels: https://medium.com/@bibblio_org/60-youtube-channels-that-wil... (and here's my favorite channels that I would like to
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   Ask HN: What do you think about steemit.com?

   1 points by rayalez 10y ago|0 comments
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    Steem(steem.io)

    4 points by rayalez 10y ago|1 comments
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Because taxes are mandatory, they are taken from people by force. I am absolutely happy to give back to the community, when it's a voluntary decision, a choice I am free to make. Yes, I did benefit from living in a society, but I never
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Awesome! You should really create a daily/weekly/monthly newsletter and rss feeds, I think it would be really valuable. How did you compile the top medium posts? Do they have an API?
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    Expected Utility(orangemind.io)

    19 points by rayalez 10y ago|14 comments
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    Comedy Theory(orangemind.io)

    2 points by rayalez 10y ago|0 comments
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    Cognitive Biases(orangemind.io)

    5 points by rayalez 10y ago|1 comments
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    Ask HN: Any advice on getting press for my project?

    2 points by rayalez 10y ago|1 comments
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    In the previous discussion a commenter pretty much explained why this wouldn't work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11807840 Also I think I can accept that a certain amount of taxes is a necessary evil. But let&#
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    I'm surprised that so many people on HN support UBI, it sounds horrifying to me. Did you learn nothing from communism? By increasing taxes you decrease incentives for making wealth, and, more importantly, infringe on individual freedom
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    Ask HN: Share your startup/project ideas

    3 points by rayalez 10y ago|4 comments
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Simple html and CSS, Zurb Foundation(super convenient, has all the elements I need, takes care of 80% of the design), deploy to Digital Ocean, serve with nginx. Just made myself a homepage like this: http://rayalez.com
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Finally! It was obvious that something like this needed to exist, and I think this is the most elegant solution. I'm extremely excited about it, I really hope this takes off. Probably in the future there will also be a system that allo
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    Ask HN: Any good lectures/articles on building/running online community?

    1 points by rayalez 10y ago|3 comments
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I have been thinking about adding screenwriting support. For now it makes more sense to just focus on fiction, but it's very possible that I'll add the Fountain support in the future. I'll think
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Well, that's the point of the game) Otherwise when you stop writing nothing happens, no stakes. Of course you can just ignore this feature and simply write without it. I have also experimented with using a "pomodoro" feature
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Yes, sure! Prompts are there to help people to get started, but feel free to ignore them if you want. In the future I will probably add preferences allowing people to disable the functionality they don't use.
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    If you are a professional writer you still might use some additional motivation or habit tracking. I have not yet put much attention into tracking number of words on bigger projects, but I definitely will. If you don't need that sort o
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Thank you very much! Corrected.
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Oh, thanks a lot, fixed!
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Wow, that's really awesome! Regarding mobile - right now I want to focus on improving the website and making sure that it has everything users want and is really convenient to use. Currently it does work on mobile(but not throughly tes
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    by rayalez 10y ago

    Hey, everyone! Super excited to make it to the front page of HN =) I want writingstreak.io to help people to practice their writing skills and develop a habit of writing regularly. It keeps track of daily word count, gives you writing promp