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by sgk284 8y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Will definitely consider.
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by sgk284 8y ago
Liam, this is incredible ! I thought it might be useful for you to incrementally see how someone in industry would review or change this code, so here's a little code review via video: https://youtu.be/UkVOrcS--04 We
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by sgk284 8y ago
Re: specifying data - In my experience, you always want to overfetch anyway if you want your offline experience to be any level of reasonable. It's pretty lame when you're offline, see an item in a list, click on the item, and the
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by sgk284 8y ago
Eh... I'm torn on it and could write at length about this, but here's my off-the-cuff thoughts. For context, my co-founder and I are quite active in the GraphQL community. If you've ever used apollo-cache-persist[1] or graphq
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by sgk284 9y ago
Even a paid-for walled garden is likely not sufficient. Plenty of services you pay for and/or are the customer of still resell your data (see: banks & credit card companies).
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by sgk284 9y ago
As is shared in the article, the largest contributing factor is likely how Lightroom was used during post-processing.
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by sgk284 9y ago
It's not entirely clear to me that all of cognition isn't simply pattern matching with learned responses. It seems the human brain may just be doing more nuanced matching / responding.
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by sgk284 9y ago
A little self-promotion here, but I've been working on an app for listening to, sharing, and talking about podcasts. I listen to well over 20 hours of podcasts a week and was always frustrated with how difficult it is to share episodes
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by sgk284 9y ago
I used to work at Twitter, so not sure I can get into specific numbers, but they remove hundreds of thousands to millions of accounts every day (literally every day). It's particularly tricky because bots aren't inherently against
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by sgk284 9y ago
Because I can create a cryptocoin with 2B tokens, sell one coin to friend for $100 and have a $200B market cap. It's got nothing to do with reality. Anyone (literally) can create a $200B market cap coin by forking a github repo.
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Lensless camera creates detailed 3-D images without scanning(phys.org)
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by sgk284 9y ago
Even before helicopter parenting was a thing in America (and this continues to hold today), the vast vast vast majority of abductions happen by a relative of the child. Abductions are already very rare, but of those that happen only 3.1%
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by sgk284 9y ago
Yea, it's pretty insane. Six of the 13 recipients in the comments referenced medical bills as a primary concern in their life that the $1,000 will help ease. America has truly failed these people.
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by sgk284 9y ago
You often want the original because different clients may display different sizes.
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by sgk284 9y ago
There is already an (unofficial Google) image proxy written in Go that is quite fast, does caching (local or backed by S3/GCS), and does other nice things like smart cropping: https://github.com/willnorris/imagepro
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by sgk284 9y ago
All of human reasoning and understanding comes from matching our observations statistically with potential causes. You may heat up a tea kettle a thousand times with a flame and conclude that the flame is heating the tea kettle, but perhaps
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by sgk284 9y ago
I agree that the pessimism is disheartening, but looking at the limited data we have, is there any evidence of an intelligent species (e.g. humans) discovering the presence of another intelligent species (e.g. humans) without conflict soon
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by sgk284 9y ago
I recently launched the landing page[1] for my startup and the designer gave us a crazy animated design. All of my personal sites never required JS and have always worked just fine in Lynx. I didn't want any JS on the landing page (not
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by sgk284 9y ago
If you ever listen to people try to record sound that's clear and precise, they actually sound fairly robotic. See this Google 20% Project where they explore Google Assistant's voice creation: https://youtu.be/qnGN
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by sgk284 9y ago
27 states + D.C. treat earned PTO as wages that must be paid out (one or two states do allow employment agreements to opt-out of this).[1] Even when working in non-required states, I've always had an employer pay out (e.g. at Microsoft
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by sgk284 9y ago
I'm assuming this is only an issue because your company probably has an "unlimited" vacation policy. I'm also assuming you're in the United States. In any traditional salaried role with a fixed amount of PTO an empl
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by sgk284 9y ago
Unfortunately, micropayments encourage click-bait and pop-news (but that's not to say that advertising doesn't either). We've also have seen other failure modes with payment-per-article in academic journals, though payment is
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by sgk284 9y ago
Ex-twitter eng here. Twitter has been debating this change internally for at least 5 years now. They were afraid to pull the trigger because no one inside knows why they've had the success that they've had and they're afraid
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by sgk284 9y ago
There's usually restrictions that kick in at certain altitudes and/or hardware restrictions if you're going over a certain speed. Depending on the source of signals used, the military can also just change the precision for ci
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by sgk284 9y ago
Gradient methods have certainly gotten most of the attention, but there is the field of neuroevolution[1] and OpenAI recently released a paper covering evolutionary strategies for neural networks: https://blog.openai.com/evo
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by sgk284 9y ago
The batteries only last a handful of hours so officers turn them on as necessary (also most police unions lobby for this ability). It's unfortunate but it's the current reality.
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by sgk284 9y ago
Your heel doesn't have leverage to lift your body off of the ground. If your heel is leaving the ground it's either your knee lifting it or your toes pushing it. In the gif you linked, and in proper running form, you push with the
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by sgk284 9y ago
Interestingly enough, seemingly to compensate for this phenomenon, almost every new platform that requires people to interact with each other has a built in trust and reward system with ratings (e.g. Uber). And for physical businesses, we h
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by sgk284 9y ago
Postgres 10 added support logical replication. It makes horizontal scaling fairly painless.
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by sgk284 9y ago
Privacy in the sense that you can train better AI systems when you have more data. Apple has many self-imposed and restrictive policies around collecting data and what type of data they collect, so they inherently have a disadvantage when i

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