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by shawn 8y ago
Suppose lead were to disappear from the earth tomorrow. It seems unlikely that it would have any effect on the Mexican cartel ecosystem. The ecosystem is driven by demand from the US, and Mexico has the supply. The brutality is a consequenc
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by shawn 8y ago
This is genius: https://imgur.com/a/1aRZ3sI Normally this technique wouldn't be useful, because it's overfitting a specific training set. (If you make space X as similar as possible to space Y, then this mapp
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by shawn 8y ago
Relevant: http://thecodist.com/article/the_programming_steamroller_wai... “The Programming Steamroller Waits For No One“ Also: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion&#x
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Scaling Deep Learning: What I Wish I'd Known(towardsdatascience.com)
3 points by shawn 8y ago|0 comments
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by shawn 8y ago
Sure! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/oberon-workstation/id1057155...
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by shawn 8y ago
Amazingly, the "Yeah Write" Microsoft Word competitor referenced in the essay is still active. Article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/tech/reviews/finder/re... Site: http://w
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by shawn 8y ago
Oberon is well worth studying. If you're on macOS, you can get it via the App Store (it's free). As far as github mirrors, I'm not sure there is one. But this looks interesting: https://github.com/Spirit-of-Ob
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by shawn 8y ago
Socially. HN might be relevant in a hundred years, or it might not. And if it isn’t, who will be? Why? It’s tantalizing to think it’s possible to make that site right now.
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by shawn 8y ago
I’ve been thinking how to make an HN killer for several years. (I’m not sure why — I love this place — but I also love a good challenge.) The key might be to out-compete HN in Show HNs. It’s difficult to get your own projects onto the front
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by shawn 8y ago
Hmmm. FWIW, I saw your question earlier and came back just now to see the answers. Disappointed it was met with hostility.
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by shawn 8y ago
When I was 12 or so I had an interest in being an artist. I was also playing a game that happened to be looking for art work. Specifically, they wanted some models for new monsters in the game. I put together my best attempt and submitted i
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by shawn 8y ago
The heart of their complaint was not the name. It was the fact that the extension injects code into their site.
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by shawn 8y ago
Right. If you do a google image search for apple, it'll show mostly grays because it's returning the Apple logo.
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by shawn 8y ago
In case anyone is wondering how this works, it does a google image search and then extracts the primary color of each result. That’s why you see unexpected colors like grey for “heart”: image search returns black and white hearts.
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by shawn 8y ago
It's our right as developers to modify and upgrade the tools we use. It's important to ensure that this remains true both today and in the future. I wanted to give you a moral boost, in case you were looking for a reason to take a
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by shawn 8y ago
One way to deal with this is to meet up with some people who are much smarter than you. That'll quickly cure this illusion.
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by shawn 8y ago
What makes you feel it'd be any harder to astroturf a site based around real people? Especially for corporate sponsors.
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by shawn 8y ago
Relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/9a0wuc/my_name_is_...
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by shawn 8y ago
Property rights must have seemed a radical idea at the time they were first introduced. And the time seems right for data rights. Actions like this only solidify the need for such protections. One of the central questions of our generation
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by shawn 8y ago
Yup!
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by shawn 8y ago
It's the other way around. Why does Facebook think it has the right to remove years of their users' contributions? As the years march on, I think we'll see more and more data protection laws in favor of users rather than comp
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by shawn 8y ago
Make your own website and you won’t have to worry about this. I’m mostly joking. Who makes their own websites anymore? Frustrating seeing users caught in the crossfire of policy updates for tech giants.
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by shawn 8y ago
The sole Twitch extension, Twitch Now, requires access “See and modify your data across all websites.” There’s no reason for this, but there’s also nothing I can do about it. I’m not going to develop my own competing extension, and no other
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by shawn 8y ago
Although that seems like a valid reason, consider how many justifications have been used throughout history to scare people into submission. “There May be cheaters out there” is of the same form as “there may be <insert statistically unl
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by shawn 8y ago
While we specifically designed the take home project track to help overcome the difficulties of coding under time pressure with someone watching, we do still need to see a certain level of programming during the interview. “How to set up
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by shawn 8y ago
See you there.
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by shawn 8y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15845118
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Debugging an evil Go runtime bug (2017)(marcan.st)
2 points by shawn 8y ago|1 comments
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by shawn 8y ago
Everyone was. Work hard and force yourself to learn something alien each day.
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by shawn 8y ago
In the past, you were able to type "badidea" in order to bypass the SSL scare screen. Is that no longer the case?

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