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by viggity 4y ago
The Science of Great UI is an amazeballs course. Like knock you on your ass amazing. I could not recommend it enough. Mark Miller is a genius. http://www.sgui.com/
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by viggity 4y ago
I wrote this blog post many many moons ago, but it'll give you the optimal color (black or white) for any given color/background. Should be quick and easy conversion from c# to javascript. http://blog.nitriq.com/Bl
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by viggity 4y ago
there is an old made-for-HBO movie called The Pentagon Wars... I presume it is accurate enough, although it was turned into a comedy so I'm sure they took some artistic license with it. Highly recommended. It's available for free
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by viggity 4y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the info. I'll look it up!
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by viggity 4y ago
I don't think you're right on that second point. i'm pretty sure they do OCR, but they're only looking for image data to mine the text out of. The way they're coded now, they think that the document already is all t
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by viggity 4y ago
Interesting how the screen reader will use the raster image for a PDF but not for the website. Based on the work I had to do to get the PDF to work, PDFs are a clusterfuck of glyphs floating in space and not really structured like HTML, so
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by viggity 4y ago
so one thing that I do to counter point 3 is by having multiple non-english characters map to the same english character and I pick a random one each time. Depending on the input, there can be ~10 or so characters mapping to any single engl
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by viggity 4y ago
thank you to everyone in this thread who realize it was never meant to be perfect and appreciating it for what it does do!
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by viggity 4y ago
very interesting. the windows 10 screen reader consume the raster data on PDFs to OCR and not the code point data embedded within the PDF. People here have been on my ass about saying "OCR resistant" and I get where they are comin
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by viggity 4y ago
the antiscraping thing is a good idea. Hell, you could poison it very lightly using homoglyphs (greek capital Epsilon instead of just an E) just to see where else on the internet your data ends up, too.
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by viggity 4y ago
But if you have a huge tax document, you're likely not going to screenshot page by page. Yes, there are ways to automate this. But if you're 50 year old divorce attorney, you're going to click on the "OCR" button in
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by viggity 4y ago
it probably depends on browser font support. PDF works with embedded fonts and so it is less likely to be an issue when viewing the PDFs there.
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by viggity 4y ago
You specifically are technologically proficient. Not everybody knows how to export to a tiff and then OCR. 98% don't. When I say "OCR Resistant", I mean that I haven't found PDF software with built in OCR that has manage
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by viggity 4y ago
It takes the embedded font out of your PDF, and then maps non-latin characters (japanese, cyrillic, etc) to render as if they looked like a latin character. So in the example on the site. "ӕ" will render as a "D" using m
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by viggity 4y ago
I'm wondering if your browser isn't showing woff fonts for some reason. The "your eyes see" textbox on a modern browser shows: Name: Satoshi Nakamoto DOB: 1982-06-05 SSN: 958-20-3141 Cell Phone: 514-867-5309
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by viggity 4y ago
I posted some more info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32003066
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by viggity 4y ago
he got what he wanted out of the case, so good for him. The problem is that he just didn't know if it was going to happen. And she could definitely get sanctioned for it. But his info would still be out there.
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by viggity 4y ago
So this is interesting. I guess I didn't realize that there are (common?) tools to OCR screenshots. And do that end, there probably isn't a whole lot I can do to stop it. But when you're looking at a huge tax return, or sworn
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Show HN: PDFs that are readable by human eyes only(humaneyesonly.com)
216 points by viggity 4y ago|126 comments
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by viggity 4y ago
Is the raw data available?
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by viggity 4y ago
Node/Angular are exactly what you get when you disregard Chesterson's Fence.
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by viggity 4y ago
Elon Musk
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by viggity 4y ago
Wife needed to take an uber to work today... it was 7:50am. App said "UberX, drop off at 8:13". Her office is about 15 minutes away. She books it. "Your UberX will pick you up at 8:15" - meaning she wouldn't get the
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by viggity 4y ago
this is baller. I'd love an option that was like "keep awake for [hours] [minutes]"... or "keep awake until [time]" so that it could look like i was online until say 6:18pm
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by viggity 4y ago
Gtfo. It's like someone truly understands developers.
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by viggity 4y ago
I've worked with two companies now that are getting raked over the coals by their payment processor because they gave up control of storage of credit card numbers to save on pci compliance costs but now they have no leverage over trans
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by viggity 4y ago
either the astronaut is Shai Halud, or they are a literal ass face.
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by viggity 5y ago
they suggest that the yeast "burp" the carbon dioxide. If they consumed carbon dioxide then expelled it (like when a human drinks a soda) then it would be like a burp. Nay... they consume sugars and OUTPUT CO2. They don't bur
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by viggity 5y ago
there were certainly people that committed war crimes with jQuery. Just like every other framework in existence. I yearn to return, honestly.
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by viggity 5y ago
fossil fuels have literally 50x the energy density, take 3 minutes to "recharge" vs hours. Even a supercharge is too long for a roadtrip. Gas vehicles don't lose 20-30% of their range in cold weather. Those are the big reason

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