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by writeslowly 7y ago
Wouldn't reCaptcha V3 also make things much more difficult for Google competitors, assuming that site owners place it on every page? I'm guessing it will block any sort of scraper (since scraper access patterns don't look hu
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by writeslowly 7y ago
Back when this happened, me and a friend spent some time coming up with the most ridiculous conspiracy theories about how the plane disappeared , just for fun. The best one that I could invent with was that MH370 flew right next to another
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by writeslowly 7y ago
A lab supervisor did go to prison over this last year, and it looks like there were charges against someone else https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/08/company_supervis...
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by writeslowly 7y ago
The article doesn't mention this, but it looks like this happened after a leveraged buyout by private equity firms in 2012 (similar to other big retail chains like Toys R Us or Sports Authority)
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by writeslowly 7y ago
NYC does this through zoning regulations. Older buildings were typically designed with setbacks [1]. After zoning code changes in the 1960s most buildings became tall boxes attached to open plazas or low rise buildings instead. [1] https:
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by writeslowly 8y ago
This makes sense to me for certain types of codebases. I would almost never bother stepping through code I wrote by myself for example. But when I’m working on large software projects or certain external libraries I tend to encounter bugs o
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by writeslowly 8y ago
The article is using an elective course as an example, for some reason. Usually what you do (based on my experience at UT Austin) is try to register for all your classes in the system, with priority based on major and year. Then if there&
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by writeslowly 8y ago
Looking at the huge collection of odd camera brands starting around 2001 reminded me of an earlier article linked on HN about Fuji/Kodak transitioning from film. You can see the point where cheap cameras became increasingly easy for an
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by writeslowly 8y ago
Most of these new rent stabilized units aren't actually rent stabilized in practice. I used to live in one of the newer high rises in downtown Brookyln and my unit was technically rent stabilized, but since I was paying a "prefere
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by writeslowly 8y ago
I find the touchbar kind of clunky to use (like the author), but I believe it's partly because it's suffers from a sort of "gorilla arm" problem ergonomically. It's a touchscreen, so you can't lay your fingers
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by writeslowly 8y ago
I'm doing graph clustering, where stories are connected by shared terms, so I'm ranking based on the weight of the edges to a story inside the cluster. The terms are weighted by frequency over all the stories in the system with t
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by writeslowly 8y ago
I've experimented with using clustering algorithms to rank stories from about a dozen different RSS feeds to get results based on media coverage. I have some basic output set up here, it could use a lot of improvements but it seems li
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by writeslowly 9y ago
I worked on some small learning projects in Rust about 6 months ago. When I got compiler errors related to the borrow checker and concurrency, I found that it was often easiest to look at whatever variable or function the compiler was point
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by writeslowly 9y ago
I'm not sure if any of this is particularly costly, but the teardown on iFixit[1] says that each controller has a Bluetooth transceiver, LRA, flash memory, NFC reader, and the right side has an IR (depth sensing?) camera. It's als
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by writeslowly 9y ago
This reminds me of the C# source code for DRAGON. Its code was actually much worse, because the creator wasn't aware of things like loops or method definitions (the main game loop and class appear to have been generated by a framework)
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by writeslowly 9y ago
I had the reverse happen to me with a recruiting company that shows up occasionally on HN. I had started filling out a profile in the evening, and when I returned to finish it the next morning I already had a rejection email sitting in my
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by writeslowly 9y ago
My past experience with hiking in northern Georgia was that thunderstorms come up sort of randomly in the mountains in the afternoon. My hope is that even if they hit that day it may be after the eclipse passes through, or they'll be
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by writeslowly 9y ago
I think this would be a better lead in than jumping straight to explaining where recursion is useful. Personally, I found it much easier to understand recursion once I had spent enough time experimenting with recursive functions to underst
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by writeslowly 9y ago
I feel like it might be related to the interest, in the US at least, in Buddhism (like the secular version that people talk about with regards to meditation and yoga classes etc). I'm not sure where that started though.
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by writeslowly 9y ago
Backblaze and Crashplan both have (or had) a thing where they'd mail you a large hard drive to load your data on for a deposit of a few hundred dollars. Although at 13 TB I guess you'd still need to prioritize what you really wan
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by writeslowly 9y ago
I've added my contact information to my profile. Feel free to email me if you'd like to talk
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by writeslowly 9y ago
I've been working with clustering algorithms to create a personal news aggregator from sitemaps and RSS feeds, using an NLP library (Stanford CoreNLP) to do feature extraction. [1] I'd like to extend it to classify articles into
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by writeslowly 9y ago
I tried to find more information on this and the best thing I could find was this blog post claiming that you can't get permanently stuck in the Water Temple (at least, by using keys in the wrong order). It looks like the dungeon is se
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by writeslowly 9y ago
I thought it was interesting that one of their requirements was to provide an API that was easy to use for both bots and visualization tools. I remember reading some speculation when this was running that r/place was intentionally eas
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by writeslowly 10y ago
I worked as a mechanical engineer in the nuclear power industry for a couple years and this happened frequently even for normal power plants. Like, one of the first projects I worked on was diagnosing a malfunctioning valve where most of th
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by writeslowly 10y ago
> Extensive play-testing revealed that a player who was told that he had a 33 percent chance of success in a battle but then failed to defeat their opponent three times in a row would become irate and incredulous...So Meier altered the g
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by writeslowly 10y ago
Your comment reminded me of an essay George Scialabba wrote a couple years ago, "The Endlessly Examined Life" [1], where the author gathered over 40 years of mental health records from his therapists (mostly seeking treatment for
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by writeslowly 10y ago
I can't find the evaluation paper they cited in the second linked paper, but it looks like it's using Javascript because they wanted a COTS script engine (as opposed to running compiled code) that was compatible with VxWorks, and
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by writeslowly 10y ago
I had a chance to check out a Soyuz training mock-up and one of the Space Shuttle simulators at the Johnson Space Center a few years ago and this was something that really impressed me about the Space Shuttle. In the Soyuz the crew sits alm
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by writeslowly 10y ago
I tried tt-rss but it was running pretty slow for me, and I wasn't ever sure if I just configured something wrong or if it wasn't designed to archive tens of thousands of old articles. I switched to FreshRSS [1] and it's bee

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