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by wxs 11y ago
Also see here for a number of sound samples of Whistled Turkish: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-whistled-language...
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Whistled Language(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by wxs 11y ago|1 comments
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by wxs 11y ago
I remember Adam from our batch! Cool kid: precocious, though he did come this close to spilling things on my computer a couple times :)
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by wxs 11y ago
Though if I'm not mistaken the unprotected m4a still contains a "digital watermark" (i.e. metadata with your iTunes account info) which this article claims would become illegal to remove.
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by wxs 11y ago
We use SQLite extensively in Minuum and I couldn't be happier. It's in all our critical real-time code paths that bring up candidates while you're typing. Because we're on SQLite our predictions keep getting faster for f
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by wxs 11y ago
I agree that this series is great and I hope we can support more content like it! I don't agree that the NY Times is bleeding money though, it's a rare bright spot in publishing AFAIK. They seem to run a profit every year, though
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by wxs 11y ago
> Ironically, your advocacy for lack-of-privacy is exactly what would put people into more potential danger. First step to harming someone: knowing who they are to begin with. Just a small note. I actually currently do support pseudonymi
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by wxs 11y ago
I believe that screenshot is of /r/all, actually though I pulled the screenshot from a news story on daily dot as I don't have my own screenshot from that day.
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by wxs 11y ago
These points are all well-taken. Real names don't magically make people good to one another. I don't think the problem will go away with the removal of pseudonymity. I do see cases of people behaving hatefully in a way that is c
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by wxs 11y ago
No doubt it will be a constant complicated debate, as social norms tend to be. But we don't throw up our hands and say "we can't have social norms! Who picks them? How do we vote?!" Unfortunately I don't think we&#x
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by wxs 11y ago
Did you see the front page of Reddit when they were blowing up at Pao over the fat people abuse subreddit? I think it's disingenuous to claim that this is just polite disagreement: http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded&#x2F
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by wxs 11y ago
I just posted this in the earlier submission[1], but I'll put it here too: I really worry that if we don't find a way to fix the abuse problem, pseudonymity online will be looked back on by future generations as our time's Kl
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by wxs 11y ago
I really worry that if we don't find a way to fix the abuse problem, pseudonymity online will be looked back on by future generations as our time's Klan hood. Abuse stories like these make me embarrassed to support any form of pri
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by wxs 11y ago
> it seems that a person who needed persistent servers could set their spot max price at the same price as an on-demand instance and always be ahead by doing it that way Not if you need persistence: the spot price can go above the on-dem
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Legal characters in Swift 1.2 Operators(gist.github.com)
2 points by wxs 12y ago|1 comments
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by wxs 12y ago
See this blog post by the author showing his earlier work in visualizing binary files: http://corte.si/posts/visualisation/binvis/index.html
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Binvis.io: visual analysis of binary files(binvis.io)
9 points by wxs 12y ago|1 comments
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by wxs 12y ago
Relevant: looks like they will strike http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2015/02/12/u-of...
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by wxs 12y ago
One thing I've found frustrating with Swift, and that we've had to deal with in libs we've built, is that there is an unavoidable boilerplate of placing an `[unowned self]` at the top of your callbacks (e.g. `map` in the link
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by wxs 12y ago
I really like the figure showing the nearest-neighbour graph of MNIST being stretched as it goes through the hidden sigmoid layer. Really helps build an intuition for those of us who think visually or geometrically. He quotes Bret Victor at
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by wxs 12y ago
As a datapoint: we build the Minuum Keyboard ( http://minuum.com ), and our iOS version was written from the ground up in Swift. That is shipped in the App Store and has been since iOS 8 launched. To echo much of the sentiment her
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by wxs 12y ago
They're referencing the structure of the phrase "Driving While Black". It gets the feeling of oppression across in 3 words in a way that "Speaking as a Woman" would not.
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Why are deep neural networks hard to train?(neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com)
83 points by wxs 12y ago|12 comments
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by wxs 12y ago
And if you're just in it for the pretty pictures, here are more visualizations of graphs from the dataset by the same guy: http://yifanhu.net/GALLERY/GRAPHS/index1.html
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The University of Florida Sparse Matrix Collection(cise.ufl.edu)
59 points by wxs 12y ago|10 comments
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by wxs 12y ago
These images remind me of Piet[1], an esoteric programming language where the programs are images. There you see the structure of the algorithm, rather than the binary, visually presented. [1] http://www.dangermouse.net/es
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A Bitcoin mine went up in flames, affecting the entire network(qz.com)
67 points by wxs 12y ago|20 comments
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by wxs 12y ago
That document is surprisingly readable! I expected something very dry and bureaucratic, but this is written at a high level with historical context, and narrative.
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by wxs 12y ago
Hey all, we make one of the keyboards on the list, Minuum. It has been really fun to see the iOS community jumping on to third party keyboards so whole-heartedly. I'm curious, since I've never really asked the HN community about t
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by wxs 12y ago
Although they do say in their FAQ: "Google is not requiring any IP or licenses be granted except a non-exclusive license to be used only for the purpose of testing the inverter and publicizing the prize."

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