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by zawerf 8y ago
I think I saw it popularized as the "RUM Conjecture" on HN a while back: https://medium.com/databasss/on-disk-storage-part-4-b-trees-... http://daslab.seas.harvard.edu/rum-conjecture/
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by zawerf 8y ago
Do you happen to know about project naptha? It actually seems more advanced than what you have right now because it can detect text regions too. For example in https://projectnaptha.com/ , right click on the text on any of t
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by zawerf 8y ago
This is marketed as a proposal and a RFC, but it's already in React v16.7.0-alpha. If it turns out to be a bad idea (hypothetically speaking, I haven't read the article yet so I don't know), will it be backed out? Wouldn&#x27
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by zawerf 8y ago
> Join a Spatial meeting from HoloLens, MagicLeap, VR, PC or Phone I think supporting cross "platform" is a really cool viral feature. At first it's just going to be one guy leading the meeting with real full body tracking
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by zawerf 8y ago
The ring by itself could actually be useful. That said, there's a huge list of failed smart ring companies which /r/shittykickstarters loves shitting on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBUWxROnqwA https:&#x
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by zawerf 8y ago
I never actually made it to this step because it costs $800 to form a LLC in california. I went with a more futile attempt to do everything anonymously, pay hosting with bitcoins, etc. But this is basically impossible from an opsec point of
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by zawerf 8y ago
Legal compliance is probably the worst part of building a side project. For example for basic levels of protection, you at least want a terms of service and privacy policy on your site. You'd think it's just copying and pasting so
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by zawerf 8y ago
Maybe soy sauce on rice can be done really well? A lot of my favorite rice dishes are equally plain sounding (saffron with rice, coconut oil rice, and even japanese donburi are mostly "just" soy sauce and rice). If it's liter
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by zawerf 8y ago
This was such an amazing read. The historical notes are awesome and not what I expected from a math textbook. I should really buy a copy of Jaynes! Some teasers for others who might want to read it: - The proof in this blog post is called t
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by zawerf 8y ago
It's been years since I took probability, but why start from these particular set of assumptions? You've shown that the correct form and constant factors falls out from assuming rotational invariance and independent components. Bu
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by zawerf 8y ago
Should list some concrete implementations. For example I think AWS AppSync with AWS Lambda is exactly this architecture as a service.
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by zawerf 8y ago
Pairing your phone with your pc for realtime inputs w/o going through internet. For example https://www.airconsole.com/ turns your phone into a gamepad for multiplayer browser games. But I think they are using web sock
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by zawerf 8y ago
> It's still something many users will blindly click through but at least there's that. Malicious sites can trick you into accepting too: https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/9p3172&#x2
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by zawerf 8y ago
For google, if you don't like the format of Google Takeout (a huge dump of files without UI to browse it), you can also check out a live stream of all data they are collecting: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity
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by zawerf 8y ago
Similar thread from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18192534
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by zawerf 8y ago
Is there a sharedb compatible OT type definition? Like how https://github.com/ottypes/rich-text exists for Quill? https://quilljs.com/docs/delta/ Also is it possible for third party plugins t
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by zawerf 8y ago
Uh you can definitely set the mime type in data uris. It's like right there as the first part of a data uri... Download attribute let's you choose a filename. But giving up on that for safari sounds like a decent tradeoff to me (w
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by zawerf 8y ago
I thought it was being made because some redditor asked Bill Gates for it in an AMA? https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/49jkhn/im_bill_gates_c... Maybe they choose a random studio because were was jus
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by zawerf 8y ago
Sigh safari is the new IE. Making everyone else suffer from nonsensical hacks. But anyway, if the problem is that the json file is opened in a new tab instead of downloading, can't you just encode it with a non-text media type in the d
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by zawerf 8y ago
I recently started looking at mobx-state-tree[1] and I feel like it solves a lot of the boilerplate needed with redux in a very nice opinionated way. In particular it has built in support for tracking action history (as list of patches and
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by zawerf 8y ago
It's not my terminology: http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html
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by zawerf 8y ago
Maybe a little bit too paced? According to the first graph, it's $30,000 in total sales over the last 2 years which forced him to continue freelancing as his main income. This post is basically announcing ramen profitability. (Of cours
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by zawerf 8y ago
Man I was totally off on how those hexes are used. Thanks for the link!
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by zawerf 8y ago
Is there a discussion thread somewhere? There are 18 three digit hexadecimals in the puzzle. If the answer is a permutation of these, then that's just 18 factorial which is 6.4 * 10^15. That is totally bruteforcable without even thinki
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by zawerf 8y ago
Only tangentially related, but today I was reading about collaborative editing using Quill.js (a rich text editor) and found a really nice solution based on sharedb (using ottypes/rich-text): https://github.com/pedrosan
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by zawerf 8y ago
I've heard the argument that this situation is unique to japan due to their aging population and low birthrate. They don't have cheap teenagers to exploit at minimum wages which is why automation is even financially worth it. The
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by zawerf 8y ago
For a historical perspective check out stanford's nlp course: https://youtu.be/IxQtK2SjWWM?t=1267 Deep learning only started beating tradition methods in 2016!
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by zawerf 8y ago
ES5 has a lot of interesting hoisting bugs. For example this doesn't print what you expect: for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) { var text = 'number ' + i; setTimeout(function() { console.log(text); }, i * 10
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by zawerf 8y ago
I think they already tried commercial off the shelf OCR software (which they didn't name but I would assume it's ABBYY) before they decided to build their own solution: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017&#x2F
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by zawerf 8y ago
I wish non-css animations were easier! If you have any animation where you want to tween the state yourself (say changing position as a function of time), then that requires updating the state at 60fps or whatever requestAnimationFrame goes

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