FaceKicker

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by FaceKicker 5y ago
That was a summer project after my last semester of undergrad, posted at the beginning of my first semester in a PhD program in AI (lucky timing there). Graduated in 2017 and have been working in the field since.
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by FaceKicker 5y ago
Shameless plug of my old dead project: this is great, it reminds me of my Android app "Smozzy" which let you browse the web via SMS/MMS. I apparently posted it on HN exactly 10 years ago tomorrow! https://news.ycom
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by FaceKicker 11y ago
I tried GP's example, and in this particular case both --patience and the default (Myers) work the same, both doing the thing you want them to. Which perplexes me, because I know I've seen the bad case too, but can't seem to
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by FaceKicker 11y ago
Both your URLs go to the same page (was going to say they were the same URL, but they're not). Maybe [1] was supposed to be the below? [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25430774
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
I agree that repair costs and depreciation grow (probably roughly linearly) with miles driven, but those would have been factored into the $9100 median separately from the car payment.
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
> But it's not like his car payment magically disappears when he becomes a Lyft driver. Or magically stop having to carry insurance. Right, my point is that those costs are essentially fixed w.r.t miles driven, not that you wouldn&#
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
> According to this Consumer Reports article, “the median car costs more than $9,100 a year to own” over the first five years of ownership driving 12,000 miles a year. That means the median cars costs about 76 cents per mile driven ($910
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
Ah, cool, my mistake. Thanks for the clarification!
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
"Works like a debit card when you swipe it" - I'd probably get this if I wouldn't effectively be paying several hundreds of dollars per year for it in losses of credit card rewards.
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
> One thing that annoys me about closed ranges (and it's not much talked about) is that it is impossible to express the empty range: in python [i:i] is an empty range, while closed ranges always contain at least one element. That ma
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
Scenario A: The setup is (1) lose $100, gain 1 ticket (current state is -$100, +1 ticket); (2) lose 1 ticket (current state is -$100, 0 tickets). The choices are (a) lose $100, gain 1 ticket (yields state -$200, +1 ticket) or (b) do nothin
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
For what it's worth, The Social Network as a movie was very well-received by critics [1]. Jobs , not so much [2]. [1] http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-social-network/ [2] http://www.rottento
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
Texting was pretty mainstream popular in the US for at least 3 years before the iPhone came out...
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
Are all the bot reservations actually made with the intention of a human going to the restaurant? I wouldn't be surprised if some people used these bots just to prevent anyone else from making online reservations and screw with the res
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by FaceKicker 13y ago
What's wrong with 80% effectiveness? I didn't know anything about the effectiveness of vaccines, but 80% effective struck me as being 'pretty good'. I looked up the effectiveness of flu vaccines for comparison, and foun
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Interesting, can you give any examples of these issues?
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
As someone who's never done any game development at all, can you give me some sense of the work that would be involved to port a Windows-only OpenGL game to Mac or Linux? What pieces of it would need to be redone or significantly overhaule
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
> What people lack of understanding is that prisons are not real punishment for those who are actually there. Some of them might even like it. So, prisons are not efficient in punishment nor rehabilitation. Maybe they're not effective p
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
You're absolutely right - I agree that voter turnout "should" be highest at exactly "50% chance my guy wins" and diminish from there in either direction. I think I just got a bit too caught up in what I was arguing when I mentioned that a
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
You're definitely right, and it really didn't make sense to me that they were doing that. I guess it's probably just a human nature thing more than anything else. I think my point still stands though: this doesn't showcase NPR's neutrality
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Throughout all the criticism from pundits of Nate Silver et al. as a liberal/commie/whatever for predicting that Obama would win, I couldn't help but wonder if there was even any merit to the idea that an Obama supporter would want to say
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
> The hard part for scraping is that it's both against their TOS and you wouldn't be able to have accurate availability and price information through manual data entry. The nature of how frequent price changes and the number of possible
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Interesting, I've never noticed Southwest results in my Kayak searches before (maybe it's new). But when I try it, it doesn't actually give the price as in your screenshot, it just has a link labeled "Info" (which goes to the southwest.com
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Pretty tangential, but why is it that none of the flight search engines include Southwest? I realize that Southwest doesn't give their fare info to whoever the other airlines give it to, but what's stopping someone from just scraping southw
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
As someone who thinks the 'war on drugs' is really stupid, I think it's dishonest to compare direct efforts to stop something (no matter how misguided those efforts may be) to a "magic rock". Obviously drug prohibition has stopped someone
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
I've always been curious - is it known whether Gabe himself actually reads emails from non-employees sent to that address, or could it just be an assistant that handles routing most of the emails? I really can't imagine how he could possib
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
I don't think I understand the analogy? If two people are working on the same project and one enjoys and specializes in front-end development and the other enjoys and specializes in back-end development, and the project is roughly 50/50 fr
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Exactly. But I would say that "thinking inside of the box" is actually an incredibly important skill in practical situations. Probably 99+% of any functioning adult's thinking is "inside-the-box" (I realize that this is sort of a nebulous/
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
> But the biggest problem was that the idea of crossing the odd object out seems very strange to me in general. What is the odd object out in this list? > Cow, hen, pig, sheep. > The standard answer is supposed to be hen, as it
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by FaceKicker 14y ago
Couldn't phishers just start having their fake forms send the current form content via ajax every time a new character is typed, rather than only on submit?

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