Livven

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by Livven 5y ago
> The publisher's IT dept really only cares that the ads still show up in enough places, not about giving us a useful tool to work with. That's really unfortunate, because your technical content is among the, if not the very
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by Livven 8y ago
To back up the other comment, recent studies find that students from worse secondary schools with worse grades end up outperforming students from more selective schools with better grades once in medical school. So in order to get the best
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by Livven 8y ago
This is how traditional desktop operating systems work... some things require admin rights but most stuff is indeed fully accessible to any application.
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by Livven 8y ago
To back up what the other comments are saying, recent studies find that students from worse secondary schools with worse grades end up outperforming students from more selective schools with better grades once in medical school. So, if you
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by Livven 9y ago
Note that this paper is from 2010 and thus, while quite influential for its time far from the current state-of-the-art. The stroke width transform method that it introduced is simply not as good as current deep learning-based methods. If yo
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by Livven 9y ago
If you're trying to handle text "in the wild" and not scanned documents, the keyword is "scene text". Most papers are focused on either detection/localization, i.e. finding the location of text, or recognition,
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by Livven 9y ago
Current state-of-the-art approaches in this field are significantly better than existing commercial solutions at recognizing text in the wild (i.e. scene text). As an example, see the ICDAR 2015 results [1], where the Google Vision API is a
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by Livven 10y ago
Some (if not most) GUI Git tools should do this, e.g. I personally use Git Extensions[1] which shows history and diff side-by-side. For what it's worth, features like that (along with, say, line-by-line staging) are the reason why I us
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by Livven 11y ago
Shameless plug, check out my HN app for WP8.1 called Hacky News. It's very fast and has collapsible comments. Link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/store/Apps/Hacky-News/9NBLGG...
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by Livven 11y ago
You make the problem sound more obscure than it actually is, which to be fair is very understandable (and I guess common) if you're from an English-speaking country. Many people outside of those know English well enough that they'
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by Livven 12y ago
2. The problem is that different opacities of the same color aren't as easily distinguishable. Nonetheless I tried some different variants here http://imgur.com/a/inGAD . (1) simply replaces the different colors wi
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by Livven 12y ago
Yes I had issues too and looking at the new comments page [1], it seems there was an outage of sorts from around 16:00 to 16:40 UTC. Would be interesting to hear what happened, if any mod/admin wants to share. EDIT: Seems like all the
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by Livven 12y ago
Thanks, that's some very interesting and useful feedback! 1. I assume "the ability to content" means voting/commenting? ;) 2. The advantage of those colored bars is that they are very easy to visually parse, while also r
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by Livven 12y ago
Thanks for your feedback! Voting and commenting is definitely planned, however I'm waiting on the API to add support for authentication first. The app actually does not use the API since it's somewhat lacking right now [1] so it s
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by Livven 12y ago
I released this app a couple weeks ago, but the initial submission [1] did not get any traction here so I thought I'd resubmit it. Hope that's okay. All the various sections and categories on HN are supported – the front page, new
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Show HN: Hacker News Client for Windows Phone 8.1(windowsphone.com)
17 points by Livven 12y ago|8 comments
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by Livven 12y ago
Glad you like it and thanks for the suggestion! FWIW, I know a lot of apps have that feature but I personally never found it very useful, which is why I did not include it, but I'll definitely add it in a future update.
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Show HN: Hacker News client for Windows Phone(windowsphone.com)
1 points by Livven 12y ago|2 comments
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by Livven 12y ago
Sure, just need your Microsoft account email so I can add you to the beta list.
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by Livven 12y ago
Would you be willing to beta test my application? It's pretty much finished already and doesn't have any of the issues you listed (in addition to having a, in my opinion, much nicer design), I'd just be looking for some gener
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by Livven 12y ago
I use your app, it's awesome! Also agree with your request, as I said elsewhere in this thread... By the way, animations (the slide between list and comments) have been jerky since a recent update. I'm using the Android app on an
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by Livven 12y ago
I've tried your app, it's functional but obviously I wasn't satisfied with any of the existing options which is why I wrote my own ;) It should be coming out this week, just a few finishing touches now...
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by Livven 12y ago
Thanks for the tip, I actually just figured that out myself a few minutes ago. Should be good enough until a proper SDK arrives. With access to a Firebase SDK the only major additions the API needs to become a viable replacement for existin
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by Livven 12y ago
Well unfortunately there's no Firebase SDK for Windows Phone/C#/WinRT, and the WebSocket API is undocumented. EDIT: After having played with the JS SDK a bit I'd like to add that it is indeed incredibly awesome.
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by Livven 12y ago
Are you referring to the WebSocket API that the Firebase SDKs use internally? It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere so I guess it's only slightly better than scraping HTML ;)
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by Livven 12y ago
I second that request. Having a subdomain point to the current layout for a little longer is definitely going to help the transition, especially for write access and platforms without Firebase SDKs.
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by Livven 12y ago
I've been working on a Hacker News client for Windows Phone over the past several weeks and am very close to an initial release, so I feel somewhat ambivalent about this. On the one hand, of course it's great that HN is finally ge
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by Livven 12y ago
Agree, I don't understand how every major browser came to adopt that popup thing instead of just putting the link preview into the address bar. I use this addon which does exactly that https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US&#
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by Livven 12y ago
That's why the new hamburger menu is so awesome. You can put all the addon buttons that you don't want taking up space on the main toolbar in there.
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by Livven 12y ago
You can put the link preview directly into the address bar with this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-location... Status-4-Evar can actually do the same but it's a bit of a hassl

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