aflinik

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by aflinik 23d ago
Can you post some links to other similar projects you've seen? I'd love to compare different approaches
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by aflinik 1mo ago
Not sure about the exact same active substance, but Amanita muscaria is the obvious candidate. It's also commonly shown as part of the imagery in stories involving tiny people: the Smurfs, Super Mario (it's the power-up that makes
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by aflinik 2mo ago
It triggers for me on trains too, so I think it's just accelerometer + location
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by aflinik 7mo ago
This is a really inspiring project and exactly the type of content I'm looking for on Hacker News. A bit surprising that so many people in the comments would rather see links to cheap temu polaroid knockoffs.
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by aflinik 6y ago
There has been a similar project developed in Poland already. ( https://en.media.pkobp.pl/78483-strategic-partnership-betwee... ) In practice it's not much more than government-branded version of Google Cloud Platform an
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by aflinik 8y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense for them to just take over Hulu? They are going to have 60% equity quite soon anyway
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by aflinik 9y ago
Not a book, but you might like Dirty Money series on Netflix.
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by aflinik 9y ago
I totally agree with you on the mandatory part, I’d hope it would be widely accepted that opt-in is the way to go in such cases. Although I need to point out there’s a huge difference between what people say vs what they actually do (see h
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by aflinik 9y ago
Transcriptions are not really the issue here, the cost of freelance transcribers is relatively low. It is privacy that makes it so hard, most of the call center calls need to have some kind of user authentication, which means they would nee
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by aflinik 9y ago
I’d say all of those examples show that you need to be first to the actual market, not just first or first to _some_ market
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Neural Episodic Control – new breaktrough in deep reinforcement learning(arxiv.org)
4 points by aflinik 10y ago|0 comments
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by aflinik 11y ago
Having it learn on human games was just a way of speeding up the initialization process before running reinforcement learning, it didn't limit the state tree that was being searched later on.
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by aflinik 11y ago
Being a Pole, I wish more people understood that. :( We're in the process of dismantling our democracy by removing all of the checks you mentioned, while supporters of the ruling party argue that democratically elected majority is with
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by aflinik 11y ago
Why Java only?
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by aflinik 11y ago
That's true, although I see no reason Elm couldn't be compiled to server-side JS running in Node. I'd love to see some full stack solution that would abstract away separation between backend and frontend (like Meteor perhaps)
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by aflinik 11y ago
Although it's meant to be sarcastic, I believe it nicely exposes typical things developers used to argue about back then, not that different from modern arguments about JS vs compiled-to-js, elixir vs erlang, GC vs manual memory manage
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by aflinik 11y ago
It's included in this collection: http://www.amazon.com/Imaginary-Magnitude-Stanislaw-Lem/dp/0...
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by aflinik 11y ago
That's far from true, I bought my FiftyThree Pencil at Apple Store.
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by aflinik 11y ago
According to this quiz, you can either have small guaranteed impact or bet on something bigger while accepting you might fail. I wonder what's their take on bootstrapped startups, that have potential to grow exponentially but don'
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Manufacturer of beacons has a message for customers: you’re all doomed(beekn.net)
3 points by aflinik 11y ago|0 comments
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by aflinik 11y ago
It's like saying any information printed on paper is useless, because people hate flyers.
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by aflinik 11y ago
Think of it as of seeing URL printed on the wall (or hidden in QR-code), just easier to use if you actually want to. It's not spamming notification center. Whenever the beacon signal is heard the information about it is shown in Chrome
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by aflinik 11y ago
We're doing sensor-fusion trying to use as much data as possible coming from different sources, so besides RSSI from beacons there's also accelerometer, magnetometer, etc. Lots of non-trivial maths to combine that into a robust mo
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by aflinik 11y ago
I think I like your musical taste.
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The next battle between Apple and Google is all about Context(thenextweb.com)
1 points by aflinik 11y ago|0 comments
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by aflinik 11y ago
If you're curious about the Commodore 64 thing, the speaker is launching a series of screencasts as well: http://64bites.com/ (disclaimer: the author is my friend, but still highly recommended!)
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by aflinik 11y ago
I remember React devs saying they always remember about that, so the whole library is designed to be easily detachable from the DOM, or whatever renderer you might be using. They're also kind of proving that now with ReactNative, and k
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by aflinik 11y ago
Just compare number of well-known production apps written using React & Angular.
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by aflinik 11y ago
Don't see how that's a bad thing, nobody forces you to use it, and odds are some nice ideas will get validated here and more popular frameworks will adopt them. Think how React influenced the changes in rendering models of Ember,
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by aflinik 11y ago
I'm curious to see real world deployments of Angular based apps, even without the source code. FB's React is much younger and we already can see it used in lots of popular web apps, but given the Angular popularity among the devs

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