jtloong
Re:Ask HN: What is your experience with e-readers? Are they worth it?
on Thursday November 28, 2019 @12:03PM (#21658754)
Thankfully I was able to find an old Kindle DX (a discontinued line) on Ebay that has a 9.5 inch screen which is legitimately the perfect size for PDF books & papers. Super happy that I was able to find one for pretty cheap. I'd suggest keeping an eye out online for one of these if you don't want to break the bank for PDF suitable ereader.
Re:AI is mostly about curve fitting (2018)
on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:26PM (#21617045)
True but most of the content of the article is based around Pearl's thoughts on the field.
Re:Read 18 books a year: read15minsaday.com
on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:06PM (#21548238)
Why is this functionally different than setting a public goal for yourself on Goodreads? A site that already has a large extant community?
Re:Ask HN: Googlers on HN, Why Does GOOG Let Pinterest, Quora and Yelp...
on Friday November 15, 2019 @03:04PM (#21548221)
Is it that much different than Redditors rehosting images on Reddit/Imgur? I find the functional design of the site terrible but there's tons of popular sites that are based on hijacked content.
Metrics for Software Startups – A Multi-Vocal Literature Review
Re:Ask HN: Do you know of any good product taking advantage of NLP?
on Friday April 12, 2019 @11:25AM (#19645623)
There are a decent number of companies that use NLP voice recognition when you call their support lines. So when you call, instead of pressing a number on your key pad to move through the directory you can speak it.
In that same vein, I've seen companies that have "chat support" use NLP bots to get a feel for the type of question a person is looking for before handing off to a human support person.
I've also seen AI personal assistants that handle meeting schedules etc like https://x.ai/
Re:Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand
on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @10:00AM (#19554127)
I mean Facebook buying Instagram isn't really innovation. In terms of business strategy and feature enhancements, for sure its been great. But that's not really what I'd call innovation.
Re:Researchers: It takes 1.5 MB of data to store language information
on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:54AM (#19512180)
No. We still have a poor understanding of the exact way neurons code information and store information.
This page shows some of the current theories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_coding#Hypothesized_cod...
Re:Ask HN: Is there any app that can run full Python on top of Android?
on Saturday March 09, 2019 @03:09PM (#19348182)
Not sure what you're asking, but if you want to run simple Python scripts you could run them through [Termux](https://termux.com/) on your Android phone. You can even write them in Termux using vim or something too.
Finding the Most Published Author in the New Yorker
Re:Ask HN: What communities are there for discussing good books?
on Monday February 11, 2019 @06:08PM (#19139417)
I'd definitely recommend checking out Goodreads. There's a lot of great niche groups, as well as following other people with similar interests you can discuss books with them in your feed.
Re:Ending our Medium integration
on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @09:18AM (#19035169)
Wow this is the perfect analogy.
I think she followed up a few years later and said that the bad situation she was in was unrelated to her leaving Github. It was mostly the time commitment of maintaining many open source projects.
Re:Congress votes to make open government data the default in the Unit...
on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:15PM (#18748710)
I think it needs to be both. Accessible in it's raw format as well as approachable for non-technical users to interact with public information.
Towards a theory of software development expertise
Re:NHS.UK frontend
on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:36PM (#18730830)
This is what the whole digital government movement is trying to change. Public sector organization's in the UK (GDS), Canada (CDS, ODS etc), Singapore (GovTech Singapore), even 18F in the US, are all trying (and relatively succeeding even if incrementally) to change the public sector's ability to put out quality technology services.
Re:Ask HN: How can I build a Twitter bot that tweets my past tweets?
on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:14PM (#18661093)
They could also download their Twitter archive which is just a csv https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-dow...
Re:Ask HN: Is there a repository of “green” tech firms?
on Thursday December 06, 2018 @11:55AM (#18619709)
You could browse through TechCrunch's "cleantech" tag for interesting companies breaking news in the space. https://techcrunch.com/tag/cleantech/
Custom Git Commands: Making Git-Status-Size
Re:The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
on Saturday October 06, 2018 @05:11PM (#18157300)
I mean with a Python and Jupyter Notebook workflow it is incredibly easy to share the work and understand what's going on if there's base level of knowledge.
All the simple formula stuff and basic data handling (using Pandas) would be incredibly easy to learn for pros at Excel.
Fitting Polynomial Regressions in Python
Canadian Digital Service: Supporting more users with gracefully degrading React
Re:Goodreads offloads DynamoDB tables to S3 and queries them with Athena
on Monday July 30, 2018 @01:17PM (#17646128)
Do you guys have internships on the Goodreads team?