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Re:When to assume neural networks can solve a problem on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:34PM (#22730126)
I wonder if the same book recommendations are happening because people might just be buying products like these for gifts. Something like I liked this book, so you should read it to.

Ask HN: Are there any well known named service policy descriptions

Are there any well known service policy descriptions that cover various aspects of services like privacy, eula etc?Well known named licenses like Apache, GPL, BSD etc. have helped in quick identification of how a software can be used, distributed etc. Pervasiveness of such licenses makes it easy for individuals and organizations to define a policy on what licenses are acceptable to them. Having...

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Ask HN: Any academic efforts of writing new national democratic constitutions?

Some (most?) of the national democratic constitutions were written right after or during the periods of distress, and under some urgency, perhaps skipping some cool headed debate/discussions. Amendments to a constitution are supposed to correct issues with them and keep it up to date according to cultural shifts and scientific discoveries. But even then some aspects would be mediocre given the...

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Ask HN: Any academic efforts of writing new national democratic constitutions?

Some (most?) of the national democratic constitutions were written right after or during the periods of distress, and under some urgency, perhaps skipping some cool headed debate/discussions. Amendments to a constitution are supposed to correct issues with them and keep it up to date according to cultural shifts and scientific discoveries. But even then some aspects would be mediocre given the...

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Looks great. Personally, I have been using a "cache" function to cache output of expensive commands. This has helped me iterate faster on pipelines that call into apis.

  function cache {
      cmd="$*"
      name=$(echo "$cmd" | base64)
      if [[ -f ./cache/$name.exit ]] && [[ $(cat ./cache/$name.exit) -eq 0 ]]; then
          echo "cached"
      else
          mkdir -p ./cache
          eval "$cmd" > ./cache/$name.out
          echo $? > ./cache/$name.exit
      fi
      cat ./cache/$name.out
  }

  cache ls /
Re:On generative algorithms on Thursday September 20, 2018 @05:03PM (#18035449)
About half a decade ago I had added a random blot generation to my now-unmaintained-site https://web.iiit.ac.in/~paresh.verma/. I have spent a few hours generating random blots, and trying to interpret them. Adding more structure to it, with an algorithm should make it more interesting and entertaining.

Ask HN: Why does Google show different knowledge graph templates?

Consider the following search results: http://imgur.com/a/TYym7 (same thing flobots lyrics) and http://imgur.com/a/mAqjM (believer imagine dragons lyrics). Both search results have direct embedding of the lyrics, but have different templates. While the latter is from play store and has a link to visit the site, the former has no reference to the source at all. Any ideas on why the source...

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Re:Experimental Nighttime Photography with Nexus and Pixel on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @01:18AM (#14200598)
I think it would be interesting to compare an image shot in the daylight with the one created with this processing scheme in the same daylight. I expect the normal exposure shot to be better than the processed one, but it would be interesting to observe the difference in quality.

Ask HN: How to parse facts given two stories with opposing sentiments

Consider the following two stories about Project Loon based on the same announcement:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-16/alphabet-scraps-plan-to-blanket-globe-with-internet-balloons -> projects a negative tone of Project Loon's cost cutting.http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/16/google-x-boasts-big-improvement-in-project-loon.html -> projects a positive change in Project Loon.On...

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Re:I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:05PM (#13656756)
Does DistroKid track the usage/consumption details of the songs for artists to look at or analyze? If so, what is the probability that they will expand to also have a recommendation system for indie music based on these aggregated stats?
Re:Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @12:55PM (#12263188)
Ability to swap underlying ip address is orthogonal to using alphanumerics in DNS. Numeric sequences could also be used as CNAME for the ip address. But we don't because of human brain.
Re:Asciinema on Sunday June 21, 2015 @03:38PM (#9754664)
Looks great. But I think quite a few people (the audience with which the recording would be shared) would like to see the entire session at once instead of watching the entire video. It would also be helpful for the writer to quickly verify if they missed something.
Re:3D GIFs Created with a Simple Visual Effect on Sunday February 16, 2014 @03:21PM (#7249094)
Showing the same gifs without those white solid lines for comparison would have been better. Anyways cool stuff :).

Ask HN: Info about a past link

A link was shared here about a year back or so. about a website which had some small-lengthed tunes which one could mix and play. They had an awesome shuffle mode. On adding a tune a sketched cowboy would get added to the screen, who would seem to be playing the tune. (options were like whistling, reggae etc). Can someone please provide the link. They had released a second version of their...

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Can IBM sue Apple for Siri?

Watson was created by IBM a long time before Siri's origin. Had IBM patented Watson (I am not sure if it did so or not), could it sue Apple for Siri on grounds that they copied their idea? I am just trying to figure out the extent to which a patent can be used to defend one's IP.

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How to add syntax highlighter on Google's *blogger*

Currently I am trying to use syntaxhighlighter following http://blog.cartercole.com/2009/10/awesome-syntax-highlighting-made-easy.html Usage issues (specific to blogger): a)Difficulty in giving the clipboard path string. Blogger encodes it.(Currently using //<![CDATA[ <code> //]]> syntax to write the javascript code) b)Copy to clipboard is not being shown. c)If the syntax...

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