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ap46··on Introducing New World Lenses
Too poor.
ap46··on Nvidia's Hackintosh Support Is an Insurgency Against Apple's Computers
Yeah that's fine too. But for those with development work that entails Xcode usage, constant OS switching & time spent managing files & using (some great) apps is better served with macOS.
ap46··on Nvidia's Hackintosh Support Is an Insurgency Against Apple's Computers
Once the Pascal drivers come out, no spec upgrade from Apple to the Mac Pro lineup will pull people back from making their own Hackintoshes with 1060/80(Ti) & going nuts with rendering or machine learning applications!

Cheaper hardware with top of the line specs, upgradeability & compatibility with Windoze, *NIX & macOS.

ap46··on Node v7.9.0 Released
You stand down!

I don't hate Node.js(I kinda make a living off of it), I hate trivial updates making the front page.

ap46··on Burger King TV Ad Asks, Hoping Google Home Devices Answer
I hear the water-boarding facilities are great over there!
ap46··on Apple Loses Top Laptop Rating
Stock up on the late-2015 MBP ya'll.
ap46··on Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
You'd think they'd afford a Mac & windows developer.....
ap46··on Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Space Invaders [pdf]
PLAGIARISM

Third paragraph of Intro in original DeepMind paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.5602.pdf

&

Second paragraph of Intro(5th line) of this project. http://nihit.github.io/resources/spaceinvaders.pdf

They didn't even bother to do something original except for using the RAM state instead of pixel values like the original paper. It's something that's easily doable with the openAI gym. This seems like a course project at stanford.

ap46··on Graffiti 'dying out' as kids dump spray cans for Instagram, Twitter etc.
"Graffiti is dying because of decades of insane, albeit selective, enforcement. It just isn't worth the risks."

It's good news & the title makes it some sort of experience they're missing out on?

ap46··on Identifying HTTPS-Protected Netflix Videos in Real Time [pdf]
Although Swartz's intentions were noble, what he did with concealing equipment in a locker(IIRC) was illegal.
ap46··on Ask HN: Anybody using Amazon Machine Image for AWS Deep Learning?
Just get the GTX 1060 6GB variant & that should be enough RAM to run most models without suffering pagination.
ap46··on Ask HN: Is Product Hunt just a launchpad for new YC startups?
Yes with its referential systems & wanton need for your twitter account.....
ap46··on Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
All the more necessitates the need to create a light-weight VM on top of which 7 + macOS can run. With better hardware we could abstract the hardware underneath the OS for legacy apps & switch to *nix at a click/shortcut.
ap46··on Gmail to support up to 50 MB attachments
Are we stupid?

Who even uses Drive? Let alone share anything using it.

ap46··on Problems with Android Studio
My 8GB Macbook Air could make an omelette if the build goes on for 3/5mins.

Theres is commented out line in one of the grade flies about HEAP size, I read about uncommenting it & poof my build times noticeably reduced.

ap46··on Problems with Android Studio
I wish they would just kill Android after 7, since nothing new/overhauled is on the horizon, the other project OSes that google is working on should debut(Fuchsia/Magenta) & have performance (Go/Swift anyone?) as the core priority instead of crossing over Java apps from the previous behemoth.
ap46··on Awesome OS X Command Line
The 'tput bel' command has got be there by default & those who don't want it can uncheck it from pref. It'd save so much time & strain by not looking for a completed task/prompt for input.
ap46··on 40% of foreign students in the US have no close American friends on campus
Its because 65K is for workers without degrees from US colleges & another 25K is for people with degrees from US to get the OPT. The 65K gets 85% applicants from IT companies based out of India, those jobs don't pay well but companies willing to pay decent salaries get thrown out of it coz of sheer probabilities. There was a post some time back recommending a application fee based on the number of applications from a single entity.
ap46··on 40% of foreign students in the US have no close American friends on campus
Another way to look at this is American students don't engage with 40% foreign students on campus. It takes two to tango.
ap46··on Show HN: Key/Value Store as-a-Service
>Do you need high available, flexible and dynamic key/value store for coordination, notification, feature flagging and more?

Doesn't exactly evoke confidence. Are they being explicit that the free tier won't have availability. Is there an SLA or even an estimate?

ap46··on Show HN: Chrome extension to put GitHub's header back to the way it was
Very poor contrast between the text & header.

GitHub, go with any of these(give us an option at least)!

Black+Cyan

Blue+Orange

Cyan+Yellow

Grey Paper+ White

ap46··on Protecting Your Data at a Border Crossing
Just don't bring any electronics except for a Nokia-esque phone/tablet/laptop(non-regular), if you have anything you don't want snooped on. For conferences/work you can always borrow(or buy) a device on the spot. Which outweighs the time & anxiety caused by the checks.
ap46··on Ask HN: Does a viable alternative to ScreenHero exist?
https://www.appear.in is whats you've missed out.
ap46··on Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
For that we need CHAPPIE like humanoids. Which are either packed up on the roof w/ solar charging or in janitor closet.
ap46··on Ask HN: What is the most exciting development in your field right now?
This is where I interject & mention this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost People don't want to feel like they wasted time & resources over something that doesn't exist. Religion can just be relegated to a construct for social activities. There's so many of them which sprung up independently. People should really ponder whether they have accounted some belief for interplanetary travel.
ap46··on Show HN: Target almost all platforms at once with react native
Why would you post something thats not even done? React-native was built to be a better alternative to Cordova, it's not like you wrote it.
ap46··on Ask HN: How is that humans advanced so much in the past 100 yrs in all fields?
There's this thing called Accelerated Returns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change
ap46··on Contextual RNN-GANs for Abstract Reasoning Diagram Generation
You do realise that CS research takes place at countless places 24x7. I just hate the amount of "research" numb-nuts from IITs think they do when they get the opportunity to do summer research internship abroad. Then they get endorsed & just slap it onto arxiv.org without peer-review or even the mention of a future conference.

All for just getting something to put onto an SOP & run off for an MS & join the big 4. This is the truth. People take advantage of the caste based reservation in India & get into IITs & as if that's not enough 50% of federal jobs in India are also reserved, not to mention the tuition waivers. Then these fucks go abroad with all kinds of loans that ride their IIT tag.

I just pity the other departments which actually do research & are in dire needs of funds for physical stuff.

I know this comment adds shit to HN but so do random arxiv papers. JUSTHADTOGETITOUT.

ap46··on Reliance’s Ambani Lays Out Plan for Low-Cost Mobile Data in India
Kinda like Valentine from Kingsman.

I'm a bit apprehensive of their executive saying deep packet inspectionn will be the actual gold mine [http://qz.com/771690/reliance-jio-bombshell-the-good-the-bad...]

ap46··on Looking ahead for WhatsApp
FUCK THIS!

https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads?

The only reason I hang onto it is that someone with my contact number might send me something & I still need my cell number to access it otherwise.

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