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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jimpick; my proof: https://keybase.io/jimpick/sigs/WB0h2OmwNbujZWAebKxVRd-aoh1FdV4t6xGxHF38sPE ]

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jimpick··on A collaborative shopping list built on Dat
Authorized!

You can authorize other people and devices now too.

jimpick··on A collaborative shopping list built on Dat
I made a "Shopping List Party!!!" shopping list. If you post or send me your local key, I'll authorize you as a writer.

I'm trying to see how many writers it can handle. Theoretically, there's no limit.

https://dat-shopping-list.glitch.me/doc/2d2641b9cab4d2bb0ea3...

jimpick··on A collaborative shopping list built on Dat
Thanks tbv for submitting it. I can answer any questions!
jimpick··on Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React
There are some binaries available if you don't want to build it yourself.

https://pp-test-dmg-jimpick.hashbase.io/

jimpick··on Pixelpusher: Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with React
Short version:

We combined the Automerge CRDT and the Dat protocol into an Electron app, and it's fun!

jimpick··on Safe injection sites in San Francisco could be first in the US
That junkie has a mother who has spent 20 years of her life trying to get him treatment for his schizophrenia but there is no government support, and he keeps disappearing from home and winding up downtown where he finds more comfort from The drug and sold by predatory drug dealers and other people like him who will not judge him constantly.

His mother works harder than any “working class person” I have ever met.

jimpick··on Safe injection sites in San Francisco could be first in the US
Hey! You’re talking about my neighbourhood. (Well, I live a few blocks away in Yaletown, but I’ve spent most of the last 12 years working in Gastown/DTES, since that’s where the startups can afford rent)

The neighbourhood has vastly changed due to condo development, gentrification and government programs. The DTES was really run down a decade ago ... now it’s hipsters everywhere. Great coffee!

The population that has mental health and drug abuse issues has been pushed into a very small area in this city, largely due to past political decisions. Most of the social housing and services are primarily centralized in the DTES. Other neighbourhoods don’t want the social housing and the hard-to-house residents.

I think the drug situation was getting better, but then cheap fentanyl hit, and it’s been tough. Fentanyl is a crisis everywhere.

“Harm reduction” is the only ethical way to go, IMHO. I have friends in nursing that work at the Crosstown Clinic, where they are doing hardcore peer reviewed clinical trials involving prescription heroine, and they are genuinely saving lives and even getting hardcore junkies off drugs completely. Every other city in North America is leaving those people to die.

I’ll take Vancouver, thank you.

jimpick··on Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
Prosemirror is another option that has the editor bits implemented.

http://prosemirror.net/examples/collab/#edit-Example

jimpick··on Automerge: JSON-like data structure for building collaborative apps
Automerge is very similar.

If there are conflicts, it returns a _conflicts property on the object so you can retrieve the other conflicting alternatives so the application logic can write another change if it wants to use a different alternative than the one that was automatically chosen.

jimpick··on Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker
Awesome, I added you back!
jimpick··on Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker
I believe it’s built with Electron.

The developers do plan to support Windows, but there are some missing dependencies that need to be built first.

jimpick··on Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker
I set one up for myself here:

dat://72671c5004d3b956791b6ffca7f05025d62309feaf99cde04c6f434189694291/

Nobody follows me yet though...

jimpick··on Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Nice!
jimpick··on Hazel: Lighweight update server for Electron apps
Nice!
jimpick··on How Canada became an education superpower
Something else to add ... there was an influx of draft dodgers from the Vietnam War, and a lot of those became teachers. Canada was investing in their education system at that time whereas the U.S. was trying to choke off campus protest movements. Fast forward half a century, and that investment has paid dividends.
jimpick··on Show HN: Deploy dathttpd on now.sh
Both are new projects. You're going to know about these projects before 99% of the people who eventually know about them. :-)
jimpick··on Show HN: Deploy dathttpd on now.sh
Unnecessary... I did a cut-and-paste from another project. :-)
jimpick··on Show HN: Robots Round Robin
Cool. Did you find anything about it interesting?
jimpick··on Show HN: Robots Round Robin
Potentially down the road at some point.

We're using commercially available speed-to-text platforms (Watson, Google, Microsoft, etc.), so we're just evaluating how well they are doing with this test. I think all of those are using NN's internally -- but since we're doing a cross-platform test, it's probably not useful for training the individual platforms.

With much larger traffic and fancier gameplay, I think this technique could be used to generate a higher volume of training data on a custom built speech-to-text system (eg. Kaldi)

jimpick··on Show HN: Robots Round Robin
Kelly, another dev here at Signl.fm, also wrote a blog post describing what we are doing with this over at Medium:

https://medium.com/@TheMindWright/helping-robots-learn-to-sp...

jimpick··on Show HN: Robots Round Robin
We're planning to do a follow up blog post with some analysis of the data -- comparing the interesting results.

We'd be happy to share the data with anybody that is interested. All in all, there's the sounds clips + the game data + the results data -- I think it all needs to be considered together in order to draw any good conclusions.

If you are a researcher or are just interested in what comes out of the game, we'd love to compare notes with you! (And I'm sure we can stick some sort of license onto the data if that's useful.)

jimpick··on Show HN: Robots Round Robin (disregard)
Sorry, I didn't read the Show HN rules carefully enough, and apparently I'm supposed to link directly to the game, not a blog post. I resubmitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13517345

jimpick··on Show HN: Robots Round Robin
[Resubmitting again to Show HN ... previously I linked to a blog post about the game, but this time I linked to the game directly, according the Show HN rules]

Here's the companion blog post:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-made-game-robots-round-rob...

The Signl.fm crew is here to answer any questions!

jimpick··on Show HN: Robots Round Robin (disregard)
I'm here to answer any questions about the game!
jimpick··on Show HN: Instant Search on 10.8M Podcast Episodes
This is cool!
jimpick··on PodSearch – A Random Side Project
Similar idea to what we've been working on over at Signl.fm - here's our first prototype:

https://geekouts.xyz/

jimpick··on Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
I like Zeit now, aerobatic.com and surge.sh
jimpick··on Samsung Acquires Joyent
Congrats!
jimpick··on Gordon: a tool to create, wire and deploy AWS Lambdas
Nice work! Potentially I could use this to deploy lambda-comments. :-)
jimpick··on Now: Guillermo Rauch's hosting service adds paid plans, custom domains and SSL
It's super cool since you can have hundreds of micro services deployed using SSL for only $14.99 a month.

https://zeit.co/now#pricing

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