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loisaidasamon Embeddings, vectors, and arithmetic

I found the missing link to the emoji page on Barney Hill's Github in case anyone else was looking for it:

https://www.barneyhill.com/pages/emoji/index.html

loisaidasamon The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth

> Our global map of ant abundance expands our understanding of the geography of ant diversity and provides a baseline for predicting ants’ responses to worrying environmental changes that currently impact insect biomass.

Would it be possible to see that map without shelling out the $10? The people need to know!!!

loisaidasamon Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

Also available on Pandora: https://pandora.app.link/8otPjbOzTbb

loisaidasamon Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

I'm also interested, although my curiosity is more about what you are doing with the data.

Just storage? Some sort of charting? Graphite? Maybe some other data monitoring tool? Maybe something custom?

loisaidasamon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)

Just a heads up that https://sideqik.com without the `www.` prefix is insecure

loisaidasamon A landmark 2012 paper transformed how software recognizes images

Secure Connection Failed.

What's going on arstechnica?

loisaidasamon Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere

Starting the title of this article with the word "Beer" is misleading. A neat trick, caught my eye.

loisaidasamon The Secret API of Banks

A few things -

1. In order to achieve this functionality, the app explicitly requires permission to receive SMS [1] [2]

2. I agree that the general population likely isn't fully aware of the implications of granting permissions for such things. Having said that, I think that privacy/security/transparency is one of the things constantly being worked on with subsequent Android OS updates [3] [4], and I think that things are getting better.

Personally, I don't grant access to sensors like microphone/camera/location to apps that I don't want using them (most apps), and I think people should be aware of potential hazards here. Then again, people are openly inviting Amazon Alexa and Google Home into their homes ...

On the other hand, as a developer I like having the ability to build this, for me, and potentially for others who find use for what I wrote, with full transparency/visibility into the source.

[1] https://github.com/loisaidasam/poor-mans-money-counter/blob/...

[2] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per...

[3] https://www.android.com/security-center/

[4] https://www.android.com/versions/pie-9-0/

loisaidasamon The Secret API of Banks

I tried doing something like this, but it didn't work for Bank of America, as their minimum alert level is $100.

When I lived in Slovenia, I could set SMS alerts from my bank there (UniCredit). I wrote an Android app [1] that intercepted those SMS messages and parsed out the relevant bits. Those were the days...

[1] https://github.com/loisaidasam/poor-mans-money-counter

loisaidasamon Datasets for Machine Learning

Inspired by this post, I was looking for a fun way to browse datasets randomly, which led me to build this Kaggle Random Dataset Generator:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17313374

Thanks Gengo!

loisaidasamon Show HN: Kaggle Random Dataset Generator

Inspired by Gengo's post "The 50 Best Free Datasets for Machine Learning", via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17309443

loisaidasamon How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)

Here's a SO post w/ a python implementation:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10029588/python-implemen...

The accepted answer uses a hard-coded z-value.

In the event that you want a dynamic z-value like the ruby solution offers, I just submitted the following solution:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10029588/python-implemen...

loisaidasamon Wasabi – Simple storage solution

Would be nice to see a note about that somewhere

loisaidasamon Wasabi – Simple storage solution

This looks great. Are there any client libraries for access, perhaps similar to AWS's `boto`? Having a hard time finding that on your website ..

loisaidasamon Show HN: Language Evolution Simulation

Feature request for Etymology:

https://github.com/fatiherikli/language-evolution-simulation...

Someone have a few free minutes to hack this together today? Could be cool.

loisaidasamon Show HN: Language Evolution Simulation

NSFW version, hehehe: https://loisaidasam.github.io/language-evolution-simulation/

loisaidasamon Show HN: Jam API, turn any site into a JSON api using CSS selectors

Might be helpful to have the example execute inline so you can see what's going on/experiment without having to leave the page.

loisaidasamon RouterSploit – Router Exploitation Framework

watch the vid?

loisaidasamon NYC subway math

Some thoughts on optimizing for wait time:

https://github.com/erikbern/mta/issues/2

loisaidasamon Why not just a simple spreadsheet of salaries?

It would be really helpful if the owner of this spreadsheet would make the header row sticky for simpler browsing

loisaidasamon Ask HN: Open source OCR library?

Dunno about desktop, but as far as Android is concerned, tess-two is a fork of Tesseract tools for Android: https://github.com/rmtheis/tess-two

This dude did a pretty nice writeup on getting it going: http://gaut.am/making-an-ocr-android-app-using-tesseract/

loisaidasamon How mosquitos deal with getting hit by raindrops

I was checking out that Andrew Dickerson dude's Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/andrew52987/videos - it's like a showcase for mosquito torture!

Check out this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s1_f9fyjME

loisaidasamon LZHAM – Lossless compression with faster decompression than LZMA

Let's cut to the chase here... what's the Weissman score?

loisaidasamon Do You Know What an Angel Investor Is?

Agreed, would be nice if the author used the correct name.

loisaidasamon Sunsets in Google Calendar using R

Got it to work! Great writeup Hilary.

For others like me who know nothing about R, I did a little writeup for doing this yourself: http://blog.samsandberg.com/2014/06/04/sunsets-in-google-cal...

Hope this helps at least someone out there

loisaidasamon Facebook Platform Upgrade Guide

This thing is a beast!

loisaidasamon [dead]

We won!!!

http://cl.ly/image/1t1E430n431l

Kudos @zarubin!

loisaidasamon Digital Ocean droplets manager for OS X

(Personally knowing very little about OS X development...)

Are there 10.9-specific features at work here preventing it from being 10.8.5-compatible? I also haven't upgraded yet.

loisaidasamon 2048 Solver

I forked the main 2048 repo and modified it so that you can write your own "brain" for it:

https://github.com/loisaidasam/2048

Essentially it communicates via an API to a webserver where you write your "brain" logic and respond to the API requests with which move to choose next:

https://github.com/loisaidasam/2048/blob/master/js/autonomou...

Since it's over web, you can write your webserver in the language of your choosing. I wrote a small dumb Python webserver using the Flask microframework:

https://github.com/loisaidasam/2048/blob/master/py/webserver...

And it simply returns a random direction:

https://github.com/loisaidasam/2048/blob/master/py/game.py

This can be adapted obviously for whatever logic you choose. The reason I forked this version and not a totally server-side one (which would be better for performance obviously) is that you can actually watch the moves this one makes as it chooses them, which makes it kinda fun.

Enjoy!

loisaidasamon What if you didn't need money or attention?

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

-Lao Tzu