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olivier1664

54 karma · joined December 28, 2011

French currently living in Hong Kong
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olivier1664··on Initial Release of Mozilla’s Open Source Speech Recognition Model and Voice Data
Do they have other languages than english?
olivier1664··on Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
To sum up your link, the vulnerability is the use of an unsafe deserialization similar to:

    ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(input);
    MyObject obj = (MyObject)ois.readObject();
https://lgtm.com/blog/finding_unsafe_deserialization_with_ql
olivier1664··on Hacker news for your interests
I love the idea, but I'm a little bit surprised that you manage to have an accurate prediction with so few data and so much parameters.

I've try once to do something like that, I've ended with something extremly simple. The score of a news was: a bonus for the number of likes, a malus for the number of days, and a bonus/malus per domain. The domain bonus was auto adjusted when I readed a news.

Nonetheless, the best function in this reader was to remove the links I had already open. This allowed, each time I browsed the page, to only have new links to explore.

olivier1664··on Regex Crossword
Nice. You should add a really simple sample in the front page to explain how to play in a few word (or an image of a solved puzzle). It take me some time to understand that one cell equals one letter.

Ok there is a "How to play", but who read the faq?^^

olivier1664··on PostmarketOS: Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
Great project! It will be cool to use our old smart phones as Raspberry pi.
olivier1664··on Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool
Does that means the wannacrypt attack has paid only 60,000$ ?
olivier1664··on What programming languages are used late at night?
The voucher do not cover alcoholic beverages [1]. That and the difficulty to code after drinking do that peoples generally do not drink during lunch. But yes, Frenchs take their time for lunch :)

[1] http://www.edenred.co.in/Our-Offerings/Work-life-Benefits/Ti...

olivier1664··on HTML5 Games Workshop: Make a Platformer Game with JavaScript
Have a try on https://scratch.mit.edu. My 9 year old kid love it.
olivier1664··on Google Spreadsheets and Python
It seems cool. Have you consider letting us trying the demo without asking for credential? The login form have stop me since I do not want to be contacted by your sales.
olivier1664··on What programming languages are used most on weekends?
Probably because the "rust" keywoard hasn't yet the minimum mass to enter in the graph. It has only 6,000 questions* while only the tags with more than 20,000 are plotted.

* http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/62541...

olivier1664··on Rust's 2017 Roadmap
I would love to see some improvement in the desktop GUI libs.

- GTK is a painfull to install.

- Conrod: I was unable to do an hello world application with it. It just miss some tutorial.

- KISS-UI: some dll to install

- Qt: not totally free

- Neon to plug on Electron: I'm not sure if I can do some callback from Rust to the GUI with this method.

I finnally give up to play with Electron in javascript.

olivier1664··on Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
I agree with you, I was expecting a set of concurrent tutorials. I was hoping a coding version of http://www.mobafire.com/league-of-legends/champion/renekton-... where author trying to answer their best on "How to start coding?" and user reading and voting for their favorites tuto.
olivier1664··on Exceptional results: error handling in C# and Rust
exit() is worst: in winForm, it's generally better to catch the exception on top level and show a MsgBox to the user without crashing. The user understand that his current action has failed, but he do not lost its input.
olivier1664··on A multiplayer Tron-like game with curves
also: let our direction arrow visible while playing (or draw a small car), It will be easier to predict our trajectory.
olivier1664··on Meet: Fast way to schedule a one-to-one on the go
Look great! I wanted to see more on the calendar it self, but I have not found the demo link on the main page. IMO, you should add a presentation of your calendar without requiring to create an account.

https://calendar.sunrise.am/

(and also: add a link from your blog to your product)

olivier1664··on The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills
What about going work in a farm (something like fruit picking) to be sure to be busy with something different, and to feel physically (instead of mentally) exhausted at the end of your day.
olivier1664··on Show HN: This page exists only if someone is looking at it
Or a snapchat utilities. Since the servers do not save contents, it can be a nice broadcast-and-forget network backbone.
olivier1664··on The Psychology of Pricing: A Gigantic List of Strategies
That's impressive. Unfortunately the source* of theses number is not very clear on how many items has been sold and if people buy by unit or by pack. I would love to see more tests result like that.

http://blog.gumroad.com/post/64417917582/a-penny-saved-psych...

olivier1664··on Pony – High Performance Actor Programming
Agreed too. Here my user experience with the presentation.

Once I've understand it was a new language (cool name btw), I've look for the Hello-world example to see if the language was easy enough for me. I've found the link after reading the HN comment: http://tutorial.ponylang.org/getting-started/helloworld/

Then, I've quickly read the part on concurrent programming. But I've not understood how it is easier with Pony. It's very frustrating. So far, my understanding is there is class (called actor) that can discuss together by sending each other immutable object. I would like to see some code in the tutorial that show how concurrency is easily done in Pony.

olivier1664··on Hacker's guide to Neural Networks
After correction:

100 iterations give best_x = -1.76, best_y = 2.91, best_out = -5.15

10,000,000 iterations (less than 1 sec CPU) give best_x = 16,657, best_y = 16,662, best_out = 277,541,583

https://jsfiddle.net/fe068f0L/

olivier1664··on Fear of Apple
Don't forget the steam queue. It use prediction to show games that correspond to your taste. It's not very accurate, but it allow to show new games on each iteration. You do not waste your time on the always same top 100 games. It allow to discover some strange or underated titles .
olivier1664··on Show HN: Matterhorn – Your new project manager
I was also hoping a free hosting for my week-end projects. It would allow me to try the service, and maybe, become an evangelist inside my company.

Currently, while there is a free issue management in GitHub or BitBucket, these systems are too light. JIRA would have been great, but there is no way I pay when I do hobbit projects. IMO, a good way to do that is to be free for project with less than 3 users. Or have the first 3 users free, once the project team grows, there is no more choice than to pay :)

olivier1664··on Amazon Echo
Maybe can you do:

- some phone call without having to hold the phone.

- put that in the office and have quick responses to the classical technical question. It may act as replacement of a internal wiki for question like "What the IP of the sever?" or "What the syntax to add a column in SQL?".

olivier1664··on Lightbot: Kids learn programming concepts
Very nice tutorial. My daugther (6y) has enjoying the 1st levels. But she do not get the proc part of the second part.

Dyarosla, can you consider adding an easy level with "P1"? A very very long blue line would be perfect to learn to call P1x12 instead of enter (Walk+Light)x12.

Can you also add more basic levels: she had liked to solve them, but now she doesn't want to play again. The levels are "already done" or "too hard".

olivier1664··on An Update on HN Comments
IMO, this downvote show you are right.
olivier1664··on Show HN: Codewars
Same here, I has just stopped when it became too personal without reason. Why do you want me to login?
olivier1664··on The complete guide to centering a div
Your technique is less good (on IE11) when you resize the width of the browser. The text finish outside the div, while DigitalSea's solution works well.
olivier1664··on Ask PG: Is HN Expired Link Eventual Fix Planned?
I use http://hckrnews.com/ only to avoid this problem.
olivier1664··on France's Data Protection agency issues their maximum monetary penalty to Google
For me, Google loses a part of its "Don't be evil" image by being sanctioned by the CNIL.

As a French, I see the CNIL as some kind of Superman of the citizens rights. When Superman fight against someone, this someone is probably evil.

olivier1664··on I, Glasshole: My Year With Google Glass
As someone without Glass and currently unused to see it, my feeling is not "You make me feel poor". If it was the case, I imagine I will just be jealous, it will be a good point for the Glass (as if you have an expensive car or a gold watch).

My first impression is more something like "I can not see your eyes" (as if you were wearing sun glass) mixed with a "You are not focus when I speak to you" (as if you were looking your phone during a meal). But my opinion may be not relevant since I will not insult you for wearing Glass.

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