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speeqon Android Studio 3.2

I've started using the YouTube website on iOS because it uses the native video player and is ad-free then (some people put an ad-break every few minutes on documentaries for example which is super annoying)

speeqon Show HN: Lunar lander-type game with computational fluid dynamics

It's really fun. Well done!

speeqon Comparison of image moderation APIs

Yahoo's model could be fine-tuned: http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/gathered/examples/finetune_f...

Yeah, it's definitely not a nice task but what's stopping someone (well, besides potential legal issues) from using these commercial APIs to create datasets programatically and training a cloned model from that?

I'm curious what the profit margins are on these APIs because I think they are way overpriced.

speeqon Comparison of image moderation APIs

It would be nice if someone could compare these commercially available APIs with Yahoo's open_nsfw model in terms of accuracy: https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw

I'm currently building an API wrapper around it and running it on a Hetzner server with a GTX 1080 - prediction takes about 0.25 seconds and while I haven't optimised it for parallel execution, I think it should be able to handle at least +10 images/sec comfortably. I'm also testing video moderation by using ffmpeg to slice the video into screenshots and predicting the min/avg/high scores.

Moderating 25 million explicit images using Google Cloud Vision would cost around $19,500/mo vs €99/mo on Hetzner.

speeqon Show HN: Castr – Livestream to Facebook, YouTube, Twitch and More Simultaneously

I'm curious about your backend - do you have private peering links with these providers? Isn't streaming to multiple providers really bandwidth intensive for you?

Good luck with your venture!

speeqon Faust: Stream Processing for Python

https://nsq.io

speeqon L-theanine, a constituent in tea, and its effect on mental state (2008) [pdf]

> Gail Owen is an employee of Unilever, which markets food products some of which contain L-theanine and caffeine.

It's interesting how many brands Unilever owns:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unilever_brands

speeqon Stripe Issuing – An API for creating physical and virtual cards

Would this work in conjunction with Stripe Connect? E.g. for a marketplace-like service but instead of sending payouts, issue custom cards?

speeqon The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan

Pure speculation but I think the X37-B spacecraft is probably some sort of satellite jammer / destroyer and possibly a refuel / service ship.

speeqon Timeline of the far future

I came across this article by looking up Neptune and going down a wikipedia rabbit hole after seeing another submission that's currently on the front page: `Supersharp Images from New VLT Adaptive Optics`

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556955

speeqon MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-retina displays blurry

I tried the beta when it came out and immediately downgraded because of the font, it looked worse even on the 5k iMac display.

speeqon Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge

I wish Cloudflare would offer some kind of key-value store with Workers, something like Google Cloud Memorystore but globally distributed in all of their PoPs - even if it's really limited like 32 MB RAM.

speeqon Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard

My 2015 MBP is affected by an earlier production issue where interactions with the keyboard when opening / closing the lid damages the coating of the display (just lookup “Staingate” to see pics).

Maybe the thinner keys were ironically meant as a fix for this production issue in order to save them money on screen replacements.

speeqon Elon Musk’s Fall from Grace

These articles always bring the same weak arguments of subsidies and incentives for Tesla (and the $465 million federal loan that Tesla paid back with interest btw) while completely ignoring the fact that subsidies for the fossil fuel industry and the "big three" automakers are billions per year.

https://electrek.co/2016/11/25/tesla-subsidies-big-three-oil...

speeqon Pure CSS Francine

https://github.com/cyanharlow/purecss-zigario

https://github.com/cyanharlow/purecss-vignes

speeqon Android P launches today in public beta

Maybe there will be an affordable version of the upcoming Pixel 3.

speeqon 'My £1,000 Macbook Air was stolen at airport security and no one cares'

I mostly fly budget airlines so my hand luggage has to be lightweight, but the carpet at Changi is a minor inconvenience (especially when one is tired after a +13h flight) because my luggage practically rolls itself when you give it a nudge on an even surface!

speeqon Canada facing ‘brain drain’ as tech talent leaves for Silicon Valley

That's funny because I had the exact opposite experience. I think it just depends on the mood of the border officer.

speeqon Petition: Apple recall and replace defective Macbook Pro keyboard design

I'm having issues with my 2015 Macbook Pro display getting weird unremovable marks and stains from interaction with the keyboard. I hope they'll replace it for me but these quality issues are really annoying. Here's a (bad) pic to show what I mean: https://i.imgur.com/LIK4qq5.jpg

speeqon 'My £1,000 Macbook Air was stolen at airport security and no one cares'

I didn't like the carpeted walkways there to be honest since it just made it more difficult to pull my hand luggage.

speeqon China Is Building a Rain-Making System Three Times as Big as Spain

> The issues were caused after the South East was struck by a massive thunderstorm, which saw a month's worth of rain fall in an hour, in the early hours of EU referendum day.

I've lived in London for a while, it was definitely not your usual bit of rain.

speeqon China Is Building a Rain-Making System Three Times as Big as Spain

This is total conspiracy theory stuff and I'll probably get downvoted into oblivion but has anyone else in London found it really strange on how on the day of the Brexit referendum - we had these sudden overnight thunderstorms which resulted in many roads being flooded, polling stations being inaccessible and huge delays / suspensions of the Tube? Just a coincidence and bad luck?

* http://uk.businessinsider.com/polls-open-britain-eu-referend...

* https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/22...

* https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-commuters-u...

The next morning it all cleared away and it was a beautiful sunny day to the point where even Nigel Farage had to make a comment / joke about it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCb1cGROAw].

If localized rain-making on a massive scale like this is possible, I wonder if it was used to manipulate the referendum by whoever might be interested in that.

speeqon Chinese police don high-tech glasses to nab suspects

> I mean, doesn't London already have cameras at every street corner for instance ?

I'm concerned about things like these in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016#...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_2017#React...

speeqon Ending Bitcoin Support

ELI5 on the difference between Stellar and Ripple? Why are companies like Stripe and Kik embracing XLM over XRP?

speeqon New DHS policy on demands for passwords to travelers’ electronic devices

The US economy is really massive, $244.7 billion is more than the GDP of Finland.

speeqon Australia's first electric aircraft has begun test flights

Here are some comments from Musk regarding electric aircraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx3auTD85Fw

speeqon Show HN: Bitcoin Arbitrage – Kraken vs. GDAX

I wonder how much of the daily trading volume for crypto currencies is just people doing arbitrage.

speeqon A good resource for financial advice to share with people in their twenties?

> You can view saving as zero-risk investment

I wish I had bought index funds instead of keeping most of my savings in GBP before the Brexit referendum...

speeqon iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On ‘Hey Siri’

Have you seen how many Samsung Galaxy variants exist in comparison?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy#Phones

That's just one manufacturer.

speeqon Tesla Roadster

Close up video of Tesla Roadster launching from zero:

https://twitter.com/DavidHodge/status/931391188065705984