Luff | 5 years ago | on: Terms of Service; Didn’t Read
Here's a graph showing how long it would take to read the ToS of some prominent companies:
https://i.redd.it/j6cd57dbrga61.png
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Luff | 5 years ago | on: I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
EU: According to a directive passed 2006, a minimum of six months and at most 24 months. But that directive was ruled invalid and anulled in 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
Luff | 5 years ago | on: A tiny static full-text search engine using Rust and WebAssembly (2019)
How does it compare with flexsearch? It claims to be the fastest, smallest, prettiest search library in town.
https://github.com/nextapps-de/flexsearch
Luff | 6 years ago | on: MSPaint in JavaScript
It works if the page is a PWA with offline support. But no, JSPaint doesn't seem to be one :/
You could probably use a local caching proxy if your love for MSPaint is true and pure.
Luff | 6 years ago | on: MSPaint in JavaScript
Download and unzip NW.js, create a file called package.json with the following text:
{ "name": "JSPaint", "main": "https://jspaint.app/" }
Luff | 6 years ago | on: The hypersane are among us, if only we are prepared to look
Hypersane sounds a little smug, but it feels close to something.
Like, there seems to be a difference between how smart a person is, and being [effective? rational? non-reactive? introspective?].
It feels like there's a spectrum of to which extent people are programmed by, and are reacting to, their environment. A spectrum that might be separate from how smart they are. Give them a text-book or an IQ-test and they'll do great, give them the news and they'll ineffectually berate and hate each-other, and so on.
So while a sane person might have a common social programming, an insane persons programming would be corrupted/deviant.
And a "hypersane" person would be someone who is more able to see their own (and others) programming, and to a greater extent be able to opt-out of some of it?
Maybe there are better words for it.
Luff | 6 years ago | on: Terminating Service for 8Chan
"We can't get rid of guns, so lets get rid of free speech instead"?
Luff | 8 years ago | on: Peace for Triple Piano
The effect when watching it on your phone (with headphones) in the YouTube app is really neat, with the 3D audio and orientation tracking.
Luff | 8 years ago | on: Why I left Google to join Grab
You can't earn money by making things for people that have no money. We need to solve that first.
Luff | 8 years ago | on: This VR cycle is dead
Wheelchair Deathmatch. Sounds fun, I would totally play that in VR.
Luff | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who are the most controversial (yet still popular) HNers?
An interesting and fun introduction to Terry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcqWok8AubE
Luff | 8 years ago | on: Russia threatens to block Telegram
"Probably the best-known test to see if someone was a witch was the swimming test
Basically, if you found someone you suspected of being an old crone, you’d drag them to a pond and chuck them in. If they sank, they’re were innocent (and probably dead) but if they floated they were guilty…and quickly executed."
Luff | 8 years ago | on: Efficient music players remain elusive
Winamp still has a lite version that looks and behaves like the 2.x player.
Luff | 10 years ago | on: How Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide basic income in the EU
I think you will probably see lower rents, when they remove the housing benefits. At least if housing benefits are implemented the same way as in Sweden. When I was a student, the state payed for the part of the rent that was between €300-€450. So when I chose which apartment I wanted, I obviously chose the more expensive one, since I had no incentive to do otherwise. The people to owned the student apartments eventually caught on, and raised the price of all student apartments to around €440. (not the exact numbers, just to illustrate the point)
Luff | 11 years ago | on: “The following surprisingly difficult problem was given to my son's Math Circle”
My math skills are not good enough solve this, I realized after trying for 30 min. I was happy I managed to solve it with good at least! Here is a JavaScript brute-force solution: http://jsfiddle.net/e88xy75f/15/
Luff | 11 years ago | on: We have the potential to solve the biggest problems of today
There are significantly bigger problems than those, but if you want to make money you have to solve problems that rich[0] people have, which mainly seems to be boredom.
The people with the biggest problems are the people with the least money. You can't save them with apps, but you could help them with money made by making apps. Not that most will though, if they ever make it big.
[0] Rich is a relative term. Got enough to eat and access to the internet? Compared to most humans, you're relatively rich.
Luff | 12 years ago | on: Burn the Fucking System to the Ground
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PVM0SXo...
Luff | 12 years ago | on: Leap Motion: Amazing, Revolutionary, Useless
Absolutely! The first thing I really missed when trying the Oculus Rift demos was my hands, you really want to reach out and grab/push things. Leap Motion seems useless for navigating Windows, perfect for VR.
Luff | 13 years ago | on: Ideas that could change the world
I'd bet that the next big technological revolution will occur when the next generation of batteries hit the market: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/129299-silicon-nanotube...
Electric quadrocopters today have pretty limited range, with a flight time of about 30 minutes. You could do some pretty neat stuff if they lasted 5 hours.
Not to mention what it will mean to regular airplanes, cars and mobile technology. We'd might even start to see some futuristic weaponry, not that it would be particularly positive.
Luff | 13 years ago | on: With Memoto, Affordable Passive Lifelogging Has Arrived
According to a video on memoto.com it stops taking pictures if it's placed in your pocket. I'm guessing it could be implemented by just throwing away the mostly black images anyway.
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