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ctlaltdefeat | 4 years ago | on: Show me a 10ft paywall, I’ll show you a 12ft ladder

> I'd also point out an alternative: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

And adding a fork that's been updated more consistently for some sites I use: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

ctlaltdefeat | 4 years ago | on: Why Not Signal?

> The author can barely contain his hatred for the politics of Signal's founder (about which I know nothing outside this article.)

It's especially bizarre since the author's only reference to the founder's "confused and useful idiot politics" is that the founder claims that regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, China are authoritarian and that there are human rights abuses elsewhere. That claim seems not only reasonable, but also perfectly consistent with still being suspicious about US surveillance policy.

ctlaltdefeat | 7 years ago | on: Avoid FIFA World Cup CDN Issues

Yes!

ctlaltdefeat | 7 years ago | on: Vectordash: GPU instances for deep learning

If I understand correctly, the instances available are containerized instances that users run (i.e, the system matches hosts to guests and takes a cut).

Beyond being dangerous on multiple levels, there doesn't seem to be any guarantee of storage or network bandwidth/traffic. Having a multi-TFLOP GPU to train with is hardly useful if you can't get the training data on the device in a reasonable amount of time, or hold that data in local storage.

ctlaltdefeat | 8 years ago | on: Benchmarking Modern GPUs for Maximum Cloud Cost Efficiency in Deep Learning

Hetzner has a single 1080 for 99 EUR a month: https://www.hetzner.de/dedicated-rootserver/ex51-ssd-gpu

ctlaltdefeat | 8 years ago | on: An On-Device Deep Neural Network for Face Detection

I would consider that pretty performant for a task such as this on a phone.

ctlaltdefeat | 8 years ago | on: Startup Cities Index: best cities for startup employees

I don't know, I would much rather be in Bratislava or Bucharest than Pittsburgh (the only one out of your list I've been in) in terms of quality of life, income, and opportunity.

Language is a different story though...

ctlaltdefeat | 8 years ago | on: The blockchain paradox: Why DLTs may do little to transform the economy

>in particular, so-called mining pools, headed by a handful of individuals, are very influential.

He mentioned that.

ctlaltdefeat | 8 years ago | on: Advantages of Using R Notebooks for Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks

And for options utilizing grammar of graphics (really worth knowing, even if you're not coming from the R world) you have ggplot and plotnine, which are both sort of ports of ggplot2 from R.

ctlaltdefeat | 8 years ago | on: Plato knew a lot about behavioural economics

Academia? The author is a journalist.

ctlaltdefeat | 9 years ago | on: Replacing Disqus with GitHub Comments

I'm not sure if this is really relevant, but recently I've been looking into something similar: trying to find a decent, self-hosted, simple "real-time chatbox" to add to my site instead of the various online options. Anyone know of something good for this?

ctlaltdefeat | 9 years ago | on: Always Free Usage Limits

To be fair, there are some instances where GC has unique technological advantages compared to VPSes. Their new distributed ACID SQL database comes to mind.

ctlaltdefeat | 9 years ago | on: How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it

There are various mature options for scheduling jobs with dependencies between them.

Why did you choose to write your own, regardless of the language?

ctlaltdefeat | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

Anyone using an asynchronous python library? Interested in how that's shaping up.

ctlaltdefeat | 9 years ago | on: DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment

I remember that program! Interesting though that my experience with it was different; I recall that letting it run for enough time it was able to come up with viable and often quite efficient build orders. By the way, I do seem to remember that putting 2 probes on an extractor was slightly more efficient (per probe) than 3 :)

ctlaltdefeat | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Euro 2016 predictions using Bayesian inference

Are you guys confident that this can beat the market (i.e Betfair)? I would highly suspect that the answer is "not at all". Does this affect you?

ctlaltdefeat | 9 years ago | on: CertBot: Automatically enable HTTPS on your website with Let's Encrypt certs

The webserver Caddy also offers similar functionality

ctlaltdefeat | 10 years ago | on: PredictIt: How It Works

Why aren't decimal odds used, a-la the established betting exchanges? The system is equivalent without having to dedicate pages to explain confusing terminology.

ctlaltdefeat | 10 years ago | on: Economic Inequality

> Graham writes another article on a subject about which he knows little, and in doing so quotes Stiglitz as advocating a silly "fallacy".

ctlaltdefeat | 10 years ago | on: GoshawkDB: A distributed, transactional, fault-tolerant object store

Ceph doesn't seem to support (serializable) transactions (correct if wrong), which is kind of the whole point. In fact, how does it differentiate itself from Apache Cassandra etc? By storing arbitrary objects?