skypanther's comments

I'd love to see your code. In particular, I'd like to see what you did with "I could just directly assign the data I read from the SD card to the internal buffer of the LED library instance and display it."

It describes my symptoms - anger, lashing out, sleep issues. Meds have helped enormously.

I got 1.125% which in retrospect was too low. But perhaps the bigger point is to find out or negotiate what it will take to get additional grants. Executives and the founders will likely get additional equity, particularly during funding rounds, the hiring of key roles, etc. You should have a path to getting additional stake too.

I've done an awful lot of Dutch oven cooking with my Boy Scout troop. I never once thought the term meant anything other than the cast iron pot.

Every day, for almost 20 years now

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this. But why is a CNN necessary for predicting the turning angle? Seems like OpenCV would be sufficient (assuming sufficient contrast between the line and the floor). Grab image, threshold, find the largest contour around the line, grab its minAreaRect() and from that calculate the angle.

Editing to add -- this is still a cool project. I don't mean to detract from it by pointing out that I think it could be done without the AI piece.

I've worked remote for over a decade. At the best jobs, I was made to feel fully part of the team. I was included in decision making, kept updated with changing plans, had a means to communicate & stay socially and professionally involved with the team. In those cases, I was fully dedicated to the job.

On the other hand, I've worked other jobs where I was essentially ignored for weeks, even months at a time. I was left out of decisions, etc and just handed work to do. At those places, I definitely drifted off into my own stuff.

Well, there's the stigma of talking about anything related to mental illness or depression. Personally, I've never shared any of my struggles with inner demons with anyone other than my wife (and now here).

You have to be prepared to deal with an old home's quirks. It is not going to have all the amenities and features of a modern house. Yep, it will wiggle and squeak and probably will need to have its electrical and plumbing checked out by a competent contractor.

It will have been "maintained" by people of varying skills, desires, tastes, budgets, etc over its lifetime. Many of the repairs I've had to do in my old house have involved undoing or fixing the previous owner's poor work.

The flip side, our house is over 100 years old and has most of its original windows. Other than some painting, glazing, and caulking they're fine & pretty weathertight. It has 12" wide floor joists ... I could park a car in the living room. And it has glorious architectural details not found in (or poorly imitated in) modern homes.

The inventory of old homes will never be larger than what we have now. Every year, old homes are lost to fire, flood, tear down, and insensitive remuddlings. If you're not willing to live in and love an old house for what it is, please, buy a new home.

As a lover of old houses, it's nice to see this sort of thing discussed. A few minor quibbles:

The article (though fortunately not the poster/infographic) mentions the "Victorian" style. Victorian is an era during which multiple housing styles were popular -- Queen Anne, Stick, Shingle, etc.

The stylized drawings, especially in the infographic, really obscure the characteristics of some of the styles. The Italianate drawing, for example, barely resembles the real thing.

Finally, the article and sources fail to mention that few houses truly represent one specific style. Typically, only architect-designed homes (built by the rich-n-famous) or kit homes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_houses_in_North_America) would really fit a specific style. Lots of homes of that era are best described as "vernacular" and combine elements of multiple styles. You then end up classifying it based on the predominant features. For example, I live in a home built in the 1890s that has a mix of Queen Anne, shingle, and stick elements. Though, my last home was a spot-on American Foursquare.

Nicely, the article references the McAlester book. It is the best resource I've found for classifying old houses. I have the older edition, authored by Virginia and Lee so I can't speak to the contents of the new edition. If you want some "old house porn" check out the Painted Lady series of books, too.

I almost did. I earned my black belt in karate and was teaching a few classes per week. I had frequent conversations with my sensei about working full time for him or starting a dojo of my own. We had a location picked out and everything.

Martial arts can be incredibly fulfilling. I got to help people improve their physical and mental fitness, gain confidence, overcome anxieties and fears. There were constant opportunities for fun, new friendships, and doing good in the community. Plus it was really cool knowing I could do some of those Bruce Lee / Chuck Norris moves I'd see in the movies.

At the time, I was the sole income for our family (wife & 3 kids). The income possibilities were just not there. We could not have made it work financially. Now, I'm an old out of shape desk jockey.

I started, but never finished grinding an 8" mirror. I began making a low-focal ratio mirror for deep sky observing (which means grinding it to one curve) then decided I wanted a high-magnification planetary scope instead (and reground to a different curve) then kids came along and my hobbies stopped.

Along the way, I built my own tools, like the necessary Foucault tester and a mirror grinding machine. My machine was basically a variable speed drill driving some eccentric gears that pushed the blank around. I have no idea whose plans I followed but there are lots out there. I planned to use it for the polishing stage but ended up giving the machine to a friend who tells me he used it successfully to polish a mirror.

Mel Bartels is a giant in the amateur telescope making (ATM) community. He's made many amazing scopes and advanced the art for the amateur a lot. See his scopes and articles at http://www.bbastrodesigns.com/tm.html

Stellafane is an annual gathering of amateur telescope makers (and astronomy enthusiasts) in Vermont. They have some nicely organized ATM info at http://stellafane.org/tm/atm/index.html

As my karate instructor used to say "You become like the people you surround yourself with"

A few years back, I started using a framework based on the openness and friendliness of its community (the tech was good, of course). That lead to a job with the framework's publisher, which lead to travel, speaking engagements, a self-published book, friends and acquaintances around the globe, and my current job. I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't use a language/framework if its community is arrogant. But, the benefits of finding the right community are well worth passing over the others.

I've been using your HN reader for a couple of months. I've tried about a dozen different readers and yours is probably the best one out there. Thanks for a great app!

If you're looking for input, look to the store comments. The number one comment is also my biggest complaint -- I want an option to open links in my external browser not your (limited) integrated browser. At minimum, improve CSS handling in the integrated browser .. support at least bold and italic text. Photo captions, quotes, etc. end up indistinguishable from article content because everything is rendered in the same style.

A smaller, though annoying issue is that waking the app from the background restarts it. Say I'm reading an article, get a call or otherwise background the app with that article still open. If I try to come back to it more than a few seconds later, the app restarts and I'm back to the article list.

And a minor bug, I've selected the blue theme. When the app starts, it shows the UI in orange (default) for a moment then switches to blue.

BTW, in your intro here you say the app is missing collapsible comments, but they are in the app and even in your screenshots on the store. This is a great feature and one I use regularly.

If you add the external browser option and fix the wake-from-background issue, I'd happily pay a buck or two for the app (or a pro version).

Thanks @sfeather for the post here!

But wouldn't you know it, I just found a bug in the iOS version that breaks searches. :facepalm: An update has been uploaded to Apple but it has to go through their review process. The Android version works in our testing.