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sebastian

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: How do sites like coinbase.com or mint.com access your bank accounts?

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www.subway.com 15y ago

View the HTML Source of subway.com; it's a marvel of modern browser technology.

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news.cnet.com 16y ago

Japanese government plans $2 billion robot moon base by 2020

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www.independent.co.uk 16y ago

Colombia set to elect the world's first Green head of state

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Help picking a name for my app

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www.livestream.com 16y ago

CrunchGear Watch Live Stream From The Apple Tablet Event

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Cassandra or MongoDB?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Have any cassandra benchmarks been published anywhere?

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask HN: Where Can I Download Standford iPhone Development Course Materials?

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www.prisonplanet.com 17y ago

WTF: Facebook Censors User For Promoting The Obama Deception

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twitter.com 17y ago

One day challenge: Building a fun consumer app in 24 hours.

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www.eflorenzano.com 17y ago

Making Django Imports Less Painful

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ericholscher.com 17y ago

Announcing Django Crawler and django-test-utils

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www.techcrunch.com 17y ago

Dapper MashupAds Turn Your Website Into Contextual, Display Ads

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hollywoodphony.wordpress.com 17y ago

What's up with Apple shipping miniature iphone chargers in enormous boxes?

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www.carsonified.com 17y ago

DropSend Acquired by MakeMyComputerFaster.com

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

Ask YC: MacBook Black vs. MacBook Air

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

Ask YC: How does Kayak or Mobissimo work?

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Yeah, I like the ratio framing. That does seem like the kind of experiment you'd want to run next.

The thing I'd be curious to separate out is ratio vs density. The fiction examples were positive, but a lot of the tokens are still spent on normal story work. The targeted examples put much more of the training signal on the AI being in the relevant situation and choosing against the bad option.

That makes me think the next thing to test is not just the positive/negative mix, but how much of the data is actually about the failure mode.

I think the paper cuts a bit against the "just write nicer AI stories" version of this.

They tried something close to that. Positive AI fiction and also a "virtuous character" setup. Those didn't seem to do nearly as well as the targeted examples.

What mattered, at least in this setup, was more specific. The model sees the actual failure-mode scenario, the bad action is available, and the example shows the AI choosing against it.

So this reads less like "nicer AI stories" to me, and more like inoculation.

Which benefits does EdgeDB have over Hasura which isn't built on top of PostgreSQL but as a layer that runs on top of it and exposes a GraphQL API along with access control, event triggers and other features?

I would love to see the code open sourced! (it's ok if you have edge cases pending as long as they have been documented or at least mentioned in a README). Managing and running migrations smoothly without downtime is a very common challenge that a lot of startups face and I think a lot of us have been reinventing the wheel over and over to handle this due to the lack of current offerings.

Highly unrelated (and lots of reasons missing): I was never a fan of Gnome and for years ended up "just going with LXDE instead" until I gave Budgie a try about 6 months ago. I have never been happier in my life.

Open isn't a magic bullet.

But closeness makes it extremely difficult to find actual backdoors left on purpose. Open processors would be a first step in the right direction.

Even though Mutt, Alpine, Sup and Notmuch might work great for some people they seem to be accessible only from a terminal, emacs, etc and very text heavy. As much as I love spending time on the terminal, I prefer a GUI app for my email.

Postbox unfortunately doesn't support Linux, besides that while I don't mind paying licences for great software, it doesn't look like Postbox is fully opensource [1].

[1] https://www.postbox-inc.com/coveredcode

Thanks for not letting Thunderbird die. In my opinion it's still the best and most customizable opensource email client and there is just not a viable replacement.

Most of the open source email clients I have tested require you to run a local webserver and access the mail using a web browser with very limited features. All I want/need is a desktop app that can be customized to work similar to Gmail, pulls and deletes emails from remote SMTP/IMAP servers and allows me to create backups locally.

Thunderbird gives me that.

Another approach would be to have to pay the equivalent of USD 5-10 cents in some email crypto currency in order to allow an unknown sender to put their email on my inbox. If I reply or add the sender to my whitelist the fee is automatically refunded to the original sender and future messages between both parties would won't require a transaction fee any longer.

[dead] 9 years ago

Checkout discord. It was developed for gamers but lots of people are now using it for remote pairing.

SEEKING WORK - Remote

My background includes 4 university majors (Computer Science, Information Technology/Web Development, Multimedia Design and Media Arts). I have been developing web applications for nearly 9 years.

Although I usually spend most of my time building robust back-ends that can scale on commodity hardware, I'm a well rounded full stack web software engineer. I know the front-end side of things as much as I know the back-end side. I can code any type of UI using cross-browser, valid HTML5/ CSS3/JS quickly and robust.

I have an eye for good design, I can use an existing style guide and build new screens (design, usability, back-end, front-end) all entirely by myself.

I was a django early adopter. I have been using it as my primary web development framework since version 0.96. I have been developing applications (server, desktop and then webapps) in python since about 10 years ago.

A few sample projects I have worked on:

peakery.com crowdstir.com einztein.com championsound.com suggestionbox.com begreennow.com replyforall.com (http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/replyforalls-caus...)

Specialties: Python,django (early adopter), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Scalability, High-availability, Performance Optimizations, Cloud computing, System Administration, Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Memcached, Large-Scale Caching, Key/Value stores, XHTML, CSS, JS, JQuery, Open source technologies, Rapid Prototyping, Usability, A/B testing, Remote project management, Remote hiring, Learning new technologies.

Contact: sebastian at django.pro

How possible would it be to use something like Spark or Derby.js's Racer in a django site?

I like the realtime concept/behavior but I want to keep developing in django.