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www.nordan.ai 18d ago

How AI models would vote in Sweden

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github.com 9mo ago

Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript

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news.ycombinator.com 11mo ago

Bitnami ending free tier in August – what open alternative are you switching to?

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chrome.google.com 3y ago

Twitter Wikipedia Badge – Open and free validation of Twitter accounts

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chrome.google.com 3y ago

Chrome Plugin: use Wikipedia as verification of Twitter accounts

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chrome.google.com 3y ago

Democratize Verification: Twitter Wikipedia Badge for Notable Profiles

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twitter.com 3y ago

How will we react to sentient AI:s?

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twitter.com 3y ago

Show HN: GPT-4 wrote a verified by Wikipedia badge for Twitter

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github.com 4y ago

Still no IPv6 support in Vercel in May 2022

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

AI: RNN Generated Viking Metal Song

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twitter.com 5y ago

The Stockholm City war against open source continues

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twitter.com 5y ago

Civic tech Open Source project sabotaged by Stockholm City government

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slate.com 6y ago

Nordic Quack (2009)

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github.com 9y ago

Pureact – 65 LOC implementation of React+Redux

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codepen.io 9y ago

Show HN: Replicate JS dwitter in 140b

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github.com 10y ago

Deep Learning Classifier with Docker

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spotify.github.io 12y ago

QuickStart: A CommonJS module resolver, loader, compiler for Node.js and browser

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github.com 12y ago

Run Node.js in AWS Opsworks smoothly

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coderwall.com 12y ago

Semantic Parallax with CSS

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About the caching things. This is a flaw in the backend, not in the Frontend. If the backend is only relying on prefix cache you need to look for more fine grained cache solutions like HiCache or Lmcache. If your backend discards the whole cache because of one date is changed, you really can’t blame it on the Frontend. It is an implementation detail that you push to the wrong side.

Slow 12 months ago

The bitcoin block chain should be on this list

Thanks!

Well we have already made the source code open and free and also encouraged the city to release an app with our source code as base. They weren’t interested in that. They would rather license the app, support and maintenance to us. We have quoted a fixed sum per month for that service and we plan to use that money to reimburse everyone sending PR:s we merge.

The law is not specific at all in regards to the format of the document. So to talk about an “API legally” has no meaning. In a private scenario it makes sense but what we are talking about here is public documents which are sent through an API. The city has responsibility to only send information I have (as a parent) legally right to see. How I parse it and present it is up to me as citizen (through an app or save it as json and upload to an excel file or such)

One implication of this project could be that government agencies in Sweden can not have private API:s.

To use more proprietary methods (private api:s) will have no effect on the constitutional law. You still have received a public document as a citizen.

(I am Christian Landgren, cofounder of the project)

You are right, the city believes they have ownership of the data, mainly because they fail to understand that they aren’t showing data in an app, but rather publishing data in an API. In Swedish law, once you have released data from a government, the receiver have the right to do whatever they want with the that data (as long as it isn’t violating any other laws).

The city in this case is responsible to check that the data is safe to share publicly and once they have- the data is not theirs. This is regulated in the constitutional law regulating free speech which goes back to year 1766.

This means that they can’t really apply the same logic as a private company can when publishing data in their api. A private company can still keep license over what can be done with the data they publish. A city can not do that because of these constitutional laws.

Thanks! Yes, we are investigating our legal options.

We just recently filed an appeal regarding getting access to the API documentation.

We have gotten a lot of PR in Sweden from the major news papers and tech press. So I think the pressure is building but if it is one thing Swedes are worried about is the appearance internationally. So help us getting this story to Wired, TechCrunch etc - that will make them crazy. We still live on the front page of Newsweek from 2000 - the capital of Internet. That might be true for the tech scene but definitely not the public sector.

We would rather concentrate our limited time and resources on making the product better instead of this crap but we have an amazing community that are helping us with both legal advice, artwork, communication, UX etc so we will continue the fight and will keep you updated here in Hacker News.

Thanks for all support so far!

We did. We have a regex to catch all variants of spellings. But since our code is open they can easily select another variant. We could load our script dynamically but have chosen not to of security reasons. (And transparency).

(I’m the founder of this initiative)

For us that lived through the BBS times during 80s and 90s, this was the standard trick to achieve gradients and more colors.

Look at Pureact (I’m the author) and make a pull request with your diff code to make the whole thing without any dependencies? Would be supercool!

Most smartphones shift phases on the left/right channels to make it sound better in headphones (simulating bigger room), this means you can combine the two channels (by connecting the positive wires or just wiggle a little in the headphone jack half way in) to extract the vocal track. Not as fancy as a CNN but I’m guessing it would be better to do something with the stereo information in preprocessing before training.

The irony that the article isn't available in the EU because of data/privacy laws that time.com obviously thinks is too restricted so they decided to block the EU.

Who is horse_js? 8 years ago

Just use elasticsearch/kibana and you will save yourselves from lots of Azure costs. Find keywords and group by device and location. Simple as that.

Is this russia wanting to get hold of our data?

From their privacy policy:

”...you may provide us with digital data including, without limitation audio files, containing Personally Identifiable Information of the customers or users of your applications that may be disclosed, collected, or stored in connection with the use of our API. We use this data, which in most instances is less than all of the data we have received, to provide our services, to improve our services and for training purposes.