Hacker News: john111

New comment by john111 in "Brandchirps – Simple Brand Monitoring"

john111 — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 04:28:33 +0000

You say you monitor the whole web. How is that possible?

New comment by john111 in "Boltzmann Brain"

john111 — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 23:26:50 +0000

>Your decisions only matter in the case that you're an actual human

Why do you say that decisions matter if you're a human? At least, why would decisions matter more as a human than if you're a Boltzmann brain?

New comment by john111 in "I love coding in C"

john111 — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 18:08:46 +0000

What's the point? How is typing foo::bar better than typing foo_bar?

It seems like you want the language to be more complicated for no benefit. Why not use C++ at that point?

New comment by john111 in "Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates"

john111 — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 06:40:31 +0000

I really wish we had better definitions for "smart", "cognition", and "intelligence." With our current definitions, all comparisons are purely subjective. Maybe crows are the "smartest" today. Tomorrow it'll be dolphins, parrots, elephants, pigs, or cephalopods. Who knows?

Tulipy – Technical Analysis with Python

john111 — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:02:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/cirla/tulipy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13553418

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by john111 in "YouTube has apparently reinstated RSS feeds"

john111 — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 04:56:45 +0000

>To get an RSS feed of a single channel’s uploads, paste the channel URL into your RSS reader.

How does this work? How does the feed-reader know to grab the RSS XML instead of the page HTML, if they have the same URL?

New comment by john111 in "How to accept Bitcoin payments without running a full node"

john111 — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 19:39:26 +0000

Glad to see the author here! Just curious, how did you know this was submitted?

How to accept Bitcoin payments without running a full node

john111 — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:55:21 +0000

Article URL: http://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/how-to-accept-bitcoin-payments.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938742

Points: 101

# Comments: 26

New comment by john111 in "Stamp design errors"

john111 — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:10:50 +0000

Can you link to an example? I know that 4x4x4 is thing, but 3x3x4 does seem impossible.

New comment by john111 in "Voting Paradoxes [video]"

john111 — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 17:59:20 +0000

I found this video really interesting. I knew that the current US system, first past the post, has a lot of problems from watching CPG Grey's [1] videos on it. I didn't know that the alternative systems, like ranked voting, had all these other weird problems.

It's depressing, really.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

New comment by john111 in "H.264 is Magic"

john111 — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 14:03:06 +0000

Can someone explain how the frequency domain stuff works? I've never really understood that, and the article just waves it away with saying it's like converting from binary to hex.

New comment by john111 in "Launching Our Crowdfunding Campaign"

john111 — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 16:17:01 +0000

For everyone shocked at the $200k/mo, there is a lot of previous discussion here [1].

Their staff cost about $200k/person, and their total budget for 2017 is 2.9M!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12541383

New comment by john111 in "The Benjamin Franklin Method: How to Be a Better Writer"

john111 — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:08:16 +0000

Benjamin Franklin's entire story is really inspirational. He certainly had work ethic in abundance.

If you need an excuse to practice your writing, you may want to try National Novel Writing Month[1], which coincidentally, starts tomorrow.

[1] http://nanowrimo.org

New comment by john111 in "Next.js – A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps"

john111 — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:34:27 +0000

Off-topic, but what process are people using to make these animated demos? The command-line and browser demo on this page is so clean and crisp. Is it just a screen cap with a ton of post-processing, or is there more to it?

New comment by john111 in "Twitter and Periscope Shadowbans Dilbert creator"

john111 — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:36:37 +0000

Censorship is a really concerning problem, with no obvious solution, when more and more of our communication is published by privately owned third-parties. The other frustrating thing is that this so often happens, and we don't even get a response from the censoring party. I know there is no expectation of free speech on a private platform, but it's still a serious social problem when everyone voluntarily publishes there anyway.