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Kartificial··on Google Glass - If I Had Glass
Cool initiative. Too bad I wear glasses already and don't live in the US.
Kartificial··on Sergey Brin, Please Pick up your Paychecks
Funny, just found out that distant family overseas is owed over $1000, not bad :)
Kartificial··on Show HN: What colour is your IP address?
Doesn't work for me in Fx 18 but it does seem to work in Chrome (both Win7)
Kartificial··on Suite of 300 icons for web and user interface design
Great effort, definitely bookmarking this.
Kartificial··on HTML5 vector graphics editor
Maybe a small feature idea. When rotating elements, it's nice to be able to hold shift and let the object snap to 45 degrees angle increments.
Kartificial··on Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer
Hmm, site seems to be down?
Kartificial··on Write LaTeX - browser-based collaborative editor
Ok, did not know that :)

Well, maybe multiple files are not all that necessary, but a tree showing the document structure and enabling you to jump to a certain section with one click in the tree would be nice :)

Good luck on the project.

Kartificial··on Write LaTeX - browser-based collaborative editor
I am currently writing my master thesis in the almighty LaTeX, and when is was looking for an editor I also considered these online alternatives like this one.

The most important feature I came across is multiple files usage. My current editor (TexStudio) has a neat feature where I use my 'main' document as some sort of a container. I put the document header (with the packages and everything) in there and for every chapter I use a different file. This lets me work on a chapter in a seperate file which does not get me lost in a 1 huge file when looking up stuff in the content.

It also shows a tree of your document structure per chapter/section/subsection/subsubsection so you can navigate easily through the document. This might be a useful feature for this online alternative.

Also, compiling from one of the chapter files actually compiles the entire document, which is nice (because otherwise it'll complain that is has no document structure, packages, etc).

Kartificial··on Show HN: Wordsmith - jquery plugin that adds on-demand word definitions
Funny that is does not know what Javascript means ;)

For the rest, cool plugin and i cannot agree more with the tips by grk and imjared.

Kartificial··on Google Translate for Android Now Works With Photos
Have been playing around with this feature and notice that there is a clear boundary when it comes to performance. It comes down to the size of the letters. If you scan a lot of letters it does recognize the words, but the letter recognition turns out to be poor. As soon as you zoom in a bit the performance will improve drastically.

All in all, neat feature :)

Kartificial··on Show HN: Olympics Ranking Adjusted by Population (Evening Project)
I really do not care when people call it Holland instead of The Netherlands. Enough Dutch people often refer to it as Holland.
Kartificial··on Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers
I don't know about iPhones, but can't you just set your phone to appear as 'unknown caller' (so, no phone number is transmitted)? Or is this not really invisible?
Kartificial··on PrismJS
The text-shadow in the dark theme needs a little getting used to but looks pretty nice in the end.
Kartificial··on ASCII Google Streetview
This look pretty good, but is there any way to turn of the default scrolling behaviour? Kind of makes me nauseous.
Kartificial··on A technique for hiding your JavaScript code
Fun solution to a useless problem. Trying to hide your JS/HTML code is silly and pretty 1999-like.
Kartificial··on Guido van Rossum talks about Python 3, tomorrow, University of Amsterdam
Too bad it is on such short notice, would have really loved to come by.
Kartificial··on Tell HN: The "sexism in IT" bit is getting old
So why start another topic to discuss it? Seems contradictory to me.
Kartificial··on Fred Wilson: My New Nexus 7"
OK, unfortunately I'm not in the UK.

I guess it's not possible to pre-order in the US/UK and then ship it elsewhere in Europe?

Kartificial··on Show HN: Filter through all your FB friend's relationships - my weekend project
I see that friends are showed twice when they are in a relationship with another friend of you.

So if I have two friends: A and B, they're listed twice like:

A is in a relationship with B B is in a relationship with A

Bit redundant imo.

Kartificial··on Fred Wilson: My New Nexus 7"
Man, these kind of reviews only make me want the Nexus 7 more. Are there any dates released on when it's coming to Europe?
Kartificial··on Treating JavaScript like a 30 year old language
I just cannot wrap my head around the fact that readable code is considered boring?
Kartificial··on Twitter employee live-tweets his WSOP ascent
Good for him that he is able to play a WSOP-event, but many many poker players tweet during live tournaments. So from a poker players' perspective this is not all that interesting.

Good luck to him though, ship it :)

Kartificial··on Lanyrd no longer requires write access to your Twitter account
Nice to read that somebody actually cares about the permissions they ask and provide a careful approach to asking the user the appropriate permissions when needed.
Kartificial··on Dutch parliament rejects ACTA, prohibits government to sign or ratify.
Good news to start off the day. I hope many will follow.
Kartificial··on Algorithms Be Damned: Predicting Summer Box Office Hits With Social Media
Coming from an AI background their approach gives me the itches a little bit. The title suggests that they have a system not using 'algorithms' but they score sentiment by hand. I assume they have a system of some kind to finally score the total bag of annotated sentiment data (=algorithm)...

What bugs me the most is that they try to overcome problems related to analyzing text for sentiment by throwing away all the technology that is currently available and using humans instead. Why not try to innovate on automated sentiment analyses and save lots of money and time?

Kartificial··on See Websites Differently With Invisible Text, Only Pictures
It's slightly buggy for Twitter. When I'm in my timeline and apply the bookmark, the age of a tweet gets updated and is shown for about 2 seconds.
Kartificial··on Experimental 3D page layout inspired by Flipboard
Very neat demo! Works in Firefox 12 as well, but the rendering is not quite as smooth as in Chrome.
Kartificial··on Confused in Class? There's an App for that
Nice concept! Although I can imagine this only works in large classrooms, as where I'm used to have pretty small sized classes (~30).

I have had the opportunity to experiment with something like a voting system. The teacher mixed his lecture with some (multiple choice) questions the students can answer via the voting system. This created a far more dynamic lecture with instant feedback on the answers provided. Maybe a feature you want to consider? Because with the smartphones and tablet these days you eliminate the need for an extra device (like we were experimenting with).

Besides this all, the site looks broken here (Fx 12.0, Vista) because the CSS is not loaded. IE8 in Vista is also messy (with a loaded CSS file).

Kartificial··on The Rise of the 'Brogrammer'
Why would everything be so politically correct all the time? If a group of guys want to call themselves Brogrammers, be my guest, you might even get a giggle out of me.

If you don't like the culture, then please just leave them be and focus on others things which might be worthwhile in your opinion (because apparently, this is not).

Then this: "At the University of Pennsylvania, a computer science club had to back down from plans to wear T-shirts saying “Brogrammer” to a school festival when female members objected to it." Wait, what?

Kartificial··on [dead]
The link is not working due to the fact that the apostrophe is removed from the URL. Place an apostrophe (') between the r and the s in readers and it works.

Or try this: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/reader%27s-digest.aspx

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