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iwillreplyon Chinese police use facial recognition tech to arrest suspect at a pop concert

https://cvdazzle.com

Amongst some other projects by Adam Harvey centered on facial recognition: https://ahprojects.com/projects/

iwillreplyon Admiral to price car insurance based on Facebook posts

Blocked by Facebook: https://news.fastcompany.com/facebook-has-blocked-a-car-insu...

iwillreplyon The Race for a Zika Vaccine

There is an FDA approval for testing Oxitec's GM mosquitos in a small scale trial in Florida.

There are also small scale tests in Brazil and the Caymans.

http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2016/08/fda-approves-gen...

iwillreplyon No More Deceptive Download Buttons

"Pretend to act, or look and feel, like a trusted entity — like your own device or browser, or the website itself."

This is a broad statement. Taken at face value, this covers all native advertising - with articles/images/videos/thumbnails/etc intended to fit in with the content of the site/app.

iwillreplyon Kodak resurrects Super 8

Gus van Sant did exactly this in Paranoid Park.

The skateboard scenes in the movie were shot on Super 8, as inspired by the common style for home made skate films.

Here's a short clip: https://vimeo.com/7170912

iwillreplyon Sello lets you sell anything to anyone, anywhere – by Shopify

Seems strange to not include any input for size information - and then include it in the share.

From their example of sneakers, to clothing or coffee, not sure I'd navigate to a post about many things, on the off chance it's my size.

iwillreplyon Introducing Twitch Creative

I remember some interest in watching Silvia Hartmann write a novel in a Google Doc a few years back:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/sep/12/novel...

iwillreplyon The Story of BuiltWith

Estimated using samples gathered with analytics through third-party browser plugins.

http://support.similarweb.com/customer/en/portal/articles/13...

iwillreplyon John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus

I did this on a flight. It was much more pleasant than inflight entertainment.

* 360 film doesn't work well, with not being able to move around.

iwillreplyon Life After Content Blocking

There is a service I read about in the Netherlands, called Blendle - that charges micropayments for articles read from news sites.

I've never used it personally, but their 1-year-later writeup:

https://medium.com/on-blendle/blendle-a-radical-experiment-w...

References allowing seamless refunds, for content that the reader doesn't find up to quality. With clickbait articles getting higher refund rates.

"At Blendle we see this every day. Gossip magazines, for example, get much higher refund percentages than average (some up to 50% of purchases), as some of them are basically clickbait in print."

While referencing for content as a whole "On average, in only 5% of the cases a user asks for a refund."

iwillreplyon Show HN: MadBlocker — iOS 8 Ad and Tracking Script Blocker

No problem at all. As I say, wasn't expectant. Good luck with it - the approach is unique, and on working beyond Safari would be awesome.

iwillreplyon Show HN: MadBlocker — iOS 8 Ad and Tracking Script Blocker

I hadn't, but just tried restarting safari, restarting device, and clearing safari history/data - and still having the same output.

* I'm completely fine with this being the case. Before installing I was completely unsure if it would work for iOS9 before trying (not expectant with it still being beta, but simply curious as it's an interesting approach).

iwillreplyon Show HN: MadBlocker — iOS 8 Ad and Tracking Script Blocker

Doesn't seem to work in iOS9 (at least for me).

Enabled ad blocking - went to mashable.com got ads as per https://www.dropbox.com/s/gqnf2mebzi74151/photo%20aug%2015%2... turned on mega list, refreshed, same thing.

iwillreplyon APItools Middleware Contest

The inspiration link seems to live at: https://docs.apitools.com/contest/need-inspiration/

iwillreplyon The DOM isn't slow

Interesting, I very briefly deliberated while vs for, and how the performance of both had changed since last look.

But checking at: https://blogs.oracle.com/greimer/resource/loop-test.html

Still seemed to demonstrate a decreasing while loop as the fastest in my test.

iwillreplyon The DOM isn't slow

Why would you append on every loop. Rather than build the string and then append the whole lot on one block?

If you compare the DOM of the original fiddle and the DOM of following the fiddle I posted. You will see they are the same.

I'm not saying what I referenced is the 'best' way of doing things. But that the debate in the original article (based on the provided examples) is pretty null.

iwillreplyon The DOM isn't slow

It's strange you blame jQuery outright for slowness of the DOM, and reference the jsFiddle as your reference point of speed.

Writing this utilising jQuery for DOM manipulation ( http://jsfiddle.net/YNxEK/7/ ) is getting me consistently faster results than the original fiddle ( http://jsfiddle.net/YNxEK/ ) on Firefox and Chrome.