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Is there anything like this for the vector landscape?

This may just be due to the iterative denoising approach a lot of these models take but they only seem to work well when creating raster style images.

In my experience when you ask them to create logos, shirt designs, illustrations, they tend to not work as well and introduce a lot of artifacts, distortions, incorrect spellings etc.

mt3ckon Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help system

Wow.. you've done a lot thanks for resurrecting this!

Like many of the others, WebOS kicked off my career into software development and was my first endeavor building software larger then a simple website.

I created GetMeVino as a simple wine resource for myself as there were similar apps on IOS and I wanted one to use on WebOS. I remember posting it on precentral forums and actually got interest from Palm themselves to build it out further and release it on their catalog. I was blown away, inspired by the possibilities and that really lit a fire in me to want to continue creating even outside WebOS.

Definitely wouldn't have been here today without WebOS.

Some other highlights, the browser based IDE Ares way ahead of its time, WebOS at CES2010 and the Palm developer relations, getting invited to Mozilla for Firefox OS.

I am going to need to find my old devices now!

mt3ckon Going Viral as a Woman in Tech

Not to make small of her points, as i am sure women may get it more but the point 'Why should a woman have to expect to be harassed every time she puts herself out there online?'.

I agree this is bullshit, but its the same for anyone, if you put yourself out there expect to be harassed.

mt3ckon GenX Are a Retirement Time Bomb for the American Economy

Ads give me ads!

mt3ckon Early Lessons in 360-Degree Video

Im there with you, I get this sensation that I am missing something if I am not looking in the correct orientation as the key action taking place

mt3ckon Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

would say those are generally two different markets user bases no? Not everyone who could leverage color pallets has to write code.

mt3ckon Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?

definitely second Tufte, lots of good info on consolidation and creating coherent charts and maps from large datasets

mt3ckon Argue with your customers

'Looking back on this experience, I think some people are incredibly ego-driven, so the prospect of doing something off-the-shelf or for free doesn't enter their conscience.'

I agree completely and have experienced the same very often.

mt3ckon The History of Ice Cream

so does clicking the close button, didnt have sign in or up for anything to read whole article

mt3ckon Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs

i am not that old =p, but thought it was pretty cool to see one of the .orgs on my bday

mt3ckon One Island Grows 80% of the World’s Vanilla

dont the flowers only show for a 24hr period and if not pollinated wont produce vanilla?

mt3ckon Through-Wall Human Pose Estimation Using Radio Signals

maybe so... but only external walls right and even then dont you want wifi in the back yard?

mt3ckon Capacitor: Universal Web Applications

With this in mind do you plan on offering a path for migration from existing Cordova apps?

mt3ckon Lessons from Spotify

Not exactly.. in fact I've been more disappointed when I go to Netflix and cant find a classic to stream.

mt3ckon Show HN: Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming

Yes very much thanks for the breakdown and look forward to an email from me in the future!! best!

mt3ckon Show HN: Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming

Great looking service, excited to check it out further. The company I work for builds lots of self service video portals for clients and we use Azure Media Services for ingestion, transcoding, storage and streaming.

Care to elaborate on how this related to Azure Media Services?

Thanks!

mt3ckon Craftsmanship – The alternative to the four-hour work week mindset

Exactly.

I think there are a lot of individuals that preach things like the 4HWW when trying to achieve a wealthy lifestyle with little or no work, but the author is just taking advantage of that.

Work smarter not harder, and it doesnt make you a craftsman by working slower or over longer periods, its about optimizing your time and being as effective as possible. Much of a typical 40hr work week is wasted time.

mt3ckon Can we tokenize behavior?

I think we need to be careful about integrating blockchain into the fabric of societies, especially the social and emotional aspects.

'Think not of how to replumb or rewire the world, but how to create the environment where interactions can be different, social, within a new economic order.'

This gets me thinking of the episode Fifteen Million Merits (S1, Ep2) of Black Mirror.

mt3ckon Microsoft to make more Cognitive Services tools available to developers

Pretty simple use case but I integrated the Cognitive Service API with a simple personality quiz app that allowed the user to upload their photo to determine gender and age in addition to the questions they answered that helped determine who they got matched up with.

Very simple REST API, I was able to mock everything up with POSTMAN(chrome rest app) then quickly port the calls to PHP code making simple curl requests.

mt3ckon Robots Are Taking Over Oil Rigs

Where are my clever Hackers references at?

mt3ckon Steve Miller: The Whole Music Industry Is Fuckin' Gangsters and Crooks

This reminds me of a clip from Vinyl.

Vinyl 1x01 - Zak Yankovich "We practically break even on all the flops." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PU3DHiXZ-8

mt3ckon Angular 2 versus React

I guess I missed the memo. When did it happen that web markup suddenly got a need to be dynamic?

mt3ckon At some startups, Friday is so casual that it’s not even a workday

Not always so.. maybe his circumstances favor working on the weekends and it happens to be a benefit to him?

mt3ckon Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source

thanks for the help ;)

mt3ckon Meet the BRCK

More specifically, its the 'connector' piece of the cable, not really the ethernet. It stands for Registered Jack-47 and is more or less a standardization for 'connectors' or jacks.

mt3ckon Extreme Motion SDK – Add motion experiences to existing applications

http://opencv.org/

definitely not as plug and play a solution as the sdk in question, but certainly an option.