DavidChouinard

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Google uses machine learning to fill in the blanks in your spreadsheet(venturebeat.com)
3 points by DavidChouinard 12y ago|0 comments
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“Complete Acquiesence”: How the Pontiac Aztek Happened(blog.caranddriver.com)
52 points by DavidChouinard 12y ago|56 comments
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Millions of voiceprints quietly being harvested(bigstory.ap.org)
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Breaking the Silk Road's Captcha(github.com)
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Duo Security Researchers Uncover Bypass of PayPal’s Two-Factor Authentication(duosecurity.com)
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iOS 8 randomises the MAC address while scanning for WiFi networks(twitter.com)
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by DavidChouinard 13y ago
I'm a (private) pilot. Many years ago, I faced a sudden engine failure and performed an emergency landing in a minuscule pasture surrounded by a very forested area. It very nearly costed me and my passengers' lives. The plane was
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You never did math in high school(j2kun.svbtle.com)
69 points by DavidChouinard 13y ago|83 comments
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by DavidChouinard 13y ago
+1 for this. I trust you're working hard on these problems, but can't fantom why it takes so long. I'm really curious about what bureaucratic mess is hidden under the hood of currencies.
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by DavidChouinard 13y ago
We use GitHub to teach Harvard's CS171 [1]. Couldn't recommend it more — we use it for the course website and for managing homework [2] (great for pushing out homework updates). Students publish their work on GitHub and we have a
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Ex-NSA Chief Details Snowden's Hiring at Agency, Booz Allen(online.wsj.com)
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California Orders Coding Bootcamps to Stop Enrollment and Issue Refunds(fastcompany.com)
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Hackers get encrypted PINs in Target data breach(engadget.com)
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FBI agent tries to copyright torture manual, inadvertently makes it public(motherjones.com)
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Why am I here?(sivers.org)
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CIA's anti-terrorism effort called 'colossal flop'(latimes.com)
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by DavidChouinard 13y ago
I agree, see Synack [1] (marketplace for bug bounties, with the bugs and rewards vetted by Synack). I think it's a huge opportunity. [1] http://www.synack.com/
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How does C compute sin() and other math functions?(stackoverflow.com)
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FlightAware MiseryMap — visualization of the state of Thanksgiving flight delays(flightaware.com)
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Financing 100,000 Entrepreneurs(blog.uber.com)
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Five founders left to split $36,000 after their tech startup gets sold for $82M(dailymail.co.uk)
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U.S. Senate More Divided Than Ever Data Shows(forbes.com)
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by DavidChouinard 13y ago
I'm actually a student in the course and my interest in this was spun out of the last homework.
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by DavidChouinard 13y ago
I've definitely considered that, but it's computationally difficult to make it in the browser. This animated gif is as close as it comes: http://i.minus.com/ibi7p66VbETpnU.gif
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by DavidChouinard 13y ago
My data source (GovTrack) only has vote count, but not roll calls, before the 101th Congress. It might be possible to get data before that, but I suspect it's quite hard.
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by DavidChouinard 13y ago
The data is actually from GovTrack.us, which I suspect is also where DW-NOMINATE gets it. My script for querying GovTrack is on Github: https://github.com/DavidChouinard/congressviz
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by DavidChouinard 13y ago
The thickness of edges represents the number of times the pair of senators voted the same in the Senate (only edges above a threshold are shown). The two tightly coiled clusters shows just how weak the relationships are between the two part
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Show HN: Voting Relationships in the US Senate(static.davidchouinard.com)
94 points by DavidChouinard 13y ago|48 comments
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How To Fix Healthcare.gov(blog.dobt.co)
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iMessage Privacy(blog.quarkslab.com)
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