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by Russell91 11y ago
Wow. The difference in quality between the NYT 20 years ago and today is simply astonishing. It seems that this prescient article ironically also marked the beginning of the end for the New York Times.
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by Russell91 11y ago
Does anyone else find it ironic/hilarious that YC considers customer complaints about their product to be "off topic".
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by Russell91 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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by Russell91 11y ago
This comment is the exact perception about HTTPS that we need to change. It's not the job of HTTPS to say whether a website is safe or unsafe, good or bad. HTTPS should be the default communication protocol for every website, and lets
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by Russell91 11y ago
If these paywall sites are being officially supported, why not reroute users directly to the google search for these articles?
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A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style(github.com)
95 points by Russell91 11y ago|17 comments
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by Russell91 11y ago
Nice article. Shameless plug: readers that would like to use cython outside of the convenient ipython notebook interface should look into runcython [1]. You can run any python file using cython with: sudo pip install runcython mv
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by Russell91 11y ago
Nice response, Lazare. It's great to learn from people with the competence to understand the facts, and the desire to stay objective.
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Show HN: Run cython on any python program(github.com)
1 points by Russell91 11y ago|0 comments
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by Russell91 11y ago
Uber's only UI is their app. Their app will never be optimized for renting trucks. Thus, fleetzen will have a permanent advantage here that will only increase if reinforced with an advantage in terms of the availability of drivers.
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Using Haskell's QuickCheck for Python(blog.wearewizards.io)
43 points by Russell91 12y ago|14 comments
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by Russell91 12y ago
Ironically, rent control is exactly why there is so little housing available in SF. Iirc, only 30% of the voting population owns property. So how is it that the rest of us (70%) don't vote to build more? Well, because 3/4 renters
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by Russell91 12y ago
This is exactly what I came here to say. Now I don't have to. It's hard for me to continue reading an article after reading such an obvious logical error.
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by Russell91 12y ago
No, the python interpreter itself takes about 0.03 seconds to start up on an i7. Awk and sed and friends are usually about 1/10th of that. So the python interpreter startup time dominates the cost for most simple tasks. It's not e
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by Russell91 12y ago
"Some later interest was fuelled by Loyd offering a $1,000 prize for anyone who could provide a solution for achieving a particular combination specified by Loyd, namely reversing the 14 and 15.[13] This was impossible, as had been sho
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by Russell91 12y ago
It just vexes me that thorium research is not a national priority. How can a technology that, by many estimates, has at least a 50% chance of being a viable replacement of all energy needs over the next 1000 years not be worthy of the US in
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by Russell91 12y ago
Yes, the name is controversial. But it's also highly functional. I do recommend that you try out pythonpy even though you have already tried one of the other similar tools. I think you'll find it to be simpler, without losing much
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by Russell91 12y ago
And python3 as well :). Just use `pip3 install pythonpy`.
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Pythonpy – Command-line Kung Fu with Python(github.com)
158 points by Russell91 12y ago|34 comments
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by Russell91 12y ago
fwiw, correlation actually is transitive if strong enough. This is obvious if corr(x,y) = 1 and corr(y,z) = 1, then corr(x,z) = 1. More generally, you can get this constraint by looking at the minimal value a for which the matrix [[1, corr(
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runcython – cython for humans(github.com)
3 points by Russell91 12y ago|0 comments
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by Russell91 12y ago
Was just reading this interesting article and mentioned it to my girlfriend. She said this was old news and told me about a shampoo with seemingly bogus reviews. So I did some digging... Seems like there were some voting rings on this produ
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by Russell91 12y ago
you're right, this is a better way of thinking about it.
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by Russell91 12y ago
If you look into this and figure it out, please submit a pull request giving a short description on the readme.
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by Russell91 12y ago
It's constructed entirely from builtin unix commands, so it's solid. The biggest risk is that someone could put malicious code into your ~/.sshrc, which would be run on the server. However, if they have write access to your $
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by Russell91 12y ago
yes, but using a separate scp command requires a second round trip and second password/key authentication, which would double the wait time of the already slow ssh login process.
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by Russell91 12y ago
np. The funny thing is that sshrc is just a bash script, so it really could have come about 10 years ago. All it took was a few weeks of unemployment and refusal to believe that it couldn't be done. For those of you that opt out of rea
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sshrc – make your ssh sessions feel like home(github.com)
235 points by Russell91 12y ago|44 comments
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by Russell91 12y ago
Do my downvoters have any feedback? How can you deny that content dilution is a serious problem that can be ameliorated, but not solved by intelligent modding. YC has already recognized this by recently adding the separate "Show HN&quo
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by Russell91 12y ago
Of course you work hard, and thank you for that, but you're fighting an uphill battle. It's not like all the submissions are coming from YC founders anymore. People love to post stories with these sensational titles and meager con

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