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by cschmidt 13y ago
Has anyone read what happens if there are multiple winners? Do they split the prize? Is one winner chosen at random? Do they all get a billion? It really affects how you should play. For example, a common bracket might be to pick all the to
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by cschmidt 13y ago
The 128k Mac was very usable (and a thing of magic and joy to me as a teenager). The only bad part was swapping floppy disks back and forth. That could give you disk swapper's elbow. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.p
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Congratulations to the Stripe team. Strips is one of those excellent companies that make the tech world a better place. I actually spent the day working on adding Stripe integration to a Django application for my startup. Since there seem
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Rsync.net uses a warrant canary as well: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt I've actually found it kind of surprising that they haven't had any warrants yet. But you're going to be se
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> Q. What would Virtru do if it received a request > from the United States government for encryption keys? > A. We will require the government to go to court, > and if we can, we will notify you.
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her missive, actually
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I think he was trying to say that programmers do use some math concepts even when they might not think of it that way. Lawyers or other non-programmers (rightfully) don't know about mathematical concepts that programmers just take f
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Very cool. I wonder where the quote came from: Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brothe
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by cschmidt 13y ago
There was previously a published paper that did a hierarchical clustering of a bunch of whiskies: A Classification of Pure Malt Scotch Whiskies Lapointe and Legendre Appl. Statist. (1994) 43, No. 1, pp. 237-257 http:&#x
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That's just following Edward Tufte's maxim to minimize chart junk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk Any of you on HN that aren't familiar with "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information&q
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Fastmail uses the YubiKey for two factor authentication. http://www.yubico.com/
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I'm not sure I agree with the advice to write out your talk in complete sentences. I think you'd be tempted to memorize the talk. In grad school, we gave lots of technical talks. There was one guy who wrote everything out, and h
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Here is the list of people who Obama has pardoned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_Bara... It looks like many of them were just erasing the record of those who committed minor crimes a long ti
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by cschmidt 13y ago
The $70 is so insignificant, yet there is always someone who can't see why they would ever pay a cent for their tools. I spend 40 hours a week in an editor, making it around $0.03/hr over a single year. If you like Emacs or vim,
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Sorry, it changed since I last looked. They used to offer a regular subscription with both digital and print, or a cheaper digital only. As you say, now they offer the regular option with both, or a cheaper option with either digital or
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I also love the Economist audio edition. I listen to it during my commute, and mostly get through it each week. It kept me sane on a horrible commute with my previous job. They have a separate digital subscription, if you just want the webs
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by cschmidt 13y ago
My son writes programs using Python's turtle graphics, which reminds me of the Logo programming I did on my Vic 20 as a kid. Yesterday he was writing the same "input a number and then draw a polygon with that many sides" prog
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by cschmidt 13y ago
> On-Premises or Private Cloud It would seem that their enterprise version does this.
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The python package rpy2 also makes it easier to switch. If you really need that esoteric library that only exists in R (and you know you do), you can call it from your python code fairly easily.
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Python Displacing R As The Programming Language For Data Science(readwrite.com)
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Since no one has answered you, I'll take a stab. I haven't actually used Docker yet, but I've been lurking extensively. Hopefully someone will correct me if I get this wrong. A developer will use a Dockerfile to build the m
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It qualifies me to talk about the python ecosystem, which I know quite well. I said something I thought was true, but wasn't. That's an honest mistake. I was unaware of a library, maybe even one that is well known. I was quite su
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Thanks for pointing out sympy, I hadn't heard of it. I'm not sure why you're being sarcastic, I basically write python code full time. I'm quite familar with it, so I felt qualified to comment without doing any 'in
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I've used Mathematica for 24 years now, and I quite like it. It was especially helpful when I was in school, for working on my homework. The fact that it could do symbolic calculus, and do algebra without making any mistakes helped a t
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You do realize she is an adult now. She was just writing about how she felt at 18. Don't be a jerk about other peoples ambitions.
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I think if you read the announcement carefully, it is the standard aqui-hire wording. Dropbox isn't remotely in the same space as PiCloud, and doesn't want to be. They simply "acquired" PiCloud to get their team of deve
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Hi Solomon, There are tons of companies that are working on Docker based solutions to my problems. In six months, or a year, there will be plenty of great ways for me to use Docker. The only problem is that PiCloud shuts down on February 2
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I think it is pretty clear from the wording it is an aqi-hire by DropBox. They are just getting a talented team. I am very close to launching Predictobot.com, which uses PiCloud for all of its computation. I spent last week moving to Herok
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I guess just that they are there to pick up the pieces from PiCloud, like someone should have done for those other failures.
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As a very happy user of PiCloud, I'm sad to see it go. It is a shame they had such A-list VC's (Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and Greylock Partners), who don't have an interest in just a good soli

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