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by cschmidt 13y ago
Aaack, thanks for the heads up. It is fixed, once the DNS propagates.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'm giving the first demo of Predictobot on July 28th at PyData Boston, so the "live" site should be up around then. It has nice demos. Glad you like the logo. It is by the most excellent Ty Wilkins
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I've had "lifestyle business" used as an insult to what I'm building, Predictobot.com. It was from a guy who takes lots of VC money, builds big startups with a direct sales force, and then eventually sells them to Oracle
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by cschmidt 13y ago
This Nova Science Now episode gives a demonstration where Prof. Yoshi Kohno of the University of Washington hacks a car and remotely slams on the breaks.... http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/can-science-stop-
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by cschmidt 13y ago
As a very simple example of that, you use variables that behave like mathematical unknowns. When I run the following line of Mma code, x, y, and z are undefined. It finds values for these unknowns. That's kind of different than many
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by cschmidt 13y ago
If R is a programming language that knows how to do statistics, then Mathematica would be a programming language that knows how to do math. It has built in support for just about every kind of math I've ever needed. It is very good a
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by cschmidt 13y ago
This really does make me feel old. I started using Mathematica 1.1 in my freshman year in college, 24 years ago. I still use it fairly frequently today. I didn't realize I was an early adopter :-).
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Liberated?
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Pretty spooky. Or maybe the woman just went to his website, and looked at the contact page.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I assume you meant "I don't have firsthand knowledge"
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by cschmidt 13y ago
According to this it was 630 servers with pentabytes of data. I'm sure keeping those idle was a significant loss for Leaseweb. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9240179/LeaseWeb_wipe...
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That's from when General Alexander gave a speech at DefCon last year. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57481689-83/nsa-director-fi...
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking. All UN stuff is in both English and French, and as you say Canada would be another good source.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Me too. I didn't notice the "translate" in the URL, and just thought it was written by a non-native English speaker. I did a double take at the end when I realized it was translated. Does Google do a particularly good job on French to Engl
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by cschmidt 13y ago
They do that with traffic tickets in Finland and Switzerland. You've probably heard of the $290,000 speeding ticket levied against a wealthy Swiss guy. http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/2012/02/speeding-fines-t... (The link is an inter
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by cschmidt 13y ago
How about some context? What is the Snow Fall experience? Never heard of it. I don't like these zero context web pages. To save the rest of HN some Googling... http://gigaom.com/2013/05/10/how-the-new-york-times-can-figh... Now get off of
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by cschmidt 13y ago
You can here him say it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winer It is Wine-r (like the grape beverage with an r on the end)
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I've heard people insult Dave's last name many times over the years. You are the first I've seen that meant it as Winer == Whiner. It is more commonly trying to call him a reference to the male anatomy, which is dumb and offensive. I think
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Scooby Doo is still on Boomerang (I think, my TiVo just harvests them). My daughter is a big fan.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
The Disney shows are just evil - they give kids horrible stereotypes to emulate. I know several girls that are walking little Disney show characters. They are mean, snarky, and talk in zingers like the punchlines of Shake it Up or A.N.T. Fa
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I'd have a very short list of shows that Disney makes that aren't evil. 1. Phineas and Ferb
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I'm thinking about moving some of my data out of my postgres database, and into S3 objects. I think for "documents" that will only accessed by a single user (so record locking etc. doesn't matter), it will help things scale more easily. The
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That's funny. I just looked back at my old email, and I used this very quickselect.c implemention back in April 2008. It worked well and was wicked fast. The algorithm by Blum, Floyd, Pratt, Rivest, and Tarjan takes 24n comparisons in the
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I'm a kid who went to Herbert H. Dow High School in Midland, Michigan. Then I went on to study Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan in the Herbert H. Dow building. I'm very proud to see this story on HN. There is a (seemingly)
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That is kind of like how you can take a class in number theory, and not actually use any concrete numbers (like 7, say).
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Oh, there is a variant made with Squirt. That reminds me of my Michigan upbringing, drinking lots of Squirt. (Not with brandy, mind you.)
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I imagine most HN people do know that Jekyll is a static blog generator written in Ruby, which is used by Github pages. However, he has a point that I often up on open source release announcements, and I don't know what the project is about
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by cschmidt 13y ago
That must be how car types feel about a lot of HN articles. It did seems to be in a bit of a foreign language to me.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
You'll probably want a graphical diff tool. I use Araxis Merge, because I've used it for 15 years or so, but I'm sure there lots of other good options. I can still remember the day our lead developer (at my previous job) led a mutiny and we
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Which author? The Economist author, or Alesina, Giuliano, and Nunn, the authors of the academic study? The Economist is just giving description of the results for a popular audience, so I don't think they have to provide serious evidence.

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