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by cschmidt 13y ago
Some personal favorites I ordered off of Shapeways: http://www.shapeways.com/model/24470/gyroid.html http://www.shapeways.com/model/335195/the-code-prize-fire-co... http://www.shapeways.com/model/683524/super-mario-mobius-str...
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Yes, “design flaw” in 1Password is a problem, just not for end users(arstechnica.com)
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by cschmidt 13y ago
No, that page just points to the Kickstarter project. You have been tricked.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Oh, fun! This is sometimes called an envy free division. A nice book on this topic is Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution www.amazon.com/Fair-Division-Cake-Cutting-Dispute-Resolution/dp/0521556449 Stable matchings are a r
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by cschmidt 13y ago
Clearly it would be illegal. I was thinking about this as an extension of the market for day 0 exploits. Say you have found a new exploit. According to articles like this, you would typically sell it to some government spy agency, or even
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by cschmidt 13y ago
It would be hard for a "retail investor" like myself, but 30 seconds is a lifetime to the high frequency guys. I'm sure there is a pretty big group of people who would have no trouble doing it.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
This would seem to be a new way to monetize hacks. Go short on the market, trigger your fake tweet, wait a few seconds for the flash crash, and cover your short. You could make huge profits this way. I wonder if someone did in this case.
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by cschmidt 13y ago
I think he was trying to say he wouldn't have bought a $40 poster without some charitable tie in. I imagine it wasn't the only worthy cause that would have swayed him. That said, Watsi is popping up a lot with the "cool kids" lately. Che
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by cschmidt 14y ago
They were excellent. The Code Prize does feel very nice in the hand. It feels solid, and the inner parts don't move at all as you'd expect looking at it. The Gyroid is remarkably small and delicate, and my son (the gamer) liked the Mario M
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Shapeways has a whole library of items that other people have designed that you can print. I ordered several as stocking stuffers at Christmas. Holding them in your hand is a good way to get what this whole 3D printing thing is about. The
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I'm sure he's saying that package ecosystem is what makes R attractive.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
So do either fastr or renjin allow the use of R packages that use C or Fortran code? So much of the value of R is locked in packages. It is kind of the same issue as PyPy, only more so with R.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Ah, so you did. Sorry, I missed that at the end.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
The Make Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing is a pretty good resource for "what you need to know", if you want more information on this subject. http://www.amazon.com/Make-Ultimate-Guide-3D-Printing/dp/144...
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by cschmidt 14y ago
You can benefit from the lock in. Amazon pays a fortune on my shipping for Amazon Prime. I ordered about 90 times last year, and got 2 day shipping on all of them. It replaces going to the store for many things, so more important to me is t
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by cschmidt 14y ago
If you haven an Enthought Python Distribution (EPD) subscription, you can get Canopy for free. Get it from: https://www.enthought.com/downloads/ That isn't very clear on their website.
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Enthought Canopy: comprehensive Python analysis environment(enthought.com)
7 points by cschmidt 14y ago|1 comments
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Photon 3D Scanner: The world’s first, truly affordable 3D scanner(indiegogo.com)
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I'd say that R is awesome, and that R is a fairly annoying language, all at the same time. (I'll go back to writing some R code now.)
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by cschmidt 14y ago
R is horrifically slow on loops. If you can vectorize the operation, then it will be reasonably fast. If you have to use an explicit loop, then python will be faster. My previous company had a saying that "R is fast if your write it in C".
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Wow, I've never seen anyone else who knew about White's reality check. Unfortunately, it is patented (US Patent 5,893,069). There's also a related thing called the test for Superior Predictive Ability (SPA), by Peter Reinhard Hansen, which
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by cschmidt 14y ago
He mentioned it directly in the talk: PyPy. Or are you being snarky and saying he doesn't know what he's talking about because PyPy isn't a "real" compiler. Alex has made huge contributions to several open source projects. I can't imagine
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by cschmidt 14y ago
A nice talk. The punchline for me was: Things that take time •Hash table lookups •Allocations •Copying Interestingly, that's exactly how you write fast C++ code. His point is that languages like Python lack good API'
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Are other readers more secure? Which would you recommend? I'm sure Adobe Reader gets more attention from the bad guys, because of market share. Is Apple's Preview any better (that's what I usually use)?
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I used Amazon Mechanical Turk to run a multiple choice survey. That got me several hundred opinions in a day or so. (Make sure you have the domain reserved first, just in case.) It is fairly easy, even if you haven't done it before.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
A more official looking source for the same information: http://techblogs.mit.edu/news/2013/02/letter-from-israel-rui...
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Sorry, missed the sarcasm.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Gates and Dorsey are in the full version.
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by cschmidt 14y ago
I bought my last pair of glasses at Warby Parker, and I did really like the home try on service. You pick out your top 5 choices, and then send them to you with clear lenses in a box. You can spend an evening (up to 5 days really) trying t
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by cschmidt 14y ago
Morton Lauridsen was new to me. I just downloaded an album from iTunes - O Nata Lux is fantastic. Kind of funny to get classical tips on HN :-).

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