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by equark 14y ago
ShareJS is a good example. However I don't think this is the right approach necessarily. The FireBase API is a lot simpler and in casual tests it's much faster too.
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by equark 14y ago
We desperately need a high quality open-source Firebase/Simperium/Spire. A simple, robust, realtime data synchronization layer with libraries for major platforms. These projects all look great, but outsourcing this infrastructure is simply
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by equark 14y ago
Implementing the Firebase API is nontrivial. It's an entire datastore with fine-grained monitoring and optimistic, distributed, data synchronization. Messaging falls automatically out of their API -- all you do is push child messages. An
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by equark 14y ago
Firebase has a much nicer API. It's organized around a realtime, ordered, tree datastore. This makes it much more akin to very granular database than a message bus. Spire is just an authentication service + channels. There is no state be
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by equark 14y ago
There is a real need for an open source clone of one of these realtime datastores. I'd lean towards Firebase since it has the best API I've seen so far. If anybody wants an open source sprint, I'd be willing to donate to such a project...
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by equark 14y ago
They are pretty responsive from my experience. The beta is definitely open.
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by equark 14y ago
Prior Knowledge ( http://www.priorknowledge.com ) has a very similar API but a more interesting underlying model. They model the full joint distribution of the data, so any variables can be missing not just the outcome. They also are able
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by equark 14y ago
Sense - http://www.senseplatform.com - Quantitatively Oriented Developer - Summer Intern - New York City / Cambridge, MA / San Francisco. We're pre-launch startup building a next-generation platform for data and statistics. We're solving
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by equark 14y ago
Doesn't seem huge. Most people pay for bandwidth. Standard web DOS attacks cost money too. Same thing with linking to S3. The fix is as it's always been, email your provider and explain the situation. Most likely they'll revert your usag
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by equark 14y ago
Meteor packages all the JS together and minifies it. That's clearly linking.
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by equark 14y ago
Is GPL really viable for a web framework? The Free Software Foundation has consistently held that linking to GPL code (not LGPL) is derived work.
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by equark 15y ago
Amtrak Acela, Boston - NYC is $173 one-way and takes 3 hours and 30 minutes. That quickly adds up.
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by equark 15y ago
Very cool, I've been waiting for this to happen. I'm surprised that Google doesn't explicitly talk more about this use case for Native Client. It could be the backbone for an AWS/Heroku competitor. The ability to run lightweight tasklets
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by equark 15y ago
Adopting Node's callback style seems like a very strange choice for C# where you have native async/await support.
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by equark 15y ago
There should be a law that you only get one paragraph and one figure when explaining Bayes' rule.
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by equark 15y ago
Remote / New York City / San Francisco / Cambridge MA Sense - A next-generation platform for data and statistics. http://www.senseplatform.com . We're a small, early stage startup with a huge vision for data and statistics. We're working
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by equark 15y ago
Isolates have been removed. http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c...
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by equark 15y ago
Why is defer needed? Why can't I follow C# and do: result = await search("test") Is this just so that it plays nicely with non-standard callback APIs? I'd prefer to introduce Promises (i.e., q) and have await interact with that. I
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by equark 15y ago
I think you're missing the fact that textbooks are written by people. They don't magically appear. Writing a good textbook requires the passion of a single expert author, who must dedicate years of his or her life to write it. There are
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by equark 15y ago
It's really a replacement for R's data.frame. The emphasis is on convenience for data manipulation tasks on heterogeneous rectangular data. I don't think it's intended to be used as a database even if that's possible.
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by equark 15y ago
This is already implemented in HBase. View your table as 3D: row, column, time.
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by equark 15y ago
The problem is that this advice completely ignores the motivation for experimenting: optimal decision making. If you run a test that ends inconclusively should you really just throw up your hands? And if you run a test that's quickly concl
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by equark 15y ago
There are two parts: 1) what is an appropriate statistical model for A/B testing and 2) how should we make decisions based on our current beliefs (the Bayesian posterior). A sensible starting point for the first is a hierarchical beta-binom
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by equark 15y ago
I'm surprised that no JS template engines ever implement binding. It seems like everybody just ports some server-side ideas, even though there's a lot more that is possible client-side. Why do I need to rerender the entire template when m
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by equark 15y ago
Don't jump the gun. The reason is that he's already had many discussions about this and has formed an opinion. See: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/712 https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/238 Whether he'
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by equark 15y ago
Does this work with the Promise API without defer?
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by equark 15y ago
I think you're potentially overestimating how competently the military protects these drones. Video from drones over Iraq were intercepted by insurgents using a $26 piece of software: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/world/middleeast/18d
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by equark 15y ago
I don't quite understand this from the documentation I'm reading. Doesn't high fault tolerance require automatic failover of some sort that goes beyond broadcasting the messages to all Hooks? For instance, if you want to send an SMS robus
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by equark 15y ago
It's not clear to me what this offers exactly beyond events, which are easy enough in socket.io. And dnode allows very free-style form of RPC where you can have an event/call pass a function that then can be called from the other side. Wha
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by equark 15y ago
Basing my judgement off of implementing a todo list in each, I found Sproutcore's handlebars.js templates with data-binding even nicer than Knockout. Unfortunately it's not clear yet what's happening with Sproutcore 2.0 or whether you coul

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