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by erjiang 11y ago
I used to take the trails by the bay from the Googleplex to North San Jose - most is unpaved gravel, and then you pass by a smelly waste treatment plant and get on some paved trails. Even on a hybrid, it was not the most pleasant cycling. T
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by erjiang 11y ago
Web application developer - REMOTE We are looking for full-time web application developers to work on PHP/CakePHP, Python/Flask, and angular or jquery web applications. Remote workers are welcome. Please email "gunnar" a
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by erjiang 11y ago
Interesting to see this - we ran into a similar problem of finding points within a certain distance from amongst thousands or millions of points. We ended up using Cython[0]. Would this numpy trick work if he still needed an accurate dista
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by erjiang 11y ago
Sys admin | REMOTE welcome We are looking for a remote sysadmin to work part-time starting with a couple hours per week doing routine maintenance but potentially increasing in the future. Candidates world-wide are welcome, and may be prefer
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Optimizing Python with Cython(doublemap.github.io)
5 points by erjiang 11y ago|3 comments
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by erjiang 11y ago
I tried this[0] and successfully round-robin packets in a single stream. Problem was that the two links had different latencies and Linux has no tolerance for out of order packets. Instead, it would cause a huge number of retransmissions. [
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by erjiang 11y ago
Flights. Mail. Cloud services. Office suite software. Etc. Imagine that you search for "orlando new york flight" and the first result is rigged to be Google Flight Search. Or you look for "cloud database" and Google Clou
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by erjiang 12y ago
Under this tentative scheme, if you want to point example.com to exampleapp.herokuapp.com then you'd need to be on the $7/month tier. I don't know why you'd want to point your domain to an app that's only up half th
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by erjiang 12y ago
I tried to post this yesterday[0] and fell off the new stories list, but such is HN. Basically, they're nerfing their free tier by charging $7/month for a 24/7 running app. People wanting to run a free app may look at App Eng
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Heroku changing up dyno pricing(notes.ericjiang.com)
12 points by erjiang 12y ago|3 comments
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by erjiang 12y ago
Google Translate has actually mangled the (English) text a bit by going from English to English.
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by erjiang 12y ago
Wow, I really wish I had read something like this when I attempted to write a program to use USB weighing scales in Linux.[0] I learned things like needing to detach the kernel driver the hard way. And because I didn't know anything ab
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by erjiang 12y ago
Very interesting and encouraging to see a public transit service in YC. Article says that you all don't have prior experience in transit. Are you learning from your early adopters as you go? How much and how often do agencies re-plan t
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by erjiang 12y ago
Really, any language that has threading gives you the easy concurrency that you want. Now, if you limit your choices to "concurrency, but not with OS threads", then your pool is a lot smaller. I think Clojure (core.async), Haskell
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by erjiang 12y ago
It compiles down to JavaScript that you can then run on Node or the browser. I once wrote a big long rant about the mess that JS and Node have made trying to cope with async code and got tons of comments proposing X or Y library that would
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by erjiang 12y ago
It's a tough debate. On one hand, bolts are not very visible and no wildlife is going to try to eat and choke on a bolt. On the other hand, it's permanently altering the rock, and bolts don't have an infinite lifespan. There
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by erjiang 12y ago
The rating scale has also shifted. A difficult route may have been graded a 5.10 when it was established, simply because that was the limit of the scale. But if it were regraded today it might have a more precise grade like 5.12b.
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by erjiang 12y ago
Maybe, but this is rather like using a Cyrillic letter in a Spanish-teaching website. "What language are you teaching anyways?"
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by erjiang 12y ago
I don't know what the creators' intentions were regarding the favicon. It is, however, the katakana "chi" (チ), which corresponds to the name "Chicory". Seems bizarre, but that's the connection I saw.
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by erjiang 12y ago
It's neat that I didn't have to create an account to use the gift card, but I fat-fingered my email address when using it. I don't think I'll get an email confirming my donation (typed ".co.m" instead of "
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by erjiang 12y ago
Going outside and recording what you see is still the gold standard for collecting data. Don't feel like you have to fix everything in your city - if you can write down a little bit every time you go out and then come back home and ent
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by erjiang 12y ago
If you're fascinated by maps and digital cartography and haven't done so yet, do check out OpenStreetMap! It's competitive to Bing, HERE, etc. but everything is open, and the data is yours to play with. There are projects bas
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AEG: Automatic Exploit Generation on Source Code (2011)(security.ece.cmu.edu)
13 points by erjiang 12y ago|0 comments
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by erjiang 12y ago
hollywood blockbusters have many shots that are very labor intensive, and they can be pretty cavalier about throwing money at a problem. For example, films with a lot of mixed live action and CGI can take a lot of manual frame by frame work
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by erjiang 12y ago
I'm confused - are you saying that scaling was horribly broken for App Engine, not just Compute Engine? Because it seems that it's much simpler to scale App Engine apps and App Engine has been around a long time.
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by erjiang 12y ago
"Han" in "Hanguk" is not the same "han" in "Han Chinese". Within East Asia, Koreans and Han Chinese are distinct ethnicities.
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Not all STEM fields are created equal(notes.ericjiang.com)
1 points by erjiang 12y ago|0 comments
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by erjiang 12y ago
I'd be willing to pay money for this, seriously. I've followed you on Twitter - let me know if anything happens. We were using and enjoying app.io[0] until they decided to pivot and stop serving us. [0] they didn't support pi
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by erjiang 12y ago
Speaking of CV + birds, I knew the guys behind a small company called Ornicept. Basically, wind turbines kill birds. To protect birds, you have to collect data on birds in the area. The standard way of doing this was literally putting a guy
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by erjiang 12y ago
I'll tell you what I hope this can be: I and co-workers often need domain-specific help, usually with annoying or complex tools. I could spend a few hours doing the research, or I could pay a chunk of money for 30 min. of someone'

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