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by ims 10y ago
The scraping and automated viewing in question pretty clearly violate Netflix's terms of use. As junior officers in the U.S. Army, the authors are more vulnerable than most to trivial but "correct" accusations of illegal acti
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Google+ API for Hangouts no longer supported(developers.google.com)
2 points by ims 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: An Opinionated Project Template for Data Science in Python(drivendata.github.io)
6 points by ims 10y ago|1 comments
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by ims 11y ago
I like minimalism, but IMO the closest you can get to this idea without wasting time reinventing the wheel is a tiling windows manager. I have been using i3 for about 3 years now and can't imagine going back.
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by ims 11y ago
Cam Davidson-Pilon's "Bayesian Methods For Hackers" is a great resource. It's actually written as a group of IPython notebooks so you can actually download them and play with the cells to really understand what's go
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by ims 12y ago
> (x + (if is_true(): 1 else: 2)) [is invalid in Python] because the if–else conditional is a statement, and can only be used in certain positions. Point taken, but troll-mode pedantry: (x + (1 if is_true() else 2)) would be valid :
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by ims 12y ago
If you want to know more, check out "Three Felonies a Day" by Harvey Silvergate[1]. (I don't necessarily agree with his take on everything, but it's still eye opening and worth a read.) [1] http://www.amazon.c
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The Parable of the Two Programmers (1985)(csd.uwo.ca)
381 points by ims 12y ago|160 comments
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by ims 12y ago
That's funny, I brought this exact puzzle up last time this link was posted. Twins! Nice solution. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5809724
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by ims 12y ago
> † A concept I reject, but understand. I would like to hear more about that.
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by ims 12y ago
You're talking about whether the MBTI framework is correct, or verifiable, or scientific. That's interesting because the context for this whole discussion is around a rationality checklist which may not be correct, or verifiable,
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by ims 12y ago
I think the example in #4 misses the point of using a Counter. He could have done the very same for-loop business if mycounter was a defaultdict(int). The nice thing about a Counter is that it will take a collection of things and... count t
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For-prize data science competition to help schools use resources better(drivendata.org)
2 points by ims 12y ago|1 comments
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by ims 12y ago
Sure, but many of the ships out there today were not built so recently.
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by ims 12y ago
It just means that the waterways are currently too narrow or too shallow for such increasingly massive ships, either naturally or because the deepening simply hasn't caught up to the increasing size of cargo vessels. The U.S. Army Corp
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by ims 12y ago
OCaml is used to some extent. Most notable industry user of an ML (in the form of OCaml) is probably Jane Street Capital. F# is an ML descendent.
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by ims 12y ago
That's weird: $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty $ ls -l /bin/sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Fe
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by ims 13y ago
> I've been told for example that in the US it would be completely impossible for a president to be elected if he didn't had a solid marriage and family. That may be true now, but there have indeed been unmarried Presidents. Ju
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by ims 13y ago
On a related note, Poul-Henning Kamp's 1999 "bikeshed" e-mail to the FreeBSD list (with his take on Parkinson's Law) is still a good read: http://bikeshed.com/
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by ims 13y ago
After Google Reader shut down, I briefly switched to feedly but found the UI basically unusable. Newsblur is a great alternative. The web client and Android clients are both nice to use -- no experience with iOS but I'm sure it's
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Spike in Liver Damage Diagnoses Tied To Dietary Aids(nytimes.com)
2 points by ims 13y ago|0 comments
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by ims 13y ago
> the incompetency of many in government finally reaching and affecting the American public There may be more, less, or the same amount of incompetence in government employees as there is in every other human endeavor. I can't specu
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by ims 13y ago
> You'd think it would be all over the media. Don't get me wrong -- I care about this issue, but I'm curious why would you expect people outside the tech industry to care much?
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WSGI War Python Web App Competition(wsgiwar.com)
2 points by ims 13y ago|0 comments
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by ims 13y ago
> If you look at the timeline, the CIA had such a spectacular failure that an ambassador was raped to death That's doubtful. http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/stevens.asp
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by ims 13y ago
Original HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2319667
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by ims 13y ago
He doesn't do consulting any more: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/07/17/kalzumeus-podcast-5-quit...
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by ims 13y ago
There's a difference between chemicals and genetically modified foods. We know that human health can be damaged by all sorts of different chemicals. That being established, the task at hand is identifying which are harmful (or usually
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by ims 13y ago
So?
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by ims 13y ago
I've been to this conference center. It's in a very decent, touristy part of town with plenty of hotels, cafes, and restaurants. In fact there are two hotels right across the street, one of which has a Starbucks in the lobby. The

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