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by jvm 12y ago
It's being upvoted because it's relevant for people in the tech industry to be aware of it, not because it's surprising or technically superior to alternatives.
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by jvm 12y ago
Cringely has been talking up IBM's demise since I was watching Triumph of the Nerds in the fifth grade (1996). Their stock has gone up 500% in that time, and they've been paying regular dividends. [1] I'm sure he'll be r
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Pandas 0.15 has been released(pandas.pydata.org)
116 points by jvm 12y ago|35 comments
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by jvm 12y ago
They say "First popular operating system." Not even Steve Cook has a reality distortion field strong enough to pull that one off.
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by jvm 12y ago
They did not announce a POS (point of sale), but I imagine if this takes off there will be more innovation in the NFC POS space. They're just using existing NFC POS that currently take Google Wallet, there's nothing special about
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by jvm 12y ago
Chip and PIN is scheduled for 2015. http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
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Twitter Co-Founder on Women in Tech: “There’s a Leadership Crisis”(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by jvm 12y ago|0 comments
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by jvm 12y ago
But you do carry a balance to receive funds, until you cash out. With Square you receive funds directly into your bank account via your debit card.
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by jvm 12y ago
The disadvantage with Venmo is you have to carry a Venmo balance and cash out. Square sends straight from card to card. Sort of related, the onboarding with Square Cash is easy enough (no bank account numbers needed) that I feel less bad se
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by jvm 12y ago
You're not liable for fraudulent debit card transactions so there's no risk to you, any more than with a credit card.
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by jvm 12y ago
The neat thing about it (for me) is that it doesn't feel like a commitment to anything the way Vemo or PayPal accounts do. It's actually super light touch. You don't have a special account that you have to cash out and you ac
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by jvm 12y ago
Is there really a tremendous amount of demand on the Australia / Europe segment? If London/NYC wasn't viable for the Concorde (probably the most popular international airline segment), I can't imagine the demand being hi
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by jvm 12y ago
4sq does have ratings, and I actually find them to be pretty solid. I've never been disappointed by a place that was 9+.
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by jvm 12y ago
> search, nearby, chinese restaurant Have you tried using 4sq for this? I actually find it's quite good at it, and honestly the filters and interface are way nicer than Yelp.
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by jvm 12y ago
> Restaurants can hire minimum wage or below family members or illegals to deliver as an essentially free service. They live off of tips. Do you live in New York? The "free" delivery with tips model is how things work in New Yo
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by jvm 12y ago
The most shocking was when they said that the important people in 17th century Japan were all missionaries... surely some of the least important people in the country at that time!
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by jvm 12y ago
Note that LDA likely does not give the optimal separating hyperplane when minimizing out-of-sample error. That honor likely belongs to SVMs, and in practice tweaking the kernel and identifying relevant non-linear relationships generally bec
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by jvm 12y ago
> I live downtown in a major city with relatively good public transport options now (Seattle), Having lived in Seattle, Berlin, New York, Montreal, and San Francisco, I would say that Seattle's transit is unusably bad (as is SF&#x27
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by jvm 12y ago
To all the doubters, real manufacturing wages in China have actually been soaring over the past decades, this is corroborated across non-correlated sources: PRC Government numbers: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/china/
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by jvm 12y ago
> "This would be a lot more useful to me if they came in between Caltrains, which can be an hour apart." The fact that this bus actually seems more appealing than Caltrain actually makes me question the Caltrain's existen
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by jvm 12y ago
Although seeing as this runs faster than the Caltrain, perhaps the real story is that Caltrain should be replaced by busses overnight.
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by jvm 12y ago
> There is no other language that I write in where I don't use camel-case or underscore underscore is standard for user-defined words (variables, table, databases). All-caps distinguishes built-ins to avoid confusion with user-defin
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by jvm 12y ago
A lot of the richer cities have major restrictions on development that drive rents very high [1]. The cities that are attracting more low-income people (e.g., the Texas cities) have much more development-friendly policies that keep the rent
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by jvm 12y ago
In anarchism, you take the egalitarian society that is willing to take you, primarily to put food in your mouth and roof over your head. All of this argumentation is primarily emotional. It makes a lot more sense to talk about what you actu
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by jvm 12y ago
Tyler Cowen's perspective here rings true: > Most likely, this means creditors have a stronger incentive to be holdouts in the first place. I take that to be a negative and welfare-decreasing. If creditor rights were weaker up fro
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by jvm 12y ago
> I'd say a handful of new jobs are created while the rest are just taken This is true of virtually all claimed job creation numbers.
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by jvm 12y ago
Is the argument here that there is never inconvenience or downside to home ownership? That sounds rather naïve and one-sided. The flip side of all this is that as an owner, any sort of problem is YOUR problem. And there are a lot of potenti
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by jvm 12y ago
I would absolutely recommend it, except that international transfers seem to be quite difficult. The one time I tried to receive a wire from Europe, I had a lot of trouble and ended up with Paypal. I should say though, I didn't call
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by jvm 12y ago
I'm American and all these things are true of my bank (Ally). I don't quite understand why so many of my compatriots choose such crummy banks given the excellent alternatives available, but given that they're quite attached t
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by jvm 12y ago
> Square's dongles and apps are much more difficult to use than a dedicated card terminal Just FYI: https://squareup.com/stand

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