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by mapmeld 8y ago
But, how many of the "executive" 1% are at the level of Chief Accounting Officer or Director of Manufacturing Engineering? Probably less than 370?
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by mapmeld 8y ago
The main "rumours" are an analyst in the article suggesting that they should buy it as their initial footprint in cryptocurrency. Clickbait until there is serious reason to believe that Facebook is going there.
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by mapmeld 8y ago
Segregation is common in US cities, and not just in the South. A friend in civic tech likes to say, "there is only one map of Chicago". Over time I've found it to be true: whether you're looking at these types of ameni
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by mapmeld 8y ago
There's some backstory in his Google Code-In article (Summer of Code for younger students) https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/11/stories-from-googl... > a student from Uruguay who worked with Sugar Lab
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by mapmeld 9y ago
I used a bunch of Esperanto text sources to make a NLP program (figured it would be easier for a newbie to do since the language is so regular). The code corrected some grammatical errors in the Esperanto Wiki; I did a write-up earlier this
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by mapmeld 9y ago
- price has been less variant (moving around between $5600-6000) from mid-to-late October, so maybe catching up to a rising trend - up and down and back over $7000 - Bitcoin tends to do rapid swings around $1000 milestones, probably due to
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Crossword puzzles from random Wikipedia articles(crossword.georeactor.com)
3 points by mapmeld 9y ago|0 comments
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by mapmeld 9y ago
The article briefly mentions the Voting Rights Act in regards to whether the resesrchers' many simulated maps could be valid maps. The commenter that I'm replying to proposed another system. Both are missing context.
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by mapmeld 9y ago
The Chicago example is famous, but the case earlier this year with several districts in North Carolina revolved around race and disenfranchisement (as partisan gerrymandering is common and exceedingly difficult to make unconstitutional). Th
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by mapmeld 9y ago
Programmers like to come up with mathematical plans like this, but you would likely run into the Voting Rights Act! Many districts which aren't compact have been created as majority-minority districts, to prevent disenfranchisement of
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by mapmeld 9y ago
In situations like this (for example if the women who mentioned having a boyfriend had been more direct "please stop trying to spend time with me") it would cause its own set of problems. An intentional harasser will insist nothin
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A Critical Problem: Safety at Los Alamos(nucleardiner.wordpress.com)
6 points by mapmeld 9y ago|1 comments
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by mapmeld 9y ago
Not OP, but I have been doing something similar in Airbnbs for three years ( I was interviewed for an article last year: https://qz.com/643181/ ). Sometimes I move between neighborhoods while working on-site in NYC &#x
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Gerrymandering and Justice Kennedy's 'Hackathon Pitch'(georeactor.github.io)
4 points by mapmeld 9y ago|0 comments
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JsQuil: quantum computer instructions for JavaScript devs(github.com)
1 points by mapmeld 10y ago|0 comments
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by mapmeld 10y ago
I had a similar experience (apparently these signs are common in Airbnb apartments in Thailand). At the same time, the apartment front desk staff and doorman were completely aware of my staying there temporarily. I showed up, asked for the
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by mapmeld 10y ago
Especially since the GPS signal has the time in it... likely it is to avoid issues with people claiming it is running fast/slow, or changing timezones.
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by mapmeld 10y ago
I found it frustrating that famous technologists and thought-leaders had stories and praises for him after he died, which were not seen while he was alive, fighting prosecution, and needing their support. From an archived Wikipedia page, yo
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by mapmeld 10y ago
I think it got overloaded! Reboot has fixed it. It's happened a couple of times before, but today I was on a trans-Pacific airplane flight and my laptop had run out of power! agghghgh
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OverEncrypt: going beyond LetsEncrypt's HTTPS security defaults(gist.github.com)
126 points by mapmeld 10y ago|15 comments
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by mapmeld 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - NYC / SF / or paid travel Maps, i18n, data visualization Email: ndoiron@mapmeld.com GitHub: https://github.com/mapmeld
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by mapmeld 10y ago
Quantum computers do not make NP-hard problems significantly easier to solve than on classical computers. They're better at prime factorization, but in a way that's well understood (quantum Fourier transform) and possible to simul
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by mapmeld 10y ago
Thanks! You can find my name on GitHub and Google around to find more info / e-mail address
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by mapmeld 10y ago
No, not yet. It ought to be comparable to C++ in most cases. The difficult part is extending Fortran to do something that you want / hasn't been shared yet on the web.
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by mapmeld 10y ago
I only started looking into it two weeks ago, so setting aside some time here and there on a few weekends, sending emails when it wasn't working. Main challenge was how to go beyond the original tutorial, without getting too deep in th
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by mapmeld 10y ago
I'm Nick and I'm usually a full-stack JS developer. Fortran is something foundational to languages we use today, and my professors and parents would talk about it, but I didn't even know what it looked like. I noticed recentl
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Show HN: A Fortran web framework(github.com)
227 points by mapmeld 10y ago|88 comments
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by mapmeld 10y ago
There's going to be a vote on whether to fund applicants to the DAO smart contract system Anyone can apply, but they need to initiate it through a smart contract on Ethereum + DAO. Currently there are only two projects, including one
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Fortran pull requests are almost always accepted(medium.com)
10 points by mapmeld 10y ago|0 comments
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First digital computer by country (with sources)(medium.com)
3 points by mapmeld 10y ago|0 comments

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