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by okennedy 5y ago
Hi, one of the creators of Vizier here. The difficulty with git in this use case is that it relies on the user to manually commit. If you try the analysis, and decide to throw the code away before you commit, too bad! There's no long
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by okennedy 5y ago
We haven't updated it in a while, but check out DBToaster [1]. Give it some SQL queries and a set of tables, and it'll compile for you a Scala or C++ class with insert() and delete() functions for every table listed, as well as a
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by okennedy 6y ago
+1 It might be a bit pricy, but the tech support is amazing. I just spent a few weeks working with them to debug a transient kernel panic with my new Thelio. Throughout the entire process, I talked to support techs with actual agency, and
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by okennedy 6y ago
Decouple discovery (e.g., suggesting posts from new users or paid ads) from the protections afforded to dumb carriers/hosting services (i.e., posts received from users you follow or are engaged in a discussion with).
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by okennedy 6y ago
Worth noting: beer is encumbered by legal restrictions in many parts of the world. In these places, even free beer is still not legally available to anyone under 16, 18, 21, etc...
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by okennedy 6y ago
SQLite already has logic for this built in: transactions ( https://www.sqlite.org/lang_transaction.html ) More broadly though, tech seems to be migrating away from explicit saves in general (e.g., when's the last time yo
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by okennedy 6y ago
I agree with your sentiment that this can be a slippery slope, but I also think that you (and TFA) are glossing over an important point: there's a huge difference between distribution infrastructure and discovery infrastructure. The in
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by okennedy 6y ago
There's one advantage to this approach that, as far as I've seen, no other password manager has been able to replicate. Pass is simple . It is literally a few hundred lines of clear, easy to read bash shell script (yeah, that&#
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by okennedy 6y ago
The key difference is that in (most) European electoral systems, voters vote for MPs, who then in turn vote among themselves to decide on a leader for the country. This creates a (limited) incentive for cooperation when no single party hol
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by okennedy 6y ago
That makes quite a bit more sense. Thanks for clarifying. To the grandparent: A researcher selling IRB-protected data would be effectively ending their academic career and opening themselves up to a mountain of legal trouble from the unive
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by okennedy 6y ago
For a project like this to happen at a major US university (especially once outside funding is involved), it needs approval of the university's Institutional Review Board. Getting IRB approval entails researchers proposing a strict s
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by okennedy 6y ago
I mentioned this in another response, but I'll refine my argument here. Security by obscurity's negative connotation comes from the ratio of effort on the part of the system implementer to the effort on the part of the attacker.
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by okennedy 6y ago
This response is missing the author's point. There's a distinction between obscuring the methods and obscuring a parameter to those methods. Security by obscurity, and in particular its negative connotation refers to obscuring me
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by okennedy 6y ago
This is a fantastic game. If you haven't tried it already, don't be put-off by the somewhat slow start.
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by okennedy 6y ago
> The Sheriff’s Office said its program was designed to reduce bias in policing by using objective data. Data is no more objective than the people collecting or analyzing it.
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by okennedy 6y ago
Google Reader?
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by okennedy 6y ago
I think that's the GP's point. Contradicting previously expressed principles shows how little the politician truly cares about those principles. Politicians lying or exaggerating is not surprising, but it's unfortunate that
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by okennedy 6y ago
I agree that Apple has focused its attention exclusively on the consumer market... and that's a problem. Developers write code for platforms that they're using. This is what drove adoption of Apple hardware in the early 2ks (a PO
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by okennedy 6y ago
The Librem 5's PureOS is very nearly stock Debian and the Purism devs have been very diligent about getting their stuff upstreamed into mainline Linux and Debian. Pine doesn't employ software developers, but the Manjaro and Mobian
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by okennedy 6y ago
This was exactly my intent. The problem is with YouTube trying to be a discovery service, while simultaneously requiring the use of its own infrastructure service to benefit from discovery. What is needed is discovery services that are no
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by okennedy 6y ago
This is the problem with combining services for infrastructure and services for discovery. Discovery, by definition, requires a carefully curated approach to filter based on interest, applicability. This forces discovery services to take
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by okennedy 6y ago
Even without conversions floats cause problems. Several years back I was working on a SQL query transpiler, and was getting driven up the wall trying to explain why compiling query 6 from the TPC-H benchmark on some of our backends would a
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by okennedy 6y ago
It seems like this type of approach would incentivise clickbaity articles even more than the current financing structure does. Subscribing to a newspaper is a long-term arrangement, requiring the publisher to establish and maintain the rea
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by okennedy 6y ago
I remember using it around the time they switched names. Although I barely ever used the collaborative features, SEE's multi-cursor editing capabilities were like magic. Yeah, other editors let you edit multiple lines, but SEE was th
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Cosmic Frontier: Override(kickstarter.com)
1 points by okennedy 6y ago|0 comments
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by okennedy 7y ago
I've made several attempts at play-throughs over the years. Each and every time, the game crashed shortly after getting to the space stage. I'd curse myself for not remembering to save, forget about the game for a year or two, a
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by okennedy 7y ago
The problem is a bit more subtle. NULL is often used with two distinct meanings: - I know that Theodore Roosevelt has no middle name. - I don't know what Theodore Roosevelt's middle name is The semantics of each case are differen
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by okennedy 7y ago
At the same time, the UX has gotten dramatically worse for people who do manage their own music libraries as well. The entire UI has been restructured around music discovery... which is appropriate for Apple Music, but really gets in the w
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by okennedy 7y ago
Check out our reproducibility focused notebook Vizier ( https://vizierdb.info ). In Vizier, inter-cell communication happens through spark dataframes (and we're working on other datatypes too. This makes it possible for Viz
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Snips Console Shutdown(forum.snips.ai)
2 points by okennedy 7y ago|0 comments

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