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by paddy_m 13y ago
Building new bigger buildings is the only way to lower the cost of living in the city. There is a massive shortage of realestate in the city. Build more and build it faster.
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by paddy_m 13y ago
awesome. I tried a while ago with terminalcast.com. hopefully this gets more traction. integration with native terminal emulators would be great, so you can start recording at any point in time.
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Introducing Wakari Bundles: Simple Python Code & Data Sharing(continuum.io)
7 points by paddy_m 13y ago|0 comments
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by paddy_m 13y ago
Whistle Blower Edward Snowden has convened a meeting with representatives of several human rights organsiationer. The meeting is expected to take place today at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow. - I can confirm that the meeting will take plac
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by paddy_m 13y ago
What about the difference between a players normal probability to hit a free throw given he missed the first one. Shaq didn't hit many first or second freethrows, how can this model account for that?
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by paddy_m 13y ago
The act of deliberately not voting is an under appreciated form of protest and non-consent.
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by paddy_m 13y ago
http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/?sec=2012s seems to be the best place to figure out what district you are in. While you are at it, ask your senator to protect pedestrians. http://www.streetsblog.org&#x2
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by paddy_m 13y ago
I'm surprised to see the NyTimes letting a Verizon PR person post an OpEd. I wonder where he draws his borders for Europe?
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NyTimes OpEd: How the Us Got Broadband right(nytimes.com)
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You could easily encourage more affordable housing without tax incentives, but by simply repealing zoning restrictions. Let developers build denser structures with less space per person, it would be cheaper. Also remove requirements like
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by paddy_m 13y ago
I honestly thought the same thing until I was introduced to the scientific computing world last summer. I will have a blog post soon about how the differences of developing in a datacentric / ipython enabled python environment. The
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That should be fine. Thanks for building IPython, it's great.
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Note, there is sometimes an internal server error when loading this page. If you reload it should work. There are some bugs on our end that we are working out
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by paddy_m 13y ago
How many people on news.yc are familiar with IPcluster? Note: I work for Continuum Analytics.
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I would add a read the bills provision, which would require the full text of any law proposed before congress to be read in it's entirety on the floor before it is passed. Any modifications to the law would require re-reading from the
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What would your bill of rights look like today?
1 points by paddy_m 13y ago|1 comments
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by paddy_m 13y ago
The biggest reason that cities are expensive to live in isn't so much a lack of land, it's a lack of properly zoned land. Even in limited areas like Manhattan, we have imposed extra artificial limitations on ourselves in the form
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by paddy_m 13y ago
It would be great to have a program that does the same thing for telephone calls. A web app that let's you record a message, that is then called into a representatives phone lines. I'm Paddy Mullen, and instead of donating $50 to
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by paddy_m 13y ago
Seiki has a 4k 50 inch screen for $1300. It has poor inputs and is currently sold out, but it signals things to come. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-det...
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by paddy_m 13y ago
import json def bikes_available_for_set(stats): available_count = 0 for s in stats['stationBeanList']: available_count += s['availableBikes'] return available_count def currently_available_bikes(): !curl https://cit
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by paddy_m 13y ago
This is a very simplistic notebook. I just wanted to play with the data a bit. There are about 250 data points included in the bundle. I would love to see what else people will do with the data and notebook.
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IPython notebook to play with Citi Bike data(wakari.io)
21 points by paddy_m 13y ago|7 comments
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by paddy_m 13y ago
To be clear, you are comparing pure pypy vs pure python?
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by paddy_m 13y ago
I work on the http://wakari.io where the notebook is hosted. You can run the notebook in your own (free) wakari account. Here is the direct link to the notebook: https://www.wakari.io/sharing/bundle/aron/Accelerating_Pytho...
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by paddy_m 13y ago
I work on wakari.io and I'm happy to answer any questions people might have. We are proud of this release.
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by paddy_m 13y ago
The reason there isn't enough housing, in SF especially is government intervention. Zoning laws prevent housing supply meeting demand.
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by paddy_m 13y ago
States rights allows for smorgasbord of governmental choices that we should promote. Same sex marriage could very much be seen as a states rights issue. The problem with further and further removed, larger and larger governments is, where
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by paddy_m 13y ago
Regulation is what requires corporations to disclose their accounting to investors instead of telling them whatever they want. Actually, regulation prevents consumers from making choices with their investment decisions. By putting publicly
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by paddy_m 13y ago
what's the speedup in english?
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by paddy_m 13y ago
A put is an option that gives you the right to sell a stock to someone by a specified date at a specified price. If you buy a put, you are betting the stock price will go down. A straddle involves buying both a call and a put. If a stock

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