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Numba: NumPy-aware optimizing compiler for Python(github.com)
64 points by pash 14y ago|23 comments
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by pash 14y ago
That's wrong. The crowdfunding exemption of the JOBS Act is precisely an exemption to the rules that restrict investment in start-ups (really in any company not registered with the SEC) to accredited investors. There will still be restricti
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by pash 14y ago
The JOBS Act did get signed into law with the crowdfunding provisions intact, but the SEC has not yet implemented the rules needed to finalize the regulatory exemption. That's supposed to happen by the end of the year. [0] When that happens
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by pash 14y ago
You brush your teeth so your mouth doesn't taste like shit and your teeth don't fall out. You hire an accountant to do your taxes because the tax code cannot be understood by anyone who hasn't devoted his life to deciphering it. The differe
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by pash 14y ago
Google shows results for "gridspot.exe" on ID-this-process sites dating from mid-March. So it's out there and has been for a few months. The question is whose machines it's running on.
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by pash 14y ago
This blog post recently helped persuade me to switch to Vim (from TextMate). The two things that most helped me learn Vim, beyond the very basics, were Drew Neil's excellent Vimcasts [0] and Steve's own Learn Vimscript the Hard Way [1]
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by pash 14y ago
> ... LINQ in the C# world works similarly (in fact, there is supposedly a lot of bleed-over of ideas from Haskell into .NET because Simon Peyton-Jones works alongside some of the .NET language designers at Microsoft Research). Erik M
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by pash 14y ago
The description and photos of the etching and milling "factories" are, for me, the sort of thing that makes funding Kickstarter projects worthwhile: ... As we got into the car to head to the other factories, the factory owner conveniently
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by pash 14y ago
> To me, this mostly sounds like Apple taking US laws too literal/general. Unfortunately not. The relevant definition of "export" is the one at Export Administration Regulations § 734.2(b)(2)(ii): (2) Export of technology or softw
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by pash 14y ago
Silicon Prairie News [0] does a pretty good job covering the tech start-up scene in the region around Kansas City, Omaha, and Des Moines. Check it out if you want a closer look at what's going on in that part of the Midwest. 0. http://www.
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by pash 14y ago
A poorly written post on a subject that is surprisingly intriguing when better elucidated. A study published in Science [0] several years ago makes for good discussion. That study found a systematic misinterpretation of the miles-per-gall
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by pash 14y ago
This is a copy of the Wikipedia article on buffer overflows.
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by pash 14y ago
(a) The secondary market (stock markets, etc.) informs the prices in the primary market (stock issues, etc.). For example, when Facebook's IPO happens, its shares will be priced in part based on the stock prices of companies in related indu
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by pash 15y ago
Well, they sort of work. Closures don't work properly [0] in some lexical contexts without using the default-argument trick because of the way function definition works in Python: fs = [] for i in range(5): def f():
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by pash 15y ago
Yes, I just meant to point out that there is a way to do closures in Python 2.x. Looks like here the author wants a function that saves its internal state, i.e., a generator.
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by pash 15y ago
You can cheat in Python 2.x by giving the inner function a keyword argument that defaults to the value you want to close over: ... def count(i=i): ... ...
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by pash 15y ago
You're missing the point. High prices for drugs, procedures, and medical devices in the United States are what makes their development financially feasible. Without the American market, the expected payoff to new medical technologies would
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by pash 15y ago
It's been well established in the academic literature that infrastructure costs in America cities are related by a power law to population. Costs increase about 80% with a doubling of the size of a city. So we generally would expect infrast
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by pash 15y ago
In the last week or so, it's become clear that Google is planning to offer some sort of IPTV service over its fiber network in Kansas City when it comes online later this year. [0] It will be interesting to see how disruptive their offering
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by pash 15y ago
Economists qua economists broadly support socially optimal allocations of property rights. Whether they are Pareto-improving or not is beside the point, from a strictly economic perspective, because any socially optimal allocation can be ma
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by pash 15y ago
This was on the front page last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3604680
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by pash 15y ago
Serious reply to an unserious question: In the common law tradition, land owners' property rights extended literally "to the heavens" [0]. Overflying someone's property (in a balloon, say) was legally a trespass. But in the United States la
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by pash 15y ago
Authorizing drones to fly in US airspace is hardly insanity. There are lots of commercial (and hobbyist) uses for drones, and I think it's great that there will soon be a way to pursue them legally. There are obvious concerns about the the
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by pash 15y ago
Quick summary: A new [US] federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors — from selling real estate and dusting crops, to monito
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Drones With an Eye on the Public Cleared to Fly(nytimes.com)
63 points by pash 15y ago|39 comments
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by pash 15y ago
No, COPPA doesn't basically make it illegal for children under thirteen to be on the Internet. It doesn't restrict what children under thirteen can do in any way. COPPA restricts what websites can do–they can't collect certain information
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by pash 15y ago
You're right. (Though I will add that there has been recent discussion of raising COPPA's age limit. [0]) But regardless of the age of the girl who is the subject of this article, my general point still stands. 0. https://www.privacyassoci
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by pash 15y ago
An interesting aspect of this story that no one's mentioned yet is that collecting this sort of information about a minor is illegal under COPPA [0] when it happens online. It should have been apparent for some time now that customer/user t
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by pash 15y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. My argument is not that nuclear energy is much less safe than other energy technologies. I am merely observing that (a) our understanding of the safety of nuclear power generation has been shown to be severe
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by pash 15y ago
This comment has now been both down-voted and up-voted multiple times. Would one of you down-voters care to explain why you feel this point is unworthy of discussion? A blog post [0] that was up-voted near the top of Hacker News last week m

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