ramanujan

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by ramanujan 14y ago
Not disagreeing with you, but here are some ideas on how github could take things to the next level. 0. Get Junio Hamano from Google and several of the top git-core contributors, so they can start releasing open source patches to git that s
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by ramanujan 14y ago
The law should be expressed in code and evaluated on a computer, with all dispute confined to the values of the inputs (e.g. time of commission of a crime, geolocation of violation). It is currently written in legalese and executed by a jud
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by ramanujan 14y ago
Maybe they've changed it, but if you go to bit.ly they do indeed have a "Just want to shorten a link" box at the bottom: http://bit.ly Fast fix, looks like all is well.
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by ramanujan 14y ago
waffle_ss: Counsyl is a group of computer scientists working on literally this exact problem. We've already put a big dent in the issue with our v1 assay. We are now working on our v2, which is optimized for detecting mutations of the kin
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by ramanujan 14y ago
I just saw this thread. If you are a computer scientist interested in making a difference on problems like this, consider joining Counsyl: https://www.counsyl.com/about/jobs http://goo.gl/45yBz There are a lot of Hacker News people work
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by ramanujan 14y ago
All they need to do is get a few Cravath people and Stanford Law School profs and grads on their about page. Then it's "judge.me, built by alumni of Cravath and Stanford Law School. A Silicon Valley approach to reducing out of control legal
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by ramanujan 14y ago
I patched python-mode to do this (also did something similar for node and a few other interpreters). Main thing is to add a "py-execute-line" routine and a few others as wrappers around the file execution code. If there's interest, might p
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by ramanujan 14y ago
This is Hacker News. The top-voted comment on this thread really should be words of praise for what Zuckerberg and his team have accomplished. Every hacker, every entrepreneur, every creator should derive inspiration and uplift from Faceboo
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by ramanujan 14y ago
One aspect of gabe's otherwise excellent post that went unmentioned is the cultural issue associated with an acquisition of this sort. For the acquired company to make a difference, it is going to need to be put in control of a large number
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by ramanujan 14y ago
It is pretty interesting to list everything internet-related (from VOIP to bill payments to search) and realize that we're in a period similar to the era in which electricity became a utility. In the early 20th century, electricity was stil
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by ramanujan 14y ago
For anyone wondering when this will come out for Apps: A Google Apps version of Google Drive will arrive for Google Apps admins on the rapid-release track "over the next few weeks," Google said; it'll also include 5GB free but
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by ramanujan 14y ago
Two ideas on your post regarding potential technical resolutions. First, in a web environment, one is probably logging all API calls and their effects on the server side. With Windows, you couldn't do that as your users were hitting local c
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Take a look at Counsyl. One of the most math/CS focused companies in genomics: http://counsyl.com/about/jobs
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Agreed, it's a little jarring amidst the otherwise nice looking page.
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by ramanujan 15y ago
The "identify this animal" example has a serious bug. This: def identify(animal): if animal.is_vertebrate(): return identify_vertebrate() else: return identify_invertebrate() should be def identify
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by ramanujan 15y ago
#2: Google does have Gmail tasks, with keyboard shortcuts for using them. But because there isn't yet a tasks API it's hard to sync with other things. Some thoughts: 1. Whatever the new email is needs to look and feel like email at the begi
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Right. The fundamental problem here is that the old school buttons and dials have a hidden logic to them: namely that you can distinguish and grasp them without taking your eyes from the road. This seems like a general UI consideration for
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by ramanujan 15y ago
> 3 years old I'm pretty sure they'd have announced it if Python 3 ever got faster than Python 2. But this is not mentioned in the 3.1, 3.2, or 3.3 notes on performance: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/3.1.html#optimizations h
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Unfortunately, Python 3 is the new Perl 6. It offers reduced performance[1], changes some of the hardest-to-debug parts of the language (like Unicode), and capriciously introduces backwards incompatibilities. For no obvious gain! As just on
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by ramanujan 15y ago
What did you think about the Haxe toolchain, and how does it interact with other components of more standard web stacks? In fact, a blog post on how Haxe is used at a large production site would potentially be useful for you, if only for th
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Would you be so kind as to post that experience here?
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Illumina acquired Solexa, and shipped the first Genome Analyzer (the ancestor of the HiSeq). Clive Brown was a central figure at Solexa during their rise and acquisition, and has been at Oxford Nanopore for the last few years (he's the one
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by ramanujan 15y ago
India is just an extremely high-variance country. It has produced people like Google's Amit Singhal (Search Quality), Sanjay Ghemawat (MapReduce), Vic Gundotra (Google+), Sundar Pichai (Chrome), and Krishna Bharat (Google News). And it has
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by ramanujan 15y ago
This is a little off topic, but thought I'd ask the C++11 aficionados who're viewing this thread. For those who've taken the hit and really explored C++11: 1) What are the best resources to learn how to code C++11 in a Pythonic style? Looki
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by ramanujan 15y ago
This looks like it could be of assistance: http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html Repo is a repository management tool that we built on top of Git. Repo unifies the many Git repositories when necessary, does the u
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Hmmm. I think the obvious transition would be to ship the Facebook Phone and heavily incorporate Facebook Credits. The four things people do on phones (call, email, text, and nowadays photo-share) are all inherently social things. Crucially
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Here's the decode: http://zxing.org/w/decode?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffbcdn-sphotos-a.aka...
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by ramanujan 15y ago
org-babel is absolutely wonderful for writing documents that involve source code, particularly technical papers or API documentation. It allows you to mix arbitrary code in multiple languages with structured HTML or Latex markup, and to pip
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Part of the backstory here is that ai-class.com is by Udacity (Sebastian Thrun), while ml-class.org and pgm-class.org are by Coursera (Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller). Formerly colleagues from the same department, now competitors with very sim
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by ramanujan 15y ago
Please do expand on these reasons. What costs a lot for fundamental reasons? And what can be attacked with software?

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