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by ropeladder 9y ago
This is a cool idea. I'm not convinced that having all the comments in a sidebar with size constraints is going to be that useful, though. It might work better with traditional chained comments but having the radial diagram floating to
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by ropeladder 9y ago
I just finished this book, I learned a lot but overall it was disappointing. It felt really disjointed, skipping around a lot and not tying things together at all.
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Weird. I'm using Zsh and I swear I've tried that before with nothing happening, but it does actually work. Thanks!
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by ropeladder 9y ago
This. I would love to be able to type "[command] --[tab]" and have it list all the options, and/or common options, so when I'm learning 'tar' I don't have to start typing, realize I've forgotten the c
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by ropeladder 9y ago
This would be great but it's a bit surprising given the move to add support for R in SQL server, Power BI, etc...
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Thanks for the link. I'm using D3 + Vue.js, with D3 handling the data, layout and rendering, and then Vue (with Vuex) handling events and state management. I think this example is closer to what you are doing (but using Vue)? https:&#
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Hey this looks really cool. Are you familiar with Metacademy? ( https://metacademy.org/ ) (previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7617683 ) Looks like you are trying to do a very similar thing,
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Anyone with a programming background getting into R should absolutely go read _Advanced R_. I've been using R off and on for a while now but Advanced R was a real revelation. All of R's weird behavior finally made sense. Edit: Als
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by ropeladder 9y ago
The only real upside I see here is that, the more vertically and horizontally concentrated the private sector gets, the more absurd most arguments for privatized, profit-driven healthcare appear. Basically every other developed country has
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by ropeladder 9y ago
"the US funds over 50% of R&D for the entire world" Not sure exactly what numbers you're basing that on, but I believe a significant portion of that research (especially basic level stuff) is government funded, which is n
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by ropeladder 9y ago
You want the Multiple Tab Handler add-on for Firefox. It's 57 ready and even works with tree style tabs.
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by ropeladder 9y ago
It's funny in light of all the "cars are freedom!" posts in the Bob Luntz post that is also up on the front page, but we DO effectively have a state-level ID system in the form of driver's licences.
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Record linkage is conceptually pretty simple--it's just deduplicating records (usually of people, in census or medical or commercial or other scenarios) that don't have unique identifiers. It's tough because it's O(N^2)
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Show HN: Record Linkage Resources(github.com)
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by ropeladder 9y ago
You are confusing "distribution" with "supply". Having lots of people making music is a different issue from having music freely available via youtube. Music has been pretty darn cheap to reproduce for decades. Yes, avai
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Assuming this is reliable it would be great for job searches. (if you're targeting smaller organizations with static-enough job pages) Seems a bit expensive though--especially when I might rather sign up for, say, daily checks on up to
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Just started writing it up! Thanks for the encouragement.
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Just upgraded and it's been rocky so far. (I'll spare you the upgrade details, just make sure you don't try to upgrade using apt if you initially installed the enterprisedb.com bundle) But now that I've got v10 running I
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by ropeladder 9y ago
This is great news. I'm still worried about what will happen to my large Scrapbook[1] archive, though. Most of the useful things about that plugin (saving, browsing, and loading files on the local disk) are not available in the new API
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Glad you are working on this! I've been pretty disappointed at how non-standardized highlights (and comments) are for ebooks. Taking notes, highlighting, and 'active reading' are generally worse on electronic platforms and th
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Hitler was working hard on PR to keep the US out. Recent I saw a map the Nazis had made with the proportion of the population of German descent for each US state, created for propaganda purposes.
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Amazon pulling advertising is scary but not entirely beyond the pale. I find the idea that authors are afraid to criticize Amazon to be much more worrisome: these days, writing a book is an important source of income for politicians, academ
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by ropeladder 9y ago
That is certainly a possible takeaway. My takeaway is that we shouldn't have one man's hand feeding everyone who contributes to the political and intellectual life of the country.
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by ropeladder 9y ago
The article is arguing against government subsidies, not business choices. Businesses are providing a benefit, parking, that is not taxed as income. If that benefit was taxed in the same way income was, it would be more expensive for both b
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Coming from Windows a year or so ago, the Linux filesystem has been probably the most confusing thing about the switch (I've read about the logic behind /var and /bin and /usr several times but it was not intuitive to
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Reply all is funny and about the internet. The Dig is not funny or about startups but I just discovered it and wanted to share. Smart policy discussion with a lefty viewpoint.
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by ropeladder 9y ago
Whenever I hear critiques of MBAs I think of this anecdote from a paper [1] by Yanis Varoufakis: In the parlance of signaling theory these [MBA] transcripts are known as screening devices. One personnel manager (of a financial services com
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by ropeladder 9y ago
That water screen is really brilliant.
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by ropeladder 9y ago
I'm right in a similar place with my own project* right now so thanks for asking your question. I think you have may have a cool idea with pipecourses but honestly the main page doesn't provide enough info for me to tell. Mostly,
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by ropeladder 10y ago
It's D3 according to the source file; the type of map is called a 'choropleth'. Here is a tutorial that might be useful. (I haven't done this specific one but I've made similar stuff before.) http://www.

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