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   by scottfr 14y ago

   Yes, I'm surprised by that myself.
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   by scottfr 14y ago

   And I just raised $27,000 to fund writing my first book [1]. I'm a first time author and despite my best efforts agents and publishers wouldn't touch the project. The world is changing rapidly, and traditional publishing just doesn't make s
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   Beyond Connecting the Dots (Interactive Book)(kickstarter.com)

   2 points by scottfr 14y ago|1 comments
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   by scottfr 14y ago

   Looks, very nice. I tried some basic Mathematica functions (D[], Plot[], ...) and at least that subset all worked as expected. I couldn't find a full table of compatibility with Mathematica though, anyone know where one is?
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   Show HN: Modelian.com On-line Programmable Physics Environment(modelian.com)

   1 points by scottfr 14y ago|0 comments
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   by scottfr 14y ago

   You certainly can create high quality printable PDF's. Check out this example: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/94002/postmortem/docs/EmeryRoe/out/... This was generated using Markdown run through Pandoc (which the OP is using) which was configur
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   Show HN: A Dead-Simple Dead-Drop (so Petraeus won't have to use GMail)(pagevoid.com)

   2 points by scottfr 14y ago|0 comments
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   by scottfr 14y ago

   Anyone test it to see if it has reasonable undo/redo support yet? That alone would almost be reason enough to upgrade.
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   What Brand Is Your Therapist?(nytimes.com)

   3 points by scottfr 14y ago|0 comments
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    Thanks, that must be it.
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    I opened up the developer console on Chrome and copied in his code to make the whole page full-screened. It doesn't seem to do anything and doesn't show an error message. Is there an issue with the code? I know Chrome supports the full-scre
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    Personally I'm in love with R's data.frame. It allows very concise, robust and elegant manipulation and subsetting of a data set. I wish every language would have such a built-in object type, I definitely feel its loss when I manipulate da
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    Sure, I also commented on your post with a link.
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    I put together an implementation of their simple model at: http://insightmaker.com/insight/2972 You can play with the different parameters and growth rates in this model to see the results. It wouldn't be much harder to add the features o
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    Research fraud exploded over the last decade(arstechnica.com)

    8 points by scottfr 14y ago|0 comments
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    Java flaw allows “complete” bypass of security sandbox(arstechnica.com)

    130 points by scottfr 14y ago|53 comments
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    Dealing with disabilities is definitely an issue for the bus system. Does society need a public financed transportation system for disabled people. I would say absolutely. However, I don't think that should be the general bus system. Loadin
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    I few years back I was thinking of running for the board of AC Transit in the bay area. I did some research: the cost per mile to move a person on AC Transit was ~ $1.50 (total cost including subsidies, not what you pay). Compare that to a
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    This looks great and should solve a number of issues with the current API. I have an app that basically tracks donations for different campaigns. Getting total donations per campaign isn't easy with the current API. There is nothing like a
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    I never understood the vehemence against inline javascript. From the article, how is this: <button id="my_btn" onclick="doThis();">Submit</button> Supposed to be worse than: <button type="button" id="my_btn"
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    A master textbook designed by a committee? It would probably be the most boring dull thing ever. Worse, this is effectively what you already have in state school systems like Texas where you have a committee approving the sanctioned books f
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    Bias-Variance Tradeoff: The Heart of Machine Learning(scott.fortmann-roe.com)

    8 points by scottfr 14y ago|0 comments
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    I noticed one bullet point: "increased memory security that guarantees that an application cannot read or write outside its own buffers into another application’s data" I don't know much about OpenGL, but would this address some of the WebG
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    Shameless plug: I would like you to check out the calculator I built: http://herocalc.com It's pure Javascript, has a full parser/tree-builder to process equations, allows you to define functions and variables, and is very fast. It also i
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    Looks very similar to MxGraph ( http://www.jgraph.com/mxgraph.html ). Would be interesting in seeing a list of what features it provides that MxGraph doesn't.
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    Such aggressive usage of the test data set in determining the tuning parameters in effect makes your test data set part of your training data set. The more times you go back to your test data set to evaluate the effectiveness of a model, th
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    I've had a problem with Appcelerator and using the ExtJS framework. Appcelerator seems to do something strange with the DOM that can break Ext. There's also Adobe Air, but its security policy breaks a lot of existing JS. In my case, I just
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    The World3 Model: A World Population Forecaster(insightmaker.com)

    1 points by scottfr 14y ago|0 comments
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    by scottfr 14y ago

    Principle Component Analysis is the main example of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_component_analysis