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by spicyj 13y ago
Sounds like you need a library like ART, which is described as a "Retained mode vector drawing API designed for multiple output modes". https://github.com/sebmarkbage/art Essentially, you write your drawing c
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by spicyj 13y ago
There's even an (underdocumented so far) React library for drawing to either Canvas, SVG, or VML (using the same API): https://github.com/facebook/react-art
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So what would you use as a reasonable prior here?
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by spicyj 13y ago
A question for people who know more about this than I do: Why was the uniform distribution on [0, 1] chosen initially? Choosing a different distribution would give a different result. (And it doesn't make much sense to say, "Alway
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by spicyj 13y ago
Indeed. From https://www.kaggle.com/c/facebook-recruiting-iii-keyword-ext... : Highly ranked contestants who indicate their interest will be considered by Facebook for interviews, based on their work in the competition
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Introducing Programming Challenges(cs-blog.khanacademy.org)
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Maybe they did. If they followed your advice we'd never know.
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The article links to that very page: > anarbi posted a great [link] about how compilers can contain a memory of things that are no longer in the code.
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Khan Academy: Introducing the Learning Dashboard(khanacademy.org)
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Countries that use the comma as a decimal separator use a point as a thousands separator.
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I can't tell from the page how much these cost. The linked page seems to suggest that they might be free for the right organization, but if you go to one of the domain pages, there's an "Offer Amount" text box.
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Thanks, should be fixed if you reload.
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by spicyj 13y ago
Hah! Before this I lived in Boulder and did indeed feel like everyone drove Priuses. (Although, my current office of 40 people has three people who drive Priuses of the same color… but point still taken.)
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Yes, I believe general_failure meant, "you can't generalize 'near Google' to 'Bay Area'", so I elaborated to say that I've seen many in the Bay Area, not just near Google.
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I see them all the time on 101 as well.
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It's amazingly popular in the SF Bay Area; I see several each day on my 2-mile commute to work (right next to Google, but still). However, I also saw one when I was in New Orleans a couple weeks ago, so it's not just SF.
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It's difficult for us to work through all of the submitted issues because most of them are from students who don't understand the problem or have made a mistake in their work, not real issues with the content. We always keep an ey
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One more thing: As I was looking through our content, I found we have a new exercise on comparing decimals! It was written just 10 days ago (and hasn't yet been added to the main site): http://sandcastle.khanacademy.org&#x2F
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In this particular case, the exercise is one that we've had since November 2011. This week we made a push to have videos created whenever an exercise doesn't have an accompanying explanation, which is why that video was created sp
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> Perhaps there should be a content-improvement suggestion box for this kind of things. With more teachers starting to use the khan videos and exercises, I am sure bugs will be found, but let's treat them as such. We've been wo
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by spicyj 13y ago
Hi, Ben from Khan Academy here. I just woke up and don't have time for a full response right now but here are a few quick words. Most of our math content creation work these days is driven by our push to cover the new Common Core math
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Yup! Here's a post showing an example of how to do it: http://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/custom-components-reac...
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With Backbone views (for example), it's usually cumbersome to update certain pieces of a view to make sure they stay in sync with your underlying model data. You can just reset the HTML from scratch using something like a Handlebars te
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by spicyj 13y ago
I'm really excited about this release; I've contributed a couple of significant pieces of code to it and as you can see in the changelog, there are quite a few framework improvements in this release. If you're interested, I w
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React v0.4 released(facebook.github.io)
17 points by spicyj 13y ago|11 comments
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As whit537 mentions in a sibling comment, all Gittip donations are already anonymous, but blog posts like John's here end up removing the anonymity for particular donations.
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Hundreds (thousands?) of companies use jashkenas's work -- if each gave anywhere ~$1k/year then it'd easily pay for a full-time salary for him. Less prolific developers will obviously receive less, but still a significant amo
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If I understand properly, having Google's private key only allows you to do MITM attacks, not to passively decrypt traffic using PFS algorithms.
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After seeing the title, I was hoping that McDonald's was promoting HTML5…
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matchu posted an implementation earlier today (with an AI!) using the Khan Academy CS environment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5901365

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