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by sveme 13y ago
Interesting article, but seriously: " The floods, droughts, starvation, and disease in the three years following the eruption stem from the volcano’s effects on weather systems, so Tambora stands today as a harrowing case study of wh
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by sveme 13y ago
Great intro, just a minor nitpick to not spread confusion: Julia does actually have named arguments: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/functions/#keywor...
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by sveme 13y ago
Well, a trial is not about the molecular mechanisms of a drug. It is about checking whether a drug works and whether it is better than existing drugs. So statistics. Still hard, obviously, and plenty of space for semantic whitewashing.
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by sveme 13y ago
Getting all the information from all clinical trials will probably spur some great data mining efforts, on a much broader scale than what has been done so far. For example, a former colleague of mine used the correlation of published drug s
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by sveme 13y ago
Now I am confused. My understanding is that when I apply a function on a vector etc. in R, I call some compiled C code in the background that translates this into a straightforward for loop. The hardware would not work on vectors but on sca
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by sveme 13y ago
I was wondering about that as well so I checked (see the write-up): ------------------ Update: Someone on Hackernews argued that international charges would still apply. However, according to this [1]: "International call charges would
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by sveme 13y ago
I said it before in the other thread, but I guess it's worth reemphasizing: The abolishment of roaming charges is huge and could really establish a single telecoms market. This point has somehow been lost in all the excitement and disc
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by sveme 13y ago
To my understanding calls from your own country to another EU country are also covered by this: http://ec.europa.eu/news/science/130916_en.htm The quote: >International call charges would be capped at the price
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Removing EU roaming charges is a big deal(sveme.org)
1 points by sveme 13y ago|0 comments
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by sveme 13y ago
Possible, but I would say it will rather create a much fiercer competition: Differences between domestic rates and non-domestic rates are what kept the European Telecoms market from becoming truly European. As a German, the only viable opti
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by sveme 13y ago
This actually made me remove my (dormant, but still) account on okcupid. I am absolutely a proponent of equal rights and I absolutely disagree with Brendan Eich's actions. Still I continue using Firefox and Thunderbird (and Javascript)
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by sveme 13y ago
Years ago, when I hadn't yet completed the switch from the lab to computers, I used http://www.protocol-online.org/ from time to time, which is, in my understanding, a similar project. Though checking it out just now i
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by sveme 13y ago
Are you serious? You expect me to provide a Fox News fair and balanced response in any of my comments on Hackernews? I could understand your point if I would have tried to be polemic, but I surely wasn't. The other position was already
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by sveme 13y ago
It doesn't matter whether it is free or not. My only aim was to provide information that might be relevant for some people interested in trying out Atom (admittedly I mixed this information with my personal position towards Google and
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by sveme 13y ago
From the README: > 4. To help us improve the editor, Atom sends usage information to Google Analytics. See [atom/metrics]( https://github.com/atom/metrics ) for details. That is quite horrible in my opinion. D
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by sveme 13y ago
As others said before, it's most likely a defensive move, against other interested parties but also against Whatsapp itself. I don't use and thoroughly dislike Facebook but I'm using Whatsapp groups daily with my closest frie
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by sveme 13y ago
I have been using DDG for the better part of the last year and it has improved considerably, especially with technical/dev stuff. Searching for error messages works much better now than even half a year ago which is probably a smart mo
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by sveme 13y ago
By Jaume Fuster? Yes, I just checked and there don't seem to be any German or English translations available. That's a shame, would have liked to read it. Coming back to the original topic, it is slightly weird that the market fo
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by sveme 13y ago
I found the list fascinating - though in a bad way, as it impressively shows how little Americans seem to be exposed to non-anglosaxon literature. That's a loss, really.
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by sveme 13y ago
I agree somewhat, but you should try out his latest book "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage: A novel", though apparently not yet available in English. I just started it and so far it feels very different from hi
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by sveme 13y ago
It is a bit hidden, but calling julia from C is possible in the 0.3 prerelease: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/embedding/
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by sveme 13y ago
There is an upshot to this and the (over-)reliance of the surveillance state on technology - leave your cell phone at home when going to a protest or riot and never be suspected of being a participant in the first place.
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by sveme 13y ago
The biggest issue I have with GDP is that it has become more than a measure, a mean in and of itself. Policies that could have a beneficial impact on societal wellbeing have been shut down using the argument that it would negatively affect
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Development: Time to leave GDP behind(nature.com)
10 points by sveme 13y ago|4 comments
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by sveme 13y ago
FYI, they finally included a dataframe like data type in base MATLAB as well and called it `table`: http://blogs.mathworks.com/loren/2013/09/10/introduction-to-... So you don't need a stats license
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by sveme 13y ago
Similar to me. I started with MATLAB (I even worked for them for a time), but then moved to Python when I started working more in Bioinformatics and lately explore Julia a lot. The current issue with Julia is that most of the tutorials and
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by sveme 13y ago
Thanks to everyone for their input, lot's of great feedback from people that are in a similar situation and have found solutions to that issue. That's what I like about HN.
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by sveme 13y ago
Great link. The money quote is probably >Things to avoid In general it's best to avoid products made by Skullcandy, Bose, Beats, or Monster unless otherwise specified in this thread. These companies spend a lot of money on advertisi
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by sveme 13y ago
Thanks, that is really helpful. As I will have to block out constant babbling, passive noise blocking is probably the most important factor. That is a really helpful overview in that amazon link. Sounds like I should explore the sennheiser
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Ask HN: Best isolating headphones for hacking?
47 points by sveme 13y ago|78 comments

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