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by cmpolis 8y ago
Having been both riders in this situation - I'd speculate that you're the one having more fun. I went through phases of recreational cyclist -> competitive cyclist and racer -> back to recreational cyclist. Training and raci
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by cmpolis 8y ago
What's up with the line of points at y=0.3772? seems anomalous
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by cmpolis 8y ago
http://reddit.com/r/financialindependence
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by cmpolis 8y ago
I think there are two distinct markets and personas here: "Wahoo / Strava / Zwift / Trainer Road / Training Peaks" cater to competitive cyclists which is niche group (huge downtrend in bike racing; look at #s f
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by cmpolis 8y ago
People who appreciate the submission upvote, critics comment. There may be more of the former, but unfortunately the latter are more impactful
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by cmpolis 8y ago
My main machine for the past few years has been Lenovo X1 Carbon from a few gens ago - have had a great experience. Dual boots windows and Ubuntu without issue, battery life is great, performance is great with 16G/SSD/i7, feels we
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by cmpolis 8y ago
I can't understand the blindness of the Tesla/Elon fanboys in that thread; the comments on that thread are so defensive of Tesla and still show little concern for safety. Despite fairly damning video evidence, a fatality, many re
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by cmpolis 8y ago
Hardware is not faultless. The analogy doesn't stand up - there's a non-trivial chance that a memory module or your hard drive in your laptop will fail over the lifetime of the device. Furthermore, a LIDAR unit is complex and has
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by cmpolis 8y ago
a,b in news headlines often means "a and b"... this seems to be a vestige of print news, where headline space is limited.
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by cmpolis 9y ago
It isn't obvious from the video if the human driver would have had time to react, but they certainly did not help their chances by being unalert. What is the point of having a human driver if they are not going to be watching the road
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by cmpolis 9y ago
Is this a real problem? Databases have been handling massive volume of transactions for decades.
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by cmpolis 10y ago
You can look at how much exposure you have in aforementioned retirement vehicles and sell short that same amount of exposure in a brokerage account.
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California's Last Nuclear Power Plant to Be Shut Down(npr.org)
48 points by cmpolis 10y ago|76 comments
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by cmpolis 10y ago
On a pragmatic note: leave your phone(alarm) on the opposite side of your bedroom or in another room altogether. You will have to physically get up to shut it off and benefit from not using it(and more importantly, thinking about email, wor
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by cmpolis 10y ago
Tangentially related(tweet sized js) and an awesome project: https://t.d3fc.io/ is a collection of d3 visualizations from tweets. The code is cryptic on first inspection, but if you look at the sandbox setup, it starts to m
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Interactively explore city and town names in the US(bytemuse.com)
1 points by cmpolis 11y ago|0 comments
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by cmpolis 11y ago
source: https://github.com/cmpolis/nba-seasons-vis
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Show HN: NBA Games Played vs. Games Above .500(source in Comments)(bytemuse.com)
1 points by cmpolis 11y ago|1 comments
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Big Data Landscape, 2016(image-store.slidesharecdn.com)
4 points by cmpolis 11y ago|0 comments
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Movies We Watched: Box office sales in 2015(bytemuse.com)
1 points by cmpolis 11y ago|0 comments
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Performance of Stock Pick Lists for 2015 (Experts don't beat the market)(bytemuse.com)
3 points by cmpolis 11y ago|0 comments
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Rails 5: Action Cable Demo (simple chat with Websockets)(medium.com)
1 points by cmpolis 11y ago|0 comments
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Interactive data visualization of the GS Warriors dominance, through 20 games(bytemuse.com)
2 points by cmpolis 11y ago|0 comments
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Gravity train (theoretical means of transportation)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by cmpolis 11y ago|0 comments
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Finding S&P 500 Clusters for Diversification with a Dendrogram(bytemuse.com)
2 points by cmpolis 11y ago|0 comments
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Finding S&P 500 Clusters and Diversification with a Dendrogram(bytemuse.com)
2 points by cmpolis 11y ago|0 comments
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Optimizing a Box of Crayons with Hierarchical Clustering and D3.js(bytemuse.com)
3 points by cmpolis 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do I publish an academic paper after graduating from university?
6 points by cmpolis 11y ago|4 comments