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by datahipster 7y ago
Kudos to Google for moving this along! A few weeks, the HN community picked up [0, 1] on a presentation [2] about the Tint shading language, a WebGPU shading language prototype. It's great to see them formalize their prototype into a d
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by datahipster 7y ago
Qt's licensing for commercial products is something like $500/month/developer. For a small team of 6 developers, that's $36k in licensing a year. Unfortunately, you're not allowed to take existing Qt code and "
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by datahipster 8y ago
If you're affected by this and would love to work on a dedicated team developing spacecraft orbit simulation software, my company is hiring. Please send me an e-mail at stefan.novak@ai-solutions.com.
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by datahipster 8y ago
Would you be interested in working on high-fidelity satellite orbit simulation software? Our software architecture is primarily C++ and C#, but we're starting to explore some new technologies for our front-end, i.e., Electron, WebAssem
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by datahipster 8y ago
a.i. solutions | Washington, D.C. | C++ Software Engineer | U.S. Citizenship Would you love to be a part of the new space industry? Do you like solving challenging problems with algorithms and data structures? Do you enjoy designing and dev
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by datahipster 8y ago
For those interested in learning the spectacular engineering that went into the Hubble: http://a.co/d/4kLahfW
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by datahipster 8y ago
Ha! They were able to recover the failed backup gyroscope by executing a series of attitude maneuvers while switching between operational modes on the gyro. They literally shook the spacecraft and turned the gyro off-and-on. Sometimes you g
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by datahipster 8y ago
Here's an article of a developer who went through something similar: http://findingscience.com/ruby/2014/11/17/why-im-renaming-a-... The bit that stands out to me is an e-mail he received from a fem
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by datahipster 8y ago
Neat! I've been looking around for a comprehensive guide in how to write a custom React renderer for an upcoming project of mine. It's unfortunate that Facebook hasn't had the time to document the process, often leaving folks
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by datahipster 10y ago
Airbnb.com | Portland, Oregon | Front-End Engineer | Full-time | Onsite Hello! Airbnb is looking for a front-end engineer to join its growing Service Excellence team in Portland, Oregon. We are building world-class tools for our global team
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by datahipster 10y ago
Take a look at the recent book Sprint: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25814544-sprint?from_sear... It details a creative process for developing concepts and testing them. Given that the book outlines a 5-day p
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by datahipster 11y ago
Oregon Health & Science University | Scientific Programmer | Portland, OR | ONSITE | Full Time | Relocation available We are seeking a skilled scientific programmer to develop genomic, imaging, and clinical analysis applications on a di
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by datahipster 11y ago
This is pretty much the main idea behind another paper that Eamonn wrote [0]. The idea is that you can normalize and discretize timeseries data into a lecicographical representation, then perform all sorts of interests analyses on it. For e
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by datahipster 12y ago
Neat! I did some similar analysis of conducting topic modeling around tweets during the Boston Marathon bombing a couple of years back. It was pretty cool to see how topics were neatly ordered over time. http://blog.dc.esri.com&#
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by datahipster 12y ago
> Spatial statistics aren't the same as regular statistics I've always been frustrated with the gap between statistics and spatial statistics. For example, some of the methodologies with conducting hot-spot analysis is somewhat
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by datahipster 12y ago
SHOWHN doesn't seem to work.
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by datahipster 12y ago
For those cases where I have to dip into R for specific functionality, I'll use Rpy2. Pandas has great support for translating Pandas data frames to R data frames!
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by datahipster 12y ago
You ought to take a look at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipython-sql . This, in conjunction with IPython magic helpers specified in your IPython profile, can turn IPython into a SQL client. Here's a good example:
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by datahipster 12y ago
I'm not familiar with Haskell, but can someone provide some insight into how this compares to PyMC or OpenBUGS?
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by datahipster 12y ago
Also check out Vowpal Wabbit [0]. Although this is a tool that provides several online versions of classification, regression, etc, there's an online LDA module included as well. It takes advantage of the "hashing trick", mea
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by datahipster 12y ago
I did something similar to this with tweets during the Boston Marathon bombing [0]. One of the coolest things that I saw was that the topics themselves were neatly ordered in time. In other words, you can visualize how the distribution of v
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by datahipster 12y ago
I'm delighted to share that I'm currently reading Kelley's book right now. Great read thus far! It's refreshing to see a story on Monk make the front page of HN.
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by datahipster 12y ago
+1 for a Vim plugin...
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by datahipster 12y ago
$399B is enough to have funded NASA from 1980-2012. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#Annual_budget.2C...
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by datahipster 13y ago
TIL that the $392 billion budget for the F-35 program could have funded NASA's annual budget from 1992-2012.
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by datahipster 13y ago
Can you provide some proof as to "work[ing] pretty high up at Google"? Just curious.
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Show HN: Chain gem. Easy web API traversal in Ruby(github.com)
6 points by datahipster 13y ago|0 comments
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Looking back at the 2013 Colorado floods(weather5280.com)
2 points by datahipster 13y ago|0 comments
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by datahipster 13y ago
This is a simple one-liner gem that makes it easy to render a Gemfile entry for the latest version of a gem. This is nice to hook into Vim so that you can quickly build out a new Gemfile.
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Show HN: Gemme gem(github.com)
1 points by datahipster 13y ago|1 comments

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