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by pseut 12y ago
And, just to go back to patio11's article[1] "replace OpenSSL for free" is something that Tarsnap could afford to do as a company, and might make business sense, if it were substantially more profitable. </nag> ht
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by pseut 12y ago
I've seen people not know who "pg" is, so...
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by pseut 12y ago
The one weak point of the landing page is that it didn't indicate who was not affected. I read to the bottom of the announcement and had to think a while on whether I had to update my laptop because, hey, this seems like a serious
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by pseut 12y ago
Usually the algorithm is described in another document without several expressions & lines. "Readability" in some of these contexts means verifying that you've correctly typed in the expression.
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by pseut 12y ago
You're right, thanks. But C-u doesn't seem to be necessary, unless I have a strange setup.
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by pseut 12y ago
I love Vim's digraphs! In emacs it's C-| tex then \phi → φ etc, which can be quite a bit more typing but can be easier to remember if you already know the TeX instructions for everything. Now we just need to conv
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by pseut 12y ago
Konqueror on RHEL seems more likely than Lynx.
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by pseut 12y ago
A reaction to the new moderation proposals, maybe?
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by pseut 12y ago
FWIW, cryptocurrencies are far more fiat than dollars. You can pay taxes in dollars, for example, so they're not even a pure fiat currency.
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by pseut 12y ago
It's used consistently in the core language and in well written packages but very inconsistently across the ecosystem. I certainly don't use it in packages I write for my own use and it's pretty unused in most of the packages
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by pseut 12y ago
Did you write qplot? (rhetorical question) A lot of these "quirks" of R are nice for end users when they're implemented well, but are unintuitive to program and, as a consequence, are inconsistently implemented across package
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by pseut 12y ago
Yeah, I was just thinking that. About 90% of what I see on twitter I would consider spam if it were sent by email. :)
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by pseut 12y ago
Not my area, but one starting place is http://www.andrewgelman.com
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by pseut 12y ago
I more or less agree with your specific points, but in the larger scheme of things I'm more concerned that these hypothetical people don't understand the stats than that the tool won't scale or is badly implemented. That said
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by pseut 12y ago
Nearlyfreespeech's homepage is infinitely more attractive and professional looking than tarsnap's. And, no, the redesign in the article looks exactly like someone grabbed a $20 theme and didn't bother to swap in the imag
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by pseut 12y ago
Things tarsnap would need to be anything like dropbox: * Mobile support * Windows support * A web interface * Any way of using it other than CLI TFA left all that stuff in place. "tarsnap the software" does not change at all.
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by pseut 12y ago
Unless I skimmed over part of the post, tarsnap is still run by crontab on a unix/linux box. So, still pretty geeky. And the idea that "affordable encrypted backup" can't be understood by "a suit" is silly.
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by pseut 12y ago
From the first few graphs I've seen in the links, the shading is discrete and not continuous (e.g. p 40). Discrete shading does address my first point, and it can help somewhat with communication too. Personally, I prefer simulating fr
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by pseut 12y ago
1. If I want a confidence interval, I want to know the end points of the confidence interval. Trying to guess them from a plot like this is annoying and not helpful. 2. This doesn't work for bar graphs, lengths, etc. The uncertainty is
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by pseut 12y ago
"Less elitist" may not appeal to someone who announces on HN that he or she got into these three colleges. Harvard it is!
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by pseut 12y ago
I can't find the quote now, but I'm sure that I've read of someone saying (when told that a result had been found earlier but forgotten), "Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered!"
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by pseut 12y ago
Probably not something you should care about, but this site doesn't load at all in Konqueror.
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by pseut 12y ago
No, I'm thinking of frequencies higher than 1 day.
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by pseut 12y ago
A priori, sure. After the fact, if you have detailed enough data it can be pretty easy to identify the timing of certain events. It doesn't mean that the reaction is correct or that it won't be undone in the future. But there&#x
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by pseut 12y ago
I think they were more concerned with losing users (and future users) and being unable to raise more funding than with actually being sued.
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by pseut 12y ago
Yeah, that's actually why I think it's important to point out who made the insight. Every time I've heard the anecdote, it's been presented as some sort of clever observation that we should all be expected to produce.
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by pseut 12y ago
> "[A guy in charge]..." That should read, "One of the most influential mathematical statisticians in history..." He also invented the "Wald test".
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by pseut 13y ago
Other people have probably seen this use before, but this is the first time I've seen rap genius embedded and used for something other than lyrics. I'm blown away, it's fantastic.
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Janet Yellen’s first FOMC statement, annotated(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by pseut 13y ago|1 comments
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by pseut 13y ago
Anticipation and timing.

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