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Re:Python wats
on Sunday October 11, 2015 @03:54AM (#10368482)
Both behaviors are documented and "if not midnight" adds a fair bit of complexity, probably a good idea to know exactly what happens when you write that.
[1] https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#truth-value-...
[2] https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#time-objects
Re:Artificial Neural Networks for Beginners
on Thursday September 17, 2015 @03:11PM (#10235436)
Geoffrey Hinton's archived course is all about neural nets, I think you can enroll in the archived version, no code, just theory.
Re:The Max Headroom TV Hack
on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @11:00AM (#9845857)
In 2007 a Czech art group hacked a webcam and incorporated a nuclear explosion at the location it monitored. It later got showed on a weather news segment.
Re:Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B i...
on Friday May 22, 2015 @11:10AM (#9588759)
Check out Open Refine. Has a feature that clusters similar strings and unifies. I remember last time I looked at this data set... 4 letter acronyms spelled 12 different ways, it's unbelievably messy.
Re:Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:20AM (#8400107)
Shiny is pretty nice for presentations and Plotly works with R. Not to knock IPyNb because I love it too.
Re:Atlantic.net launches $0.99 SSD-based VPS servers
on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @05:39PM (#8391455)
AWS or www.dominoup.com if it's with Python, R, Matlab or julia
Re:Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden
on Saturday May 31, 2014 @04:42PM (#7827200)
That's most likely what happened. Search and Identification branch of the Crime Bureau (?) worked with Sweden in the past - these guys http://www.policja.pl/pol/kgp/biuro-sluzby-kryminaln/bsk-str....
Re:ipython 2.0.0
on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @03:55AM (#7514158)
Stable is up on pypi.
Re:Coursera blocks access to students in Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria
on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @05:22AM (#7143059)
They restored full access for Syria.
Re:How To Find Unadvertised Jobs
on Sunday January 12, 2014 @03:04PM (#7047220)
Taleo makes a great job making it as painful as possible to search and apply for jobs. I find it pretty funny a "hack" of how to look through taleo listings is in an article about unadvertised jobs.
Re:Into the Bitcoin Mines
on Saturday December 21, 2013 @05:20PM (#6948337)
Couple weeks ago these photos from a Hong Kong based mining facility floated up, pretty crazy setup.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=346134.msg3709913#ms...
Re:Software patent reform just died in the House
on Wednesday November 20, 2013 @01:02PM (#6769703)
He is apparently involved with Intellectual Ventures, so while probably not directly involved in killing the reform, this isn't the most noble of positions.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/bill-gates-still-...
Re:Launching our Data Science and Big Data Track
on Thursday November 14, 2013 @10:52AM (#6732958)
You might like Data Analysis from Coursera.
https://www.coursera.org/course/dataanalysis
From the post it looks like Udacity too is working on courses that address this.
Re:Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes?
on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @08:06AM (#6552726)
I think it means "#1 son". Bender and Flexo follow the same numbering pattern. Makes sense if you assume all bending units' serial numbers are expressible as sums of two cubes.
Re:Pulsar: Concurrent framework for Python
on Sunday October 13, 2013 @10:28PM (#6545070)
What about concurrent.futures from standard library?
Re:Functional Python Made Easy
on Sunday October 13, 2013 @06:16PM (#6544342)
btw, Python 3.3 introduced ChainMap for "merging" dicts.
http://docs.python.org/dev/library/collections#collections.C...
Re:Your name is way too long for your ID
on Friday September 13, 2013 @02:45PM (#6382318)
How it's pronounced:
http://www.khon2.com/2013/09/10/action-line-state-alters-wom...
Re:Show HN: Curated Who's Hiring
on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @04:12AM (#6319682)
I've been working on another one of those apps. It's a real pain in the ass to get accurate location. Both NER or regex location extraction and geocoding services can be slow and inaccurate in variety of ways. The way that brought me the most success is regex and a tabulated file with city names, coordinates and some other info. In either case, there's manual labor involved in finding false positives and negatives.
Re:Principles of Reactive Programming
on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:38PM (#6285713)
Typesafe also just announced a tutoring program for this and the intro course.
http://typesafe.com/blog/announcing_typesafe_new_coursera_tu...
Re:Scala School
on Monday August 19, 2013 @01:05PM (#6238273)
Coursera has a class as well. Martin Odersky tweeted a while ago about a possible advanced course in the fall but it doesn't look like it's happening yet.
Re:New online master's degree to train the data scientists of tomorrow
on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:57PM (#6058736)
Incidentally Coursera's Intro to Data Science looks/ed to be a trial run for the first of three classes in the UW Data Science certificate program [1]. Each class is a bit over $1k. UW did the same with Intro to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics.
Re:Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your ann...
on Saturday June 01, 2013 @03:35AM (#5803158)
For you there's an additional tool. Salaries for sponsored persons is public data.
Re:“Dihydrogen monoxide” joke gets DJs suspended
on Sunday April 07, 2013 @09:06AM (#5507072)
Race doesn't necessarily mean ethnicity.
Re:Sophie In North Korea
on Saturday January 19, 2013 @04:16PM (#5084777)
There's a great writeup on reddit about "What North Koreans were told about World War II" [1] with a list of books and couple other media buried in the thread.
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/15lw49/histor...
Re:U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz Issues Statement on Aaron Swartz Case
on Thursday January 17, 2013 @05:55AM (#5071988)
After the fact you can try to make it sound however you like. But when your option is to get off the lawn or get a bullet in the head, it sounds entirely different. The release is loaded with statements making it sound like he "deserved it" and some empty "didn't intend to" is worthless.
Re:School of Data - Learn how to find, process, analyze and visualize ...
on Saturday December 22, 2012 @08:16PM (#4958144)
Speaking of Coursera, Data Analysis[1] starts January - "applied statistics course focusing on data analysis".
Re:Gmail.com was down
on Monday December 10, 2012 @12:32PM (#4900344)
Oh that's what happened. This is a pretty unexpected oversight from a company that tests their software so extensively to have browsers crash because an email service/sync service is down.
Re:Try R — A new online course, for free
on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @05:25PM (#4878965)
Videos are available on Roger Peng's Youtube.
Re:Coursera's Functional Programming - Cheating Discovered
on Tuesday October 09, 2012 @10:26AM (#4631641)
Certificates and other records from this and Robert Sedgewick's algorithms course (maybe others) can be shared with employers through Coursera's placement service. Not entirely meaningless.
Re:Microsoft: 'To fill 6,000 jobs, we'll pay $10K per visa'
on Sunday September 30, 2012 @07:28AM (#4592632)
Microsoft doesn't pay that low. Here's[1] some data from 2 years back. Friend of mine got over 100k last year, they treat H1-B holders well.