Astronaut Selection 11 years ago
The thought of going to space is certainly enticing, but since I don't like turbulent flights or rollercoasters, this is probably not for me.
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The problem of sleeping without sleeping 11 years ago
Thanks for posting that. It's way more informative that this scanned book passage.
Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode (2013) 11 years ago
You don't need a special font installed. It works fine in Chrome on OS X without anything extra installed.
Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat 11 years ago
But I thought prior art doesn't matter anymore? In 2013 the US patent system changed from first-to-invest to first-to-file.
That update was just a README update. Most of the files in the repo haven't been touched in over 2 years and they haven't done a release since 2012.
This is a cool idea, but I can't imagine why you'd want to login via GitHub. They get read/write access to all your public and private repos.
Toki Pona: a human language with 120 words 11 years ago
The title of the article should really say "Toki Pona: An artificial human language with 120 words."
Something like this would be way too inefficient to actually be used by people.
Four-day work week – Lessons learned 11 years ago
"All of them are your past decisions you need to live with and all of them require attention."
Wow, this guy's wife must love being though of as a "past decision [he] need[s] to live with." Maybe it's just me, but that strongly implies "past decision you would not make again."
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2015) 11 years ago
Already have a job I love, so I'm not interested, but I was surprised to see that you guys are in the building right next to where I work remotely from (Princeton Overlook). Nice to know there are other Python machine learning people close by.
GitHub Enterprise 2.0 12 years ago
Yeah, and the worst part is that GitHub doesn't even offer the same suite of services you get with the Atlassian ecosystem. It'd be one thing if it were a bit more expensive, but also included CI and a more full-fledged CMS like Confluence.
That said, ff they dropped the price, my team would switch in a heartbeat, because we use GitHub and Travis-CI for all our open source stuff.
I gave a talk on the subject last year at PyData NYC: http://vimeo.com/79511496
Hopefully I can give an updated one covering the upcoming 1.0 release at this year's.
Also, SciKit-Learn Laboratory (SKLL) was recently featured in the new O'Reilly book, Data Science at the Command Line, by Jeroen Janssens.
Thanks for the plug!