azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Show HN: Whapp-irc – A simple WhatsApp IRC gateway
I'm from EU and it is a thing. I use iMessages whenever the other side has an iPhone. In my social circle, it's about two thirds. But it is also true that many people who have an iPhone still use Whatsapp or Messenger as the default communication channel even if the other side has an iPhone as well.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M
For a perspective, 3m euro is about two lifetimes of an average salary in Berlin (north of 2k monthly after taxes)
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Why We Sleep, and Why We Often Can’t
I haven’t been able to find whether the recommended 7-9 hours per night refers to the time in bed or to actual sleep time (~1 hour less). Does anyone know?
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: The Yoda of Silicon Valley
"In regular use" is an understatement. Virtually all manuscripts published on Arxiv.org, which comprises a large portion of all contemporary physics research output, is typeset in Latex.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Tesla Autopilot and Euro NCAP
It doesn’t matter what the technical definition is in aviation. What matters is what expectations about Tesla’s technology it creates for most people.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little
Because publishing a package on PyPI is trivial compared to publishing on the Anaconda cloud. For the latter, you need to build your package for every platform and Python version you want to support. So sou need to setup some CI. This is just such an overkill for a pure-Python package. It makes a lot of sense for a project with a nontrivial C extension though, and I do build a conda package for one such project of mine. For everything else, I publish just on PyPI.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Photons, Quasars and the Possibility of Free Will
I find this view satisfying: “free will” is the feeling that our decisions are the consequence of the train of our inner thoughts. In that sense, free will exists. The following question is whether that feeling corresponds to physical reality or is an illusion. Here I believe it’s the latter and free will is in fact merely an interpretation of what happens around us. See the book Feee Will from Sam Harris for more.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Eviation’s Alice is an all-electric, nine-person aircraft
Well, he was right about that, although there is little doubt his intent was to deceive.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Eviation’s Alice is an all-electric, nine-person aircraft
Words are used in a context which shapes their meaning. “Is” there implies to most that the aircraft already exists.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Show HN: Dark Reader extension – Dark mode for every website
With Safari on macOS, the OS reports a negligible energy impact for the extension.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Helsinki to Begin Anonymous Recruiting
But what you describe is not at all what the article is about. This is about identifiable information, which has nothing to do with anyone’s humanity.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
The $15 adapter is most likely of similar quality as the DAC and other audio components in the phone, so I don’t see the point. (Also, most people I know with $1000 headphones use an external audiophile-grade DAC anyway.)
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
Well, sure, but those are not specific reasons to take a job in a startup, which the comment was about, those are reasons to take any job.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: What a Real Train System Looks Like (2009)
The Dutch and Danish approach to cycling is just from a different world. Even cities that I consider decent for cycling, like Berlin, pale in comparison to any larger Dutch or Danish city. And once you introduce cycling into commuting systems at that scale, yes, it enables you to design those systems in new ways.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
You might find the book Why We Sleep interesting.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
I have not tested it with anything else than the Python kernel, but it uses Jupyter Client to communicate with the kernel, which is kernel agnostic. So you should be able to do just “knitj -k <kernel name> ...”.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
True. Actually that's what I meant by "intermingling inputs and outputs". KnitJ still shows both code and its output in the rendered HTML, but unlike in Jupyter Notebook, the code is stored and edited separately in a single source file.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
Already now you can run a Jupyter notebook on an http server and serve it to Safari in an iPad.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Why Jupyter is data scientists’ computational notebook of choice
I love Jupyter Notebook for experimenting and rapid creation of reports, but dislike it for not being able to use my editor and for intermingling inputs and outputs in a single file. So I'm working on an alternative frontend to Jupyter kernels, which is heavily inspired by KnitR:
https://github.com/azag0/knitj It is still being developed, but it's functional and I use it every day.
azag0
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7 years ago
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on: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor
Let's hope then that Hřib is sensible enough that if he finds out he's not up to the job in the process, he'll cede it to Čižinský
