simonb | 6 years ago | on: SQLite Is Serverless
Or load it in Metabase (as an macOS app).
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simonb | 8 years ago | on: Bollinger B1: An electric truck with 360HP and up to 200 mile range
Looks really interesting and promising, but why didn't they make it front control like the Land Rover FC101.
simonb | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who's using Clojure, and to do what?
My (ex-)team at https://www.goopti.com used Clojure for the entire data infrastructure, all the machine learning and exploratory data science.
I've given a couple of talks about our experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GLXmGeuoOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtmggfGD3RQ&index=6&list=PLe...
simonb | 9 years ago | on: Hacked Twitter Accounts Post Swastikas, Pro-Erdogan Content
It doesn't seem to be limited to just TheCounter https://twitter.com/desantis/status/841952242789974021
simonb | 9 years ago | on: Doing Bayesian Data Analysis On the GPU: Examples
Shameless self promotion: https://github.com/sbelak/huri has a half-decent plotting DSL that uses ggplot underneath.
simonb | 9 years ago | on: Is the Semi-Permanent “Gunpowder Empire” Historical Scenario Plausible?
English has become lingua franca beyond the colonies only after WW2.
simonb | 10 years ago | on: TTIP Leaks
Of course, but all these are manifestations of the same ideological system (that also brought "peace and prosperity").
simonb | 10 years ago | on: TTIP Leaks
For one, suicide rates in the developed world are on the rise: http://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
simonb | 10 years ago | on: G.M. Invests $500M in Lyft
Chinese automaker GAC recently invested in Uber. techcrunch.com/2015/12/21/uber-china-lands-strategic-investment-from-chinese-automaker-gac/
All eyes are on Silicone Valley, but I think China will be the first to allow fully autonomous cars on its roads (Chinese-made of course).
simonb | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Legion Analytics – Using Data to Find the Right Customer
I take it you are focused on B2B?
simonb | 10 years ago | on: Transpose: A structured alternative to Evernote
I see this more as a lightweight MS Access replacement.
simonb | 10 years ago | on: Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal
500k in the US, 11M worldwide.
simonb | 10 years ago | on: SICP Distilled: An idiosyncratic tour of SICP in Clojure
I always thought of it as being a kindred spirit to Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
simonb | 10 years ago | on: Why is Bitcoin forking?
Miners and exchanges.
simonb | 10 years ago | on: Thoughts on Time-series Databases
Would Timetravel module work for your use-case: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/contrib-spi.html#A...
simonb | 10 years ago | on: Dragit – Direct manipulation of data graphics
You can visualise an additional dimension if you factor out the time dimension.
simonb | 10 years ago | on: Dragit – Direct manipulation of data graphics
An unfortunate limitation of dragit seems to be that all state is global and therefore you can't have more than one such chart on a single page.
simonb | 11 years ago | on: RethinkDB 1.13: pull data via HTTP, push data via changefeeds
another vote for compound indices.
simonb | 12 years ago | on: Why Eve Online's economist thinks Bitcoin could be a scam
His main argument boils down to: there is a risk because I don't know and/or understand the code; but with the reference source code being public, this is his limitation, not the system's.
simonb | 12 years ago | on: Java is back? Programming language trends for 2345 teams
Considering the difference in sample size and make-up, the latest results just show the competition is gaining broader appeal and with it more mainstream languages start to dominate.
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