thesnark | 12 years ago | on: What are my options for email if I don't want to use GMail/Hotmail/Yahoo etc?
It looks like your emails are stored on their servers? My desire is to have more control over my data.
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thesnark | 12 years ago | on: What are my options for email if I don't want to use GMail/Hotmail/Yahoo etc?
This was my first thought, but after researching for a while it seems pretty complicated. The tutorials I found literally have hundreds of steps to configure everything properly.
thesnark | 13 years ago | on: Data Science of the Facebook World
Is there a description available of the algorithm used to generate the 'cluster diagrams'?
Really nice work.
thesnark | 13 years ago | on: D-Wave quantum computer solves protein folding problem
Hard not to scoff at with that sensational title.
thesnark | 13 years ago | on: D-Wave quantum computer solves protein folding problem
So they can fold a 20 residue protein on a lattice using the coarse grain HP model, competing squarely with 1970s tech.
thesnark | 13 years ago | on: My next text editor
I would be interested to hear what modern features are not possible in vim or emacs.
thesnark | 14 years ago | on: How to Build a Portrait with Dice (using Photoshop)
I am the guy who wrote the original post, I think this is great work, I wish I could use photoshop as proficiently!
I should say that for my part, I drew inspiration from flight404: http://www.flight404.com/blog/?p=131
and a paper I read where someone wrote an algorithm to do this with dominos.
thesnark | 14 years ago | on: Cinder: open-source creative C++
I wonder what a fair benchmark test would look like. Would it boil down to an argument of C++ vs Java for floating point operations?
thesnark | 14 years ago | on: Cinder: open-source creative C++
Having never used Cinder before, why would someone choose it over processing?
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: 1Gbps fiber for $70—in America? Yup.
Novus in Vancouver is pretty awesome, 40/10 for $65/mo
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: Why astronomers (and other scientists) should program in Python
In my experience 90% of scientific data analysis work is: getting the data, cleaning it and transforming it into a form suitable for analysis. MATLAB fails miserably at these tasks.
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: Why astronomers (and other scientists) should program in Python
MATLAB is a bad choice for science. It is proprietary, making it difficult to share work among people who do not own a license, therefore making it more difficult to reproduce results.
Not to mention the fact that the MATLAB language is extremely awkward anytime you want to work with something that isn't a matrix.
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: Slaying the Cable Monster: Why HDMI Brands Don't Matter
I like to take advantage of this by approaching the salesman while holding about $300 dollars worth of cables, negotiate a lower price on the tv and then return the cables the next day.
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)
Hi,
This sounds really interesting to me, and I am in Vancouver too. Would you consider putting your email address in your profile? I have a quick question for you.
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: Will the real Silicon Valley North please stand up?
What about Montreal?
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: I'm finally doing it: bootstrapping my start up.
What would the tattoo have been? :)
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: What's the most mind-blowing fact you heard/read in your life?
That we are star dust.
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: Bots playing the market make some bizarre patterns
Did you read about this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/huge-first-high-frequency-tra...
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where can I find someone who makes info-graphics?
Ben Fry (of processing fame) has a group that does this:
Can you give more details about the project and the data set?
thesnark | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What does your development environment look like?
This post can answer far more completely than I can:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1565375
Vancouver gets a nod from pg as one of the best places to do a startup outside of the US.
I only recently moved here, so I am not very involved in the local scene, although I would like to start meeting people.
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