jnotarstefano

I think it's a typo: "Whenever Python EXITS, why isn't..."

It seems to be known as the Qeshm salt dome: http://wikimapia.org/11589307/Qeshm-Salt-dome

I don't think that the link is pointing to the right press release. It should probably point to https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/scoap3.cfm, which announces that APS will in fact join the SCOAP3 initiative.

(Another telltale sign is the fact that the link refers to Rolf Heuer as the Director General, but in fact he is the former Director General, while the current one is Fabiola Gianotti.)

That's an excellent idea. I wrote the copy on that page trying to convey "can I get your help against these bad people?", rather than something blaming the user, or a scary looking warning.

But showing them the _reason_ why a certain website is blocked can become an opportunity to teach people critical thought, something that other comment threads point out.

I disagree on this slope being slippery (or actually, this being a slope at all).

Let me be more precise, and use tptacek's words in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12999887: "fake news = spam sites built from scripts consisting largely of a backcatalog nonsense stories [...] with a one or two carefully produced fake stories as a "payload".

I think this definition is as objective as it gets, and clearly excludes things I might disagree with politically, but are not the target of this extension.

I like "reality" : )

I chose "safety" because I think I copied Chrome's message when visiting a website with an invalid certificate.

Given two clusters, I can predict the class of a new article by choosing the cluster whose centroid is closest to the article.

So, given some training data that produced two reasonable clusters with respect to the ground truth, I have a model that I can expect to generalize well on new data.

Now, this is not what that notebook shows, because it's missing the evaluating on testing data! The main point of the notebook is that the Jaccard Distance of the tokens of the HTML of the page, despite being very simple, appears to generate a reasonable model.

Consider that I built it this night for http://lauzhack.com/, so it's not intended to be a fully-featured solution to the problem.

The main issue I wanted to address is the fact that such a blocker must be widely installed to be useful. Therefore, the Facebook message is intended to prod current users of the extensions to ask that their friends install it as well.

Exactly. Those are the only websites I'm interested in targeting with this extension.

For example, I would never blacklist Breitbart, because I'm not interested in censoring political opinions I disagree with. I just want to free us from the burden of these websites that add nothing to the world and leech attention from everyone.

I'll bite. Why is "3" the wrong answer?

I had to use a similar approach when creating a cluster analysis of the amendments in the Italian Senate [0].

The Italian Senate offers a SPARQL endpoint [1], which unfortunately doesn't offer access to the texts of the amendments. So I had to roll my own and create a small spider for them using Scrapy [2].

[0]: https://github.com/jacquerie/senato.py/blob/master/analysis....

[1]: http://dati.senato.it/23

[2]: https://github.com/jacquerie/senato.py/blob/master/senato/sp...

If you happen to do that before the end of November, please send me an email (it should be in my profile): I'd love to talk to you over coffee!

And a Scala job has been placed in a town called Scala in Italy, not far from Naples.

It's interesting to note that High Energy Physicists all around the world will answer "yes", in fact they even created a C++ interpreter: https://root.cern.ch/drupal/content/cint.

Uhm, something weird happened. I tried booking without a visa to see the error, but it let my booking through (I then cancelled my reservation).

Yes, that's what I meant with "degree sequence". Thanks for the suggestion! That description is more succinct than it needs to be.

I apologize for the self promotion, but some people told me they immediately grasped the Havel-Hakimi Algorithm by solving this puzzle I made: http://jacquerie.github.io/hh/

I am not sure I understand this graph. When is there in an edge between two chapters? What is the "weight" of an edge?

Err... "fava" is a regional (but well-known) term for "penis" in italian. I bet you'll get some unexpected traffic and links from Italy.

Sometimes the answer is "no, but it doesn't matter", as shown by two professors at my University: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v357/n6379/abs/357569a0...

Pisa (Italy), Remote, Internship

Stack: Ruby, Rails, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, D3.js, Git

Resume: https://github.com/jacquerie/cv/blob/master/cv_eng.pdf?raw=t...

Contact: jacopo.notarstefano [at] gmail.com

I am in my last year of my Master's Degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa. I'm looking for a remote internship this summer on ANY technology, not just the ones I listed.

Another excellent source on this topic is a book I cited in the code comments called "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants" by Prusinkiewicz and Lindenmayer, available online here: http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop

A friend pointed out that http://www.kongregate.com/games/ewmstaley/strand has a similar mechanic. I wasn't aware of this game when I created mine, though.

Pandoc has almost all these features: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

I think it's lacking the #include/#input feature, and I'm not sure whether it supports labels and internal references, but apparently it has some form of bibliography.

There's also 40South Energy in this space: http://www.40southenergy.com/wave-energy-converters/the-tech... (its founder was my linear algebra teacher).

Excellent suggestions! Thank you, ot.

I loved that. But I fear a blog post can't do justice to Pausch's excellent delivery.

I love this speech so much I wrote an italian translation for my blog. Which other speeches in science do you think are worth a translation?

This is tangentially related, but here is less OT than in most discussions :)

I'm currently building http://www.bandol.it, a Humble Bundle clone targeted at Italian Independent Music (and, maybe, books).

I'm experiencing the dreaded chicken and egg problem: bands won't give me their music if I don't have a big following, while people won't follow me if I don't offer them good bands.

How did Humble Bundle solve this?

There seems to be a tiny bit of difference in Ruby too. This code:

    require 'benchmark'

    def random_string(length)
      result = (1..length).map { (65+rand(26)).chr }.join
      result[rand(length)] = rand(10).to_s if rand > 0.5
      result
    end

    Benchmark.bmbm do |b|
      b.report("\\d") do 
        (1..1000).count { random_string(1000).match(/\d/) }     
      end

      b.report("[0-9]") do 
        (1..1000).count { random_string(1000).match(/[0-9]/) }
      end

      b.report("[0123456789]") do 
        (1..1000).count { random_string(1000).match(/[0123456789]/) }
      end
    end

gives:

    ~/Code/ruby% ruby regex.rb
    Rehearsal ------------------------------------------------
    \d             0.690000   0.000000   0.690000 (  0.712500)
    [0-9]          0.690000   0.000000   0.690000 (  0.703990)
    [0123456789]   0.680000   0.010000   0.690000 (  0.705759)
    --------------------------------------- total: 2.070000sec
    
                       user     system      total        real
    \d             0.710000   0.000000   0.710000 (  0.791722)
    [0-9]          0.700000   0.000000   0.700000 (  0.708210)
    [0123456789]   0.690000   0.010000   0.700000 (  0.713355)