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joellarssonon Ask HN (again): What is the best affordable programmable drone?

I think http://bitcraze.io might be a good fit.

It's a bit more expensive($180) but have a lot of open source apps and libs that you can play with.

joellarssonon Can this mouse take Twitch to the next level?

Quantified Self for games, I like. Would be fun to implement support in some open source games like quake world.

joellarssonon Survival guide for busy people

My short tips: 1) write short emails & respond quickly 2) remove notifications on your computer & phone 3) create gap time (showers, walking, running etc)

joellarssonon What Every Startup Need to Know About IP in China

Are hardware+software startups like fitbit & withings copied as well?

joellarssonon Gmail API

Yep, was hoping for more fine-grained control for reading, not just 'read everything'

joellarssonon Startup School NY Live Stream

Lifestream is now off.

joellarssonon Transport for London – New responsive website

This is the company that built the swedish travel planner, just check their site out: http://www.forslerostjerna.se/cm2f/default.asp

I know that they tried to recruit a 'creative pascal developer' about a year ago :)

joellarssonon "How-do-you-feel dinners" for startups

Like Buffer uses the tactic "Default to Transparency", with Open Salary, Open Revenue data and sharing internal email conversations.

This might be a shortcut to better work/life transparency between co-founders?

joellarssonon Startups Outside Silicon Valley to Watch in 2014

Studio Total (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Total) who are involved with the product are known to do crazy stuff to get PR, like the 'teddybear airdrop' over Minsk. Some things they make buzz about does not exist yet :)

joellarssonon Monocle.io Open Sourced

Do you know of any alternatives that has a browser-plugin similar to getpocket.com or sendtoinc.com?

joellarssonon A War Journalist’s Worst Case Scenario: The Kidnapping of Michael Scott Moore

And two Swedish journalists were kidnapped in Syria yesterday: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/2-swedish-journal...

joellarssonon Magic Card Selling For $38K

I have a 700 cards from early packages up to 1995. Are they worth finding and selling again?

I remember selling dual-lands for 10$ back in the days, probably got robbed by my older friends.

joellarssonon How Python became the language of choice for data science

I updated with a link to a post comparing statistical packages in a much better way.

joellarssonon How Python became the language of choice for data science

I guess there are better ways of comparing. I like the survey data and kaggle.com data from my other link.

joellarssonon How Python became the language of choice for data science

Comparing statistical packages by: Kaggle.com usage, Job posts, Activity on blogs, mailing lists, Stack overflow, Google Scholar and a few more..

http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/

We have a winner?

joellarssonon How Python became the language of choice for data science

It's not.

R vs some Python alternatives in Google Trends: http://bit.ly/1fpOR57

Pandas is looking good, but then we have Julia, Matlab and probably some people still using SAS.

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Comparing statistical packages by: Kaggle.com usage, Job posts, Activity on blogs, mailing lists, Stack overflow, Google Scholar and a few more..

http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/