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occsceo··on I grew my Substack from 439 to 451 free subscribers in just 11 months
Awesome work here OP.
occsceo··on I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions
Sounds like those two also need to get in an octagon. What a s-show.
occsceo··on Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free
cool. add a comment/indicator that space bar advances?
occsceo··on Show HN: I'm releasing my game for free
hi, thanks much. very fun. any chance you could add keyboard shortcuts to the menu items after completing a level? (try again, next, menu) so that a user doesn't need to switch from keyboard to mouse.
occsceo··on Microservices [video]
hits too close to home.
occsceo··on Show HN: Skynet Simulator
OP, thanks for this! was a pleasant retreat in between meetings today.
occsceo··on Show HN: Dumbest AI + Blockchain Project in 100 lines
how can I invest?
occsceo··on Bitcoin surges to all-time high above $1,700
bring on the downvotes, but my loaf of bread costs $2.99 now and was $1.19 twenty years ago. Why hasn't inflation affected your bread? Can I get some of your bread shipped in bulk?
occsceo··on Clinton’s data-driven campaign relied heavily on an algorithm named Ada
I'm sorry Hillary, I'm afraid I can't let you do that.
occsceo··on Show HN: Wing, a dead simple, sleek CSS Framework (~4kb)
appears similar to skeleton. whats the tldr differences?
occsceo··on US military uses 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate nuclear force operations
LOAD "ENDOFTIMES", 8, 1
occsceo··on Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout
appears to be some progress until you scroll down to see the interview and survey results. the study is all 18-34 year olds. compare against the past 15 years of voter history age grouping on turnout/registration, not a representation of the majority of the voters. they essentially asked their 18 year old kids what car to buy for their 65 year old grand parents. "Easy, Lambo."
occsceo··on Ask HN: Oldest code you have written that is still in use?
I worked at a local paper in `00 and wrote a classic asp over access "news desk" for them. I just ran into one of my coworkers and he mentioned certain key parts of the app is STILL in use.
occsceo··on Organize Your Closet Like a Computer Organizes Memory
the user's joke was more nerdy and a little sexist. that is all. same could be in the other extreme the other extreme for: sudo apt-get upgrade brakes-man paint-house. Yup, stereotypes exist. Chill and ignore on, no one is stomping out your right to be alive and do what you want.
occsceo··on Organize Your Closet Like a Computer Organizes Memory
best, reply, ever.
occsceo··on 191M US Voters’ Personal Info Exposed by Misconfigured Database
My team has these same questions, we are working on a unified voter db. Care to collab on thoughts? looks like thehill just picked up on this. my username at gmail
occsceo··on The DNC data breach
> is that the campaigns are willing to let this data be stored in the cloud

Not the campaigns...the parties.

occsceo··on The DNC data breach
> "big data" tools (Spark, Hadoop, Tableau, SSIS/SSRS)

whoa man...those tech's aren't even in play. lol. It's MSSQL and Oracle, with .net web apps [usually] running on top.

building on hadoop/spark is way outside their wheelhouse.

occsceo··on The DNC data breach
The first question I ask people when talking about this project is, "Do you know your voter information is public?" About 85% are shocked and in horror that this information is available. Outside of a campaign, it is hard to say if the public would support it.

I've chatted with a two different lawyers over here in Ohio...and both have advised strict security and election/campaign use only.

occsceo··on The DNC data breach
a good overview, yes. For example, NY says "Election purposes only", but fails to mention that each infraction is a misdemeanor. And, Ohio is wrong. Ohio is campaign/election use only, also with the misdemeanor kicker.
occsceo··on The DNC data breach
i'll fire an email your way shortly. but yea, a conversation would be great.
occsceo··on The DNC data breach
agreed. many of the systems running our campaigns are "clunkers".
occsceo··on The DNC data breach
if I define open as, "your campaign would have to register and be verified"...then it abides by the state/fed rules for these datasets. I can't just throw the data on github.
occsceo··on The DNC data breach
aristole and ngpvan "scoring" isn't a game changer. Losing access to their existing work is what matters.
occsceo··on The DNC data breach
I've been working on a project like this for some time now - and wresting with whether I want to go the community-based vs. closed source model.

The problems listed below are pretty exact: huge data sets, lots of cleaning and normalizing, and the snail mail/cd problem is real. Additionally, I'd note that ~40% of the states [somehow] charge for the data...it takes six digits to get a snapshot of all 50 states - and certain states (looking at you FL) say that they do not store the historical, meaning you have to connect with the local BoE's to aggregate the data.

A part of me [now] wants to open source this because of the DNC's actions.

occsceo··on Georgia sent out CDs of data from 6M voters containing SSNs, birth dates
how is this information public, or publically accessible? any one know?
occsceo··on Rumblr is like a dating app, but for fistfights
I thought we were not supposed to talk about fight club.
occsceo··on Decentralized Reddit using a DHT to store content and a blockchain to rank it
what, blerkchain terkonology? I brought you some blerkchain terkonology to put in your blerkchain terkonology.
occsceo··on Show HN: Sublime Text Database Client
I don't know that I'd save that much time switching back and forth between sublime and workbench is my typical workflow. I gain a lot from the multiple cursors when building multiple insert/delete statements...but not sure what other situations where I could leverage this plugin to save time [with sql].

I am interested to see how "version 2" of this pans out.

For the record, workbench is not the end-all. It is quite clunky.

occsceo··on Should You Be Allowed to Invest in a Lawsuit?
huh, TIL.
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