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yelnatz··on Python for Finance
Is there a list I can subscribe to, to be notified when the book is finished?
yelnatz··on How Imgur Became a Photo Sharing Hit
Imageshack was used widely in reddit.

The problem was it couldn't handle the load and the link would just die. If a link would become semi popular, it would pretty much kill the imageshack source with certainty.

This was the main selling point of imgur. It didn't suck.

yelnatz··on “Game Programming Patterns” is now finished
I'll redirect you to here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/23qnnc/i_finish...

The author is the submitter of the post and is replying to comments. He addressed the same question there too.

yelnatz··on Space Monkey dumps Python for Go
> Our website is Apache + Python
yelnatz··on Use after free bug in OpenSSL
That's pretty sick. I'd rather have bugs fixed now than later.

Another!

yelnatz··on Resume Republic – Awesome Online Resume Templates
Yep, if you Google "Philippine Resume", you can really tell that pictures in a resume is the norm there.
yelnatz··on Ask HN: What under $100 item would you recommend everyone buy?
You got my attention.

Which reader do you recommend?

yelnatz··on Project Tango
I am so happy to see a familiar face when I played the video.

Back in 07/08 when he demoed his hacks in TED it really blew my mind. [1]

I was really hoping someone would pick him up and let him loose on some projects.

I guess Google did just that.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H1zrLZwPjQ

yelnatz··on Tesla CEO Musk on Battery Factor, Model X, Apple [video]
"Woah, Teslas have big ass iPads in their dashboard." http://i.imgur.com/FcJ9hdL.jpg

I said that jokingly when I first saw it, there may be some truth to that now!

yelnatz··on Quant Strategies Implemented by the Quantopian Community
Build a random forest with all these quant algorithms as the decision trees?

I wonder how good that'd be.

yelnatz··on How Math Helped Me Write Less Code and Made Our App Faster
Heh.

Just read the paper here: http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/ipt/breaking-row-boundaries.pdf

It explains it nicely.

yelnatz··on Show HN: JS library to make your website instant
This article was really eye opening when I read it a few months ago.

I've always hated menu dropdowns where it would close if you try to skip to the next submenu you've opened, since you hovered on the other parts on your way to the submenu.

So you'd end up having to perfectly 'trace' the menu so it won't close down on you.

yelnatz··on How to Save 90% on your S3 Bill
The commit added another parameter so it is possible to skip the expensive get_all_keys call.

It is defaulted to true so that old code that called get_bucket() won't break. (Since old code would have used get_bucket with only one parameter.)

It was always true before that commit.

Therefore, in essence, an Amazon employee made it possible to save 90% of your S3 bills.

yelnatz··on Microsoft Joins the Open Compute Project, Shares its Server Designs
Just in time for IBM to sell off its x86 server lines to Lenovo?

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/ibm-sa...

yelnatz··on Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard
I don't really have a favoured solution, as of now, other than not using predictive typing.

I can see that Minuum works well using Bayes to predict a certain english word given the user input.

If you guys generate/use a language model for other languages that would give us around the same accuracy/prior probability as the english model, then I think it shouldn't be a problem.

Having quick settings and options that you can setup and choose which languages to include in the prior probability.

Being able to quickly turn off/turn a language, add/remove languages to the priori, etc.

yelnatz··on Model Your Users: Algorithms Behind the Minuum Keyboard
My biggest gripe with smart keyboards is that it doesn't work well for multiple languages.

I speak three that uses the english alphabet, and the keyboards get annoying when it starts predicting english words when I'm typing something in a different language altogether.

Most of the time I even disable the dictionary on normal keyboards.

yelnatz··on The Feds Are Ready To Sell $25 Million of Bitcoin Seized From The Silk Road
So the feds are gonna give the bitcoin to people who owe them money so they can pay the feds back?
yelnatz··on 1 + 2 + 3 + .. = -1/12
Watch this entertaining Numberphile video about this topic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww

Apparently it's used in many areas in Physics.

yelnatz··on Another go at Go failed
Yep, I think that's basically the idea there.

"You already have this []byte, don't throw it away, give it back to the pool so you can reuse it."

yelnatz··on Another go at Go failed
I know theres a []byte mempool project on github.[1]

Still pretty early though, I don't think it can do dynamic sizes?

[1] https://github.com/thejerf/gomempool

yelnatz··on Another go at Go failed
I think he forgot to set GOMAXPROCS.
yelnatz··on Another go at Go failed
tldr: I will be using a lot of generics and do tons of set operations. I will chose Go, a language that doesn't have generics and sets.

(I won't post the Go code for criticism, and I couldn't stand golang-nuts)

yelnatz··on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 Again as Zynga Accepts Virtual Money
It's still a method of accepting payment.
yelnatz··on The problem is with the product
If Google wants to send Glass my way, I'd wear it every day.
yelnatz··on How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre
As a Canadian voter over the last 5 years this fact is really frustrating.

Everyone knows he sucks; Other parties get a lot of hype, and the future seems bright.

But when the results come in, Conservatives always win.

I just don't get it man.

yelnatz··on Why does Google prepend while(1); to their JSON responses?
CSRF is different from JSON hijacking, but they're closely related.

This only prevents attacks that uses a script to execute a get method and returns a JSON array.

JSON arrays can be "executed" as if it was javascript. The attack relies on modifying what javascipt does when this faux script is ran.

So if you put a "while(1);" in there, it prevents it from finishing. Thus preventing the exposure of the sensitive data.

It's similar to CSRF since that attack relies on the user to have an active session to be able to access sensitive data, but they differ in MO.

yelnatz··on Open Letter to Google About Rap Genius SEO
They are a lyrics site, yes.

But the whole idea and vision of RapGenius (and why their investors bit) was because of their goal of "annotating the whole internet."

They don't want to be just a lyrics site, they want their annotating paradigm to be the norm with every web page you go to.

Unfortunately, for now, they are just a lyrics site... with annotations.

yelnatz··on RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed
Wow, they write emails the same way they dress up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo

yelnatz··on Smartphone can use its microphone to extract RSA decryption key from laptop
One of the authors of this paper is Adi Shamir.

One of the guys who wrote the RSA algorithm in 1977.

RSA -> Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman

This is legit.

yelnatz··on OrientDB, the most versatile database I’ve run across
Yea, this is my main irk when I read blogs on blogspot.

Plus, it's hijacking my back button.

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