waterside81

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• by waterside81 on 1/19/2022, 5:57 PM with comments

• Unisys Icon

  by waterside81 on 8/29/2021, 11:19 AM with 2 comments

• Lost in the Sun: The Physics of Ballpark Orientation

  by waterside81 on 11/28/2020, 9:28 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Command line interface to a semantic search engine written in Go

  by waterside81 on 11/24/2020, 5:09 PM with 0 comments

• Named entity recognition using spatial clustering

  by waterside81 on 5/25/2020, 2:10 PM with 0 comments

• Space shuttles are related to Roman chariots

  by waterside81 on 9/28/2019, 1:01 AM with 1 comments

• Getting root access on a Tesla Model S

  by waterside81 on 4/6/2016, 7:18 PM with 36 comments

• TruSox

  by waterside81 on 11/17/2015, 5:05 PM with 0 comments

• Go bindings for MARISA tries

  by waterside81 on 4/10/2015, 4:49 PM with 0 comments

• Dashboard Design

  by waterside81 on 7/9/2014, 4:21 PM with 0 comments

• RESTful API for airlines, hotels and car rentals

  by waterside81 on 7/1/2014, 3:14 PM with 0 comments

• Moving from freemium to premium

  by waterside81 on 6/24/2014, 2:20 PM with 0 comments

• Beware the lure of crowdsourced data

  by waterside81 on 4/24/2014, 3:20 PM with 0 comments

• Brandon Eich new CEO of Mozilla

  by waterside81 on 3/24/2014, 5:15 PM with 2 comments

• Python requests – who's encoding is it anyway?

  by waterside81 on 2/28/2014, 6:08 PM with 0 comments

• When using python requests – whose encoding is it anyway?

  by waterside81 on 2/17/2014, 4:09 PM with 0 comments

• Personas: The Art and Science of Understanding the Person Behind the Visit

  by waterside81 on 2/5/2014, 3:05 AM with 0 comments

• A better design for boarding passes

  by waterside81 on 2/4/2014, 7:08 PM with 0 comments

• How to share large data structures between Python processes

  by waterside81 on 1/27/2014, 7:22 PM with 0 comments

• The Ramanujan sum of all positive numbers up to infinity is -1/12

  by waterside81 on 1/17/2014, 2:46 AM with 29 comments

• Accessing content on the web: extending the Open Access Button

  by waterside81 on 1/9/2014, 3:29 PM with 0 comments

• Rob Ford + Twitter + GeoJSON + d3.js = fun with data visualizations

  by waterside81 on 12/3/2013, 8:58 PM with 0 comments

• Offer HN: 20% off GIMP/Imagemagick powered kids books

  by waterside81 on 12/2/2013, 2:44 PM with 0 comments

• by waterside81 on 12/2/2013, 2:39 PM with comments

• Things I learnt doing Facebook Hacker Cup in Go

  by waterside81 on 11/25/2013, 2:51 PM with 0 comments

• Martini: web framework written in Go

  by waterside81 on 11/14/2013, 2:08 PM with 2 comments

• AMA on Reddit by a former Zynga developer

  by waterside81 on 11/13/2013, 1:21 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Using semantic tagging to improve hotel reviews

  by waterside81 on 10/4/2013, 4:22 PM with 2 comments

• Issues with new healthcare exchanges thanks to unresolved software problems.

  by waterside81 on 10/1/2013, 1:24 PM with 0 comments

• Better hotel reviews using sentiment and text classification

  by waterside81 on 9/27/2013, 4:54 PM with 0 comments

• Segmenting Twitter hashtags

  by waterside81 on 8/19/2013, 9:10 PM with 0 comments

• Using Python’s AST parser to translate text queries to regular expressions

  by waterside81 on 8/12/2013, 6:41 PM with 0 comments

• Visualizing Twitter data in 40 lines of Python

  by waterside81 on 8/7/2013, 7:58 PM with 0 comments

• Provisioning virtual appliances with Vagrant

  by waterside81 on 8/5/2013, 3:34 PM with 0 comments

• Open Access Button

  by waterside81 on 7/25/2013, 7:59 PM with 0 comments

• Bit's Quest: Using javascript to control a robot (game)

  by waterside81 on 7/7/2013, 8:27 PM with 3 comments

• Seameless: a TCP proxy that allow you to deploy new code without downtime.

  by waterside81 on 6/25/2013, 12:21 AM with 2 comments

• Using Python (and an API) to data mine Twitter

  by waterside81 on 6/11/2013, 2:08 AM with 0 comments

• What’s the secret to great customer service? Don’t be a jerk.

  by waterside81 on 5/3/2013, 4:14 PM with 0 comments

• What Python developers need to know before migrating to Go

  by waterside81 on 4/23/2013, 5:09 PM with 1 comments

• Hilton Hotels training program as a PSP game [video]

  by waterside81 on 2/20/2013, 4:27 AM with 0 comments

• Solar, wind & gas animation in pure HTML/CSS/JS

  by waterside81 on 2/18/2013, 3:43 PM with 0 comments

• The curious case of the rotated images (reading EXIF data with Python)

  by waterside81 on 12/14/2012, 3:36 PM with 0 comments

• Who spends more on books for their kids, Democrats or Republicans?

  by waterside81 on 11/9/2012, 5:18 PM with 1 comments

• How to manage large data structures in Python

  by waterside81 on 11/8/2012, 7:20 PM with 0 comments

• Premium gas in regular-fuel cars not cleaner, expert says

  by waterside81 on 11/2/2012, 1:50 PM with 3 comments

• How 15 minutes of surgery turned my life upside down

  by waterside81 on 10/30/2012, 2:45 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Arabic sentiment analysis

  by waterside81 on 9/17/2012, 2:40 PM with 0 comments

• Use a browser's native API to time page load performance

  by waterside81 on 8/28/2012, 2:18 PM with 0 comments

• Creating Fast Buttons for Mobile Web Applications

  by waterside81 on 8/21/2012, 2:11 PM with 0 comments

• Canadian banks rushing to offer virtual wallets

  by waterside81 on 7/13/2012, 3:15 PM with 0 comments

• Extracting nouns with sentiment using chunking and part of speech tagging.

  by waterside81 on 7/12/2012, 3:46 PM with 0 comments

• Building an Animated Cartoon Robot with jQuery

  by waterside81 on 5/29/2012, 3:11 PM with 0 comments

• You’re probably below average. Death of the bell curve.

  by waterside81 on 5/9/2012, 6:21 PM with 0 comments

• List of projects created by Code for America

  by waterside81 on 2/20/2012, 2:50 AM with 0 comments

• Newspaper uses phishing email to determine Twitter account holder

  by waterside81 on 2/19/2012, 3:12 AM with 0 comments

• Ever wonder how to do language detection? n-grams, bloom filters and more.

  by waterside81 on 2/9/2012, 3:03 PM with 0 comments

• Why we're moving away from printing books

  by waterside81 on 1/27/2012, 5:13 PM with 0 comments

• Show HN: Our personalized kids book iPad app

  by waterside81 on 12/23/2011, 10:42 PM with 2 comments

• Mozilla's BrowserID (single sign-on for the web) is live

  by waterside81 on 12/16/2011, 3:41 AM with 89 comments

• Ask HN: An app store for map/reduce jobs?

  by waterside81 on 11/30/2011, 6:48 PM with 0 comments

• Using MongoDB to manage user permissions

  by waterside81 on 11/16/2011, 1:28 AM with 0 comments

• Indigo sells Kobo in US$315 million deal

  by waterside81 on 11/9/2011, 1:59 AM with 1 comments

• Video from the cockpit of a flight simulator

  by waterside81 on 10/19/2011, 5:41 PM with 0 comments

• Mozilla introduces Project Sagrada

  by waterside81 on 10/5/2011, 4:53 PM with 0 comments

• Why you should properly abstract out key pieces of your code

  by waterside81 on 10/3/2011, 4:13 PM with 0 comments

• Psychology of pricing: we raised our prices and sales went up

  by waterside81 on 9/5/2011, 4:12 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What do you use to test job queues?

  by waterside81 on 9/3/2011, 4:52 PM with 2 comments

• Lessons for developers: why you should dog food your software

  by waterside81 on 8/29/2011, 7:34 PM with 0 comments

• A case study in dog fooding

  by waterside81 on 8/28/2011, 3:23 AM with 0 comments

• Mashup of public data to pick the best neighbourhoods to live in

  by waterside81 on 7/7/2011, 3:06 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: How do you manage your long running processes?

  by waterside81 on 6/29/2011, 11:20 PM with 5 comments

• Ask HN: Why do YC-backed companies post anonymous job postings?

  by waterside81 on 6/15/2011, 11:10 PM with 5 comments

• Tell HN: Another Groupon success story

  by waterside81 on 6/15/2011, 2:00 AM with 0 comments

• How we completely re-launched our site in 3 days thanks to Django

  by waterside81 on 4/8/2011, 5:34 PM with 0 comments

• Canadian ISP backs off metered billing approach - for now

  by waterside81 on 3/29/2011, 2:27 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Would you use and/or pay for a web API to create PowerPoint slides?

  by waterside81 on 3/23/2011, 2:39 AM with 4 comments

• Ask HN: What kind of payment methods do devs like?

  by waterside81 on 1/26/2011, 5:45 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: What do you use to track online purchases?

  by waterside81 on 1/25/2011, 9:51 PM with 0 comments

• List of Django apps on pypi

  by waterside81 on 12/13/2010, 4:22 PM with 0 comments

• Data trumps algorithms

  by waterside81 on 12/6/2010, 8:17 PM with 0 comments

• How many ways can you make a kid? About 24.

  by waterside81 on 11/26/2010, 6:05 PM with 0 comments

• Troubles with IE6 & Ajax POSTs? Here's why.

  by waterside81 on 11/25/2010, 5:57 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Ways to display very specific ads?

  by waterside81 on 11/24/2010, 11:39 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why are airplane touch screens so poor?

  by waterside81 on 11/20/2010, 1:48 AM with 10 comments

• Ask HN: Thoughts on strategic investments from partners/customers?

  by waterside81 on 11/10/2010, 2:40 PM with 0 comments

• Man takes computer in for repair. Cost: $20 million

  by waterside81 on 11/10/2010, 4:33 AM with 0 comments

• Jobs HN: Looking for an iPad app designer

  by waterside81 on 11/3/2010, 1:50 PM with 0 comments

• Great collection of jQuery plugins, including a 3d carousel effect

  by waterside81 on 10/10/2010, 2:36 PM with 1 comments

• An economist's explanation of Groupon's success

  by waterside81 on 9/29/2010, 1:44 AM with 10 comments

• What makes Google Instant effective? It's the n-grams, stupid

  by waterside81 on 9/14/2010, 2:02 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Are your friends also in the tech space? Do you wish they were/weren't?

  by waterside81 on 9/10/2010, 9:26 PM with 2 comments

• Tell HN: Potential problems with iTunes 10 and ad-hoc distribution

  by waterside81 on 9/3/2010, 3:14 PM with 0 comments

• Why Canadian contest winners have to answer skill testing questions

  by waterside81 on 8/30/2010, 2:49 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Has a candidate's political views ever stopped you from hiring them?

  by waterside81 on 8/18/2010, 1:31 PM with 56 comments

• Afghan Wikileaks documents made searchable and x-ref with fatalities

  by waterside81 on 8/12/2010, 9:25 PM with 0 comments

• How I thought I solved the travelling salesman problem

  by waterside81 on 8/9/2010, 4:53 PM with 0 comments

• A Python binding to Google's re2 library using Cython

  by waterside81 on 8/6/2010, 7:12 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Do you have a Not Invented Here mentality?

  by waterside81 on 8/1/2010, 10:49 PM with 1 comments

• Why can't marketers be quantified?

  by waterside81 on 7/30/2010, 10:18 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What makes written content "good"?

  by waterside81 on 7/18/2010, 6:33 PM with -1 comments

• Ask HN: We're looking for suggestions for API features

  by waterside81 on 7/13/2010, 1:33 AM with 0 comments