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Lead Solutions Architect @ Cube | I help companies leverage BI Analytics & Data Science/ML/AI to generate insights with real business impact.
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pacofvf··on Kivy – Open-source Python library for rapid development of applications
Is there any plotting library I can use with Kivy?, something of the likes of D3.js (http://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery)
pacofvf··on Sweden just claimed the world’s second-largest Wikipedia
It is now, that's what makes it so awesome!
pacofvf··on Nine Nations of North America 30 years Later
As Mexican I can give you an update about the Five Nations of Mexico:

http://www.csuchico.edu/~sbrady/357fivenationsofmexico.pdf (1987)

> "More than three decades after publication, two things amaze me: how little the boundaries have changed and how much chatter this idea is getting recently. "

This is also true for the Mexican Nations, although the Mexican nations started a new experiment called "Democracy" in the 2000, they chose a tri-party system. Also boundaries have changed , Mexamerica have expanded north of the border defined 30 years ago, but also lose territory to it's southern neighbor, New Spain. In a way the Mexamerican nation is moving to the North. Thanks to NAFTA, Mexamerica economy became richer and interlaced. Mexamerica became politically powerful in the mid-2000's just to see lose its leverage because of the great recession and the drug war, being politically neutralized in 2012 elections. Although things are returning to normality Mexamerica saw many of the bloodiest battles in the Drug war. Once the richest of the Nations, its economic supremacy it's being contested by Metromex and New Spain.

New Spain saw great progress, it diversified its crops thanks to NAFTA. It created a new industrial corridor comprising the cities of León, Aguascalientes, Irapuato, Celaya, Salamanca which many were part of Mexamerica but now are tied economically and culturally to New Spain and now are home to Nissan, Texas Instruments, General Motors, and many other's factories. IT companies like Intel, IBM, Freescale, HP, Oracle, Hitachi, etc. built its regional headquarters at Guadalajara. By not relying in the demand of Metromex, it gained the political power it always wanted in the Federation congress.

Metromex saw it's political power now reduced to a distant memory. The middle class not ceased to grow and now is one of the biggest markets for many industries worldwide. It transformed its economy from an industry oriented to a service oriented. It bulldozed its factories to make space for skyscrapers and transformed it's colony to the west, Toluca, to it's new industrial hub. It reached the 8th place on the 2008 PwC Richest Cities ranking. In a few years it will become a true cosmopolitan megalopolis stretching to Queretaro to the north, Puebla to the east, Cuernavaca to the south and Toluca to the west.

Club Mex received new territorial additions, Punta Mita from New Spain, Los Cabos from Mexamerica, the whole south pacific and Caribbean coast from South Mexico. Although it hasn't gained the political power it deserves, Club Mex grew to became 30% of the Federation GDP. Club Mex future is the most uncertain, climate change and the pressure from the organized crime pose a great threat to many of its inhabitants which many are immigrants from the First world and South America.

South Mexico is still stuck in the past, the massive immigration in the 80's and 90's to the United States had left many towns deserted, while many others only inhabited with old people and children. Its economy was destroyed by the NAFTA, unable to compete to North-American farmers it has tried to become the new Club Mex with mixed results, one of the most notable success is Chiapas.

pacofvf··on Planning to sink: What happens if Kiribati drowns?
The same happens to the Holy See, not to be confused with the Vatican City. The Holy See technically doesn't have territory nor citizens although is recognized as a sovereign country.
pacofvf··on Show HN: Solo - An app for sharing solitude and loneliness
set your debug flag off :S!!
pacofvf··on Programmer excuses
"Probably the log consumed its memory"
pacofvf··on Human data shows how we move in cities
you can see the different types of transportation across the same city if you see each city's page: http://cities.human.co/posts/mexico.html
pacofvf··on A Grieving Father Pulls a Thread That Unravels BNP’s Illegal Deals
1. February 2012 $25 billion: Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America.

2. November 2013 $13 billion: JPMorgan Chase

3. January 2013 $11.6 billion: Bank of America

4. March 2014 $9.5 billion: Bank of America

5. June 2011 $8.5 billion: Bank of America

6. January 2014 $1.7 billion: JPMorgan Chase

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Top-10-fines-imp...

pacofvf··on HackerRankX Wants To Kill The Resume
https://docs.python.org/2/howto/functional.html
pacofvf··on HackerRankX Wants To Kill The Resume
the functional programming challenges have a very weird selection of available languages:

Scala, Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, Ocaml, Lisp, F#.

not the most popular languages.

pacofvf··on Timelock: time-release encryption incentivised by Bitcoins
maybe you can split the bounty into 14 parts and use chain{1,15}_iv0 as secrete keys. So now is not a winner takes all. Also you create more competition to ensure your lock is opened.
pacofvf··on U.S. Is No. 1, China Is So Yesterday
no it can't, not enough women :(

https://www.wolframalpha.com/share/clip?f=d41d8cd98f00b204e9...

pacofvf··on Python 3 is killing Python
Python (2) is heavily used in the finance industry, a industry that still uses cobol and fortran, they will never move on to python3
pacofvf··on Amazon Loses Bid For .Amazon Domain
I would redirect amazon.com to shop.amazon, and then the other sites have more sense, like prime.amazon or local.amazon, etc etc.
pacofvf··on Visualisation of the expansion of IKEA
IKEA should come to Mexico, furniture is really expensive here or low quality, if you want to save money and want quality you have to drive kms away to a carpenter town.
pacofvf··on Global heatmap of cycling and running routes
why are you serving on the fly? Are we seeing live data?
pacofvf··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?
Mexico City, Local | Relocation, Full Time

Stack: Python, Javascript, SQL, Java(Android), iOS, C, PHP and many others.

Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pacofvf

Contact: pacofvf@gmail.com

Full Stack web and mobile software engineer, looking for new challenges.

pacofvf··on Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
well there are a lot of Resolve CAPTCHA as a Service sites like http://www.9kw.eu/
pacofvf··on For $45 Per Month, All the Coffee You Can Drink
I've never though about it, but what Americans call "regular coffee" in my country is called "American coffee". When I ask for a "coffee" I probably get a latte or in Spanish "café con leche".
pacofvf··on Dart: The World's Smallest Laptop Adapter
But.. but.. Canada and Mexico use the same socket/voltage, we have to buy the global edition anyway?
pacofvf··on Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source
:'( I'm stuck at crispsContest.js lvl
pacofvf··on Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest
You want the best and brightest?, just pay more money, word will spread out, the best and brightest will come to you.
pacofvf··on Dropbox 2048
I was wondering why this wasn't working, I have DB blocked at my office. Actually I don't have blocked their datacenter's IPs, I've only have blocked dropbox.com domain, if the JS library was in another domain it would work for me..
pacofvf··on Invoice Ninja
you should apply for a .ninja domain
pacofvf··on Turn a Raspberry Pi into an FM transmitter
you could use this to broadcast RDS, and then tell the other cars on the road that there is a blockade ahead, it would be like that Bruce Almighty scene, well maybe not...
pacofvf··on Peter R’s Theory on the Collapse of Mt. Gox
some people, which probably use tin hats, thinks that bitcoin was made by the government because it makes the flow of money more traceable, since all the operations are public. The government will never use bitcoin or bitcoin-based currencies because then they couldn't cover their own traces.
pacofvf··on Android Apprenticeship
Seriously, creating an "Instragram" or a "Twitter" following this tutorial http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/index.... is very easy if you know how to code, I wouldn't spend $5,000 on that, but if you don't know how to code the I would spend those $5k in learning how to code in a different platform since beginning with mobile apps it's no easy stuff.
pacofvf··on There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
It's funny, In Spanish we don't have an equivalent of "beef", we use the word for meat "carne", but we have the anglicism "bife" (from beef) mostly used in South America, or "bistec" (from beefsteak) mostly used in Central and North America.
pacofvf··on Throwing in the towel on becomming a programmer
Yes I'm agree, if you switch too often you are not only learning how to code, you also learning a new language, is like going to duolingo and try to learn french in english and you don't even know english.
pacofvf··on Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source
> Why on earth is the article comparing RedHat to Amazon?

I don't understand that and not because:

> One is a Linux distribution vendor, the other is a global internet shopping mall.

I don't understand that because Red Hat already does what Amazon does:

http://www.redhat.com/solutions/open-hybrid-cloud/

I don't know if Peter Levine knows that.

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