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pathikriton Check out preview for a new innovative data analysis tool in cloud

Can I connect a SQL data source? Btw, I am a happy user of another JetBrains product - DataGrip. Just wish DataGrip was online and shareable with my colleagues and had charting and graphing built-in..

pathikriton MySQL: Choose Something Else

Postgres?

pathikriton Verbal-Exprejon: Regexes without any regex

Here's mine in Scala: https://github.com/pathikrit/ScalaVerbalExpressions

pathikriton Vocabulary apps: a wish list

I made one over a weekend: vocowl.com (give it few secs to load) Source: https://github.com/pathikrit/vocowl

pathikriton Wheels for the Sieve of Eratosthenes

Very easy to implement and much faster than even sieve of Atkin with a complexity of O((n log n)/12)

pathikriton Netcat.c

#ifdef ANAL if (strcmp (poop->name, hp->h_name) != 0)

pathikriton The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Some real ones from TopCoder in my experience (SRM 401, Div 1): http://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=Thread&threadID=6126...

(SRM 363, HandShake problem): http://apps.topcoder.com/forums/?module=Thread&threadID=5843...

The idea is you brute force or hand calculate the first few numbers and then use the OEIS's wild card search.

pathikriton Ask HN: You can only be fluent in 3 programming languages. Which ones?

<troll> PHP Perl Objective-C </troll>

pathikriton Typical computer science data structures implemented in Go

Very cool. I like perusing these kind of libs in various languages. I wrote one in Scala...

[Algorithms][1] and [data structures][0] in Scala:

[0] https://github.com/vkostyukov/scalacaster [1] https://github.com/pathikrit/scalgos

pathikriton The real way to generate a list of primes in Haskell

My Scala one using a Java BitSet: https://github.com/pathikrit/scalgos/blob/9bd0dd81df52a5a410...

pathikriton Ask HN: How to keep yourself prepared for potential interviews?

Do something like TopCoder SRMs or CodeForces rounds. They are not only fun but they take up only about 2-4 hours of effort per week. You can judge yourself how well you are doing compared to college kids and competitive programmers. After the contest, read the editorial about the problems that you could not solve during the contest.

After about 3-6 months of this, I can confidently say, I can pass the pure algo/data-structure rounds of any company..

pathikriton Install and Update All Your Programs at Once

Something like this for Mac? I use brew cask and have my own file: https://github.com/pathikrit/mac-setup-script/blob/master/se...

But, a nice UI on top of brew casks would be nice!

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She is not even Indian. She is a Canadian.

pathikriton Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB

Is there a website like http://www.pg-versus-ms.com/ for this? pg-versus-my.com?

pathikriton Number of legal 18x18 Go positions computed. One more to go

I want to learn Go. I would like to practice against a bot first before I get on KGS. What is a good Go program I can run on my Mac to practice against? The AI does not need to be very good at all since I am novice. Once I get familiar with rules, I will play online against players. What is a good Go client to play online on the Mac?

pathikriton Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

OneTab is awesome!

pathikriton You can teach a computer to play games, but better that it teach itself

Why not teach itself to teach itself to play?

pathikriton Google Acquires Odysee

Just pay $10/month and dump them in your 1TB DropBox account?

pathikriton Atom Editor or Sublime Text – which one to pick?

You can't open a file bigger than 10MB on Atom. Anything even slightly big (say 1MB file) slows it down.

pathikriton Ask HN: What is the most you've paid for a domain name?

I bought ॐ.tv for $50.

pathikriton A new way to lock your computers: just walk away

No it doesn't. You can't unlock your Mac with your Android whereas there are plenty of apps that can do that from your iPhone:

http://macid.co/

http://www.knocktounlock.com/

http://www.fingerkeyapp.com/

http://www.appuous.com/products/mac/keycard.html

pathikriton Julius Caesar's Elephant

Another interesting info: There were 15 Indian war elephants in the Persian army [at the Battle of Gaugamela](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaugamela) most of whom were subsequently captured by Alexander.

pathikriton Show HN: Ginseng – a spaced repetition learning/flashcard web app

I created one here: http://vocowl.com

Source: github.com/pathikrit/vocowl

pathikriton How data from the Kepler Space Telescope is changing the Drake equation

Slightly misleading title - its not changing the equation per se but filling in more confident values.

pathikriton PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL

Is there something like this for MYSQL? pg-versus-my.com?

pathikriton HN Salary Survey Results, Fall 2014

I know someone in HFT whose base salary is $150,000 but got a 10x bonus (he made $1.65 million) last year. Average bonus in his HFT are 2-10x base salary he says.

pathikriton A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub [pdf]

Because there are no Procedural-Dynamic-Weak-Unmanaged languages :)

pathikriton Connected Car platform Automatic releases teen driving coaching program

I bought the OBDLink to use with [Dash](http://dash.by) and it annoyingly forgets to auto connect to my bluetooth. Now, want to switch to Automatic since they also have a web ui...

pathikriton Vocablurry

Something similar I built a while ago: http://vocowl.com

pathikriton MSR's Probabilistic Programming Language R2 Released

Are you aware of any open source implementation of it? I am working on a Scala `Uncertain[T]` library...