Stories by danso

Library of Congress Prints & Photos Goes JSON

Did the New York Times/WaPo just enter in a contract to get HTML meta tags?

Show HN: My (late) holiday hack: SOPAOpera.org

What Data? Alice In Clinical Trial Wonderland

Old, million-dollar violins don't play better than the new models

CanIStream.It

The Irrationality of Price Anchoring

Publishers vs. Libraries: An E-Book Tug of War

Ruby lesson: Scraping a jail's website

Introduction to Information Retrieval (pdf/html)

Autopsies, once routine, now only done on 5% on patients who die in hospitals

NYT: 45 neuroscientists say you're wrong. Can we have a correction?

What makes a good API wrapper?

A brief introduction to “apply” in R

The Movie Set That Ate Itself

Tesseract hack for preserving delimited text from an image-only PDF

Remember Me From Yesterday?

Ask HN: When Using Ruby + CoffeeScript, what syntax hiccups do you have?

Introduction to Bayesian Filtering

Misadventure: Demo game written with Faux and Backbone.js