Stories by danso

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

Believe Me, It's Torture

Louis C.K's email to his Beacon Theater Show customers

Complex filtering in Isotope.js

Scraping the California Common Surgeries Costs Database

Honest press release: We "turned to highly underpaid coders"