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by LisaG 14y ago
Strongly agree! blekko's Bill of Rights is a great expression of their values and of why we should all be using blekko. blekko Bill of Rights 1. Search shall be open 2. Search results shall involve people 3. Ranking data shall not be kept s
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by LisaG 14y ago
Graue I am from Common Crawl. We don't filter for porn. A corpus of web data needs to include porn or it wouldn't be a representative sample of the web ;) We do want to enrich our sample of the web with high-value sites and that is where th
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by LisaG 14y ago
I am part of Common Crawl and I just wanted to say that we are super excited about blekko's donation! This is yet another demonstration how much blekko values openness and transparency.
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Norvig Web Data Science Award(norvigaward.github.com)
2 points by LisaG 14y ago|0 comments
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by LisaG 14y ago
Oh and the girl who says that engineers are secondary to the success of a startup and that people with ideas are the key element. There are a lot of those people around here.
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by LisaG 14y ago
Another archetype is the guy who tries so hard to be a "brogrammer". Sadly those guys exist too.
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by LisaG 14y ago
So cool you are putting together a presentation of results!!
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by LisaG 14y ago
San Francisco: Data Scientist, Crawl Engineer Do work that matters on big data! Common Crawl is an open repository of web crawl data with a corpus of over 100 TB. We’re looking for someone enthusiastic about open source, net neutrality, ope
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Spend the 3 day weekend hacking big data - win $1000 cash + other prizes(commoncrawl.org)
31 points by LisaG 14y ago|4 comments
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2012 Common Crawl data now available (free and open web index)(semanticweb.com)
2 points by LisaG 14y ago|0 comments
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by LisaG 14y ago
He did this in from idea to finished experiment in 4 days and used about 300 lines of Ruby. Strong demonstration of how low the barrier can be to working with big data. "The key lesson I’ve learned from the exercise is that given the tools
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by LisaG 14y ago
Site is back up. Thanks for your patience!
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by LisaG 14y ago
Hi I am from Common Crawl. Apologies for the site being down! Too much traffic from HN :) We're working on getting it back up. The Google cache below has all the contents, so please refer to there for the moment. Here's the excerpted begin
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by LisaG 15y ago
Kinect is more powerful than video footage because video can show what someone does, but the Kinect can analyze what you do and get a deeper understanding.
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Your Kinect Is Watching You - amazing, disturbing things it can learn about you(slate.com)
11 points by LisaG 15y ago|1 comments
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"The Rick Santorum Diet": hacking your health using campaign finance data(goodsharer.com)
3 points by LisaG 15y ago|0 comments
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by LisaG 15y ago
San Francisco CA (remote okay) Crawl Engineer and Big Data Enthusiast We're looking for someone enthusiastic about open source, net neutrality, open data and keeping the web truly open. Common Crawl is dedicated to building and maintaining
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by LisaG 15y ago
Love this sentence: Think about it, every event likes press coverage….and I was a quote on quote…“member of the press”! Cheesy formatting, total misunderstanding of "quote unquote" - the use of quotation marks afterwards is priceless, and a
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Common Crawl dataset to move to AWS Public Data Sets(semanticweb.com)
7 points by LisaG 15y ago|1 comments
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by LisaG 15y ago
Is your reasoning because "The Government will not take down Google and most normal searches would be intact."? I am not sure I would put too much faith in the thinking that Google will get special dispensation from the government because i
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by LisaG 15y ago
The kinds of people that go to Google.com are also the kinds of people who don't fully understand the repercussions of a law like SOPA. Google not working would drive home the message to them. They could learn about SOPA from an informatio
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by LisaG 15y ago
Google really should go dark, even if it is only for a few hours. Policymakers need to understand that if the internet gets broken, it will have repercussions well outside of silicon valley.
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Stephen Wolfram on a .data TLD(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
81 points by LisaG 15y ago|35 comments
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by LisaG 15y ago
" good luck getting meat and milk on a consistent/reliable basis " Maybe in 1950. Or on Niʻihau. But on the bigger islands it is no problem. There is a giant Safeway in the Manoa neighborhood of Oahu that is just as good as the one on Towns
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by LisaG 15y ago
San Francisco, CA Are you passionate about Open Source, Net Neutrality and Open Data? Do you want to do work that matters? Join us at Common Crawl and you will work with big data and help ensure the web is truly open. Common Crawl is non-pr
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by LisaG 15y ago
New Common Crawl blog post addressing many of the questions raised here last week. http://www.commoncrawl.org/answers-to-recent-community-quest... I work at Common Crawl.Thanks for all the interest and the good questions! Lisa
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by LisaG 15y ago
That is true at the graduate level. If you pursue a PhD in life science, physical science or computer science your tuition is waived and you (usually) get a stipend. If you want a PhD in liberal arts you have to pay tuition.
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by LisaG 15y ago
San Francisco, CA / Los Angeles, CA Are you passionate about Open Source, Net Neutrality and Open Data? Do you want to do work that matters? Join us at Common Crawl and you will work with big data and help ensure the web is truly open. Comm
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by LisaG 15y ago
I thought it was about electrons too :) But I think post about elections was fantastic.
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by LisaG 15y ago
There are some great judges for this event http://datainsightsf.com/jury/

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