aneesh

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by aneesh 18y ago
Especially after Microsoft's Cashback.com outage on Black Friday (the worst day for an e-shopping site to go down), I'm surprised they let this happen. This was on the calendar for a long time, and they should've gone to great lengths t
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by aneesh 18y ago
Machine Learning is not a language-specific thing. Maybe Python makes it easy out-of-the box (I haven't used Python -- I don't know), but you do it in whatever language you want. Many languages have modules you can just use. And of course
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by aneesh 18y ago
Another factor that might explain why US unemployment is lower than European countries like France & Germany. The barriers to hiring & firing workers are typically much higher in most European countries. In the US, the laws make it
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by aneesh 18y ago
Also note that for several of these (like Frogmetrics, Picwing, and others), pageviews aren't the best metric of "success" because the website isn't the product.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I really like that idea. domain name taken :) -- i presume you didn't want to do this since you didn't buy it yourself. If I get to it this weekend, I'll submit to HN when I have something ready. Thanks for mentioning uclassify -- I hadn'
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by aneesh 18y ago
"The greater the competition from Microsoft, the more Apple will bend to users." Mac market share has only been growing over time. If Apple was going to "bend to its users", they would've done that 5 years ago when they were still struggli
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by aneesh 18y ago
Exactly. Vista was more of a "lay the groundwork" release that focused on security improvements (UAC), etc. Win 7 won't change Vista much, it'll just make it look prettier -- and people will love it. But the groundwork was laid in Vista.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It's available on MSDN now if you have a subscription. Otherwise I think you have to wait till Friday, and it will be available here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows7
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by aneesh 18y ago
Cuil's problem wasn't even that their site crashed (that was just a minor blip). Their main problem was that their search results weren't very relevant.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Here's a Yahoo BOSS mashup that does this without any semantic technology: http://bossy.appspot.com/qa?query=who+started+ycombinator
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well, for starters, the video screens on the seatbacks of 777s (and other aircraft) are running some flavor of Linux. But that's not a counterexample to her argument, per se, since the video screens aren't critical to the plane's operation
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by aneesh 18y ago
In fact, MSN seems to be the only site in the Alexa top 20 that does validate. (But Live.com and Microsoft.com don't validate, so Microsoft isn't consistent about validating)
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by aneesh 18y ago
I can't actually try it out since I don't have a PostgreSQL installation handy, but from the (two) screenshots, it looks like a great product. I'd suggest you put more screenshots & maybe a demo to help people like me get a better idea
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by aneesh 18y ago
Anyone used similar packages for other languages?
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by aneesh 18y ago
I do think it would be a good thing if users became more sophisticated. But if your business model relies on people significantly changing their behavior, you're fighting an uphill battle.
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by aneesh 18y ago
You mean the math is intentionally "scaled up"? Or that the math is just easier & there is no effort made to rescale it? Given that these scores are used for comparison so often, you'd think they would normalize the scores so that a 7
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by aneesh 18y ago
"The bottleneck in web 2.0 today is generally the sophistication of the average web surfer" I think this is the wrong approach. As the saying goes, "Make something people want", not "Make people want something".
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "Also, you know that airports queue planes, right?" Yeah, but usually a queued plane is waiting on the tarmac, not at the gate, right? Fixing boarding delays may not always lead to earlier takeoffs, but it can definitely get planes p
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by aneesh 18y ago
I don't think the time taken for refueling, etc is the limiting factor. There are a couple sequences of events that need to happen (simultaneously) to get the plane ready to leave. Sequence 1: allow arriving passengers to deplane, then cle
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by aneesh 18y ago
This won't work, because individuals have different incentives than the airline. The individual wants to board early so that there is plenty of space for his/her bag in the overhead bins, and also wants to board at the same time as family/
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by aneesh 18y ago
There's a nice list from a previous thread here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132082
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by aneesh 18y ago
At best, this is poor journalism. At worst, a badly misguided company. > "Downloading that [10 GB] movie onto a "virtual desktop," Pronovost said, would take about 10 seconds." Really?? I can't even transfer 10 GB onto a flash drive
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "I am guessing that some things like clothing, food, and housewares most people will never buy online." Take food off that list. AmazonFresh delivers grocery to your home (sorry, Seattle area only for now). I've used this and am r
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by aneesh 18y ago
Some people pay with cash or check.
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "3. Interface is pretty but not intuitive, " Agreed, but there's one feature that more than overcomes that -- you can just open up the Start menu and actually type the name of the program/utility/file you want. So just type "Networ
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by aneesh 18y ago
Agreed, that is a very important skill. But it's not always possible to avoid the grunt work ... even running your own business, someone still has to take out the trash (metaphorically), and the buck stops with you. I've run into this a lo
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by aneesh 18y ago
Somebody needs to give you the other side of the story. Don't even think about dropping out of high school to do a startup. Statistically, you have a ~99% chance (okay, I just made up that number) of failing and then you'll just be a hig
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "so why should I do homework?" Because the ability to just suck it up & get things done even when you don't enjoy every minute of it is a very important trait to have. It's not just about the tests. > "Why do I care about
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "But what doesn't make sense to me is that parts of our country are in serious economic decline and I am not aware of an uptick in engineering and science students in those regions." There's a logical flaw in that line of reasoning.
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by aneesh 18y ago
"I.P. addresses are digital tags that can identify a specific computer" That's misleading. An IP address can't always uniquely identify the client computer. For starters, people can use proxies or anonymizers. "Yahoo will also ... stri

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