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by aneesh 18y ago
> "Career experts generally favor scalable professions." Says who? In my experience, "career experts" want to make sure their advisees get a decent job. If 90% of people who follow your advice fail at their career, I'm betting you don
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by aneesh 18y ago
I've come to expect no less from Michael Lewis.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Although I'm not in the Valley, I think something like this would be helpful. It seems to me that pitch quality is related to how much exposure you've had to investors & customers. I think you can add value there, regardless of how mu
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by aneesh 18y ago
I hope something good comes out of this effort. But from my previous experience with biological data & biological research, I'm a bit skeptical. There is so much competition for grants & publications that researchers are sometimes
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by aneesh 18y ago
One of the interesting things that graph shows is the IE market share on weekends vs weekdays. It is noticeably lower on weekends, but only by ~5 percentage points. People often argue that corporations that require employees to use IE are
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by aneesh 18y ago
HN user fsav and I have created a site to connect hackers interesting in working on small projects together -- http://clusterify.com . Check out some of the projects posted, and let us know what you think of the site.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well, if you assume all 12,500 people are of the same ability as the one person (perhaps it is sufficient for their abilities to be randomly drawn from the same population distribution, but I'm not sure of this), then you're taking independ
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by aneesh 18y ago
This is a serious issue to consider, but one way we're not going to solve it is by trying to restrict data collection, or simply trying to hide our own digital footprints. The latest facebook ToS episode tells us as much. To continue Sc
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by aneesh 18y ago
Good points. Theoretically, you're right, but I don't think it works that way practically. I'm not saying that my time is valueless. I'm just saying that while I value it, there is no efficient way for anyone to compensate me for 6 min
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by aneesh 18y ago
I'm always suspicious of analyses like that. Most people's earnings aren't that granular. If I make $X/hour, I don't automatically get $X/10 if you save me 6 minutes in the kitchen. Even if I do bill by the hour, it's practically impossi
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by aneesh 18y ago
"I guess my point is that Hacker News is being gamed the way reddit and digg are." Only if you think the "game" is to accumulate karma. For me, the submissions are merely seeds around which insightful discussions grow.
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Inside Memory Management (creating malloc, and other choices)(ibm.com)
29 points by aneesh 18y ago|7 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
This is great! I wish more people did analyses like these. One nitpick: intuitively, I'm not comfortable with the idea that a 20% chance for each nominated movie is a reasonable prior. There is a ranking of the 5 nominations implied by th
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by aneesh 18y ago
First we had aggregators like Kayak, Expedia and Farecast. That's clearly too much work, so now with Tripeedo we have aggregators for the aggregators!
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by aneesh 18y ago
I hope they post the video soon. I'm an amateur R user, and it'd be great to see actual use cases from statisticians & developers from Google, facebook, et al.
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by aneesh 18y ago
It's a shameless plug, but come check out our site http://clusterify.com . We organize meetups for small coding projects, and you might find an interesting project, or someone interesting to work with.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Hey pixelmonkey, thanks for the great feedback! google-code-prettify looks like a cool idea. > After I posted my clusterify project idea, I realized I had made a mistake in the Markdown. Can we get a preview feature? You can just edi
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yes, right now when a project gets completed, it is moved off the proposed projects list. We had a lot of discussion about having multiple implementations of a particular idea, and ultimately thought it might be too confusing. From the fe
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yeah, this is definitely a use case we're interested in supporting. One solution is to use a particular tag, but we'd love to add something more useful & targeted. If you have any thoughts on what this should look like, shoot me and fs
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by aneesh 18y ago
Thanks TimothyFitz, we hear you. Sounds like we need to make the process a bit smoother for new users.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Great idea. For now, location can go in the profile. We'll consider adding a separate field for this so you can filter & search by location.
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Ask HN: Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN(clusterify.com)
108 points by aneesh 18y ago|59 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
While this seems like shady tactics from Mahalo, it also seems to suggest the need for a better (read: less game-able) ranking system than PageRank. There's now tons more data about which sites users visit for a given query, whether they r
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by aneesh 18y ago
What would happen if you made registration include a tutorial followed by an exam? Uh ... wow. Good luck getting people to sign up!
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DocVerse: A Startup Fixes Document Sharing for MS Office(techcrunchit.com)
1 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
I remember a research talk where the speaker said that, empirically, there are 3 reasons consumers give up their privacy: convenience, (the perception of) security, and money.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Most of us recognize the value of having such detailed data, and also the consequences of it (like in this article). I would prefer not to have to "trust" the company storing the data, and I think leaks like this make it clear this can't b
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by aneesh 18y ago
http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/ Much of the MBA class is Consulting & Investment Banking types, but there are plenty of entrepreneurs & future entrepreneurs at Harvard Business School.
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by aneesh 18y ago
This is a great move by Glaxo. I interned a drug company a couple years ago, and you could tell there was real effort to make sure those could not afford the drugs, but needed them, could still avail their benefits. There were programs to
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by aneesh 18y ago
Another factor to consider: Boston has a high population of college students (ie, seasonal residents), making the housing market very active.

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