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by bhickey 15y ago
The contest is defunct. It hasn't been updated in two years.
902.
by bhickey 15y ago
Do any of these companies have patents that they could use aggressively?
903.
by bhickey 15y ago
All fair points. Given the circumstances it was great, but it doesn't scale. The candidate worked as a contractor and wanted to transition to a full time position.
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by bhickey 15y ago
Having been through the puzzle dog and pony shows at Facebook and Google, I still have to say that the best interview I've seen was a trial carried out by my last employer. They hired the candidate as contractor on a one-week term. He paire
905.
by bhickey 15y ago
The implementation in racket/base.
906.
by bhickey 15y ago
They can't provide competence in a box because there's no free lunch. What would motivated a free e-mail provider would hand you the keys to the castle? If you want this product, get ready to pay for it. I also think you're placing a mist
907.
by bhickey 15y ago
I'd like to get a second opinion on Racket's random number generator. Currently it's using one of L'Ecuyer's generators -- I think it's a 192-bit multiple recursive generator (MRG), nothing odd there. Seeding is really strange though. It
908.
by bhickey 15y ago
Donald Duck was used as prior art to invalidate a method of ship raising. This was discussed at length on HN six months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2232857
909.
by bhickey 15y ago
Could you explain why a public company would issue RSUs instead of restricted stock?
910.
by bhickey 15y ago
There are the tax implications. This scheme will be ordinary income and subject to FICA and income tax rather than being taxed as capital gains. By being clever they're screwing their employees out of a lot of money. Employees also can't ma
911.
by bhickey 15y ago
I just got a Nook SimpleTouch that I'm looking forward to carrying to Everest Base Camp next month. There's simply no way I could carry a physical copy of Infinite Jest (2.8lbs) with me.
912.
by bhickey 15y ago
I've always thought the broader purpose of this feature is to stop spammers from determining if you've opened an e-mail, rather than improve your load times. It isn't a stretch to call g+ content 'internal' To skirt the issue, I've just con
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by bhickey 15y ago
Thanks. I'll head over Monday morning.
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by bhickey 15y ago
I can't seem to find the address of his shop. Is he on Tottenham High Street? I'm past due for a haircut.
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by bhickey 15y ago
“It’s a theoretical issue now, but people are already doing it using ultrasound,” Bianchi said. This comment seems off base. Gender selective abortion is rampant in northern India (especially Punjab) and China. Even the Economist
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by bhickey 15y ago
I think your reasoning is unfounded. Safeway's doesn't have a huge margin, but so what? They employ people directly and indirectly: cashiers, truckers, stock clerks, people who work in canneries, farmers, chemists who formulate fertilizers,
917.
by bhickey 15y ago
We could be charitable and assume that he graduated from high school and college in 6 years, and was immediately hired into a well-paying job at age 20. With four years of pre-tax income at $140k, $200k in savings isn't out of the question.
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by bhickey 15y ago
I'd like to go on the record as the pessimist in the room. If you go down this path, I strongly believe that you're going to lose your shirt building a bankruptcy machine. In many ways, the markets are a mechanism for transferring your mone
919.
by bhickey 15y ago
You only do this if you see an edge. Or you're attempting to manipulate the market.
920.
by bhickey 15y ago
This is worlds better than TfL's route planner. However, it seems to be confused about where King's Cross/St. Pancras is located. Moreover appears prone to suggesting some peculiar routes: http://bit.ly/qNyvHb
921.
by bhickey 15y ago
I'm glad that Tom won't be one of my co-workers at Google. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807796
922.
by bhickey 15y ago
This information is correct.
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by bhickey 15y ago
I'm lowly author four on a paper published in an Elsevier journal (American Journal of Human Genetics). I submitted a request to redistribute it on my personal site. It took less than a week for them to grant it. Easy to do, but I shouldn't
924.
by bhickey 15y ago
Good thing that reproducing something, no matter how laborious the process, is not considered a creative act in the US.
925.
by bhickey 15y ago
I had a similar experience. I used to work upstairs from Google Cambridge. Adjacent to the building was a small park. Google Maps would instruct pedestrians to walk around the park and cross where there wasn't a cross-walk. I submitted a ti
926.
by bhickey 15y ago
Not really. Craig Price is a notorious serial killer from my hometown. They caught him when he was 15 and the law only provided that they could hold him till age 21. Sometime after the law changed to patch this hole, he was ordered the see
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by bhickey 15y ago
Zombie films are rarely about zombies, they're about us. The humans become zombie feed because they are incapable of working together, even when faced with unfeeling, unwavering brain eating machines. George Romero beats this one over the h
928.
by bhickey 15y ago
Congrats on shipping, Tito. Glad to see you carrying the iGEM(-inspired) torch onward.
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by bhickey 15y ago
Why is this page making my CPU thrash?
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by bhickey 15y ago
For applications to machine learning, I strongly recommend Elements of Statistical Learning. The text is eye-opening. A PDF is freely available on Rob Tibshirani's website: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

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