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by cbr 14y ago
Padmapper used to scrape Craigslist, but stopped after a cease and desist letter. While buying the data from a service that scrapes search engine caches may be unreliable, my understanding is that it's legally much more defensible.
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by cbr 14y ago
You will probably have (b) even without real names. Pseudonymity is hard enough that as we get better at interpreting this data I suspect most will be connected back to offline identities. Relying on the identity separation we have now to
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by cbr 14y ago
Most coffee drinkers don't get coffee anywhere near that often.
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by cbr 14y ago
They ignore long-term studies [1][2] that look at people's mortality broken down by how much time they spend standing. While there are some ways in which standing is less healthy, on average people who stand less die sooner (by a small amo
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by cbr 14y ago
What about that sounds hard to automate?
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by cbr 14y ago
"Of that 96 percent drop, Amazon estimated that $65 million of the net loss was due to its acquisition and integration of Kiva."
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by cbr 14y ago
This is a false bargain. Spending money on overhead can make the money the charity spends on its program go much further. http://blog.givewell.org/2007/01/16/which-of-these-boasts-is... http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/06/09/why-ranking
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by cbr 14y ago
How much of the value of facebook to casual users depends on what power users are posting?
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by cbr 14y ago
More data. On my timeline I get: http://www.jefftk.com/2012.07.22.fb-ads.png One is trying to hire me to do C# or .NET programming, which is close to my interests except that I just started a new job (and am not keen on Microsoft language
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by cbr 14y ago
"There is a disparity between giving money so that others can continue to do work and being the one doing the work. I want that distinction clear, and to remain clear. The doctor who flew down to Haiti to personally help is infinitely more
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by cbr 14y ago
An identifier has privacy disadvantages over a cookie with the same duration. The least privacy you have is when the server has a unique identifier for you: then they can do whatever they want. With a cookie the site has an option to st
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by cbr 14y ago
> SNI issues aside What SNI issues? In practice any client that supports SPDY is going to support SNI.
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by cbr 14y ago
On spdy-dev they considered adding SNI to the spec as a requirement but didn't: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/spdy-dev/... (At this point implementing SPDY without SNI would be kind of absurd, but it would be spec-con
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by cbr 14y ago
I think you're misreading the quote. It says foreign aid is 1% of federal spending, only half of that is true humanitarian aid, and the country that receives the most aid, humanitarian and not combined, is Israel.
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Speed Index: Better Than Measuring Page Load Time(sites.google.com)
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by cbr 14y ago
> There is no single metric that conveys > the user experience (or performance) True. But if you need to pick one, TTFB isn't as good as something like Speed Index [1]. Getting your TTFB down will usually help you ge
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by cbr 14y ago
In MA we recently had a suit (Click v Cunniffe) over whether it's legal to record police. We're a two party consent state, but the judge ruled: Simply put, a straightforward reading of the statute and case law cannot support
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by cbr 14y ago
Youtube can already remove shakiness from videos pretty well: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/03/improving-video-a... Panda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELK9xE17Bc Panda-stabilized: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpekKhlGm
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by cbr 14y ago
> Dutch multi-item auction with bidding. Some events fail to sell out because they were priced too high, but others don't sell out because there's not enough interest. So you'd need to set a price floor. > If auction ends sufficien
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by cbr 14y ago
Though Yahoo Japan is backed by Google: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/technology/28yahoo.html
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by cbr 14y ago
> the bigger issue here is that people's phonebooks are getting updated without consent Do you want to get a notification every time someone updates their email? Or do you want the emails your phone knows for people to just automatical
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by cbr 14y ago
Mine had someone trying to hire my band. From February. Argh.
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by cbr 14y ago
The problem is that we've been optimizing for food that looks like it will be tasty instead of food that is actually tasty: http://www.jefftk.com/news/2012-02-16.html
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by cbr 14y ago
They said fail-over. Those "many, many resources" are other regions and zones.
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by cbr 14y ago
Have you considered making a map where the color at each point is the average commuting time from there to all points within a radius? For example: http://www.jefftk.com/news/2010-11-17.html The maps you've added are awesome when you kno
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by cbr 14y ago
While there are larger and smaller infinite sets the two sets you give are the same size. They are both countably infinite. A way to see this is that for every element in the set of even positive integers there is a corresponding positive i
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by cbr 14y ago
But that's a bug in Excel. "Non leap years will never contain a leap day" is true.
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by cbr 14y ago
For me (chrome on osx) it just started with youtube.
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by cbr 14y ago
Really? I bought a replacement brick for my original eeepc (7" screen and all) and it was something like $15 shipped.
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Alt-Tab with focus follows mouse should be overlapping windows only(jefftk.com)
1 points by cbr 14y ago|0 comments

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