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   by dbecker 15y ago

   You deserve a commission, Eric. I just bought "Collective Intelligence" based on your review.
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   by dbecker 15y ago

   I've always been amazed how the stackoverflow (and various other stackexchange communities) turned out so much better than the other communities on the internet. Jeff and the stackoverflow team have put together something really incredible.
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   by dbecker 15y ago

   In all fairness, the word gets used in many ways. Further down the HN front page there's a story "VeriSign Hit by Hackers." They don't mean that VeriSign was hit by people who built cool software over the weekend. Reuters is a major news o
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   by dbecker 15y ago

   The term "illicit drugs" is a little disingenuous. Google wasn't posting ads for heroine. They were posting ads for pharmacies that sold Claritin a few dollars cheaper than US sellers.
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   Ask HN: Open problems in ML/data prediction

   6 points by dbecker 15y ago|0 comments