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The Weird Economics of Ikea(fivethirtyeight.com)
3 points by dtnewman 10y ago|0 comments
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by dtnewman 10y ago
> Paddy Power says Clinton has an 85.7% — odds of 2/11 — chance of winning the election, a figure that it believes amounts to a "done deal." I agree that Trump winning would be a long shot. But what's the benefit of p
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by dtnewman 10y ago
See more information at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759520
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by dtnewman 10y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759520
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by dtnewman 10y ago
There's a good discussion about this at http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/2387/is-there-no-ph...
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by dtnewman 10y ago
Let's put things into perspective. The VC market raised 28 billion dollars last year [1]. Apple's market cap alone often goes up and down by this much on any given month (or even day, occasionally). While this small segment of the
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by dtnewman 10y ago
Link appears broken. I think the "c" at the end of the link is a typo. Correct link is http://www.epictions.com/blog/search-engine/google-faking-se...
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How To: Linear Programming in Python(dtnewman.com)
5 points by dtnewman 10y ago|0 comments
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by dtnewman 10y ago
This survey seems to consider someone a freelancer if they "have engaged in supplemental, temporary, project or contract-based work, within the past 12 months". I'd love to see the actual questions asked (if someone has a lin
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by dtnewman 10y ago
whoops: typo above. I'm not "wording" that this might get passed... I'm worried :)
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by dtnewman 10y ago
The proposal (as it will be written on the Florida ballot) starts off: > This amendment establishes a right under Florida's constitution for consumers to own or lease solar equipment installed on their property to generate electrici
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Venture Capitalist Threatens to Quit If Taxes Are Raised(fortune.com)
3 points by dtnewman 10y ago|0 comments
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by dtnewman 10y ago
Starting watching this and he gives a great explanation of the issue. Thanks for sharing.
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by dtnewman 10y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant illegal activity over a phone call. I was picturing something like a bomb threat.
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by dtnewman 10y ago
But as a police officer, if you see something coming from an IP associated with me, it's probably wise to look into me further; even if IP address in and of itself may not be adequate evidence to justify a raid of my home. Similarly, i
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by dtnewman 10y ago
Exactly. If I'm looking into an internet-related crime, the IP address of the offender is gonna be one of the first things I look at. Can someone falsify it? Yes. But not every offender _will_ falsify it, and so it's useful inform
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by dtnewman 10y ago
It starts off saying: > If police raided a home based only on an anonymous phone call claiming residents broke the law, it would be clearly unconstitutional... Yet EFF has found that police and courts are regularly conducting and approvi
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by dtnewman 10y ago
I've been using this in beta for some of my personal projects that run on hobby dynos. This doesn't actually give you the certificates, it just allows you to upload the certificates you get elsewhere to heroku and then configures
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by dtnewman 10y ago
I always enjoyed his articles on Dealbreaker, but I think his writing is very well suited for Bloomberg. However, I feel like his training as a writer for Dealbreaker taught him a style of prose that feels very fresh in a more mainstream ne
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by dtnewman 10y ago
Actually, the US didn't have much to do with Israel's early development of nuclear weapons. It was the French who helped them setup a nuclear reactor originally. They also had many (Jewish) former Soviet scientists who fled to Isr
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by dtnewman 10y ago
When I was learning this stuff, CUDA had better documentation (perhaps this has changed recently... I haven't done anything with GPUs in awhile), so it was a bit easier to learn. But my guess is that the instructor for this course happ
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by dtnewman 10y ago
Glad you found it useful. The great thing about Lambda, I think, is the cost, which is so cheap as to be effectively free for a lot of uses (according to https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/ , the first million r
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by dtnewman 10y ago
This is a great idea. I setup something similar for my brother's website contact form (host the site on S3 and then use lambda to shoot him an email when someone submits their data on the contact form). The costs for running his websit
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by dtnewman 11y ago
just curious... what does "pretty much" mean? Under what circumstances would you invest without this provision?
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by dtnewman 11y ago
If it integrates easily with AWS and the price is low, I would definitely take advantage of this.
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by dtnewman 11y ago
If you use chrome, there is a good extension that adds in collapsable comments: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...
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by dtnewman 11y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment, but it doesn't seem to be a typo. If people _did_ think that tech valuations were cheap, then he's saying that would be a sign of a bubble, because it would mean that people think the
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by dtnewman 11y ago
I know he wasn't referring specifically to CVs and resumes, but one problem with using .docx for those is that it won't look the same on all computers. For example, if you format something in Word on Windows, it may look slightly
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by dtnewman 11y ago
I believe that the optimize package within Scipy has a linear programming feature ( http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/optimize.html ), although I have never used it because I have found the documentatio
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by dtnewman 11y ago
Linear optimization is a subject that is often neglected in computer science curriculums, even at the graduate level. It is common for computer science students to learn algorithms such as hill climbing or even stochastic local search algor

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