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by dude_abides 14y ago
s/integrating with/adding identity, profile, and friend graph to/ and then you will see how this is an amazing strategy.
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Matchup would be a part of the model. My experience with predictive modeling in various domains has taught me that people tend to underestimate how predictive they are (NFL offensive/defensive coaches are no exception).
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Here is an idea: build a predictive model of an offensive coach that predicts the play he will call, given a game situation (and based on that, build a predictiveness quotient for a coach).
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by dude_abides 14y ago
You are right about Microsoft Research (MSR) but not about IBM Research. In fact, MSR is the only true academic-style research lab left in the world; all others either disbanded or became more product-focused. It will be interesting to see
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Go: software engineering at Google is too inefficient.
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by dude_abides 14y ago
The official blog post: http://newsroom.fb.com/News/558/Update-to-Messaging-and-a-Te... This is particularly interesting: If you select Strict Filtering, you'll see mostly messages from friends in your Inbox. People who had the previous
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Just tried out Prismatic and it seems to give suggestions much better than my current favorite - Flipboard; on the other hand, Flipboard's UI is way way better. Something like Flipboard's UI + Prismatic's content would be a super awesome pr
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by dude_abides 14y ago
There is no minimum requirement in most universities in US. Most good PhD advisors however do have a minimum pubs requirement. Typically, in non-theory areas, it is 3 first-author top-conference papers, and higher if you are directly applyi
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Great post on the gamification aspect. But as an aside: is it really typical for someone to prepare this hard for an interview, even if it is for a dream company? If so, then something seems to be clearly broken with the interview process.
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by dude_abides 14y ago
This has the potential of really disrupting the enterprise data warehouse sector. All the MPP vendors today (HP Vertica, EMC Greenplum, Teradata) have exhorbitant pricing and ridiculous licensing. With their pricing - 1000 $ per TB per year
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by dude_abides 14y ago
some other names that I often use when refering to postgresql: pgsql psql postgre In the end postgres might end up just as confusing as postgresql, and in favor of the current name, at least it is status quo.
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Just 4 months after IPOing and right after reporting record earnings! It looks like they perfectly timed it right at their peak.
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Thanks for the post. Is this the software you used? http://www.ctsfutures.com/t4.aspx Would be even more awesome if you could share some code on github.
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Local search today is in the state that web search was in, pre-Google. There are lots of Yahoos and Altavistas, but no Google (Yelp is so reminiscent of Yahoo web search). Foursquare still has a long way to go before it can consistently giv
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Just "starting small" is also dangerous. The right balance is "envision big, start small".
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Shortest downtime ever? I had just gone for coffee and looks like I missed it!
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Very impressive pricing! On the other hand, it doesn't support LTE. When will Google realize that basic things like fast network speed are more important than fancy things like face unlock and NFC.
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The economics of cybercrime: video of Prof Stefan Savage's talk at Yahoo(labs.yahoo.com)
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Interesting point from the original nytimes article, that opens up a whole can of worms: "What’s to stop someone from going and soliciting fake positive reviews for a competitor’s restaurant, in order for them to be publicly shamed?"
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by dude_abides 14y ago
I can see how Shuttleworth is drawing inspiration from Apple and MS Surface, but normally, you don't announce that X will be developed in secret, you develop X in secret, and then announce it!!
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Very tempted to ask "In what way does postgres compare to an assembler and mongodb to a high level language?" but I think I'll just assume that you're trolling. Besides, SQL sounds more high-level than map-reduce to me.
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by dude_abides 14y ago
To slightly rephrase the OP's question: In what use cases does mongo kick postgres's ass? To the two points you mentioned: - semi-structured input can be saved as hstore type or as json type; - and for flexible jobs, you can use pret
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by dude_abides 14y ago
FYI: Postgres also supports the hstore data type since 8.3. It is quite handy if you want to store key-values in your table http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/hstore.html
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Solr _is_ designed to be a lot more than Lucene. You can always continue to use Lucene if you want to write the bulk of the search engine functionality yourself, and just need an indexing+search library.
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by dude_abides 14y ago
- near real-time indexing with soft commits - zookeeper integration
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Physicists' job is to come up with "one overriding idea". But engineers know "one overriding idea" never works except in theory, and that the devil is in the details. Linus is not saying that microkernels are architecturally bad. He concede
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by dude_abides 14y ago
Thanks for the PSA. While I understand why these things tend to be opt-out by default, I'm surprised there was no email from Verizon updating users about these new settings with a link to opt-out if they wanted to. I used to think that the
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by dude_abides 14y ago
The only person on the list whose work I'm somewhat aware of is Dan Spielman. His works, especially smoothed analysis, is definitely something that HN folks will appreciate. Smoothed analysis answers the question why many popular algorithms
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by dude_abides 14y ago
HN by itself is not a money-making product. Quora is. Quora is not a money-making product, it wants to be one. In their present incarnations, if they just inserted ads (just for argument sake), it is not clear that Quora would make more
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by dude_abides 14y ago
User growth and user engagement often tend to be mutually conflicting goals.

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