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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
I have a question for people smarter than me: This method differs from PageRank by excluding walks along the graph that repeat edges. I always thought it was an interesting property that PageRank represents the probability of reaching a giv
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DebtRank: a PageRank-like measurement of systemic financial risk(nature.com)
2 points by ecmendenhall 14y ago|1 comments
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
In-N-Out is an example of efficiency wages in action: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficiency_wage . In-N-Out starts new employees at $10/hr, well above other fast food chains, on the theory that higher wages improve worker performance and
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
This is a great tool! Along with Kicktraq ( http://kicktraq.com/ ) and Kicksaver ( http://www.kicksaver.net/ - I made this a while ago), there are now third party projects like this for every stage of a potential campaign, from the plannin
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Interesting. I understand the value of keeping design simple and CSS readable, but are there performance implications (page load times, &c.) to using a large color palette?
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
From each according to his frequent flier mileage, to each according to his need!
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
I like this idea, but adverse selection is a huge unsolved problem and heavily subsidized loans crowd out the alternatives. If you're a talented student with reason to expect high future income (and your education isn't already paid for wit
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Stuff is not growth, in the same way that money is not wealth (PG gets this. You have probably read the essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html ). Growth is just increasing wealth, but we measure it in terms of stuff (GDP, factor prod
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
The discussion of formulas for pricing risk and forecasting methods is a great (if unintended) example of the problem with student loans: any government subsidy will distort price signals in unintended ways. Even if government tries to pric
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Show HN: Rescue struggling Kickstarter projects closing soon.(kicksaver.net)
2 points by ecmendenhall 14y ago|0 comments
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
I've noticed this, too. Udacity's courses are clearly designed from the start to work well on the web, whereas many Coursera courses seem to be existing lectures broken into smaller chunks. This really sets Udacity apart, but I think it's a
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
I've been teaching myself to program over the past year, and HN has been a great resource. I started with Python, but wanted to learn some Javascript, too, and settled on writing a browser extension as a first project. I wrote this simple C
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Show HN: Tabminder, a Chrome extension to (gently) prevent distracted browsing(ecmendenhall.github.com)
2 points by ecmendenhall 14y ago|1 comments
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
Exactly. This is an example of a commitment strategy ( http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/game-theory/#Com ), and it was only credible because others were watching. Reputation is a very common way we make credible commitments when we deal wi
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by ecmendenhall 14y ago
I'm a novice Python programmer who just finished Udacity's CS101 course. I had a little Python knowledge going in, but no computer science background. (For instance, I knew how to use a dictionary, but had no idea that dictionaries work wel
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Show HN: Udacity really did teach me to build a search engine(davedavefind.appspot.com)
6 points by ecmendenhall 14y ago|2 comments
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by ecmendenhall 15y ago
NB: Loud soundtrack starts at 00:43.
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Five years of Kiva microloans, visualized. [video](kiva.org)
2 points by ecmendenhall 15y ago|1 comments