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by eel 15y ago
Congrats on the funding! Still.. I can't help but notice there are a lot of players in this space. Wetransfer, Yousendit, Let's Crate, Sendoid, Ge.tt, etc. My day job consists of working for a file sharing company. I can't help but wonder w
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by eel 15y ago
I'd like to point out two additional potential explanations. 3) Children born to wealthy parents are more likely to go to better primary and secondary schools (possibly private schools, or possibly by living in better neighborhoods.) This g
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by eel 15y ago
Won't it take a very long time for the high school graduate to even reach $100,000 in his investment account, assuming he doesn't win a lottery? If the high school graduate is contributing some monthly amount to an investment account, then
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by eel 15y ago
Bay Area, Midwest, and East Coast are the three locations for each option, and they all add up to 100%. What about Southern Cali or the Pacific Northwest, both of which have at least some amounts of demand for CS graduates? I can't imagine
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by eel 15y ago
I'm fascinated by cultural nuances like this. I really, really wish there was a website where you could look up things like this based on culture. I don't know how one would start to gather the data for a site like that.
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by eel 15y ago
I noticed yesterday an "External Networks" link inside Yammer. I don't know how long it's been there, but it's similar to what you are describing. As described on Yammer: "External Networks are separate Yammer networks used to communicate w
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by eel 15y ago
14.4" ThinkPad T410
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by eel 15y ago
I think there are definitely different kinds of social awkwardness. I tend to be more of the type that cannot find anything to say in social situations. On the other hand, one of my roommates is a different type of socially awkward, closer
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by eel 15y ago
If between fats and sugars, one is "bad" and the other is not, then any increase in the one that is bad will have negative effects regardless of how much the non-bad one is increased. Nutrition and human biology is obviously more complicate
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by eel 15y ago
Lisp and Prolog are still huge in AI, at least in academia, or at least at my university. For instance: ICARUS [1], CCalc [2], and answer set programming solvers [3], all of which are part of active and recent research, use Lisp or Prolog.
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by eel 16y ago
In regards to the first point, note that it's $6000 per founder as well, so they are investing between $6000 and $30000 per company. The amounts seem to be in line with other tech accelerators. Also, the hope that these tech accelerators /
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by eel 16y ago
I was disappointed by my interview process earlier this month for a potential summer internship at Google. I'm sure part of it is driven by the result (I didn't get past the phone screens.) My main complaints are - Every step of the process
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by eel 16y ago
I am bothered by some of the language in this post: - we were aware of the potential security threat behind post-deploy hooks and were about to disable them [...] but... - we were days away from replacing this server - They were a shor
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by eel 16y ago
PHP 5 was still, as much as I can remember, compatible with PHP 4, wasn't it? Anything that worked in PHP 4 worked in PHP 5.
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by eel 16y ago
I'm not sure. I think it depends a lot on the diet. Here's a related article about that and the accompanying HN comments. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/reversing-toot... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=543293
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by eel 16y ago
One of the classic papers on sentiment analysis utilizes this operator (in 2002, it was AltaVista's NEAR) in the algorithm. "Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Semantic Orientation Applied to Unsupervised Classification of Reviews" by Peter Turney i
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by eel 16y ago
FYI, Microsoft Press ebooks, which are also sold through O'Reilly, qualify for this deal too. For whatever reason, they are not listed on the parent link though. http://microsoftpress.oreilly.com/ I've heard (many times) that Code Complet
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by eel 16y ago
Apply it after the PayPal step when returning to checkout.
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by eel 16y ago
Shipping was listed as $6 for me on that mug! That seems high, but perhaps it's just me.
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by eel 16y ago
I would like an iron and a small ironing board.
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by eel 16y ago
I recognize most of it, particularly sounds which are in English, but sometimes I have to look a letter up to recall the sound. In the example, I do tend to skip to the latter part if it is available, probably because I can just "read" the
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by eel 16y ago
How should one help someone who unexpectedly collapses? I have no idea what I would do. I can only envision myself going up and dumbly asking "Are you OK?" which I am not sure is the best way to help.
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by eel 16y ago
was. It's missing a few features, like the ability to easily choose a genre, or the ability to see the songs that that my friends and subscribees discover and listen to (they've all left the site since the redesign.) Also, I'm still not sur
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by eel 16y ago
The iPad is what I use when I'm bored in class. I would love a good indie music discovery application for my web browser, which I could use at work and at home.
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by eel 16y ago
For everyday computing and development, I use my HP Pavilion 14" laptop with Sony MDR-7506 headphones. I dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04, but I tend to spend 90% of my time on the Windows side using PuTTY sessions as necessary to SSH t
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by eel 16y ago
I am a first semester grad student seeking an M.S. in computer science. I am interested in NLP and hoping to choose it or a subfield of it as my research topic. Do you have any advice? For instance, is there background knowledge that I shou
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by eel 16y ago
Agreed on Tropicana fruit juice, including their orange and also their 100% fruit juice blends. For apple, I like Simply Apple. It has a noticeably different (and better) taste from the standard juice aisle apple juices.
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by eel 16y ago
Currently, I am working on homework: representing a sudoku puzzle instance in a knowledge representation description language. Next I will study for a midterm in another class until I can't manage to stay awake any more or 6 AM arrives, whi
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by eel 16y ago
My problem with this job post is that it is long. Very long. I'd start by cutting out the "key attributes" section (is it really a good idea to include "If you were hit by a buss tomorrow it wouldn’t matter." in a job post, regardless of th
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by eel 16y ago
To be honest, I thought the rest of the world, especially India and South America was a lot cheaper than what a lot of the other comments have revealed. For a room, a share of the utilities, and food, it costs me about $625 / month in Phoen

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