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by egillie 12y ago
Sift Science - San Francisco, CA. Full-time. Sift Science ( http://siftscience.com ) uses large-scale machine learning to fight online fraud. It's a problem that cost U.S. merchants > $10B last year, and 70% of it is organ
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by egillie 12y ago
Sift Science - San Francisco, CA. Full-time. Sift Science ( http://siftscience.com ) uses large-scale machine learning to fight online fraud. It's a problem that cost U.S. merchants > $10B last year, and 70% of it is organ
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by egillie 12y ago
Interesting! This doesn't seem to be common knowledge. I had a WA state legislator tell me back in 2005 that this was illegal when I tried to start something similar.
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by egillie 12y ago
Girls and women are also a lot more vulnerable on the streets -- I met a 17-year-old who was routinely assaulted when she slept outside, who eventually took up sex work for the stable shelter.
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by egillie 13y ago
Crazy -- it's already halved from 2006, when it was 10.8%
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by egillie 13y ago
Definitely -- I remember being in the crib, the toys I had in my nursery, and even the color of the lamp! (All verified later by asking my parents, all from before I was a year old)
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by egillie 13y ago
Maybe check out MetaFilter
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by egillie 13y ago
I remember being surprised at people in Iceland using really American idioms. At one point I asked someone where he learned a particular idiom, he told me he was obsessed with the show "Friends".
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by egillie 13y ago
Interesting, it looks like Australian law also forbids speech that is "reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people". That's going a bit further than the "incit
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by egillie 13y ago
Whenever I start to worry about this I remember that Canada has laws against hate speech http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_Canada but doesn't seem to have slipped down any slopes.
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by egillie 14y ago
Usually so it's all on one page
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by egillie 14y ago
Developer Auction requires the companies to actually offer what they say they will. If someone offers you 120k, that number won't go down after you interview on-campus.
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by egillie 14y ago
I'm assuming the lower salary is because of assumed lower competence, so an employer engaging in discriminatory pay wouldn't want to hire only women.
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by egillie 14y ago
I've been wondering what the big deal is since these games just reminded me of Tycoons anyways, but you have a point with the "slot machine mechanics" bit...though the Tycoons could get pretty slot machiney. I think a lot of the backlash i
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by egillie 14y ago
If anything, the kids may not care, but adults picking out toys for a little girl will feel more comfortable buying this. People are always happier if they feel their choices were more "customized" for the person they're buying for. Person
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by egillie 14y ago
There's an apache version of this in the works: http://www.itworld.com/big-datahadoop/290026/new-apache-proj...
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by egillie 14y ago
Of course "find your passion and the rest will follow" works great if your passion is for something that has a great market salary. What if your passion is sculpturing, or gardening?
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by egillie 14y ago
I actually made a few hundred dollars sophomore year by selling prepaid phones on eBay. I'd buy it from the the site directly and ship it to the buyer directly. I think people looking for replacement phones for their post-paid plans would
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by egillie 14y ago
Yeah, this is the problem with any big movement without a figurehead, like the 99% movement.
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by egillie 14y ago
Me neither. My high school offered college scholarships for men going into nursing, and I've seen posts in women-oriented boards about how to attract more men to events. It doesn't seem crazy at all...
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by egillie 14y ago
Are you talking about something like Native Client? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
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by egillie 14y ago
You mean men test better on average? And male variance in test scores (even in math) is higher in most countries, not all. See sources 40-43 here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_psychology#IQ And involvement in tech is not lopsided
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by egillie 14y ago
I'm with you on that. I'm doing a start-up just so I can enjoy the sun during the day, and work at night when I can't do anything outside anyways! I feel like now that we've got it backwards. We're not farmers, we don't need to work in d
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by egillie 14y ago
Honest question: would a client-side implementation be OK? As in, the only person making any requests to the CL servers is the end-user, and then a browser extension/app maps the listings? Is it wrong to automate calls to CL's server from
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by egillie 14y ago
Would a client-side padmapper be less morally gray?
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by egillie 14y ago
Scratch that, it looks like you're doing it client side but the SOP isn't letting requests through
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by egillie 14y ago
I don't see anything. Did CL shut you down too?
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by egillie 14y ago
GAE sandboxes you with their proprietary libraries, whereas AWS lets you write for unix/windows platform with minimal sandboxing. If you want to write a LAMP stack, you can just write a regular old LAMP stack with AWS. With GAE, you have
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by egillie 14y ago
Where's the 1/1500 annually stat from? I googled, to no avail
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by egillie 14y ago
I'm really impressed with the response from Skout on this. "I would take 100% revenue hit to keep our users safe if I had to.” Here's hoping they find a good solution.

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