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151.
by elq 17y ago
there are 58 dvd distribution centers or hubs. most states have at least one.
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by elq 17y ago
Yes. The sales tax consequence to amazon is huge. I really don't know why these rumors keep popping up every couple of years. Perhaps it's because Werner Vogels spoke at our weekly tech talk thing?
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by elq 17y ago
I forgot to answer your first question. We released a new prediction engine a few months ago ( http://blog.netflix.com/2009/05/more-accurate-star-predictio... )... I think it's safe to assume that we wouldn't have used new algorithm(s) if t
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by elq 17y ago
No. from the rules - "The RMSE for the first "quiz" subset will be reported publicly on the Site; the RMSE for the second "test" subset will not be reported publicly but will be employed to qualify a submission as described below. The repo
155.
by elq 17y ago
(disclaimer: I work on the cinematch team) it's rather important to us that the solutions aren't over fit so we've worked very hard to make it hard if not impossible to do.
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by elq 17y ago
Thanks for the pointer. They sell a keyboard I've wanted for ages, a buckling spring keyboard with a thinkpad "nipple" mouse - http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/en104wh.html
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by elq 17y ago
wtf? it's _still_ on the front page - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=664621
158.
by elq 17y ago
the DX cannot highlight or annotate pdf files, at least not currently.
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by elq 17y ago
annotations do not work with pdf's at the moment. and AFAIK, the font choices available outside of pdf make showing code less attractive.
160.
by elq 17y ago
pages turn about 2x slower than in a pdf that's mostly text. but it's readable.
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by elq 17y ago
excuse the poor lighting and crappy photo quality http://files.getdropbox.com/u/52575/photo.jpg It's quite readable. I've only seen one pdf that had any rendering glitches.
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by elq 17y ago
no less than 23 hours ago, this was on the front page - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644007
163.
by elq 17y ago
Agreed on all points. eBay becoming a portal for discounted goods was a direct result of the desire of Meg to compete with amazon. It was remarkably stupid. If eBay would've listened to many of its employees re: shipping fees, fraud, and so
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by elq 17y ago
paypal was acquired in 2002, he continued on at eBay for 3 weeks. This is not evidence that he knows what he's talking about wrt why eBay is dying. eBay's current pain has nothing to do with "fun" or "the rise of social networking sites suc
165.
by elq 17y ago
don't feed the troll?
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Big Data: SSD's, R, and Linked Data Streams
4 points by elq 17y ago|0 comments
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by elq 18y ago
I worked at ebay when the skype deal was announced... we learned of the impending purchase by seeing an article on WSJ... there were no rumors, no speculation... it was just unfathomable. To be fair to my former employer, they attempted (se
168.
by elq 18y ago
Has already been posted. Has already been discussed ad-nauseum - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=531424
169.
by elq 18y ago
flagged. spam. who is voting this up???
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by elq 18y ago
blogspam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9dazaVijHY
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by elq 18y ago
I've spent about 90 hours tweaking my emacs config to get it working exactly how I like... over the past 10 years - it is now soo well tuned to how I work I could not even begin to imagine using another editor. I can understand how Emacs mi
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by elq 18y ago
> I wish there was a distribution package for elisp modules, rather than just cutting and pasting them off the web. http://tromey.com/elpa/
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by elq 18y ago
A list motivated by a workshop held at the NIPS 08. Videos of the workshop - http://videolectures.net/mloss08_whistler/
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Open Source Machine Learning software(mloss.org)
1 points by elq 18y ago|1 comments
175.
by elq 18y ago
Widevine ( http://www.widevine.com/cypher.html ) offers a flash based DRM that many of the studios like, but it's shockingly expensive.
176.
by elq 18y ago
> back to flash? Flash never was an option.
177.
by elq 18y ago
There are several reasons but one of the biggest is that Microsoft's DRM solution is/was the most acceptable to the studios.
178.
by elq 18y ago
worthless marketing pap... and they apparently missed the update to the ora post - it's 100M/day not /month.
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by elq 18y ago
copying the file from /proc creates a copy. fsdb allows you to map a name to an inode (er.. inode to a name). this is quite handy if the file is being written to. and fsdb is frequently available where proc is not.
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by elq 18y ago
The root of this "trick" is that rm does not delete the file it reduces its inode link count, until the inode link count goes to 0, the file is still on disk. look up fsdb and friends.

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