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by eob 12y ago
You're comparing things of different scales. Your body has many cells, but cancer in one can take down the whole system. It's more like a self destruct button on each AWS machine bacause they have a nasty habit of propagating a wo
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by eob 12y ago
CS PhD here: In our field, yes.
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by eob 12y ago
That's pretty awesome. I just tried it out to see how you make money and noticed that you have both banner ads and also open popup-tabs. Are you comfortable sharing how much of the revenue is from the banners versus the popups? Are tho
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by eob 12y ago
FWIW according to the listserv traffic at MIT CSAIL right now, some members of the community seem to believe that the TOR node lives in CSAIL, not LL.
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by eob 12y ago
The repayment with respect to industry work is in credentialed autonomy, not money. And for many, that's worth it.
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by eob 12y ago
If a permission-enabled filesystem was bolted on top of BTSync, this could result in all sorts of fascinating log-based applications.
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by eob 12y ago
Wow. Just as another data point to show how monopolies stifle progress, in Cambridge MA I pay $50/mo for 6Mmbps. Comcast is the only Internet company available.
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by eob 12y ago
We did this with sqlite about six years back and got awesome performance results. It was a system called SyncKit. Still would have preferred relational storage in the browser, but glad to see at least we're moving toward something. ht
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by eob 12y ago
Re: challenging the network effect. A telling moment that happened two nights ago for me. A friend from ~8 years ago came to visit and we wanted to send a joking message out to a few people from the old group of friends we used to hang out
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by eob 12y ago
Your observation isn't necessarily in contradiction, though. People hate Comcast, and yet we all use it because (for many of us) there are no other options. Sentiment is an important measure because it indicates the activation energy r
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by eob 12y ago
Speaking entirely divorced from my opinion on China politically (as someone with strong US and TW ties, FWIW), I think the Great Firewall has been a brilliant economic move in retrospect. While it may have been an accidental side-effect, bl
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by eob 12y ago
Is development on FACTORIE ongoing? I played with it a bit a long while back and loved the "imperative-declarative[1]" idea you all were pushing for model construction toolkits. [1] edit: Because I'm not sure if I just made t
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by eob 12y ago
Agreed. After reading several paragraphs about how speed as the only toggle was a brilliant feature, I started wondering, "Wait a minute. Am I reading reporting or an aggressive attempt at framing the lack of features by a PR team?&quo
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by eob 12y ago
Agreed. Now that the "get rich quick" phase of mining is over, there aren't many incentives for all the costs incurred.
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by eob 12y ago
So if drivers pooled together, using the same account from Lyft's perspective, they could pull off a $6,666 / month guaranteed salary for 40hr weeks. I.e., four accounts working 60 hour weeks are staffed by six people working 40 h
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by eob 12y ago
Without paid advertising, how do you advertise the service? I've created a micro-service like this in the past, and where I really fell short was getting the right people on the site. AdWord conversions were also too low in my case.
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by eob 12y ago
Looks awesome, guys! I've been wanting something like this for a long time. One question: can I deploy to my own server (for free) or only through your hosted service? It wasn't clear from the documentation I read online.
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by eob 12y ago
Do any of the audiophiles on HN know if it's just fashionable to hate Bose or are there actually double-blind studies done in which music listeners consistently rate Bose as worse than price-comparable alternatives? I'm not an aud
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by eob 12y ago
This is dependent on what field you're in and where you graduate from, of course. CS is less heavy on postdocs [1] and I'm biased by only having had the experience of top-tier schools. As a tenure track professor, you don't r
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by eob 12y ago
One challenge with the PhD->CS Industry sidestep is that PhD candidates are extremely picky about the kind of jobs they're willing to accept, and many companies are suspicious of the value/cost ratio of a fresh PhD. If you&#x27
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by eob 12y ago
At one point the E4X standard (back in 2007?) enabled a cool multi-line string hack by promoting XML elements to language entities. You could say: var htmlFragment = "" + (<r><![CDATA[ l(a le af
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by eob 12y ago
I wonder how long it's going to be before Dropbox announces another vertical. They have an amazing product, but it's basically been unchanged for years now and been allowed to succeed (and thrive!) as such because competitors have
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by eob 12y ago
Both groups exist. Think of the "buying freedom" bump as the bump that happens when a new restaurant opens. A lot of people buying pot for the first time (or the first time in a long time) probably don't really care about pot
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by eob 12y ago
I've been tinkering with a variant of the same thing at Cloudstitch.io and will be presenting a paper about spreadsheet-backed web apps in UIST 2014 [1] (an HCI research conference). Happy to give anyone an account if you'd like t
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by eob 12y ago
WebComponent support seems to be super spotty across browsers. But that being said, it's an incredibly exciting extension to HTML so really cool that Google's invested the time to flesh out what a WC-based widget library might loo
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by eob 12y ago
What do you mean by weird? The extremely high content-to-style ratio compared to a lot of pages today?
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by eob 12y ago
Exactly. I'm not sure if this was a simple "let people have free music. That'll up our subscriber count" play or some masterful psyop mindtrick.
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by eob 12y ago
Academic here: sharelatex went down before a major conference deadline a few months back. I just use `git` and `make` for my latex workflow, but I learned several colleagues down the hall use sharelatex when they all shouted simultaneously
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by eob 12y ago
I'm going to get downvoted for this, but this video is hilarious when you imagine they're trying out some sort of sex toy attachment. Just watch it again with that in mind.
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by eob 12y ago
Perhaps, if we're arguing word choice, but the broader point is that no megapower wants to play Red Rover for easy access to an ocean if war broke out. Until we develop space-based weapons platforms and/or hypersonic missiles, nav

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