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by gwf 7y ago
I was there as well, also as an intern. Around the same time, Mandelbrot also stopped by CNLS to give a talk. CNLS in the late 80s was truly a magical place.
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by gwf 8y ago
worst. porn. ever.
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by gwf 9y ago
The cardinality of the reals has been known to be strictly greater than the cardinality of the naturals since Cantor. What the Continuum Hypothesis considers is the cardinality of the reals and the cardinality of the power set of the natur
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by gwf 12y ago
Thanks so much! Here's the funny thing ... I had no idea there was a kindle version until just now (your comment prompted me to go look). I am pretty sure that it's new because -- while I don't follow the sales closely -- I
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by gwf 12y ago
Thanks. That was an explicit goal of mine, so I am glad that it worked out that way for you.
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by gwf 12y ago
Thanks for making the recommendation for CBofN (I am the author). I should also add that the naming of my book was clearly inspired by ABofP (or ripped-off, depending on your point of view). ABofP was a real inspiration to me.
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by gwf 13y ago
@zaguis, can you point me to anyone else besides @colabi that is claiming that their video has not been viewed? I genuinely want to investigate this, but after searching for a week I can't find anything concrete. Since you are confide
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by gwf 13y ago
Can you point me in a direction where I can find contestants that are claiming this? I work at Salesforce and I would like to investigate this further. I already commented on an earlier thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by gwf 13y ago
I honestly can't speak to the specific allegations because I am not in a position to know the facts one way or another. But I can tell you three things for certain. First, salesforce is taking this very seriously and there is an ongoi
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by gwf 13y ago
No problem. Will do in a second...
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by gwf 13y ago
Your first link doesn't contain a single complaint claiming that people's videos were not viewed. It does, however, link to the second link, and the other two links it contains make no references to this sort of complaint. The se
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by gwf 13y ago
I honestly haven't seen a single complaint like that. Can you point me to one? FWIW, I am pretty sure that each entry was reviewed at least twice.
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by gwf 13y ago
I am saying that there is a misunderstanding. The earliest rounds of judging looked at the videos of the apps that contestants produced as well as a code review as a sanity check. This was done most likely so that each app could be viewed
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by gwf 13y ago
I work at salesforce but I am not a spokesperson for salesforce nor do I have any authority to speak for the company. What I write here, I write as a member of HNN only. I did not have any part in the hackathon process, but I had and still
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by gwf 14y ago
I managed to clip the isitdownrightnow.com status while it was down: http://clipboard.com/clip/LQOyBd-lpIMCZzlmvYHqted7GrrQ3zkJis...
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by gwf 14y ago
You may want to consider http://clipboard.com/ as well. It allows you to save almost any type of web clipping (text, whole pages, parts of a page, reader view, etc.). Disclaimer: I am the founder of Clipboard.
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by gwf 14y ago
I am the founder/CEO of Clipboard. Thanks for taking the time to read our privacy policy. I'll do my best to answer each question, but please let me know if you think that I missed anything. 1. Web beacons are typically understood to be a
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by gwf 14y ago
http://zoom.it/ is much older, seems much faster, and you can create your own.
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by gwf 14y ago
Does this mean we can finally have semicolons?
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by gwf 14y ago
Here's the thing ... we don't actually need 3rd party cookies. However, in most browsers you need to have 3rd party cookies enabled in order to read client local storage (not a cookie!) within an iframe that's in a different domain. We so
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by gwf 14y ago
You can clip almost arbitrary parts of web pages. See http://clipboard.com/gary/boards/examples for a whole bunch. This makes a big difference because instead of simply having pretty pictures of food, you can save actual recipes and sea
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by gwf 14y ago
We started using our logo about a year ago (which came from a great collaboration with the awesome Jackson Fish Market team). It's kind of unfortunate, but these things happens. We registered our trademarks quite some time ago, including
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by gwf 14y ago
We worked with the awesome Jackson Fish Market for the logo about a year ago. Someone pointed out the Charm logo to me later on, and I thought it was best to just live-and-let-live, since the two services have no similarity. I know that w
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by gwf 14y ago
I bought it around January of 2011, when I knew I was going to move forward with the concept. It seems kind of tacky to share the amount, but it cost about 5-10x less than what most people guess, as the previous owner was extremely reasona
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by gwf 14y ago
Clipboard also allows you to clip almost arbitrary parts of web pages (text, images, embeds) with the style and most functionality preserved. See http://www.clipboard.com/site/ycombinator.com for examples of things clipped from Hacker Ne
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by gwf 15y ago
To be clear, operations in our test corpus that took X ms on average took 100X ms. Is that the statement you are looking for? One thing that I think you're missing is that while we experienced a 100x gain for our application, our findings
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by gwf 15y ago
The baseline was a substantial test corpus that we scaled several orders of magnitude over a series of runs, all meant to simulate typical clip size with typical word frequencies. The 10-100x gains had two contributions that each was in th
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by gwf 15y ago
The hive mind is cute when it's temperamental.
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by gwf 15y ago
It really isn't all that bad. When you compare what we had to do compared to keeping two big data systems in sync (instead of Riak, which is a breeze), I think we got off easy.
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by gwf 15y ago
Hey Josh!

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