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700,000-Year-Old Horse Becomes Oldest Creature With Sequenced Genome(news.sciencemag.org)
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Labor laws make these sorts of arrangements difficult in other jobs. If the job requires that you go to the office and utilize the employer's equipment, you generally can't work as a consultant. Also, there are issues with worke
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Another Silicon Valley startup solving a uniquely Silicon Valley problem. It's amazing the amount of effort and investment that goes into the problem of finding engineers, and comparatively how little goes into the rest of the labor m
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A lexical analysis of State of the Union Addresses since the 1940′s(blog.bright.com)
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Linked smartphones catch the action from all angles(newscientist.com)
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They did have a monopoly on trustafarians (wealthy college students that want to follow a band for the summer) after the Grateful Dead stopped touring. There is a new supply of trustafarians every year.
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by hardtke 14y ago
Even in a normal economy, we will have about 4 million job openings. People naturally leave their jobs for various reasons creating job openings. Similarly, even in normal economy we will have about 4 million people getting a new job each
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It was the ImageWriter dot-matrix printer that was released around the same time as the original mac. The pins in the printer cable were in the wrong place.
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My father was a typewriter repairman, and his specialty was fixing the Selectric. It was quite lucrative -- these things were expensive enough to be worth repairing and were as important to companies as Internet is now. When I was 10, how
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If the highest energy cosmic rays are nuclei, the energies available for particle production are comparable.
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It's exactly like ice-nine. The universe exists in some sort of meta-stable state. The usual argument against this sort of thing happening is that we'd already be dead. Cosmic ray interactions happen all the time at very high energies, s
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Quandl: Data Index with 2 million time series(quandl.com)
3 points by hardtke 14y ago|0 comments
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All of my friends who have lived on both the east and west coast absolutely prefer west coast football times. I find it difficult to stay up until midnight or 1 AM watching Sunday or Monday night football and make it to work the next day.
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Cosmic alcohol, vintage seven billion years, measures physical constant(arstechnica.com)
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The most important lesson I learned in graduate school came from a scientist at Los Alamos who told me "three sigma effects happen in physics much more often than they should"
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by hardtke 14y ago
Basically, I want to see if people can finish stuff. For software engineers, tasks tend to be easily defined and of shorter duration. At least at Bright, we have Data Scientists working on multiple simultaneous projects that take a few da
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It you want to make an impact as a data scientist, it helps to prototype your ideas as a testable product. Many product managers and engineers ignore their data scientists' work because fighting fires almost always takes precedence. The r
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Presumably the BBC outbid other British channels in a competitive bidding process. I suspect that broadcasters in the rest of the world know that 20 minutes of commercials per hour is unacceptable, so they don't bid as much as our networks.
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I just watched the pirated BBC broadcast. I felt like something was missing, and then I figured it out. The stupid thing is that Americans are forced to watch the Olympics with 20 minutes of commercials per hour, while the rest of the world
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by hardtke 14y ago
Here's the abstract for a nice review of search engine law: http://works.bepress.com/james_grimmelmann/13/ If I remember correctly, indexing a site that asks to not be indexed might be illegal as an illegal tresspass, but it is not settl
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Crime-Predicting Algorithm Outperforms Humans(technologyreview.com)
29 points by hardtke 14y ago|15 comments
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Eugene Polley, Inventor of the First Wireless TV Remote Control, Has Died(gizmodo.com)
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Is There Big Money in Big Data?(technologyreview.com)
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I worked down there with IceCube. We had a few programmers in the project, but it was very competitive to get a slot at the Pole. Most of the people sent down were for physical drilling operations. I went down to do data acquisition softw
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by hardtke 15y ago
It's interesting that Microsoft is planning to charge more than Yahoo! Boss for access to the same data. BOSS charges $0.80 per 1000 queries, while Microsoft is priced at $2 per 1000 queries. BOSS is also pay-as-you-go with no monthly min
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Airbnb, other sites owe city hotel tax, S.F. says(sfgate.com)
2 points by hardtke 15y ago|1 comments
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Netflix for Magazines(allthingsd.com)
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Zapping asteroids and space debris with a swarm of satellites firing lasers(kurzweilai.net)
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To Avoid Shutdown, Torrent Site Will Host Servers on Flying Drones(torrentfreak.com)
34 points by hardtke 15y ago|13 comments

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