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by hncommenter13 13y ago
Interesting. Any chance you'd be willing to chat a bit about your personal/anecdotal experience with the 10% fill rate? If so, my email is in my profile (didn't see one in yours or on your blog, sorry).
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by hncommenter13 13y ago
Thanks for digging these up. These numbers may not be fully representative, however: http://www.cfo.com/printable/article.cfm/2987898 Rather famously, Amazon in its early days included the cost of fulfillment (shipping, warehousing, etc.
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by hncommenter13 13y ago
You shouldn't care. Because not reading someone under arrest the Miranda warning is constitutionally irrelevant in and of itself. It only acquires relevance if the government seeks to have the statements admitted at trial. Discussing the
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
I don't dispute your account, as I don't know the particulars. One minor quibble, though. Unless you're specifically talking about water tankers sitting unused, most fire engines carry a fairly limited amount of water in their internal tan
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
I absolutely agree, for a variety of reasons. I was just making the point that, if one is the sole owner, one has the (bad) choice to run it that way. But once others are involved as owners, investors, employees, etc., it is completely u
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
I didn't know Jody, so I won't comment on him personally. Speaking as a former investor regarding the financial situation though...never ever ever ever. Financial controls aren't important just because VCs are greedy: they keep companies al
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
The USPS still recommends addresses be entered in upper case: "We recommend that you write addresses in all uppercase letters." [1] This apparently used to be a bigger deal back when the USPS relied on OCR more heavily for bulk mail deliver
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
On another (mildly related) note, does anyone know much about Meltwater itself? There's something that's always seemed a bit odd to me about the company, but that's just an unsubstantiated hunch.
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Article by Malcolm Gladwell on this very topic: http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_12_17_a_kaplan.htm
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Very long, but worth it (I think). http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/1...
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
If I have a problem with my ISP or my car dealer, nobody bats an eye at a blog post or an online complaint about the service. But if I'm a customer of an admired former startup to whom I pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a month, I'm not
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Whatever the correct analogy is in terms of smartphones and PCs, it's worth pointing out that the first mass-produced car (the Model T) actually preceded the first mass-produced tractor (the Fordson Model F tractor), not the other way aroun
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
If you're looking for a 3rd pair of eyes, happy to help. Ex-VC, CFA/MBA, have spent some time investigating stock frauds as well (but not quite to your level!).
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Grew up in St. Louis. A good friend of mine was a MO State Rep a few years ago, and he rented a 2-bedroom apartment near the capitol in Jefferson City for $275/month. It's insane.
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
I have spent quite a bit of time working with arrest and incarceration data that has names attached. Rates of arrest and incarceration are not precisely correlated to demographics, in the sense that certain "races" (as defined by the gover
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
A few points, as a frequent user of PACER: 1. If you charge $15.00 in a quarter, it's free. If you charge $15.10 you owe $15.10. In other words, you don't get a $15 credit if you go over $15. 2. It's actually potentially more than 150 pag
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
PACER is the federal system of records. Divorce and family law matters, by contrast, are filed in state court. Some state court systems provide excellent access to dockets and documents (WI); others have access policies that make PACER's l
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
To be clear, is this CASS/DPV-style validation? Is it certified CASS/DPV? If so, that would be awesome. Any info on usage limits for the free tier, etc? Can we use this for address verification only or is it required to purchase as well
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Perion (Nasdaq:PERI) has the same model, also from Israel. There's a whole crop of Israeli companies that have similar businesses, in fact.
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
http://glinden.blogspot.com/ Mix of interesting technical articles (most related to search and information retrieval) and tech industry prognostication.
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Looking at the photo of him in the ambulance (linked in the story to here: http://twitter.com/mattgutmanABC/status/276778188116480002/p... ), I'm somewhat skeptical either of the medical claim or of the ability of the EMTs who are treating
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
San Francisco has lots of great qualities, but constantly telling ourselves that it is the greatest place in the world home to the greatest (or, in the author's words, the "smartest, most creative") people is tiresome. As South Park memora
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
If you don't mind, could you perhaps shed a bit of light on this (or if not on this situation in particular, on the type of data to which you're referring)? I've often thought of DNS-derived data as a potential source of independent info o
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
I've used JDBM3 to build a high-speed geocoder from US Census Tiger data. Because the data set is static and read-only, I use a minimal perfect hash function to map zip|street pairs to ids and then JDBM to map those ids to compressed strin
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Are you or do you plan to be certified by the CA State Bar as a lawyer referral service? http://rules.calbar.ca.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=mKEKxX4... [pdf] Note that a lawyer referral service is defined as: "'Lawyer Referral Service' m
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
Josh, I see your long answer, and, being a bit familiar with companies like Intelligent Beauty, I raise you a long list of questions. I don't expect you to answer them, but in my mind they can help separate "value-enhancing offer" for cust
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
I've seen a number of fire videos as part of a training class. It is astonishing how fast a couch + room full of furnishings will burn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ult6Biaf7oM . From ignition to flashover/fully-involved in 2-3 minute
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
There is lots of useful and interesting detail about how the ticketing industry works in this thread, and I certainly sympathize with the post's complaint. But I'd like to briefly (and mildly) chastise the idea for a more abstract reason,
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
There appears to be quite a bit of confusion as to what happened here. The TechCrunch article doesn't really provide enough detail, saying only that the staff was fired in order to "reduce the company’s liability" which doesn't really make
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by hncommenter13 14y ago
For anyone interested, I highly recommend David Swensen's book "Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment." Swensen is the highly successful manager of Yale's endowment. While no book on investing is without fl

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