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by ig1 13y ago
I've only read the article and not the underlying paper, but it seems to be saying a $400 grant yields an average annual return of 40% - it would seem that would make it viable as a loan scheme rather than a grant scheme (maybe in term
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by ig1 13y ago
You realize that the majority of Engineering Phds in the US are foreign born ? - the US heavily relies on being able to attract international talent to maintain its advantage.
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by ig1 13y ago
It happens all the time, I'd go far as hazarding a guess that the majority of the non-generic articles that get to the front page are gamed.
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by ig1 13y ago
There are plenty of large systems built on on MS technology apart from the MS ecosystem (Bing, Live, MSN, Skype) there's GoDadday, Just-Eat, Monster, PlentyOfFish, etc. However realistically most startup founders are going to build a s
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by ig1 13y ago
They're making the fundamental mistake of fixing a problem now in a way that will cause huge problems in the future. Mortgage lenders will put huge premiums on mortgages in the town in the future because of "default by eminent dom
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by ig1 13y ago
Have you seen http://www.datakind.org/ ? - connecting Data Scientists to data problems faced by non-profits.
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by ig1 13y ago
Your crazy if you think you can't get a flat-share in london including bills for £6.6k. Literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people are spending less than that. Council tax doesn't increase with the number of peopl
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by ig1 13y ago
Let's not have another semantic argument (hacking vs cracking), the term "girl" (and the term "boy" for that matter) has both the meanings of an child of the given gender but also the informal friendly meaning for a
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by ig1 13y ago
You basically need to be saving 33% of your take home salary. As a rule of thumb you shouldn't be spending more than a third of take-home on your housing. That leaves you with 33% for your cost of living. To see how that breaks down in
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by ig1 13y ago
4pt on a 600dpi printer is about 35 dots per character, should be more than enough to get a clean read.
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by ig1 13y ago
There's OCR systems which work on the basis of internal font consistency. They break the page into a series of single character images, and because the same character repeated is close to identical it's trivial to match them up, s
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by ig1 13y ago
Where are you coming from ?
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by ig1 13y ago
Don't do this. If it's a clean print-out it's trivial to OCR at a five nines accuracy rate.
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by ig1 13y ago
It's already known that they have attacks against Tor (i.e. Flying Pig)
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by ig1 13y ago
Most insurance companies have their insurance policies underwritten by a reinsurer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance
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by ig1 13y ago
Data science is about building testable models, which fundamentally is what science is about. What probably makes you uncomfortable is that Data Science (unlike most scientific fields) doesn't have a requirement for the models to make
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by ig1 13y ago
Gartner quadrants are like the App Store for enterprise software. When you're tasked with choosing say an app for handling Supply Chain Management often you're first step is looking at the Gartner report for that space because it
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by ig1 13y ago
There's definitely a lot of developers who won't work at places with business-style dress code (suits, no jeans, etc.) in the financial industry.
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by ig1 13y ago
There's perfectly reasonable reasons to mention IDE, for example some companies have propriety Eclipse (or Emacs) extensions to support their code base or use collaborative work capabilities that are integrated with IDEs. Environmental
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by ig1 13y ago
If you've got a reasonable amount of Python experience you shouldn't have any trouble going from freelance to permie, just apply for regular python roles (assuming that's what you want). You might want to be upfront about sal
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by ig1 13y ago
You need both. There's many red flags which will only be apparent on a resume (candidate doesn't have work authorization for the country, large unexplained gaps in work history, rapid turn-over of employment), plus it's much
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by ig1 13y ago
MOOC != University of Phoenix
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by ig1 13y ago
Measure. Until you measure end-to-end performance you have no idea what the bottlenecks are. Client side you can use something like Chrome inspector, server side you can use logging or a more sophisticated tool like New Relic.
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by ig1 13y ago
That's a straw man arguments, I don't think anyones claiming that doing courses on Coursera is the equivalent to a Stanford degree. Certainly the universities aren't.
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by ig1 13y ago
I still think it should be legal. After all you can take $10k and spend it at a Casino, there's no reason you shouldn't be able to gamble it on a company. Although there are other reasons for investing other than financial returns
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by ig1 13y ago
Crowdfunded equity investments should be treated as gambling, don't do it unless you're willing to lose money. Over half of traditional angel investments don't return the investors money and 90% of the returns come from 10% o
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by ig1 13y ago
It's a mistake to jump to the assumption that it's just because of gender. Exactly the same thing happens to plenty of other people, maybe it's because the other person explained it in a different way, maybe because they don&
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by ig1 13y ago
The reason that small hard/paperback publishers are dying isn't Amazon. The reason is that physical book sales are dying, ebooks have overtaken both hardbacks and paperbacks in both total sales and revenues. Next year they'l
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by ig1 13y ago
What's the common law basis you think you can bring the initial suit based on ?
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by ig1 13y ago
Freedom of speech was restricted in that case by a legal decision, as in the law was used to restrict free speech. That's completely different from a company freely refusing to serve a customer because of opinions they expressed. The c

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