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by izendejas 13y ago
I have found that working out in the morning is very good for my productivity. I've written a blog post about it: https://medium.com/better-humans/50c835e15244 The keys for me were doing so for only 10 minutes, wi
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by izendejas 13y ago
You should look into Spark: http://spark-project.org/ and Shark (Spark + Hive). I personally find that using the Spark repl is both efficient and flexible; and being able to cache data in memory makes for very fast iterations, especially
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by izendejas 13y ago
Agreed. The hardest part is waking up, but it gets easier because you realize how much better you feel afterwards. I'll be discussing strategies to overcome this daily morning hangover, as I like to think about it, in the next post. One of
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Boost Your Productivity with a 10-minute Workout - Part 1(medium.com)
10 points by izendejas 13y ago|2 comments
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by izendejas 13y ago
I'm not the biggest mongodb fan, but if you're stuck with it for whatever reason (too invested to change code anytime soon, say), then for mostly read-only collections this doesn't seem like a bad idea, actually. Why? Mongodb does offer sec
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by izendejas 13y ago
Your friend is right; the brain has a beautiful system called neural/sensory adaptation which eventually leads to the same patterns being less stimulating and even ignored. Off-topic, but I wonder if some people with autism lack this mechan
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by izendejas 13y ago
I don't know, but I doubt that music can do that as it's not some substance that's throwing off your brain chemistry. I listen to music at work all the time to avoid distractions. When I do my 10 minute routine, I listen to music that give
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by izendejas 13y ago
For anyone struggling to get into an exercise routine, I've ran into a potential solution because it doesn't require lots of time and effort. Exercise 10 minutes daily (or at least 3-5x a week) as soon as you wake up and before you hit the
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by izendejas 13y ago
Great attitude, kid! Everyone can see themselves as a victim at any point, but it's people like you who don't always read much negativity into the decision-making of others and instead focus their energy into making the best of their opport
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by izendejas 14y ago
Yep. Just about every project by google has crowd-sourcing of data gathering/training data all over it. That's why they're currently the ultimate machine learning company around.
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by izendejas 14y ago
Jetlore engineer, here. It's not magic, but we definitely agree we're onto something because this is indeed very hard. If anyone has ideas for other content streams, including their own, you can email us and we may open up an endpoint that
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Jetlore Helps Businesses Turn Short Social Updates Into Usable Data(techcrunch.com)
27 points by izendejas 14y ago|3 comments
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by izendejas 15y ago
As I point out elsewhere, machine learners and NLP researchers need this. This could offer tons of manually labeled training data.
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by izendejas 15y ago
Assuming that authoritative sites, at least, don't abuse these schemas, this will help all search engines and data mining/nlp researchers build better models. The biggest gain isn't quick view of search results, it's that now search result
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by izendejas 15y ago
Too late, but I'm too self-conscious not to apologize for not proofreading. By the time I noticed the mistakes, I was caught in HN's anti-procrastination mode.
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by izendejas 15y ago
I come from an officially poor background, but it wasn't until I started learning about my girlfriend's family back in her native, third-world country that I really got a sense for what third-world poverty is: - Constant verbal, physical, s
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by izendejas 15y ago
I think he's got an interesting mission: he wants to change the way kids learn using his knowledge of neuroscience. http://www.andrewhsu.com/projects/project_overview.htm If he doesn't succeed with his startup, I'm sure he'll go on to do
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by izendejas 15y ago
This is very helpful, thanks. I also hate Amazon's tables. You should put up a donation link.
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by izendejas 15y ago
It may not be the future, but I certainly hope it's at least a big part of the future for several reasons: * I don't want the news industry to die. They're currently very inefficient and hope that they will at some point convert to a nove
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by izendejas 16y ago
There is no such thing as a "free". And even though people aren't paying cash for these things, they're still having to earn money (listia credits) one-level removed from cash. Having said that, these marketplaces make sense. It'd also be
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by izendejas 16y ago
These are the same guys that have copied Dieder Ram's designs over the last decade. So I guess it's okay to "take inspiration" from other products, but not copy directly? Either that, or this is a non-issue and Apple just wants to keep thei
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by izendejas 16y ago
Your post will definitely get a lot of attention. I'm sure you know that. It's a good discussion we need to have. However, I think you could have used a little less irony and a lot more balance if you really wanted to get something across b
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by izendejas 16y ago
Ha! rtm, one of the YC partners, is mentioned in the "Did you know" section.
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by izendejas 16y ago
And your first statement is so 2011? Associating an idea with a market crash doesn't refute anything, especially since that's not at the core of my point, and I will kindly refer you to the guys at Apple to prove that "eating your own dog f
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by izendejas 16y ago
The problem isn't that they threw ads all over the place. It's how they did it. Ads and new features should be released to a few users--at least start with your own employees--and iterate until you get it right, if at all. It doesn't seem l
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by izendejas 16y ago
I wouldn't include Apple in that list. I don't think they get it. The big question for me is, will users be willing to give one big player all their data? Or will we have a system, much like in personal financing, in which many individuals
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by izendejas 16y ago
For the "coldplay" problem you may want to use an inverse band frequency weighting (much like in IDF for text). Bands that are extremely popular won't give you any useful signals. As far as the cold-start... yep, that's a beast and using so
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Tell HN: I just bumped into PG and Jessica
14 points by izendejas 16y ago|5 comments
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by izendejas 16y ago
And another one: http://bynamite.com/ I'm all for a transparency and control, but this has to be more effortless--a side-effect of something users would be happy to do anyway--especially for the average user if it is to be successful. I b
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by izendejas 16y ago
Am curious, any ensemble methods involved? Or was it just a bunch of heuristics mixed in with learning algorithms? I think Metamarkets, like Palantir and others, understand this very well and thus, are focused on building interactive tool

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