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How to Digitize a Graph(bendeaton.me)
4 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|1 comments
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The Quora Button: Coming to a Website Near You(semilshah.posterous.com)
1 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|0 comments
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Hedge fund to use Twitter to predict stock market(metro.co.uk)
9 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|8 comments
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Netflix: Lessons We’ve Learned Using AWS(techblog.netflix.com)
256 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|62 comments
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Announcing apache-extras.org(googlecode.blogspot.com)
4 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|0 comments
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AngelFlow: Follow angel investors on Twitter and AngelList(angelflow.com)
5 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|2 comments
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
Are you guys concerned about having to replicate Twitter's API infrastructure, even at a vastly lower scale? (I'm a fan of the product. The world needs more Twitter filtering.)
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
Twitter feed with a threshold of 100 points: http://twitter.com/newsyc100
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Paypal bans Wikileaks(boingboing.net)
5 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|0 comments
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
Agreed about mutual funds. Hedge funds charge high fees, but a subset of them provide a product you can't get anywhere else: returns orthogonal to other investments. Sophisticated investors pay happily for it. What's being stolen?
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
That's a great idea -- I'll try implementing it. Thanks.
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
Yep, just using the plain old Twitter search API via tweepy, with a search term of 'http bit.ly'.
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
At first I tried indexing all links (not just bitly ones) but the volume of results was too much to keep up with. I'm just using the plain old twitter search API. And the project was for the Bitly API Contest, so I figured I'd just look at
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
That might work. I'll look into it - thanks.
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
I'm the developer of Bitly News. One thing I'd like to add to the site is automatic categorization of links, like on Google News. If anyone has suggestions on how to accomplish that, please comment. I'm also struggling with intermittent 502
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Keys to Being Excellent at Anything(blogs.hbr.org)
78 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|16 comments
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You Can Now Follow Quora Topics on Twitter(skepticgeek.com)
2 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|0 comments
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
The filtering approach (taken by Proxlet, for example) is pretty much the only scalable way to raise the signal-to-noise ratio of a Twitter stream. At first it seems hack-y and inelegant, but by using it in the field I've found that it is s
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Wikileaks evades DDOS attack with shift to Amazon EC2(guardian.co.uk)
8 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|0 comments
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Embassy cable tells of elderly American's escape from Iran(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|0 comments
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My Holiday in Beautiful Panau(codinghorror.com)
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
It should be mentioned that this article is from December 2006, when index funds were less widely adopted than they are today.
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
The core problem with having humans identify the best sites is that it doesn't scale. It's probably ok for big topics like travel or healthcare, but it shafts those users who are searching for long tail topics.
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by jeffmiller 16y ago
There is a fledgling Hacker-News-for-quants at http://quant.ly . The site is still building critical mass, but most of the current users are experienced quants & HF traders. (Disclaimer: I launched the site)
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Demystifying Amazon Prime(businessweek.com)
22 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|20 comments
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Life is All About Supply and Demand(jamesaltucher.com)
2 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|1 comments
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Some New Stuff From Union Square Ventures(avc.com)
2 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|0 comments
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Apple-1 sells at Christies for $210,700(news.cnet.com)
7 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|0 comments
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How 20 Popular Websites Looked When They Launched(telegraph.co.uk)
8 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|2 comments
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Rare Star Trek: The Next Generation Pictures(slightlywarped.com)
126 points by jeffmiller 16y ago|28 comments

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