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by jfager 16y ago
I might be missing something, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but this looks like a non-peer-reviewed pre-print written by employees/investors of companies that produce or sell the product being tested. There are also some red flags in
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Answering a slightly different question: if you're considering trying to solve a problem with a GA, you might first try simulated annealing. For many problems, it will probably converge to a decent answer more quickly, is quite a bit easi
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I don't care about Java language features at this point. The sooner invokedynamic can make it into a supported jvm, the better. Go for plan B.
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"online deg" probably isn't the best example, but there are still going to be cases where a prefix autocompletes to a different target than the final intended search, that SEOs for the final intended search will want to start ranking more h
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The example "peasant comment" is an informal definition of when a person should consider themselves a socialist, made in response to the blog author's comment about the definition of "Socialism" (in context: http://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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I largely agree with the conclusion, but where are all these people who claim that women working non-tech jobs in tech companies magically count as tech jobs? This is the first time I've ever heard the issue framed this way. I've always
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What is Rupert Murdoch if not a modern Hearst?
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Ignoring the drama: my current favorite scraping combo is NekoHtml underneath Scala's completely kickass combo of pattern matching and XML literals.
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Of course, I enjoyed the post as well, and I'm always interested to hear how good companies are solving their problems. I just wanted to emphasize their point that the situations where it's appropriate to roll your own are usually pretty s
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Good article, but the point is that you should roll your own when you gain a competitive advantage by doing so, and you have the talent to actually execute. I would argue that if your situation matches these criteria, you'll already know i
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The strip clubs don't compete, not here in NYC. Of course they do. A given girl can only be at one club at any given time - how does she pick which one she's going to be at? She takes into consideration how much money she can make, how
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by jfager 16y ago
It's not ridiculous at all. You really think there's not a hierarchy of strip clubs, that the top clubs don't compete for the best strippers, and that every girl who wanted could just buy a bus ticket and end up making six figures strippin
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by jfager 16y ago
This seems a bit petulant to me. There is real, substantive criticism of how CL handles adult ads independent of grandstanding politicians, hand-wringing moralists, and sensationalist media. These groups are always going to be flinging shi
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You can't extrapolate from the experience of high-end strippers in places like NYC, Vegas, or Miami. That's like hanging out in major league stadiums and concluding that pro baseball players must love their millions, ignoring that the majo
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CL itself explicitly says that for adult services, they have a manual review process for each ad that includes reading the ad, verifying a credit card, and placing a phone call to the number used to place the ad. They are not trying to get
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It all just concentrated from local newspaper classifieds. Would you grant that sufficient concentration would make it a different class of problem? Clearly, CL is going above and beyond their legal requirement to vet these ads. Okay, s
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You're taking it for granted that she didn't report the ad, though the question doesn't necessitate that that's the case. Even if she didn't, though, her guilt doesn't absolve Craigslist, and it doesn't make the question invalid, though it
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1. I "trust" that WalMart and McDonald's at least aren't willingly making money from sex-trafficking. If a representative of one of those companies were asked the same question, I'd have zero problem with them saying something like "we do
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I agree that the editing and production was typical of the CNN I know and hate. But the questions strike me as fair, and it's been a contentious issue long enough that anyone at the top of CL should be well-prepared to deal with them. As
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Craigslist charges money for these ads and claims it manually reviews them. Presumably the person walking by a murder/assault/robbery isn't witnessing a crime the perpetrator asked and paid the owner of the alleyway for permission to commi
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If Craigslist itself claims that it can and does screen these ads, then why is it out of bounds for CNN to point out that it apparently can't or doesn't? That's not CNN "misunderstanding large-scale websites", that's CNN trying to expose a
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Here's the list, can you tell me which question you thought was stupid, and why? 1. Can people trust that children are not being sex-trafficked on Craigslist? 2. What are you guys doing to protect these girls? 3. [Craigslist says its scr
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I know I'm going to get downvoted to oblivion by saying this, but the only reason we're upset by this is because we "know and love" Craig Newmark. If CNN did the exact same thing to a BP exec and got the same kind of answers, would anyone
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the labor theory of value would say a carpenter can create as many cars in an hour as a laborer working with a factory of robots No, it wouldn't, at all, not even kind of. Depending on the version you took, it would either say that the "r
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"But I don't want to have that coffee-house argument where we spend all our time arguing definitions."
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How about waiter licenses for high end restaurants (which primarily serve the rich)? High-end waitservice is hardly a low-skill field. Good waiters are well compensated, and restaurants compete for them almost like technology companies c
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Office Open XML is a pretty contentious standard: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Ope...
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People don't always make optimal, rational economic decisions. If driving a cab is what you've always done and is all you know, it's not as simple as plugging the numbers into the equation each morning before deciding to go to work. You k
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There are about 13,000 yellow cabs in all of NYC. Which is the number set by the medallion system. My original point in this line of argument was that one of the main reasons cabs don't contribute to congestion in the city is because t
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Also, if you don't feel that $35k/year (higher household earnings than 37% of the US) is a living wage, then what is? Come on, 35k in NYC is barely a living wage and you know it.

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