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by jlees 13y ago
Hmm, I was affected (my twitter account sent a spam post) but I didn't receive an email. I only found out about it via HN. :/
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by jlees 13y ago
I'm looking forward to this hackathon. Way to raise the bar, Jason! I feel you'll have to be careful around folks bringing in products they've already been working on and trying to pass them off as weekend hacks. But I'm
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You eat too much(kernelmag.com)
10 points by jlees 13y ago|4 comments
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by jlees 13y ago
Firstly, you might want to post this during UK time for better responses. I went in the other direction so don't have a great deal of help I can offer, other than asking if you've considered working for a company with dual presenc
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by jlees 13y ago
The culture is slightly different, and they feel less 'big company' for the most part. They also take on a local flavour :) I've heard good things (in fact, better things than are said about HQ) about teams in remote offices,
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by jlees 13y ago
Yeah, but consider that some rare words are much stronger indicators of topic than more common ones. Even more so if you look at n-grams. If you use something like wordnet you can get a lot of meaning out of low-frequency words and throw aw
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by jlees 13y ago
You need to pay HQ a sum ($3000, iirc) to license the name "CrossFit". They will only agree to that if you've completed their Level 1 certification. Once you've done that and paid up, you're on your own...
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MIT Computational Camera class(mitglass.com)
1 points by jlees 13y ago|0 comments
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by jlees 13y ago
Depends on the person. I love to exercise first thing as it carries me through my day; conversely, exercising too late in the evening means I have trouble sleeping, and historically I'm more likely to find an excuse if I'm already
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by jlees 13y ago
I completely agree that doing something enjoyable is absolutely the best approach, and if you want to optimise for various things, that's great - but don't knock the millions of folk who are getting off their arses and actually mo
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by jlees 13y ago
I find I encounter key movements often enough that I can definitely gauge progress. We do strength and metcon, so every few months each lift will get its spotlight - it's easy to compare my 5x5 power cleans now from my numbers in April
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by jlees 13y ago
So true. nerdfitness.com has some great articles on this mindset, especially 'Underpants Gnomes': http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/04/05/underpants-gnomes... There are many, many books, vid
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by jlees 13y ago
Love the focus on demos and code reviews; many 'hackathons' are becoming anything but. Wish the through-the-night part would change, though, I feel that aspect makes these events less accessible. The bootcamp aspect is an interest
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by jlees 13y ago
Your experience mirrors mine in many ways (especially Hunt the Supervisor.. oh, the fun we had). Sounds like you were/are also in the UK -- 3-4 years for a PhD is considered fast over here in the US! I think the most unexpected part of
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by jlees 13y ago
That's pretty much why I started mine, I didn't intend to be a tenure-track researcher but was really interested in a couple of areas of NLP and a PhD seemed the logical way to dig in more deeply.
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Stanford Online: Technology Entrepreneurship course starts today(novoed.com)
1 points by jlees 13y ago|0 comments
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by jlees 13y ago
I read this yesterday / today after doing a Little Brother-themed mastermind treasure hunt in SF. The themes really hit home after some of our recent surveillance related events. Thought it worth sharing with the HN crowd -- I personal
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Little Brother(craphound.com)
81 points by jlees 13y ago|26 comments
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by jlees 13y ago
At a smaller tech company (not sure how big Return Path is) it feels like so much investment is put into each hire that they don't really have the "replaceable parts" metaphor - and I know I'd rather know someone was unh
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by jlees 13y ago
When I visited Kenya two years ago I was amazed at M-PESA's spread, and the $99 Android phone had just launched there. If you're interested in disrupting tech in Africa, I'd recommend a visit to Nairobi's iHub, it's
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by jlees 13y ago
I can vouch from experience for this one, as a UK citizen with two Masters degrees my green card took under 18 months total.
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by jlees 13y ago
I feel like the majority of folk are treating this as a purely intellectual challenge. Which it sort of is (to the HN crowd, since the actual photo information is missing) but please, let's not forget the context here.
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by jlees 13y ago
I like this point: Judges in non-related sectors determine whether an early-stage gaming studio is ‘better’ than a boot-strapped big data startup. It's certainly true that watching back to back pitches of very different companies, ev
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by jlees 13y ago
I've definitely seen "feature" startups that didn't do so well once Google finally moved, but it's been more of an issue with startups built entirely within an ecosystem & taking advantage of missing platform fe
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by jlees 13y ago
Good to see more on this subject, although I haven't been working much in sentiment analysis recently here are a few thoughts from several years of study into building sentiment analysis algorithms, a startup, and many toy projects inc
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by jlees 13y ago
I was scared by #6 (being new to America and having a great plan from my former employer), but between COBRA and individual plans, I was surprised how easy it is to be covered. My COBRA was terrifyingly expensive (more than my rent), but I
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by jlees 13y ago
I'd imagine it's hard to tell the difference between offline bookings from other sources, and repeat guests. We list our room on Airbnb and occasionally on work email lists, CL etc, for longer-term sublets. We have never taken an
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by jlees 13y ago
Pretty sure it was 68. I'm in the audience and presented my back earlier. Although the hack was ridiculous, I think it's important to keep the facts straight. There was also a pretty awful 'asl' hack pitch later on, giv
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Games That Teach Programming: A Brief Overview(gamasutra.com)
90 points by jlees 13y ago|54 comments
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by jlees 13y ago
In answer to the first part of the question (how to get more theoretical CS knowledge), I studied an extremely theoretical degree and the materials are online to dig through - if I were to self-teach now, I'd start at the final year&#x

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