jmilloy

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by jmilloy 14y ago
The interviewer does not have all the power. Any good interviewer knows this, and finding out whether the candidate knows this can be indicative of the candidates maturity, perspective, confidence, and leadership abilities. Not every posi
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Have fun with it! This seems like a great example to encourage further analysis because you still don't have a testable quantitative hypothesis for why it was harder to read. Makes me want to start coming up with metrics, too! Of course the
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by jmilloy 14y ago
>One of the reviewers argued that it was the hardest book to read because 'and' was the most used word in the book. I think the author took this way to literally. Granted, it inspired some fun (albeit odd and basic) data analysis. But t
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Aren't all usernames are contextual? When I see a screenshot of a tweet, I assume the username and mentions are on twitter and may or may not carry over to other services. If I saw a screenshot of your message in here on hn, I would assum
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by jmilloy 14y ago
These aren't really insurmountable design issues. I'm only imagining truncated mentions in-network , so ^daniel.tent.is is ^daniel when you are on tent.is. So when I see a screenshot of a message which mentions ^daniel, and I see that the
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by jmilloy 14y ago
No. GoDaddy titles a patent "Announcing a Domain Name Registration on a Social Website" Regardless of your position on US copyright law, you simply must understand this important and not-so-subtle distinction before you make arguments abo
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Can you concretely state what the abstraction you are describing is? In particular, what details does it hide or factor out?
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Compared to 1,352 stories and 18,269 comments for wikipedia, for the record.
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That happens if I copy text with a link in it, too: the destination gets lost. We're pretty used to that phenomenon here on the internet. I'm just guessing here, but if mentions are in the metadata, then it would actually be incorrect to co
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by jmilloy 14y ago
I still don't get it. What existing abstractions did he display? What were they abstractions of?
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But it is a url. I agree that it doesn't look nice. As it is, we're pretty used to links with url metadata and different visible text. Occasionally I'll hover over a link to find out the domain. Why not, similar to what alphang suggests,
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Right. Instead the example that refutes the idea that public announcements aren't necessary for finding kids who were kidnapped by family members because the authorities would have looked there anyways by providing a anecdote where a public
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by jmilloy 14y ago
For me, it has everything to do with consistency. Then my brain adapts and is not in deep sleep when my alarm goes off. Consistency can be the number of hours asleep or the time I get up, and takes about three days to set in. It gets even b
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by jmilloy 14y ago
As others have said, it seems like KS is preferring projects which, already having functional prototypes, just need the capital to produce a commercially viable product in quantity. But, I think some projects need funding to even be able pr
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Yeah this is essentially what I did (before giving up and starting my own music database model and management software), except I have a few more collections (Albums, EPs, Singles, Live, Mixes, Best Of), no genre folder, and years/labels in
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by jmilloy 14y ago
I get those sorts of answers most often because the real problem is too complex to give as the example, and I simplify the example down to what's essential to my question. Then, there's often a better way to solve that particular example ,
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Well yeah. But (apparently?) the x-axis label only pertains to one of the lines (dotted), while the title pertains only to the other line (solid), but inaccurately! Hence the confusion, and the question: Can you tell me which of the the int
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by jmilloy 14y ago
To me, the chart-as-written says that the average time per level for people who reached only level 7 was ~18h, and for people who reached level 8 was ~36h? That would mean level 8 took on average 8x36 - 7x18 = 162 hours to complete... Does
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I find it very bizarre that "commercial success" can be sufficient evidence for upholding a patent -- isn't the point of a patent to aid in commercial success by allowing a temporary monopoly?
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by jmilloy 14y ago
I think slippery slopes apply to logical arguments. In this case, I'm making a subjective judgement about the value of knowing how someone designed something compared to how much they are charging. Collectively, the public could make this j
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by jmilloy 14y ago
I don't really understand. Isn't the "cohort analysis" part of it how the data about the gyms that cancelled was extracted? That shouldn't affect how you compare the results once you've made changes. I'm also not sure I understand what you
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by jmilloy 14y ago
The broad stats are cool, but I find that the value really comes from going back to the individual data points. For example, I want to hear the "most atypical" songs. Are they any good?
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by jmilloy 14y ago
Wow, how could the PRC products really need to cost $8000? It's buttons with a touch screen. Honestly, it sounds likelY that sfy is infringing. In our copyright system, unfortunately you have to pay or you have to wait for it to expire for
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by jmilloy 14y ago
You were never blamed for the possible bug (which might exist at hn or with the mail service, still not sure). If there is nothing that can be done, then there's nothing that can be done. That's what you were told in very simple and direct
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I assumed he was asking about a third option - imperceptible digital watermarking.
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I don't think that it's the court's job to ignore laws that are unpopular. In that way, anyone who admits to having a strong opinion, which may preclude them from objectively interpreting and applying the laws that do exist to the case at
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by jmilloy 14y ago
It seems to me that Amazon is taking a cut in order offer things such as security, customer service, 2 day shipping, etc. If I want to pay a extra for these services for a laptop from your company, why wouldn't you let me? Can you offer the
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by jmilloy 14y ago
You were patronizing when you said "You should..." If you want to know what the process was, why not just ask? If you don't actually care, then just move on.
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by jmilloy 15y ago
Why would any part of 4chan's audience care about such implementation details (e.g. inline javascript)?
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by jmilloy 15y ago
Outlier detection is an important part of basic statistics, and has been for a long time. It isn't about just deleting a few data points that "look" strange. Some statistical tests are robust to outliers and some are not... it's always impo

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