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by larryfreeman 11y ago
Thanks, PG. From my vantage point, authenticity is probably the not-so-secret ingredient of YC. This is a great essay and I hope that it impacts others not only in shining a light on the important contributions made by Jessica in the foun
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Dive into machine learning with Python(hangtwenty.github.io)
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by larryfreeman 11y ago
I am shocked by the verdict. I just read it. According to CNN, the judge made him responsible for charges that were dropped (paying to have people killed). In theory, he is responsible for everyone harmed by the infrastructure that he cr
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by larryfreeman 12y ago
Hitler probably seemed better at first than the group he replaced. I worry that with ISIS we have the same situation.
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An Impressive Emoji Tracking Project using Twitter Data(medium.com)
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by larryfreeman 14y ago
In my experience, passion is key. I consider great engineers to be engineers who get things done and their solution stands up to review over time. These types of answers are usually tell-tale signs of engineers that are harder to work. But
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by larryfreeman 14y ago
For those interested, here is a link to all the papers by Mochizuki: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/papers-english.htm... For convenience, here's a link to the Wikipedia article on the ABC conjecture and its importance: http:/
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ABC Conjecture: A proposed proof by mathematician S. Mochizuki(mathoverflow.net)
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by larryfreeman 14y ago
I hear this statement all the time. Great developers are 20x more productive than average developers. I've been a software engineering manager for 20+ years. I've worked with great teams and I've worked with teams where it fell on me to fi
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by larryfreeman 15y ago
Thanks for the link. I started to read the court case and to be honest, the wording and descriptions really rubbed me the wrong way. I only read the first 7 or so pages. The more I read about the case, the more I feel that Megaupload did
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by larryfreeman 15y ago
Most racism and sexism appears mildly offensive to those who are racist and sexist. If you watch a non-US television station with subtitles (or if you understand the language), you may be very surprised to see the amount of racism and sexi
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by larryfreeman 15y ago
I interviewed at Amazon once. They gave me three phone screens but I didn't get invited for the 1:1. I greatly respected the interview and it was my first wake up call that I had lost some of my technical edge as a manager. At Google, at
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by larryfreeman 15y ago
I think that the college system is terribly broken. In my view, college is broken in 3 ways: 1. It is too expensive -- this severely limits talented people from going to college Hopefully, online, free college lectures will go a long way t
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Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images(bbc.co.uk)
249 points by larryfreeman 15y ago|48 comments
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A Collection of Javascript Gotchas(codeproject.com)
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by larryfreeman 15y ago
In my view, the comment scores made the site more fun and more social. One thought is that maybe the score gets hidden if it is 1 or less. I think that scores are especially interesting when it highlights a great comment or provides feedba
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by larryfreeman 15y ago
It is interesting to me that my question did not generate more discussion. Does this mean that most people are not worrying about the issue of web reputation? I suspect that Google's panda algorithm change is only the beginning. It seems t
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Ask HN:What can user generated sites do to protect their web reputations?
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by larryfreeman 15y ago
Are you sure about this? I'm not an expert by any means but when I participated in the Netflix Prize a few years, there seemed to be lots of investigation about different variations of neural networks. For example, the Restricted Boltzmann
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by larryfreeman 15y ago
Hi jcr, Thanks for the response. To be clear, the blog was the HubPages official blog. I used to be an engineer there. I completely understand about the secret sauce at HN. I just wanted to check to see if there was something I could do.
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by larryfreeman 15y ago
Hi iamelgringo, Thanks very much for the link to HackersandFounders, that looks great! I live in Silicon Valley so I will start attending as I can.
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Ask HN: Impact of of [dead] links on submitter privileges
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Facebook investment makes Jim Breyer king of the Midas List(venturebeat.com)
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$3 million dollar Heritage Health Prize starts on April 4(computerworld.com)
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by larryfreeman 16y ago
Paul, thanks very much for answering my question! I think that the gradual degradation of comments is a fascinating problem to think about. The existing disincentives are pretty clear (over time: topics no longer link to the first page, new
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by larryfreeman 16y ago
As long as we are seriously having this debate, we are not in the middle of a bubble. It might be an overvaluation, fine, but that's not a bubble. A bubble occurs when the overvaluation crosses an unsustainable threshold. It's when the va
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by larryfreeman 16y ago
I suspect that this is to cover privacy issues. They don't want a repeat of what happened with the Netflix Prize. The Netflix Prize 2 was canceled because of the privacy issues involved with the data set ( http://blog.netflix.com/2010/03/
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by larryfreeman 16y ago
I worked with Eduardo (the author of the post) at Sun and I can tell you that when he says that Kohsuke is among the top 3-5 engineers that he has worked with, that REALLY says something. Eduardo was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun and as s
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by larryfreeman 16y ago
One thing that's weird about instagram is that there are 0 reviews in the Apple app store. For an app with 2,778 ratings (as of Dec 2), you think there would be at least 1 review. If anyone has an explanation for this, I would be glad to h
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by larryfreeman 16y ago
I've read it two times through. The first time, I thought it was one of the most brilliant books I had ever read (I read it the first time in the early 80's). I became especially fascinated with Godel's Proof and the thoughts of E.O. Wils

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