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by lazyjeff 15y ago
Obviously a distribution would be best, but for a single number, the mean is better. For example, if groupon says they have 100,000 customers and they will have 200,000 customers next year, and the mean # of groupons per customer is 2.5, th
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by lazyjeff 15y ago
"The median number of Groupons sold to each Groupon customer (someone who has bought anything): 1." "The median number of Groupons sold to each person on Groupon’s mailing list: 0." The median doesn't seem like a fair way to measure either
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by lazyjeff 15y ago
As a second opinion, I had never thought of housefeed when thinking about housefed. Housefed is like grassfed, and I would never think of grassfeed.
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by lazyjeff 15y ago
How do you deal with the url if it can change? For example, you register for example.com on http://register.example.com and then login on https://login.example.com and in the future they may change it to https://examplelogin.com/auth/
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by lazyjeff 15y ago
The last 2 pages of the paper has 3 comparisons with hq2x. It seems like the new algorithm does appear to be better than hq2x by being smoother and simpler.
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by lazyjeff 15y ago
I think the problem with this argument is that our observations are pre-selected before see them. This biases our predictions towards spectacular success/failure stories and exaggerated anecdotes. What would have happened if you were Facebo
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by lazyjeff 15y ago
Yes, there should be a warning that this REMOVES ALL YOUR EXISTING PACKAGES. Make a list of what is already installed before installing this version of npm.
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Legal techniques the rich use to avoid paying taxes(businessweek.com)
71 points by lazyjeff 16y ago|41 comments
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Have you experimented with the fps on Android or iOS? Just wondering if it's playable at all.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Why is the image in .jpg? That's unfortunate...
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I don't get what's so great about their interface. Sure it's got eye candy. But I can't even search for +- 1 day from my selected date. Most airline or travel sites can.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I agree with the general theme of the OP. Bayesian methods are technically better than frequentist methods. However, like Betamax vs. VHS, there is more than just the technical correctness. Your point in 2.2 is the big one -- if there was a
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I think you've fairly accurate described the majority of irc channels related to programming. I've been running #winapi on freenode for over 6 years (writing windows programs used to be the way to impress your friends before making websites
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I had no idea what the news article was talking about, but it sounds like topic modeling with a temporal component. Why didn't they put the paper title or algorithm name in the news article? It's frustrating to read something dumbed down en
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Very nice, the suggestions seem more useful than some of the other tools I've seen. Is it possible to combine this with an SEO checker, spellcheck, and browser incompatibility check? PS: running slowcop on slowcop.com yields a few areas of
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I would like to know the answer to this too, and what are the differences?
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Yes, this. I think the main concern would not be the DNS servers being lost, but the revocation of domains to raise money, or redistribution of the domains by the (potential) new regime.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
This is a very interesting comment. It reads a bit like "phd hacking". Did you try this? The work done by the OP is indeed has potential to be published. The above comment, while written in an encouraging tone, has some caveats that might b
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
The snarky comment seems unnecessary, "The most important difference is that JSHint is developed and supported by the JavaScript developer community and not by one very opinionated person". Douglas Crockford did a lot of great things for th
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Sorry we read this article 5 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2210635
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Do they also give you the server logs? e.g. access.log
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Node.js 0.4.0 released (link to changelog)(github.com)
1 points by lazyjeff 16y ago|0 comments
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Seems like site redesigns always just make things worse... this might be a slight improvements over the last one though, which looked to me like a parked spam page.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Maybe I misunderstand... but why would you get the first edition (which I assume has more errors) for the same price of the third edition? Is it for collecting, or is there something particularly good about a first edition?
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I tend to like these divisions and their respective names: http://www.tjc.com/38states/38states.jpg
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I've always thought the MongoDB database was really good, but has poor drivers for node.js. I've been using node-mongodb-native, and it has basically no documentation. If you want to use a relatively new feature, you have to figure out how
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Check the activity usage report. They break down in quite a bit of detail where the charges are. You can break it down even further by hour. I've used the Free Tier with no charges for over a month now, and have been pretty happy with it. T
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Does anyone know what machine learning algorithms they use?
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Does anyone know which browsers have hardware graphics acceleration for WebGL? Does it work on iPhone/Android, or only desktop browsers?
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
You didn't mention the biggest benefit of server-side javascript -- you get Javascript on client, server, and database. You can pass JSON objects from client to server using Socket.IO and then just save them in MongoDB with ease. You can re

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