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by lazyjeff 16y ago
According to the article, "However, authors may formally request that a particular RE review their paper. They may make only one such formal request at a time. The RE is given a short time to accept or refuse to review (e.g. 2 weeks) and a
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
If you already have PDFs, isn't OCR simply a PDF --> PDF+metadata conversion? Why wouldn't some open source OCR software work, where you feed it your old PDFs and it outputs OCRed PDFs. Is this some kind of tactic for scanner manufactur
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
From looking at the companies' websites, they seem to be nearly all started by founders living in Seattle or the Northwest, so probably not.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Agree. See this article discussing the merits of the original 7 +- 2 statement: http://tastyresearch.com/2006/08/30/debunking-the-seven-plus...
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I'd use it. Like the domain too.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
This definitely should be disclosed to the employee. From my understanding, it would make it difficult to get a job at Apple if you accept an offer at Intel. Basically, this closes doors for you, and makes a job offer at Intel less valuable
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I actually enjoyed reading this. The first half is uneventful but builds up to the wacky second half.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I'm surprised the authors of this article completely missed the many extended query languages specially made to process large sets of data, published in top computer science conferences by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Microsoft has SCOPE:
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
One thing that people here haven't mentioned: Good furniture -- costs pennies per day, is there waiting for you after a long day, makes your place aesthetically pleasing, allows you to entertain guests, and you can sell it for at least half
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
This is a little bit different -- the dots don't fall back down after a while if you leave the cursor there, whereas the Google ones did. Is this intentional? And is it okay to reuse this on other sites?
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
This is fantastic. I just converted my Google Apps account and I can log in to nearly all the services without making new accounts. You don't actually see these new apps in the Dashboard, but basically you can log in to them using your Goog
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
You have a valid point but I'm guessing they avoided kl-divergence because it's 1) harder to explain 2) it's not symmetric, e.g. kl(asian, white) != kl(white, asian) 3) it needs a smoothing function for comparing distributions where not eve
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
There is a delay for the button to "shift" up AND glow. That's two steps and most buttons have only a single visual feedback, so it feels like it's laggy due to this extra step. I agree that it's a bit too much.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I wish it was $2.50 in Seattle. I'd even be overjoyed to pay the Bellingham price of $2.82. I paid $3.11 to $3.17 the last two times I filled up last week.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Digg never seemed like the kind of company that was run by an engineering culture. It feels like a MySpace type of company, where they have good marketing / media people but not about the technology and platform. One thing that suggests thi
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
It's not just you. I tried it from various IPs and get the same broken axel page.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I don't find being able to view the mangled pdf on screen worth the time saved downloading the actual pdf. With video and audio I can understand the benefit of in-browser viewing, but why do we need this service for pdfs anyway?
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
seems to be lacking a number of cs topics, notably: databases, data structures, algorithms, machine learning, data mining, and security
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
r.i.p. yahoo search (2004-2010)
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families making 1M+ probably aren't sitting around responding to polls
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Would love to start a Seattle one if anyone else is interested. One good place I've found that is loung-ey and has great food is the Night Kitchen downtown, but it only has space for about half a dozen people. But they have board games, sof
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Another reason is to collect data on the webpages you visit for data mining and improving web search. The more data a search company has, the better it can rank results and personalize ads. See these papers from Microsoft and Yahoo: http:/
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
This thread has come up a couple of times: Just wanted to point out that even if you get the grant, 1) they are reimbursing you 90% of your startup budget rather than giving $40k cash money, so 2) you have to put in the other 10% which is 4
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
The original link is down, "We're down for some scheduled maintenance. We'll be back up again shortly." and there is no google cache so here is the bing cache: http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fwww.businessin...
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
I don't have anything to add to what the other posters have pointed out already, but holy crap this sounds like the worse deal ever.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
It's kind of disappointing that the gigaom article summarizing the article is higher ranked than this.
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Did anyone notice that 1) they are reimbursing you 90% of your startup budget rather than giving $40k cash money, and 2) you have to put in the other 10% which is 4k. I don't know if you can just budget $44k as salary but I highly doubt it.
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Just a correction to your point #2: Yahoo won the best paper awards in <b>2009</b> at SIGMOD, CIKM, SIGIR, KDD, WSDM, etc. which are indeed the best data conferences. http://labs.yahoo.com/news/311
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I'm surprised by the amount of disagreement with the author. This will probably be voted down, but here are a few reasons I dislike large attachments: 1) I don't trust online email services to store/backup my email and like to back up my ow
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by lazyjeff 16y ago
Yet another "spend less, invest in the market" article.

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