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by leelin 13y ago
I've heard picking a lot of high numbers is a better strategy than picking pseudo-random numbers. The logic is, sharing the prize greatly hurts the expected value (when N people win with the same numbers, they split the jackpot 1/
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Let's modernize apartment hunting with a mobile experience that works(renthop.com)
1 points by leelin 13y ago
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Drew Houston's Commencement address(web.mit.edu)
16 points by leelin 13y ago|0 comments
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by leelin 13y ago
The comments from Senator Liz Krueger buried in the third section are very interesting and I almost missed it! Unlike most articles blindly debating the pros and cons of the sharing economy, Krueger claims many hosts are professionals who a
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by leelin 13y ago
Very cool, is that documented somewhere by any chance? I've noticed the same, the only time I can ever "keep up" with the green lights on my folding Dahon is on 5th ave, the very down-hill portion from 40th street to about 23rd. There are s
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Brokers aren't the problem. Join us and fix apartment rental search(renthop.com)
1 points by leelin 13y ago
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Let's modernize the way we transact apartment rentals (NYC)(renthop.com)
1 points by leelin 13y ago
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by leelin 13y ago
I think Symmetry and I might recall the same event, in April 2003; a shooting near Random Hall that resulted in death (not a student). http://tech.mit.edu/V123/N17/17shooting.17n.html The worst part is it happened during pre-frosh weekend
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by leelin 14y ago
I believe 2004 was the turning point when the audience was very engaged -- that was the first year spectating was lots of fun, 34-101 was packed, cheering all around, etc. In 2001 and 2002, spectating was not fun at all, partly due to techn
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by leelin 14y ago
Now I feel old! I participated in the first two Battlecode's ever, but that was back when it was simply 6.370. The first year was a board game and we stared at ASCII graphics all IAP long. By my M.Eng year, Aaron Iba and co. turned everyt
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by leelin 14y ago
As documented in Mike Grynbaum's NY Times article, the five taxis probably weren't lying about the shift change. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/nyregion/12taxi.html It seems irrational at first, but changing shifts at the same time mak
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by leelin 14y ago
Wasn't Jeff Bezos a fairly senior and well-respected quant at D. E. Shaw just before founding Amazon? I would guess he would have had a fairly easy time raising money purely for capital purposes. Maybe he was strategically trying to get no
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by leelin 14y ago
Each time you get a new article you get a spike, and then a downturn, but each one leaves your baseline higher. Now we get many times the traffic we got in a spike at announcement every day. I've noticed this higher baseline
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by leelin 14y ago
Funny, that's exactly what I thought 3 years ago... I think the root of the problem is there are too many available apartments but most of them are a waste of your time to view. A great broker previews every listing and only shows the best
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by leelin 14y ago
Hey, this is Lee from RentHop. One thing that isn't very clear from the writeup: we went through a LONG trough of sorrow before finding our current pivot. That's a story for another day...
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by leelin 14y ago
"Save Padmapper" seems to be selling the company short given the diverse set of data sources and partnerships they have. I hope Craigslist comes around but my bet is PadMapper will be more than fine regardless.
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by leelin 14y ago
I was Summer intern at Microsoft in 2001 and back then the interns went to Bill Gates's house for a bbq near the end of the Summer. One of the interns asked "what other names did you think of before coming up with .NET?" To the best of my
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by leelin 14y ago
There should be lots of AL users who can produce the exact email plea asking them to 1.) Read and comprehend complex / sketchy instructions 2.) Take the trouble to vote 3.) Not instinctively click the confirmation link 4.) Actuall
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by leelin 14y ago
Hi there, I'm one of the RentHop founders. For now we had to seed our initial reputation using priors from our data partners and our NYC models. We'll be sure our scoring gets smarter and better fit to Boston over time.
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by leelin 14y ago
Hi, I'm one of the RentHop founders. We love what Eric's done with PadMapper. Our focus is primarily sorting on quality. We see most of the messaging and scheduling activity so we can reward the responsive and trustworthy managers while
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by leelin 15y ago
Heh, I'll chime in as the lone orphan connected to this glorious network as a "video game buddy." Someone from FC wanted me to confirm a few connections and the relevant part of my original response is below (I imagine most people ignored
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Harvard, Princeton Targeted in Asian Discrimination Probe(bloomberg.com)
98 points by leelin 15y ago|116 comments
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by leelin 15y ago
Congrats! So after Mayor Bloomberg graduates from CodeAcademy in Dec'12 ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3434509 ) he can be part of Hacker School batch #6! :P
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by leelin 15y ago
Measurement & Leverage? My experience in sales is tilted almost exclusively to real estate transactions, but I'll say PG's How To Make Wealth Essay offers an explanation ( http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html ). There is large variance
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by leelin 15y ago
Wait, isn't $2500 very cheap for a violin? I seem to remember the rather mediocre violin I had as a kid costing more than that (such hopeful tiger parents).
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by leelin 15y ago
Wait, Bill Clerico from WePay was on Millionaire Matchmaker... that's gotta count!
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by leelin 15y ago
I'll admit I'm never a huge fan of other founders asking me how my startup is going as a conversation starter. There are often three scenarios: 1.) Nothing new or exciting has happened since last time, in which case I feel pretty crappy.
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by leelin 15y ago
Very cool! There seems to be at least one big missing piece: D. E. Shaw & Co. That would have spun off Juno via Charles Ardai (bought by NetZero?), Amazon via Jeff Bezos, Fog Creek for Joel Spolsky, Farsight Financial Services, and pro
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by leelin 15y ago
Has anyone ever tried to hack this by claiming the unemployed time was "spending the last N months working on various startups or co-founder searches" which unfortunately failed for reasons X,Y,Z?
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by leelin 15y ago
My guess is SAT (2400 scale) plus 4 of those SAT II tests (800 scale). For example: Main SAT: 2400 Math IIC: 800 Physics: 800 Biology: 790 Chemistry: 790 Solid scores for sure, but certainly not his only accomplishment I'm guessing.

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