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by leelin 15y ago
I guess Netflix On-Demand, Facebook stalking, and FarmVille do their job in cheaply entertaining us! Seriously though, murders are a distant leap from idle teenage mischief, but I have to believe people commit fewer crimes when they have mo
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by leelin 15y ago
Possibly true given that startup employees tend to also not mind being Google / Facebook employees. However, don't discount the Wall Street / financial industry pull. For hacker employees, median cash compensation in finance dominates sta
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by leelin 15y ago
Awesome story and congrats. I second pgbovine's point that maybe the diplomas that grant instant kinship to fellow alums is worth quite a bit. I wonder if we can hack the kinship part without the tuition part? Another question. Paying do
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by leelin 16y ago
Not quite. I think this is conventional wisdom: If you take a risk and co-found your own startup with 0 years of experience, then even if you tank 2 years later, you are likely to wind up close to the 5 years of experience point of the hoc
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by leelin 16y ago
Seems unfair for the humans. Wouldn't a more fair match be a series of individual 1-on-1 matches with Watson and Jennings / Rutter? The current configuration means the two humans will both share the questions that are naturally difficult fo
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by leelin 16y ago
The analogy to music distributors is a little off. The SC2 replay casters are adding significant value to the content, in addition to sifting through what content is worthy of casting. They need to know where in the map to pan the camera,
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by leelin 16y ago
By using 15 as our baseline for the interpretation key as opposed to 12 (which would only account for a year's worth of rent), we are able to account for the additional costs such as property tax and homeowners insurance. Sorr
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by leelin 16y ago
Very very cool! I'm wondering why they chose 15 / 20 as the cutoff ratios though. I'm a licensed real estate agent in NYC and I've helped a number of clients make purchases where it was actually cheaper to buy than rent (usually a studio o
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by leelin 16y ago
Where is the market among the HN community on betting this proof is correct (or the market for P=NP in general)? My bid/ask is 0% / 0.02% I think I'd wager at most a 1% chance that P = NP, and, I'll be generous and put the odds that this pa
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by leelin 16y ago
This could work for internships, I agree, but I think it will be a tough sell for permanent employment. You are setting up a trade. Work somewhere that you normally wouldn't work, because you have other great options and very few Summers u
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by leelin 16y ago
This is why I like the GetClicky / MixPanel approaches to bounce rate better. I might have the details wrong, but the idea is as long as the page is your active browser window/tab for more than N seconds, you will no longer be counted as a
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by leelin 16y ago
Wow, I'm sorry you found my comments so offensive and insensitive (and for pseudo-hijacking). I understand this community to enjoy discussing hacks, both computer and non-computer related, and the underground world of tipping is one of the
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by leelin 16y ago
Darn, this seems like a site meant to uncover and curb corruption. I was hoping it was a site where everyday folks share their stories about when it helps to give a nice tip or innocently grease a few palms. Well known cases would be the "$
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by leelin 16y ago
It depends a lot on what the average Wall Street Firm would do with that programmer. Is the hacker going to be doing (for example): 1.) IT Admin stuff (Creating accounts, internal admin tools) 2.) Backoffice Dev (plumbing code to book trad
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by leelin 16y ago
The most tragic goof from the airline's standpoint seems to be the "you may check in online" email, implicitly confirming the 2nd leg was still on. I'm guessing the moment he booked his flight, a script somewhere inserted two rows into a da
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by leelin 16y ago
Alright, I'll bite, but obviously we're hand-waving definitions on many fronts. I'll argue that equity markets are not good platforms for crowds to judge the fair market cap of companies (or the NPV of cashflows). Most participants have an
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by leelin 16y ago
True, but the aggregation function is a bit complex. I'm curious where we'd wind up with something more transparent or democratic. Sadly, we aren't able to make any beta-neutral or relative value bets!
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by leelin 16y ago
Be careful of these numbers being biased lower than the real medians and averages. Glassdoor's gimmick is "tell us your salary and we'll tell you what everyone told us." They'll keep bugging you as you use the site until you finally relent
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by leelin 16y ago
The best thing this widget does is clearly illustrate that there is no easy and painless solution, and that almost all the hot debating in political campaigns today is over the very small ticket items (earmarks, getting out of Iraq, etc). T
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by leelin 16y ago
Fred's Storm Clouds are not just about higher valuations and investor competition, but about the unsustainable speculative behavior, with "investing without due diligence" as a prime example. That suggests startup land is filled with a few
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by leelin 16y ago
Wall Street solves this problem quite efficiently! The annual bonus is really the same as the performance review, so they simply tell everyone "you did a great job this year, here are your compensation numbers." That way, as a rank and fil
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by leelin 16y ago
Most angel investors need to decide whether to put up the money based on a few one-hour pitches and what they read in the press. Those are pretty bad sources of information if the biggest challenge of early-stage investing is judging the f
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by leelin 16y ago
That's a great idea and creates a win-win situation! Sadly, NYC apartment hunting is a little different. Landlords and apartments have a huge incentive to use their limited advertising bandwidth on already vacant apartments. Vacant apartme
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by leelin 16y ago
I realize people are more motivated to complain than praise, but with the universe of apartments being so vast, they need a LOT of datapoints before the complement of a black list (all apartments with no complaints) becomes close to a decen
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by leelin 16y ago
Very cool, it seems the researchers took into account all sorts of things like state sales tax, state income tax, corporate tax, welfare / handout type programs, and spending + savings habits. From what I can tell the key inflection points
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by leelin 16y ago
This reminds me of one of the points in the End-to-End Argument by Saltzer. The network protocol offering to encrypt the payload is broken, because the two end clients should undertake to secure their communication if it's necessary. In t
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by leelin 16y ago
Shame on venturebeat for crafting one of the most misleading titles ever. I wouldn't have even bothered reading or clicking, except to look for why JP is predicting the death of social gaming. In reality the interview is a total promotion
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by leelin 16y ago
This is a very interesting problem. Basically the algorithm for when to roll needs to be: 1.) Random and hard to predict before-the-fact 2.) Totally verifiable after-the-fact by the public (or by an uninterested authority the public trusts
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by leelin 16y ago
Quick summary: We're all taught that receiving $1 tomorrow is better than receiving $1 a year from tomorrow. Even if you can't use the $1 tomorrow, someone else likely can, and capital markets make it easy to get your money to them. That'
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Amber Waves of Pain (Do Not Buy Commodity ETFs)(businessweek.com)
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