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by leelin 17y ago
Maybe you've ever seen the cool proof that "Tetris is NP-complete". I loved the paper and it was very entertaining. But it involved a much broader and general Tetris problem than the one found in Nintendo Gameboys, because the width and t
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by leelin 17y ago
You are correct, but the author's big leap of faith is that our particular one case of the problem is intractable. I'm claiming the reduction from 3-SAT to his market problem is likely broken because the general market problem is subject t
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by leelin 17y ago
Summary of paper: A.) First several pages are random fluff: Explains P, NP, NP-Hard, NP-Complete, history of P=NP, examples of NP-complete problems, examples of market efficiency, and other very uninteresting stuff that feels like it's tr
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by leelin 17y ago
Posterous (I learned the official way to pronounce it - "pastarus") Actually, the two founders of Posterous pronounce their startup differently, unless one of them caved recently.
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by leelin 17y ago
Very interesting, if you are familiar with the "Gold Pass" vs "Silver Pass" movie gift cards, there is a tiny subset of your idea built in there. The idea is Silver passes are cheaper than Gold passes, but you can only watch movies that a
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by leelin 17y ago
Eventually you can sell CardPool gift cards... a universal currency for other gift cards. Then you've begun the great backdoor attack on Paypal!
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by leelin 17y ago
Wow, this is one case where a hijacking URL shortener actually comes in handy... the non-hacker girl will think it's just for her!
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by leelin 17y ago
"Terrorism" became an overloaded term once we coined the term "War on Terror". While this is an act of terrorism for sure, this is not the Terrorism that originates from those we are supposedly fighting in the War on Terror, therefore we sh
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by leelin 17y ago
I love the "Boys and Girls" question, because most people get it wrong first pass, most computer science folks would get it after a few minutes of work, and a Bayesian would immediately nail it. Plus, it's seems so simple we could pose it t
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by leelin 17y ago
Even better if it has three modes: 1.) Everyone else seems silent to you 2.) You seem silent to everyone else 3.) Modes (1) and (2) simultaneously I'm also curious whether Fred originally wanted (1) or (2) more [assuming (3) i
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by leelin 17y ago
The only "answer" that is hard to match to a standard brainteaser question was "they are seven and a half degrees apart." I believe the question is, "what's the angle formed by the hour-hand and the minute-hand of a clock when it is 3:15?"
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by leelin 17y ago
I guess the lesson is, anything truly game-changing needs to first seem stupid to most people? Sadly, that's not so actionable since you get the same reaction when your idea is actually stupid.
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by leelin 17y ago
I sure hope this isn't the case, but everyone saying 'outage would caused more damage Wed. morning' might get their wish.
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by leelin 17y ago
I'm fine with legit collections calls as long as a human collector has to waste equal or more time trying to reach me. This recent invention of automated collections calls seems to shift an enormous amount of abusive power to the collector.
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by leelin 17y ago
Bill's blog has been around for what, a week now? Being #4 in so short a time seems pretty good to me. :P
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by leelin 17y ago
This reminded me of the Don Dodge GOOG/MSFT transition post. Maybe it was the displays of platform loyalties, or their perceived backwardness of the technology habits? http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2009/11/thank...
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by leelin 17y ago
The first time I saw the proof I was not satisfied because I wondered why you couldn't use the same exact argument to show the integers are uncountable (and back in high school I didn't grasp the quick answer, 'because only reals have infin
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by leelin 17y ago
Seems cool, but still a long way from a replicator that can brew me a cup of hot Earl Grey.
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by leelin 17y ago
Did you use Flightcaster or Farecast (now Bing travel)? I thought FlightCaster was about predicting flight delays, not ticket prices.
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Flightcaster (YC S09) Wins the Amazon Payments Prize(payments.amazon.com)
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by leelin 17y ago
It sounds like you want to invest the money in yourself, which is understandable and entrepreneurial. As life continues, you'll find yourself with increasingly more disposable money (hopefully), and directly investing in yourself doesn't sc
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by leelin 17y ago
Reminds me of the old, "Forward this email to 20 people and you will see a funny hamster dance video appear."
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by leelin 17y ago
I want to turn it into a massive gave of Pong.
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by leelin 17y ago
How about Power Ranger Nunchucks? http://www.amazon.com/Power-Ranger-Nunchucks-Jungle-Fury/dp/...
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by leelin 17y ago
I tried it once round trip. WiFi was so-so, a bit spotty at times, seats weren't bad, but at the end of the day it's still a pricey bus. The bathroom was decent, meaning I didn't get the typical $5 of negative utility penalty when I have
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by leelin 17y ago
These are the public transit options for NYC-BOS commuting nowadays: (all buses about 4.5 hours all-in) Bolt / MegaBus: $10-25 with free WiFi from Penn Station Fung Wah / Lucky Star: $15 every half hour from Chinatown Limo Liner:
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by leelin 17y ago
Over half the list is old and bad (estimation questions, well-known, or hackable behavioral, etc), but there are a handful of pretty cool ones I never saw. My favorite are: 1.) How many tennis balls are in the room right now (good for a WT
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by leelin 17y ago
Fortunately for this community, prestigious degrees seem to be declining in importance. Anyone can found a startup, investors can look at traction and track record, etc. Even big software firms that hire thousands of people a year spend a
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by leelin 17y ago
If you intersect the two sets, everyone wants to get back together or scheme up a George Costanza-like plan to have the partner be the one to initiate a breakup.
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by leelin 17y ago
Don't Outsource Programming

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