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by mrgordon 12y ago
Agreed, I'm lucky enough to know the founders personally and it is quite inspiring to hear where they're going and why they decided this was what needed to be built.
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by mrgordon 12y ago
oh wow they integrated H2O as well. really interesting developments!
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by mrgordon 12y ago
I ran data through both services a few weeks ago. Both claimed the same accuracy on cross-validation but the prediction.io interface showed the classifier was performing very poorly on the sample predictions that they display. Sure enough,
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by mrgordon 12y ago
It is normal
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by mrgordon 12y ago
Sure, but whether a city has rent control wasn't relevant to my comment, which is why I mentioned San Francisco as well. I was saying that landlords in popular areas whose properties are not subject to rent control (whether or not the
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by mrgordon 12y ago
It's not relevant for less crowded areas but friends who live in NYC (or SF, without rent control) often see 20%+ increases amounting to at least a few hundred dollars per month. That's pretty rough after you found a place to live
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by mrgordon 12y ago
This article seems to miss a few important points. The people who have lived in a city make that city what it is and you can't just switch in new higher bidding tenets at every juncture and expect that community to remain. In particula
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by mrgordon 12y ago
The poster meant that Uber and Airbnb don't have the same cost structure as the existing behemoths in their respective industries so the valuations aren't comparable. For example, Airbnb doesn't need to pay rent for their pro
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by mrgordon 12y ago
Alibaba ended their first day at about $231 billion and I haven't heard anyone say they were 10x overvalued lately: http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/sep/19/alibaba-shar... Other big ones inc
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by mrgordon 12y ago
Yes the actual volatility calculation is better but my numbers illustrate my point which is that the price is by no means stable in an absolute sense. We are in a "quiet period" relative to what happened during a massive bitcoin b
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by mrgordon 12y ago
Not to be argumentative, but I see very little indication that any "normalization" is happening in Bitcoin prices unless you simply mean that it is trending downwards more steadily over time. Jan 1, 2014: $770.44 April 1, 20
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by mrgordon 12y ago
They do mark up the groceries
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by mrgordon 12y ago
Yeah when are they going to fix these issues? Everything was great until iOS 8 & Yosemite. My Mac with Yosemite can no longer use Airplay and my Airport Express no longer shows up as a supported Apple device in Airport Utility (despite
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by mrgordon 12y ago
Yeah packrat is great! It is a really important package which has greatly increased my willingness to use R in production.
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by mrgordon 12y ago
I thought it was Haskell on a Horse, no? http://haskell.on-a-horse.org/
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by mrgordon 12y ago
In San Francisco. There are about a million of them.
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by mrgordon 12y ago
This doesn't make any sense (no offense). CrowdFlower uses almost a hundred different "channels", of which Mechanical Turk was only one until we removed it a while ago. It was not our largest channel at that point and it repr
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by mrgordon 12y ago
FYI depreciated is a typo, it should be deprecated
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by mrgordon 12y ago
One more reason to look for a Sidecar or Lyft before an Uber. Usually cheaper too.
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by mrgordon 12y ago
Its certainly possible technically (and legally in some cases). Italy has a 0.02% tax on transactions lasting less than half a second: http://www.dw.de/italy-first-to-slap-tax-on-high-speed-stock...
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by mrgordon 12y ago
Yep, extremely disingenuous. One time they left the receipt in the bag and let me assure you that there are huge markups being taken...
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by mrgordon 12y ago
No one said that index funds always go up but they do return more than 4% (nominal) as a long term average. I bet that the calculator uses 4% as the default because they assume a relatively conservative portfolio such as 50% bonds & 50%
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by mrgordon 12y ago
CrowdFlower, San Francisco Come work for the leading crowdsourcing company! We are hiring full-timers and interns for a variety of positions including many software engineering positions (Ruby on Rails, Javascript, possibly Clojure) and dat
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by mrgordon 12y ago
I don't buy this argument at all. They were proposing to build 134 condos at $5 million each. That isn't increasing the housing supply (much), it is giving away the one-of-a-kind waterfront for some pied-à-terres for rich out of s
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by mrgordon 13y ago
Google has been in The Netherlands for a while FWIW. That doesn't mean a startup campus isn't a good idea though! Google Amsterdam Claude Debussylaan 34 Vinoly Mahler 4 Toren B, 15th Floor Amsterdam, Netherlands
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by mrgordon 13y ago
DynamoDB competitor?
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by mrgordon 13y ago
The seller fees are separate from the fulfillment fees and are typically another ~15% of price + shipping.
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by mrgordon 13y ago
It is great to see more crowdsourcing data getting open sourced. I haven't read the research but I'm assuming he used a fairly unrestricted crowd. I'd be interested to use the crowd to rate sentiment analysis results from thi
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by mrgordon 13y ago
That isn't per app though
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by mrgordon 13y ago
If people wouldn't work at a company in the valley without the private shuttles because it would be too difficult to get there, then the company is clearly getting enormous benefit from the arrangement. It is certainly a good thing tha

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