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by physcab 16y ago
pretty cool. I would change high meaning bad and low meaning good, unless its a rank out of the total. Its a bit counter-intuitive. Why do you just place an emphasis on dissatisfaction instead of giving the option to look at both?
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by physcab 16y ago
This doesn't strike me as a particularly surprising insight though and I think any serious twitterers would know this already. I've only written a few blog posts, but when I wrote about something popular (Google Prediction API) it got pick
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by physcab 16y ago
its really up to you in terms of what looks good in tradeoff for space and speed of encoding. zencoder had some settings that made its way to HN in a blog post not too long ago. theres also some settings on iocannon posts. just dig aroun
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by physcab 16y ago
Theyre not too difficult to find. Good stuff on Doom9 and flowplayer forums. I realize that the appeal of zencoder is that you don't need to understand ffmpeg's elaborate settings, but its sorta fun to dig around and see what each one can d
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by physcab 16y ago
"For example, a video of me demonstrating how to do doughnuts in an RX8 took 20 minutes to encode, and it was only a minute long!" Whoa. I'm no video encoding expert, but I was able to find some pretty good settings using CRF of ffmpeg tha
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by physcab 16y ago
heh. I attended Jonathan Gray's talk at Hadoop World this year (which was pretty good!) and he talked a lot about Facebook's infrastructure. Gray has been a primary committer on the HBase project for a while (since inception?) and I remembe
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by physcab 16y ago
To me it reads "if you want airport security to go faster so you can get to your plane on time and see your family in time, listen to and trust TSA personnel"
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by physcab 16y ago
I understand that. I flew as recently as last weekend to Chicago and Jacksonville and didn't notice a single difference. My point is that these changes are not implemented universally or equally. People shouldn't be so quick to paint TSA wi
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by physcab 16y ago
The actions by certain TSA employees as depicted by recent articles on HN are reprehensible. No doubt about it. However! I fly about every 2 to 3 weeks in and out of big airports and small airports. I have had pat downs and swipes and mil
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by physcab 16y ago
Build an awesome product that everyone wants?
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by physcab 16y ago
I think there are multiple ways to start a startup based off of data. 1) Take other people's data and learn how to represent it in a way that will let them understand it better. See FlowingData, Stamen, and NY Times graphics http://www.ny
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by physcab 16y ago
"As of this week, people will no longer be able to create new free drops" Fuck. I loved this service because it was so easy to send people large files. Anyone know of a replacement? Yes, I have a Dropbox account.
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by physcab 16y ago
I didn't assume it was a self-post. No worries.
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by physcab 16y ago
Yea the charts are pretty cool. I think they're from Highcharts, which is what I use in my analytics software. Much better than AmCharts imo, which is what I used prior to Highcharts. Highcharts are printable too. The Master-detail is one
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by physcab 16y ago
Your analysis is flawed in that you're only assuming the popular ones are successful. Do you also think successful companies are only those that are used by millions of users? Its true that the endorsement approach only works for popular a
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by physcab 16y ago
Yes, perhaps thinking the labels changing their ways (or hoping they do) over time is naive. I'll admit that (but I'd like to say optimistic instead). What the music industry needs is a platform where unsigned artists can go to promote thei
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by physcab 16y ago
The situation isn't entirely hopeless. Even within the most aggressive labels (and by that I mean their legal departments) there are parties who do encourage innovation. These are the people that go to bat for artists and are trying every
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by physcab 16y ago
Well I think for one, the field of AI is massive and spans enormous amounts of research over 60-70 years. You wouldn't know about any breakthroughs unless you studied in the field. From my brief exposure, here are some big algorithms and s
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by physcab 16y ago
At the risk fanning a flame war between the value of having a degree vs. not, I think one of the big advantages of having a technical degree in the field of something you're applying for is having a lower value on the crackpot index[1] from
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by physcab 16y ago
Then I'm sure founders wouldn't have a problem taking the next guys money instead.
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by physcab 16y ago
I guess it depends who you are but wouldn't porn sites be overuse and undersubscription?
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Why a Big Mac Costs Less Than A Salad(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by physcab 16y ago|3 comments
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by physcab 16y ago
I've actually been pretty impressed by the quality of the answers on Quora. I was fairly skeptical at first, but its almost become just as good as wikipedia, but for local knowledge instead of global. Opening it up will pose risks, but rig
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by physcab 16y ago
I worked at McDonalds. It was an abomination. So much so that I never ate there again, and that was well over 8 years ago. I didn't need the job. I basically picked it up as a second job when all my friends went off to college and I still
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Target to sell Facebook Credits gift cards(usatoday.com)
2 points by physcab 16y ago|0 comments
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by physcab 16y ago
I don't know why, but there's a fascination with everyone outside the materials science/chemistry/physics world that nanotechnoloy is only about little tiny moving things inside a larger system. Yes, there are bio-molecular robots that are
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by physcab 16y ago
That doesn't really happen though. A family with multiple iPhones usually has multiple computers too.
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by physcab 16y ago
Oh wow, this brings back memories of applying to all the UC schools.
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The Case for $320,000 Teachers(nytimes.com)
37 points by physcab 16y ago|69 comments
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by physcab 16y ago
This is exactly why you want a company culture like Zappos. If you work for a company like Zappos, you probably think less about things like disputes, medicare, salary, etc which means you can focus more on doing great work. I'm sure they

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