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by pseut 14y ago
Honestly, every time I see a job market paper[1] written in Word I can't help but think, "this person must have never worked on anything (mathematically) hard, or needed to automate table generation, or..." [1] on the off chance that the te
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by pseut 14y ago
The OP taught at a top school which is a much bigger deal than graduating from one.
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by pseut 14y ago
You should also glance in your rear-view mirror to verify that the car behind you follows the same rule before you commit to stopping. Simple rules about traffic safety usually need a little tweaking IRL...
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by pseut 14y ago
Presumably Shodan ignores robots.txt, right?
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by pseut 14y ago
I think that's the first time I've seen "[SFW]", but I appreciate that you made it explicit.
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Microblogs: Small beginnings(economist.com)
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by pseut 14y ago
You seem to be using http://cran.r-project.org (which is what's actually mirrored) and not the linked webpage.
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by pseut 14y ago
Please quote the section of the essay that says startups should aim to have exponential growth in their value, since I can't seem to find it (I see a statement like that for revenue, which is different).
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by pseut 14y ago
Note that he's not talking about the company's value (in dollars).
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by pseut 14y ago
> Even the US dollar and euro, supposedly bastions of stability, have seen their exchange rate jump from US$0.80 per euro in 2002 to US$1.60 in 2008 (100% jump), only to drop back down to US$1.20 in 2010 (25% drop), then jump to US$1.4
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by pseut 14y ago
It's been rumored repeatedly, but I'm not aware of anything firm.
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Why Facebook Home Is Potentially Brilliant(techcrunch.com)
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by pseut 14y ago
Yeah, it's also possible that I considered that and disagree with you. I'm not saying that everyone will prefer keeping score on paper, but some people really do and some other people will appreciate not having an iPhone on the table when
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by pseut 14y ago
Vacation autoresponder and automatic forwarding are godsends for that. Gmail also has the sense to not autorespond to mailing lists.
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by pseut 14y ago
I'd replace gmail and gchat with fastmail.fm (owned by Opera, although if Facebook ever buys Opera...). You can run XMPP through fastmail's servers, which lets you IM all of your gchat friends (for now at least). As has been pointed out e
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by pseut 14y ago
Why waste plastic on dice when you can click, "new roll" on your phone? Some people might like games like this because they're not digital.
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by pseut 14y ago
> how often do you really see j or k inside the text of an atom? Just enclose j and k in parentheses on those rare occasions. Problem solved.
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by pseut 14y ago
Even for US keyboards, the obviously better step is to replace "(" and ")" with "9" and "0" -- familiar key location but without the shift key. Plus you avoid using the pinky finger which is an ergonomic win. Edit: note that there might be
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by pseut 14y ago
You're implying that someone who can't program is as capable of hiring trustworthy and skilled programmers as a programmer.
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by pseut 14y ago
Assuming that you're sincere in asking... neither my wife nor I care about the product recommendations and I don't see how "a confused data set" hurts me other than that (the data set's going to be confused by the fact that we frequently bu
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by pseut 14y ago
My wife and I shared an Amazon account for a while (~10 years) because it was easier. If you live with someone and have joint finances, why bother with separate Amazon accounts?
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by pseut 14y ago
Haven't had time to read the whole article yet, but these two paragraphs from the conclusion (p. 24-25) are excellent: "In our hypothetico-deductive view of data analysis, we build a statistical model out of available parts and drive it as
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Paywalls rise(blogs.reuters.com)
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by pseut 14y ago
Newsbeuter is awesome for text heavy feeds, but less so for (say) photoblogs. I'd really like to see more development of different types of specialized rss readers and get away from the OP's argument that there's a "right way" to use rss.
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by pseut 14y ago
A nice touch might be if voting reordered the site's RSS feed as well as the webpage. If you have a way to generate a podcast from submitted music, that could be a great combination. I have a lot of trouble following HN through an rss rea
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by pseut 14y ago
To add to the other replies: reddit's open source as well[0] and reasonably straightforward to set up (at least using their Ubuntu installer). Not your question, I know, but thought I'd add for completeness. [0] https://github.com/reddit/
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by pseut 14y ago
So, you want the "next big thing," but not the next sex pistols? I agree that you should encourage civil and thoughtful discussion on the site (can't check it out now because of HN load, I assume) but I'm sure you know lots of new importan
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by pseut 14y ago
Yeah, but specifically I don't think that it's necessary to have a near deterministic sort order once you get to (say) 500 comments. I think that a probabilistic but ordered sort might be best even as the number of comments approaches infi
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by pseut 14y ago
Agree more or less, except for the last part. I don't see how convergence is necessary or even desirable.
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by pseut 14y ago
Agree completely. I'd love to use my phone as the sync server, the thing's on and under-utilized all the time anyway.

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