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by pyoung 13y ago
Is this an issue with conferences? My guess is that conferences would prefer to have interesting topics, and probably wouldn't care as much if the material was partially recycled. I have known people who presented early results of a
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by pyoung 13y ago
I would argue that with the right setup (sensors, gyros, on board computer), an automated system could do a much better job than the cyclist. My guess, is that most cyclists stay well under the 'thrown over' threshold when brakin
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by pyoung 13y ago
I agree that there is some risk, but I am not sure how I would be able to diversify any more than I already have. I have my money split into about 6 different index funds, primarily diversified globally, although I have a few industry&#x2F
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by pyoung 13y ago
Yeah, I have seen it first hand. Admittedly, there was some redundancy and some excess in the folder names, but it was for a relatively large project that was organized with fairly deep levels of sub-projects and tasks. If you happened to
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by pyoung 13y ago
Vangaurd low cost index funds. Supposedly, you can count on 8-10% annual return. I also did/do some occasional stock picking which has gotten good results (but I wouldn't count on that being sustainable). I probably spend about
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by pyoung 13y ago
I am currently taking a sabbatical of sorts after slaving away and saving up for 5 years. I threw most of my savings into index funds, and then set up automatic withdrawals to my savings account. This forces me to try and live within a ce
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by pyoung 13y ago
In this case, it's not a huge deal, but if someone wrote on their resume that they had some experience with machine learning, and it turned out that they had only done linear regression modeling, they might be poorly received.
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by pyoung 13y ago
Not to bag on the write up, as it was well done, but does linear regression really qualify as machine learning? Almost every stats 101 course covers the topic, and probably 99% of people who use linear regressions in their day-to-day work
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by pyoung 13y ago
I am in a rent controlled building in SF. Our building recently got sold and the new owner evicted the lowest paying tenant. She (the new owner) has to live in the unit for two years before she can re-rent the unit, but considering the pr
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by pyoung 13y ago
Sounds like they do a pretty good job of controlling the emissions. My primary concern, and this is a fairly uneducated concern, but I always envisioned a (bleak) future where we had already mined all the precious and rare-earth metals and
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by pyoung 13y ago
re: "management people" That is part of the problem. You will often find that the skills it takes to climb the corporate ladder are not the same as the skills it takes to be a good manager. Management in bigger companies tends t
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by pyoung 13y ago
Ahh, that would be hilarious. Urbanspoon should open up a co-location server rack and charge people a monthly fee to set up their servers there.
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by pyoung 13y ago
Well, looks like they do actually respond to the contact form, got an e-mail from them a few moments ago saying they were "aware of the situation". Although, looks like this blog has been picked up by some mainstream news outlets
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by pyoung 13y ago
How long did it take you to land your first gig? This definitely seems like the way to go, but as you can imagine there is a heavy amount of luck involved with your process (i.e. if all of your friends are not associated with companies tha
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by pyoung 13y ago
On the flip side, I made my first reservation through opentable a few weeks ago, and I was surprised when they DIDN'T ask for any cc info. Granted I was new to the experience, but the first thing that crossed my mind was I could not s
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by pyoung 13y ago
Seems like Urbanspoon should be using some sort of scraping counter measures to make things a little more fair. I sent them an e-mail through their contact form (of course I wouldn't be suprised if those are sent straight to the trash
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by pyoung 13y ago
There was a 'bagel start up' in the SF area that got some press. They basically rented out a commercial kitchen and made NY style bagels, and then sold them to coffee shops and bakeries for re-sale. I believe that they closed up
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by pyoung 13y ago
Maybe offer one of them a full time position? From their description, seems like there is enough work.
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by pyoung 13y ago
If you are doing freelance and consulting work, and not product development, then you should set up some type of hourly billing system, or consider setting up some type of'finders fee' for the work he brings in. It should be note
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by pyoung 13y ago
I can see a few potential flaws that could have caused them to not get follow up funding (although I am in no way suggesting that they didn't get follow up funding) 1. Cost. People in Africa are poor, so unless these can be produced
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by pyoung 13y ago
Everybody who has ever spoken at PyCon for one (and volunteers as well): http://jessenoller.com/blog/2011/05/25/pycon-everybody-pays It looks like the OP is an established consultant/teacher, so he
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by pyoung 13y ago
As a counter example, I have been to a number of conferences where the speakers/presenters/panelists and volunteers were expected to pay the full registration fee, so as you can imagine, friends/family and +1's wouldn&#x
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Google to pay for free Wi-Fi in SF city parks(sfgate.com)
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by pyoung 13y ago
I guess it depends on how badly they enforce the ban on "internet for non-work-related" browsing. Could make it difficult, although it sounds like he is a programmer at a tech-ish company, so he should probably have access to mos
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by pyoung 13y ago
I get the space-time vector thing. You said that, when moving at the speed of light, one moves through time at a velocity of zero, thus giving the appearance of infinitely fast movement. So if one was able to achieve zero movement (which w
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by pyoung 13y ago
Interesting explanation. What happens at the other end of your example? If you reduce movement through space to zero, would time move infinitely fast?
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by pyoung 13y ago
Before contributing, you should probably read this: http://hackaday.com/2013/07/15/were-going-to-buy-hackaday/#m...
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by pyoung 13y ago
Ideally, increases would get tied to the CPI, or some other index. I also wouldn't mind a provision that would automatically adjust payments to ensure solvency. Regarding the amount, it should be small enough to make it difficult to l
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by pyoung 13y ago
You have some good points, but some of them miss the mark. I entirely disagree with you sentiment that "you have to take the bus (or ride a bike)" is a downside. I consider this a major selling point to SF, you can get drinks wi
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by pyoung 13y ago
I mostly agree with this. Any rational business model would probably require some demand and usage based pricing, and if you are using a shared car the same way you would if you owned it (i.e. commuting to work during peak hours, weekend t

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