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by riffer 16y ago
The good recruiters would be happy to stand out from the bad. Only if you can provide some ex-ante assurance to the good ones that your reputation system isn't going to be gamed by bad ones who focus on gaming rather than being good recru
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by riffer 16y ago
the tone, if there was any, was friendly to neutral No hard feelings, sorry if I was reading too much into it. I have search low and high for a usable automatic text summarization library, but everything was a high-dollar item for financ
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by riffer 16y ago
Although I'm not in love with the tone, I'm happy to answer the question. The coding is all done in python. I'm using nltk, although the approach is more statistical inference than linguistics. That's really the only library. I'm very much
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by riffer 16y ago
Yes, I'm working on a blog post describing how this works. It won't go into a lot of detail, but it should be a good overview. The truth is that I still have lots of ideas on how to make it better, but it is also the case that for every 8 t
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by riffer 16y ago
The concept is roughly that people shouldn't have to skim what software can summarize. Let the machines do the work.
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by riffer 16y ago
Ouch, sorry about that, I'm not too proficient at this cross-browser stuff. Let me see what I can do.
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by riffer 16y ago
As promised here yesterday on the MIT Video lectures - Introduction to Algorithms discussion thread -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1751181
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Automagically Generated Summaries of MIT OCW Algorithms Lectures(swimwithoutgettingwet.com)
30 points by riffer 16y ago|15 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
I see your concern. I'm approaching this as an experiment, so I'm not entirely sure how it'll work in terms of your concern about examples and other context. Let's see how it plays out.
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by riffer 16y ago
Question: would people be interested in summarized transcripts for these lectures? The reason I ask is because I know I'm not going to watch 20 hours of the videos, and when I take a look at the transcripts they are good, but they are also
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by riffer 16y ago
This drove me to just now sign up at: http://www.votizen.com Their tagline is 'making your interests special interests.' Their investors include Founders Fund, Conway, Dixon, McClure, Rabois, etc. And they are pretty clear that what they'
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Google's CEO: 'The Laws Are Written by Lobbyists'(theatlantic.com)
144 points by riffer 16y ago|134 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Why do people always try to break things? This is a serious question pertaining to human nature, not a complaint. I've noticed that anytime I demo something I've built, if the person/people I'm showing have control of the demo they go try t
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Angels or demons?(economist.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Ok, I’m off to go review HR policies, or something. On the upside, there’s a guy here named Brian from corp dev and I think with enough pressure he’s going to tell me all the other acquisition deals AOL is working on. It pays to be an opt
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by riffer 16y ago
It's not that he made one of the best investments in history. It's that he has one of the best investment processes.
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A Simple Swipe on a Phone, and You’re Paid(nytimes.com)
7 points by riffer 16y ago|1 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
They should just buy the fraud detection from Cardpool [YC W10], if they're not doing that already. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1669480
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Valuation Witchcraft - Where Do Seed Valuations Come From?(robgo.org)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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On Ambition(maxlevchin.wordpress.com)
15 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
State income taxes are generally pro-rated on the number of days in the calendar year. The only place I've really seen the one year clock is just as something universities made up to keep their tuition price discrimination effective.
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Canada ends probe of Facebook's sharing of data(voices.washingtonpost.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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Theories Mount That Stuxnet Worm Sabotaged Iranian Nuke Facilities(blogs.forbes.com)
3 points by riffer 16y ago|1 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Money quote: "The only answer for the developed world is technology and innovation. We can't compete with China on labor costs, this is not an option. And globalization without technology means an increasingly Malthusian struggle for resour
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Thiel Says Technology Industry Key for U.S. Recovery [video](youtube.com)
3 points by riffer 16y ago|1 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Yeah, I noticed that too, it's kind of sad when you think about it
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Democracy is an abuse of statistics(newshelton.com)
2 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
And unlike most of these jokers, you actually have the bet on.
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by riffer 16y ago
He says no: http://twitter.com/joshu/status/25164168842
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by riffer 16y ago
The problem with user-generated video is that YouTube has a huge network effects advantage. This may not be a bad way of trying to finesse that, especially if it's combined with an attempt to do a really good job recommending clips, since t

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