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by rm999 14y ago
Are they a stable company that will exist in a year or two? They sometimes give away one year plans for free (go to slickdeals and search for crashplan), which makes me wonder if they are desperate to sign up new customers. For something im
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by rm999 14y ago
I don't like that definition because Excel as software hasn't scaled with computer hardware. Excel isn't a database, and isn't designed to be one. To put it into perspective, people were working with 1M+ record datasets in the 1990s. I trie
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by rm999 14y ago
This is why I said 'reflects'. An index reflects the market, so any research that goes into the market goes into pricing the index fund.
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by rm999 14y ago
I'm confused, why is this posted four years after it was written? Is it to say OP was proven correct or incorrect? I'm assuming incorrect given the great performance of index funds in the last three years, but it's hard to tell because the
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by rm999 14y ago
> Asian culture has been, and is still very much, strongly influenced by the ideas of honor and shame Regardless, 'follow-the-herd' doesn't neccesarily follow from it. You seem to have very simplistic views of 'asians', who make up many
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by rm999 14y ago
Yeah, same idea as previous years: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/23/apple-black-friday-...
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by rm999 14y ago
Why should Wikipedia have done this? Wikipedia is conservative because their job isn't to do much more than be a solid encyclopedia. What's great is they keep their data open so people can do what they want with it.
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by rm999 14y ago
>In Firefox and Opera, the arrow buttons are showing up fine for me. How are you viewing this? I see it in chrome, not firefox.
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by rm999 14y ago
It's not useful to compare 65 million years of data + huge error bars with 1000 years + medium error bars with 100 years + tiny error bars. The uncertainty of what was happening 50000 years ago may very well be greater than the changes we a
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by rm999 14y ago
>what is the standard deviation of the change in global temperature over 100 year periods for the last 100k years? I see your point, but we don't have that information and probably never will. We don't have strongly statistically signif
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by rm999 14y ago
Wow, thanks for pointing that out. The headline is very misleading. Here's the full slideshow: http://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2012/11/15/best-of-b... There are 25 things on there, including five 'best devices'. I guess the headli
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by rm999 14y ago
Yes, it matters a lot to me as a consumer. One of the reasons I stick with ios is its popularity. Popularity leads to better/more apps, better first party support (more retail Apple stores), better third party support (forums), better third
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by rm999 14y ago
That's close to what I used to be called. It's a very overused and vague term, I'd argue far worse than the already bad 'data scientist'. Search job postings for 'analyst' and see the wide variety of jobs that turn up.
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by rm999 14y ago
Yeah, I've actually heard people use the terms interchangeably. Although 'quant' is almost exclusively used in the finance world. I interviewed for a couple of those jobs and got caught up on stuff I've never heard of before, like pricing b
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by rm999 14y ago
>but I really hate the term, "data scientist." I think most people do, but I've never heard a good term for the job. It's like "we want someone who can take large amounts of data and do something awesome with it". What do you call that?
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by rm999 14y ago
Your article seems to be written from a phd-centric, low-industry-experience perspective. I'd reconsider this bias if it's real, finding good data scientists is hard and you may be eliminating good potential candidates. I've been what you c
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by rm999 14y ago
Inaccurate headline. Skype never ratted him out, a third party company did without getting permission from Skype. At least that's my interpretation from the article. It sounds like Skype employees gave the data to the third party, but Skype
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by rm999 14y ago
Why not use a macbook air with ssh? Is it just because these are cheaper?
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by rm999 14y ago
I remember the day Draw Something started abusing push notifications: the paid version was sending me ads for other zynga games. What sucks is push notifications are almost essential for the functionality of the game: without them, you ha
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by rm999 14y ago
These promises are incredibly vague, the most specific thing I saw was in another thread: "Alternative payment features are in the works" ( http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/12v8y3/now_is_the_time... ). Does reddit have the manpower to
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by rm999 14y ago
In negotiation there is a threshold where you insult the other party. For someone you don't want to deal with this may be OK, but in general I think it's more considerate to say no than to play games with numbers. In OP's case, if he had of
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by rm999 14y ago
It's not a naive question, it's an important question. Sampling is almost always the first thing I think of when I have a "big" dataset in front of me, and it requires some careful thought. It really depends on what you want to do. If you w
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by rm999 14y ago
>Digg didn't fail because of advertising I agree with your point and I agree with this. But something interesting I remember from when Yishan was hired is this comment by kn0thing (cofounder Alexis Ohanian) http://www.reddit.com/r/blog
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by rm999 14y ago
My theory is MIT has really good PR (in addition to a lot of really smart people). Over many years I've noticed when research comes out of MIT headlines almost always state "MIT does X". I haven't noticed this pattern as much with other Uni
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by rm999 14y ago
>i don't see why i should be civil Because it's the protocol here. Because it contributes negatively to the discussion. Because it makes you, and indirectly your point, look worse. >it is a lack of insight, depth and originality Per
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by rm999 14y ago
I disagree. Here's an archive from post-2008 election: http://web.archive.org/web/20081106113055/http://www.fivethi... The old page contains more information yet looks friendlier. The nytimes style is more streamlined, but it became too s
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by rm999 14y ago
>And that, I think, is the main reason the Surface falls short: It lacks focus I see this as a general problem with the tech sector today: there is a lack of underlying vision that leads to innovation. How can Microsoft focus on somethi
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by rm999 14y ago
Agreed. When this kind of fraud started the anti-fraud industry was a bit unprepared because low amount transactions were historically not dangerous. Understanding why it was happening helped quite a bit.
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by rm999 14y ago
This is true if a system can freely be reverse-engineered by the attacker. If not, the obscurity provides an added cost to the attacker. Obscurity can actually be one of the stronger weapons in an anti-fraud solution (I used to work in anti
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by rm999 14y ago
Sort of. Theft isn't the primary motive, so I think it's inaccurate. A lot of what the fraudsters are (or will be) doing is transferring money from victims to innocent people. The real-life analogy I would use is going to a store and puttin

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