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by rm999 14y ago
It's not even about stealing money per se, it's a step in the process of credit card theft. Fraudsters often do the same thing on Amazon and iTunes - they'll make 1 dollar purchases that allow them to 'verify' the cards. In these cases the
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by rm999 14y ago
A lot of these complaints come from the perspective of a power linux user. 'General' is the wrong word to use.
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>When it's a resumé, sending anything other than a PDF or a website is an instant fail. What sucks is when you make your resume in latex and you apply to a company that only takes word or raw text files. I've actually skipped out on com
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by rm999 14y ago
You claim you have empathy for the group twice, but the content of your comment can basically be summed up as "I don't empathize with them, I don't know what they are going through." Maybe you mean you sympathize with them, but it's hard to
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by rm999 14y ago
Best I've seen is forums that support spoiler tags, and some heavy moderation to remove people who spoil the fun.
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Yeah the log scale hides his point. A log scale is useful when you want to highlight the rate of growth, e.g. for something that grows exponentially. But I'd expect Wikipedia to grow linearly, not exponentially - on a log scale it is hard t
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There's a difference between being serious about a product and being serious enough to do what it takes to make the product succeed. Apple has set a high bar of tight hardware/software integration, where the software is hand-tuned to take a
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It's exactly 10 petabytes. Giga/peta are SI prefixes and hence are in base 10. BTW, take google's conversions with a grain of salt. As I understand it, google's conversion was just a minor project and not something that is maintained at hig
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Not quite, their operating income steadily grew until 2010, when it was about 5x higher than in 2003. That said, it makes sense. Amazon has very lofty but realistic goals, which are an intriguing combination. These goals would be impossible
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Thanks, that explains that.
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Interesting. As I would expect, seismologists unrelated to the case disagree with the ruling: >"It's too easy to predict an earthquake after the fact and say everyone should have cleared out, but beforehand people, for good reason, thou
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by rm999 14y ago
From a quick glance of the data, there's something very odd: there are no speed camera tickets on weekends. These make up more than half the data... something to look into. Cool site btw, it's a good interface to quickly look into the data.
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by rm999 14y ago
It's 2012, why don't we look at the 2012 rankings where it's #1? http://www.pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=1&survey=14...
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A high cost of living often means the area is desirable to live in, which is hard to value. SF has much nicer weather and culture than Minneapolis, which to many people is worth a lot more than the cost of living difference. Think of it thi
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by rm999 14y ago
It's the opposite, actually. Kim Han-Sol and his family are considered enemies of North Korea. North Korea has tried to, and (according to my friend who closely follows north korea) is still trying to kill Kim Jong Nam, this guy's father. T
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Although I think most serious investors either ignore analysts or know to adjust for their biases. Some of the real victims are lazy academics, as the paper discusses.
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Analyst earning forecasts are known to be optimistically biased. Here's a paper discussing this: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=971027
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It's passive aggressive because the people aren't directly speaking to their neighbors. Kind of like the notes in passiveaggressivenotes.com - those notes are direct, but they avoid direct confrontation.
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by rm999 14y ago
The acquisition is worth ~0.015% of Apple's marketcap. Maybe Apple has some misguided strategy here - maybe; your argument for this is overly-simple - but the acquisition is so small analyzing the affect on Apple is difficult.
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The substance of the article is more similar to "America is awesome because it doesn't stifle the free-market", but I guess that isn't as intriguing to potential clickers.
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by rm999 14y ago
This article contains very little substance even though it sounds like it would. I suspect an editor changed the title from "may" to "will". Of course DRM may appear in 3d printing, DRM is common in almost all types of digital media. But it
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As I argued in the comments of "becoming a data scientist might be easier than you think", the attitude that entering the field is easy is dangerous because it is very untrue. I really wish there were more qualified people in the field (do
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>However, this does not mean competition winners cannot develop and learn this - they have already demonstrated their creativity and tenacity in one domain (applied machine learning), and this carries over nicely to other domains from o
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>You're saying kaggle is fundamentally different to what data scientists do Yes. Your view of data science is extremely narrow, there is more to it than creating a predictive model to optimize a single metric. Reread the second paragrap
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> All the evidence from kaggle indicates that deep domain knowledge is not required That's irrelevant, data scientists don't do data mining contests for a living. In my experience finding the right question to answer is a large chunk of
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Meh. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: those contests aren't necessarily a good indicator of who will be a good data scientist, in the same way programming contests tell you little about who will be a good software engineer. Being
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Yes, I think so. I like the Economist's weekly updates: http://www.economist.com/node/21564620 http://www.economist.com/node/21564618 And the economist did cover this news more thoroughly: http://www.economist.com/node/21564192
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by rm999 14y ago
Very cool, thanks for the links! Are you affiliated with the project?
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> Conway's game of life would look organic if you zoomed out enough, Are you sure? This isn't obvious to me.
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I'm not arguing that it's EP, I'm using it as an counterexample to your point. You can solve SETI by moving data around or without moving data around, but that doesn't change the inherent fact that it is a EP algorithm.

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