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by skolor 17y ago
You couldn't distribute their dataset, but you should be able to modify it and resell it. My guess would be that individual datasets like this would not be worth trying to resell, and if they were it would likely be cheaper to generate them
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by skolor 17y ago
I am relatively sure it couldn't be done as a startup. The profit margins just aren't there. My back of the envelope math says that each Work Unit, which, based off my experience takes ~8 hours to finish, would go for ~$0.80 (assuming that
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by skolor 17y ago
There may be a market for this. I know several people who run various types of folding just to be able to brag about the performance they get, and love to show off their stats. Getting paid for it would just be icing on the cake. Of course,
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by skolor 17y ago
Basically, its just the Prisoners Dilema ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma ), with fairly large impact on outside sources based on the decision. It seems to look like: TechCrunch Breaks Embargo: Good for them: Spike to tr
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by skolor 17y ago
You seem to be far more versed in the ways of 4chan. I have spent a few hours there a few times, long enough to understand the draw and that it wasn't for me, and I have several friends who spend time on the various boards there. Would you
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by skolor 17y ago
the last of the epic trolls Really, wired? My experience with 4-chan has generally been that whatever you say about/of/to them, they'll try their damn hardest to prove you wrong. Give them enough time, and order will rise out of the chaos
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by skolor 17y ago
I assume this is in response to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=836842 . If it is, then Godin is dead wrong. Even if it isn't, he's still fairly wrong. His example of "commission" is not someone working on commission at all, its someo
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by skolor 17y ago
First off: 4 year graduation rates are stupid. There's no other way to put it, they're a stupid measurement and one colleges should stop paying so much attention to. At my school, they've made a huge push to try and get everyone out the doo
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by skolor 17y ago
Right, my problem with this particular set of slides wasn't being too vague, it was that it was a little too busy/crammed with information to really make sense of it. While it looked valuable, it seems more difficult to extract it from the
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by skolor 17y ago
I was hoping this would be about startup costs for something like Somalian pirates... As a note, slides are sometimes good without the accompanying speech. I did not feel this was one of those situations. From my experience, the more you ge
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by skolor 17y ago
A similar anecdote (although not directly related to programming): I got my MCSA while in high school. When Microsoft offer the Dreamspark certifications, I jumped on the free upgrade test, and went and took it. I spent an hour or so studyi
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by skolor 17y ago
But we aren't just talking about upgrades that were made in 90's. The network there is currently significantly faster than it is here. Even if it was primarily jump-started by large government funding, something kept it going, and it has ke
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by skolor 17y ago
If you don't mind educating me a little, what you have described is the exact opposite from what I have heard, both from people inside the telecom industry and outside of it. Feel free to correct me at any point, but this is how I understan
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by skolor 17y ago
I am fairly aware what network infrastructure costs. I am also very aware that in several other countries it is not only profitable, but profitable enough that there are several companies doing it. There are only two reasons I can see for n
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by skolor 17y ago
Ha-rumph. Allow me to call them out on their "three points": 1. The networks are running at capacity. Well, maybe they are, I don't have inside information as to the big ISP's networks. What I do know, however, is that other countries have
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by skolor 17y ago
I would be interested in seeing that training video. While I don't have any kind of hearing problems, I've always wanted to read lips better. I have some slight ability to read lips, but it largely requires me to be able to hear the talker
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by skolor 17y ago
No, it doesn't mean you can open your own restaurant, but it means you have at least an idea of how a successful restaurant is run, rather than just starting a business because you're a good cook. Its not my path (Go out, get job, learn how
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by skolor 17y ago
Agreed. Either block the ads completely, or show them. For a site so completely based on data, giving them bad data by covering their ads so that it appears to the site that they are being shown, but they aren't, just seems wrong.
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by skolor 17y ago
Right-o. That requires, first, for you to plant a tree first, to remove carbon from the atmosphere and put it into a short term storage. Now, IANAE, but from what I know the threat of global warming is that it comes with a cascade effect, t
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by skolor 17y ago
To put that in perspective: The daily wage for planting trees is roughly $2 US. Or that vegetables are ~$0.70 per day. It slightly unfortunate, but I doubt it could scale to work in the US. That would come out to paying each individual ~ $3
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by skolor 17y ago
Its not the content, but the ways its presented that got the downvotes (I would assume). The presentation borders on saying "Don't plant trees, it doesn't help the environment (in the long run)". Yes, you're right, but it is similar to sayi
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by skolor 17y ago
This also assumes trees are a one-off thing. As far as I know, trees tend to reproduce, and during their lives have a habit of creating more, new trees. I would really like to see government funded sustainable farming initiatives. Some sort
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by skolor 17y ago
Its not that its a lost sense of humour, I would guess (because I know why I thought it wasn't a joke) its because of the relatively low opinion many people here have of TechCrunch. Its almost (at least to me) like Nixon, right after Waterg
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by skolor 17y ago
More than that, I was wondering: Who would do that for a T-Shirt? Its just disgusting to me (and indicative of why I don't read Tech Crunch) that they are so full of themselves that they feel even a T-Shirt from them holds significant value
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by skolor 17y ago
Huh. It sounds like you're doing a lot of interesting stats work (especially looking at the analysis stuff a little more), I'd be rather interested in hearing a little more about what is going on behind on the server side of things. As far
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by skolor 17y ago
Ok, that's good to know. I do have one other question: You supply a "Accuracy" score, describing how accurate your predictions are. However, you supply probabilistic predictions, how do you get an "Accuracy" rating from a probability like t
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by skolor 17y ago
Now that, I find interesting. I graduated as top of my class, with a 4.8, got a 1490 on my SAT and a 34 on my ACT, and I only got a 310 for academics. What exactly does it take to hit the top end for that thing?
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by skolor 17y ago
You know, its funny, one of the only reasons I go to movies is because of the "ads" before movies (Not the crap before the previews, but the previews, which I consider ads). Sure, its crappy advertising, but I see a lot of movie ads I would
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by skolor 17y ago
I've been wondering how long it would take for someone to start doing On Demand Printing of books out of copyright. I'm really not sure how I feel about Google printing books that are out of print though. On the one hand, I think it would b
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by skolor 17y ago
At this point, I don't think there is much in the way of real work behind it. From what I can tell there has been one paper written about it ( http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface?content=a782431... ), which is a "field study", not

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