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by slykat 13y ago
FYI the sample size for Houston ~25K comments left on businesses categorized as bars or clubs. The entire sample set (across all cities) is >1M.
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by slykat 13y ago
That's a vey good point (and a key weakness in this analysis). However, a counter-point is that a racially homogenous population probably will have a lower incidence of racist issues since by definition their minority population is low
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by slykat 13y ago
Yep, this is illegal. From an article in the Houston Press( http://www.houstonpress.com/2011-02-10/news/getting-past-the... ) Although they are private businesses, in the eyes of the law — specifically the Civil Ri
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by slykat 13y ago
I think the bigger question is why does Houston look so different when you compare to other cities? Yes, I can't tie it to incidents of racism, but something must be driving the fact that the term occurs dramatically higher than any of
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by slykat 13y ago
I think that's unfair given that there are 3 cities (Dallas, San Antonio, Austin), that didn't show the same frequency of using the term.
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Houston Yelp reviews include the word "racist" 4 times more often than average(saikatbhadra.tumblr.com)
44 points by slykat 13y ago|55 comments
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by slykat 13y ago
Unfortunately not - maybe ask the HN community?
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Offer: I will screen your resume for free as a Googler would
5 points by slykat 13y ago|2 comments
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by slykat 13y ago
I have surpassed a lot of my peers who have made significantly more than me in net worth & possibly net happiness. Here's how: 1) Maximize your employee 401K benefits - This has been stated before but 401k matching is tax sheltered
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by slykat 13y ago
Agreed. Best developer platform != best platform for your startup Your [potential] users & their value should drive the platform decision.
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by slykat 13y ago
Have you actually researched the issue? There are over 600K homeless people across the United States. This issue has existed for centuries, and there are people living in this condition across the US. The US has made a conscious decision to
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by slykat 13y ago
My last career shift was from Google to a 8 person startup. If you have specific questions (sorry too generic for me now) - I'd be happy to answer!
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Ask HN: Any recommendations on VPN providers?
2 points by slykat 13y ago|4 comments
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by slykat 13y ago
"Fights between founders are surprisingly common. About 20% of the startups we've funded have had a founder leave." -Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html Given that the YC pool should be
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Healthcare: Why does America spend so much, for so little?(saikatbhadra.tumblr.com)
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by slykat 13y ago
The stock investor in me loves this attitude because while MSFT has done an impressive job of milking their cash cows (Windows, Server, & Office), Wallstreet & the press have been completely un-exuberant on the company, making the s
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by slykat 13y ago
This could have happened pre-internet through press. It'd a bit more more difficult logistically but this has always been possible.
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by slykat 13y ago
Thanks, that's what I was asking about. Makes sense that the SEC allows this if the content is accessible to anyone without login and the content is crawl-able by search engines (i.e. easily discovered).
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by slykat 13y ago
Does it bother anyone else that the SEC is considering disclosures on closed ecosystems like Twitter to be ok when the stock impact is in the billions? Is this allowed because Tweets are accessible without login or would this be ok on a pla
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by slykat 13y ago
If you reinvest your profits into your own business that money usually gets charged as a expense on the income statement so your reported gross profit reduces by that amount and thus, you don't pay taxes on that amount. For example, le
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by slykat 13y ago
I think the main point is you should never ever let someone do the vetting for you. I don't care if the company is two guys in a garage or has thousands of employees and is on every single list of "Best Companies to Work for&q
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by slykat 13y ago
Actually might make sense; Marissa was behind the purchase of Zagat at Google.
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by slykat 13y ago
Mobee ( http://www.getmobee.com/jobs ) - Location: Boston, MA - Stage: Seed, in process of raising A - Team size : 10 (5 technical / 5 business) Positions Available - VP, Eng - Lead Designer / UI / UX [ can be remote / fr
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by slykat 14y ago
Location: Boston, MA. Company: Mobee (www.getmobee.com) Stage: Just raised $1M of seed stage funding Type: Full-time - unfortunately we aren't taking anyone remotely now Obligatory TC article: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/backed-by-1-1
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My roommate's weekend project: Dribbble Unfollow(dribbbleunfollow.com)
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by slykat 14y ago
How did you get the arrival time & price data from Lyft / Sidecar / Instantcab? Do they have a public API?
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by slykat 14y ago
It's not even about being "lower quality". It's about building another medium for learning outside of highly expensive brick and mortar institutions. I'm a huge fan of MOOCs. It makes no sense that everyone in America should aspire to getti
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by slykat 14y ago
Its probably not that straightforward for the non-techie crowd; at the end of the day these devices are built for the general population and not just hackers. And to go on that reasoning, it should be just as easy to jailbreak an iPhone to
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by slykat 14y ago
I've switched between the two platforms a bit - I had an iphone 3G, a few android phones, and switched back to iOS with iPhone 5. I really like Android but there were a few deal killers: 1) Battery life - pretty much the reason I switched b
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by slykat 14y ago
Is there a mobile version of this type of service?

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