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by utunga 11y ago
Hi... Thanks for that. Awesome and much appreciated.
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by utunga 11y ago
Hi! Great work. I guess my question is - do you use 'averaging' of word vectors or the Chinese Restaurant process - to get to sub reddit vectors. You describe the Chinese Restaurant process as a "more sophisticated method&quo
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by utunga 11y ago
There are undoubtedly a lot of problems to figure out. But you absolutely have my support to run the experiment to try and figure out how to, finally, actually build the front page of the internet in a truly decentralized way. You (*or rath
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by utunga 11y ago
woosh
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by utunga 12y ago
The time I spent with my dad building a model of a turbofan jet engine - with real spinning blades - for our local science fair, is one of my fondest memories of him. And while it is true that he helped a lot we also did all the work toget
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by utunga 12y ago
This might be relevant if people were asked to oAuth approve something to get there report - but they only asked for my LinkedIn profile which means anything they got from there is public info already. Bit suprised by that to be honest.. if
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by utunga 12y ago
Does anyone know if this reporting is official base salary or if its total earnings including bonuses. In NY especially that's gonna make a pretty noticeable difference to the averages I'd say.
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by utunga 12y ago
There are way too many projects / websites where the 'about' page fails to state the blindingly obvious eg 'CrunchBang is a linux distribution'... which would save a lot of people a lot of time.
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by utunga 12y ago
I agree. I think that there are two things that are missed out from the this article. 1. Programmers are lazy and will waste cycles like crazy around IO if given a chance. Core library async get's them thinking in red mode but it also
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by utunga 12y ago
FWIW aarondu appears to have posted an identical comment on three different bitcoin related hn threads.. and is associated with http://boomerangwallet.com . Not sure why this info not on his/her profile page.
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by utunga 12y ago
Being a Kiwi, decided I better confirm what the story was here in New Zealand. As with US and Canada 'truth' is a defence against defamation here also: http://www.medialawjournal.co.nz/?page_id=273 "The publi
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by utunga 12y ago
Another case of Not Invented Here syndrome from Microsoft. One wonders why they couldn't just take the open source and very well architected RavenDB http://ravendb.net .Net Document DB and provide first class support for th
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by utunga 12y ago
>> leads them to judge your work in the harshest light instead of an evaluative one > Should any professionals have to present apologetics for others in his procession doing such a thing? We are all human beings, but shouldn't
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by utunga 12y ago
FWIW instructions dictate "1) Use directional arrows to select a card. 2) Use "Enter" or "left click" to flip a card" In the demo I can use arrow keys. But only left click can flip a card. [enter] does nothing
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by utunga 12y ago
I'd urge Aurora Chiste to use this as a galvanizing opportunity to work for good in places of the world other than silicon valley. US needs to learn the lesson, here, clearly. But until then don't be bitter, let this painful separ
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by utunga 12y ago
A writer is someone who writes, if not for a living, at least every day. It doesn't matter if they are published yet. Similarly an entrepreneur is someone who is actively building a business.. it doesn't matter if they are success
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by utunga 12y ago
Lots of people saying Google or Microsoft has 'done this'.. Well yes and no in my personal opinion. The devil is definitely in the details and if you are like me you find the existing services frustrating in their own way. (I&#x27
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by utunga 12y ago
Great idea but right now I'm in East Midtown NYC. Not a lot of sun at any time of day. Don't think this app takes into account height of buildings, which is kinda important...
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by utunga 12y ago
Amazing! I assume it works because everyone is in the same overall ballpark of skills/experience (maybe within a factor of two or something). If you were a law firm and had 60 year old gray beards as well as young interns straight out
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by utunga 12y ago
Thinking about this dilemma it seems to me it would have been better/faster/easier/more ethical to add an affiliate link to the 'original' threes app. That way everyone wins. And while that was there start work on t
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by utunga 12y ago
I'm just some guy, you know? But this sounds awesome to me. Maybe the trick, compared with Fashism (really?), which seems to have been about feedback on your Fashion more generally and pickfu which seems to address feedback more genera
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by utunga 12y ago
Yes. No.
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by utunga 12y ago
I'm a programmer and my wife is a qualified paper conservator. A year or so ago I registered materialsonpaper.com with the idea that it could combine our two skillsets. I envisioned a service where we'd help you curate your digita
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by utunga 13y ago
Not sure how far back you want to go back but Debt: The First 5000 Years is a real tour de force of understanding how monetary relations were organised over a large number of different cultures and different times.. http://en.wik
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by utunga 13y ago
tangentially, this is a classic example of Google plus inability to link straight to content.. what is up with breaking one of the best things about the web (links as first class citizens) Google ?
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by utunga 13y ago
This comment is not really fair [1] but when he writes "I get the safety of knowing I won't be the target of a frivolous lawsuit, since I have very little net worth" I had to wonder. I did the math to see that translates to a
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by utunga 13y ago
The word 'fiat' as related to currency, is often unhelpful and confusing. It should, in my opinion, only be used to refer to the aspect of some currency which is that it (sometimes) has government backing (ie that currency is decl
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by utunga 13y ago
Super awesome can't wait to show this to my boy - he is super ready to move on from the programming at khanacadamy so am trying to learn him some game libraries. However he doesn't feel that comfortable outside of the nice KhanAca
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by utunga 13y ago
Secretary-General Kofi Annan actually tried to define terrorism at the end of his tenure... He suggested : "Any action constitutes terrorism if it is intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with th
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by utunga 13y ago
If you have backups of everything maybe you can get a decent level of business insurance that would see them replace your hardware should they take it and then take the time to wipe and replace with generic build before travelling if you ar

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