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by yannyu 11y ago
Well, given that the Surfacebook utilizes computing power in the attached keyboard, maybe disconnecting it without properly checking processes could cause bad things to happen?
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by yannyu 11y ago
If he is donating, why should he be obligated to donate it to some other charitable cause? Should humanity only focus on one problem at a time?
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by yannyu 11y ago
Also used extensively in Lucene based search engines such as Solr and Elastic. Most companies running search use a Lucene-based search engine. https://lucene.apache.org/ http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
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by yannyu 12y ago
Even when lead-gen lives inside the sales organization, the salespeople who generate leads and the salespeople who close deals are generally not the same people. It's a different skillset to hammer the phones and repeat scripts than to
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by yannyu 12y ago
There are some kinds of chips that can be reset by certain kinds of light ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM ). Apart from that, packaged ICs aren't generally damaged by light that isn't at a laser-like inten
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by yannyu 12y ago
I'd love to do this with play-raise-fold frequencies by number of people at table. Are there relatively untainted public poker hand datasets? WSOP tournament data maybe?
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by yannyu 12y ago
Worth noting, there's quite a pedigree of this sort of game in the Japanese gaming market. There were all sorts of games on the Saturn, Playstation, PC Engine, and others that has the player make burgers, cook fries, make ramen, rice b
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by yannyu 12y ago
It's not as though this is the only question by which the interviewee will be appraised. This is one more tool in the kit alongside asking about previous projects, interesting classes, career goals, overcoming tough situations, etc. Wh
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by yannyu 12y ago
Renter's insurance can also cover lost items like that. Don't suppose you have that, do you?
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by yannyu 12y ago
Didn't those companies start with the open-source then build a company around it? As opposed to starting out closed then later open-sourcing?
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by yannyu 12y ago
>We feel its ready for non-critical production use in the run up to a full release later in the year. Why non-critical production use?
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by yannyu 12y ago
My understanding is that it is not uncommon for VCs to push their companies to start drug testing. Can't vouch for exactly why that is, but it seems to be something that happens.
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by yannyu 12y ago
This article, hidden behind paywall, specifically calls out Beats Music as part of the acquisition. http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e330e830-d6f3-11e3-b95e-00144feab...
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by yannyu 13y ago
It's a bit Bond/cyberpunk-esque, but one could imagine a scenario where an evil villain could short a company's stock and then kill off 20 extremely valuable employees of said company. Not saying that's what happened her
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by yannyu 13y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but most often classification/entity extraction is done by using statistical models/machine learning. You would take a corpus of documents and manually "tag" the
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by yannyu 13y ago
LucidWorks ( http://www.lucidworks.com ) - main office in Redwood Shores, CA with remote workers all over the place. "LucidWorks is the commercial company behind Apache/Lucene Solr, the world’s leading open source sear
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by yannyu 13y ago
Regarding the rent, since he says "share", it sounds like he had roommates at that time. He probably wasn't stiffing the landlord, but was in fact asking his friend/roommate if he could "pay him back" that port
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by yannyu 13y ago
Public employee salary is public knowledge: http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area As an aside, I think the hush-hush nature of salary is pretty silly to begin with, and really only hurts employees.
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by yannyu 13y ago
Highly idiomatic phrases are always going to be problems for natural language processing. Further, people aren't 100% accurate in language processing either. I'd say that if you posed that statement to 1000 English speakers from a
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by yannyu 13y ago
Not the case at all. Writing blog posts, writing stories, writing emails, all share the same principle: use only the words necessary to convey the message. Just because story-writing has a lot more description does not mean that those words
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by yannyu 13y ago
>Reduce search by stats flexibility of the AH. Why would you intentionally cripple your UI unless you just wanted to frustrate your users?
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by yannyu 13y ago
Just FYI, pretty much every plane with multiple engines is able to safely fly and land with only one engine working, and all commercial pilots are trained to do so. If you were halfway through the flight already, it's entirely possible
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by yannyu 13y ago
"Who's to say that speaking English with an American accent is the correct way?" If you're trying to found a company and get venture funding from Americans, you need to be able to communicate well with Americans. No one
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by yannyu 13y ago
There's no such thing as perfect scouting: at all levels of the game there are points where you have no idea what's coming except by reading your opponent and the metagame. For example, expecting a 6 pool or early all-in after you
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by yannyu 13y ago
I feel like focusing on the asymmetry of it is a large part of the problem. If you're not walking into the interview prepared to disqualify these people as potential employers, that is doing a disservice to yourself.
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by yannyu 13y ago
As laid out in the article: It turns out that any device you connect with an iOS via the USB port can obtain your device's Universal Device ID (UDID), as long as the device isn't passcode-locked. It just takes a second, so if you
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by yannyu 13y ago
I love dogs, I think it's terrible that we have so many in shelters and so many being euthanized. I wish we could provide happy homes for all of them. That being said, I would rather euthanize a dog than put it in a home or half-a-home wher
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by yannyu 13y ago
Maybe some people won't be comfortable with driverless cars at first, but I'm guessing at least 10% of the cars on the road will be driverless within 10 years. Regardless of how people feel about it, once the actuaries get some data to crun
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by yannyu 13y ago
Good idea on the face of it, but do Gmail filters let you create exceptions? There are plenty of useful emails that also have "unsubscribe" in the body.
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by yannyu 13y ago
There's absolutely no way for it to infer that 100%. How many times have people started driving to an event or the grocery store and taken a turn towards home halfway there? I'd rather be reminded at an appropriate time even if it's unneces

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