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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
Just because the government has the printing press doesn't mean it won't default. When China downgraded US ratings last week they said it's because "neither the Democratic Party nor Republican Party has shown any consideration for the gener
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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
Suppose you want to count number of books for each author. Mappers take books from shelves and bring them to shufflers, shufflers make piles of books, one pile per author, reducers compute size of each pile
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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
Looks like Mathematica notebook
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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
That's the trouble with child porn...when something is defined as "I know it when I see it", there's going to be a lot of cases incorrectly classified. This reminds me of Walmart child porn case http://trueslant.com/KashmirHill/2009/09/22
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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
I also work at google, and also wonder what your bad allocation experiences are. A friend of mine started on Android team, didn't like it, and transferred to Google Books 5 months later. I think you are only supposed to transfer once every
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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
This approach can go both ways, I was hired despite just having a Bachelor's from a 3rd tier US university
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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
Also as SWE, but for a specific position, as opposed to general pool new hire that gets assigned after starting
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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
I've joined Google 4 months ago, and so far it is the most enjoyable job I've had, including grad school. I've worked at 3 start-ups before, and after working at Google, I think promise of future riches is the only reason to prefer a start-
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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
Make these stats and I'll link them from the page :)
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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
To add to that, the second floor area of the building where most of the data-entry people sit is open to public, meaning that your Googler friend could take you on a tour. Security/legal are always on look-out for people stealing trade secr
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by yaroslavvb 15y ago
I use Delicious to bookmark useful pages I come across, then import those bookmarks into Google Bookmarks. This makes my bookmarks hits show up using regular Google Search. This is better than Google bookmarklets because it's easy to synchr
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
I think it's right because I got through using Mathematica's MIP solver http://bit.ly/fr7YXu
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
BTW, tree decomposition is a generalization of dynamic programming. In a general structured problem you may not have a nice table recursion like in edit-distance example, and tree decomposition is what you get when you abstract away from ta
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
Well, that looks easy...so why are people saying that writing memoization in Haskell is PhD-thesis level task?
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Judge orders Google to hand over captured WiFi packets(businessinsider.com)
1 points by yaroslavvb 16y ago|0 comments
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
Except here you could say "both are correct" or "neither are correct", whereas in the original question those also cause a paradox
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Unanswerable multiple choice question
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
That's because people are spoiled :P The service is free, meanwhile Facebook is a for-profit corporation so its responsibilities to the investors come first
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
J-1 visas with minimum residency requirements have something like "Two year rule does apply" written in the passport. People who come sponsored by program like Muskie have that limitation
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
Maybe...also the fact that I have 400 "friends" says something. You can't possibly know that many people well enough to trust them. And the fact that they accepted my friend requests means they didn't care about keeping their information se
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
I agree. And personally, I find a big gap between what concerns "the media" and the people around me. Among my 400 facebook friends, I've gotten 2 or 3 status updates concerned with new privacy rules. Meanwhile on hacker news I see a dozen
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
Good point...it's not clear that any of those posts were really meant to be private
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
I sent it using gmail's web interface. My IP address shows up in "X-Originating-IP" part of header
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
Someone commented on that page that leaking user's IP address is a common spam-prevention practice. I just checked gmail and Yahoo Mail, and they both include my IP address in the header of outgoing messages For instance, Yahoo Mail puts my
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
Note that the original paper doesn't say anything about crashing. Their point is that E.Coli regulatory network has a different topology than Linux call graph, in particular, a much lower overlap between modules and little reuse of low-leve
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by yaroslavvb 16y ago
IMHO, this fits nicely under Eric Schmidt's philosophy that "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." After all, it's the morally questionable act of profiting from someo
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by yaroslavvb 17y ago
The Russian version confuses two engines because of hyphenation (perhaps due to line-wrapping in the original article)
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by yaroslavvb 17y ago
Sudden acceleration complaints by year/make http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1242358... For model year 2009, Volkswagen had 11.5 complaints per 100k vehicles, whereas Toyota had 7.5 and BMW 5.8
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by yaroslavvb 17y ago
A big problem is that there's often no objective way to pick the "right" statistical test. This gives experimenter the freedom to choose the statistical procedure that favors positive conclusion. Here's a classical example when the statisti
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by yaroslavvb 17y ago
There's some confusion between "compressed sensing" and "L1-minimization" in the comments and the article. L1 minimization here refers to trying to represent the image as a linear combination of basis functions a1 f1+a2 f2+ ... by minimizin

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