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by yid 13y ago
> Some founders try things like carefully timing news articles, casually mentioning to one investor that they'll be having dinner with another investor, claiming their schedule is really packed except for one specific hour, and oth
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by yid 13y ago
IANAL et al., but unless I'm mistaken, generating an API by analyzing requests and responses would be fine (under the purview of "research purposes"), unless you then subsequently use the generated API to access the servi
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by yid 13y ago
I've always wondered why this isn't the way real estate agents work.
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His father (and him to some degree) are taken very, very seriously by a very, very small segment of the population.
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by yid 13y ago
If you've ever hiked up the trails at Lands End in SF and looked out at the Pacific towards Marin, you'll see an excellent example of what about this area makes even the most apathetic person a conservationist.
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by yid 13y ago
> it uses an extremely naïve algorithm, but the results aren't too bad if you want to try it yourself Don't be so hard on yourself. I review papers for CS conferences and just the fact that you used TF-IDF weighting puts you w
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by yid 13y ago
By presenting it as a tutorial? Absolutely.
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by yid 13y ago
That's called being rational; nothing startup-specific about it.
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by yid 13y ago
Humor and allusions to profanity are not the same thing.
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by yid 13y ago
Nobody seems upset. This is about professionalism.
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by yid 13y ago
> Uber handles this by having a button in their app that initiaates the phone call. You can't find out a driver's number without actually calling them. Similarly, they can't find out yours without actually calling you. Act
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by yid 13y ago
> so $30k of demonstrated public interest would be matched with $3MM of NIH funding. This sets up a perverse incentive: the researchers who can best pander to a layperson crowd will have the highest chance, regardless of the technical me
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by yid 13y ago
Apparently not all of us did :)
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You think that the email spam industry collectively employs more than 500,000 full-time voting adults, rather than a relative handful of humans and tons of bots? It's fine if you do, my hunch is just different.
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by yid 13y ago
The USPS employs 522,144 [1] voting humans who depend on junk mail for paychecks and pensions; email considerably fewer. Edit: source [1] http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/#H1
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by yid 13y ago
Interesting tip. I'm taking away the fact that I should transfer the nameservers away immediately after buying/transferring a domain (for Cloudfront, I presume?). Other than that, and ColdFusion hacks aside, my experience with the
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by yid 13y ago
> Robert discovered buffer overflow, which helped bring the internet into the mainstream press. That might be a bit of an understatement :)
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Especially since Teespring has a San Francisco office: http://teespring.theresumator.com/
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by yid 13y ago
"many small bets" does not mean you're picking them at random.
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by yid 13y ago
Oaksterdam isn't new -- it's been around longer than the current wave of legalization. Welcome to California.
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by yid 13y ago
> Having different `class` macro definitions between codebases that use sweet.js will devolve into madness. As long as you don't have different definitions in the same JS file, it's not really a problem because each file can
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by yid 13y ago
> It's shameful that you feel that those stricken by bad fortune should be left to rot out there. Where are you getting this from? I didn't imply it at all.
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by yid 13y ago
You seem to be the only one in this thread calling them losers. I'm not sure where you're getting that from my comment.
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by yid 13y ago
Oh get off that pedestal. OP was talking about the Tenderloin. Have you ever walked through the Tenderloin? A large fraction of the homeless people there clearly have severe psychological or drug issues. They're not there because of th
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by yid 13y ago
I think it's just a very public example of shitty coding. No decent code review should have allowed a catch-all condition to default to Windows 8.1 instead of "Unknown" or "Other" or some such. It's just a sad
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by yid 13y ago
> Yes but people who come explicitly for the drugs don't tend to be the best tourists. This is a jingoistic view of "drug users" that really needs to die. Marijuana "users" are normal people -- with a slim majori
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by yid 13y ago
Until you can verify Coinbase's internal security and practices, trust every employee with access to your account info, and verify their honest intentions, it's still pretty much a "random website". Until then, you'
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DJB! If you could get him out of his cave at UIC.
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> They're also into mining some of the "data exhaust". Monetizing this turns them into something much bigger than a social checkin company. Location data changes very quickly: new places open and close, popularity waxes an
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> If this works for Google, I imagine I can have a business based in Uruguay that sells weed to the world, and I only have to face court in Uruguay when people claim it's illegal in their country? I'd imagine this would be perf

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