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by yid 16y ago
Actually, my dream has always been the aurora borealis.
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by yid 16y ago
Prove it. You made a statement; burden of proof on you.
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by yid 16y ago
I couldn't have said it better myself. Except for me, weed keeps pushing up the levels of abstraction (good for architecting software), but LSD makes things hypperreal. IMO, LSD should only be taken on a desolate beach at night, with people
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by yid 16y ago
I would also be interested in seeing scans. LSD has been a wonderful experience for me, undertaken roughly once a year, but with beneficial and creative effects that last much longer. I think the OP missed the point-- LSD isn't Aderall, it
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by yid 16y ago
Very interesting, would you care to elaborate on your business, since you're making such a strong commitment to it?
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by yid 16y ago
Yes I thought he was pretty good too. If you want a train wreck for a Google talk, look at Conan O'Brien's interview there -- the interviewer was cringe-worthy.
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by yid 16y ago
> I just can't imagine a small record store in the 1960s, after being caught spying through the bedroom windows of its customers, ever staying in business. Sony isn't a small record store.
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by yid 16y ago
Techcrunch/Techdirt simply recycling a misleading, provocative headline for pageviews? Color me shocked, shocked .
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by yid 16y ago
Who assigns a problem that requires C and Unix novices to use fork() as their first assignment ? This guy needs a teaching seminar soon, but more likely, CS just lost a classroom full of novices.
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by yid 16y ago
Hi Arash, I find it hard to believe that you did not anticipate exactly this happening when designing (a) an online file backup service, (b) a "de"-duplication algorithm. That said, you should have planned for exactly this a long time ago,
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by yid 16y ago
Nice! Reminds me of the easy workaround for downloading Skype in various Skype-banned countries (UAE, Kuwait, other middle eastern countries): just download Google Pack: http://pack.google.com/intl/en/pack_installer.html
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by yid 16y ago
Agreed. I thought it was a place where you could push samples and other could collaboratively contribute audio to your projects. Now that got me excited. Instead, it's another patch sharing site, which have been around since the earliest da
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by yid 16y ago
It's interesting that the tone of the blog post suggests a desperation about getting into YC, rather than the old adage of wanting to build something that people actually want to use. It's also interesting that HN is full of people who talk
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by yid 16y ago
> But anything that can be solved by map-reduce wasn't enormously hard to begin with. Depends on your definition of hard. Algorithmically, yes the tasks are relatively simple, but try programming an 80,000 node MPI/PVM cluster to run
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by yid 16y ago
Take a look at Hive if you need SQL semantics on Hadoop.
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by yid 16y ago
Probably some sort of regression for the prediction part, and perhaps linear programming for the price optimization, since there are probably some nontrivial (but possibly linear?) constraints on pricing.
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by yid 16y ago
> That said, funding is decreasing and the number of people fighting for it is increasing, which makes it less valuable. How does that make sense? If the supply is decreasing and competition for it simultaneously increasing, how does th
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by yid 16y ago
> Doctoral students, should then have the option to hyper-specialize (as is necessary in some fields) or be allowed to focus more on broad interdisciplinary studies focusing on problems faced by policy makers and other organizations. I
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by yid 16y ago
Right, and garbage collection is just lazy memory manamgement--you go see it either way, so this whole point is rather pedantic.
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by yid 16y ago
Please don't take this personally, but the fact that your code was N thousand lines doesn't mean the task is inherently an N-thousand line task. Also, undertaking anything with XML in C is brave, kudos.
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by yid 16y ago
They'd win me over if they got at&t to remove the data cap for their service
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by yid 16y ago
> I don't have a college degree, and I'm glad I don't as that would have been waisted time Ouch, talk about a bad time to make a typo ("waisted")
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Ask HN: YC applicants, what was your amusing story?
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by yid 16y ago
Bullshit. I've been right through from my bachelors to ph.d. without paying a single dime. Academia is full of smart kids on full rides.
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by yid 16y ago
I really enjoy your rational comments when it comes to this whole higher education vs. dropout ("uncollege") debate, which seems to have engulfed HN lately. Thanks for being a voice of reason.
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by yid 16y ago
Perhaps a new business school...certainly not all of grad education.
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by yid 16y ago
I didn't say it was a requirement. I meant to say that most students will benefit from a structured curriculum, especially the parts that may initially appear boring or useless. Your accomplishments are very impressive, but you clearly ar
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by yid 16y ago
Repo access is essentially copying your source tree to a USB stick and giving it to someone. If your code is that sensitive, split it into modules that communicate over a well-defined API, and keep the sensitive parts to yourself. Otherwise
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by yid 16y ago
From TFA: I dropped out of liberal arts college in Conway, Arkansas because I’m behind a social movement called UnCollege which supports Mark Twain’s mantra: “I have never let school interfere with my education. First, I think it's really
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by yid 16y ago
didn't mean for it to sound like that...it definitely is a more interesting strategy than "let's change the world!"

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