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Perhaps instead they could build a central store of potential ad clicks and their base rate likelihood of being clicked. Then, instead of clicking everything, they could click ads …

I'd learned Dvorak using a Kinesis keyboard. I use both Dvorak with the Kinesis and QWERTY with a standard keyboard. The slight difference in profile is enough that I've never had …

Or is it merely that central vac is highly correlated with square footage and neighborhood age, each of which might better predict prices.

The author didn't do a very good job interpreting these statistics. The conditions that would exist when someone would choose to invest in solar panels exclude a large fraction of …

Their success metric may just be reversion to the mean; since they started by selecting the people who had made the most calls, you would expect the number of calls to come from th…

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With the cost of re-training for new jobs going up, and the value of un-skilled labor going down, there are certainly more and more folks for whom it's more expensive to get a job …

Pittsburgh, PA H1B Pikimal is looking for people interested in NLP, search, and information retrieval. We've a fast-growing collection of facts, facets, and evolving definitions of…

Pittsburgh, PA (no remote) http://pikimal.com/jobs We're looking for Semantic Web and Ruby Developers but if you're a strong developer who doesn't know Ruby yet that's no obstacle.…

There are other options besides social or text-based algorithms. My company, Pikimal, is pursuing one - we're pulling together facts on items and are allowing people to weight thos…

It's the early days of the Internet. We've invented sail and gunpowder, and we're just coming to the New World. If you're on Hacker News, you're a navigator - a captain - a fierce …

Pittsburgh, PA (no remote) http://pikimal.com/jobs We're looking for Semantic Web and Ruby Developers but if you're a strong developer who doesn't know Ruby yet that's no obstacle.…

I did this as well - I quit my job, started reading Ruby books and wrote the Alpha version of Pikimal.com. I did this because I'd been the CMO at another start-up where I'd really …

Thank you for asking to be let know when Pikimal is online! Pikimal is a site to help people collaborate around decisions. As users vote and use the tool it gets smarter and produc…

Having studied economics and programming, I think that programming is advantaged. Econ taught me some principles that serve me well in understanding incentives and behaviors, but p…

I'd had some good success with Facebook and my last company. We'd had enough Facebook fans that we were able to run regular contests a few times a week and to use it as a platform …

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; remote not an option. Hiring Rails Developers and developers who'd like to become Rails Developers in Pittsburgh. We're building web-based decision tools …