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oleg_kikin

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oleg_kikin··on Recruiters are, by and large, a waste of your time
Shameless plug:

http://recruiter-review.com/

oleg_kikin··on Algorithmic symphonies from one line of code
I made an HTML5 generator. Check it out:

http://www.olegkikin.com/audio/audio.html

You can pass custom formulas in a hash tag:

http://www.olegkikin.com/audio/audio.html#(t%3E%3E12|t%3E%3E...

oleg_kikin··on Algorithmic symphonies - HTML5 generator
Inspired by this post:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3063359

You can append a custom formula as a hash tag:

http://www.olegkikin.com/audio/audio.html#(t>>12|t&#...

oleg_kikin··on Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
Yes, I will add that.
oleg_kikin··on Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
I will take a look at it, thanks!
oleg_kikin··on Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
I think it didn't like the gzipped JS file with the data. Not sure why, pretty much all modern browsers should support it.
oleg_kikin··on Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
That's actually a very good point, thanks. It looks like I will have to reverse both axes.
oleg_kikin··on Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
Yeah, it looks like I will have to make the circles clickable.
oleg_kikin··on Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
I don't have access to OSX, it works on my Safari under Win7.
oleg_kikin··on Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
Downloaded 20 search results pages from cars.com. I wish I had direct access to their DB.

Craigslist has a ton of car postings, but it's not structured in any way, will be very hard to parse.

oleg_kikin··on Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
Yeah, it's pretty busy with all of them together, but I assume that usually people want a specific brand (and often a specific model of that brand). I will add more filters soon - by year, location, model.
oleg_kikin··on Show HN: New way to search for used cars (my weekend project)
Each dot on the chart is a car.

Horizontal scale = mileage.

Vertical scale = price.

The size of a dot = year (newer = larger), plus I colored 2007 .. 2011 in different colors to find "fresh" cars quicker.

This is just some sample data from the last 24 hours, relatively cheap cars under $32,000 within 500 mile radius of NYC.

oleg_kikin··on $1000 coding challenge from E la Carte (YC S10)
No, guest picks one of the 250 dishes, and the probability of B2 given that either A or B happen.
oleg_kikin··on $1000 coding challenge from E la Carte (YC S10)
Yeah, dynamic programming. It's a well known problem. I'm pretty sure you can just convert the matrix to 1s and 0s, and dump it into Matlab.
oleg_kikin··on $1000 coding challenge from E la Carte (YC S10)
1) Chef has a list of 250 3-letter codes

2) He randomly picks 5 of them as "special"

3) He makes a list X of all unique letters in the codes of these 5 dishes

4) Guest picks a random dish. There are a few things that can happen:

   A) The code of that dish has a letter that's not on the list X. Ignore.

   B) All letters of that dish are on the list X. Two options:

      B1) The dish the guest picked is one of the 5 special.

      B2) The dish the guest picked is not one of the 5 special.
The first question is - how often does B2 happen?

The answer to the second question of that problem is obvious, you don't need to write any code.

oleg_kikin··on $1000 coding challenge from E la Carte (YC S10)
The first question needs a much larger matrix. I started writing the code, but then looked at the letters and saw the solution.
oleg_kikin··on $1000 coding challenge from E la Carte (YC S10)
I answered all questions correctly. At the end they ask you for your name and your email.

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