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adkatrit | 10 years ago | on: List of high-quality open datasets in public domains

While the FRED data might be ~%50 of the datasets, most of those table are 200-4000 rows, it is not nearly %50 of the rows of data.

the remaining 50% of datasets have a lot of gems

quality in the breadth of data is important

state-wide liquor license, corp reg. OSHA is great data. AMS shipping records. FDA adverse events. Oil and Gas well locations/production. Consolidated weather reports since 1800... im almost certainly forgetting some.

adkatrit | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Random Facebook Friend Requests

I have received bogus friend requests from bogus fb accounts about 10 times since i've been on facebook. (8 years). Some even go as far as friending people I am friends with and liking things that I'm liking or being from my home town. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a fake account and just a really bizarre person. Usually you can spot a fake from lack of interaction with other people on their timeline. That is not to say that elaborate fakes haven't been creating bogus friend networks. It would be an interesting project to collect the fb_ids from all these potentially bogus accounts, though it would be best to get the info that is surely private, like login times/locations. I'm sure the people in quality assurance at facebook are all over this.

adkatrit | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where to go for max profit? High coder salary, low cost of living

I had a cheap place in the outer DC area for a while. 750 a month near a military base with >125k salary as a contractor.

I know some people very well off in Denver, CO as well.

Using public data(data.gov, enigma.io) you can find the areas that have the most positive trend in population weighted with average/median income and percent software jobs and/or locations of companies recently funded on crunchbase.

Might be best to start with a data set of cost of living and just apply functions to the ranking of the index depending on what matters more to you. http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/prices/consumer_...

Good Luck!

adkatrit | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013)

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adkatrit | 12 years ago | on: FOIA the PRISM tech stack

Why would they have a form to ask for records on yourself when they don't publish which records they have. This is like a game of Go Fish but with personal data.

adkatrit | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How did you make your first $10,000?

i hacked a certain (now deceased) startup right after their first round of capital and then negotiated a signing bonus when they offered me a job. It was a very simple xss but i was able to do enough with it to impress the founder and make some money.

adkatrit | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can we help the police sort through the photos of the Boston Marathon?

I'm not implying that they are using the bombing for financial gain, however it is clear that horrific(and great, positive) events correlate with a certain spike in revenue in the news industry. What I am proposing is charity. Suppose event X creates Y dollars in ad revenue from it's initial spike in traffic. This would be a donated percentage of that money. Let's not forget that reputation is a key factor for creating loyal users.

If one had to choose between news service A vs news service B, knowing that choosing A has the implication of assisting those in need, people are going to choose A.

Call it pre-emptive humanitarian news campaigning.

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