HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

jamesturn

10 karma · joined June 27, 2007

submissionscomments
jamesturn··on Spreading a little Christmas job-hunting hope
Just curious, so this is a university staff position or are you enrolling in a business school as a student? Either way, congrats!
jamesturn··on Phone to PC without rooting
It's just a login page?
jamesturn··on Australians pay 50% more for downloaded music,games,& software than Americans
I think most of the world pays 50% more than Americans for most things. It's just a fact of life for them.
jamesturn··on Game theory article from a professional Starcraft player/caster.
Researchers from Berkeley developed a fairly good Starcraft AI engine that combined micro-management, pathing, and overally strategy to win the Starcraft AI competition: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/01/skynet-meets-the-...
jamesturn··on Game theory article from a professional Starcraft player/caster.
For the Starcraft watcher/spectator's counterpart of the article, there is the University of Washington Starcraft spectators study: http://jeffhuang.com/Final_StarcraftSpectator_CHI11.pdf

They explain the many types of people that watch Starcraft, and that Starcraft games are fun to watch because of "Information Asymmetry"

jamesturn··on Scott Directing "Blade Runner" Sequel
(test)[http://example.com/2]
jamesturn··on Scott Directing "Blade Runner" Sequel
I'm just testing how to make links on this site: http://example.com
jamesturn··on Where’s my reply, OkCupid? (Prelude to a lawsuit)
The scary thing is that this is someone who has access to his private Facebook profile, aka one of his Facebook "friends". And he doesn't know who it is. There are traitors among his friends.
jamesturn··on 15 years of best paper awards from top cs conferences
Here are the ones for SIGCOMM: http://www.sigcomm.org/awards/best-paper-award It looks like there's only 3 years of them so it would be easy to add.

SIGMETRICS seems to have only a few years of awards as well. But there is no central list of them.

jamesturn··on 15 years of best paper awards from top cs conferences
Found it on reddit compsci but thought it'd be more appropriate here.

The ranking on the bottom is interesting:

Microsoft Research 20.2

Carnegie Mellon University 19.77

University of Washington 14.67

Stanford University 12.43

IBM Research 9.7

Cornell University 9.62

University of California Berkeley 8.28

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8.0

University of Alberta 7.14

University of British Columbia 7.0

Yahoo! Research 6.82

AT&T Laboratories 6.58

University of Toronto 6.33

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5.53

University of Massachusetts Amherst 4.92