FlyingLawnmower

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   by FlyingLawnmower 8y ago

   I don't have much experience using HE libraries, but I know another (fairly popular) one is SEAL from Microsoft Research: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/simple-encr... Perhaps it has th
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   by FlyingLawnmower 8y ago

   Hi Jon, Just want to say I absolutely love plotly. It's made data science and visualization fun again. Thank you for all your hard work!
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   by FlyingLawnmower 8y ago

   I really like the idea of libraries that make it easy to learn a data structure/algorithm/general concept. Thank you for publishing this! It will certainly make CS concepts easier to teach.
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   by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

   At first glance, this seems awesome. I have to applaud Dropbox for their forward stance here.
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   by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

   Of all privacy preserving approaches, I believe Differential Privacy has the strongest chance of meeting GDPR standards.
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   by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

   Time series data is hard, especially without lots of training examples. Consider looking into traditional forecasting methods as a baseline. AR(I)MA based approaches with seasonality might actually be fine for you. However, it all changes i
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   by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

   Any plans for future openings in Seattle or Atlanta?
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   by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

   Why not try Brave for desktop? Note: I am not a Brave user, genuinely curious about your experience!
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   by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

   https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-sch... I'm a bit biased here -- I was a Georgia Tech undergrad -- but GT is currently ranked 9th for the graduate computer science department :).
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    Right, I was calculating the difference across total comp. OPs total comp is ~261k per year (140 + 21 + 100), so compared against the number you listed, it's almost exactly +70% (261 / 153 = ~1.71). I edited it to 60% to account f
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    I still find it a little hard to believe... When I was a new grad, I got offers from several of the companies you listed, and the comp didn't come close to OP's post. I can't imagine 2 years of experience and some negotiati
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    Is it really possible to get 180K RSUs per year with just 2 years of experience? That's more than the standard new grad Rsu grant at Google/FB/Microsoft/Amazon, which vests over 4 years. I can't imagine that 2 yea
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    I commend them for openly disclosing instead of hiding it and forcing applicants to go through an interview process only to be told at the end. I hope we don't discourage more companies from posting salary/equity ranges by having
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    I switched. I really like the performance boost, and it just generally feels "snappier". I also had a long seeded desire to support FireFox, so now felt like a great time to jump ship.
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    Very true, the paper calls out that there are no formal privacy guarantees on this style of learning. The diffs that are sent ostensibly provide more privacy than just the raw data, but it's hard to quantify how much "more" p
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    Do you believe an opt-in in necessary with a (properly implemented) differentially private collection mechanism? Just curious about your take on this.
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    I am surprised that there is such a fundamental misunderstanding of differential privacy on the Hacker News crowd. Meeting the standard of true differential privacy is one of the strongest known unconditional privacy guarantees. It will pre
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    Did you find another job yet? If not, what type of opportunity are you looking for? Data science is also a wide, somewhat poorly defined domain.
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    Thank you for collecting these resources together!
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    by FlyingLawnmower 9y ago

    Can anyone with a medical background chime in with some simple theory about why pulsed vibrations are so effective? This is incredibly exciting work.
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    by FlyingLawnmower 10y ago

    While it is fun to do the subtraction and see that Yahoo's core business is negatively valued, liquidating the Alibaba and Yahoo Japan assets would come at the expense of significant taxes, which I believe accounts for why shareholders
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    by FlyingLawnmower 10y ago

    Very cool application! I haven't been listening to podcasts for long, but I recently got hooked on via 'Serial'. Although I didn't think about it at the time, I think it would be fascinating to be able to reference speci
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    by FlyingLawnmower 10y ago

    This strikes me as a vast generalization. I think that the author of the article is also including people who have conservative economic views (he calls out libertarians as a marginalized group, who are socially liberal and economically con
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    by FlyingLawnmower 10y ago

    Same with bing.com and yahoo.com
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    by FlyingLawnmower 10y ago

    No, not for anything serious. I get some free credits every month for being a student, so I've used it minimally for configuring a few things for hobbyist projects, but I have never used it in production ready environments. Thank you f
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    by FlyingLawnmower 10y ago

    How do HN commenters rank Azure amongst the three? I like the UI/portals quite a bit, but haven't explored any of the 3 major cloud providers in great detail.
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    by FlyingLawnmower 11y ago

    Google drives search through Android in much the same way, and there are more android phones out there than windows PCs iirc. I think the "shady tactics" is a moot point.
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    by FlyingLawnmower 11y ago

    Personally, I don't find bing results "very poor". It does the job for well over 90% of my searches, and on the remaining 10%, Google doesn't do a much better job very often. I like the UI, I like the rewards system, and
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    by FlyingLawnmower 11y ago

    I think the HN audience will "see through" this story, but anyone who isn't familiar with the current state of neural nets/has read the many pieces fortelling the future of AI might just find it plausible. I really liked
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    by FlyingLawnmower 11y ago

    As someone totally ignorant in this space, how does opening a .PDF document allow for email hijacking (assuming it was actually a PDF)? I think I'm stuck at how code is able to execute when opening a document inside a PDF viewer or som