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by Jagat 8y ago
Except that I'd bet Airbnb's read qps requirement is less than 1% of Twitter's. Write qps would be even smaller.
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by Jagat 8y ago
The first quote that came to my mind when I read this was Frederick Jelinek's "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". Hi NYT writers, "language is infinitely complex" and &q
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by Jagat 8y ago
Did anyone else notice that there's been an increasing number of mildly successful research that hint towards Lamarckian evolution as being real sometimes? Has something changed (either ease or impetus) that's made it easy to do s
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by Jagat 8y ago
Maybe, unless there's a correlation (or inverse correlation) between smartness and those who must exercise for their job (vs those who don't). Makes me think about the old question about those who have a higher paying mostly menta
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by Jagat 8y ago
No, GDPR requires you to delete all the data corresponding to a user within 30 days after the said user requests deletion of account. That includes backups and logs.
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by Jagat 8y ago
You should consider taking this course series "Mathematics for Machine Learning" from coursera. https://www.coursera.org/specializations/mathematics-machine... However, if you know the very basics of matrices
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by Jagat 8y ago
You can get one for $10 and live on public wifis. Cell phone is a necessity these days, not an expensive luxury item.
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by Jagat 8y ago
Also isn't fewer miners => reduced difficulty => higher chances of solving the puzzle => greater chance of a successful mine => potential profit?
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by Jagat 9y ago
Self-driving RVs. Imagine traveling throughout the country, sleeping in one national park campsite and waking up in another.
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by Jagat 9y ago
No, but the auth token might have. Pretty sure facebook would have preemptively invalidated them all, but if not, you should login to your facebook account and unlink MyFitnessPal.
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by Jagat 9y ago
> It also doesn't include your mother's maiden name, nor does it include your browsing history, email dump, or your camera roll - information that the 'app does not collect from users' /s
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by Jagat 9y ago
Can we please not overreact and send the whole self-driving research down the drain? What does the statistics say? How many miles have the self-driving cars driven, and how many deaths were they responsible for? How does it compare to a hum
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by Jagat 9y ago
Also, bitstamp verification time is now 2 weeks, and bittrex has completely paused any new signups.
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by Jagat 9y ago
Yes https://electrek.co/2017/11/29/tesla-mining-bitcoin-model-s-...
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by Jagat 9y ago
Contrary to popular beliefs, gmail does not pre-fetch all the images. It fetches the images via a proxy the first time the user loads the email via gmail app or gmail web, and caches it for repeat opens. Also, there’s no proxying if the use
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by Jagat 9y ago
I often see these kind of comments and find them extremely myopic. Sure you can create a twitter clone all by yourself, but good luck scaling it to ~150k tweets per second writes[1]. All the while ensuring they're fanned out to all th
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by Jagat 9y ago
I recently bought something from eBay (didn't search on amazon for some odd reason), and I received it from Amazon. Turns out the seller has an Amazon prime account, and all he does is provide the ebay-buyer's address on checkout.
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by Jagat 9y ago
So far I've ordered twice from Costco, and once from Walgreens, using google express. Both the times my order got 'canceled' with no reason specified. There's no "why?" link/button/reason either. When
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by Jagat 9y ago
Are you serious? Everyone and their grandma in India uses WhatsApp. It's so pervasive that it's almost like the only means of communication for people with smartphone and internet access.
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by Jagat 12y ago
Delusion of grandeur From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandiose_delusions Grandiose delusions (GD) or delusions of grandeur is principally a subtype of delusional disorder that occurs in patients suffering from a wide
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by Jagat 13y ago
Site seems to be vulnerable to XSS http://kurikku.com/s/52ef1679e4b0630f318682c5/%3Cscript%3Eal... (Harmless alert popup)
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by Jagat 13y ago
It was. A single line of awk/cut would have sufficed.
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by Jagat 13y ago
Couldn't agree more. One of my professors wrote a 200 line Matlab code to extract a column from a csv file.
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by Jagat 13y ago
Here's a similar 3 year old HN submission - "Greasemoney script to exclude all bitcoin articles" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2551753
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by Jagat 13y ago
Now that this has made it to the frontpage of HN, I'm waiting for someone to write a post on the millions of dollars lost in productivity because of HN.
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by Jagat 13y ago
Banker News
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by Jagat 13y ago
I am a graduate student, currently working on building a x86_64 unix like preemptive kernel from scratch, as part of a course. Most of the OS dev guides and books focus on 32 bit arch and I haven't found a single guide so far that is b
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by Jagat 13y ago
More than that, there would be tons of metals. The magnetic field generated would be enough to destroy any remaining data in the hdd.
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PowerUp 3.0 - Smartphone Controlled Paper Airplane(kickstarter.com)
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by Jagat 13y ago
Tata motors has been selling a $2000, 66mpg car called Nano in India since 2008. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Nano

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