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by Puer 8y ago
We can't know the full details of this particular case because nothing seems to have been independently verified yet, but there's a distinction between 1) Someone finding a suspicious package and falsely thinking it's a bomb,
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by Puer 8y ago
> Yes, absolutely. Nonviolent terrorism is justified in many cases. Simply slapping the “terrorism” label on something to villify it doesn’t change the nature of the thing being described. > I am not trying to diminish how serious thi
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by Puer 8y ago
I've also found this enormously useful: https://github.com/crazyguitar/pysheeet/blob/master/docs/not...
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by Puer 8y ago
Not to mention they buried their option to turn off location tracking on Google Maps within some legal submenu in the app, instead of in the privacy settings menu. If that qualifies as "transparent" I don't know what the word
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by Puer 8y ago
I know HN is on a Facebook media train right now, but blaming them for the widespread discontent in France that's been simmering for years is disingenuous.
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Ask HN: Who actually enjoys using Facebook products?
2 points by Puer 8y ago|1 comments
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by Puer 8y ago
> Instagram has suffered less, but instagram isn’t really useful for anything but wasting time. Is Instagram useless, or just useless to you? I understand that HN isn't Facebook's target market, but it's disappointing to r
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by Puer 8y ago
I'd imagine it's a lot easier and more effective to teach middle schools basic probability first. All you need is a coin or a deck of cards to introduce them to real world examples.
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by Puer 8y ago
Lol, I usually organize tabs by location so pinning them (and minimizing their horizontal footprint) is good enough for me. Further, I personally found that when I had a million tabs open, at least 50% of them were duplicates so I just star
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by Puer 8y ago
There are a few niche plugins I use for specific sites to enhance usability that I definitely don't expect to be ported to Firefox, but even the ones that are take an understandable backseat in terms of developer priority. For example,
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by Puer 8y ago
Just my personal $0.02: 1. The biggest thing keeping me tied to Chrome over any other browser is the extension support. Extensions are second class citizens in any other browser. This is partly because other browsers keep overhauling their
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by Puer 8y ago
Some poor peon at the bottom of the ladder instead of the engineers/managers actually responsible for the mistake. The great thing about being at the top is being able to delegate away blame. After all, it's your job.
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by Puer 8y ago
My most enjoyable interview was for an internship in college. I had a take home coding challenge where I had to write some simple code to fetch information from an API using whatever language I liked. I was given a week to do it, but it onl
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by Puer 8y ago
100% GPA related. > Repost from yesterday's daily chat thread. > Hi guys, kinda a big issue rnow. > Got matched with a host for SWE Internship with Big G this summer. Had the match interview and it was a match, recruiter told
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by Puer 8y ago
> "Was adjusting moving across the continent for school in fields I were not familiar with in highschool. Balancing real life responsibilities and focused on a lot of extra curriculars. Grades within my major were good and it has be
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by Puer 8y ago
I just read this post and thought it was a really shitty move on Google's part. For those that don't know, as part of Google's initial application you have to submit an "unofficial" transcript. This means that Googl
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Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA(reddit.com)
128 points by Puer 8y ago|89 comments
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by Puer 8y ago
Agreed. My Google Voice number is my default for handing out, and I reserve my real # for important things. I just wish you could block numbers using Google Voice.
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by Puer 8y ago
I considered working at Google last year after a recruiter reached out to me, but their decision to backtrack on their promise in China changed my mind. I do not morally condemn anyone who works at Google. I have many good friends that are
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by Puer 8y ago
Google with YouTube and Twitter? Even though most congressional hearings are a farce, Google didn't even show up to speak with congress. The amount of racist, nazi propaganda I'm exposed to on Twitter every day far outnumbers what
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by Puer 8y ago
I would absolutely disagree with that assertion. While we're hypothesizing about the long-term effects of FB on democracy, I would argue that generations of smokers that die early and impose a huge strain on an already overloaded healt
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by Puer 8y ago
HN has always been super negative towards FB and their products (with perhaps the exception of Whatsapp) because HN has never been FB's target market. It's a lot easier to criticize a product that's never provided any utility
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by Puer 8y ago
> Implying lung cancer can happen because of smoking. In fact air pollution and a bunch of other things cause lung cancer too. This is one of the most disingenuous comments I've ever read on HN.
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by Puer 8y ago
> Google, for all the negative press and bashing they are getting lately, has not hidden what they collect, how they collect. I'm curious what led to you to this conclusion and how you define "hide." What about how they we
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by Puer 8y ago
It's much more than that. :) If you have a large collection of photos uploaded to google, you can make some pretty insidious searches that will return extremely accurate results. Try searching "bikini" if you have any snapsho
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Ask HN: Advice for teaching my little sister unix?
3 points by Puer 8y ago|1 comments
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by Puer 8y ago
How long until Tesla releases an over the air update that changes the behavior of familiar systems and causes an accident?
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by Puer 8y ago
Yep, it makes no difference. I get up at 5:30 to go to work. Even during DST it's still dark in the morning, and it's not like I'm really getting any exposure to the light on the bus to work. But the consequence is that when
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by Puer 8y ago
Convex Optimization by Lieven Vandenberghe and Stephen P. Boyd was the one my professors always recommended and I think it's excellent.
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by Puer 8y ago
I agree. I hope that M.I.T. is able to consolidate these domains in a cohesive manner. The mathematics of ML is super unfriendly because it borrows from so many inter-related domains. You'll end up with notation that uses sigma to repr

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