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by ageitgey 8y ago
This is a pretty common question/request in the US. I'm sure that almost every doctor been asked before and is familiar with the idea and would rather work around a special request than not have the child vaccinated at all. They u
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The after market for "exclusive" sneakers is at a crazy peak right now. You can buy a $250 shoe and flip it for $500-$1000 nearly instantly. So it's not just old school sneakerheads looking for cool shoes - it's big busi
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by ageitgey 8y ago
It's British English for 'laid off' or 'staff reduction'.
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The original poster is a college student looking for a side project to do in their spare time. It's not defeatism to suggest that they should probably look for side project ideas first in low-competition areas rather than in very compe
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The world is full of people in your situation who's main area of interest and experience is primarily in software development or start-ups. Because of this, almost every good idea that touches your entire realm of experience been attem
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by ageitgey 8y ago
I do machine learning consulting and I see the flip side of this. I get new clients reaching out asking me to "add some AI" with no specific use cases in mind other than satisfying their investors that they are "leveraging AI
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Virtualbox is much slower than VMware on Mac. Get VMware and it will be much better. The only possible issue is the relatively small amount of RAM you have for two OSes.
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I was once part of a 2-vendor software demo/showdown with a DoD client. Both vendors (us and them) each had two hours to present our solution and why it would be a better fit for the DoD base to adopt. It was a totally routine enterpri
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by ageitgey 8y ago
That is not correct at all. Python 2 and Python 3 have relatively few syntax differences. You could teach someone the key differences in like 10 minutes. In fact, I would even say that the difference between Python 2 and Python 3 syntax is
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by ageitgey 8y ago
He's 100% wrong. Use Python 3. Don't spend a second thinking about Python 2. His complaints are bizarre. He mostly claims that Python 3 sucks because he can't figure out how to convert his old Python 2 code to work on Python
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by ageitgey 8y ago
According to the article, this incident took place in London, not the US. The law is similar but slightly different. It would fall under "Common Assault": https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/blog/post/as
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The prevailing "business person" thought is that app users are more loyal (high value) while web users are temporary users that Google will eventually steal away from you when they decide they want to be in your market and want to
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Many factors have to align for a startup to succeed, but the most important of all is that there is actually market demand for the product. You can have the best team in the world and fail because you aren't making something that someo
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Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python(medium.com)
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There's lots of weird legal impacts of the shutdown. Some are big issues, like your situation with hazardous materials and trying to comply with the law. Others are tiny things that impact everyday people in weird ways. My particular i
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by ageitgey 8y ago
They can be a lot of fun, but quality varies a lot between rooms. Each place usually has one or two fixed room designs that rarely or never change, so each one is a one-time experience. You can't really replay them since you will know
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by ageitgey 8y ago
They changed it so that Medium now defaults you into creating paywall posts and you have to fight the UI to create a free post. And when you create a free post, they warn you that it won't be promoted anywhere except to your followers.
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Natural Language Processing: Explaining Model Predictions with LIME(medium.com)
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How I Got an Unsponsored UK Work Visa as a Software Developer(medium.com)
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by ageitgey 8y ago
I don't think SV missed the window. Coinbase has done very well. I think the reasons a lot of HN people are negative on bitcoin and blockchain are: - For most use cases, blockchains seem like a really inefficient database. While blockc
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Facebook is not only a sketchy company, but the FB product itself has also gotten continually worse. It's now a bloated mess absolutely plastered in ads and viral/scammy/politics-as-sports trash. Even the annoying autoplay &q
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by ageitgey 8y ago
I've also noticed that the rate of advertising on Instagram is through the roof too (at least on my feed). It seems like 1 in 3 posts is now an ad and there even random ads when looking through recent Instagram Stories. It makes the wh
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by ageitgey 8y ago
> I was frustrated by the expectation to focus on documenting to get a promotion. I don't think it is a good practice and was surprised to see that focusing on that process (promotion) is not a distraction from doing your job: it is
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by ageitgey 8y ago
This is great advice. I did basically the same thing to get the UK version of this visa - the Tier 1 Exceptional Talent visa. I'll write about it sometime.
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by ageitgey 8y ago
> My feeling is this is a separate team as it's in the end hosted on hire.withgoogle.com. Probably the team got acquired and it was initially run as an experiment. Anyway, this is just an assumption. You're correct, it was a st
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by ageitgey 8y ago
This is basically how FBI Director Comey's secret Instagram account (and thus Twitter account) was unmasked. But it was even worse - you are suggested to 3rd party people who just follow the people who know you: https://gizm
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by ageitgey 8y ago
Just my feedback: The 2% transaction fee on top of Stripe is a big turnoff for me. My main use would be selling digital files via Stripe (ebooks, etc). Other services like getdpd.com offer that as a cut-and-paste button for static sites at
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by ageitgey 8y ago
> At a certain point I think the error was not the superintendent seeking a technical solution to changing start times, but seeking a solution at all on a topic where parents didn't want change. Agreed. It's a super hard proble
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Thanks for your insight. I think the work itself was really interesting and super useful. My point is just that often great work is a tiny component of successfully convincing a semi-rational and biased populace of agreeing to something. It
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One thing many programmers fail to realize is that almost all problems in the world are ultimately political, not technical. Data analysis is almost always a tool, not an answer. The hardest job in the world is getting a large group of peop

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