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by alanlewis 9y ago
It's not clear from the demo video, but will this help with labeling data? In my experience, that is the most time consuming part of creating models.
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by alanlewis 12y ago
Well, surely more standardized testing will fix that right up.
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by alanlewis 12y ago
"This device isn't a spaceship... it's a time machine."
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by alanlewis 12y ago
Mark Andreesson, Chris Dixon, and Benedict Evans discuss tech valuations on the most recent A16Z podcast: http://a16z.com/2014/04/21/a16z-podcast-evaluating-valuation... (Spoiler alert - none of them think th
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by alanlewis 12y ago
From the article (which note is published on the Howard Jarvis Tax Association website): "Howard Jarvis told the story of watching an elderly lady suffering a heart attack while visiting the Los Angeles assessor's office when she
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by alanlewis 13y ago
Lemme guess: google employee? Part of what the city council has been blocking is (according to the linked Verge article) stopping Google from doing an environmental report necessary to develop land adjacent to one of their campuses. Why? Be
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by alanlewis 13y ago
The conclusions in the report seem tenuous. Read the article, and you'll learn that this is all based on the Gallup "Q12" poll (read the report for yourself: http://www.gallup.com/strategicconsulting/1647
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by alanlewis 13y ago
From the platform provider's point of view, it doesn't make business sense to offer features like this to an OS or to other apps. Someone like Facebook wants you to have to come to the experience (app, website) that they control,
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by alanlewis 13y ago
These tweets are from 2.5 years ago. Has the google bot improved since then? (Honest question)
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by alanlewis 13y ago
Headline is wrong. 2 data points that the article is based on: 1) Google has spent 21 billion dollars on Capital Expenditures since 2006 (presumably gathered from SEC filings) and 2) "Google says the majority of its capital investments
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by alanlewis 13y ago
If the employer is in California, and if you are making less than 88K a year, what they are doing may be illegal (IANAL) http://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/11170.html
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by alanlewis 13y ago
Because that is what the market will bear.
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by alanlewis 13y ago
The reasonably priced inventory around in downtown San Jose has been snatched up. The lowest price place I could find on real estate sites that is within walking distance from the Caltrain station is a 429K 1 bed/1 bath in the Axis tower. T
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by alanlewis 13y ago
My takeaway from this is: stay the hell away from affiliate marketing.
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by alanlewis 13y ago
I always forget how difficult it is to convey sarcasm in written form. My bad.
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by alanlewis 13y ago
15. Source: http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=piano+tuner&find_lo...
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by alanlewis 14y ago
Possibly. I've been hoping to find some candidates who can help train other developers here on Rails. We do pair development, which has proved to be tricky to do remotely. Anyone with experience doing remote pairing/remote training?
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Ask HN: How Do I Hire a Great Rails Developer?
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by alanlewis 14y ago
1) The data is grouped by zip codes, not by neighborhood (notice that "pacific heights" spans multiple zip codes.) Better would be to have data derived from neighborhood polygons that delineate clear neighborhood boundaries 2) The prices a
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by alanlewis 15y ago
Real names are valuable in so far as they can be used to build gender (and possibly ethnicity?) models. I doubt this is the primary reason Google is insisting on real names, however. More like: Myspace allowed fake names and it failed. Face
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by alanlewis 15y ago
Feedback?
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by alanlewis 15y ago
And now the post on HN about the ads will generate far more impressions for SignNow than the ads did.
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by alanlewis 18y ago
Hi Brian. We should chat more in this comment section, because going down the hall to converse in meatspace is so time consuming.
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by alanlewis 18y ago
I can give you the summary online: "pretty darn cool". For the complete dish, feel free to contact me.
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by alanlewis 18y ago
We are (Ning): http://about.ning.com/jobs.php Software developers (front end PHP focused and backend distrubuted Java focused) and QA engineers are especially needed.