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by anxrn 9y ago
Give me one good reason why blaming a random Google employee lunching in the cafeteria is "fair". (Disclaimer: I witnessed the shooting today, so not quite unbiased)
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by anxrn 9y ago
Why do Google employees deserve to be shouted at?
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by anxrn 9y ago
This might be semantics, but a slowdown means exactly that: a drop in growth rate.
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by anxrn 9y ago
Certainly not true for India (second largest contributor of international students, behind China [1]). By my (extremely unscientific) estimate, less than 5% of Indian students arriving in the US for higher education go back to work in India
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by anxrn 9y ago
Recent surveys do appear to support a slowdown in international graduate school enrollments ([1] summary, [2] original study). Furthermore, this trend predates the immigration policies of the current administration, and I suspect this trend
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Tube Alloys(en.wikipedia.org)
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Found: The Oldest Astrolabe Ever Discovered(atlasobscura.com)
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Why the Future Could Mean Delivery Straight into Your Fridge(blog.walmart.com)
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Trump announces U.S. will exit Paris climate deal(washingtonpost.com)
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by anxrn 9y ago
Interesting. This appears to bolster the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis[1] which has been the subject of a fair degree of criticism[2], particularly from Steven Pinker. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity [
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The science behind S-Town’s mercury poisoning mystery(vox.com)
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by anxrn 10y ago
A similar (unintentional) stunt: https://qz.com/880541/amazons-amzn-alexa-accidentally-ordere...
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by anxrn 10y ago
Agree. Another factor is mobile usage. The % of users that use Facebook _exclusively_ as an app is likely trending up as well.
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by anxrn 10y ago
The article primarily discusses SF, and not the Bay Area. The economics are likely very different in the South/East Bay.
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by anxrn 10y ago
I doubt this is always true. I've been involved in acqui{hire,sition} due diligence for a number of startup at a couple of different (large) internet companies. My experience has been that the terms can vary quite a bit, both in the se
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by anxrn 10y ago
Coincidentally, LinkedIn's NY offices are _in_ the Empire State Building. http://www.businessinsider.com/take-a-tour-through-linkedins...
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by anxrn 10y ago
> virtual indebtedness It wasn't just virtual. "The Anglo-American Loan Agreement was a post World War II loan made to the United Kingdom by the United States on 15 July 1946, and paid off in 2006. The loan was negotiated by Jo
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What Snow Tells Us About Creating Better Public Spaces on E. Passyunk Avenue(thisoldcity.com)
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by anxrn 11y ago
I agree. I didn't mean to imply the Netflix model was poorer.
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by anxrn 11y ago
Netflix pays only base salary, no stocks (RSUs). Total compensation at most other comparable companies has a significant stock component. The H1B reports only include base salary. So which they do pay well, no doubt, it is misleading to com
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by anxrn 11y ago
As a software practitioner, I find it hard to believe the distinction is a question of degree of quality and thoroughness. CS largely involves design and implementation of machines and automaton, and in many cases far more complex machines
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by anxrn 11y ago
I couldn't get past "Computer science is not quite engineering."
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by anxrn 12y ago
All ISP's in India need to be licensed by the government [1]. Non-compliance with this directive puts their license at risk. [1] http://www.dot.gov.in/data-services/internet-services
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Amazon Japan Has Doubled Its Goats(kotaku.com)
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by anxrn 13y ago
Applicants from any single 'country of chargeability' cannot exceed 7% of the total number of available employment-based green cards in a year [1]. In practice, someone from Iceland or Tuvalu can get an EB (category 2) visa in abo
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by anxrn 13y ago
Just off the top of my head: - Store/retrieve state in/from DynamoDB or RDS - Pull an object from S3 - Send an SNS notification - Add a message to an SQS queue - Dispatch email via SES
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Ex-Nokia CEO Stephen Elop taking over Xbox division at Microsoft(polygon.com)
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by anxrn 13y ago
The article does not seem to touch upon the possibility that the crystal was of extra-terrestrial origin.
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by anxrn 13y ago
"The researchers used a metric called a median multiple, which compares the average home price to the median yearly income for an urban region" Wouldn't it be better to compare medians? (Median home price to median yearly inc
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by anxrn 13y ago
It seems like for the HN search, your ranking function is the number of votes (or very highly correlated with it). If this is true, its not solving a problem as hard as 'classical' engines, which compute a lot more. It would be gr

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