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   by asaph 8y ago

   Thanks for pointing that out. It's not clear from the article when precisely this change happened. It would have been somewhere between 1923 when the crimson "freak bud" appeared and prior to the 1980's. So red deliciou
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   by asaph 8y ago

   I like the apple varieties with a roughly even mix of red & green or red & yellow.
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   by asaph 8y ago

   Your memory deceives you. They look good but they've always been inferior in taste and texture. Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-...
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   by asaph 8y ago

   Good news! > The Red Delicious is no longer the dominant apple in American orchards, the U.S. Apple Association said last week, after lasting five decades in the top spot. The Gala apple is now first;[0] [0] https://slate.com&
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   by asaph 8y ago

   Why do bad things happen to good fruit? I wish something would wipe out the red delicious apple.
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   by asaph 8y ago

   > I left Google after three years as an SDE Were you on a 4 year vest schedule for your stock grant at Google? If so, did you leave some money on the table?
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   by asaph 8y ago

   > For obvious reasons: you can't tell from your data whether people you did not hire were truly bad. Many companies are fine with false negatives in their hiring process. Better to pass on a good candidate than hire a bad one.
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   by asaph 8y ago

   > cap karma at 1000 points Why? > get rid of the leaderboard Why?
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   by asaph 8y ago

   It's a way to personalize your account and a way for people to easily recognize an online identity across comments, articles and communities. It helps you discover that @asaph on HN is the same person as @asaph on GitHub, Twitter, Stac
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    by asaph 8y ago

    I for one would like to see some improvements. Here is my wishlist: 1. Markdown support 2. More profile capabilities. e.g. avatars, vanity URLs, link to your GitHub, Twitter, Stack Overflow, blog, etc. 3. Automatically create cache link for
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    by asaph 8y ago

    I think we hate our telephones more than we used to and I have a theory about why. The time lag between saying something and the other person hearing it is very noticeable on cell phones as compared with landlines. This makes conversations
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    by asaph 8y ago

    I find the denials made by the companies involved to be substantive and credible. I'm inclined to believe them. Perhaps Bloomberg's reporters fell for a conspiracy theory this time.
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    by asaph 8y ago

    How does this defend against a the type of hardware-based attack discussed in the article?
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    by asaph 8y ago

    Someone with assets of $10k would be a decathousandaire.
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    by asaph 8y ago

    > Instead there's a sticker on the side of the device with a password that got generated and assigned to it on the way out. And sometimes this sticker is left on the router and can be plainly seen by anyone nearby, even through a gl
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    by asaph 8y ago

    Thanks for that. I haven't heard a Russian reversal[1] in years. One my alltime favorites from back in the day (when Steve Jobs was still alive): At other companies you get jobs. At Apple, Jobs gets you! [1] https://en.wikip
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    by asaph 8y ago

    You don't need Triplebyte to launch in Boulder for that. Just apply directly to Google.
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    by asaph 8y ago

    I was being facetious. No one thinks we're taking about Kimbal.
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    by asaph 8y ago

    If you called him simply Musk, I might think you were referring to Kimbal. Elon disambiguates.
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    by asaph 8y ago

    $40 million actually. > Settlement Requires Musk to Step Down as Tesla’s Chairman; Tesla to Appoint Additional Independent Directors; Tesla and Musk Agree to Pay $40 million in Penalties > Musk and Tesla will each pay a separate $20 m
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    by asaph 8y ago

    Only by share price, which doesn't matter. By market cap, a far better (though still imperfect) measure of company value, GM is worth a little more. TSLA ~$45.5B GM ~$47B
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    by asaph 8y ago

    Facebook probably knows your phone number anyway because your friends have likely shared their phone's contacts with Facebook.
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    by asaph 8y ago

    The "trick" is both popular and commonly made to be moot by programmers. Source: I know programmers at multiple companies that have written production code to strip the +suffix from the username portion of gmail addresses.
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    by asaph 8y ago

    The mobile site has fewer ads than the desktop site. Ads only appear in the footer on mobile.
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    by asaph 8y ago

    They've been there for years. You just turned off your ad blocker :)
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    by asaph 8y ago

    Author here. Thanks everyone for your thoughtful feedback. I intentionally wanted to strike a cooperative tone in putting this story out there. When the largest company in the world features your side hustle in their brand new product, it&#
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    Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple(asaph.org)

    389 points by asaph 8y ago|210 comments
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    by asaph 8y ago

    How exactly does the fact that these solutions are rewritten in python indemnify the author from this? > You may not share your solutions to homework Source: https://learner.coursera.help/hc/en-us/articles/
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    by asaph 8y ago

    Posting solutions to Coursera assignments goes against the Coursera honor code. > You may not share your solutions to homework, quizzes, or exams with anyone else unless explicitly permitted by the instructor. Source: https://
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    by asaph 8y ago

    Octave isn't widely used in industry for ML. Python is.