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Things are slowly changing, but it's still heavily dependent on the university. I graduated in 2015, and we're now offering freshmen a "tooling class", which introduces students to some popular workflows. The curriculum
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It's worth reading the other report [1] the article cites — it's a lot more comprehensive than the author makes it out to be. The study didn't find a relationship between Uber and alcohol-involved accidents/fatalities (w
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And even if Facebook itself saw a decline, the business could still be quite successful from their properties alone. Instagram, Oculus, WhatsApp – all quite valuable, not to mention other standalone products within Facebook like Messenger (
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I stayed in 4 different Airbnbs in Barcelona around the time when Ada Colau was pushing to have them all registered [1]. The major concern I heard from my hosts were about properties used _only for Airbnb_, which were particularly notorious
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Pinterest allows employees to hold onto their options for seven years after leaving (if they stay at the company for two years) to avoid this scenario. I think there are a few other companies that have done similar things. http:/&#x2F
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Even if Facebook itself saw a decline, the business could still be quite successful from their properties alone. Instagram, Oculus, WhatsApp – all extremely valuable, not to mention other products like Messenger.
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Since people are discussing Auto Layout alternatives, I'd recommend AsyncDisplayKit ( http://asyncdisplaykit.org/ ) – although it's a bit more advanced. Layout mimics CSS and Flexbox. It was originally built by Face
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Also, it just so happens that the people working on NeoVim are currently porting all IO to libuv (the cross-platform library mentioned in the article). https://github.com/neovim/neovim#whats-being-worked-on-now
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In addition to the other advice, I'd recommend starting with the "seminal" articles in topic of interest – articles that are heavily cited by other researchers – before moving on to something more fine-grained. Even though I&
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I recently implemented depth-first iterative deepening in an Artificial Intelligence class project to solve the classic missionaries and cannibals problem [0]. The professor remarked that while there have been some optimizations over the la
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I really enjoyed learning about the techniques used in machine learning to select an ideal data set when there is no target model (compared to the paper, where the model is known). A common practice is called k-fold cross-validation, where
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I think it's also worth mentioning that choosing to use third party code is an opportunity for you to give back to the community. Most of the PRs on the projects I follow come from people that are using the code in their own applicatio
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This reminds me of a double-blind study where professional violin players were asked to select a Strad out of six violins that they played while wearing dark goggles. Only three out of seventeen were able to do it. When asked which violin w
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For me, the language wasn't the difficult part (like how the author mentions semicolons, etc.) I was able to pick that up from reading books. I remember having a Python book that walked through some simple programs which I ran on my co
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I think I can empathize with the author to an extent — I switched into computer science after freshman year, and encountered many students that had been programming since a young age, or at least since high school. I think the most importan
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I'm in the process of migrating from svbtle to Ghost ( https://ghost.org/ ), which is free if you can install it on your own web server. I stuck with svbtle for a while because of the free early membership and custom dom
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I doubt it was them, though think it's worth watching since Facebook will definitely have a post-mortem. If it's not DDoS/security related, then it would be kind of embarrassing for Lizard Squad (which is why I'm surpris
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It's interesting to see how Facebook downtime has a huge effect on Internet traffic – there's a Guardian report where they share their referral data while Facebook was down for 31 minutes (the longest outage in 4 years): http:&#x
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Noam Chomsky has an interesting section about sports in Understanding Power – he essentially asks: "what would society be like if all the attention given to sports was put towards politics?" When I'm driving, I sometimes t
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I think it's also worth mentioning the half-mile long drug tunnel discovered in 2010 – a full rail system was built about 70 ft under the surface that carted drugs from Tijuana to San Diego. https://www.youtube.com/watc
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I enjoyed this format as well – it reminded me of a presentation called Deep C , which teaches through a dialogue between an interviewer and two candidates with different levels of understanding. http://www.slideshare.net/o
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This article has been posted three times before. It's interesting to see how opinions change over time. 10 months ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7270973 ) 9 months ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com
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It's possible that this will change in the near future with things like https://getfinal.com/ . Their product video also happens to be one of my favorites made by Sandwich ( http://sandwichvideo.com/ ).
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https://domainr.com/ is another one that I've used in the past.
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In the spirit of non-disparagement, it seems like Yishan could have sent a private message to the employee which reiterated why he had been fired, and asked him to stop posting about it. If Yishan felt that it was necessary to comment, he c
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There's a lecture by a law school professor called "Don't Talk to Police" that I've seen on HN before and is definitely worth watching. The case in the article is unfortunate, although I'm curious what might ha
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From Ello's about page, "Ello is completely free to use. We occasionally offer special features to our users. If we create a special feature that you really like, you may choose to support Ello by paying a very small amount of mon
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It's been mentioned once, but I think the Minds from Ian M. Banks' Culture series is a quintessential example of benevolent A.I. To maintain a post-scarcity society, humans have turned over control of to the Minds, "hyperinte
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On a similar note, I would also recommend the film Exit Through the Gift Shop , which documents Thierry Guetta's rise in world of street art. While Thierry's artwork is largely considered unoriginal, he's able to make a cons
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I typically bike to work, but I'll take an Uber every once in a while for about $7-$9. Sometimes I use MUNI, which is $2. If Uber can drop the price range to $3-$5, I'd consider using them almost every day -- the difference in pri

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