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by boomzilla 11y ago
This is so true. What's concerning is that terms are usually confidential and not available to most employees (including the top technical contributors). Given the info on Square on Box, it seems we should expect the last round investo
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Mxnet: an efficient deep learning framework for Python, R, Julia and Go(github.com)
5 points by boomzilla 11y ago|0 comments
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Yes, every language/framework is good at something and bad at some other. They are just tools. What matters is what one builds. A lot of technical news these days are about tools, not products.
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Dorsey to give one-third of his Twitter stock to employees(usatoday.com)
1 points by boomzilla 11y ago|0 comments
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by boomzilla 11y ago
For startups this size, evaluations are usually in the range of 10-30 revenues, so it's reasonably safe to assume their revenue is in the range of 40-100M.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Classification problems in a medical domain. It literally took me 30 minutes to install madlib and run logistic regression on a table. It then probably took me a few more days to do some analysis, try out various algorithms and productioniz
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by boomzilla 11y ago
I've used madlib[1] before and was quite happy with that. Maybe you can do a feature comparison with similar existing solutions as many people don't have the bandwidth to go through your documentations. [1] http://madli
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Because we expect more from YC. No one doubts that YC has been a hugely positive impact in the startup world. It seems below YC's standard to share selective metrics that might not tell the whole story.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
They deliberately avoid answering that question. The point is you feed "the machine" with all the data you can, maybe from all the sensors in every Android phone around the world, and "the machine" will tell you what phi
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Yeah, that bit of information is more interesting. Did he get the access illegally? Why was that not a crime, but sending the messages was? Something is off here.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Does this mean YC is shifting from an incubator to a more full fledged VC pipeline? Or is it just a lead generator for the YC companies to meet more investors?
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LA and SF DAs: A Killer, a Burglar and a Kidnapper All Drove for Uber(recode.net)
2 points by boomzilla 11y ago|1 comments
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by boomzilla 11y ago
First I agree with you that I don't get a lot of YC startups, including the food selling machines at their current state. I do think that one of the more inefficient aspects of life is how humans handle food, from producing, transporti
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by boomzilla 11y ago
That's an interesting angle that I've not thought of. Yes ignorance is a bliss. However my original point was more in the line of: if the chimps had a choice of getting extinct, vs the option of getting conscious enough to realize
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by boomzilla 11y ago
I feel very good: they are tools and the only way they can intentionally harm us is for all of them to collectively commit suicides.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Simple economics: they get some value from having their content on Pinterest. There is no value (that they could see) from having their content scraped by other bots.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Would it be better for them to get extinct, or to become advanced enough to understand that there is a much more technologically superior race in the same planet and that their lives and deaths totally depend on that race?
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by boomzilla 11y ago
It seems mysql (and hopefully postgresql sometime soon) with custom sharding logic in the app layer still hits the sweet spot for scaling to the order of 100M users. With some thoughts going into designing an appropriate data model and shar
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by boomzilla 11y ago
I mostly read Reddit while not logged in, so I've never seen any latency. I guess it's mostly because of authentication/personalized content stuff, which should be easy to fix, by doing less of them or lazy loading.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Most people I know just use Google for site search by adding the site name to the query. More sophisticated queries can use site:reddit.com syntax, but usually adding reddit to a query should have the desired effect. If any DuckDuckGo guy a
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by boomzilla 11y ago
What are the technology challenges is Reddit facing? Clearly not scaling as it's been pretty reliable. New features? What more feature does one need from Reddit? It's pretty good for what it's doing.
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Someone seriously said: "that's not satisfactory" in an interview? That's so unnecessary. The strongest language I've ever said when interviewing is "I think there might be some perspectives that you've no
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by boomzilla 11y ago
This depends on your current infrastructure, your expected growth over the next few years and obviously your software stack. In my experience, unless you are doing something with extreme latency or scaling requirements, AWS is likely cheape
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Do you know if that's because Tesla is not selling enough cars, or the market demand is just not there? China used to be thought of as the big market eventually but with everything going on there, it seems that's not a good assump
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by boomzilla 11y ago
The big problem with Yelp is how you make money off the reviews? Advertisement doesn't work well because people will just go to the best reviewed shops. Checkin discount, Groupon style, is too small a market, and a failed biz model any
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by boomzilla 11y ago
Are things that bad at Dropbox? I know its user growth has been slowing down, but I thought it's more because they've been focusing on monetization. It does seem to me that Dropbox is a feature, not a complete product. If it goes
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by boomzilla 11y ago
It really depends on the mindsets of users. My guess is that Github users tend to browse/read code in multiple repos more while Bitbucket users tend to work on their own private repos more. So it's logical that Github defaults to
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by boomzilla 11y ago
What's the current state of team strategies implemented in this competition? Every robot going for the goal on its own? Simple passing forwards? Blocking? Double team on the ball carrier? What's the most number of intended passes
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by boomzilla 11y ago
More details in Gawker's article: http://gawker.com/here-are-the-internal-documents-that-prove...
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Uber operating at big losses, suggests document leak(bbc.com)
38 points by boomzilla 11y ago|53 comments

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