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Design Your Own Dream Subway Line – ConnectSF from City of San Francisco(connectsf.org)
1 points by capkutay 10y ago|3 comments
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by capkutay 10y ago
Agreed. Though this is pretty consistent with college CS/Math courses in general (at least in my experience). A lot of dense theoretical content covered in scribbles and slides. You don't really learn anything until you just do pr
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Anecdotal thought, I find practical guides and tutorials like this far more useful for learning machine learning than any of the public MOOCs like Andrew Ng's machine learning class. There's a lot of dense content shown in video l
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Why did they move the self-driving car operations to Michigan? It would make sense if there was a business, partnership or manufacturing group out there, but they still could have kept R&D in Mountain View.
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Maybe I have a poor definition of 'point of refusal', but this is the term developers use. Most developers in SF don't tell you whether they drilled down to bedrock or not.
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Because Millennium is on reclaimed land, they cannot determine whether or not they have drilled into bedrock. They drill into what's called the 'point of refusal'; a point where they can no longer drill deeper. Whether this i
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Atheists in Turkey are safe but I wouldn't recommend going out into a city square touting atheism. I think a lot of people don't realize that you can live a western life in some Turkish cities without major issues. The risks come
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by capkutay 10y ago
> using all the the "tesla autopilot" safety features I can't tell if you are being facetious given the short-comings and risks of Tesla's autopilot (frequently discussed here).
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by capkutay 10y ago
Right it will be up for voters to decide. But a 2/3 majority victory is almost impossible in SF. . The ultra-progressive ballots have been relatively unsuccessful in SF lately even with 1/2 vote required to win (anti-Airbnb measur
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by capkutay 10y ago
Worth mentioning that this requires a 2/3 vote to pass which means it has pretty slim chances. The proposal has yet to pass through Board of Supervisors which always introduces its own amendments as well.
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Apple can't even keep up with streets in major US cities. For instance, Long Bridge st in San Francisco does not exist according to Apple maps despite appearing in Google maps and open street maps.
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by capkutay 10y ago
This is the correct answer. Jokes aside, ES2015 hits the sweet spot for new powerful languages with big-name backers (facebook is compiled in babel). https://twitter.com/amasad/status/631251607422787584
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"I was deciding whether this venture was worth committing to another year of 70+ hour weeks. I need a higher level of certainty than investors do because my time is more valuable to me than their money is to them. Investors place bets
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You can try out Striim for streaming data integration (full disclosure, I work there): http://www.striim.com/download-striim/
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The PINTOS project is another classic operating systems course. Definitely takes a fair amount of time but it is rewarding. All the material is accessible online: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/
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Basically any influence by 'extremely wealthy' is automatically viewed as an attack on 'freedom'. It's a straw-man political argument.
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by capkutay 10y ago
I wonder if there's an inverse 'So you wanna go SaaS' for on-prem only companies...
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by capkutay 10y ago
Really depends on the use case. If you're trying to do streaming, spark will introduce some latency because it's based on micro-batching. Flink and Storm are better for low-latency scenarios.
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Obligatory reminder: If you care about housing in the Bay Area, register to vote now. Scott Wiener is a housing and transportation advocate running for State Senate in this election. http://registertovote.ca.gov/ Show up to
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by capkutay 11y ago
Oracle already sells A LOT of Exadata; premium priced machines to run databases on overdrive. I think they would be fine competing against a GPU-optimized database.
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This. Especially in the range of a ~$1000 watch. A Movado will cost you $500-$1500...it's not a high end motorized watch, but it looks nice. The Apple Watch is certainly more useful, one can argue it looks better than a lot of watches
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by capkutay 11y ago
If you care about SF housing, please just show up to Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors meetings. Talking about policy on hacker news is useless. Better yet, start or join a grassroots group of at least 10-15 people and thoughtful
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by capkutay 11y ago
If you care about SF housing, please just show up to Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors meetings. Better yet, start or join a grassroots group of at least 10-15 people and thoughtfully present all your ideas without coming off as
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by capkutay 11y ago
That's too bad. I always thought flights on Airbus's are a lot smoother during take off.
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From a product standpoint it doesn't really make sense. Maybe they're just refurbishing old iPhone 5's and they can't build in the 3D touch capability.
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They use the word 'boilerplate' too liberally. A 10-page app with a bunch of screens you won't use is just an example application.
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I can't stand obstructionist politicians, but I also don't buy the argument that SF is not 'moving forward'. It's also building a significant amount of housing and getting over its fear of heights. There are 3 distr
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There must have been a steep discount given that Spotify has been an enormous reference customer and blogging about how much they love it.
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The costliest tradeoff for commuting is working out. It's hard to exercise after commuting due to general exhaustion from the work day. Waking up very early to work out before the commute can have bad effects productivity for that day.
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