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by chis 9y ago
Yeah, it's really bizarre that YouTube is content to constantly struggle with ad revenue, when most of their top users are making orders of magnitude more money through patreon. There's precedent too since twitch has had this exac
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by chis 9y ago
Yeah this post would be a lot more interesting with a good editor
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by chis 9y ago
Most of the internal talk I've seen favors Vancouver. It's geographically close (with excellent transportation), is big but still has room to grow. Canada in general is a good choice because they have more lax limmigration polic
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by chis 9y ago
I don't think I'll be able to convince you otherwise, but this would read to most people as two assholes arguing with each other. Also OPs explanation of why UNIX == POSIX was pretty confusing, and I had to look up more informati
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by chis 9y ago
This follow-up shows a lot of maturity. Both sides are obviously at fault here, although you instigated it. I suspect you could still get the internship if you send an apology like "Sorry for my previous emails they were out of line.
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by chis 9y ago
I'm not an expert, but it seems within the realm of possibility. Despite what hackernews thinks, the forkers have a somewhat reasonable argument, in that Vagg did violate the Code of Conduct (because it is extreme), and the committee
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by chis 9y ago
It's insane that we might reach a point where people install different branches of a project based on their political leanings... I think the main takeaway here is that a Code of Conduct, while valuable, has to be treated carefully. A
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by chis 9y ago
I bet you could do this by looking at all the Yelp reviews for an area over time. Some combination of average review score and total review quantity would produce a legit metric. But Yelp and Google's APIs aren't really designed
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by chis 9y ago
Business Insider loves posting articles with out of context stats copied directly from glassdoor.
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by chis 9y ago
It's funny how open the market for browser automation is. Everyone needs to switch off phantomJS in the next few years and is looking for the easiest option. Sadly, there's probably no money on the line. But you will get your bu
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by chis 9y ago
It's since been reinstated according to his Twitter. I would guess (and hope) that he was automatically banned based on the huge quantity of reports he presumably receives.
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by chis 9y ago
I have much more trust in a company's product if it's their main source of revenue. Dropbox would probably die if they lost all their desktop users, but there's really no reason Microsoft even cares about this. Anecdotally, O
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by chis 9y ago
I do think there's a lot of value in teaching logic and algorithms as a system for thought. Coding might be a more direct way to get to it than, say, calculus, which is what is generally used. But teaching kids java and databases is p
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by chis 9y ago
This is just incredibly impressive on the surface. I wonder if it could be used for compression of videos and pictures?
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by chis 9y ago
Just subscribed. 14$ a year seems way too cheap, but maybe they've run some numbers on it
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by chis 9y ago
The history is accurate and maybe that would've happened 20 years ago. But I wonder if globalization + the internet have ended these secret coups. I really can't imagine a world in which the CIA overthrows an entire government w
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by chis 9y ago
I believe they also differentiate between immediate right-swipe, and profile view before right-swipe. Sometimes my top picture changes and I haven't had any matches in a while. Or they're just fucking with me to keep my attention.
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by chis 10y ago
I strongly disagree with them using this for messenger. Facebook has a real opportunity to take over for text/email, and introducing censorship would be very unfortunate.
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by chis 10y ago
The next level would be a desktop app that syncs up with your phone and flashes the screen at a precise time while you record video. Then monitor lag could be tested without expensive hardware. But maybe UNIX time isn't precise enough
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Ask HN: How does one get into natural science with a computer degree?
4 points by chis 10y ago|4 comments
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by chis 10y ago
I honestly don't think that machine learning deserves to be on this timeline. Despite the hype, we haven't seen much indication that it's anything other than a fad, propped up by its ability to do more complex statistical reg
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by chis 10y ago
I think part of the problem is that everyone that comments then upvotes. Same as askreddit, for instance. Plus I wouldn't be surprised if these are manually pushed out of the top, there's like one a week and the mods must be get
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by chis 10y ago
I don't know if this is really all that impressive... Shia posted a photo from a diner in Tennessee, and then some dude drove around honking until the noise appeared on stream.
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by chis 10y ago
That's a good idea, subscribed! I'll give it a chance as-is but I wonder if weekly emails would be a nice option for some people.
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by chis 10y ago
DrivenData.org is a solid competitor without much publicity. Maybe they'll take over some of the traffic if Kaggle changes for the worse.
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by chis 10y ago
https://www.logojoy.com/ seems surprisingly close to this. If I were starting a small business I'd probably just get my logo from this type of automated service.
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by chis 10y ago
Any interest in hiring interns?
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by chis 10y ago
The national debt? My understanding was that most economists don't rate that as a very significant issue. But I'd love to be linked to something proving me wrong.
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‘What Do You Think Is the Most Important Problem Facing This Country Today?’(nytimes.com)
130 points by chis 10y ago|165 comments
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by chis 10y ago
Current interviews don't really encourage critical thinking. If 2 candidates are given a question, and one can regurgitate a memorized algorithm immediately, he's probably the one to get the job. Plus, nerves and time pressure m

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