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by chris_va 12y ago
The Google trademark lawyers would roll over in their crypt if they read your comment :).
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by chris_va 12y ago
The oped piece you cited does not support your assertion that the "FDA is incompetent and corrupt". They may be, but that is a pretty hefty accusation and requires more evidence. Nor, honestly, does it support the "getting a
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by chris_va 12y ago
I agree with your argument, but I do want to point out (since I think people here sometimes forget this) that the "5 other teams" thing starts to break down once you leave the traditional Silicon Valley product domains. When worki
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by chris_va 12y ago
1) To be pedantic, it detects your immune response (not the microorganisms directly) 2) "14% false alarm rate" => That makes it basically useless.
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by chris_va 12y ago
> "magic values" Actually you can make something that checks for a magic value without encoding the magic value in the microcode. Triggering a buffer overrun in software often requires very particular inputs, but those inputs a
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by chris_va 12y ago
After seeing the Prometheus query language, I opened the comments looking for this quote :).
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From an economics standpoint, local "optimum" can be easily evaluated by looking at the cost of labor. Labor is expensive in the US, significantly more than herbicides, and weeding is extremely labor intensive. However, that ign
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by chris_va 12y ago
Why does this exist? (Serious question)
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by chris_va 12y ago
In fact, it is happening: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/08/15/340653853/startu...
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by chris_va 12y ago
"VAT is and has always been a tax for the buyer, not the seller" Does this distinction actually mean anything material? Buyers start with all of the money, and it ends up split between the seller and the government. From the buyer
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by chris_va 12y ago
I got my numbers from the news publishers directly. They do a better job of selling to ad networks than a typical website.
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by chris_va 12y ago
Some math: -- $3/month/user 10 sites the user visits daily (for argument's sake) 3 pages visited per site (for argument's sake) 30 days per month => Each site: $3 * 1/10 * 1/30 => $0.01/day/user
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by chris_va 12y ago
Did anyone else figure out this comment, or is it just author bias? "But because cost is one of the greatest barriers to making self-contained villages the standard in dementia care, it would be extremely difficult to implement in a no
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by chris_va 12y ago
I like the concept, but altitude matters. Airport control areas are like an inverted layer cake: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Airspace_... It would be nice to add a feature to drone
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by chris_va 12y ago
As a warning, don't try to be too clever with your ID system. You can get collision bugs that aren't usually visible in testing. I had a catastrophic bug (ala private data going to the wrong person) from 96-bit (32 bit segment num
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by chris_va 12y ago
I feel compelled to point out that almost all of those numbers are completely incorrect overestimates.
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by chris_va 12y ago
Random question: Why do black box pings stop after 30 days of 1 ping/second, instead of an exponential tail off for the next few decades?
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by chris_va 12y ago
If you classify hundreds of millions of dollars in loss as a minor inconvenience...
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by chris_va 12y ago
Oof, this may take a much longer blog post, but here is the very high level basic view. The basic construction on one doc-sharded server looks like: 1) Maximum valid local_docid 2) A map of local_docid => state (valid, deleted) 3) A map
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by chris_va 12y ago
In case people find it interesting, this is very similar to how one efficiently builds a search engine for high QPS and update rate (lockless realtime document index), though that example is slightly more involved than a hash map. The basic
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by chris_va 12y ago
An elephant is poached (on average) every 15 minutes in Africa. The poachers are often not of the local area, and roam between parks based on how easy the target seems. After a kill, they usually get out quickly and pass the ivory to a smug
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by chris_va 12y ago
Out of curiosity, did you happen to pay for any of those things you are complaining about? Edit: To folks down voting... That is totally fair, this was a useless negative comment on my part. Regardless, it seems unnecessary to avoid using a
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by chris_va 12y ago
"Perhaps the most destructive part of it all is the secrecy and opacity. The public never finds out the full facts of the case, nor discovers which specific people—with souls and bodies—were to blame. Since the cases never go to court,
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by chris_va 12y ago
This is not well thought out: "If everyone worked fewer hours, for instance, there would be more jobs for the unemployed to fill. The economy wouldn’t be able to produce quite as much, which means it wouldn’t be able to pollute as much
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by chris_va 12y ago
Random side question, in case anyone here knows: Since when has "lead data scientist" at Google been a real (or maybe just important?) thing? I certainly did not interact with any in my time on Maps, but that was before the date m
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by chris_va 12y ago
Good question, unclear answer. IV is not a typical patent troll, so the standard patent troll argument is hard to apply. They do not file large numbers of small lawsuits, but rather a small number of very large lawsuits (e.g. against the In
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by chris_va 12y ago
While I realize HN loves basic income, it honestly is not a good idea. I would love to hear people's arguments for it. Make no mistake, no one wants unemployment, poverty, starvation, poor health, etc. Like any government program, basi
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by chris_va 12y ago
For those of you planning on interviewing... Having done interviews for a large tech firm, dynamic programming questions are a favorite for weeding out candidates. Anecdotally, it correlates rather well with problem solving skills.
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by chris_va 12y ago
Do you think crowdsourcing $300B/year is going to be (A) feasible, and (B) more capital efficient than having a bunch of experts attempting to extract maximum value from their revenue stream? I think crowdsourcing can certainly play a
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by chris_va 12y ago
Vaccine trials are essentially this. You give some percentage of the population the vaccine, and you compare their survival rates to the rest of the population.

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