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by dogruck 9y ago
A couple US Navy ships have recently had them IIRC.
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by dogruck 9y ago
I wonder if companies, like Apple, will segment their tech stack to extract areas where one could argue that it’s not ethical to have an intellectual advantage. Perhaps pedestrian detection is one such area. If two autonomous car companies
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by dogruck 9y ago
Can anybody think of other examples of products or tools that fall into the category of: “many people use them, even though management tells them not to, because it helps them get stuff done.” I’m not a mechanic, but is WD40 an example? Or
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by dogruck 9y ago
Earlier thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15680355 RIP.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Interesting site. I immediately thought of the All Your Base Are Belong To Us meme. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_...
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by dogruck 9y ago
Genuine question — is $70 million, spread across +4 different competing companies, a lot of money, for an industry like robot makers? Or, said another way, if the article had said the companies collectively raised $700 million, I don’t thin
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by dogruck 9y ago
Nice article. I’ll admit that, when I clicked, I was anticipating a rant about “the algos.” Does anyone else feel a bit panicked these days when you search for an answer online, and not see any pointers? The feeling of, “whelp... I guess.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Ah, I see how my comment could be interepreted that way. Wasn’t my intention. At this point, it doesn’t feel constructive to wail at decades of obvious mismanagement.
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by dogruck 9y ago
After reading that article, it’s hard not to have the angry reaction of “wow, those idiots!” Right!? But, really, we should look inward. For example, where was the New York Times when all of these bad leadership decisions were made? Were
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by dogruck 9y ago
Ah I missed it! You make a good point.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Huh? You seem angry.
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by dogruck 9y ago
I think of it this way: 1. Suppose we tested on 1 datum and got 0/1. Not good. 2. How about just 2? 1/2. Hmm.. coin flip. 3. Ok, let’s do 3. 2/3. Well, better than half but it’s easy to get 2 heads on 3 coin flips. 4. ..
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by dogruck 9y ago
I do not believe that a single Twitter account, from some faceless, vapid entity (not verifiably connected to a real person) meaningfully impacted the election. Also, this argument ignores bots that were pro-HRC and anti-Trump.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Wow, so interesting. TIL that we have 10s of thousands of 4,000 year old clay tablets. What a data set! This was the only downer of the article: > As a final check, the authors ran the model against the location of known ancient cities
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by dogruck 9y ago
Yeah, I think that’s accurate. I made the remark primarily because the article discusses career trajectory as one of the motivations for emphasizing the combination of “traders who code.” In essence, they’re advertising that your pay won’t
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by dogruck 9y ago
As an ex-MD you also know that banks used to not be too price sensitive, so they didn't mind paying a lot for some Kx experts. Of course, these days, with revenues being squeezed, that's changed.
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by dogruck 9y ago
The trading-coding positions they’re referring to in that article have total comps that can be far greater than 200k pounds.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Peter Thiel is not universally hated. He’s only hated by a subset of society. He’s greatly admired by another subset.
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by dogruck 9y ago
This is a native recruitment piece for Goldman and other banks. It was probably orchestrated between GS and BBG. That said, I think it’s genuine. Computer Scientists who work on Wall Street should not view their role as simply “a person who
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by dogruck 9y ago
You are unjustifiably attacking conservative politics. First, before he got busted for grabbing women, liberal Senator Al Franken was rallying the troops to against Google and FB: https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/0
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by dogruck 9y ago
Setting ageism aside (which is certainly real), perhaps it’s also related to what the company is optimizing for. For example, it’s now clear that companies like Twitter only optimized for number of supposed real users. I’m sure they had no
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by dogruck 9y ago
Can you clarify what gives you the impression that I did not read the article? Did you notice that it says: “Our logic was to start at the extreme scenario [and work backward from that],” says Robin White, the study’s lead author and an a
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by dogruck 9y ago
This list of myths is composed of non-myths.
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by dogruck 9y ago
Yes, and please read the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can
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by dogruck 9y ago
Personally, I don't find it persuasive or constructive to start a thought experiment with "what would happen if this thing that will never happen actually happens." Instead, I think you just get divisive click bate. Vegans w
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by dogruck 9y ago
I like these: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master... http://www.reed.com/dpr/locus/Papers/EndtoEnd.html
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by dogruck 9y ago
The real question is how can we reduce the cost of education (or training) while simultaneously better aligning training with the most valuable careers. Trade schools are much cheaper than college. In addition, we don’t have enough trained
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by dogruck 9y ago
I’m think the number of self-defeating replies, on this forum of high achievers, is sad. What if I listed studies showing how hard it is to stop smoking. Would you say, “well, there it is — pass me the tobacco.” No — most of you would ackn
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by dogruck 9y ago
You’re right — most people will fail to stick with diets, exercise, and personal organization. Frankly, it feels hilarious that researchers had to spend time proving that claim. Just look around! On the other hand, there’s a powerful mino
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by dogruck 9y ago
I’m not seeing your joke. Confused. Maybe you’re like an evil hypnotist. “You will stop following your diet. You will stop following your diet. You will stop following your diet.” :-) Seriously though — I think these two claims are both

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