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by dtran 7y ago
Thanks for reading! Whoa, do you still play BW once a month, or is that SC2? I never started playing SC2, so I actually had to look up Artosis pylon. I def remember Manner pylon though :) And hmm, I actually didn't think I'd find
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by dtran 7y ago
I started this post with the Starcraft campaign example, and then as I kept writing, was thinking that I might have to backtrack and get rid of SC completely. To be fair, the campaign is very contrived, but in most 1v1s, I feel like strong
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by dtran 7y ago
OP here. Thanks for making this connection! I hadn't heard of OFU before, but it sounds interesting. I'm actually working on another post about "optimizing around the optimal" and use multi-armed bandit as an example =).
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DFS, poker, basketball, Starcraft and strong opinions, weakly held(davidtran.me)
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by dtran 7y ago
Congrats on the launch Bilal and team!
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by dtran 7y ago
I don't have much background knowledge in mapping or self-driving, so I thought this was well-written in a way that anyone could understand! Re: breaking down the data framework into world geometry vs. semantic annotations— that makes
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by dtran 7y ago
I use an extension called ["News Feed Eradicator"]( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat... ) because I rarely find that I get much, if any, value from the Facebook feed. As Ricky s
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by dtran 8y ago
I enjoyed learning about moais, but the Blue Zone quiz at the end of the article was a complete non-sequitir for me. I like the simple litmus test that wizardforhire mentioned ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17544755 )
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Why did the human driver cross the road? To confuse the self-driving car(wired.com)
2 points by dtran 8y ago|0 comments
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by dtran 8y ago
Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17512045 , I'm trying to figure out what gets me most excited about what DIRT and TCRs could enable. For me, it's actually not data easily verifiable as true or fals
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A San Franciscan tries the future of mobility(medium.com)
2 points by dtran 9y ago|0 comments
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by dtran 9y ago
Hey thisisit, happy to! Leo replied with more specifics in the sibling comment to this, so I'll try to talk about the high-level aspects very briefly, although I'm working on a post titled "PR from first principles" that
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by dtran 9y ago
David, one of the founders at Upbeat here! Our media strategy lead Leo wrote up some advice about two of the most common stories to pitch. Obviously there are stories beyond announcing funding or launching out of an accelerator, but a lot o
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With Cardiogram's AI, Apple Watch can detect sleep apnea and hypertension(mobihealthnews.com)
3 points by dtran 9y ago|0 comments
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by dtran 9y ago
Congrats Chris, Lee, Ryan and the rest of the team on the launch!
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by dtran 9y ago
Hey Amar, Thanks for checking out our project! What alerts do you have set up in Google News Alerts? Re: providing contact info— that's definitely one logical next step. We left it out of this hack week project. Journalists already get
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by dtran 9y ago
Hey neerkumar, Thanks for the kind words! We aren't focused on sales, but in case anyone here is, what do you mean? It'd find sales prospects based on how similar their companies are/what they tweet about?
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by dtran 9y ago
Hey everyone, After helping hundreds of companies with PR and having talked to thousands of founders, the most common thing we hear is: "I'm not sure how to get started with PR" or "I'll think about it in a few mont
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Show HN: Find and follow journalists relevant to your startup using ML(app.upbeatpr.com)
92 points by dtran 9y ago|13 comments
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by dtran 9y ago
> When asked by multiple lawmakers why Equifax set up this separate site, Smith said the company's main domain was not architected to process the enormous traffic the company knew would come its way after the announcement. In all, S
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by dtran 9y ago
(Longtime emacs user but have now used sublime text for several years) Super interesting post, Mike! Not surprising that emacs/vim users tested better since use of those is likely correlated with having programmed for longer or having
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by dtran 9y ago
Hey everyone, one of the co-founders here. We're working on a blog post with more details on the technical side that we hope to share soon, but if you guys have any questions about Upbeat, PR, YC, or life in general, we'll be chec
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by dtran 10y ago
I'm definitely not advocating for unnecessarily complex or long conditionals on a single line or any other hard-to-grok code, but this comment reminded me of something I just learned recently! Someone on my team introduced me to proper
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by dtran 10y ago
I highly recommend Two Scoops of Django and have recommended to every engineer at my company. The one caveat would be that the newest edition is for Django 1.8, so it'd be good to check against the docs periodically if anything looks o
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by dtran 10y ago
Hi, thanks for your feedback/questions. No, you're not losing context—these can be rewritten to be much more informative and expressive. We've been mostly focused on recruiting through our network, so I haven't had a cha
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by dtran 10y ago
PRX is reinventing PR (public relations, not pull requests, although we create a lot of those too) for companies by making it on-demand, transparent, and affordable. Unlike working with traditional PR agencies that cost tens of thousands of
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PRX.co is hiring ML and full-stack engineers in SF to fix the broken PR industry(prx.co)
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PRX.co is hiring ML & full-stack engineers in SF to fix the broken PR industry(prx.co)
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by dtran 10y ago
PRX.co | San Francisco, CA | Full-stack software engineer | ONSITE PRX is reinventing PR (public relations, not pull requests, although we create a lot of those too) for companies by making it on-demand, transparent, and affordable. Unlike
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by dtran 10y ago
(This applies for software startups— not sure what it's like for other industries) It doesn't necessarily have to be competitive for software companies. Even though some do compete for the same customers, even many similar tools a

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