emtel

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by emtel 6y ago
Why is this article dodging the question of whether the restaurants are making or losing money due to food delivery apps? > We didn’t have a choice, we caved. Revenue from these platforms made a difference for our business Ok, I assume i
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by emtel 7y ago
> Don't write programs to run in the same space as websites. Who do you imagine is going to find this advice compelling?
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by emtel 7y ago
People have pointed out many flaws in this argument, but I haven’t seen what I believe is the simplest flaw: specifically, if QI as defined in the article is true, you can’t conclude that the universe will take every possible opportunity to
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by emtel 7y ago
Do you have any basis in fact for what you're saying? Because this might be the most wrong top comment I've ever seen on HN. I worked at google for most of the 2000s, and no one was ashamed of the company or how it made money. We
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by emtel 7y ago
You should be _extremely_ skeptical of this finding. 1. It's an observational, retrospective study. 2. The control analysis is dubious, and its unclear if the control analysis was selected in advance. 2. It's an astonishingly high
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by emtel 7y ago
I'm not sure exactly what your disagreement is. I agree interviewing shouldn't test a single skill. I also agree you can get better at interviewing. But I still think the interviewing process you use is more important than the ski
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by emtel 7y ago
I don't think "assessing talent" during interviewing is a skill you can learn. The skill you're learning is assessing how well the candidate performed during the interviewing process. The interviewing process itself is w
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by emtel 7y ago
Anybody who thinks they know for sure that slack can't possibly be worth $16B should go back and read some threads from around the Facebook IPO (like this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4320585 ). It's ve
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by emtel 7y ago
Yes. I really like it. Since roughly 1998, I've done work chat on IRC, hipchat, MOOs, and a web-based chat app I built with a friend. Slack is the best of any of them.
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by emtel 7y ago
"worse is better" seems to be born out again and again and again. In fact it's fairly hard to find cases where "do the right thing" won. Here's some examples where a clearly flawed technology became totally dom
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by emtel 7y ago
> I am glad you used to enjoy my writing! And I am sorry for being a bit of a dick! > My argument is that you can't infer consent from how people adapt to circumstances in a situation where they are not given a choice. I see what
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by emtel 7y ago
I never said it did, nor do I think that. I said people don't care. If we want legal privacy protections even though people don't care, that's a reasonable thing to want. What I'm reacting against is the claim I see so
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by emtel 7y ago
> The large tech companies point to our willing use of their services as proof that people don’t really care about their privacy. But this is like arguing that inmates are happy to be in jail because they use the prison library. I used t
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by emtel 7y ago
In order to believe what you're claiming here, we have to believe that 1. There is magic css/js that can not only tell different browsers and devices apart, but can tell two phones from the same manufacturing run with the same sof
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by emtel 7y ago
Mainly my comprehension has improved. I haven't been doing much speaking practice because the method is so heavily focused on input. I'm not as worried about being understood, as I've never had much trouble being understood w
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by emtel 7y ago
I've been using lingq.com for about two months to learn Japanese, and I think it's lightyears beyond any of the other tools I've used, which include Duolingo, Anki, japaneselevelup, and probably a few others I've forgott
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by emtel 8y ago
What? How in the hell did we get to the point where building a service that lets people rent their living space to short term guests is "a conspiracy to enable illegal activity"? If airbnb hosts aren't paying taxes properly,
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by emtel 8y ago
The people who believe facebook is the most evil company in the world are a fairly small minority. Most people who work at facebook believe the company is positive or neutral, and are happy to be able to work with smart people at a place th
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by emtel 8y ago
... and routers would have to parse text fields in order to route packets
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by emtel 8y ago
Going through Marie Kondo's process was amazing for me. I've tried so many times to get organized, and her book seemed to address the exact reasons why each of my previous attempts has failed. And it really, really, worked. I woul
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by emtel 8y ago
My definition isn't wrong - NP-hard is a superset of NP. There are problems in NP hard whose solutions can't be verified in polynomial time. Also, you're wrong about being able to verify a solution easily. The decision versio
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by emtel 8y ago
But the article isn't talking about the decision TSP, is it, so your objection doesn't apply?
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by emtel 8y ago
Absolutely not. See my top level comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18737321
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by emtel 8y ago
This is a non story, at least insofar as it concerns complexity. The result would be no more or less interesting if the amoebas sorted an array or did some other polynomial time task. Here's why: 1. Finding approximate or near-optimal
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by emtel 8y ago
I'm not sure what you're seeing is an effect of being older. Learning the first 200 kanji in RTK is easy. So easy it feels like magic. Things get much, much harder by the time you get to 1000. You start to have very similar overla
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by emtel 8y ago
This is certainly true - I thought about emphasizing this point but didn't want to make my comment longer.
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by emtel 8y ago
On the topic of learning to remember characters - Japanese students attempting to learn kanji (very close to traditional chinese characters) often use a book called "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig. The method devised by th
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by emtel 8y ago
Speaking as a former employee (who left for personal reasons), stories like this which compare facebook to a product that literally causes cancer make it much _easier_ to ignore criticism of the company. Once you see your umpteenth story ab
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by emtel 8y ago
There are numerous examples of subsidies in the real world that haven't led to price controls. And yes, subsidies distort the market. I'm pretty sure 99% of economists will agree that subsidies are less distortionary than price
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by emtel 8y ago
On the first article, if you believe that a human is smarter than a chimp, and a chimp is smarter than a snail, then it raises the question of whether entities smarter than humans are possible. I suppose it might be difficult to precisely d

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