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by hnriot 13y ago
Startups don't suck! After having worked at plenty over the years I don't agree at all. I guess it depends how you respond to change and volatility. Some people find comfort in things staying the same, but I enjoy the high rate of
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by hnriot 13y ago
Please learn you're vs your, it makes you look dumb.
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*Relative to other cars, Tesla car fires are quite rare. is that true? do you know the stats on this because that would be interesting, obviously normalized for model year.
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by hnriot 13y ago
so do I!! Wow, I would likely argue quite the opposite is true, hackers are generally deficient in many other areas. Complexity comes in many forms, and just having an affinity for highly deterministic systems (computers) is likely a featur
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by hnriot 13y ago
XSLT is about the worst possible piece of technology - it's over engineered and practically unusable for all but simple transforms. functions, conditionals etc are just typical enterprise antiquated over designed unable crap.
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by hnriot 13y ago
they assume the caller ins't qualified to make the right determination. Not only is the US a police state, but also a Nanny state.
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by hnriot 13y ago
I do python and scala at work yet I love php, it's made a ton of difference to the web (think wordpress for example) - it's perfectly possible to write killer php and do everything from machine learning to webapps. PHP has the bes
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by hnriot 13y ago
I don't see the point, so what if legislation is changed, the NSA and all the other clandestine agencies will operate outside of the law because they are untouchable. Might just as well play flappy bird instead, it will do about as muc
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by hnriot 13y ago
this isn't poorly designed, there are the web specs and then there's the web itself and if it works then the spec need updating, there's no law that post should be used for session state, that was just someone writing it into
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by hnriot 13y ago
it's just a matter of defining what crime means.
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by hnriot 13y ago
Tweetable FFT in Python haha! obviously if all you're doing is calling the np.fft package it would fit in 140 chars, but this is the same false argument that people make all the time, "5 line web server" etc.
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by hnriot 13y ago
and then you sued. no hiring manager would ever give you this feedback. I call BS.
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by hnriot 13y ago
presumably you've trained it with hand annotated content, or bootstrapped from a few choice hn searches (like ?q=jquery will give you a web tech category)
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by hnriot 13y ago
The story portray the poor family as the victims but it should be remembered that this is a guy who takes a gun to the bathroom. If you point a gun at a SWAT team they will likely shoot you, if you don't have reflexes to drop the gun t
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by hnriot 13y ago
why bother with a naive bayes classifier, why not just use the dictionary, when it matches the percentage is simple the ratio of the genders? I don't see the need for a classifier, I was hoping it was going to do something clever like
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by hnriot 13y ago
semantics vs syntax - magnets don't have hands obviously, but the metaphor holds just the same. There is no "technically..." nonsense! It's not a human convention either - it's an anthropomorphic metaphor.
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by hnriot 13y ago
So what! Grammatical and style errors are only important when it impacts the meaning. The majority of pages I read that contain poor grammar are still perfectly understandable. I correct many that I see, but you don't have to look far
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by hnriot 13y ago
what about if you sold a camera or some other form of legitimate transfer, loan, for example. I don't want FB starting to track my product serial numbers thank you.
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by hnriot 13y ago
while it clearly doesn't, I wonder though if someone is using twitter so infrequently they would even care what their handle is. It's not like it has any intrinsic value or meaning. Why not just pick a random guid and use that as
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by hnriot 13y ago
Martin's Beach is a place just south of Half Moon Bay, nowhere near Malibu.
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by hnriot 13y ago
isn't that the whole point of journaling! Of course database can handle kill -9, they are designed to. That doesn't mean it's friendly to do that because you'll pay a price in redoing journals. also -9 can leave ipc hang
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by hnriot 13y ago
why repeat an empty comment? It's clear that you don't really have any knowledge of, or insight into state of the art machine learning, so I don't see the need to paste in what you've already said. It's very hard fo
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by hnriot 13y ago
while a gray area it is still legal. It's only illegal when the courts say it is, so de-facto it's legal. That's a pretty basic property of the US democratic system.
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by hnriot 13y ago
yes - exactly - most of us use gender agnostic language, rather than he/she usage, it is preferred to use they. this takes away any gender identity, except where specifically called out for gender specific topics. this whole thing abou
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by hnriot 13y ago
how is one supposed to read that blog!
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by hnriot 13y ago
I clearly don't share the musical taste of most developers - I love most of the music he has written. I'm probably not the target demographic (more like the target's dad) but I still love pop music as much as I did when I was
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by hnriot 13y ago
what a stupid ask. why wouldn't a vc do this? Isn't this something that would be a big part of the iterative application process. I doubt the process has remained unchanged over the years. As new feature vectors of success are ide
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you don't get it. FB's audience are aging out, they are too busy with their careers, dealing with newborns and aging parents. Snapchat is a brand that has an increasing number of new eyeballs to sell ads to. It's not anything
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by hnriot 13y ago
I'm sure snapchat isn't looking for your sympathy. What trend? Snapchat brings an age old mating ritual to the digital age in a way that's appealing to the age group that spends most of their daily energy trying to garner the
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by hnriot 13y ago
I like the video a lot and am glad Apple continue to make these kinds of high budget videos, but it started out with the claim that in '84 a computer with pictures and not the size of a mainframe was something new, but I had been using

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