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by huac 7y ago
You, uh, don't like PyTorch and TensorFlow? I can't tell if this is sarcastic.
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by huac 7y ago
I know Google has no cliff, is that also true now for the others?
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by huac 7y ago
VP is (apparently) also a title which legally denotes that the holder is an "officer" of the corporation, and can enter into deals on behalf of the corporation. Having a lot of those people around is typically a good thing for fin
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by huac 7y ago
https://twitter.com/scott - joined May 2019, RIP
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by huac 7y ago
ah, you're right, I misread the SCMP coverage yesterday, guess when they said "tear gas was used for the first time" that it was the first time ever, and not just within the protests this time. the NYT article also has: &quot
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by huac 7y ago
Yes, Americans are #1 in the world for police violence. And congratulations to us! edit: I earlier said that this was the first time HK used teargas/rubber bullets, which is inaccurate. the important thing is that this is still violenc
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by huac 7y ago
liquor licenses can be exorbitantly expensive (I hear $300k+ upfront in SF), plus increased recurring costs to comply with regulations; I'm sure authorities understand that establishments which serve liquor are more profitable in a vac
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by huac 7y ago
This was Yelp's business plan - get so big, aggregate so much demand, that you _had_ to play by their rules to get business.
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by huac 7y ago
adverse selection ;)
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by huac 7y ago
like any other entrenched monopolist, Plaid shouldn't want OFX to make it easier for new entrants to enter. Building something to interact with OFX is easier than building a scraper.
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by huac 7y ago
what does "pay-after-three" mean?
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by huac 7y ago
The map and the territory are pretty basic terms, right? There's a Wikipedia article on it, even: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation
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by huac 7y ago
interchange fees are attributable mostly to card networks (e.g. visa) and not stripe
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by huac 7y ago
> In plain English this report would say: 24 to 48 hours ago, some user who previously clicked shop.example’s ad campaign 55 on search.example, converted with data 20 on shop.example. this, i suppose, assumes that the browser is active a
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by huac 7y ago
> A company that was purpose-built on exceptional end-to-end data infrastructure engineering could capture much of the revenue in these markets in a surprisingly short time by commoditizing the data model and arbitraging efficiency. do y
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by huac 7y ago
ah, i didn't actually dig that deeply, that makes sense. i guess my belief in startups isn't completely shaken, then! it's interesting then that both of the people who were interviewed for this article were in non-tech roles
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by huac 7y ago
employee 50 at lyft made ~1M over 4 years from their stock gains, i'm assuming that they have not sold much of that stock. fb and google tripled their stock price between 2013 and 2017, and fb quadrupled the stock price from 2013 to no
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by huac 7y ago
reduces incentive for them to raise prices
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by huac 7y ago
i don't have a subscription to laundry detergent, nothing stops me from buying a different brand in 6 months, whereas slack has contracts with my company, and has switching costs (we'd lose our message history).
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by huac 7y ago
Are there other ways of implementing ACID transactions on Spark tables?
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by huac 8y ago
basically legally required for anyone doing business in europe/UK to add that boilerplate
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by huac 8y ago
200ms is human reaction time, you can definitely notice it; the rule of thumb is 100ms https://www.pubnub.com/blog/how-fast-is-realtime-human-perce...
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by huac 8y ago
i was a data scientist so i knew of monorail but never touched that side of things :)
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by huac 8y ago
submit queue makes sense and is used by lots of people, it's the "machine learning" which is applied to choosing commits to enqueue which I found to be interesting. if the master success rate was already 99% in 2017, with jus
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by huac 8y ago
all of those companies were once small too
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by huac 8y ago
facebook, google, airbnb, quora, many more all use monorepo obviously there are many others who do not use monorepo (amazon comes to mind) but it's reasonable to claim that they are actually widely used and fundamental when used
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by huac 8y ago
"Based on all possible outcomes of pending changes, SubmitQueue constructs, and continuously updates a speculation graph that uses a probabilistic model, powered by logistic regression. The speculation graph allows SubmitQueue to selec
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by huac 8y ago
but did he grow Expedia's marketshare relative to its competitors?
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by huac 8y ago
congrats to the team! reminds me of Airbnb's data discovery tool: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/scaling-knowledge-acce...
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by huac 8y ago
on IPO day, the IPO's bankers will buy up shares, "providing support" for the stock at a given price. it looked like management's preferred price point was $80 for most of the day, so the underwriters were buying at that

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