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by huac 8y ago
Musk was not in Wharton. He studied economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, so never actually studied business (yes, I know I'm nitpicking)
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by huac 8y ago
I also am a data scientist, after attending Wharton. Understanding how businesses operate, both internally (which stakeholders are important to convince of a decision) and externally (what does the company need to do to succeed, big picture
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by huac 8y ago
> vTitan, an international company with offices in California, Singapore and Tamil Nadu, is engaged in the development, manufacture, distribution and sales of a broad range of medical devices and consumables used in global healthcare mar
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by huac 8y ago
jetting with his new girlfriend to Italy for weeks at a time != taking 2 hours to go to his kid's little league game
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Peloton raises $550M at a valuation of $4B(techcrunch.com)
55 points by huac 8y ago|111 comments
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by huac 8y ago
they expected more growth, and FB projected more costs.
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by huac 8y ago
I doubt Google removed that ability; Uber probably decided that it was worth the increased friction to require users go to their app (and thus collect better data).
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by huac 8y ago
the ATM was a Taiwanese ATM, and they were Russian, so they could have had their own Russian debit card.
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by huac 8y ago
The authorities often resell the bitcoins so they could reenter the market.
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by huac 8y ago
It's impossible to read this piece without the context of Harpers doesn't pay their interns.
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by huac 8y ago
I think many of the gotchas and annoying parts of base R are solved by using tools from the tidyverse: http://github.com/tidyverse . For example, the pain of needing to specify `stringsAsFactors=FALSE` is solved in the tibbl
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by huac 8y ago
that's your adblocker preventing the infinite scroll from loading more items
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by huac 8y ago
they actually will have to, because they're going to take outside money to fund the acquiring entity. they have an obligation to those shareholders to price the shares properly as well. i assume the partner who is running the second fu
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by huac 8y ago
Creating a typeface which you own is cheaper than licensing a third-party typeface, at scale.
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by huac 8y ago
What features does it forgo to be 'simpler'?
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by huac 8y ago
https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine matches the ggplot2 API and philosophy very closely and returns good results. It's not as polished as ggplot2 but is excellent for day-to-day work. The author also accepts PR&#x2
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by huac 9y ago
korea has the highest suicide rate in the oecd, not really fair to say that antidepressant use is correlated with depression rate. similarly antidepressants are not widely available in japan (not even included in his chart) and japan's
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by huac 9y ago
if a CC issues a chargeback to one of your merchants, do you alert other merchants who have processed payments with that same CC?
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by huac 9y ago
saw this amusing story about how Prince Charles's bodyguard got a degree from Cambridge https://www.quora.com/Why-do-members-of-the-British-royalty-...
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by huac 9y ago
for the free version, seems like it.
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by huac 9y ago
i liked the part where he called an uber to an active shooting scene
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by huac 9y ago
It's plausible that a world of ad brokers (with many smaller ad buys) is better than a world of few but very large ad engagements, vis a vis the Chinese firewall. In that world, a single advertiser would have enough (purchasing) power
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by huac 9y ago
my understanding is that these conditions apply to people in the EU, i.e. that EU residents must be able to delete their content from HN (but HN has no obligation to non-EU residents)
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by huac 9y ago
Donating to NPR doesn't reduce the number of NPR pledge drive announcements you hear.
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by huac 9y ago
> People want images, they don't care where they're from. Right, which doesn't align with the incentives which push Google to follow copyright law.
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by huac 9y ago
It's not money laundering, who would launder $300?
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by huac 9y ago
> The tool we used did not support using Hive as a backend, and given the speed of even relatively basic Hive queries, it wouldn’t make much sense to use that for reporting metrics. Did Reddit try setting up Presto? Analytics, not just
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by huac 9y ago
Most elite universities have income-based financial aid and going to one could easily conceivably be cheaper or at least on par with going to a state school. Of course one big problem is that rural students don't know that
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“designing missiles might have a lesser human cost than working on AI at FB”(twitter.com)
3 points by huac 9y ago|1 comments
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by huac 9y ago
2-3 years as an analyst, 2-3 years as an associate, boom, you're a VP.

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