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by huac 9y ago
Just try using it on Android. Regardless of if you like Uber's design better (which I think it is, though design can be subjective), Lyft would often show wrong locations, not show if a driver had cancelled, not cancelling rides when y
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by huac 9y ago
The Uber app is objectively better than Lyft's, and their pooling algorithm is subjectively better.
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by huac 9y ago
Google has experimented with that idea in London: https://www.campus.co/london/en . Free space with wifi and coffee and obviously nice furniture. They use the event space to hold tech talks and the like -- I wonder if i
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by huac 9y ago
It is a far more common western name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_(surname) . The Chinese Wikipedia entry on the most common form of 'Lang' is anemic in comparison: https://zh.wikipedia.org&#
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by huac 9y ago
Or how their parents spelt it.
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Uber is piloting a bike-sharing service with JUMP in SF(techcrunch.com)
1 points by huac 9y ago|1 comments
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by huac 9y ago
Do you really think hosting on GCP / Azure is going to let you beat Amazon?
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by huac 9y ago
The paper also only observes two groups: "the Kitavan Islanders of Papua New Guinea and the Aché hunter-gatherers of Paraguay." That's not anywhere close to all non-Western populations!
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by huac 9y ago
a bigger player is https://www.zodiacmetrics.com/ , who have many peer-reviewed papers and are thus transparent with their (general) forecasting approach. i would love to see some model details given the maturity of other te
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Hawaii's Nuclear Alert Agency Keeps Passwords on Post-Its(vice.com)
4 points by huac 9y ago|0 comments
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by huac 9y ago
Theoretically they can sell futures to hedge price risk. But if you really believe in bitcoin rather than the "fiat world," would you really trust a futures contract?
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by huac 9y ago
If the goal is to recreate the layout of a site then the context text isn't really important. You could represent each letter with a filler character e.g. . Then, you only need as many tokens as you have words with distinct numbers o
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by huac 9y ago
> Also, what happened on July 7th that caused the big dip in metrics? looks like logging outage
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by huac 9y ago
Is there anywhere that one can get the Gros Michel? I vaguely remember the bananas I ate in Asia tasting different.
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by huac 9y ago
Article said board members were limited to 50% of their stake.
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by huac 9y ago
Sure, we're on the same page. For Google, building out a Maps service is a way to increase inventory for an ad platform. They can accept much lower margins on the geo services business, since they have high margin ads efforts. Theoreti
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by huac 9y ago
I hate to be that guy but maintaining records of who owns which license for which song seems like an actual use of blockchain tech.
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by huac 9y ago
Google has begun to sell ads for businesses and ads for Uber/Lyft in Maps, and will continue to do so.
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What to look for in data science teams(hingeloss.com)
3 points by huac 9y ago|1 comments
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Apple's new Chicago store wasn't designed for snow(spudart.org)
15 points by huac 9y ago|9 comments
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by huac 9y ago
Again, Sam misses the point - saying today that 'gay people shouldn't have rights' is not the same as saying 'gay people should have rights' 20 years ago (or honestly probably even 5-10 years ago). Arguing to take r
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Apple launches podcast analytics beta(theverge.com)
8 points by huac 9y ago|2 comments
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by huac 9y ago
Few weeks ago they started this for Watch shows; now they're rolling it out for everything. http://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-test-pre-roll-vide...
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by huac 9y ago
I don't think so. `%in%` is built into R (or at least in the base package).
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by huac 9y ago
Ah yes what crypto really needed was discovering 'technical trading'
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by huac 9y ago
If it were a public company sure but it's difficult to find a counterparty (at some point of the hedging process, somebody is gonna need to settle the trade with a share of Uber stock, and Uber stock is notoriously illiquid, and we&#x2
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by huac 9y ago
That's (sort of) how RMarkdown works.
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by huac 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15872128 (just a guess)
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by huac 9y ago
These are recurring payments which might be treated differently.
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by huac 9y ago
I'm fairly sure this is tied to anti-money laundering rules (but would be happy to be corrected). Basically, if Patreon bundled patron payments and then paid them out to creators, it could be construed as transaction laundering. The ba

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