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by iaw 9y ago
I think this post would be a lot more informative with the original title "Learning to Estimate 3D Hand Pose from Single RGB Images" The results are astounding for anyone that's tried to do similar work in the past. I'm
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by iaw 9y ago
>Retired investors are often more concerned with preservation of capital Retired investors should have a few years of draw-down available in low-risk investments to mitigate market risks. In retirement there should be very little depend
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by iaw 9y ago
His point about the biases of the S&P 500 are valid but his conclusions are not. There's a point where even he acknowledges that hedge funds saw comparable performance to a separate passive fund (MSCI All World I think?). Even if
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by iaw 10y ago
I'd suspect that there is also caloric and absorption components. If you don't have calories your hunger wont be satiated because of energy needs. Vitamins don't absorb as well as nutrients found in foods (they have a low gut
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by iaw 10y ago
I'm in the same boat, there's a lot of movement in the field of hunger/digestion recently: * Your stomach contains a functional brain with ~25% of the neurons of the one in your head * Gut microbiomes have widespread impact o
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by iaw 10y ago
Thank you for this explanation, that makes a lot of sense. A priori civil forfeiture goes against this countries values but the legal logic in the majority opinion seems like it has some problematic aspects which is why Thomas dissented and
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by iaw 10y ago
>“It’s hard to express how big of a deal it was at the time,” Every so often I meet someone who worked on something that was influential on me as a youth. I'm glad I got a chance to read this, playing the rom it was always a myster
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by iaw 10y ago
I'm kind of stupid about the SCOTUS, what does it mean that "Alito concurred in the result but not in the argument?" Edit: Thank you for the explanations, especially the fact that they aren't strict yes-no votes (that ma
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by iaw 10y ago
I feel comfortable speaking anecdotally but I don't feel comfortable formally doing the math here for reasons that I prefer not to disclose. I appreciate your desire for more details on my claim but I cannot provide it. $250K is accur
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by iaw 10y ago
I couldn't have said it better myself. The one thing we can't buy is time.
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by iaw 10y ago
This is in total compensation terms. There are two documents floating around where employees detailed their compensation coming into Google and Facebook. What everyone replying fails to realize is that if you include the appreciation of th
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by iaw 10y ago
There are a couple documents floating around detailing software engineer pay at Facebook and Google. If you do the math on their equity grants, with the past stock growth, you can reach the same figure.
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by iaw 10y ago
> want them to work 100 hour weeks, maybe $500K is just too low. I think this is the subtext.
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by iaw 10y ago
Two years out of college programmers are making that much in total comp at Facebook and Google. If there's no equity component, $500K is actually in the ballpark.
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by iaw 10y ago
Facebook and Google total comp for average programmers ~2 years in is >$400K right now. $600k isn't that hard to make at these companies.
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by iaw 10y ago
> The "tech shortage" is a real myth. Could you provide data or at least anecdotal evidence to back this statement?
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by iaw 10y ago
My first thought: why is that name so familiar? My second: Oh. Pirsig's book was there for me during a challenging time of my life. I never finished it, but I'm not so confident that I really needed to. Just starting the book in
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by iaw 10y ago
Could you provide a source for your speculation?
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by iaw 10y ago
While I doubt this is the reason, I use cat litter to absorb spills and clean stains.
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by iaw 10y ago
Wow, I skimmed but I didn't catch the significance of this. That's amazing.
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by iaw 10y ago
> Also, the primary reason that illegal immigrants file tax returns is to obtain refunds. Could you source this statement? I haven't seen anything besides speculation about this subject.
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by iaw 10y ago
The job reports numbers looked really good for 2016 but there were always questions about the "missing workforce." A possibility I haven't seen raised yet in this thread is that more people are below the threshold to file, al
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by iaw 10y ago
> The naivety on HN is staggering sometimes. This is pretty arrogant given that you're trying to prognosticate something that historically isn't predictable, the financial outcome of a company. What you neglect to acknowledge i
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by iaw 10y ago
GAAP doesn't have to include stock based compensation as a normal expense. If you throw in the fact that Uber compensates at 50% in stock this is probably a shell game.
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by iaw 10y ago
> I'm not familiar with the software, but have no doubts that I can pick up anything quickly. I know what I can pick up quickly and I know what would be a new paradigm for me. You give them an honest estimate about how long it will
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by iaw 10y ago
> Actual laughter was produced at a generator product page. You must be a blast at cocktail parties then. >Stationary battery storage soaks up power when power is cheap, releases it when the cost is higher and energy demand is higher
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by iaw 10y ago
More than Tesla: http://www.fordpower.cc/products.aspx?cateid=18
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by iaw 10y ago
I think once the underpinnings were created via math it became questions about what network geometries to use. We don't have much math I'm aware of that can describe the capabilities of different network configurations from first
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by iaw 10y ago
Your internet sarcasm is strong.
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by iaw 10y ago
I've flagged this post for a few reasons: * The title is inflammatory * I'm not sure whether this is legal * The title misrepresents why UCB had to delete the lectures (this wasn't a unilateral decision but one made about c

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