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by jdoliner 6y ago
I had a somewhat similar trajectory to the author with coffee. I started drinking it in highschool and loved it. I didn't have quite as bad a sleep schedule as him, but it was bad, and coffee was the band-aid. Then I got to college and
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by jdoliner 6y ago
One of the first things YC partners say to you when you the program starts is: "We are not your employers, we will let you fail." I think that's a core part of how YC works and things like sharing office space or having dorms
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by jdoliner 6y ago
Similar experience for me. I was in the worst pain of my life, suffering from a herniated disk and sciatica. I got an epidural steroid injection and the pain completely went away. I felt like I could run through walls, fortunately I didn&#x
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by jdoliner 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I'll keep eyes out for an Arc dev. I do run across the occasional Arc enthusiast in interviews.
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by jdoliner 6y ago
Nice, I thought I heard someone say at one point that it had been rewritten in rails. I'm much happier knowing this comment is going through Arc.
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by jdoliner 6y ago
HN is an asset to YC because the partners are degenerate HN junkies like the rest of us on here, many are worse. More seriously it helps a lot with YC recruitment and is actually how they run a lot of YC. It also allows for YC company job l
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by jdoliner 6y ago
This is an incredibly important point in this debate. Almost all of the institutions people want to change are controlled at these lower levels of government. Even with federal legislation, all of the implementation will be up to lower leve
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Biden campaign floats idea for virtual DNC convention in Fortnite(forbes.com)
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by jdoliner 6y ago
Highly recommend it, it's got cool scifi elements but isn't hard scifi with a lot of world building. The story telling is great though, it's funny and poignant. One of the few books I've read multiple times.
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by jdoliner 6y ago
Alphabet wants Waymo to become a company that can make it on its own steam, rather than be dependent on the Google revenue stream. For the first several years of Waymo's life they did exactly what your describing, but now they're
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by jdoliner 6y ago
Pachyderm is probably one of the companies you've seen in this space. Full disclosure: I'm the founder, but I feel that we've stayed pretty true to the idea of being a modular open-source tool. We have customers who just use
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by jdoliner 6y ago
There are a surprisingly large number of electronic and media devices that can be fixed through baking (1 would be surprising). I've heard this can work with video cards and motherboards as well I wonder if HN knows of any other such d
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by jdoliner 6y ago
If 1/3 doesn't equal .333... then how much do they differ by?
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by jdoliner 6y ago
When I was a child I was convinced by a pretty simple conversation with my father: Me: 0.9999... is not the same as 1 Him: Well if it's not the same is it more than 1 or less than 1? Me: Less Him: Okay then how much less is it? At this
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by jdoliner 6y ago
Has anyone else noticed Amazon shipping them more of items than they ordered? I've recently had this happen in two separate orders, including receiving 3 SSDs when I'd just ordered 1, for a free $300 of SSD.
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Yes, all the keys do is scale the problem down. In general this is a very tough problem, everything else in the system is designed to avoid data loss, that's the biggest scariest failure case. But then when you want to lose data all th
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by jdoliner 7y ago
I would have liked to see YouStraw, or maybe YouNanoTube.
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by jdoliner 7y ago
> Literally from the yeast in the air? Exactly, yeast is the original opensource technology.
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Request to purge data are one aspect of the GDPR that Pachyderm makes trickier. It makes it easier to remove a piece of data and recompute all of your models without it, because it can deduplicate the computation. But to truly purge a piece
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Weighing in as Pachyderm founder. The post Tim links here is a very apt description of what Pachyderm does. We're designed for version controlling data pipelines, as well as the data they input and output. Pachyderm's filesystem,
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by jdoliner 7y ago
I see a lot of similarity between Markdown and Golang, both have a lot of critics with some reasonable criticism. They're both limited in ways that competing languages aren't, but somehow they both just feel so productive to me. S
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Not sure if this has been on HN already but Johns Hopkins also has a covid dashboard up, presumably using the data present in the repo: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Pachyderm had the good fortune to go through YC's first Series A program, I'm pretty sure we couldn't have raised without them, we'd tried and failed before. As with everything YC does, over time they've gathered mo
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by jdoliner 7y ago
If you're interested in man made geography like this check out "The Slash" between Canada and The US, similar concept: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/uscanada-border-slash
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Every time something like this comes up I'm reminded of one time I was stopped by a police officer walking down the street. I felt a tap on my shoulder, turned around and was greeted by an officer in uniform, I wracked my brain trying
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by jdoliner 7y ago
I don't, it's just the most frequently asked question.
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Sadly, this doesn't answer the most frequently asked question: Did Epstein kill himself?
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Because the emergency is the amount of damage the fires are doing and wider fires do more damage.
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Articles like this are the disinformation campaign, they go on for 8 paragraphs before they admit that it's true that 180 people have been charged with fire related offenses, including arson. If they want to argue that arson isn't
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by jdoliner 7y ago
Almost certainly since basically all plants are Kosher. It's possible they'll need to have it blessed by a Rabbi, but that's pretty easy to do.

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