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by kyt 14y ago
I find it boring because it's dominated by power users that post multiple times a day. These people may or may not be close to me, but typically they aren't. My closest friends don't post all that often and when they do they get drowned o
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by kyt 14y ago
I think people want to know conditional probabilities. eg. P(My child graduates college|I have engineering degree from Stanford). I assume most children of HN readers have a greater than 33% chance of graduating college.
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by kyt 14y ago
I don't think the average consumer cares about their data being sold. There is a vocal minority of users that cares about online privacy, but I don't this isn't going to cause a mass exodus from Facebook. Seems more like a publicity stunt
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by kyt 14y ago
First search was "Foster the People." Looks empty.
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by kyt 14y ago
Someone broke into my gmail account in 2009, changed the password, and I've never gotten it back. I tried to recover it using their standard form, but they ask all sorts of ridiculous questions like the day I started using gmail, the day I
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by kyt 14y ago
What does 'just fine' mean? There is a large restaurant service disparity between the US and Europe.
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by kyt 14y ago
Pardon me for being ignorant, but what exactly is Travis CI? I can't find any information on that site or on the github repo page. If I don't know what it is, I can't donate.
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by kyt 14y ago
We dumped Mongo for a lot of the same reasons listed in the article. Their python driver isn't great either.
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by kyt 14y ago
You could swap out VC funds with hedge funds and the article would pretty much be the same.
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by kyt 15y ago
Couldn't view article on my iPhone.
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by kyt 15y ago
Prompts me to login. Guess I won't be reading this one.
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by kyt 15y ago
I didn't think he was nervous. That just sounded like his speech pattern. I found it refreshing that he didn't sound like a salesman.
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by kyt 15y ago
You can add cybercoders to that list.
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by kyt 15y ago
Did he actually look at the startup? It's also possible that it was just bad -- lacking in usability, useless features that cluttered up the UI, poor aesthetics, etc. Customer feedback only gets you so far. Often times people don't know
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by kyt 15y ago
Very annoying. Also, clicking on the background did not kill the window. New visitors are unlikely to sign up before even viewing the site. You may want to popup that modal on the 2nd or 3rd page view.
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by kyt 15y ago
Read hacker news all day and don't actually work on their startup.
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by kyt 15y ago
They also fought it today with minimal, biased coverage. I compared the Google trends search volume of the headline stories that were shown today on the major news sites. SOPA was easily 2-3x more searched than any other headline, yet it
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by kyt 15y ago
It's not blacked out in mobile Safari.
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by kyt 15y ago
Most interesting part of the article: "So the net cost for the tip was about $22k. I paid for the vast majority of this with one month's consultancy beforehand."
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by kyt 15y ago
Seems like they should be ranked by SLOC or number of total watchers for their packages.
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by kyt 15y ago
Wasn't part of the job of the technical recruiter supposed to be negotiating the salary? Considering they make a commission off it, I would assume it would be in their best interest.
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by kyt 15y ago
I don't understand how this works at scale. This seems to be a strategy for a one or two person team.
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by kyt 15y ago
I've heard that Larry Page could not pass the Google interview today.
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by kyt 15y ago
I don't really see Foursquare's use case being for tourism. I see it as more of a Yelp replacement. And for that, I thoroughly enjoy it more. The problem with Yelp is that it feels like a restaurant review app that happens to have a locat
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by kyt 15y ago
The term is pretty broad. I think the difference between a Data Scientist and a Statistician is the emphasis Data Scientists put on machine learning, databases, and distributed processing.
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by kyt 15y ago
One of the advantages to implementing these types of problems in C++ is you can use compile-time optimizations, often resulting in 2-3x speed-up. The results may be a lot different when compiling with just -O2 -ffast-math.