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by ma2rten 8y ago
My guess is that they are not trying target typical westerners. There already is a lot of westernized pre-made Indian food you can buy at the supermarket.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
This is interesting! I work at Google, but I didn't know that Google has a PAC. It's actually funded by employee contributions and it's aim is to support an open internet. https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs&#x2F
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by ma2rten 8y ago
People are going to switch away from Google search, but Google's ad networks (DoubleClick, GDN/AdSense, Admob, AdX) actually compete with other ad networks (like OpenX, Rubicon Project, Criteo, AppNexus). Many publishers use more
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by ma2rten 8y ago
I work at Google. Google can be very conservative and risk-averse in following regulations, but ask far as I can tell Google is one of the least pro-government, pro-censorship, pro-regulations, pro-military corporations in the world.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
"First of all, just to say that this is really serious stuff in terms of what was done." "The probability that McCartney wrote it was .018" "In situations like this, you'd better believe the math because it&#x2
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by ma2rten 8y ago
Is that actually the frameing of the article or just the headline? I feel like they just choose a borderline clickbait headline. Maybe they even wrote that headline after the fact.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
Actually it could be and it is sometimes abused. You don't need to proof that you are the copyright holder to submit the request. Companies tend to err on the side of removing things to make sure they don't become liable for copyr
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by ma2rten 8y ago
No offense, but that comment goes to show US centric HN is. This is like valuing Microsoft based on XBox sales, only that it plays an even smaller role.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
Angellist is an option.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
I don't think that top-tier research is necessarily equal to top pay. Otherwise universities would not stand any chance. That said, I don't think IBM Watson has published much top-tier research.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
Actually you should probably set up a CDN. There is no need to serve pages that are the same for every visitor from your server.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
Google used Perforce for a very long time before they built their own version control system.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
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by ma2rten 8y ago
This is off topic, but there has been quite the point inflation since then. EDIT: Too bad we can't see the comment scores... I wonder if PG is ever going to change his mind about this :)
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by ma2rten 8y ago
I don't think that Apple and Google are much better names.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
This is old news: https://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/01/30/we-bet-you-dont-kn... The name was actually part of an acquisition. I understand why DuckDuckGo is not happy about this and/or trying to u
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by ma2rten 8y ago
How do you see the market for self-driving cars? How far is Waymo ahead of the competition? Who are the top competitors? How do you see your own position as a smaller startup?
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by ma2rten 8y ago
Based on the number of reactions I was completely wrong, but my point was: You are not going to see a news article about avalanches. News is always about infrequent events.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
I don't think I ever got a counterfeit item on Amazon. The fact that there are news stories about specific counterfeit items (and not the problem in general), indicates to me that it's not as widespread.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
If you don't mind me asking: It seems like you can just run arbitrary stuff in a cloud instance for free using colab including GPUs. This doesn't sound a like a sustainable offering. This sounds a lot like the old Google, which of
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by ma2rten 8y ago
I work on C++ code at a large tech company. My workflow is such that I compile and run tests often after I made incremental changes. I feel like I often wait for the linker for ages. I am wondering if linking could be sped up. I feel like a
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by ma2rten 8y ago
I understand your point of view if you distrust all Android devices, iPhones and MacBooks. However, most people who say they would never use a smart speaker, happily use their laptop or smart-phone without thinking twice.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
I don't understand why so many tech-literate people have an issue with that. As I am sure you know, those devices only record your voice and send it to the server when they hear their hotword. The hotword detection has to be done on th
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by ma2rten 8y ago
I don't think it makes sense to adjust per capita. The biggest startup hubs used to be Silicon Valley, New York, London and Berlin. Germany and the UK might just come out ahead of the US because their startup hubs are in smaller countr
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by ma2rten 8y ago
That's true, but the office is still relatively small. Zurich, London and Dublin are the biggest European locations.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
Huh? You can provision new servers, but you can't just easily move over all the data, can you?
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by ma2rten 8y ago
What gray area are you in?
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by ma2rten 8y ago
This is also called active listening. It's a very good, useful skill to have.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
There is Google One for all Google products. I used it and it was quite good.
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by ma2rten 8y ago
It's like this: Google has to keep growing to justify it's stock price. In order to do that it has to expand beyond search and ads. Google's technical infrastructure is the best in the world in many aspects, so they decided t

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