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by mayank 7y ago
> There is little excuse for driving cars. In the case you mention, airbags are a pretty good reason. Also distance. And disabilities.
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by mayank 7y ago
You haven't blocked the entire event loop (i.e., other async functions that may be waiting on I/O) while the file is being read.
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by mayank 7y ago
It's definitely cute that the abstract was generated by the model, but I wouldn't give that too much weight because it's the definition of cherry-picking. In this case, you can pick your data (the contents of the paper) to ma
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by mayank 7y ago
Unfortunately both your scenarios are perfectly legal. Credit cards are not a protected class.
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by mayank 7y ago
> They are features masquerading as a company (phrase I learned on HN recently). A lot of companies aim to be acquired into becoming features.
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by mayank 7y ago
> So, even if our company ceases operations, all of the downside protection will still be available to our customers. Can you expound on this a bit? If you go under, who would I have to go to get paid? What legal guarantees would I have
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by mayank 7y ago
Are there any case studies you'd like to share, either here or on your site, or any other validation of your methodology? At the moment, it looks a bit like a "hot stock picks" newsletter.
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by mayank 7y ago
Note: this is not about replacing ZooKeeper in general with Kafka as the title might suggest, it's about Kafka considering an alternative to its internal use of ZooKeeper: "Currently, Kafka uses ZooKeeper to store its metadata abo
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by mayank 7y ago
Research code is generally an abomination, scraped together by MS/PhD students who may never have had any industry exposure to best practices, norms, testing, etc. There may also be the fear of releasing buggy code, which if/when
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by mayank 7y ago
I would love a site with summaries like this of academic papers.
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by mayank 7y ago
I can assure you that Elsevier does not run articles through a spellcheck.
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by mayank 7y ago
This is a very, very insightful point. I would add: never expect a singular "perfect" algorithm, but rather build a framework that lets you blend (and evaluate/weight) the signals from various hacks, workarounds, heuristics,
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by mayank 7y ago
This is a great point. For small to medium, read-only, slowly changing datasets, this is the ultimate serverless database model, especially for lots of queries. Although I think this approach would benefit more from Cloud Run’s request mult
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by mayank 7y ago
You could trigger that sync script from a git hook.
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by mayank 7y ago
If you have multiple monitors, you don’t have to lose keyboard focus to see a change visually.
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by mayank 8y ago
> On the other hand, there's rarely a DP problem (that comes up in interviews) that relies on a problem-specific trick. That's a pretty big parenthetical. DP problems as a class are full of clever tricks for elegant solutions
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by mayank 8y ago
I don't work at AWS any longer, not that it's relevant.
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by mayank 8y ago
> You can run a startup serving thousands or tens of thousands of customers on a single server, with no micro services, a simple server-side MVC setup and never have a $600 a year dedicated server even break 15% CPU. This is a gross over
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by mayank 8y ago
> Or wait, BigQuery simply can't handle common crawl size dataset in their public service! This is not true. Source: ex-googler.
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by mayank 8y ago
The new generation of noise-canceling headphones can block sound without playing other audio. It's not perfect, but it's much better than the "noise canceling" headphones from a decade ago.
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by mayank 8y ago
> As someone who doesn't use C++, can anyone explain in a straightforward way why a low level language is going through so many new versions? Every major language evolves over time. Java 8, ES5 Javascript, Python 3 were all pretty m
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by mayank 8y ago
> C++ has created generations of Visual Studio GUI addicts C++ has been used outside of Windows since basically the inception of C++.
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by mayank 8y ago
If you’re doing this in a serious setting, use a stable JSON stringification (like json-stable-stringify) that sorts object keys, and then take the SHA of the resulting string. Better collision properties, easier to implement, and a cryptog
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by mayank 8y ago
> Google Analytics does the heavy lift by removing incoherent , corrupted or malicious data insertion. Unless it's referrer spam...that somehow still sticks around (at least last time I checked, which was several months ago).
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by mayank 8y ago
Stored procedures would be one way.
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Single-binary interpreter portability (Linux)(gist.github.com)
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by mayank 8y ago
Darkly ironic, because "it's better to burn out than fade away" is a Neil Young lyric that Cobain quoted in his suicide note...
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by mayank 8y ago
It's understandable due to RAM, disk, and network being way less of a constraint than it used to be (which necessitated dynamic linking and shared libraries), and the modern need to ship around binaries to hundreds or thousands of serv
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by mayank 8y ago
101, not rt 1. They’ve had a massive sign on a building on 101 that always struck me as a zeitgeist for SV — a note taking app with its logo on a building...
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by mayank 8y ago
Noncompetes are not enforceable in California, and it’s not terribly hard for experts to continue innovating past what they did at a previous employer.

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