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by mhlakhani 4y ago
I've been working on a site to track game purchases across a lot of the platforms, to help people manage their libraries and avoid duplicate features: https://trackmy.games/ Lots of potential places to take this in the
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
I have to agree, my SO has been looking for something like this for a long time. Signing up today!
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Ask HN: Best practices for starting off as a consultant in 2022?
1 points by mhlakhani 4y ago|0 comments
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by mhlakhani 4y ago
Since you mention hiring EMs, is there a place to view the open roles for EMs? The jobs page seemed mostly IC focused
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by mhlakhani 5y ago
This is really interesting - at a high level it reminds me of some of the approaches taken in Facebook's messenger app: https://engineering.fb.com/2020/03/02/data-infrastructure/me... The relevant c
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by mhlakhani 5y ago
There’s now a paper on the deletion framework at least. [1] is a high level summary that links to the paper. [1] https://engineering.fb.com/2020/08/12/security/delf/
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by mhlakhani 8y ago
That's actually correct - it will spit out types it can infer. https://github.com/Instagram/MonkeyType
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OnePlus is collecting lots of data on users without telling them(phandroid.com)
2 points by mhlakhani 9y ago|0 comments
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YouTube's live TV service is here(engadget.com)
2 points by mhlakhani 10y ago|0 comments
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by mhlakhani 10y ago
> With an American tech salary of $200k/yr, I can pay for all of that (health insurance, student loans, etc.) and still sock away $100k/yr in savings. Are you sure you're counting it as 200k and not a higher number? With t
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Ask HN: How do you become a better communicator?
11 points by mhlakhani 10y ago|5 comments
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Identity Crisis: Wives of Immigrant tech workers struggle to find purpose(seattletimes.com)
3 points by mhlakhani 11y ago|1 comments
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The Cartel That Makes Sure Airplane Tickets Never Get Cheaper(thedailybeast.com)
4 points by mhlakhani 11y ago|1 comments
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by mhlakhani 12y ago
Just googling for the article's title leads to a link that works. They don't paywall people coming from Google
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by mhlakhani 12y ago
That's commonly done in a bunch of academic papers where authors are from the same institution - saves space mostly
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Mouse Box(mouse-box.com)
167 points by mhlakhani 12y ago|81 comments
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Effective GoF Patterns with C++11 and Boost [pdf](accu.org)
2 points by mhlakhani 12y ago|0 comments
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by mhlakhani 12y ago
Note that there's a Python implementation here: https://github.com/jesperborgstrup/Py-IBLT
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by mhlakhani 12y ago
Thanks for that. I've updated the title accordingly.
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Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables (2011)(arxiv.org)
92 points by mhlakhani 12y ago|24 comments
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by mhlakhani 12y ago
"every other number" == "every second number", i.e. the first, third, fifth ... coefficients are positive, while the second, fourth, sixth .. coefficients are negative. Hope this helps.
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Bus-only shoulders move you past congestion(metrotransit.org)
50 points by mhlakhani 12y ago|22 comments
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by mhlakhani 12y ago
Given the volume of patents out there, wouldn't it be more appropriate to have something like "stupid patent of the day"?
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by mhlakhani 12y ago
Could you elaborate a little on what happened? What exactly went wrong?
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by mhlakhani 12y ago
Another key difference that I couldn't see in the article is that degrees in the UK are focused on depth (and last three years); while degrees in the US focus on breadth and last four years. This probably also relates to how students i
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by mhlakhani 12y ago
Keeping track of the lineage of data (provenance) enables many cool applications; ranging from identifying malware outbreaks to recomputing workflows efficiently. A range of papers on provenance (along with some code) are available here: h
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Ask HN: Koding.com hacked?
1 points by mhlakhani 12y ago|0 comments
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by mhlakhani 13y ago
I bookmark and post the links I like to my website; which allows me to browse through my reading history every now and then to refresh my memory of what I had read. Adding search really helps.
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by mhlakhani 13y ago
The federal max is 17.5k (or 23k if one is over 50), as of http://taxes.about.com/od/retirementtaxes/qt/401k-contributi...
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by mhlakhani 13y ago
You can google for the title; NYT doesn't seem to paywall people coming through social media or google. I personally prefer supporting quality journalism, however.

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