mkolodny

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by mkolodny 7y ago
Fortunately, some companies do share a significant amount of what their cars have learned so far. Uber publishes a ton of papers about their self-driving research [0][1]. Waymo released an open autonomous driving dataset, and publishes pape
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by mkolodny 7y ago
Django's migration handling is excellent as well [0]. [0] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/migrations/
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by mkolodny 7y ago
As I was reading your post, I was wondering why I rarely see anything depressing on Reddit. And then I remembered that I unsubscribed from r/news and r/worldnews :)
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by mkolodny 7y ago
While "remote workers are more productive" is in the article's title, I disagree that the author is suggesting that working remotely is a necessary part of the solution. The article's subtitle is "Async isn’t just f
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by mkolodny 7y ago
From the article: > the company has started giving people the “option to allow [Uber] to contact law enforcement on their behalf” if the customer is reporting an incident that may be a crime
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by mkolodny 7y ago
I agree that it's perfectly fine to block ads. And that ad blockers' primary feature is blocking ads. At the same time, I think most ads aren't malicious. They aren't "intending to do harm". Ads sell things. So
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by mkolodny 7y ago
To anyone who has been part of a worker cooperative: Does the amount of money different people make in your cooperative seem fair? How do you handle situations where one person seems to contribute a lot more to the cooperative than others (
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by mkolodny 7y ago
What's blogspam?
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by mkolodny 7y ago
Especially considering Django powers Instagram and Pinterest's backends. At some point, Python's creator Guido van Rossum also said "My personal favorite -- and I expect that that will remain a personal favorite for a long ti
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Django's tagline is "The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines".
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Would you mind sharing reasons why you think that?
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by mkolodny 7y ago
What makes you think Lyft is doing better than Uber? The biggest chunk of Uber's non-stock losses came from Uber Eats. They're sacrificing profits for growth right now in food delivery. The ridesharing business is more stable than
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by mkolodny 7y ago
The simplest answer is "don't make breaking API schema changes". For a more complete answer, this is a great blog post from someone at Stripe about API versioning: https://stripe.com/en-ca/blog/api-v
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by mkolodny 7y ago
> Modeled after popular football video games, the Football Environment provides a physics based 3D football simulation where agents control either one or all football players on their team, learn how to pass between them, and manage to o
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by mkolodny 7y ago
I think of Mozilla as a free and open source Google.
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by mkolodny 7y ago
I'd guess that wink is hinting that Yann LeCun might've had something to do with this research. Whether that's true or not, I have no idea. (Yann LeCun is a Turing award winner for his work in deep learning)
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by mkolodny 8y ago
> Summary: They are vulnerable - Get 'em Or, go get $55 Million in VC funding from someone else. You have a major head start. Your company is theoretically worth at least as much as theirs. Complaining about competitors copying you
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by mkolodny 8y ago
I love Django. I've used it for the last 8 years. I'm happy to see the project is still thriving. At this point, for me Django is pretty much synonymous with Django REST framework ( https://www.django-rest-framework.org&
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by mkolodny 8y ago
I admire the attempt to create a sustainable project that's primarily about creating a positive impact! For those (including myself) who wonder whether a 100x cap will really change an organization from being profit-driven to being pos
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Uber releases Ludwig, an open source AI ‘toolbox’ built on top of TensorFlow(venturebeat.com)
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by mkolodny 8y ago
You can pay $200K and go to university for 4 years and still not get hired. That's more likely for non-CS degrees, but true nonetheless.
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by mkolodny 8y ago
I think the author is confused about how Medium works. > My experience is that Medium charges only for access to "premium" articles, submitted through their partner program, no? After reading through Medium's FAQ, I believ
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by mkolodny 8y ago
Despite your warning, I think it's important to say that we don't understand exactly how the brain works. Yet, we still allow people to drive. To know whether we should trust someone to drive, we created a test (driver's lice
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by mkolodny 8y ago
I agree. Here's Horovod for anyone who hasn't heard of it: https://github.com/uber/horovod
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by mkolodny 8y ago
It's free to contact the driver. You only get charged to pay the driver to bring you your lost item.
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by mkolodny 8y ago
Here's a link to the HN discussion of the new loyalty program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18455104
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Uber launches rider loyalty rewards like credits(techcrunch.com)
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by mkolodny 8y ago
This article isn't about becoming an AI expert. It's about learning enough AI to be able to build applications that help the world. Having taken Fast.ai's Deep Learning course, I can confidently say that their course is enoug
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by mkolodny 8y ago
I'd imagine that whether these drones make it to market or not depends on whether Uber/Amazon can create drones that fly quietly. That said, road noise is already a thing. I'm not a big fan of road noise either, but cars are
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by mkolodny 8y ago
Toyota invested $500M in Uber in late August at a $72B valuation [1] [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/27/toyota-to-invest-500-million...

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