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by mkolodny 8y ago
This is awesome! I'd love to use Fastai, but my company's pretty committed to Tensorflow right now. Is there any work being done to port Fastai over to Tensorflow?
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by mkolodny 8y ago
One Inbox feature I'd love to be pulled into Gmail is attachment previews. It looks like Gmail has quick links to attachments from your inbox, but that doesn't give nearly as much information as a preview - image/video thumbn
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by mkolodny 8y ago
2000: Craigslist creates a "rideshare" platform https://web.archive.org/web/20000620091420/http://www.craigs...
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by mkolodny 8y ago
That comment was based on the title of the article I linked to above: "Secret program gives NSA, FBI backdoor access to Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft data". I assumed that PRISM data came from a "backdoor" it had to
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by mkolodny 8y ago
"Snowden: FBI Saying It Can't Unlock iPhone is 'Bullsh '" http://fortune.com/2016/03/09/snowden-fbi-apple-iphone/
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by mkolodny 8y ago
Apple gives the government a backdoor into your iPhone. So I'd argue that you don't have privacy when you use an iPhone, period. Same goes for any smartphone, really. I'd guess that Apple really collects less data because the
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by mkolodny 8y ago
Apple, along with Google and other companies, gives the government access to pretty much all of our data: https://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-data-...
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by mkolodny 8y ago
What city/town are you in? In SF I usually get UberX's in < 3 minutes, and pools in ~5 minutes.
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by mkolodny 8y ago
It looks like the city snuck in a ride-sharing vehicles cap by pairing it with a pay floor for for-hire vehicle drivers. "[Caption] Drivers of for-hire vehicles on Wednesday demonstrated in support of a cap on ride-hail vehicles outsid
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by mkolodny 8y ago
> On the other hand, I'd think 1/20th of my pill (.5mg) would be way too little. That's one of the key points of the article: > “But my local drugstore sells 10 mg pills! When I asked if they had anything lower, they lo
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by mkolodny 8y ago
From this article: https://thehackernews.com/2017/08/quantum-satellite-data.htm... > From past two decades, Quantum technology has been a top strategic focus in China's 5-year economic development plan. Wh
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by mkolodny 8y ago
It really helped me understand this article to follow the link describing what the author means by "Emotional Support": https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/basics/empathy Basically, emotional support is &
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by mkolodny 8y ago
I don't know if this is still the case, but at least in 2010 Reddit used Postgres as a key-value store [0] [0] https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-table...
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by mkolodny 9y ago
Great post! I especially like this idea: > Retrain your model based on input from the crowd... [to] become an enjoyable player to be around. Regarding this introspection: > I [am] always thinking that I should have done that thing bet
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by mkolodny 9y ago
I think it's worth catching him just for the principle of the matter. Catching him shows that it's not okay to steal money from people by faking an ICO.
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by mkolodny 9y ago
To... what?
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by mkolodny 9y ago
tl;dr: Instead of having a password for each website, we'll use our phones' built-in security (pin, pattern, etc) to log into websites
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by mkolodny 9y ago
Really cool! I've been wondering why Spotify hasn't been showing music videos themselves on their app
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by mkolodny 9y ago
The link you shared disagrees with you - it says that in Arizona vehicles always have the right-of-way outside of crosswalks: "Pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to vehicles when crossing outside of a marked crosswalk or an unmark
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by mkolodny 9y ago
This picture from the article has a human behind the wheel: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2000/1*Hz0b8qPI6Q4pwysyt...
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by mkolodny 9y ago
This looks wonderful :) I'd love to try it out at some point. One thing that I think could really improve the documentation is a few examples! One of my favorite things about the Python docs and the community is the wealth of examples.
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by mkolodny 9y ago
(disclaimer: I also work at Uber) I think the paradox comes from seeing a company as a collective. Really Uber is a group of 15,000 individuals. The company can only be successful if those individuals work together. But if one or two people
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by mkolodny 9y ago
> Startups are on balance a good thing. Their founders and early employees can be much more productive than they’d be working for an established company. I found this super vague. In what way will people be more productive at a startup t
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by mkolodny 9y ago
"Uber for trucking"... Uber already has an Uber for trucking [0][1]. And it's doing very, very well. [0] https://www.wired.com/2017/05/uber-freight/ [1] https://medium.com/offic
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by mkolodny 9y ago
I don't see how it's Uber's fault if someone finds out your password. I think it's nice of Uber that they refunded OP's trips even though it wasn't their fault that OP's account was compromised. And it mak
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by mkolodny 9y ago
The title of this article isn't accurate. Personally I think it's just meant to scare people. Money can't be "stolen" from your Uber account. Someone can find out your password to your Uber account the same way they
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by mkolodny 10y ago
I'd highly, highly recommend Django REST Framework: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/ It's built on top of Django, and makes creating APIs super easy.
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by mkolodny 10y ago
Or like non-Jews hiding Jews from the Nazi police. Obviously that's a dramatic example, but so is the drug dealer example. If Uber believes that the taxi industry is wrongfully colluding with the government to try to stop Uber from ope
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by mkolodny 10y ago
I work at Uber. What happened to Susan Fowler and Amy is terrible. To give another side of the Uber story, I've seen nothing but respect on my team of ~25 engineers. Only a few of us are women, but also only a few of us are the "w
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by mkolodny 10y ago
> You'd be surprised how many are doing this full-time because they can't find employment elsewhere... Isn't it a good thing that companies like Uber are creating jobs? Particularly for people who can't find employmen

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