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Building a Christmas Village(thewalrus.ca)
1 points by nikhizzle 6y ago|0 comments
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Use iPhone Lidar to map your house(locometric.com)
2 points by nikhizzle 6y ago|0 comments
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
I think perhaps you are conflating no services for the upper 20% of society with no services. But the gulf is very wide in India and the population is massive. 354 million people in poverty! India's food assistance programs, free educa
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
The article excludes the cost of import duty, and other taxes (see daedalus's comment). It is a false argument to say that if I didn't pay tax things could be cheaper eg. if I break the law I can get a cheaper iPhone. Getting caug
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
I'm ready to purchase a product like this one given 2 constraints: 1. Price comes down a bit, for an ultraportable this is a little expensive for my budget. 2. The software stack has very few bugs and enables intelligent switching betw
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Bringing the ocean's midnight zone into the light(nytimes.com)
1 points by nikhizzle 6y ago|0 comments
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
What about the production efforts from Nissan and GM which have launched level 3 with higher safety and no fanfare? What about the other 10 companies who have launched similar systems at level 2 with much better safety records and again no
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
I find it extremely puzzling to counterpose the predictions of disease experts, politicians and economists with regard to COVID. Disease experts are very cautiously optimistic over a period of years. Economists are in sharp disagreement whe
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
Is this real news? I see no mentions of primary sources, and when I do a google search I find some much older articles with much more context and nuance. I’m not sure I believe this in any way. It is taking quotes out of context, and creati
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
The employee was taking off days without taking vacation to work on hobbies without telling HR or Management. He was just not showing up. This happened with many employees all the time.
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
To get access to the Hadoop cluster you also needed special permissions and to go through a committee. At Facebook, access was given to all technical and non-technical (after an afternoon of training) people.
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
Ex-yahoo here, thought I would add my 2 cents. Yahoo under Jerry and Filo (love them both, this is not personal) had a twin culture of niceness and bureaucracy which killed us. Here are an example of each: 1. Niceness - a coworker decided t
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First hyperloop project over promised and is under delivering(curbed.com)
2 points by nikhizzle 6y ago|0 comments
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
I use Vegas and am very happy with it for all but the most complex visualizations. https://github.com/vegas-viz/Vegas
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
So some brief advice from spending about 5 years as a visualization engineer/designer/data scientist: 1. Get an intuitive understanding of the data 2. (via Alberto Cairo) Aim to allow the user to correlate, organize and compare th
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
What you are asking for is along the lines of Microsoft Photosynth released circa 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynth
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
This perk at fb was halted in 2008 precisely for the reason you mention above - it raised all the rents suitable for employees at the time within that perimeter by $1000/mo. (Source: I worked for fb)
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New phone has unintended ability to see through some plastics(9to5mac.com)
5 points by nikhizzle 6y ago|1 comments
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by nikhizzle 6y ago
I’m really sorry you got voted down for this prescient comment. It is spot on that in times of societal distress we often lose progress and knowledge that was obtained before, often on purpose. Think of the dark ages, or many of the populis
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by nikhizzle 7y ago
I think you may have missed the most important difference. Both President Hoover and the Federal Reserve reacted by tightening monetary and fiscal policy. Their intentions were good, Hoover wanted a balanced budget and the Fed was attemptin
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by nikhizzle 7y ago
My concern here is that bad decisions were made early on in the US, and there will be no accountability. What do mechanisms for accountability here look like? Will they be used? Edit: And more importantly how will we prevent theses same mis
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by nikhizzle 7y ago
I am also close to their hq. Would love to get together and talk tech. Email in profile.
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Kenneth Rogoff on Supply Shocks and an upcoming recession(theguardian.com)
3 points by nikhizzle 7y ago|0 comments
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by nikhizzle 7y ago
The skynest is being proposed as an additional service you can book (not sure if it will be paid or free). So you will have your normal seat, and then get a certain number of hours in the skynest.
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by nikhizzle 7y ago
I believe the economics have slightly changed with the propagation of premium economy. A significant percent of long haul margins are now coming from this segment. “The carrier said revenues per square foot are 6 per cent higher than in bus
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The Zephyr premium economy airline seat(flyertalk.com)
163 points by nikhizzle 7y ago|125 comments
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30 Year treasury yield hits all time low(cnbc.com)
6 points by nikhizzle 7y ago|1 comments
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by nikhizzle 7y ago
You should use the cache or persist call on the spark data frame/dataset. Persist gives you more control.
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by nikhizzle 7y ago
I think you are describing something close to the Dataset API in Spark. Spark is built on the RDD, a novel data structure that creates transparent concurrency and distribution. Additionally, you can access the same data with 4 APIs, one of
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by nikhizzle 7y ago
Thanks for this. Can you please write up a blog post or a comment here with a lot more detail?

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