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by obmelvin 9y ago
Why should uber be too big to fail? Why should the whole company not suffer if their top management is engaged in terrible practices?
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by obmelvin 9y ago
This is meant for people who need services and guarantees that can only be provided by a huge infrastructure provider
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by obmelvin 9y ago
Traditional maps help a driver get from A to B over a long distance with the user being responsible for the details in between. These types of 3D lidar style maps are meant so the car knows detailed information about roads to inform minute
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by obmelvin 9y ago
REI = Recreational Equipment, Inc. (essentially a a camping and hiking store though they do have some general sports stuff like bikes) SAR = search and rescue
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by obmelvin 9y ago
I completely agree. I think people like Zuck and Gates are better off doing work via the private sector and philanthropy. Also, regarding the types of people he's meeting. Yes, they are people one would expect a politician to meet with
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by obmelvin 9y ago
yes, most things are goods that people can buy at their own discretion. However, payday loans are predatory and should not be considered in the same category as unhealthy food, expensive clothing, etc.
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by obmelvin 9y ago
What people accuse Yelp of doing is pretty close to racketeering (or is? IANAL) and thus there is a high burden of proof. As a sibling comment points out, not every accusation needs detailed proof but some do and despite the years of accu
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by obmelvin 9y ago
That's such a terrible reason not to live in a city. I don't see how it is significantly more likely for only a single incident like that to happen. If we really have a catasophre or act of war it will likely effect larger regions
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by obmelvin 10y ago
But how do you know what is your best? Some people (myself included) believe that you can push the human body and mind to do anything you want. I'm aware this isn't quite true, but in a large sense I truly believe I'm capable
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by obmelvin 10y ago
It is much easier to navigate to the desktop app than to hunt through browser tabs to change the song etc.
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by obmelvin 10y ago
The conversation is about self driving features, not about sales.
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by obmelvin 10y ago
I believe that is GPs point.
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by obmelvin 10y ago
I don't get how it is impartial. The fact is that the public can read it. It's not his opinion.
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by obmelvin 10y ago
I believe this was it - https://danielcompton.net/2017/03/14/uber-bombshell
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by obmelvin 10y ago
Netflix vs non Netflix content aside, the low amount of movies is a direct result of viewing data. TV shows are shorter so can be squeezed into smaller spaces for viewing and have longer plot lines to hook viewers. Can't blame them for
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by obmelvin 10y ago
Completely disagree. The nyt readers (I'd assume) are generally well educated, but despite my education I'm in no way able to assess this information. By reading the NYT I'd expect to be informed about an area which my educat
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by obmelvin 10y ago
Bananas and smoothied are very good for you. But it partly depends what you're doing. They're great for inclusion liver glucose levels to fuel a workout
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by obmelvin 10y ago
I believe those are to provide data for image Segmentation (localization of an image is harder than pure recognition)
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by obmelvin 10y ago
Glass is now being used for medical and industrial purposes
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by obmelvin 10y ago
Wrong. There's no way in hell an employee contract would ever let someone copy documents and use them after leaving the company. The intellectual property belongs to Google, not the individual creators and certainly not to any other em
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by obmelvin 10y ago
Very sad that Trump spews all his shit over twitter and yet these organizations can't even do a formal press release with these guidelines
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by obmelvin 10y ago
The exact solution may not work, but the overall approach to finding a solution very well could. I also somewhat disagree with the notion that systems working in smaller countries cannot work in larger or more diverse countries (esp. regard
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by obmelvin 10y ago
I don't understand why those have to be mutually exclusive. It's possible that they haven't finished cleaning the data for public use, but the data is ready for 'trusted' city planners.
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by obmelvin 10y ago
Did you catch this? "Separately, we previously disclosed that our outside forensic experts were investigating the creation of forged cookies that could allow an intruder to access users’ accounts without a password. Based on the ongoin
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by obmelvin 10y ago
Their stated goal is indeed full autonomy.
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by obmelvin 10y ago
Your post doesn't make sense - how is that related to this? Why is not up voting this article being a good HN user?
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by obmelvin 10y ago
While they are obviously different, automatic censorship would require automatic classification.
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by obmelvin 10y ago
That's true... I'd been assuming they'd use specialized hardware for inference when writing that, but totally failed to think how cost may make a CPU more desirable.
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by obmelvin 10y ago
You are correct in that it can be addressed, but I believe the issues people raise are that properly addressing everything makes the project to be (potentially) extraordinarily expensive.
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by obmelvin 10y ago
As the other poster mentions, I assume their view is that these types of operations will become increasingly prevalent in consumer software applications. Lots will be powered by the cloud, but it would be useful if some inference can be don

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