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by pliny 8y ago
Banning workplace cafeterias is a good start, but really the solution they should be discussing is banning workplaces. The workers at tech companies like Twitter and AirBNB are known to have access to working in their own buildings, which d
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by pliny 8y ago
The Israeli franchise has an app that does what you suggest (order ahead and favorite orders). It was rolled out with those features at least 3 years ago, IIRC.
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by pliny 8y ago
But you can trick Bob into entering his credentials + using his security key on corp.bank.co.m and then use those credentials + security key interaction to log into corp.bank.com IF the security key interaction is domain agnostic (like you
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by pliny 8y ago
https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-coders-worst-nightmare/answe...
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by pliny 8y ago
This argument is symmetric, it implies all other map providers (who are competitors of google maps and of each other) also have no competitors.
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by pliny 8y ago
>Isn't the whole point of machine algorithms to find the best spot between variance and bias? In which case, every algorithms will have some bias. This references two different, almost opposite, meanings of the word bias. The mean
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by pliny 8y ago
Waymo cars currently drive all around Mountain View, including the Google campus.
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by pliny 8y ago
It was a normative question. The social norm exists, but I wish it didn't, so I won't enforce it and I'll encourage other people not to enforce it.
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by pliny 8y ago
My question was normative, I suppose another way to rephrase it is "Do you want to live in a world where only people with the correct opinions can make jokes and enjoy the benefit of the doubt? If not, why are you enforcing social norm
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by pliny 8y ago
Is making jokes and enjoying the benefit of the doubt a privilege reserved for people with the correct political opinions?
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by pliny 8y ago
My program adds 5000 nominal dollars to a savings account every 'year' and then applies a 6.2% interest rate once a 'year'. Where is the '2018 dollars'? The account takes the same nominal deposit at year 0 as a
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by pliny 8y ago
That's not true, you only get to that figure with 5,000 nominal dollars and 6.2% unadjusted interest >>> def comp(s, n, i): ... m = 0 ... for x in range(n): ... m *= i ... m += s .
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by pliny 9y ago
How can you know if a packet contains audio?
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by pliny 9y ago
I see, thanks.
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by pliny 9y ago
Isn't the BTC / hash fixed until the difficulty changes? Like, for a given difficulty you should expect N hashes calculated until a block is mined, so if you kill off half the miners (in terms of hash rate) the time until block mi
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by pliny 9y ago
According to that chart there were 1-2 years in the 90s where the headcount of health care bureaucracy quadrupled, but the trendline for price did not change at all (maybe the smoothing is too aggressive? I couldn't find the source dat
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by pliny 9y ago
If you only needed to do that, you could just take the abs error (Even the 1-0 loss function, where every point that the regression hyperplane doesn't pass through contributes 1 to the error, fulfills this criterion).
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A completely accurate map with no distortion at all(slatestarcodex.com)
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A completely broken link which I cannot delete(slatestarcodex.com)
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by pliny 9y ago
FTA: >Distributions that would not be expected to obey Benford's Law > ... >Where numbers are influenced by human thought: e.g. prices set by psychological thresholds ($1.99)
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by pliny 9y ago
>Anyway, it is possible to do this again and with two small kids I'm very interested to know how. Here's a context-relevant place to start: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/07/31/book-review-raise-a
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Ask HN: Simultaneous development?
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by pliny 9y ago
He worked at Starbucks and would overhear traders bragging about their crimes in queue.
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by pliny 9y ago
You compared the effects on "millions" of global poor vs. "millions" of poor americans, but there are order of magnitudes difference in the size of those groups. Arguably the gains to the former is also greater than the
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by pliny 9y ago
Just from eyeballing the chart it looks like they made a few million more than the index, over those five years, which pays for 3ish engineers if they're taking half the performance over index and no management fees.
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by pliny 9y ago
from the FAQ[1]: >Are paywalls ok? >It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. The implication is that paywalls without workarounds (like WSJ) aren't OK. [1] https://news.ycombinator.c
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by pliny 9y ago
>Americans[1] owning American[2] companies, and employing 100% American[3] labor Americans[1] is not the same as Americans[3], there is some overlap (in the sense that Americans can own shares in US companies) but Americans[1] are mostly
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by pliny 9y ago
If the company has a market cap of $100 and $50 in cash (and $50 in discounted future earnings), and it uses all $50 to buy half its stock then the company now has $0 in cash and $50 in discounted future earnings, divided by 50 remaining sh
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by pliny 10y ago
FTA: >2 It is worth clarifying that there are, of course, systems today that appear to exceed human size in narrow dimensions. Lamp posts are one example. The predictions that we are considering concern some more general notion of largen
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by pliny 10y ago
If I understand UK visa rules correctly, getting a work permit as someone who designs or develops tech for robots is as easy as getting a job offer from a company that wants you to design or develop tech for robots for them.

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