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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
It's not just Chinese investors, even having large Chinese customers raises red flags during BD work for us. We provide a SaaS for data analytics and often we hold a copy of the client database to provide rapid answers to queries. We w
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
The question, is these bright minds never spent 10 years at MIT or Harvard, and instead spent it at Peking University, would be they be of the same caliber?
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
It's basically another way to spread fear to encourage self censorship. If admins believe they are liable for anything non-kosher, then they'd actively censor it themselves to avoid potential wrath. Throw in a few news articles of
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
I looked at the OpenAPS documentation. I had no idea the preferred SoC for this system is the now discontinued Intel Edison. We have boxes of them from an IoT startup I was part of that folded a few years ago. I see there are references to
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
You can upvote every other story around it and then flag the original.
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
I've met quite a few of the YC team before and I know they don't have a person with this sort of speciality. There is a reason the top fraud detection analysts get paid so much on ecommerce companies - you have to be good at data
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by potatofarmer45 7y ago
I've NEVER seen a post make it to the top of HN front page and then drop so quickly. It's almost like there is a bot network that detected keywords that may be negative towards the Chinese government and downvoted on masse to bury
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
A lot of the people in Finance are surprisingly superstitious. I had a boss once who would not conduct trades if he saw a totally unrelated bad omen. The treasury yield curve is a measure of expectations. It's a market marker that is t
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
"Mastery in that they know the business capability from end-to-end". That's the point. These generalists are not really data scientists. Often it's some account manager/salesperson/ops worker rebranding themsel
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
We have an enterprise product built around our own NLP
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
SV isn't the best fit for a lot of startups. It really shouldn't be the default location for all startups especially since there are different options that offer different things (NYC, Denver/Boulder, Austin etc). The Bay Are
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
I think I play too much Starcraft that when I see "Breed Ready", I immediately think I must've forgotten to morph workers or overlords.
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
This is smart politics. Rather than simply telling people FB is a monopoly, she runs a limited experiment that had it been left alone, would have limited effect since the budget was so small ($100). Now this puts FB in a bind. If they reall
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
I imagine most people would have no idea their profiles could be searched via phone number. I didn't know until today. If it never occurred to you that this could happen, you would not take steps to prevent it.
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
This will make keeping your social media private during recruiting much much harder because rather than trying to search for your name on FB or your email, an interviewer can just search your listed contact number. Names are often not uniqu
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
This is a good idea. I'll do it from now on
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
There are so many fake reviews on Amazon that the "average" stars for a product are no longer reliable indicators of quality. Especially for cheap electronics (read: headphones), products that have only been listed for a month som
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
I have a lot of friends who originally went into finance in college to "save up" and then pursue their dreams. But once they started living the good life, things changed. Before you know it, they have a gf/wife who expects th
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
There's a great piece of advice an experienced founder told me: the longer you wait to raise, the better off you'll be. In my first startup we were so happy anyone would be interested in funding us we took on, in hindsight, some p
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
as in from the 1k plan to 10k per month? You're supposed to be in an "approved" accelerator to get it, but in reality if you pester the reps, they will move you up. By rep what I mean is IBM has a network of people who go out
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
Any demonstrated success of a startup signals to partners, investors, customers and employees that the future is bright and these parties adjust their actions (often to the benefit of the startup). Unicorn status is just one such signal(abi
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
F6S also has a similar list https://www.f6s.com/deals . In particular the hosting credits really lets you play around with dev without breaking the bank. In most cases startups utilize AWS and GCP and they are generally real
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
This is super exciting. I hope the demand for these stimulates the copycat manufacturers into making even more RISC-V chips at lower and lower prices with better availability and options (aka, Arduino style).
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
I think what a lot of commentators are missing is that even without a trade war, IPhone shipments would have fallen in China. In the past, the android phones kept focussing on features (remember the s3 ads about how it had all these feature
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
This is a long time coming. I'm normally not a big fan of large companies building products in the embedded space that could potentially destroy competition and future innovation but this is needed. Nvidia's embedded boards are EX
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
In college we had a program where you studied in the country of the language you're trying to learn. What was interesting was the "pledge" where no matter how bad it got, you didn't revert to English. It sucked at the st
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how the weakness of a secure system is always the people. It's common to see companies invest in "encrypted databases" and "on premises data storage" in the name of security while not spe
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
I recall talking to an old hand at Li & Fung (they're the largest contract manufacturing company in the world) and he talks of the old days where Shenzhen was literally a village with no factories, no paved roads, and no electricit
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
It's true at this current time, China is the best ecosystem to manufacture electronics. Moving anywhere will incur a higher cost but this higher cost is temporary. This is econ 101. Moving now is pricier in the short run, but the inves
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by potatofarmer45 8y ago
My very first job was in finance on Wall St at a bulge bracket investment bank (read: big name fancy boohah bank). I did it not because I like finance and I thought working 100 hours a week on excel was fun, I did because I had no idea what

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