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by proxygeek 8y ago
There is some good advice in here, some which I myself stumbled across after trial and error. But 39 points?! May be it's just me but whenever I see a list with over 10 items, I just get so tired when thinking about it. Ultimately it j
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by proxygeek 8y ago
Wondering if there is a corpus of "stop-phrases" like stop-words which will include gems like "passionate about software development", "good communicator", "truth-seeker" and the likes. It might be in
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by proxygeek 8y ago
As Prof. Bohnet herself points out, the HR dept. should do more A/B testing of its practices instead of relying on the gut feel. Hence the gradual increase in the prevalence of "people analytics" (apart from allure of sucking
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by proxygeek 8y ago
It probably would be more helpful on the pull side rather than the push side of the channel. Useful for consumption of content in certain situations by certain segments of readers. Say, someone scanning through a list of legal docs to ident
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by proxygeek 8y ago
Recently I've been thinking about inherent biased towards applicants based on their prior work / educational history, in terms of organizations they have been to. I get that it acts as a moderate signal of how tenacious and inhere
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by proxygeek 8y ago
Recently I've been thinking about inherent biased towards applicants based on their prior work / educational history, in terms of organizations they have been to. I get that it acts as a moderate signal of how tenacious and inhere
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by proxygeek 8y ago
In my experience on a similar configuration, most of the times such aliens is because of i/o bottleneck. Antivirus, Windows app optimisations, and device manufacturers' softwares running at predefined schedules, choking the disk m
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by proxygeek 8y ago
Vector magic runs perfectly fine and does a great job even in high Res photos on Win 10. About 90 seconds for 2048x1433 image with some intricate details at high quality setting (as compared to offered medium and low quality settings) with
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by proxygeek 8y ago
This is really interesting! Have been doing something similar myself on my own phone (Android) for about a month using the wonderful NetGuard app ( https://f-droid.org/en/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/ ) which
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by proxygeek 8y ago
Working fine for me as well on Android (Oreo) with Firefox Focus with all tracking disabled. No pop-ups on couple of articles I tried
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by proxygeek 8y ago
It would be really amazing to have an option to engage with suspected telemarketing callers using Google Duplex. User experience: * Get a suspected telemarketing call * Ringer silent while the in call UI waits for user to pick up * If igno
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by proxygeek 8y ago
And maintaing the balance at those speeds. I can hardly control mine at 50 kmph downhill
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by proxygeek 8y ago
I am about 4 hours in and still into it! Thank you for sharing the lectures. Just finished the series on Face Recognition. I was wondering if the fusiform face area (FFA) get activated while thinking of someone's face instead of actu
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by proxygeek 8y ago
Would love to discuss. You can also reach me on the email - considering the timezone difference (I couldn't find yours on the profile page).
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Ask HN: Is there a resource to track the flow of news stories across the globe?
4 points by proxygeek 8y ago|3 comments
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by proxygeek 8y ago
The news media has a way of using the "wave". The barrage of articles with FB caught with it's hands in the "cookie jar" will contiue piling up. And a lot of them are just trying to get on in the action but some - l
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by proxygeek 8y ago
This is actually a very good point. I was thinking myself something along similar lines that intuitively speaking, death by unnatural causes like terrorism/homicide/suicide are of course more "newsworthy" than the ones d
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by proxygeek 8y ago
I wonder if this also has something to do with their planned support for AMP in Gmail. If yes, then this might get tricky ...
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Double standards for smartphones vs. laptops when it comes to privacy?(solitude.io)
3 points by proxygeek 8y ago|0 comments
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by proxygeek 9y ago
Why does the atom look so big in the bicture? Atomic radius of Strontium is 219 pm, so that small spec there in the picture should be about 438 pm across. I'm assuming the two ball-pen nib shaped structures on both sides of the spec in