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by rm999 9y ago
For sure. In another office they use a geiger counter (a much more standard way to get randomness, and probably easier to setup). That said, this doubles as a public art installation in their lobby - something many companies spend thousands
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by rm999 9y ago
> What's the balance? I've no idea, An obvious solution is rural development, looking to India as an example. The accelerating urban migration in India in the 90s/2000s was not organic: young people were forced to leave th
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by rm999 9y ago
>I came to the conclusion that area under ROC is pretty much garbage. I cannot disagree more. IMO AUC is a rare great metric: it's principled, useful, universally applicable (e.g. invariant to class imbalances), and easy to explain
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by rm999 9y ago
It's mostly the rent but it's also Amazon. I recently took part in a commercial real estate search in Soho, probably the biggest shopping district in NYC. The prices in this neighborhood have gone up insanely: one storefront (abou
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by rm999 9y ago
Yeah this was my first thought. This video feels a lot like a lesson on how not to build a great tech team. Apple was a super-hyped company in the 80s with a very successful IPO, so hiring the best wasn't exactly difficult for them.
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by rm999 9y ago
I just signed up for the nytimes a couple days ago, and was exactly in the same position (I wanted articles + crosswords for myself and my SO). You want All Access which gets you two accounts with full access including crosswords (including
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by rm999 9y ago
Thanks for the response! I'm curious, what would be the interaction between Batch and Fargate? Right now I use Batch to run a container and then exit out with as little thought about the underlying machine as possible. Is Fargate a pus
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by rm999 9y ago
Have you tried AWS Batch? My team moved a couple of our batch machine learning modeling jobs to it earlier this year and it's worked out great. https://aws.amazon.com/batch/
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by rm999 9y ago
Instead of market cap/GDP, wouldn't market cap/earnings (p/e ratio) more directly capture "market overvaluation" and "how much the stock market costs vs how much it is providing"? If so, it seems like
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by rm999 9y ago
This is good advice for someone with financial security and a good salary. Which is sadly a fairly small % of people in their 20s. I'd add two higher priorities for people who don't have financial security: 1. Take stock of your f
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by rm999 9y ago
You're looking at average cost, which includes half-ton pickups and large SUVs. Look at page 6, which contains small and medium sedans.
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by rm999 9y ago
Both Uber and Lyft cover additional liability insurance as long as the app is open. They also cover comprehensive if a passenger is in the car. https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/insurance/best-ridesharing-i...
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by rm999 9y ago
My point is the fixed costs (the ones you list) don't significantly change if you already have a car and decide to become an Uber driver. Mr Mustache didn't pay 18 dollars to drive those 36 miles, he was already going to pay for h
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by rm999 9y ago
This article rests on the premise that operating a car costs a fixed 50 cents a mile. But several uber drivers have told me the economics work out pretty well for them because they already need their cars, so IMO using 50 cents a mile is an
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by rm999 9y ago
I think you may be underestimating the importance of this article to US politics. One of the biggest issues in the 2016 election was stagnating blue-collar wages - it was one of Trump's main platforms, and one of the main factors that
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Even new phones are no longer guaranteed to have the latest version of Android(theverge.com)
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by rm999 9y ago
That's almost exactly how they found the connection, from the article: > Early epidemiologic research showed that incidence and death rates for certain cancers were lower among individuals living in southern latitudes, where levels
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by rm999 9y ago
First, that's a feature, not a product. Second, there's no barrier to entry there. Facebook's ~10000 engineers can recreate features with amazing swiftness, do it better than the first movers, then spread the feature quickly
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by rm999 9y ago
Sure, but that's not a database running in Docker, it's "external storage to store state". Which is the right way of doing things if you're ok with your data persisting on the server.
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by rm999 9y ago
Containers are designed to be non-persistent - if an instance of a container goes down you should be able to replace it with another instance with no loss in state. Most people want their databases to be persistent (unless it's just te
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by rm999 9y ago
> Mr. Inman [author of The Oatmeal], like many comedians seems to be fundamentally unhappy and finds an outlet through humor. Oddly enough his behavior is similar to Tesla's in that he reacts in a nasty fashion if someone challenges
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by rm999 9y ago
Full article without paywall: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chevy-bolt-meet-the-first-p...
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by rm999 9y ago
The story is about a near-instantaneous ~23 billion dollar drop in the market cap of Apple after reports of production slow-downs; at least that's the story several analysts are telling. Your comment is very insightful and puts this dr
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by rm999 9y ago
A few years ago I was at a failing company. The quick influx of detailed negative reviews (from people who were both still there and who had recently left) was perhaps the only public indicator that things were going poorly. I felt so terri
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by rm999 9y ago
Sad - I believe AIM is the oldest living account where I still know my username/password. I just logged in for the first time in years and not a single other person was logged in. There were people on there I haven't spoken to in
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by rm999 9y ago
>Dynamo gets expensive and it gets expensive quick, DynamoDB's pricing scales sublinearly with volume; if it starts getting expensive it was an initial misuse of DynamoDB that got obvious with scale. There are a lot of factors that
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by rm999 9y ago
DynamoDB is amazing for the right applications if you very carefully understand its limitations. Last year I built out a recommendation engine for my company; it worked well, but we wanted to make it real-time (a user would get recommendati
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by rm999 9y ago
NYC has a great ecosystem of experienced people who know how to program, know math, and understand how businesses/product work. In this regard there are many amazing qualified data science practitioners. But, the data science startup s
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by rm999 9y ago
I have a question that's been bugging me for a long time, ever since I worked with a couple of brilliant Canadians who informed me of the dismal offers they got before moving to the USA. Why does Canada pay tech people so little? Marke
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by rm999 9y ago
I'm mixed on this article. While I strongly agree that data analysis trumps math for applying machine learning, I think there's a middle ground the article is missing. Like programming, machine learning has its 10xers, and I'

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