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by scosman 9y ago
what city is that?
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by scosman 9y ago
The problem is with way the laws are written, it's almost impossible to prosecute bad drivers. I was clipped by a driver while cycling, who then flipped me off because I was in his way (I had the right of way). I reported to police and
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by scosman 9y ago
Try to avoid the word "accident". Use crash or collision instead. A majority of fatal crashes are caused by intoxicated, speeding, distracted, or careless drivers and, therefore, are not simple accidents but the result of someone&
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by scosman 9y ago
This is my biggest annoyance with the traffic act. "Running a red light" and "Running a red light and killing a pedestrian" are the same crime/penalty. I was hit by a car and injured while in a dedicated bike lane a
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by scosman 9y ago
Facebook changed their SDK login behaviour to open the Facebook app, or Safari if it's not installed. If you see an in-app webview login for Facebook, you are being phished. However, 99% of users wouldn't know to check for this.
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by scosman 9y ago
Shoebox | Machine Learning Engineers, Backend Engineers | Toronto https://shoeboxapp.com/joinus Shoebox is a service to relive your best moments through photos. Millions of users have synced billions of photos to our cloud.
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by scosman 9y ago
Bill Gates loves this book: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Seveneves
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by scosman 9y ago
Shoebox | Machine Learning Engineers, Backend Engineers | Toronto https://shoeboxapp.com/joinus Shoebox is a service to relive your best moments through photos. Millions of users have synced billions of photos to our cloud.
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by scosman 9y ago
1) That ratio can be 40:1+ for a lot of use cases. That adds up in costs and if you have any other limitations (DB connections) it can be a total deal breaker. 2) I said many gems, not Rails. Connection pooling in other frameworks is worlds
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by scosman 9y ago
"web-scale" is a fairly established term (overused sure, but established). Arguing that most sites are not web-scale is beside the point. As someone who's spent a lot of time scaling up ruby servers (I like to think I know wh
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by scosman 9y ago
That's not correct. The founders already have stock before any round. They typically don't get any of the ESOP. In early rounds the ESOP is essentially carved out of the founders stock, it doesn't make sense to give some of i
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by scosman 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be assuming a seed round valuation of $40 million (it's returning $0 unless the exit is > $40m). That's absurd. Edit: the assumption of 0.01% is also absurd. A simplified calculat
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by scosman 9y ago
Also, Hinton (and others) are launching a giant AI labs. Lots of government and partner funding (Google, Nvidia, etc). http://vectorinstitute.ai/
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by scosman 9y ago
Or as an intercom: * Alexa, call the living room: hey everybody, dinner's getting cold!
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by scosman 9y ago
Toronto beaches are usually very safe (the are measured by the city in the summer). This is a one-off event caused by a huge storm.
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by scosman 10y ago
Shoebox | Toronto, Canada | https://shoeboxapp.com Shoebox is a rapidly growing startup in the heart of Toronto. At Shoebox you will have the opportunity to build a product over a million people use to explore billions of photos
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by scosman 10y ago
Note: this article is from 2012
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by scosman 10y ago
Those seem too low, both US and Canada. Is anyone really paying a ML specialist $53k?
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by scosman 10y ago
I find that the mindset that your commute is out of your control is unique to US/Canada. You choose where you work and live, they shouldn't be independent decisions. I've had every type of commute, and I could never go back t
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by scosman 10y ago
"“But come on, doesn’t the government take care of the poor, the sick, the old?” Mr. Ballmer recalled telling her." Too bad he never had a mentor who was an expert in philanthropy...
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by scosman 10y ago
Everyone gets that. We're mad that United messed up the logistics of having staff in the right cities, and instead of treating their customers well they decided to use literal force to removed a customer with a confirmed seat who was a
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by scosman 10y ago
Exactly! United overbooked as an optimization for profits, fine. However, they should have to pay up when it backfires. They gave up at $800 and just started forcing people off. If it's free market when I'm buying my ticket, it sh
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by scosman 10y ago
Bingo! We tested BK trees and found them to break down on lots of data sets. The search speedup never overcame the additional cost of building the trees (although these were one-off sets, a search heavy workload could definitely benefit fro
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by scosman 10y ago
So you can add cash to your amazon account instead of using a credit card or bank account. Some people don't have credit cards or banks accounts.
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by scosman 10y ago
Not sure why people are downvoting. This is a legit complaint about AMP. Even the HN homepage is showing this as "google.com", not "thestar.com".
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by scosman 10y ago
Odd choice to push JSON serialization onto the DB while touting horizontal scaling. Still pretty cool that this much is possible with Postgres and a minimal frontend.
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by scosman 10y ago
They already support collecting HST (drivers who make more than $30k have to). Occasionally I take a ride and see HST on the receipt, but most are dodging it.
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by scosman 10y ago
We use a twimlet for our business number. It simply plays a recording directing people to our support web page and email (phone support would be too expensive). A surprising number of places need a phone number; for example, Stripe includes
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by scosman 10y ago
oops. We migrated from Desk.com, not Zendesk and it's too late to edit this comment. Zendesk could be an amazing product.
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by scosman 10y ago
[EDIT] I intended to make this comment about Desk.com, not Zendesk. Sorry! I can't speak to Zendesk, it might be amazing. [Original comment] Exporting your data when you leave is almost impossible. You'll need to keep paying even

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