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by traek 9y ago
Dropbox is discontinuing photo galleries. > The Photos page is changing on July 17, 2017, but your pictures will stay safe in your Dropbox account. After July 17, you’ll no longer be able to create or share albums on the web, or browse
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by traek 9y ago
> It's a big enough area that pulling it all by hand would be very expensive.
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Trying clothes on is different from actually wearing clothes/removing the label.
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No
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> or a subtle call to address the issue by prevention, perhaps by shortchanging US workers in other ways This is ridiculous. It's an equity research report, the intent is clearly to report on the equities market. Who would this even
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by traek 9y ago
You definitely don't understand this correctly because it's not about what GS is paying their employees, but rather wage growth in America as a whole.
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by traek 9y ago
> No ads, no political spam, no viral garbage, no pictures of what your friend ate for dinner, no psychologically manipulative algorithms. Just people talking to their friends and posting pictures of themselves hanging out. > If someo
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by traek 9y ago
I don't see why you would've expected it, it's not like any of those things are particularly trendy.
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It comes in first, and obviously the site will be ranked in that search because the results are limited to only pages from Google.ai
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by traek 9y ago
S/he wasn't justifying sneering for the rich, they were saying they understood sneering at lifestyle businesses in the case of people who succeeded at building unicorn startups. It's not about money or class, it's abou
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How Harvard Business School Has Reshaped American Capitalism(nytimes.com)
2 points by traek 9y ago|0 comments
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Wunderlist was based in Berlin.
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That's only single-blind (experimenters are blinded to test vs control, but subjects are not). It's impossible to keep subjects unaware of whether or not they were given acid, for obvious reasons.
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by traek 10y ago
Yes, that is exactly why it was proposed by ~derefr to > [offer] "safe self-experimentation sites", complete with medical researchers + monitoring equipment to capture data, and nurses to help with bad reactions? That's wh
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Needybot(needybot.io)
1 points by traek 10y ago|0 comments
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by traek 10y ago
Facebook uses a `--clowntown` flag to let people do things without normal checks. [0] [0] https://www.quora.com/When-people-who-work-at-Facebook-say-c...
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by traek 10y ago
Yes, I understood what was meant, I was pointing out that the parent comment didn't clarify it any further for the person who did not understand.
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by traek 10y ago
What does this clarify? "A pack of chips" isn't a common idiom.
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> the slowest it could be is probably the length of the actual lecture Have you ever transcribed content? The length of the recording is the lower bound on time it takes to transcribe, not the upper bound.
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His reason for leaving Google (a "credible" sexual harassment allegation) is a liability for Uber. If he had disclosed it before he was offered the position, he likely would not have been offered it. It seems completely appropriat
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by traek 10y ago
I don't see why paying for the power would suddenly become an issue. If California can afford it now, they'll be able to afford it later, even if it's paid in a different currency--it's still the same amount of wealth.
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by traek 10y ago
Not NSA, but the CIA funds and operates In-Q-Tel[1]. They've funded companies like Palantir and Keyhole (which became Google Earth). [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/in-q-tel
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> And why introduce graph theory terminology for concepts that not really new in the database world? Because it's developed by Facebook, and Facebook really does view all of their data as a graph.
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That's because it is, for some reason, hosted on Blogger (which even Google themselves have abandoned for their corporate blog).
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by traek 10y ago
Pentel Graph Gear 1000: https://www.jetpens.com/Pentel-Graph-Gear-1000-Drafting-Penc... Best mechanical pencil I've ever used. You can tell a lot of thought has been put into every aspect of its design. The Rotring 800
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by traek 10y ago
Comparing two offers where one is cash + liquid equity (the case at most major tech companies) and the other is the same amount of cash + equity in a company that has no near-term plans to IPO (the case at Uber), most people would consider
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by traek 10y ago
> One thing I see every once in a while on HN is people with the belief that they can spend a week or two knocking out an algorithmic trader and start raking it in. In order to break this illusion I would recommend: http://fin
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by traek 10y ago
> 2. if deep nlp can provide us with more efficiency than what is stated above then wouldn't it be safe to assume that is UNREASONABLY efficient? Why? Neural nets can already detect skin cancer as well as human dermatologists [1].
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It's words from the URL. I'm guessing they were used because the article headline isn't very descriptive.
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More discussion on a similar article by the original author: "The $99B Idea: How Uber and Airbnb Won" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13505818

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