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Let Your iPhone Tell You When to Go to Bed(wired.com)
3 points by victorvation 9y ago|0 comments
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Equifax Deserves the Corporate Death Penalty(wired.com)
40 points by victorvation 9y ago|7 comments
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Why Tech Leadership Has a Bigger Race Than Gender Problem(wired.com)
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Frequent Flier Miles Are Kaput–The Game's About Credit Cards Now(wired.com)
2 points by victorvation 9y ago|0 comments
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The Nuclear Tech Breakthrough That Could Make Oil Obsolete(bloomberg.com)
1 points by victorvation 9y ago|2 comments
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Ethereum Is Coding's New Wild West(wired.com)
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How Your Phone Number Became the Only Username That Matters(wired.com)
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A New Way to Tell Your Airline You Hate It(bloomberg.com)
117 points by victorvation 9y ago|86 comments
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Lyft’s Radical Experiment in Charging for Free Parking(bloomberg.com)
148 points by victorvation 9y ago|138 comments
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Rich Asian Millennials Pool Family Fortunes to Build Venture Fund(bloomberg.com)
2 points by victorvation 9y ago|0 comments
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by victorvation 9y ago
Large ad publishers such as Google and Facebook are already doing the equivalent of auctioning users' attention by proxy of views, clicks, and conversions through their existing ad delivery methods.
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by victorvation 9y ago
> More precisely, it feels the way Facebook did from 2009 to 2012, when it silently crossed over from one of those tech things that some people sometimes did to one of those tech things that everyone you know does every day. Ubiquity is
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by victorvation 9y ago
I'm surprised that even on HN, people seem to unquestioningly accept that Yelp extorts businesses using reviews, where any other topic would be subject to a higher level of scrutiny. I've heard countless anecdotes about peoples&#x
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by victorvation 9y ago
Do you have any reading material that you would recommend for single-threaded concurrency?
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by victorvation 10y ago
> Was the last Kickstarter a gamble? _All_ Kickstarters are gambles. Their messaging[1] is pretty clear in the fact that you aren't buying a product, you're contributing money with the hope that the maker will deliver on their
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by victorvation 10y ago
I wouldn't say it's unfortunate. The majority of my (and many peoples') personal computing is done entirely on an iPhone and therefore improvement upon it, either incremental or innovative or otherwise, is always welcome.
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by victorvation 10y ago
Interesting to see what the use case for this will be - will removing the JVM dependency really outweigh the increase in compilation time?
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by victorvation 10y ago
A lot of Canadians from UW _are_ the ones working in SV/SEA/NYC.
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by victorvation 10y ago
A classmate of mine interned at a Microsoft office in Sunnyvale and was provided a rental car for the duration of his internship.
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by victorvation 10y ago
Likely nowhere yet, seeing as Svelte is four days old (give or take a few hours).
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Triangle center(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by victorvation 10y ago|0 comments
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Existential Types [pdf](student.cs.uwaterloo.ca)
1 points by victorvation 10y ago|0 comments
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by victorvation 10y ago
It seems to me that Apple attempts to avoid the "invasive" use of deep learning, while Echo and Home utilize it aggressively. Perhaps this is why Siri is seemingly lagging behind Google Now. Another example of this is Photos apps
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by victorvation 10y ago
The "arms" on MagSafe adapters are actually bad for the cable - wrapping it around them puts undue stress on the cable, which causes them to fray faster. And a stiff/inflexible cable should also prevent it from fraying. Seems
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A Rebuttal for Python 3(eev.ee)
155 points by victorvation 10y ago|34 comments
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Reactions: Not everything in life is Likable(medium.com)
1 points by victorvation 11y ago|0 comments
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by victorvation 11y ago
You create a new account. It's mentioned in the first line of marketing copy. > It's easy to get started. You just create a new Facebook at Work account to connect with coworkers.
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by victorvation 11y ago
> I would argue that the outcome of hiring an Unemployable Programmer might in fact be better overall, because we're motivated and we get stuff done - as opposed to the hipster "rockstar" programmer we actually do eat and
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by victorvation 11y ago
I'm a University of Waterloo computer engineering student. I'd love to join your team for a 4 month internship starting in September. Location: Waterloo, Ontario Remote: Maybe Willing to relocate: Yes - Bay Area / NYC /
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Show HN: See the current time and color when you open a new Chrome tab(chrome.google.com)
1 points by victorvation 12y ago|0 comments

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