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by wmblaettler 8y ago
How do you interpret an earnings slide? They seem to have a stronger Q4 YoY - presumably due to increased ad spending leading up to the holiday buying season, with a retraction every Q1. There was an 8% decline from Q4'16 to Q1'
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by wmblaettler 9y ago
I'm honestly curious what the aversion is to reading patents and patent applications. Is it to avoid suspect patent infringement by being able to claim ignorance? i.e. "I have not read any patent that relates to some work that I
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by wmblaettler 9y ago
Dockless gives gives you closer to end-to-end or "last mile" so much more than docked systems. With docked systems, you have to walk to both the pickup dock and find a drop off dock near your actual destination for a one way ride
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by wmblaettler 9y ago
My dentist, a younger generation who took over the practice from a retiring dentist, has installed a Cerec crown milling machine. It was amazing to see the tooth modelled in 3d using a series of photos, then I watched my dentist raise the
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by wmblaettler 9y ago
Richard Feynman on this very subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifk6iuLQk28
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by wmblaettler 9y ago
https://medium.com/@comma_ai/our-road-to-self-driving-victor...
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by wmblaettler 9y ago
Actually, I'm pretty sure this is it: https://www.thebeeinc.com/
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by wmblaettler 9y ago
Another story about Gmail's beginnings: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-07-16-n55.html
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by wmblaettler 9y ago
Dupe from 3 months ago, is there some new context that makes this more relevant now than then or was this an inadvertent dupe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13747364
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by wmblaettler 9y ago
Anyone able to find a link to the "widely cited 1996 study estimated that eliminating the MID and property-tax deductions would result in a 13 to 17 percent reduction in housing prices nationwide"?
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by wmblaettler 9y ago
To see the list of apps connected to your Google Account: https://myaccount.google.com/permissions
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
While initially skeptical myself, I found a bit of information on Consumer Physics' site stating that they use near-infrared spectroscopy. Doing a little initial research, it seems plausible that they could glean a number of useful tra
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
> 1/0.999996 1
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
Hershey, Pennsylvania http://www.hersheypa.com/about_hershey/our_proud_history/abo...
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
For anyone like me that was initially picturing 88 "large" satellites requiring multiple launch vehicles - this was 88 micro satellites: 10cm x 10cm x 30cm from a single launch vehicle. On one hand it's fascinating to see the
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Scientists turn toy into a 20-cent blood centrifuge(newatlas.com)
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
The careers link posted in the footnote errors when loading: https://our.intern.facebook.com/l.php?d=AQHtPpH_2FKp-3oVD3c5... "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
Realm has been discussed on HN quite a bit for the past 3 years: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=realm&sort=byPopularity&prefix... It's been really nice to use so far for me, plus the Realm team puts out a lot of
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
"Calories Not Absorbed" really got me thinking. While a food is labeled with their potential calories - the amount actually extracted from the food by your gut will vary significantly based on the composition of the food. The bi
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
I can confirm. I had the same experience minus the trainee. Had my wisdom teeth extracted while in the Marines. It was over in less than 30 seconds - no time for anesthesia to kick in nor do I remember him administering any. Crack, crac
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
I just logged a couple of meals with it - really like the slick interface - it's very intuitive. One of the main things preventing me from using other services is how clunky / frustrating they are. This is a good balance between
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
Love this for prepared meals and home cooked meals, where you need to analyze the ingredients of a dish. Have you considered adding the ability to recognize a standard FDA Nutrition facts label as well? For example if I have a protein bar
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
I cannot reply the sibling comments yet, but "where have you been?" could refer to where we were for the past 4 clues: 5 - Brazil, 17 - England, 18 - Poland, 19 - Thailand
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
Count the characters in each word, _ means 0
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
The crop circle after the first clue also shows us a number: '5'
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
If you actively try to engage your core (abs, back, gluts) isometrically while doing pushups you gain more than just arms, chest and shoulder workout. It's about the form - you have to consciously focus on it.
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
I don't know if the Alexa.com ranking of Firebase.com is really indicative of popularity due to the fact they moved their main site to https://firebase.google.com/ about the time of the sharp decline indicated.
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
I have a follow on question to this to all the respondents: Can you briefly describe the architecture you are using? Cloud-based offering vs self-hosted, software libraries used, etc...
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
I think you have a typo with "52% want to fire up to 10 people...", "hire" perhaps?
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by wmblaettler 10y ago
Google's Vision API: https://cloud.google.com/vision/

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