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by wskinner 8y ago
At the risk of being glib, how? You do not raise standards by reducing competition.
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by wskinner 8y ago
San Francisco liberals are not liberal in the sense of promoting liberty. "Leftist" would be more accurate. In fact in America, neither the mainstream left nor the mainstream right is particularly liberal: both want things to stay
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by wskinner 8y ago
This "solution" seems like a combination of regulatory capture by local restaurants that want to avoid competing, and the usual SF Supervisor cravenness / refusal to deal with the root cause of the issue. The restaurants ment
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by wskinner 8y ago
Engine ML | Software Engineer | San Francisco | Full-time, INTERNS | engineml.com Engine ML is hiring a first engineer to work on democratizing fast training of deep neural nets. Stack includes: Haskell, java, kubernetes, python, tensorflow
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by wskinner 8y ago
While the page does mention alternatives (Flink, Storm, Samza, Spark Streaming) it does not compare Faust to those alternatives. And it does not answer the most important question for a prospective user: why would I use this instead? Ex ant
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by wskinner 8y ago
It does on the supply side. It keeps drivers on the Uber network, which is good for both the rides business and the Eats business due to more consistent supply, and good for drivers due to higher total volume of work. The eventual result is
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Pushing the Limits of Linux Kernel Networking (2015)(rhelblog.redhat.com)
94 points by wskinner 8y ago|3 comments
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by wskinner 8y ago
I'm not sure which companies you have worked at, but at every one of my jobs, at a mix of small-medium, medium-large, and really huge companies, learning on the job has been absolutely expected.
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by wskinner 8y ago
I love Notational Velocity, but didn't know that it supports external editors! For linux users, there is nvPy: https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy It's a pretty ugly skin, but it works.
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by wskinner 8y ago
I have to agree with GP. As I write this, I am listening to a pair of JBL LSR305 desktop monitors, which are quite affordable and sound really excellent. Nothing fancy, just good quality speakers with integrated amps that I can plug into my
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by wskinner 8y ago
This article could be summarized in two sentences, both of which should be unsurprising to most HN readers: 1. Publication bias means that the reported results for efficacy of psychotherapy are likely to be stronger than the actual efficacy
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by wskinner 8y ago
It's not a simple problem. It's a complex economic calculation with at least a few variables where the false positive rate directly impacts the bottom line as well as customer happiness, and the battleground is constantly changing
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Bounds for Sorting by Prefix Reversal [pdf](people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
1 points by wskinner 8y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 8y ago
Can you explain why email doesn’t scale? Do you mean the protocols, the clients, the servers, or something else?
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by wskinner 8y ago
Companies want to signal their unwillingness to tolerate bad behavior from even top employees. There is probably not an epidemic of bad behavior in tech. The number of “brilliant jerk” employees is probably the same as it has been for some
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Using iPhone prices to test the accuracy of inflation statistics(medium.com)
2 points by wskinner 8y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 8y ago
It sounds like you are trying to get meaning from your work. I struggled with this problem for a long time. I have seen two broad solutions solve it to varying degrees of success: 1. Sacrifice earnings and / or stability in favor of me
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by wskinner 8y ago
"Maximize income" is not helpful without probabilities attached to the outcomes. What percentage of people who start in banking end up as partners making $5m? And what does the income distribution for the rest of the bankers look
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by wskinner 8y ago
Parent is pointing out that cab drivers have an interest in limiting alternatives to taking a cab. By doing so they earn a premium over the market price of the transportation they are providing. Cab companies are locally based, therefore ha
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by wskinner 8y ago
Your claim is not true. If you factor out the most significant variable, some other variable becomes the most significant one.
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by wskinner 8y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvotes. The point that all girls schools are not even close to a random sample seems pretty uncontroversial.
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by wskinner 8y ago
Setting up infrastructure is hard, and the costs can add up. I don't want to spend cloud GPU money to debug my crappy tensorflow code.
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by wskinner 8y ago
I am a huge fan of remote work, but this is just wrong. The current state of remote work is not sufficient to replace the office environment for most tech cases, especially not small startups where low communication latency and overhead, hi
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Ask HN: Why does Slack connect to so many trackers?
5 points by wskinner 8y ago|3 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
Care to share what claims you were skeptical about?
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by wskinner 9y ago
GGP is thoughtless. GP is mean. There are thoughtful ways to point out that someone is not contributing. He could have left a link to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . In fact, a mocking reply like this does
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by wskinner 9y ago
I like the quote, and in fact, the whole source article is well worth reading. But it's hard to take statements like this from billionaires who already won the status / prestige games at 100% face value.
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by wskinner 9y ago
I would love to hear more about your experience doing this. Would you be willing to share links to your blog (perhaps privately, since your name is in your profile)? I'm interested in doing something similar.
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by wskinner 9y ago
This says more about you than about people who vote “red”.
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by wskinner 9y ago
Wouldn’t some combination of unique session keys, PFS algorithms, or block encryption modes make this false? When would the headers encrypt to the same ciphertext unless you were using ECB mode with the same key?

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