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by wuliwong 9y ago
Oh interesting, I didn't know that. I guess I'll leave my comment for the next person that has the same inclination as myself.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
The title of the article is "So this is why Siri is way behind the Google Assistant and Alexa". The submission title should be changed.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
Maybe their projections? Like all their axis of rotation are parallel?
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I don't believe it is just one thing. I believe the observed shape of galaxies is another problem that is dark matter is a proposed solution. Edit--- I was just reading more and there is also the fact that galaxies stay together at all
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by wuliwong 9y ago
Galaxies are distributed throughout a volume of space, they don't even exist on a single plane. Edit: here is a video which clearly shows the orientations of rotation are not aligned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14y
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by wuliwong 9y ago
Forgive me, I'm sort of thinking out loud here. I like the idea of trying out new languages/frameworks using this. I would be concerned building any serious projects using Repl though. I'm worried about how much 'lock in
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I've actually never even tried to understand people's issue with tables. I think there are important places to take stands in my life and I guess that <table> isn't one of them. I'm more of a "generalist"
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by wuliwong 9y ago
Just to make sure I understood, that link is a collection of hand-picked papers? I expected it to be a review article, summarizing a bunch of past work. Just wanted to be sure that I was looking at the right thing.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
You could also allow yourself to exist in a gray area where you find this interesting but do not believe you know the exact truth.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I was also curious about the use of 'neural networks' in deep learning or whatever. My PhD research was working on problems in computational neuroscience. I think the use of "neural networks" is because the topology of t
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Also not claiming to have any real idea of as to what they are actually doing but certainly having access to everyone's phone gives them a ton of distributed computing power for free.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I built one small web-app that required payment processing. I tried out both Stripe and Braintree and actually wound up going with Braintree. I was really surprised but their documentation for integration in a Ruby on Rails app at that time
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I'll see your anecdote and call with mine: I live in Atlanta and I can't think of a single person that doesn't use some app to order delivery anymore. Do you live in a city or just know people who live in cities.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
>SpoonRocket had reached a positive contribution margin — it was selling meals for more than it cost to cook, package, and deliver them. But due to other costs and the frosty fundraising climate, it wasn’t able to get the money it needed
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by wuliwong 9y ago
That's really cool. I hadn't considered that model before. Seems other's have, my gut tells me there's a successful business to be had just have to keep the financials inline.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I agree but I think a similar question would be: how would this ever be enforced on a US based company/website where it had a EU visitor. I wrote this in another comment but I think outside of just blocking your site in the EU, they wo
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by wuliwong 9y ago
This is exactly what I was coming to HN to query about. Without some agreement with the US federal government, I don't believe they would have any mechanism of enforcement that would affect your business in the U.S. I imagine they coul
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by wuliwong 9y ago
$1,000/month for an entire apartment? Where in NYC?
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by wuliwong 9y ago
> On all 3 criteria, NYC is either 1st or 2nd It's second on all three. First on zero.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I haven't even thought of "fresh chocolate" before reading these comments. What is it about fresh chocolate that's better?
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by wuliwong 9y ago
What types of difference in quality do you see? I'm not a chocolate connoisseur but it is interesting. I do pay premiums for coffee and cigars though. :)
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by wuliwong 9y ago
$85k adjusted for CPI is something like $113k today. Microsoft is in Redmond not Seattle. Hard is certainly relative but living in the suburbs of Seattle, fresh out of college making $113k is nearly objectively not hard.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I think disagree with the parent comment and you. For reference, there appear to be two definitions of bargain: 1.an agreement between two or more parties as to what each party will do for the other. 2. a thing bought or offered for sale mo
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by wuliwong 9y ago
"Huge sums of money" isn't well defined so I can't comment on that. But the idea that $85K is only enough to cover rent and other expenses is wrong.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I am way out of my depth here but I've read a couple of articles recently talking about the migration of homo sapiens out of Africa possibly occurring far sooner than was previously thought [1]. That was the first one I could remember.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
"Primary actions should be obvious. Solid, high contrast background colors work great here." If you made the primary action a button without a background than you did not do what was suggested in this article.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I bookmarked this. There are a lot of nice tips for someone like me who builds lots of prototypes but isn't a designer at all.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
OkCupid was founded in 2004. But Tinder definitely changed the space.
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by wuliwong 9y ago
I think the replacement of incumbents is interesting. You have the classic AirBnB from Craigslist. I think that's in their founding story. I also use an app called Reverb. It is basically a sliver of Craigslist or Ebay. I'm not su
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by wuliwong 9y ago
You should do some reading on the monetary system. It isn't as simple as you seem to think.

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