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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Man I wish I could upvote this 1000 times. This is amazing. How many fucking edge cases there are in driving, and to be able to develop a reliable algorithm that can handle all sorts of situations it has never seen before. I’m also glad to
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Yes. I think the idea is once you have a predictive model, is to go thru computationally hard process of facrtorization - identifying inputs that if removed don’t affect predictability that much. Rinse and repeat until you have an explainab
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Ask HN: How would you maximize rent of a parking space?
2 points by xivzgrev 7y ago|1 comments
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
So the pendulum is swinging back the other way. It used to be standard practice to replace the founder CEO with someone more mature / experience. Then they saw Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and it rebuilt confidence - actually y
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What VC Needs to Learn from Uber and WeWork(fastcompany.com)
2 points by xivzgrev 7y ago|1 comments
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Zdnet writer: “why is COBOL still around?” Cobol vendor: “well let me tell you how widely it’s still used” Zdnet writer: “k thx.” sends to editor It would’ve been way more interesting to get even one customer perspective, say from a bank.
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Dude I salute you. There are so many edge cases to support. For number 2 can you import fed return with calfile? IRS free returns going down too so you are not alone: https://taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/Free_File_Program_Is_Fai
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Credit karma tax is (actually) free. I’ve used for past 3 years. Why is it free? Because credit karma uses your financial data (including tax returns) to make better credit card / loan recommendations to you. So it ultimately benefits
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
You CAN, if... 1) you are under a certain income threshold 2) you go seek out that particular page (vs searching free file in google and clicking on intuit) Or you go directly to intuit and qualify as a “free filer” which you only qualify f
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Anyone know what 720 sexes means?
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
This makes sense. Given my experience in tech startup land, im going to take a stab at how this happens from inside the company. Lets say you are starting sn enterprise saas company, woohoo! You have your initial product and customers love
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Why do companies keep thinking they can build a fucking car? Yes Tesla did it but it was a company 100% dedicated to it. Dyson has a core business already. I’m also skeptical about Apple but at least they have one of the largest treasure ch
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
What does accosted by homeless people mean? I’ve lived in SF over 5 years and I’ve yet to be physically touched or yelled at by one. Now what DOES happen often is someone is loudly talking or yelling to themselves, and if you look at them o
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Here’s some info on potential reasons why they are going bankrupt. -they are mall centric store and mall traffic has been declining. Other chains have been “right sizing” -big discount stores (target, Walmart, TJ Maxx, etc) have upped their
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Also they are only allowed to make a certain profit margin: cost plus. One way to grow your profits is for the underlying cost to increase. "The Affordable Care Act kept profit margins in check by requiring companies to use at least 80
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Wow I am floored. Given how he had structured the company so favorably toward him, I’m surprised he could put his ego in check for this. Their back must be really against a wall if they don’t raise that $3 billion
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Loool
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Remember dilution compounds into future funding rounds. I agree with point of this article intuitively - just take a month or two to run an accelerated process. It’s not just about the money, it’s also entering into a partnership. So you sh
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Makes sense - one should always price shop when able to. As an employee When you get a job offer the very next thing you should do is reach out to those companies you are most interested in / furthest along in the process and ask for a
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Yes it is an emotional argument. I used to work somewhere with content moderation. From my conversations with people on that team, the effects in this article are spot on, and I would argue are damaging. Maybe not catastrophic but journalis
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Looks like a great site! One typo I noticed: on pro page ( https://remoteleads.io/upgrade ), in 6x leads paragraph, "about" is misspelled "That's abotu 10x less competition per lead according to our analy
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
when the gravy train is running, hop on and ride as long as you can. Sometimes like this it crashes and burns, sometimes like Uber/lyft it slowly Peters out (and it’s still a gravy train, just not nearly as much so as before)
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Honestly most hiring managers I’ve encountered don’t really probe into it. They will ask why you left. Say the last place was a good learning experience (after all, you did learn a shit ton of things you don’t like), and then switch to what
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
That is a clever argument that they are in business of lead generation. But if that was true then the consumer wouldn’t know Uber, they would know x ride share service. The problem with Uber is they also control the end user experience and
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Hello, 11 month leases! “Notwithstanding any other law, an after a tenant has continuously and lawfully occupied a residential real property for 12 months, the owner of the residential real property, in which the tenant has occupied the res
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
It’s not impossible, there are many people who make decent money from day trading. It might be more accurate to say “study shows it is difficult to earn a living trading stocks”
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
I agree. The other problem is density which turns into chicken or egg problem. People will ride when it's faster than car. To be faster than car to most people, you need a dense network of bus routes that map to a lot of A->B routes
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
This is genius. Stripe is uniquely positioned to lower risk because they are in middle of payment flow for a lot of digital companies, and they can lower application requirements. I could easily see lots of businesses taking a little higher
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
Yea the ceo seems a bit of an egotistical guy, and felt we work was so awesome the “retail” markets would look past the shenanigans. He was wrong, and he’s back pedaling to salvage it. First the trademark payment, now this. Hopefully he wil
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by xivzgrev 7y ago
And is he equally astonished by the cost of living / housing? Maybe not Detroit but certainly other major metro areas. The “profit” from employee perspective is probably similar

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