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by yid 11y ago
> you start to realize that the setup of a problem which can be solved by machine learning is actually worth more than the learning. This is a fantastic point, but I'd like to also caution readers that they should spend some time u
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by yid 11y ago
> Maybe more of us need to dream bigger, risk everything, and be willing to work just as hard. What a curious take-away. I read it as even a hardened workaholic like Musk will crack a little without taking a break.
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by yid 11y ago
> They are destroying their most valuable component of their brand, for a relatively weak one (Prime Video). This is why it almost seems like Amazon's Google+ moment: one underperforming product area somehow manages to convince lead
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by yid 11y ago
Not to mention the lack of state income tax...
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by yid 11y ago
> There's no swiping, it's on your smartphone and automated ( Open app, click "go home", app says "bay 21, approx, 2 min, pod #123, 1 other passenger"). And in this hypothetical world, absolutely everyone wh
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by yid 11y ago
Consider using Primus [1] instead of socket.io, backed with either ws or sockjs. [1] https://github.com/primus/primus
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by yid 11y ago
> I bet they don't even realize they just sound like idiots. I think we're past that. We're in cover-your-ass territory at the moment.
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by yid 11y ago
Interesting. Another way to read this is that trust between banks has deteriorated to the point where they feel that they need a blockchain -- a decentralized shared ledger -- to verify certain transactions with each other . Because otherw
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by yid 11y ago
> As an user of Evernote, my guess was that it was a small operation with may be 50 people tops, may be with 10-20 million dollars of funding. Evernote has had a very large, prominent building on highway 101 from SF to the valley for qui
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by yid 11y ago
> GMO THC Well that's a new one, because THC isn't an "organism", nor is it "genetically modified".
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by yid 11y ago
> Is the future of this ecosystem really exclusively limited to the Television? Not television the broadcast medium, but television the giant Samsung device in your living room.
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by yid 11y ago
> We also need to think about number of round-trips. If you're on an old phone on a 3G connection in India, the extra round-trip from requesting the HTML then requesting the CSS makes a difference. If your stylesheets are properly v
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by yid 11y ago
Absolutely. But I doubt he'd find as much value for his time by writing journal papers at the moment, given that Stripe will essentially pay him a decent salary to continue his open-access research. There's always time for a retro
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by yid 11y ago
> I wish more companies supported people like Stripe does for Aphyr. Research is so valuable, but there's so little incentive to be in academia. If you're talking about incentives, don't forget that Kyle's research is
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by yid 11y ago
> I just don't understand why we can't call e.g. a buffer overflow in software X a buffer overflow in software X instead of "Adventures in Memoryland!!! The bug, that 0wnzors your boxorz!!". Since you appear to be sin
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by yid 11y ago
> Even if your journal accepts PDFs, michaelmior's comment raises an important issue that a LaTeX style template cannot be imported into most (or all?) of these Markdown editors. Perhaps it would be easier to go the other way -- to
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by yid 11y ago
> If you combine the two together they compensate for the vulnerabilities of the other. Do you have a reference for this? I don't mean to keep sounding like a skeptic, but these are pretty big claims. I'm also genuinely curious
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by yid 11y ago
> It requires zero maintenance and runs on your own infrastructure. I don't understand how these two claims are not contradictory. > All conflict resolution happens locally in each peer using a deterministic algorithm. How exactl
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by yid 11y ago
> If they use IP logs coming from Amazon, that doesn't mean anything, because Amazon employees may be signing up for Angie's List for their own personal reasons, correct? I don't think this is right. If you're doing i
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by yid 11y ago
That's interesting, didn't know that. Hmm, that is definitely a weird dichotomy.
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by yid 11y ago
> Now I'm out 5 years worth of emails and have no way of contacting google (Despite being a paying google apps customer and registered on their payroll system). You do know that Google offers 24/7 phone support for paying custo
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by yid 11y ago
Absolutely! I've had terrible experiences with vanilla socket.io regarding reconnections, performance, and reliability. This is even after the 1.0 release. Lately, I've been using primus [1], which is an API unification layer for
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by yid 11y ago
> we've been careful to build this in a way that it's clearly an admin tool and not a replacement for legal advice While the parent comment was a bit harsh, literally the first point on your landing page is "A modern legal
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by yid 11y ago
It would seem that the founders have "won" their own GoFundMe campaign. But kudos to them for realizing that the company's growth had exceeded their personal threshold for interest/time/size, and handing over the re
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by yid 11y ago
Isn't this exactly what Cordova does? You mention "so you don't have to use Cordova", but you don't mention what the advantages are.
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by yid 11y ago
It's not "crazy", it's basically just double buffering, a technique that has been around for a very long time.
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by yid 11y ago
> That might explain why the recruiter called and asked for my exact GPA during PhD. That should be a red-flag right there. I'd say they don't have a clue why they need/are hiring a PhD.
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by yid 11y ago
If anyone wants to go a different route, Gmail has a fairly complete REST API [1]. [1] https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/
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by yid 11y ago
Somebody should add ARM to the title. These are ARM based servers.
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by yid 11y ago
Excellent post. Just wanted to say that the practical alternative to using EC2 isn't physical hardware, but all-inclusive VPS boxes or a managed colo from eg Rackspace.

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