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What do we expect to see? From mobile it’s not evident
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I would agree with you on the point on adoption outside the school. Btw, what kind of serious vulnerabilities in Zoom are you talking about? Been using it in a big tech company for almost two years already. Our sec department seems confiden
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What is your background? By the time I lived in HK I found it more difficult to study compare to Mandarin in terms of speaking and listening. Though learning traditional characters seems more exciting. But now I live in Japan, Japanese has
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Why ppl are so obsessed with e2e as a de-facto synonym for security? Another question, why ppl who so care about security keep relying marketing stuff rather than using open-source solution?
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Ask HN: Can CS background be helpful in learning a foreign language?
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Thanks for clarifying. Good luck on your final!
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Still some of the remote-only companies remained constrained to citizenship and legal right to work in the company's HQ country.
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Other than WeWork fiasko why we can claim that SB strategy is poorly executed? I went through their annual report before WeWork IPO but the overall performance seemed very promising. https://twitter.com/kidrulit/status&
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Could you elaborate, please? The policy seems reasonable. I've experienced in Hong Kong and Japan.
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What is your view on the decentralization of facial recognition? I believe that surveillance cameras can help to decrease physical violence, but the main concern I have that the algorithm and embeddings databases are out of mine control eve
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Meanwhile in China local governments even install surveillance cameras on the top of 3900 metres mountain https://twitter.com/kidrulit/status/1216197264202293253?s=21 Other than ethical problems cameras cause urb
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Afair, he worked for about 3 years in two HFT funds. Initially he was hired as a quant researcher but lately moved to business role.
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He made a good career in quant finance before diving into ML and Kaggle
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Wow! I was working recently with Telegram chat analysis. Thanks for sharing, that looks promising, I'll be happy to contribute as well.
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I think CS mainly distinguish from other areas that it requires far less resource for both studying and doing research. I was majoring in fluid mechanics in my undergraduate, but I could barely do good research as it requires the access to
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That's interesting. I always thought the convenience stores positions on the job market are pretty strong. The demand for low-wage jobs is full-filled within アルバイト and foreigners. I might be biased, but since I moved to Japan I rarely
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I guess you're are talking about US, right? Anyway, sometimes unemployment rate could be misleading. For example, Cambodia's UR is 0.3% [1]. However beneath the impressive statistic lies a harsher reality of widespread near-unempl
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Probably Edward Thorp is the "Father" of quantitative research.Since the late 1960s, Thorp has used his knowledge of probability and statistics in the stock market by discovering and exploiting a number of pricing anomalies in the
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Could you elaborate the term of "clean financial data" please?
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My point is that I do not see a direct connection between the mobile application founded by the Russian indie developer almost 2 years ago and the swaying one of the most established democracy in the entire history.
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You might be right. It's been a while since I tired to migrate to Russian servers.
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US intelligence agencies do the same, no? The country intervening in most foreign elections is the United States with 81 interventions, followed by Russia (including the former Soviet Union) with 36 interventions from 1946 to 2000—an averag
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I think FaceApp should be hosted on an AWS-like infrastructure. Hosting in Russia is expensive and does not provide any advantages, such as dynamic routing that is crucial for world-wide app. Most developers use it to comply with Russian st
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by zkid18 7y ago
Minsk is a great city indeed. IT is pretty strong, many startups evolved recently (Wannaby, OneSoil, MSQRD (aq. by Facebook), Fabby (aq. by Google), PandaDoc) Sorry for the meals - Belarusians love their potatoes. There are some 300+ dishes
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Any other example of consumers products that haven't improved dramatically for a couple decade and exist contrary to the technological progress? What comes to my mind - a great adoption of electronic dictionaries in Japan （電子辞書）. Many
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Back in school I studied calculus, algebra, complex analysis, optimization, probability. Plus I completed courses on algorithms and physics. I was more interested in math engineering application, but now I feel that I want to expand my know
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Ask HN: Resources to study advanced Math
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Thanks. I can read a little Chinese. Unfortunately, I don't know much about GZ. However, I think in SZ the entrepreneur community is slightly more developed
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> I'm one of those people that ended up moving back to China and looking to start a blue ocean project here. I assume you're fluent in Chinese, that helps a lot. As for angel-funding without connection, it could be a bit tuff.
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I visited Eric Migicovsky’s presentation in Hong Kong a year ago dedicated to YC China. He is a founder of Pebble, YC partner, and helped Qi Lu a lot in establishing YC China. Although China VC investments have almost surpassed US, there w

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