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by 31reasons 8y ago
Give them a break. Based on how much it cost to buy a house in the Bay Area, I don't blame them. /s
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by 31reasons 8y ago
Thats exactly what $1 apps do in the App Store, no?
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Depends on what contracting work you are doing. The average web/mobile dev can't charge that much anywhere in the US. Company that I work for itself (an app dev company) does not charge more than $120/hour/dev to their S
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Title should be this: "An always listening device that record all your private conversations, that may or may not have been compromised (or will be compromised) by the private and government entities for surveillance and profit purpose
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by 31reasons 9y ago
I think the main feature of Functional programming is not avoiding side effects but abstraction. You can compose different kinds of powerful abstractions and programmers are free to choose their "language" of abstractions, compare
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by 31reasons 9y ago
So basically it will replace all heuristics/greedy optimization algorithms. I am wondering if ML can come up with better sorting algorithms, or I guess when you can use ML for end strategy of optimization you don't have to sort!
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Shouldn't their investments already been moved to Bonds/Money markets? At 85, if you have to worry about stock market, you are doing it wrong.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
I feel like we need a permanent solution to this so that we don't have to panic and raise awareness every year. If we create a fund to protect Net Neutrality and "out-lobby" the ISPs in Washington would be great. If we just d
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Ask HN: What tools helps you try new tech business ideas quickly?
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by 31reasons 9y ago
>> The mining has been controlled by China for years. Can you elaborate on that? Afaik the very advantage of Bitcoin is that no single entity can control it.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
I wonder if the gravitation waves stretches the Space-time in such a way that it takes 2 seconds longer for the photons of GRB to travel "on top of it" and reach earth.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
I think Facebook should not be allowed to advertise anything other than commercial products/services. It should not be a platform for propaganda.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
No amount of salary will give you clean air and tidy streets. Some people will just prefer that as part of their package. But I guess few months / years of experience won't hurt westerners.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
I think they should just make any cash transactions more than 1000 rupees illegal.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
I think innate intelligence/ animal intelligence is developed by evolutionary algorithm. You don't need to do back prop for it. If the network is wrong, the animal just dies.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
I think Unsupervised Learning is fundamentally connected with the mission/goal of the AI. Whatever the mission is give to AI, it need to start learning information landscape by itself and make classification and use that knowledge to m
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Dr Harvey and Irma are replicating that science for you.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Can't we just have Sales tax only. People who buy more will pay more taxes. You can exempt certain items like food, education, healthcare. Why do we need complicated income tax model? In the Sales Tax Only model, wealthy investors can
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Prospects of this data used to hack the next elections are frightening.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
- Quickest way to make more money is to reduce your expenses. See where you are wasting money and optimize for that. Work remotely for the same amount of compensation and move to a place that has very low cost of living/rent etc (even
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by 31reasons 9y ago
If you see a photo of an object that you have never seen in your life and have no analogy to draw from, it will indeed be very hard for you to accurately guess its volume. However as humans we come across millions of objects to learn from.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Facebook pays $50k to relocate to Bay Area!
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Great thing about Deep Learning is that decades of "old school" machine learning research that was way too math intensive is far inferior now. DL is actually pretty approachable and intuitive.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Even in this scenario, where Tesla is not the market leader in EVs, Elon still wins. That was his goal from the beginning to move automotive market toward EVs.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
In other words, "When we are looking to eliminate pay gap from data, job differences seems to be the right place to look".
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Google trained their AI Go algorithm by playing against itself. It kind of has the same feel to it.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
This is going to make all the Go players out of job pretty soon. :)
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by 31reasons 9y ago
Just travel with a dedicated traveling phone and have your main phone mailed to your destination.
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by 31reasons 9y ago
If you are just giving demo, why not use Google hangout?
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by 31reasons 9y ago
>>Waymo's driverless cars are during various points of the garbage collection cycle. you can say the same thing for rockets. There is entire field dedicated to this, its called Realtime Systems.

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