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by allenz 3y ago
https://www.videogist.co was mentioned previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38555629
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by allenz 6y ago
No, Tesla probably has very few employees older than 65 and no employees in nursing homes.
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by allenz 6y ago
To add a bit of context: brokerages like Robinhood send buy/sell orders to national exchanges and to private trading firms e.g. high-frequency traders. Private firms provide price improvement: orders that execute at prices better than
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by allenz 6y ago
That’s only for the final model. To find it, they’d need to run 1,000 experiments, trying many high-level approaches, many architectures for each component, hyperparameter search, and multiple seeds. Large machine learning projects need $10
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by allenz 8y ago
Same here, I run the latest Firefox on both Windows and Linux. Gmail always takes at least 5 seconds to load.
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by allenz 8y ago
Perhaps he wasn't prescient, just lucky.
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by allenz 8y ago
People are perfectly capable of distinguishing between browsers and websites. For example, users have no problem logging into Facebook with Chrome. Auto-signin only adds confusion. Many (most?) users have no reason to associate their browse
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by allenz 8y ago
Thanks for the explanation. It seems to assume that Gmail is the internet. If people sometimes use Facebook or forums or games instead of Gmail, then history will appear to sync to random places, no?
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by allenz 8y ago
The world is very small, and privacy is a mainstream concern these days. The impact of one story or one action is limited, but in the end, users do get their say. Otherwise, we would still be using Internet Explorer.
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by allenz 8y ago
What's the point of signing in at all for users who don't use sync?
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by allenz 8y ago
But the tech-savvy community has influence. We set up computers for our friends and families. We write IT policies. We are web developers, tech reporters, and more. At least for me, Google's behavior means that I can no longer recommen
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by allenz 8y ago
craftyguy was just speculating. "Chromium does download hotword-x86-64.nexe on startup, but it has been carefully designed as an opt-in feature" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9735795
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by allenz 8y ago
It was an intentional download so that Chromium users could use "Ok Google".
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by allenz 8y ago
CamTin was saying that workers should be considered investors in a moral sense: they put time and effort into the company and deserve a share of the profits. Obviously, workers are not investors in the literal sense.
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by allenz 8y ago
"Listening in" is inaccurate. "Ok Google" was opt-in only, and did not record users without consent. Chromium downloaded but didn't run the binary blob. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by allenz 8y ago
You're still making an ideological argument, though you might not realize it. The question is whether workers should have some degree of ownership and control of their company. You point out that the workers voluntarily gave that up. T
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by allenz 8y ago
> the students admitted before 1969 were more open to radical ideas Perhaps this reflected a broader social trend, rather than a change in admissions preferences? The 1970s marked a growing desire for stability and conformity, as symboli
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by allenz 8y ago
I recommend learning linear programming first. It's simple and useful, and makes it easier to understand quadratic programming, convex optimization, etc.
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by allenz 8y ago
You should use a modeling library which abstracts away from individual solvers, such as pyomo for Python: http://www.pyomo.org Gurobi is the fastest solver, and it's free for college students. SCIP, MIPCL, and CBC are the f
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by allenz 8y ago
While that's true, it doesn't appear to have been a partisan or even controversial bill at the time, so I feel that it's disingenuous to blame Republicans.
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by allenz 8y ago
Citation needed that conservatives killed USPS. I didn't find any unbiased sources to confirm this. To the contrary, the 2006 bill was a bipartisan measure passed by voice vote in the House and unanimous consent in the Senate.[1] [1]
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by allenz 8y ago
Related: Jason Baumgartner has maintained a Reddit scraping pipeline for a few years now, and wrote up some notes about making it robust: https://pushshift.io
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by allenz 8y ago
For compatibility, it's feasible to represent elastic tabs with spaces. All we care about is the new behavior. The editor can parse for aligned columns.
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by allenz 8y ago
That is surprisingly high. Presumably the queries weren't actually made years ago. There are many possible explanations: incorrect DNS clients, incorrect system clocks, automated scripts scraping into a DNS database, misconfigured embe
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by allenz 8y ago
Yes, time complexity is based on the length of the input to a Turing machine. For example, integer factorization is a hard problem because all known algorithms are roughly exponential in the number of bits.
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by allenz 8y ago
> first snippet has quadratic performance Not if primes is a set.
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by allenz 8y ago
In addition to the incentive problem, you would also need to get people to peer review any changes to a paper. Most of the changes would be minor and annoying to peer review. I think that courses remain the best way of distilling and commun
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by allenz 8y ago
Most departments are heterogeneous, with mutually unintelligible subfields. CS encompasses both information theory and robotics. Cultural anthropology has little in common with medical anthropology.
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by allenz 8y ago
> your example has never happened My example would apply whenever an analyst comments on AA or whenever any polarized headlines is published about AA. > It is the point of the markets to reward [information] But that's exactly wh
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by allenz 8y ago
Sorry, I mean microsecond-level competition. I agree regarding algorithmic trading.

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