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by asher_ 9y ago
Why is this scummy exactly? If a salesperson was to try to sell to you in a store, they would take into account how you appear and act to tailor the sale. There's nothing wrong with that. Why is it suddenly bad if a machine does it?
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by asher_ 9y ago
Excellent! One of GCPs many advantages (outside of it's technical ones) is it's simpler pricing model.
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by asher_ 9y ago
To scale up the principle a little... Uber acts like a real estate agent, they charge the seller a percentage of the total for the service of connecting a buyer and a seller. Imagine you were selling a house, and your agent came to you with
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by asher_ 10y ago
Can you explain? The analogy seems like a terrible one to me. We are not talking about charging different amounts of money depending on the brand of device you are consuming the data on. NN is about not differentiating the cost or quality o
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by asher_ 10y ago
If that's true about this tech, then it will be awesome. The focus issue is the only thing that kills my enjoyment in 3D movies.
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by asher_ 10y ago
These types of articles seem to always get the same mixture of responses. The biggest problem that I see is that everyone starts with completely different sets of assumptions and they are almost never up front about them. The lack of cited
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by asher_ 10y ago
This is spot on. What makes the above probabilities look incorrect is that people are assuming that the algorithm understands the relationship between tiger and animal the same way that humans do. Clearly they are evaluating each independen
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by asher_ 10y ago
This seems like a PR-based defensive move to me, rather that one rooted in principle. This practice has been known for some time (the recent news is not new at all) and has been used to prevent drivers from being caught up in the regulation
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by asher_ 10y ago
A cache seems like a particularly odd example to choose for this. If you are changing the way a cache functions, then presumably you either have fairly short expiration times (problem will fix itself) or you would have some form of cache in
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by asher_ 10y ago
Does anyone know why GCP isn't one of the supported cloud providers for EE? This is surprising to me since they had docker-related offerings a long time before AWS and Azure.
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by asher_ 10y ago
Can someone explain this to me? If I own something, I want to sell it for as much as the market will bear. I don't want to sell it and have someone flip it for a huge margin almost immediately. How is a large first-day bump not conside
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by asher_ 10y ago
> companies normally try to price it so it goes up about 20 percent on the first day Can someone explain this to me? Why would a company try to sell its shares for less than they could get? When I see something like this - 44% up on the
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by asher_ 10y ago
There have been a lot of articles and suggestions for mitigating S3's single-region architecture (design flaw?) since the outage. One solution that I haven't seen much of is to just use a service that gives you multi-region withou
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by asher_ 10y ago
Did Uber fire the driver? Or are they ok with passengers being recorded and those recordings being made public?
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by asher_ 10y ago
#23: Scrolljacking is still annoying as hell.
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by asher_ 10y ago
This isn't obviously true (nor obviously false) to me. If airbnb added a unique index to the SSN (or a two-column index with SSN and locality) would you consider that a TOS violation?
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by asher_ 10y ago
This is a weird, seemingly openly biased article. Tesla should make their seats more visible because someone was a moron? Someone being a moron means Tesla isn't putting users first? Please... HN doesn't need garbage like this.
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by asher_ 10y ago
This headline is really bad. No evidence whatsoever was provided to suggest that being black causes you to get a lower salary. What it does tell us is that black people ask for less salary on average, which might mean that either they are a
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by asher_ 10y ago
Can anyone recommend good non-smart TVs?
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by asher_ 10y ago
They also only have SMS as a 2FA option, which is neither convenient nor secure. I've been a customer of theirs for a long time, but they do indeed make some poor decisions every now and again.
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by asher_ 10y ago
This seems absurd. Are there any examples you can point to, or legal principle you are referencing here?
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by asher_ 10y ago
I understand that people underestimate the difficulty, but this guy was paying others to do his interview tasks, so I think this fits into an entirely different category.
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by asher_ 10y ago
I find these stories somewhat amazing. I could not in a million years imagine taking a job that I had no real idea about how to do. How is this scenario supposed to end exactly? What has to happen for this to work out? What's the plan
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by asher_ 10y ago
It seems quite odd to list "Human Error" as a cause. This is only a secondary cause, because if a human is able to accidentally bring down an entire system, it's the system itself that is really the problem.
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by asher_ 10y ago
Why is it unfair? Both the human and computer players are unable to make reads on the other based on physical cues.
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by asher_ 10y ago
"which creates the most comprehensive API Integration Cloud" What does this mean?
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by asher_ 10y ago
If you're going to post something old, please include the date in the title.
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by asher_ 10y ago
As someone unfamiliar with US law, could someone explain whether it's illegal for companies like Oracle to pay white, male workers more (as stated in the article) or if it's only illegal to pay them more because they are male and
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by asher_ 10y ago
I was surprised also, the number of stars it has should put it into 3rd place, so I guess it had a bunch before 2016 started already, even though it only went out of beta in late 2016.
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by asher_ 10y ago
The article mentioned journals making special arrangements with the Gates Foundation. I hope that GF doesn't make any of these special arrangements, meaning that unless a journal is OA then they won't get any of these papers at al

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