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by avibryant 2y ago
Do you have any links to your experiments and/or those of your colleagues?
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by avibryant 3y ago
See also https://geoblaze-gsoc.vercel.app and the underlying libraries it uses, which also do range queries on GeoTIFFs. I'm super interested in this space, including in helping financially support some projects. I already
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by avibryant 4y ago
Well, I guess it's a good thing that I was a manager and basically never issued any operational commands over chat.
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by avibryant 4y ago
This is great! If you're interested, I'd love to have you at a GIS/mapping-focused retreat I'm hosting at https://www.gradientretreat.com/ this summer. You can reach out privately at avi@avibryant.com.
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by avibryant 6y ago
How hard would it be to support the Teensy boards? I didn't see any mention of them one way or another in the website.
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by avibryant 6y ago
Interesting, anyone else seeing this? It's hosted on Netlify and is just static HTML&JS.
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by avibryant 6y ago
From what I can tell, Causal's models only run forwards, with no inference (ie, they can generate predictions from priors, but they can't update those priors from observations). Is adding inference on the roadmap?
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by avibryant 8y ago
Yes, we are - Rainier is used in production, though so far it's a very small part of our overall ML efforts.
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by avibryant 10y ago
Huh. No, for the record, we'd never heard that acronym when we chose the name for Dabble DB.
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by avibryant 10y ago
Stripe | Seattle | Onsite Search & Query Infrastructure Engineers I'm helping build a new team for Stripe in a new Seattle engineering office. We're focused on building distributed, scalable infrastructure for user-facing sear
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by avibryant 10y ago
That was awkwardly phrased, I guess. I live in the Gulf Islands in British Columbia.
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by avibryant 10y ago
We're open to remote or distributed teams within the US and Canada. All else being equal, we'd prefer to hire people in SF, but for a sufficiently great team, being elsewhere wouldn't be a showstopper. We're conscious of
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by avibryant 12y ago
I often cook steaks from frozen (sous-vide, or just low temp in the oven). I'm curious: is that one of the use cases you're testing or thinking about?
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by avibryant 12y ago
I take your point that there are a number of possible explanations (at varying levels of plausibility) for this effect, but to address a specific example you mention: whenever we change something significant in Checkout like adding the &quo
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by avibryant 12y ago
That's a fair concern. The sample sizes here are relatively high: you can probably back some estimates out yourself from the numbers given in the post (millions of dollars raised, mean donation of $88, 14% of donations in the last week
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Mayday.us(stripe.com)
186 points by avibryant 12y ago|31 comments
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by avibryant 12y ago
There are some nice, very efficient implementations of their solution #4at http://hdrhistogram.github.io/HdrHistogram/
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by avibryant 12y ago
Thanks very much for the feedback. (Feedback helps! As you may remember from the previous thread, we did change the Remember Me + phone number fields to be optional, in large part because of the feedback we got on HN.) Each new payment meth
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by avibryant 12y ago
Sorry, I didn't actually answer your initial question: yes, Alipay is only available through a checkout.js integration, not a stripe.js integration. I think it's unlikely that we will do a stripe.js integration for Alipay - as Pat
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by avibryant 12y ago
(I work at Stripe) Can you say more about "(a) stable"? If you mean that you've had problems with robustness or availability, I'd love to hear about that, because in general we believe it's been very good on those f
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by avibryant 12y ago
(I'm Canadian and work at Stripe) How often do you actually buy things online with interac? I think I've maybe done it once, and the redirect-to-the-bank flow is pretty awkward. My sense is that this isn't ever a barrier to c
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by avibryant 12y ago
I had the same thought, and went down the simplification rabbit-hole. Here's where I ended up: https://gist.github.com/avibryant/545e63b446a840951d5e
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by avibryant 12y ago
There was also a brief comment from pc about this a couple of weeks ago that might be worth linking to here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7400884
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by avibryant 13y ago
Yeah, for those same reasons I much prefer using Scalding's typed API [1], which feels very similar to Scoobi. The tuple API shown in these slides is great for places like Etsy that already have a large investment in Cascading, but oth
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by avibryant 13y ago
(I worked on Dabble DB) I don't think it's so much that there's no market for it as that the market is very hard to reach and we had no good channel. Intuit's Quickbase is a very healthy business, because they have a cha
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by avibryant 13y ago
I think that you're right about the intent of the author, but unless I'm mistaken, that's not what the code does. If _ok is false, it boils down to if(!(Math.random() > 0.1))) which is the same as if(Math.random() <= 0.1), which mea
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by avibryant 13y ago
I'm a ferry ride away on Galiano; could possibly make some meetup. avi@stripe.com.
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by avibryant 13y ago
People interested in this might also want to check out simmer, which provides a simple unix stdin/stdout interface for this class of bounded summaries of unbounded streams. Quantiles are actually a weak point for simmer right now (I have a
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On calculating Fibonacci numbers in C(blog.noblemail.ca)
109 points by avibryant 14y ago|54 comments
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by avibryant 14y ago
Nice slides. You should check out https://github.com/twitter/algebird - we've implemented a number of streaming algorithms (HyperLogLog, Count Min Sketch, along with stuff like minhash and bloom filters) in Scala as Monoid typeclasses. Lo

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