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by binarysolo 10y ago
I'm a contrarian voice here, but I strongly value my day-to-day encounters and connections with exceptional individuals who I cross paths with in daily life... moreso than the exorbitant cost-of-living in the area. The access to oppor
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by binarysolo 11y ago
This is fantastic -- I'm a huge fan of high res live streams of various places around the world (eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOu3DfLC4Os )... now I gotta check some of the other links here. :)
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by binarysolo 11y ago
So... what does that practically mean? Bay Area salary = $100k+benefits, Google salary = $200k? I definitely know folks who claim Bay Area $ to be $60-$70k and play the numbers game... but then they play the numbers game (and 3 isn't
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by binarysolo 11y ago
Seconding the practice of collect, then parse. Storage is cheap relative to hammering a server (or working around the bounds of rate-limitation), so always save your collected things, then crawl it as many time as you desire as you play aro
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by binarysolo 11y ago
Wonder how long that'll keep up given their current issues...
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by binarysolo 11y ago
The way people typically do it is charge by value of project -- "this component is worth X dollars". Businesses want to solve problems costing D-dollars in T-time for themselves. They couldn't care less if you spent 1 vs 10
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by binarysolo 11y ago
It's totally survivor bias for sure, but falling into (and surviving) years of depression and coming from third world conditions to the US help shape and contextualize a lot of meaning. It's easy because the path now is plated go
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by binarysolo 11y ago
Can totally understand where you're coming from, but finding and recognizing your agency amidst all the mess and noise is kinda the beautiful thing about life. The journey sucks a lot, but at the end of the day that's all we got,
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by binarysolo 11y ago
I'm a machine learning specialist tackling interesting/complex problems of a certain worth. There is definitely an "applying the ML hammer to every single nail/problem" thing going as well. Example: say a company w
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by binarysolo 11y ago
1 datapoint: I was doing 15-20hr/wk consulting the past few years and making as much as my FT CTO/COO position now and the stress of constant sourcing definitely was stressful (but the extra hours and lifestyle of commandeering yo
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by binarysolo 11y ago
To set people's expectations properly, this guy is high-tier dev that focused on his niche and probably had his payoff event 10 years into work. (Presumably his 8 year stint at Centaur and the buyout had some of that.) AFTER all those
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by binarysolo 11y ago
Note there's a strong selection bias for people who post on HN. There's definitely plenty of ways to get laid... but you need a sourcing mechanism. Typically that's people from your hobbies or from your social circles... an
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by binarysolo 11y ago
So this is being implemented already from a local fulfillment center level, sans drones. The actual mechanisms are actually super straightforward -- basically if a widget X sells Y amounts per day with Z variance in an area, get the low, lo
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by binarysolo 11y ago
I was just thinking about Golden Gai! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjuku_Golden_Gai
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by binarysolo 11y ago
I had a bunch of these pay+stock arrangements as a full-time data consultant the past 4-5 years, though they were 1) pre-angel to angel and 2) vetted contacts/friends.
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by binarysolo 11y ago
Meant as constructive criticism: the page is really blue... kinda an eyestrain -- have you considered going for more readability-friendly colors? edit: just saw the other comment -- yeah, same dealie
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by binarysolo 11y ago
First thing I thought too when I read the first few paragraphs on European "invention" of mock meat: the Asian cultures have had to be creative with fake meat for 10+ centuries, compelled by religion to be vegetarian. They'v
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by binarysolo 11y ago
$200 for the unit -- so it's competing on the higher end of consumer routers against offerings such as Apple's Airport. They seemed to have paid a lot of attention to human-friendly UI/UX though. Would probably wait for revi
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by binarysolo 11y ago
Similar to your situation, but a former concert violinist with music training... cafe whitenoise and rain work best for me. :)
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by binarysolo 11y ago
"Told to leave"; sure he could stay an illegal and just live off the radar, but the expected value of that is really low given his options anywhere else in the world. I guess if you want to argue semantics, his risk of being phys
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by binarysolo 11y ago
Counterpoint with a few points of anecdata: 2 good friends, 1 Stanford CS, the other Stanford Econ (minor CS), both got kicked out of the US -- one due to an H1B issue, the other because he visited home in Uzbekistan and didn't get let
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by binarysolo 11y ago
"Millennials spend more on food outside the home than any other generation, averaging $50.75 a week." That's... actually way lower than I expected, though that's average across the US I suppose. Gonna provide a contrari
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by binarysolo 11y ago
For what it's worth, I've noticed that for me too but have considered it a ruleset issue: we all desire to connect with other human beings, but because there are too many people everywhere and of low connection relevancy, the defa
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by binarysolo 11y ago
I need to look at the git repo to make better sense of what AML is doing and why their numbers are poor, but off-handedly: the way you structure the ML problem is basically the battle and how it'll do. (Feature extraction etc.) Black
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by binarysolo 11y ago
I'm surprised they didn't offer to transition/sell their customers to Handy... that's prolly mid-tens of dollars in lead-gen fees off an active customer list of... thousands of customers probably (as well as a less-activ
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by binarysolo 11y ago
That number seems off -- I just checked and I have data going all the way from 2012.
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by binarysolo 11y ago
The "actual work part" provides the filtering that leaves you with relevant people so you don't end up in a hackathon with lots of wantrepreneurs.
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by binarysolo 11y ago
As others have already said, life is the journey, not the checklist. It's just that other people can share the checklist way better than the journey, and maybe you doing the checklist benefits them in some way.
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by binarysolo 12y ago
I know the resume is just solid for today's standards, but do keep in mind that his research/work on data/ML is from 1990s -- and at that day and age this was cutting edge research, and people who leveraged this gained signif
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by binarysolo 12y ago
In the grand scheme of things I'd probably liken it to disability ramps, braille on room signage, etc. It'll probably add a few points to the total cost, but in the grand scheme we're talking about 3-5%, not 30-50% in additi

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