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by oniTony 6y ago
This talks specifically about the regulated and licensed profession of “Engineering”, which excludes most of Software jobs.
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by oniTony 7y ago
This reads a lot like the central premise in "You" by Austin Grossman -- unkillable NPCs are occasionally found to be dead and that bug is threatening the entire game studio.
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by oniTony 10y ago
Canadians get access to TN class work visa. It's meant for temporary work, but gives a few years to figure out a more permanent approach.
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by oniTony 11y ago
At quoted "1.5 GB/inch^2" they are comparing their 100 layer medium against a single-layer 25GB bluray disc. At three~four layers, current bluray discs offer 100~128GB of capacity. Archival Disc spec brings optical media to 3
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by oniTony 11y ago
Why not use actual Test Users for development? https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/test-users
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by oniTony 12y ago
Looks like it could be a geocode problem. A search for "Fruitvale BART Station" on RadPad lands you in Old Oakland / Civic Center area.
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by oniTony 12y ago
Not "required", just that after Oct 2015 the merchants will become liable for fraud (instead of the banks), if they are not equipped for Chip and PIN (apparently "pay at the pump gas stations" get an extended date of Oct
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by oniTony 12y ago
That page seems to be specific to desktop apps. Web and mobile apps are still available. Edit: before the post title was edited, it suggested that all of Cloud Drive was being discontinued.
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by oniTony 12y ago
Right here — http://hyperlapse.tllabs.io/
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by oniTony 12y ago
> for fear of "FuckItDB" appearing in an exception call trace that a client might see. Just wrap it with FuckIt.py (previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6858855 ) "to make sure your
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by oniTony 12y ago
Too bad that the article talks about Baidu's office in Sunnyvale, California.
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by oniTony 12y ago
Somewhat misleading, as Andrew Ng had left Google in 2012 to co-found and run Coursera. Baidu got him back into AI/ML. More details on his own blog post from 3 months ago — http://blog.coursera.org/post/85921942887
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by oniTony 12y ago
> Top 3 winners get $200, $100, and $50 Those are 2013 numbers. This year it's "all-expense paid trip to attend a one-day data visualization course", $500, and $250 for top 3 winners. But presumably this isn't meant t
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by oniTony 12y ago
More generally — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pigeon My personal favourite — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon > Project Pigeon was American behaviorist B.F. Skinner's attem
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by oniTony 12y ago
Is "bought from a store" a requirement here? I've built a small garden on my balcony, and it seems that such could meaningfully supplement a $35/week budget; especially given an objective of "organic". > I w
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by oniTony 12y ago
Apparently a lot — http://shazow.net/
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by oniTony 12y ago
This seems more a survey of compilers than programming languages. Python is represented by 3 different compilers, spanning 2 orders of magnitude in performance: CPython (155x), PyPy (44x), Numba (1.57x). It's hinted that C++ similarly
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by oniTony 12y ago
The actual quote was > In addition to thinking about new sorts of jobs to replace lost jobs that aren’t coming back, we should probably think about things like a basic income. So not necessary "basic income", and certainly for
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by oniTony 12y ago
> We've seen a lot of success (~40% w/w growth, 100%+ m/m growth). This _might_ be, in large part, seasonality. Once the school starts in September, most of the target demographic would have already found _some_ place to l
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by oniTony 12y ago
The "Fire OS" has been around for a couple of years now, previously powering Kindle Fire devices.
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by oniTony 12y ago
> ... had to capture electricity consumption at a higher resolution ... Interesting to note that at a high enough resolution, one can start extracting crypto keys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_analysis
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by oniTony 12y ago
walkscore can already map out all "within walking distance of grocery + rail" locations in Portland (and elsewhere). E.g. http://www.walkscore.com/apartments/search/Portland-OR?zoom=... The actual scores
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by oniTony 12y ago
I've observed the same experience. Makes sense, considering: > That critical parts of the brain involved in decision-making are not fully developed until years later at age 25 or so. [1] [1] http://www.npr.org/templa
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by oniTony 12y ago
I went back to the Analytics Admin panel to double check, and it indeed looks like filters are applied to specific views. The tracking code collects data at the property level. From https://support.google.com/analytics/
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by oniTony 12y ago
That's most of the way there, but if there's sufficient amount of combined traffic, ad hoc reports will start populating from sampled data instead of showing exact results. This might prevent getting any meaningful data about e.g.
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by oniTony 13y ago
Right now. > Share this now with your support team now!
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by oniTony 13y ago
Those guys have done a TED talk about designing and launching their lightweight satellites. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_berkenstock_the_world_is_one_bi...
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by oniTony 13y ago
Any way to pick up elements that are on the page, but not necessarily clickable? E.g. the <title> element of the page.
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by oniTony 13y ago
For those with a preference for Coursera type of learning, there's a course coming up in April that will cover much of the same material — https://www.coursera.org/course/maps
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by oniTony 13y ago
Chrome doesn't run extensions by default in incognito mode. > Because Google Chrome does not control how extensions handle your personal data, all extensions have been disabled for incognito windows. You can reenable them individual

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