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by pfhayes 1y ago
Garry Tan posted some data recently on performance investing in demo day: https://x.com/garrytan/status/1927946812364574912 These returns outperform the S&P. Maybe these aren’t typical, but it’s pretty far fro
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by pfhayes 1y ago
Forcing a reload is a regression compared to the "standard" method proposed at the start of the article. If you have a REST API that requests attributes about a model, and the client is responsible for the presentation of that mod
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Scaling TypeScript to Thousands of Projects(medium.com)
6 points by pfhayes 2y ago|0 comments
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by pfhayes 4y ago
Banks will almost certainly not let you do this
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by pfhayes 4y ago
How does that lead to the 10x increase in profits (not revenue) cited by OP?
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by pfhayes 4y ago
This isn’t only true for “rich” companies. Companies (particularly young ones) succeed or fail if they are innovating on their products and delivering value to customers. Reducing cloud spend is not doing that. It may very well improve the
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by pfhayes 4y ago
Nobody is being released from prison. The White House said that there’s currently nobody in federal prison solely for “simple possession”, which is what is being pardoned
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by pfhayes 4y ago
But this isn't a big change? This is a bill with bipartisan support in congress, and it's my understanding that it has majority (but not 60%) support. If this is difficult, then everything is difficult. How can a governing body be
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by pfhayes 4y ago
The serendipitous knowledge of the question isn’t the cheating. The cheating is the deception in the interview that this is a question being encountered for the first time. It’s cheating because it’s the type of unethical behavior you would
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by pfhayes 4y ago
The board can issue new shares (equivalently, diluting existing shares) if it thinks it is in the interest of the shareholders. That’s clearly what they think of the poison pill, but it’s harder to argue that for the hypothetical you are de
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by pfhayes 6y ago
The post doesn't appear to be talking about the new Coronavirus relief bill, but rather the existing SBA Disaster Loans: https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela/ The two are similar but are different in a few ways. Such
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by pfhayes 7y ago
It's also much easier to get visa sponsorship for a foreign worker who has a PhD than one who does not. Someone with a PhD has a stronger chance of being eligible for an O-1, whereas someone without likely has to go through the H1-B lo
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by pfhayes 8y ago
H1-B workers are (by the nature of their visa) prohibited from creating companies Founding a company is not the only way to create jobs
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by pfhayes 9y ago
It is typical to label the fiscal year by the date of the end of the period. This distinction doesn't matter when your fiscal year is Jan - Dec, but comes up in this case If your fiscal year goes from Feb 1 2017 - Jan 21 2018, then tha
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by pfhayes 9y ago
Something that dramatic looks to me like a logging/data error
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Uber Visa Card(uber.com)
27 points by pfhayes 9y ago|16 comments
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by pfhayes 10y ago
Hey everyone - cofounder of SigOpt (YC W15) here. Happy to answer any questions
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Building a Better Mousetrap via Multicriteria Bayesian Optimization(blog.sigopt.com)
2 points by pfhayes 10y ago|1 comments
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by pfhayes 10y ago
YC companies aren't "done" after 3 months. They keep building and growing for years to come. The 3 months is just how long it takes from first dinner to demo day. Companies of all types are typically able to show some kind of
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by pfhayes 12y ago
I assume that you will pay the same way an advertiser would pay - by bidding for the space. If your bid exceeds the bids of anyone else trying to advertise there, nothing will be shown. Otherwise you'll be shown an ad as normal.
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by pfhayes 12y ago
Another founder here! If you have any questions about our engineering stack, I'm happy to answer.
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by pfhayes 12y ago
Oops! Thanks for the heads up. We'll make sure that gets fixed.
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by pfhayes 12y ago
Another founder here - happy to answer any questions!
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Dollar Cost Averaging(blog.patrickhay.es)
1 points by pfhayes 13y ago|0 comments
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by pfhayes 15y ago
If the abuse is translating spam, then that's even more surprising - because that's exactly the kind of abuse that Gmail already prevents all the time. It even seems like a great opportunity for Google to gather spam data in all sorts of la