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by randomtask 3y ago
Presumably because the article linked above says that the rumoured deadline for gaining sufficient market share is this year? Also, yes revenues have been growing, but is GCP profitable after all this time? As you point out, it's been
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by randomtask 4y ago
So, they suggest that you spin up the dependent services as part of the test runner and run tests for your service against those? I've worked on a codebase that did this extensively. Over time it lead to a test suite that takes a long
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by randomtask 7y ago
> FYI, The Independent has a reputation for writing ridiculous clickbait articles. When you look into the details things almost always turn out to be much less dramatic than the article made it sound. While more reputable news sources h
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by randomtask 8y ago
Genomics plc | Software Engineers | Oxford, UK and Cambridge, UK | ONSITE | INTERNS | VISA | FULLTIME | https://www.genomicsplc.com/work-with-us/ At Genomics plc we are working to transform drug discovery by understan
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by randomtask 9y ago
I cannot believe that the paragraph you cite actually appears in a journal article. It's really rather unprofessional and silly. I don't want to end up defending the methods ProPublica have used as I am certainly not qualified to
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by randomtask 9y ago
> That's not a good facsimile for deciding sentencing Sure. I'm not saying my example is the smartest (although there are people trying to use ML to do this to be fair - http://www.fakenewschallenge.org/ ) and I
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by randomtask 9y ago
As with anything, it's hard to generalise without oversimplifying, but here goes. You don't generally just have a data set and a machine learning algorithm that somehow magics outputs from a data set. Usually decisions have to be
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by randomtask 10y ago
There's precedent of sorts for this though. Currently a non-EU citizen with a visa to Ireland still needs a visa to travel to the UK. This could be policed in the same way as that case.
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by randomtask 11y ago
How do people currently find the site? Searches or do you run ads?
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by randomtask 12y ago
As far as I'm concerned the game should have been called 1024. That way I would actually have won a game by now ;)
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by randomtask 12y ago
Passwords should usually not be encrypted. Saying a password is encrypted implies that there is a decryption function that can produce the original password in plaintext. This should not be the case. Instead, typically, a key derivation fun
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by randomtask 12y ago
Cool. Otherwise I wholeheartedly endorse this effort.
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by randomtask 12y ago
This really needs a "disturbing content ahead" warning on the parts of the site that have graphic images. I really don't expect to see decapitated bodies when I randomly click a link.
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Synference - an API for A/B testing with reinforcement learning(gigaom.com)
10 points by randomtask 13y ago|6 comments
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by randomtask 13y ago
It's possible for a library to return an error to indicate that a file is not found when you try and open a non-existent file. Then it's possible for a function that calls the open file function to decide whether that error should
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by randomtask 14y ago
You know you just agreed with the comment you replied to right?
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by randomtask 15y ago
I should have qualified that by saying that there were a lack of services that suited our particular needs. We ended up concluding pretty quickly that for our purposes services like Mailchimp would have been prohibitively expensive. Also, w
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by randomtask 15y ago
Seems to me like this has the potential to be something I'd pay for, but confusingly the article focuses on MIME, when the real problem you seem to be solving is providing a more usable abstraction over the complexity of sending email in ge
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by randomtask 15y ago
Maybe he's trying to stoke an academic flame war? :)
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by randomtask 16y ago
I understand that. Just from reading your comment I didn't know whether you were referring to the dead language, a nonexistent one, or the dialect...I'll go sit with the rest of the pedants ;)
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by randomtask 16y ago
Yeah, that one got me too.
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by randomtask 16y ago
The language Egyptians speak is Arabic. Voice recognition software for that language does exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAKHR_Software_Company#Speech_R...
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by randomtask 16y ago
Do you really need the word "hack" in the slogan? Seems like it would confuse the majority of people who may be unaware of its meaning in that context? "Short-cut to the Ultimate Body" seems sufficient.
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by randomtask 16y ago
This could work: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/beehive/codons.php
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by randomtask 16y ago
I was mistaken for being American a lot. I'm pretty sure it was the default nationality to guess when they couldn't place an accent. Good to hear it wasn't just happening to me though ;)
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by randomtask 16y ago
I lived in Germany for a bit. While there I really wanted to learn to speak German properly, but when I first arrived my spoken German was pretty awful. Since many Germans speak English pretty well and could evidently tell from the way I wa
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by randomtask 16y ago
Good work. Just one issue I noticed is that when I searched for "the fridge" in Google only one of your pages turned up and it was a broken link that served a default Apache 404 page (www.frid.ge/php/login.php). There was nothing else in th
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by randomtask 16y ago
> it's more of an issue when a company like Google does it I don't know if it's more of an issue, but articles like this one make it more visible certainly.
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by randomtask 16y ago
> it would be hard for anyone to collect such data on the massive scale that Google did So collecting that information is only unethical when done on a large scale?
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by randomtask 16y ago
> If we published anti-rfses, Actually that doesn't sound like a bad plan. Dalton Caldwell's talk was full of sage advice only a veteran could give. Perhaps other areas have similar obstacles that are not apparent to people looking to s

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