taneem

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by taneem 2y ago
I always find that sharing those little tedious details is what creates visceral understanding of a situation. In this case, the true horror of being a liberated Black person in the 1800s and having to relentlessly work to rescue others, wh
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by taneem 2y ago
The way to think about it is that you're processing a list, where the first argument is an operation, and the subsequent arguments are numbers to add. Clojure, and other Lisp based languages use this structure (a list) for representing
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by taneem 3y ago
It's hard to stare in the face of the abyss.
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Does AI prove we live in a simulation via the Fermi paradox?
3 points by taneem 4y ago|3 comments
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Why Hasn't Twitter Crashed Yet?
10 points by taneem 4y ago|15 comments
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by taneem 6y ago
I was looking for an Org-Mode type solution for vscode, and was surprised to find that it's basically no longer being actively developed! [1] Really surprised by this. I would have thought there would be at least a small and thriving c
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by taneem 7y ago
I moved to Mars! My family immigrated to North America soon after and I studied and worked in tech ever since.
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by taneem 7y ago
During 1999-2000, I helped hundreds of people learn how to use Flash. I was, looking back now, probably one of the top experts on Flash 4 at the time in the world. The twist - I was a 15 year old living in a tiny African country called Leso
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by taneem 7y ago
Yes - City would be great for people doing stuff around activities, events and local places. But Country would be more powerful for e-commerce I suspect (my usecase).
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by taneem 7y ago
Hi Josh - it would be incredible to have this filtered by location, and I think you can get that from Google Trends.
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by taneem 7y ago
Stories like this are often instigated by someone inside the organization with an agenda. They reach out to a journalist, give some quotes anonymously, and put them in touch with others in the company that are allies and will also give supp
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by taneem 7y ago
Title is incorrect. This is not on Mechanical Turk. Tasks like this are not allowed on MTurk as per TOS. The original tweet author says so on the thread.
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by taneem 8y ago
I do vaguely remember "good kings" and "bad kings" ... some kids were forgiving and more than fair, and others were vindictive. So not everyone gravitated towards tyranny and some did report "nothing happened"
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by taneem 8y ago
As a child in primary school (in Lesotho, southern Africa): when a teacher left the classroom everyone was supposed to silently complete work. To enforce this, one student would be appointed "name taker". This person would write d
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Check out Levelcards – a simple todo list for career planning(levelcards.com)
2 points by taneem 8y ago|0 comments
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LevelCards: move up in your career using this smart todo list(levelcards.com)
2 points by taneem 8y ago|0 comments
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by taneem 9y ago
I had a page up on the iwarp.com domain too from the late 90s! http://counterwave.iwarp.com/ -> it was pure Flash (Flash 4) so it doesn't really even work anyway. It was so much fun. I miss those days.
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by taneem 9y ago
I think to be fair, he said two things: 1. There is no way governments will just let an unregulated currency take over in a meaningful way. 2. Thus, the current Bitcoin rally is simply speculation and is being driven up by those who will pr
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Show HN: Verv.fm a lightweight way to share good film, literature and music(verv.fm)
2 points by taneem 9y ago|0 comments
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by taneem 9y ago
I will be curious to see if people belonging to different internet subcultures develop their own accents. Already different groups of people are quite isolated in terms of the video and audio they consume everyday (vloggers and podcasters).
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by taneem 9y ago
What disturbs me is the potential for a government, like in Iran or Russia, to use this technology to automatically screen and label people, as a precursor to mass-scale systematic repression. I get that this study is problematic, but there
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by taneem 9y ago
Exactly. When getting started initially, it can be a huge time savings to get your basic full text experience running in Postgres directly, if that's already your main storage DB. Setting up ES is not at all trivial for the average dev
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by taneem 9y ago
Postgres supports a sophisticated full text search featureset while mysql does not. Implementing full text search on Postgres is not that difficult and can prove to be a much cheaper alternative to Elastic Search up to a certain scale. This
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by taneem 9y ago
The subcontractor dependency is thought provoking. I hadn't thought of that.
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Ask HN: Are there systemic reasons for contractors being unreliable?
3 points by taneem 9y ago|4 comments
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by taneem 9y ago
The online demo is amusing/creative: https://try-hy.appspot.com/
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by taneem 9y ago
* Capital: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2016/10/07/why-thera... Theranos raised $750 million, including $633 million last year. * Social Network: Theranos raised money from a wide range o
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by taneem 9y ago
I suspect we are going to see Theranos pivot to becoming a conventional medical technology company, probably focusing on lab tech for blood work analysis etc. They are likely to disappear from public consciousness until we hear about an acq
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by taneem 9y ago
Does this support JSONB column types? I was using Jetbrains Datagrip, which I've been very happy with except for the fact that it doesn't seem to support JSONB columns. I've switched back to PgAdmin 4, but the UI lag is reall
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AWS SDKs now support API calls to the MTurk crowdsourcing platform(blog.mturk.com)
2 points by taneem 10y ago|0 comments

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