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by zephyrnh 3y ago
If they can make that conversion this seems like it would be a steal. $225/sq ft versus over $1000/sq ft for residential in SF. SF doesn't seem like somewhere that would vote against more housing being available, so if it do
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by zephyrnh 3y ago
If this trend continues, with less office space used, while population numbers stay stable or increase, is there a possibility of commercial buildings like this being rezoned to residential?
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by zephyrnh 3y ago
> Tech has been bending over backwards for quite a while, but to no avail. You're applying a false equivalence here. Some things are positive changes and make sense, and some are not. Grouping everything together isn't helpful.
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Habitat for Humanity's first 3D-printed home(cnn.com)
3 points by zephyrnh 5y ago|0 comments
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UAE implicated in lethal drone strike in Libya(bbc.com)
2 points by zephyrnh 6y ago|0 comments
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by zephyrnh 6y ago
It's been 12 days since they tested everyone. My understanding is that the results for serological tests are available right away, so I was expecting them to publish results within a few days. Any idea why they haven't yet?
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A Global Reforestation Project Is How We Fix Climate Change(medium.com)
2 points by zephyrnh 7y ago|0 comments
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by zephyrnh 7y ago
It sound like they're using land that Google already owns for this: "First, over the next 10 years, we’ll repurpose at least $750 million of Google’s land, most of which is currently zoned for office or commercial space, as reside
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by zephyrnh 7y ago
"The security lapse was first reported last month, but at the time, Facebook said it only happened to “tens of thousands of Instagram users,” whereas the number is now being revised up to “millions.” The issue also affected “hundreds o
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by zephyrnh 8y ago
Sure, but there's a big difference between a college kid at 20 and a man at 35. I don't know where you draw the line on things you can assume someone has outgrown, or how they've changed, but I draw it at some point where wha
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by zephyrnh 8y ago
This incident is the first one I've felt this strongly about. There have been many others, but even Cambridge Analytica, to use that example, was just taking information that was semi-public (your likes and interests that all your frie
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by zephyrnh 8y ago
I assume the point here to send someone a message on FB with a Spotify link, so they click on it in their messages and it opens up the Spotify app. If you just want to send a message from one Spotify user directly to another in Spotify, you
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by zephyrnh 8y ago
I assume someone at Facebook, hopefully the person that wrote this, or someone who has more influence over this issue, is reading. I am an engineer. I understand technology better than most of the general population. When I sign in to my Fa
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by zephyrnh 8y ago
I don't know what I'm voting on this yet, but it's certainly not a simple matter, and there are many smart and compassionate people who don't support the measure. Here are the mayor's thoughts on homelessness ( http
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by zephyrnh 9y ago
Airbnb switched to a "double blind" review system several years go, so you only see the other person's review after you've written your own. If you don't leave a review within two weeks, the other review becomes pub
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by zephyrnh 12y ago
Exactly. bayesianhorse's approach is perfectly valid, but your response describes our reasoning for our approach.
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by zephyrnh 12y ago
We'd love to do this. As you can imagine, however, it's a very time consuming task, and there are a lot of competing priorities (including other projects we've open sourced) and we therefore can't make any guarantees abo
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by zephyrnh 12y ago
Agreed, this describes our reasoning pretty well. Additionally, as we mentioned towards the end of the post, the incremental benefit of a model not supported by PMML is unlikely to be more significant than the incremental improvements we s
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by zephyrnh 12y ago
No, features are definitely a business secret. My goal was to share as much as possible that might be helpful to others combating fraud, without giving anything away that would hinder the effectiveness of our systems.
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by zephyrnh 12y ago
Thanks! It varies depending on the model, but in most cases, yes, the confirmation of fraudulent activity is manual since having the ground truth be correct is critical
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by zephyrnh 13y ago
"They generate revenue very early on in their lives. Often as soon as they get their first user." Is this true? If "super successful" can be understood as "the biggest tech IPOs of the last 15 years", then I t
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by zephyrnh 13y ago
Hey everyone, I'm one of the engineers who worked on Verified ID. I'm going to keep reading all the comments people leave, but rather than respond to all of them on here, I've written up some of my thoughts on our blog: http://nerds.airb
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Tech talk on Twitter Commons, by the authors(airbnb.com)
23 points by zephyrnh 13y ago|0 comments
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Tech Talk: Paco Nathan – Enterprise Data Workflows & Functional Programming(airbnb.com)
42 points by zephyrnh 13y ago|0 comments
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Tech Talk: Replacing Cron and Building Scalable Data Pipelines at Airbnb(airbnb.com)
16 points by zephyrnh 14y ago|1 comments
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by zephyrnh 14y ago
Thank you all for your response!
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by zephyrnh 14y ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts - RE: Talks not being local, I agree with the comment below about livestreaming. RE: email, we do have an email list. However, we really don't want to spam people, so instead of opting you into it automatic
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by zephyrnh 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback - I work at Airbnb, and I'd be interested in hearing if others share this feeling (or don't).
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Airbnb Tech Talk: Minted's Niniane Wang on Fulfillment Engineering(airbnb.com)
41 points by zephyrnh 14y ago|2 comments
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Airbnb Tech Talk: Zach Holman - Git and GitHub Secrets(airbnb.com)
44 points by zephyrnh 14y ago|12 comments

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