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[SPOILERS] To me there are five super interesting points in this video. 1. The arrogance/confidence that people had towards AlphaGo assuming that it was not going to be competitive. 2. The lack o…

That’s it?

A few weeks ago, I bought some shampoo and conditioner from Amazon. I wanted a bulk size and the bottle looked like it was form the official manufacturer. When I got the bottles, opened and used them…

> Worth preserving as part of Internet history. Can't Facebook just issue a takedown request and have these files removed?

There are still taxis, busses, commercial/city vans, muni, and other vehicles on Market; just not personal vehicles. To say it’s car free is hardly accurate.

Could they make it work like git? Then all of the templates hosted by https://gitignore.io would work!

I want to give a heads up to everyone who runs, or is thinking about running an open source project. If your project sees ANY notoriety and you are the maintainer, you will quickly find yourself in …

These businesses could still survive, but prices are going to have to start raising as subsides (Private Equity mainly) pull back. The next question will be, is the $6 dollar burger still worth it whe…

It's that easy, except when it isn't. I tried to buy that upgrade last year when Tesla was offering a discount and I couldn't find the buy button anywhere. At the time I sent an email s…

I used to live less than half a mile from Google, but I always thought the smell was due to the train that runs along the busway. Some mornings the smell there was extremely pungent, but it was defini…

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Op here! I started working on this project a year ago in a attempt to bring myself some sanity. Reading the news nowadays is a real struggle for me because of all of the sensational, non-news, click-b…

Yeah, this is pretty much what a few people brought up. Consumers seem to actively want to give their data away for "features" which usually aren't worth the data they are giving up.

I have an TV and I feel like Apple is doing a decent job of trying to prevent selling user data by any means.

I was talking to a few people in a slack channel the other day about the potential market for a whole set of "dumb" appliances. At the end of the day, we came to the conclusion that it would…

If you buy a smart TV, disable these features, disable network connectivity, and then plug in another 3rd party box you should be fine right?

Thanks for commenting on your use case. I primarily do software engineering and outside of sending large machine learning data sets, I couldn't think of a personal reason to use this.

+1 to supporting markdown although I feel like comments would get kinda crazy looking if there was more than just emphasis and code formatting.

This is a great idea, thanks for sharing.

That's a great idea and also a potentially viable possibility.

Another challenge along the previous 4 years was leadership turnover. In the last 4 years, I've had 4 managers. No one every really lasted more than a year. My most recent manager quit to start a…

The promo process story hits home with me. I was trying to get promoted a few years back at my company. Over the previous 4 years, I built out a lot of systems, fixed critical bugs in our software sta…

I was saying this to my friend about 18 months ago. This process seems very similar to what happened with Steve Jobs. 1. founder starts company 2. board replaces abrasive founder with operator …

I was just in Sierra Leone last week and I was telling my brother about this place.

I would be interesting to see this trained using GPT-2.