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This is awesome. Thank you for sharing this.

I have a GC and left a few months ago to Canada. Is it too late to get a reentry permit? I don't know if I want to return but having the option for 5 years would be nice.

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This is blog spam. He even quotes himself. Please flag this blog spam.

"Get featured by apple/google"

Honestly, its like giving financial advice and saying "Ok, win the lottery or marry someone rich"

How does one start this process? I work at a YC company fwiw on a TN visa.

How many fraction of a cent.

I am also in a electric chair. Flying is a terrifying process. My cringe seeing the luggage folks carrying the chair onto the conveyor belt.

The worst part is that its not even bad that the chair breaks, its bad that at the destination your stuck immobile with a 300 pound device.

I rarely travel for this reason. The other is that a attendant/family member is required to come or your not allowed on the flight. I accept this but it still sucks.

Do you do some type of machine learning or actually manually process calls and offer feedback? Is each agent call transcribed?

Just an interesting note, his son was Daniel Pearl, who was tragically murdered in Pakistan.

I enjoyed Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent systems. I was unaware of Causality.

Probably not a misprint. They could be big enterprise customers.

I interviewed onsite at bridgewater and it was a very strange but interesting experience.

They take radical transparency very seriously. They record everything, but do ask your permission first(well... can I say no?)

The people were nice. They are brutally honest and let me know what I was lacking.

Watching videos including the crying manager were too much for me.

It doesn't surprise me that fucked up HR situations occur.

The one fun event was watching the receptionist applying radical transparency(assholeism) to a delivery guy. They take it seriously!

Also in terms of usage, If we are using STT, how many simultaneous jobs can run on one watson app/service? Or is it a 1-1 ratio?

Thanks. Also, Does the STT have speaker identification/diaritization or does it output all merged text in one stream?

I find it terribly confusing. It does not explain what instances are, do I need an instance to access some of the services?

I just want to access some services via API from my own servers. I think the documentation is not that good, there should be curl examples at least. For instance, for the STT or TTS include some curl examples.

Does the STT have speaker identification or does it output text in one stream?

I tried to access: https://gateway-s.watsonplatform.net:8443/speech-to-text-bet...

I used my bluemix l/p. It did not work. Are there other api credentials that are needed?

Any chance of releasing the training data you used? Also what are the plans with DeepSpeech? Just for use by baidu or will it be released as open source or a developer api service?

These were amazing lectures. Only suggestion is to have longer q&a's at the end with the speakers. Well done and thank you!

I think this may be his hn account. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blakeeb

What asr engine are you using?

Hey, Yes pretty please and thanks! elias.majic@gmail.com

I wish google was less opaque about procuring a google glass. I did their begging/twitter spam but was not one of the chosen few. They do not even release projections on when they will release more. They never email me even though I signed up for their list. Oh well....

I prefer their other method of registering domains that you checked for whether or not they were available. They would then charge a premium to get that domain.

"The existence of privilege is not a scarlet letter on young white dudes who code. But the forceful, repeated, insidious denial of the existence of that privilege is a problem: it reinforces the privilege and allows it to feed on itself."

Seriously what the fuck does this mean? These words try so hard to appear to be insightful but are utterly meaningless.

I lack the privilege of understanding this.

This article seems to be related to http://valleywag.gawker.com/paul-graham-says-women-havent-be...

It is the first time I saw Paul Graham appear on my Facebook. It is not worth reading, the author is just going for clicks by making baseless accusations. Paul also claims he was misquoted and thinks he should start bringing a recorder to interviews.

It is a shame, one of the appeals of reading a Paul Graham interview or his writing was that it was very open, I hope his no doubt hiring a PR filter or being more reserved with his words will not reduce the quality.

I noticed a bunch of debits and credits to my credit card yesterday relating to admob. I never initiated these so I feared that my credit card was stolen.

I searched around and saw this link that described my issue. Apparently google has authorization to credit and debit our credit cards at will. They also do not bother to email you to let you know what is going on. And of course, no google customer service.

It also turns out that my debits and credits are not identical as the exchange rates vary and perhaps credit card fees occured. So I am either a bit up or down. Merry fucking christmas google.

So I see all sorts of debits and credits on my credit card statement relating to admob over the last few days. I suspected someone stole my credit card and went to town on admob. Instead it seems someone at Google made a really big mistake.

I could only find one english site discussing this and a few Russian ones. Check your credit card statment if you used admob before. Surprisingly googles excellent customer service(christmas humor) did not notify people of the mishap or charges. One guy on the forum reported over 100k in refunds and then google charging again.

I think I may be up or down(in pennies) as the transactions to and fro were not identical due to maybe exchange rates as they were days apart.

I am disappointed that a company has their hands in my bank account where they can do these transactions both ways without even notifying me. I am complaining to Visa about this.

I worked at Nortel. Selling the patents provided important money to the fucked over Nortel pensioners. These patents were used for real work, cost massive resources to fund, and Google could have outbid Apple.

Can you talk about why django-devserver is so useful for you?

It looks useful....IF your app is already a success and has massive downloads/reviews. For those who only get a review every few days(guessing 95% of apps), how does your service provide value?

Looks like a good application. One issue I had with viewing the site is that I had to watch 30 seconds of the video before I realized what it was.

'better loyalty. smarter marketing' is not obvious to me that its a loyalty card type program with a terminal display.

hi pg, Any update on when you will update your 'startup ideas we'd like to fund'?

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html