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harshgupta

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causalinf.substack.com 4y ago

How can we know if paid search advertising works?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Why is Google Meet so much worse than Zoom?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What software products do you pay for that you like the least?

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github.com 7y ago

OpenAI's GPT-2

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: How do you measure contributions to a coding project?

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nil.lcs.mit.edu 7y ago

6.S974 Decentralized Applications, Fall 2018

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twitter.com 7y ago

The End of Snap and Tesla

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www.wsj.com 7y ago

Amazon becomes second company to hit $1 tn valuation

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www.washingtonpost.com 8y ago

Uchicago drops SAT/ACT requirement

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news.vice.com 8y ago

Zuckerberg's cheat sheet at senate hearing

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techcrunch.com 8y ago

Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B

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techcrunch.com 8y ago

Atlassian’s two-year cloud journey

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techcrunch.com 8y ago

CMS bug has left over 1M sites open to attack

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www.economist.com 8y ago

What's wrong with Democracy?

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github.com 8y ago

NTRU: Cryptography in Post Quantum Computing World

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techcrunch.com 8y ago

MacOS finally gains external GPU support

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github.com 8y ago

Style transfer, deep learning, feature transform

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: How do you become a better founder?

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As there are more than an average number of stupidities there.

Please post more meaningful comments. Sure it doesn't have static typing or performance of C, but it has a stable framework in every conceivable application (Web Dev, machine learning, CLI, you name it) and works as a top notch scripting language. This is not "stupidity", it was by design to make it batteries included and easy to use with a tradeoff with the above things.

Fail 8 years ago

I am pretty sold on the idea that failure of ambition = good, failure of sloth = bad. This post seems to be in line with that.

One of the core advantages I see here is trust. It would be so much more effective to match with someone who is connected to you by shared people/interest, rather than just a photo card.

Just to be clear, this was a response to the comment.

I do not have any opinion on Barbara Bush in particular other than knowing that she has a lifetime of experience in top American political circles and has been widely respected for that.

Just so you know, 1.recommender systems != collaborative filtering. 2.RBMs are good only for certain situations like explicit ratings (where users provide direct feedback), its a really hard problem in implicit recommendations (which are most sites). See Bayesian Personalised Ranking Algorithm. 3. >I'd argue that the logistics of shipping perishable food is significantly more difficult than streaming an audio file. Thats exactly the point. I am not measuring hardness. But that looks a supply chain problem that a software engineering problem.

One of the issues that nobody seems to address is when entire societies shift to cashless, there are network operators who are still milking their first mover advantages. A product that is worth x, is now priced at 1.01x to pay for transaction networks. Europe is definitely ahead than US, but there needs to be better regulations around this.

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A working, full-scale quantum computer running the process known as “Shor’s algorithm” would be able to break RSA or ECC of any practical size in negligible time. In contrast, NTRU’s security is reduced only slightly by quantum computers.

Congrats Dropbox 8 years ago

They had valued themselves at <10bn. That has doubled in 24 hours, thats definitely not positive, if not an ipo strategy

[dead] 9 years ago

It's a tough balance between too much ideological influence by big organizations and distortion of reality by crowdsourcing facts