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It's not clear from the demo video, but will this help with labeling data? In my experience, that is the most time consuming part of creating models.

Well, surely more standardized testing will fix that right up.

"This device isn't a spaceship... it's a time machine."

Mark Andreesson, Chris Dixon, and Benedict Evans discuss tech valuations on the most recent A16Z podcast: http://a16z.com/2014/04/21/a16z-podcast-evaluating-valuation... (Spoiler a…

From the article (which note is published on the Howard Jarvis Tax Association website): "Howard Jarvis told the story of watching an elderly lady suffering a heart attack while vi…

Lemme guess: google employee? Part of what the city council has been blocking is (according to the linked Verge article) stopping Google from doing an environmental report necessar…

The conclusions in the report seem tenuous. Read the article, and you'll learn that this is all based on the Gallup "Q12" poll (read the report for yourself: http://www.gallup.com/…

From the platform provider's point of view, it doesn't make business sense to offer features like this to an OS or to other apps. Someone like Facebook wants you to have to come to…

These tweets are from 2.5 years ago. Has the google bot improved since then? (Honest question)

Headline is wrong. 2 data points that the article is based on: 1) Google has spent 21 billion dollars on Capital Expenditures since 2006 (presumably gathered from SEC filings) and …

If the employer is in California, and if you are making less than 88K a year, what they are doing may be illegal (IANAL) http://www.dir.ca.gov/t8/11170.html

Because that is what the market will bear.

The reasonably priced inventory around in downtown San Jose has been snatched up. The lowest price place I could find on real estate sites that is within walking distance from the …

My takeaway from this is: stay the hell away from affiliate marketing.

I always forget how difficult it is to convey sarcasm in written form. My bad.

15. Source: http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=piano+tuner&find_lo...

Possibly. I've been hoping to find some candidates who can help train other developers here on Rails. We do pair development, which has proved to be tricky to do remotely. Anyone w…

I haven't had any luck finding RoR developers through my personal network, so I thought I'd open it up to HN for ideas -- I have 2 open positions in the Bay Area (south bay) for fr…

1) The data is grouped by zip codes, not by neighborhood (notice that "pacific heights" spans multiple zip codes.) Better would be to have data derived from neighborhood polygons t…

Real names are valuable in so far as they can be used to build gender (and possibly ethnicity?) models. I doubt this is the primary reason Google is insisting on real names, howeve…

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And now the post on HN about the ads will generate far more impressions for SignNow than the ads did.

Hi Brian. We should chat more in this comment section, because going down the hall to converse in meatspace is so time consuming.

I can give you the summary online: "pretty darn cool". For the complete dish, feel free to contact me.