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There are only two ways to change society's behavior: policy or technology. No use arguing individually: court cases are dealing with the policy aspect and technically there's zero…

Google seems to do a lot of "shipping the org chart" externally.

Such a strange abstraction layer. Thr author could have skipped a step and formatted using tags instead of markdown and published the html directly, with zero need for any generato…

^ those are the job reqs for the central recruiting across the company. Thanks 'CFShopify' for posting. =) I'm a Dev Manager in the Shopify Fulfillment Network. If anyone is intere…

> seem to have hit one of these areas of toxicity yourself Have you considered that the original poster's experience is actually the norm and that your experience is the one that i…

> collision probability of 1.3 percent, with the two satellites coming as close as 190 feet (50m) LEO orbits have speeds around 7.8 km/s (rounding up to ~8000m/s for quick calculat…

> By that logic, surely every interview practice is justified? In a sense, they are. As long as the interview practice is well understood by the applicants, it only leads to filter…

The median tenure of engineers at Amazon is 1 year. That means that the new engineers need senior and principle engineers to guide them on what tools exist. If an engineering organ…

Further down the article she mentions that she solved the dependency by "I ended up rewriting the Lambda in Java", noting that the use-case doesn't care about the known JVM warmup …

I think what you're actually seeing is the output of a Kalman Filter temporal model. The zestimate is the mean of the filter output, but the error bounds of the filter are more imp…

I wonder if AMP isn't just an open source/mobile friendly version of StumbleUpon. Not sure if anyone remembers those SU banners at the top of most blogs, trying to get more in-site…

Most likely because if you are doing ML and do not have a PhD (or previous experience), you are just looking at calling a library function that you do not understand. The majority …

There are a bunch of 'fork-n-go' github jekyl sample applications that wrap a webpage with a Google Spreadsheet datasource. Here is a sample (from a github employee) that I've used…

This is a different solution, and less manual - but OralB has a bluetooth enabled toothbrush that will auto-record your tooth brushing in their app (as well as metrics like 'time u…

And Facebook as thefacebook.com

Right. And when someone is searching for facts, Google is using their dominant position to just display the facts, instead of just a link to a web site that has the facts. The prob…

#Edit - sorry didn't see the link in the original article. I was asking about notebooks, and you linked one already.

It's so strange that Medium articles don't have dates on them. Is there a way to tell when an article was published? Am I missing something? The reason that I ask, is that I could'…

That Feist v Rural case is interesting. The Feist Corp were not able to copyright telephone listings. I wonder if the telephone company itself could have laid claim to their copyri…

Can you list the reasons that you're thinking of not storing data on Github? I would assume that you have a (paid) user or organization account and keep the repo private, unless it…

Are you saying that people aren't storing data on github? How large of datasets are you talking about? It's a shame that Github's large file storage (LFS) mechanism isn't publicly …

I always think of live streaming if I was ever in a plane crash.

I am actually working at a startup to do just this, but using the 'Choosing Wisely' guidelines for care practitioners.