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awa··on Man Stole $122M from Facebook and Google by Impersonating Quanta
I doubt he would have turned to fraud or become a proxy if he had $50M of his own.
awa··on The New iPad Mini
pixel slate?
awa··on Exercise, fasting shown to help cells shed defective proteins
I am curious about fasting as well, and have been considering trying it. Can you point me to some practical advice on how to get started on fasting that worked for you and some research to back up the claims.
awa··on I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days
I was able to land a couple of solid offers but you have to be really persistent. I kept chugging away a hour or so a day and 3+ on weekdays when kids slept in and basically made algos my thing apart from work and family (which worked out for me since I was able to come up with the Aho-corasick algorithm for a question I was asked). After a while I started enjoying the prep process since I was learning quite a bit too.
awa··on Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?
Company name?
awa··on John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team
I wonder at what point the pay becomes just a number. I am hoping people at Chris’s position are where they are because of the role, organization and the opportunity and not just because of money
awa··on Ask HN: How to incorporate machine learning into day job?
Some CRUD applications have scope for adding recommendations... based on other things the client has create d predict and auto-populate fields in advance or give them recommendations if changing some fields in existing records can help them. Again, it will depend on type of CRUD application.

There's also scope of using ML in analytics and monitoring side apart from the main application and is generally better tolerated by the product team.

awa··on Netflix’s biggest competition isn’t sleep, it’s YouTube
They do have a music app for subscribers which is much better.
awa··on Spanking Is Ineffective and Harmful to Children, Pediatricians’ Group Says
Ex-Indian kid checking in here, I don't remember being hit as a kid nor does my wife. I remember getting slapped once (I totally deserved it though) but that wasn't really hitting since it wasn't hard enough (and I was quite old). So, I don't agree its normal.
awa··on Ask HN: What % of your net wealth did you put into your downpayment?
I put in about 20% of net worth in my last down payment (which was 20% of housing cost)
awa··on Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB
I had been considering buying a Tesla once the Model 3 AWD came out but am going to postpone it and get something else.
awa··on Dropbox and Google Cloud integrations
Have you looked at Microsoft teams product as a replacement for slack?
awa··on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production
resale value?
awa··on Ask HN: How did you like your job in 2017?
7/10.. Changed end of 2016 and got a good raise. Got to learn a lot of new things and adapt to the new culture. Its nice to shake up things once in a while I guess.
awa··on High doses of vitamin D rapidly reduce arterial stiffness
There are 2 options:

1. Try enteric coated fish oil. I think it solves the burp problem.

2. Try a fish oil which is in triglyceride form e.g. https://www.costco.com/Pure-Alaska-Omega-Wild-Salmon-Oil-100...

awa··on Ask HN: How do you read programming books?
OT: The book "How to read a book" drives home the importance of skimming a book and how to do it well.
awa··on Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?
Wunderlist for tasks... Onenote for notes.
awa··on Quebec reaches lodging tax deal with Airbnb
afaik, most people do report interest from savings account. In US, The bank sends a 1099-int to you and the IRS if interest earned>$10
awa··on Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo
E.g. teachers in India are 80% men. Source? My personal anecdote would be close to 50-50% with variance at higher college level and school level.
awa··on Snap Misses User-Growth Estimate as Facebook Copying Takes Toll
Most late employees got generous RSU's instead of options.
awa··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
I don't see any postings for Seattle, WA on the career page..
awa··on Ask HN: Do you keep track of what you learn? how?
Onenote... Helps me organize my thoughts and the search works well enough to find things. Not great for collecting things of the web though, as I don't think the clipper is powerful enough.
awa··on An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
That's why I like Electric cars, come home, hook it up to charger and full charge when u get up
awa··on Canada's top court backs order for Google to remove firm's website from searches
Its precedent settings i.e. if google follows it, then china and saudi court can ask them to do the same since these kind of rulings become fair game.
awa··on Ebay will match Amazon’s, Walmart’s and others’ prices on over 50K items
10-20% discount. Mostly from the daily deals section. I mostly buy Lowes gcs, some restaurants gcs along with Dominos.
awa··on Ask HN: What's your process for learning?
I am reading "How to read a book" and the process you described is akin to inspectional reading. The book goes in great detail how to utilize the inspectional reading process and improve it.

It also describes the next step "analytical reading" which comprises of mostly asking questions about the topic in general and about the author's intent.

awa··on Ebay will match Amazon’s, Walmart’s and others’ prices on over 50K items
Reasons I use ebay for: 1. Discounted gift cards, 2. Cheap imports from China.

As a buyer I have been happy with ebay, things take a while to come but are generally well before the estimated time and a lot of stuff is much cheaper than Amazon.

As per returns/bad goods, Sellers are generally willing to send a replacement item if the original has an issue

awa··on ElectronConf postponed until a “more diverse slate of speakers” can be delivered
You can generalize this in any way.

Height: Hey, all the conference speakers are really tall, there's no way I a 5'4" male be a conference speaker.

College: None of the conference speakers are from my university hence there's no way I from an unknown university can make it in the industry.

There are already a ton of female only events including conferences happening in the tech industry and if most cutting-edge stuff in a narrow field/tech (electron) is being done by male counterparts (or they are more interested in speaking about it) that shouldn't be a bad thing.

awa··on Trump Tax Plan Said to Call for Lowering Corporate Rate to 15%
You are missing that the reduction should cause some money sitting in coffers outside to flow back in to US. Microsoft, Apple, Goog etc have billions of dollars parked outside the country.
awa··on After Years of Challenges, Foursquare Has Found Its Purpose, and Profits
What this article tells me is to not share data with foursquare since their priority is to sell that data and make money and not to help me make decisions on where should I be eating.
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