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wsgreenon Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months

Currently experiencing the exact same thing. Roughly 15 machine learning engineers through hiring and acquisitions and all of them have no product or management power. Everyone with any management or product power has zero ML/Data Science experience. I spend half my day explaining to managers what ML is.

wsgreenon Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?

In an RV traveling and seeing the world.

wsgreenon Make your 404s into 302s

There's a big "How this works" link on the page.

wsgreenon In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time?

Why are you assuming the CTO was a man?

wsgreenon Show HN: Instant Social Media Videos

Neat but I'd like to see a demo before purchasing. Possibly allow a trial account or an example video?

wsgreenon Show HN: Weekendr.io – Curated Friday to Sunday Roundtrip Flights Under $300

Great to see you still working on this. Bummed that the blog has dropped off at day 6. Looking forward to hearing more lessons from your journey.

wsgreenon Unlimited Google Drive storage by splitting binary files into base64

Nice! I did a similar hack to get unlimited Dropbox space by creating many accounts and distributing the files across the accounts.

https://github.com/WarrenGreen/InfiniteDrop

wsgreenon Show HN: I built an Instagram influencer analysis tool

Very interesting! How did you come to your pricing model? To me (not intended audience), it seems really expensive for a 1-time report. Is this due to market analysis or fixed costs or is it kind of a shot in the dark?

wsgreenon Show HN: Person Identification by Keyboard Typing

Pretty sure bank apps do this for fraud prevention. Preventing criminals from stealing your money is pretty altruistic

wsgreenon Ask HN: Jobs in Spain?

Twilio is hiring Java developers in Madrid

wsgreenon Ask HN: How do you fight through the monotony of daily life?

I exactly feel this way. Trying to go remote and break up the monotony. Only way to live as far as I can tell.

wsgreenon Orca – Live Programming Environment

Awesome to see how developed this tool has become.

Unrelated: Always love watching your sailing videos!!

wsgreenon Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?

Prisoners of Geography

wsgreenon Ask HN: IT Directors and VP's – how do you manage your time and projects?

Everyone thinks they're smarter or more knowledgeable and will then always jump in

wsgreenon GitLab Made $10.5M in Revenue with Every Employee Working from Home

What is your current company?

wsgreenon Magic Leap One now available for $2295

Palmer Luckey's review said it was just a wrapper over Android.

http://palmerluckey.com/magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/

wsgreenon 385 Feet of Crazy: The Most Audacious Flying Machine

Why would they seemingly manually create the panorama instead of using photoshop to create a smoother image? Seems like the vignette and color mismatch would be worth removing?

wsgreenon Amazon’s surveillance-powered no-checkout convenience store

Very different tech stack and UX in these products. BingoBox still requires users to scan their own groceries. It's basically the self-checkout line in Safeway.

wsgreenon Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-driving tech

To make intel a standard in auto chip manufacturing. NVidia dominates this market right now.

wsgreenon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)

I think I'd be more interested in this if it were at all clear what comma.ai was intending to do. There was the kit that was killed and then there has been no public direction since.

wsgreenon Show HN: Computer vision to detect phishing attacks

Currently the extension supports login pages for: Facebook, Google, Chase Credit Cards, Linkedin