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That's Caltrain, not BART.

Caltrain is POP.

Completely agreed. Tires a neglected by most cyclist. It is shocking how many people buy a nice bike and keep the stock tires, or worse, slap on conti gator-skins.

> extreme demand for engineers

So you've paid more in gas than for the car over the life of the car.

That's what powers said…

That can work if you are only mildly burnt out. A week or two is insufficient for most people.

Oh dear, you're fucked.

There are some half-truths in that whitepaper, like "reserved instances cannot be resized" (They can, within the same "class" of instances)

For all its faults, Zite/Worio would've surely folded without SR&ED credits.

(In the end, we launched and were acquired by CNN.)

1. Yes, that's what capital gains taxes are

2. No, but you can use the losses to offset future gains without paying tax (you aren't penalized for an asset depreciating then re-appreciating)

Live in the bay area; be a really really good engineer. You will make 200k soon.

Anecdotally: yes, it has for me and many people I know.

It's not because the app is cool. It's because it eliminates the biggest points of friction of taking a cab (namely, ensuring that one arrives soonish, and payment).

It would be shocking if that didn't increase demand in the margin. Who knows what the magnitude increase is, though (I believe it is significant).

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Redshift

The article states that Andrew Ng will be working in the US

Nobody understands typography either. The sin of the article is setting text justified without hyphenation.

Python has types; I would even describe it as strongly-typed. It is thus relatively JIT-able (as pypy and psyco have shown).

The chief problem is the high level of dynamic typing going, plus the huge amount of globally-changable assumptions (you can add methods to any instance of a class, you can globally change the definition of language built-ins, etc.)

Big data starts at N+1 rows, where N is the number of rows the person your responding to manages.

The employee typically gets options, not equity. They are valued at the current market value of the company and cost that amount to acquire. So the value upon grant is 0[1].

[1] modulo accounting tricks

`push -f` and `workflow` should never be in the same sentence.

Our every intention is to leave Zite running until we can build something at least as good at Flip. I know it's sad to lose a product you love (it's sadder to lose one you've built), but I'll try my hardest to make it up to you.

FWIW, our plan is to integrate the Zite recommendation engine into Flipboard (and import your Zite data). I've love to have your feedback as we build it.

Sure. Email in profile.

It's not, but we trained the classifier+collaborative filter, and we're all HN readers, so it's not surprising it picks up HN stories consistently.

Thanks btrautsc! The smart social reading experience sounds interesting even if it didn't work out.

I posted this in another thread, but this is my statement on the acquisition: http://blog.zite.com/2014/03/05/zite-is-flipping-out/

Happy to answer any questions.

As Zite's CTO, it's interesting to see how the tech is perceived externally.

For whom did you work in a previous life, out of curiousity?

Don't worry, we will!

Hey all, I'm the CTO of Zite and can answer any questions.

Here is our announcement post: http://blog.zite.com/2014/03/05/zite-is-flipping-out/

You don't have to be equally racist against all ethnicities to be called racist.