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The same works with Brave too! D'uh!
Great idea! Wish there was something like this in India! It is becoming increasingly strenuous on my Dad who owns a few rental properties, to always be at the beck and call of our tenants and their problems.

Ask HN: How do I get better at dinner conversations?

Recently, I invited my colleagues over for a farewell dinner and inadvertently put myself in the spot, by being asked a lot of inquisitive get-to-know-me better questions such as 1) Who among us did you feel turned out the most different from what you originally expected? 2) What are the top 5 things you'll miss about leaving this place? (Mountain View, if that helps) 3)What are the top 5...

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How do I get better at dinner conversations?

Recently, I invited my colleagues over for a farewell dinner and inadvertently put myself in the spot, by being asked a lot of inquisitive get-to-know-me better questions such as 1) Who among us did you feel turned out the most different from what you originally expected? 2) What are the top 5 things you'll miss about leaving this place? (Mountain View, if that helps) 3)What are the top 5...

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Re:The Updated Pioneer Offer on Friday August 17, 2018 @08:23PM (#17786243)
I thought the earlier feedback from HN was especially critical and cynical. I'm curious to know how much of the update to the offer came from the feedback here vis-à-vis the applicants themselves.
Re:Make a “Literary Clock” from a Jailbroken Kindle on Saturday August 04, 2018 @08:14PM (#17689040)
This could also make for a really cool chrome extension.
Re:Stripe Press on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @10:26PM (#17555161)
The carousel/panel of book reviews are not fully visible or accessible at a zoom-level of 100% on Chrome - an extremely rare case of UI bug on a Stripe product announcement page. Or, is this a feature? ;)
Re:How to solve most NLP problems: a step-by-step guide on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @05:54PM (#16227120)
Fasttext's ability to handle OOVs, however naïve, cannot be understated. I'm not sure about the literature on this, but I think generalizing based on character-gram wordvectors is probably better than assigning a dropout based common OOV vector.
Re:Cap’n Proto on Sunday September 11, 2016 @07:50AM (#12472960)
"Stoked". Sorry for the nitpick.
Re:Knwl.js – A JavaScript NLP on Thursday June 04, 2015 @08:27AM (#9658735)
This fails if "in Chicago and London"
Re:Ask HN: What made you choose your current career? on Saturday April 25, 2015 @12:48PM (#9438802)
Check the OP's past submissions. You are in for a treat!
Re:Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? on Thursday April 09, 2015 @01:27PM (#9349276)
"Harry Potter and The Methods Of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I am really liking the recasting, so far.
Re:WebGL: 80.000 particles on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @12:29PM (#9335170)
Why the hate?
Re:Quoc Le’s Lectures on Deep Learning on Sunday July 13, 2014 @11:22AM (#8027566)
No, he still works there. It is Andrew Ng who quit Google and joined Baidu.
Re:Try Objective-C on Friday May 10, 2013 @11:47AM (#5686826)
In challenge # 22 in level 4, I am getting an error :‘extern’ variable has an initializer; I have tried the running the show answer solution but to no avail.
Re:Big-O Algorithm Complexity Cheat Sheet on Saturday May 04, 2013 @04:54PM (#5656281)
What was the second answer?