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Re:Python built-ins worth learning (2019) on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @10:55PM (#30623061)
It's even more useful for complex expressions e.g.

  f'{f(x, y)=}' -> 'f(x, y)=5'
Re:Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:52PM (#21652000)
Kashmir has been disputed between India and Pakistan for several decades now.
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro on Thursday November 14, 2019 @09:18AM (#21535494)
The Thinkpad T490 (not the T490s) does have upgradeable RAM -- we settled on it for all our new developer machines. It's got an amazing keyboard and is fairly lightweight, but has every port you'd need, even VGA (and costs ~$1,000 for 8GB/256GB SSD).
Re:SoftBank to Take Control of WeWork: Sources on Monday October 21, 2019 @04:14PM (#21316789)
It's 7.5-8 billion pre-money. Per article:

> The deal values WeWork between $7.5 billion and $8 billion before the infusion, sources familiar with the matter say.

Re:Broken on Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:14PM (#21219246)
It was released 21 years ago and its extended support ended 13 years ago
Re:iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @02:59PM (#20932003)
Huawei P30 Pro uses a 'periscope' style design (using a mirror to put the lens alongside the phone's back instead of back-to-front) to get 5x optical zoom, so it can be done
Re:Payroll startup Gusto raises $200M on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:34PM (#20521863)
The question is fairly bad, but reneging on the offer on your first day on the job isn't all peachy either.

Perhaps it would've been better to hold off on accepting until you have had the responses from every potential employer (Source: have had people not show up on their first day of work way too often)

Focal lengths are, by convention, stated in millimeters even though most are at least a centimeter.
Re:Don't replace people, augment them on Sunday July 17, 2016 @07:00PM (#12112324)
The automobile didn't, true, but the wheel, the cart and the plow (among others) did, for thousands of years.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016) on Monday May 02, 2016 @04:07PM (#11615092)
Full-stack developer | Listo.mx (https://listo.mx) | Mexico City (DF)

Listo is a financial data management platform that has processed over 17,000,000 invoices, most of them in the last few months. We are looking to hire locally-based full-stack developers familiar with (or willing to learn) Python/Django and ReactJS. Challenges include smart data extraction, browser automation, machine learning, etc.

We use AWS, PostgreSQL (300GB+), Elasticsearch, Kinesis, Redis, Django, ReactjS, Numpy/Pandas/Sklearn

If you are interested, please contact me directly at [email protected]

Re:Heroku Kafka on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @09:20AM (#11580123)
One key ability is to batch updates.

We just implemented Kinesis (AWS service similar to Kafka) to reduce load on our Elasticsearch database (~50GB) when running hundreds of individual jobs.

Individual tasks (implemented in Celery, actually running off Redis) push to a Kinesis stream which is then consumed in batches by a very simple processor.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2015) on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @01:28PM (#10154160)
Full-stack developer | Listo.mx (https://listo.mx) | Mexico City (DF)

Listo is a financial data management platform that has processed over 10,000,000 invoices, most of them in the last few months. We are looking to hire locally-based full-stack developers familiar with (or willing to learn) Python/Django and ReactJS. Challenges include smart data extraction, browser automation, machine learning, etc.

If you are interested, please contact me directly at [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Examples of startups focused on AI? on Friday July 05, 2013 @12:59PM (#5995705)
https://tempo.ai/ -- A Siri/Google Now/Cue/Donna competitor, based at Stanford Research Institute (SRI)