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I Won Jeopardy with Data Science

evansolomon — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 19:29:54 +0000

Article URL: https://colindavy.medium.com/how-i-won-jeopardy-with-data-science-c2e9b52a1958

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24900231

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by evansolomon in "The Making of Gyroscope Running, a React Native App"

evansolomon — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 07:40:20 +0000

In the React Native case specifically, I've found that searching github issues is often super helpful. The project is very popular, changing really really fast, and still has a bunch of rough edges. So if something really seems wonky (and isn't a bizarre use case), it's pretty common that someone has already brought it up there.

Reading the code is pretty much always a good idea, too.

New comment by evansolomon in "Ten Commandments of Sushi"

evansolomon — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 04:02:35 +0000

Started last summer.

http://adage.com/article/digital/bmw-runs-ads-medium-twitter...

New comment by evansolomon in "My Amazon S3 Mistake"

evansolomon — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 02:24:25 +0000

> It won't be 100% but I bet the bots aren't 100% either

Bots having tons of false positives doesn't really matter (except to the bot maker, maybe). But GitHub having tons of false positives means customers get annoyed by false alerts, locked data, whatever.

New comment by evansolomon in "How Paul Graham Is Wrong"

evansolomon — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:09:13 +0000

Figured this was the case but assumed it didn't changed the gist of the answer too much. tl;dr actually employing people in other countries is difficult

New comment by evansolomon in "How Paul Graham Is Wrong"

evansolomon — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:59:34 +0000

Automattic "employees" outside of the US and Canada are contractors.

(I used to work at Automattic)

Why ContentEditable is Terrible

evansolomon — Wed, 14 May 2014 18:46:59 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/medium-eng/122d8a40e480

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7745425

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by evansolomon in "Show HN: Free screen recording Mac app that uploads while you record"

evansolomon — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 08:10:23 +0000

Is there any way to delete a video once I upload it?

New comment by evansolomon in "Half of Destructoid's readers block our ads. Now what?"

evansolomon — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:33:31 +0000

> I can't name a single ad that I have seen over the past week

Ads aren't trying to get you to remember the ads, they're trying to get you to recognize, like, buy, etc the product. That can happen without remembering or actively paying attention to the ad.

I won't go on a hunt for a list of research confirming it, but there are about hundreds if not thousands of examples explaining that marketing does work, whether its audience thinks it does or not.

tl;dr Even if you believe you'll never click an ad, you're probably still hurting the advertiser and therefore the publisher.

New comment by evansolomon in "Automatically Blackballed"

evansolomon — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:54:02 +0000

analog, which part of the GPL does that violate?

I think you're wrong. The GPL governs code, not services (even services that use GPL code).

New comment by evansolomon in "Automatically Blackballed"

evansolomon — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:44:54 +0000

That's incorrect. https://wpcom-themes.svn.automattic.com/

New comment by evansolomon in "Wordpress site running on Raspberry Pi"

evansolomon — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:06:47 +0000

This isn't really accurate. WordPress supports overriding the database class. Here's an example of a plugin that supposts Postgres http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postgresql-for-wordpress...

New comment by evansolomon in "The YC VC Program"

evansolomon — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:20:48 +0000

Is there any significance to Ron Conway not being in the group anymore?

New comment by evansolomon in "Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx"

evansolomon — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:24:32 +0000

APC is also the most likely by 1000x to be merged into PHP core, so I would rather use/support/fix that.

New comment by evansolomon in "New York Underground"

evansolomon — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:46:30 +0000

A friend of mine made a very cool documentary called Under City that you'd probably like if you're into this kind of stuff.

http://vimeo.com/18280328

New comment by evansolomon in "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)"

evansolomon — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:11:34 +0000

Lots of things might happen based on any non-standard terminology, but in general it's not something we worry about. It's meant to be a little fun, a little different, and attract people that are a little fun and a little different.

If someone wants an account director job at Automattic and never makes their way the Account Engineer link, that's okay. If someone is a bit intrigued by our non-standard titles and looks a bit closer at them because they stand out, that's cool, too.

Anything that isn't normal might confuse people. The goal of our jobs page isn't to confuse the fewest people possible.

New comment by evansolomon in "SF Port Authority Shuts Down Tech-Hub Pier 38"

evansolomon — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:44:25 +0000

I work at Automattic (our office is in the pier, we're one of the companies being kicked out). I'm usually at the pier about twice/week. I have absolutely no idea what's unsafe about it. As far as I know, we've never been told. As far as whether it's justified, there's a lot of not very reliable information involved in the answer to that question, so I'll just say that if it is justified I couldn't tell you why or how.

The gap

evansolomon — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:01:35 +0000

Article URL: http://www.dustincurtis.com/the_gap.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2794504

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by evansolomon in "Even a URL tells a story"

evansolomon — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:05:25 +0000

Why include /post/ if the blog is on the root domain?

New comment by evansolomon in "Even a URL tells a story"

evansolomon — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:44:14 +0000

It's ironic that a post about URL tidiness would be here: http://reillybrennan.com/post/7686471401/even-a-url-tells-a-...