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> Facebook should get itself some "machine anthropologists", to study the ant farm. This is such a cool job title, I love it. I've long dreamed of doing this job at Twitter. There are so many blatantly patterned spam attem
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I agree. I think the only lasting solution to this is to raise a populace smart enough to be impervious to the radical left and right, both fringes being the domain of sloppy thinking and emotionally driven agendas. And in a way that keeps
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It blocks you from seeing the future. If they get money and no data, they're getting paid for who they are today with less insight into who they need to be tomorrow to keep getting paid. The idea that data is "just sold to busine
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What's the expected fix here? I was unfamiliar with the bands and most of the people in those targeting lists. The way I see it, these are the ways you can handle this: 1) Facebook builds this data the hard way. They staff a team of ex
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> So what is happening when someone tosses out their religious context? They are essentially saying "I understand this organism perfectly, I know its strengths and weaknesses, and I know better than the process of natural selection
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> Culture is the only long-term competitive advantage an organization can bring to bear, wut. these guys are trying to sell office furniture. but let's pretend for a second that this article _isn't_ in bad faith: I have yet to
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Thank you for this answer. It makes a lot of sense. For my (and I expect most people's) threat model, google's prying eyes are a more credible concern than my neighbor's, and I wish they hadn't changed it, but it's
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(OP of complaint) This matches my understanding as well. 05's answer about security and rogue devices is a good one. It makes a lot of sense. For my (and I expect most people's) threat model, google's prying eyes are a more c
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I think you and Brad are making different arguments. I think you're both right in different ways. You're correct that convenience features like this, despite undermining password managers and interrupting power-user security pract
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> the banks jointly sold the company behind it, and now looks like some banks wants to let it die There could be a dark brilliance to such a move. Want to raise your margins? Get paid to sell your low margin product, let it die, and get
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Thank you very much for your answer! Both the most predictable and the most interesting thing IMO is the factor of your existing network in the success of the product. More and more I'm seeing the compound returns of network reach in t
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Any Rene Girard readers want to weigh in here? I see some similarities to the themes in his work but am not well versed enough to comment.
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While this is a hostile development that will be painful for some, there's a part of me that's grateful for every shitty thing they do because it increases the likelihood of a challenger. Would Stripe exist if PayPal hadn't b
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More concerning to me was the fairly recent removal of non-phone-app setup. It used to be that a chromecast would display a 4 character code on screen, which could be used to activate it from the browser. Now, they require that it be manage
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Thank you very much! I'll try and see if I can get my hands on a projector again. Generative art != glitch art, but these might be of interest to some people as well, since there was thread about a week ago on PNG glitching, and I went
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> I hope this doesn't ruin the kid for real work. Despite the low score at time of this comment, I think this is a defensible concern for the same reason attributing kid's success to hard work leads to better outcomes than attr
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Could you talk more about the software that underpins this stuff? I saw in your comment that the audio is based of sampling of the visuals... is this written in Processing or something else? I used to make stuff like this with processing +
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That's not the OP, but yeah, I saw it as well. It made me wish that 1k had a "sort by MRR" option. MRR is a very loud positive signal. edit: and since it's from another HN'r, good work! It's a good idea with a
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To the extent you're willing to comment, I'd be interested in knowing about your criteria for selecting such a project. - was the domain related to your expertise, or in a niche that was new to you? - what made this project stand
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100%. Google wasn't the first search engine. But they were effectively the last. First to market is only important insofar as it's correlated with making sticky products, building a moat, and not dying. That's what you actual
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How do you bring up the topic & structure rates? EG, if you get 80% of the way towards that 5% goal, What about 120%? etc. How do you price based on results like this without a clear internal view of the company's numbers. Feels li
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A poorly thought out and damaging post for a number of reasons. 1) It starts out creating a straw designer with a set of below-market skills that is easy to chop down. If the assets as presented represent the entirety of what was delivered,
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I have written some internal tools that do things in this vein. Open sourcing libs for this is a good idea – I've added it to my list of "stuff i would like to do at work if i get a minute". You're correct that actually
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> people have a right to sell their research to the highest bidder, whomever that may be. > whomever that may be. I think most readers, myself included, read that additional qualifier on "highest bidder" to mean "even
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> EMDR is PE with a marketing machine behind it What is "PE" in this context?
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Is part of what makes google less useful their attempt to "curate"? It's worth thinking about what constitutes curation. I would say that adapting results towards expected customer preferences (eg giving pet owners and progr
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They own the distribution channels, top to bottom[1]. Lenscrafters, sunglass hut, target optical, etc. If you don't play ball, they'll kill your distro. They did this to oakley in a hostile takeover[2] – luxottica cut them off and
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I believe this is a statement about who gets credit, not quality difference between models. They're the same car. But, in the eyes of the comment you're replying to, subaru is responsible for the engineering decisions that make it
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As a fairly junior programmer, I'll play devil's advocate on the Bad bit – I find that kind of thing very helpful sometimes. Having plain english demarcations for what a piece of logic does – or where in the loop something is –
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I eventually moved on to todoist, which I like a lot, but the bullet journal was really valuable for me in the past. Especially all of the addons the community has invented. My favorite by far was this habit tracker, which is self explanato

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