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by ajoy 6y ago
Though he didn't invent magnetic tape storage itself. That history is available here : https://history-computer.com/magnetic-tape-complete-history-... Interestingly magnetic tapes are still the king of long term storag
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by ajoy 6y ago
We launched https://www.thefactual.com over a year ago, to solve exactly this problem. Get a daily email that informs you of the main events with multiple perspectives, with a sprinkling of interesting articles. We are a paid se
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by ajoy 6y ago
sorry for spam, but do try us out: https://www.thefactual.com
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by ajoy 6y ago
We had a hard time showing users why we are different from other aggregators/curators. Eg. we extract 3 most information dense sentences from article, we show different political perspectives, we analyze the articles and score them, we
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by ajoy 6y ago
We do the aggregation part : https://www.thefactual.com/news We tried a forum with comments before and it's not easy. But we did learn a lot of lessons and plan to introduce a version of it soon.
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The U.S. Postal Service Is a Threat to Your Life(foreignpolicy.com)
5 points by ajoy 6y ago|1 comments
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A Bible Burning, a Russian News Agency and a Story Too Good to Check Out(nytimes.com)
5 points by ajoy 6y ago|0 comments
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Why Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple Are Bad for America (Opinion)(politico.com)
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Interstellar Travel Could Make Human Language Evolve Beyond Recognition(sciencealert.com)
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by ajoy 6y ago
I agree. 2019 was better. But still not enough, I feel. I got tired of Mercedes winning :). Because of the COVID, they have pushed some of the needed reforms further out, which is unfortunate (like max $ spend per team, engine specs, reduce
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by ajoy 6y ago
I used to like watching it, until it became boring. The cars got wider and more sensitive to the car in front, that overtakes became rare, even with DRS (*Drag Reduction System - that allows the back wing of the car in the back to fold to r
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by ajoy 6y ago
Tangentially related, but not really a comparison of cellphone cameras, but: I find the incompatibility of lenses between the different manufacturers really annoying. I have to choose between say nikon/canon/sony and then if I buy
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by ajoy 6y ago
Most people don't know this, but Nokia had hit upon a lot of these ideas before the iPhone, but didn't act on it : https://venturebeat.com/2010/09/27/nokia-had-iphone-like-pro... They were an innova
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Elon Musk Promised Ventilators. None Showed Up(inc.com)
15 points by ajoy 6y ago|0 comments
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by ajoy 6y ago
Hope it helps people be more critical of what they are reading.
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by ajoy 7y ago
FYI, these are referring to the indian clubs from the indian subcontinent. In india, they were mainly used by wrestlers in a wrestling sport called Pehlwani : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pehlwani Indian clubs used :
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by ajoy 7y ago
For those who don't want spend too much time on news, but want to stay informed, do check us out : https://www.thefactual.com (daily newsletter with summaries and multiple viewpoints from curated news sources)
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by ajoy 7y ago
Thanks. Usually HN detects dupes, but looks like in this case, the url was slightly different. It would be good if HN detected dupes in titles and provided a warning. So that I can tone down my expectation of reactions from the HN crowd :)
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Financial Times: Elon Musk promised ventilators. These are BPAP machines(ft.com)
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by ajoy 7y ago
Is this already been supplied to doctors in US? If not, I can fwd it to anybody who is a doctor in US. Sadly, a lot of US hospitals currently don't have the resources to do all this. Some can't even get enough N95 masks.
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by ajoy 7y ago
The US spends so much money on defense and making sure soldiers are prepared for war. Right now, our soldiers in this war are our frontline medical staff. Nurses and doctors putting their lives on the line to help the ones in need. But inst
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We are all quite literally becoming more myopic(theoutline.com)
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by ajoy 7y ago
I would argue that thats the benefit. I want people more knowledgable than me to comment and point out the flaws in products/reports/theories. Thats what I love about HN. How critical are those flaws? It's up to you. If you t
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by ajoy 7y ago
This is the game that is being played : https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-202... (The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President). The article is a little bias
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by ajoy 7y ago
For the tone of voice analysis, our training data was a large set of articles from Reuters and Associated Press - both wire services that are used by most news outlets. We supplemented this with a dictionary of emotional weights for words a
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by ajoy 7y ago
https://www.thefactual.com/static/extfaq.html We try to be transparent. You should form your own opinion. We provide a tool. Use this tool as just another data pt. Posting here so people don't have to click away:
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by ajoy 7y ago
We have build a chrome extension that block political ads on facebook ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-factual-news-e... ). The extension also rates credibility of news articles you read. Facebook sho
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Which milk alternative should we be drinking?(bbc.com)
23 points by ajoy 7y ago|49 comments
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The 2010s killed the cult of the tech founder(wired.com)
1 points by ajoy 7y ago|0 comments
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Is your Home making you sick?(universal-sci.com)
1 points by ajoy 7y ago|0 comments

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