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Los Angeles had ridesharing in 1914, and it got banned.(paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
1 points by akharris 13y ago|0 comments
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Supreme Court strikes down the heart of the voting rights act(nytimes.com)
2 points by akharris 13y ago|0 comments
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Surviving public school as a blind girl in 1955(blog.tutorspree.com)
57 points by akharris 13y ago|25 comments
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by akharris 13y ago
Author here - that's not at all what I said. I'm saying these courses set their own standard of measurement, and haven't lived up to it yet. They're iterating by bringing in different support systems to raise completion rates. I hope the MO
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Where robots fail: Why education can’t just be digital(venturebeat.com)
41 points by akharris 13y ago|29 comments
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by akharris 13y ago
hint: frequent hn commenter
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by akharris 13y ago
Whoops - good point. Fixing now. I'll take the blame on that one. Meant to write ARC.
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by akharris 13y ago
Yeah...we scattered some ASCII easter eggs around the site. Favorite practitioners of various subjects. PG wins for programming (duh). We'll send a tshirt to the first person to find them all :).
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by akharris 13y ago
I'm surprised no one is talking about the fact that this is a pretty clear shot across twitter's bow. Users are trained to tag friends in instagram shots using twitter handles, and to generate hashtags for locations and events. This encoura
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by akharris 14y ago
Been using storyworth with my dad for the last few months. Learning new things about him is awesome, and he definitely wouldn't be interested if this were just a mobile sorta thing. Keep it up!
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When a novelist writes a video game: Gears of War Judgement(nytimes.com)
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Hack a $7B piece of education: Growth at Tutorspree
1 points by akharris 14y ago
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by akharris 14y ago
Sorry, but that's not at all what happened here. This is a function of Hailo and others actually working within the system to change it, rather than disrupting/breaking rules/making nice. If you look at the series of events, Kalanick and Ub
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by akharris 14y ago
About 10 years ago, I was watching a show on Discovery (back when they had shows about science and tech) talking about innovations in AI and in cars. They had a segment on technology Mercedes was testing for their trucking fleet geared towa
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by akharris 14y ago
Got the call from these guys a few weeks ago - actually about 20 calls. I finally picked up and kept the guy on for about 10 minutes asking him progressively dumber questions. Finally, I told him I was running OSX, which led him to call his
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by akharris 14y ago
Almost two years ago, we started recruiting hackers as tutors by saying that they could bootstrap their startups by doing so ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2236188 ). It took us a little while to get there, but it is so awesome to se
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Replacing the factory-as-classroom with help from the Talmud(fastcoexist.com)
8 points by akharris 14y ago|0 comments
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Sally Ride, first American woman in space, dies at 61(cnn.com)
5 points by akharris 14y ago|0 comments
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Tutorspree is Hiring Sales Associates
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Where the Heat and the Thunder Hit Their Shots(nytimes.com)
200 points by akharris 14y ago|66 comments
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Dell launches a credit facility for startups to buy equipment(pehub.com)
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by akharris 14y ago
He had a short piece in last week's New Yorker on how "The Fire Balloons" was inspired by the fire balloons he, as a small boy, lit with his grandfather. It was a beautiful testament to his craft and his inspiration. Sadly, behind the paywa
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by akharris 14y ago
It's really important not to think of this as just "invest in the stock market." It's "invest in assets with positive expected return." That means you need to diversify across asset classes, and that doesn't mean domestic and foreign stocks
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by akharris 14y ago
I spent three years at one of the world's largest hedge funds. I was a banker for a year before that. Most important lesson I learned: Don't play individual stocks and think you have anything more than a gambler's chance of success. There's
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by akharris 14y ago
Funding a startup is very different than something like Kiva. Startups are new untested theories put into practice. To succeed, you need not just money but quality advice. My parents might be able to provide money to a startup, but they cou
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Google doodle for the inventor of the zipper
2 points by akharris 15y ago|0 comments
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Real Life Frogger: Webcam + 5th ave = 30th birthday surprise(vimeo.com)
5 points by akharris 15y ago|0 comments
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by akharris 15y ago
It's not that it isn't true, it's that it doesn't matter. There are always people screaming bubble - look at the housing market collapse. The thing is, there are always people screaming the opposite. A bubble continues because more people a
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Homophobic slurs mark a new low for recruiters(seldo.tumblr.com)
10 points by akharris 15y ago|0 comments
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Looks Like Zynga Just Bought OMGPOP For $200 Million(allthingsd.com)
163 points by akharris 15y ago|154 comments

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