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Hal Varian: Machine Learning and Econometrics [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
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Consistency in Data Science(antontarasenko.com)
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by anton_tarasenko 11y ago
Being a nonprofit cuts you off capital. Investors are reluctant to fund nonprofits, which aren't going to generate value for them. It's okay if a company doesn't need capital, but even tech firms take $50-100M a year to grow.
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by anton_tarasenko 11y ago
It's better to start with a problem and understand how to address it. For-profit companies would be an optimal solution for most human problems. Strong funding and control over business leave you with more resources. If only non-profit
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When-To-Post on Social Networks(arxiv.org)
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by anton_tarasenko 11y ago
The idea of using second-price auctions in ads sales gave Google tens of billions of dollars. Though Google didn't invent it. Many expensive ideas are embodied in patents and code. Cheap ideas exist, but not all ideas are cheap.
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Marketing by Elon Musk(antontarasenko.com)
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Uber's French Connection(antontarasenko.com)
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by anton_tarasenko 11y ago
owainlewis, I think you could increase signups if you'd add a few screenshots of the discussions. Or let new visitors read them without registration.
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by anton_tarasenko 11y ago
Any command-line version of this? API? ) PS: A very nice tool!
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by anton_tarasenko 11y ago
Voting activity is proxy for reading activity. I don't have evidences that Saturday posting has more exposure than weekday posts given nearly the same upvote performance. Agreed on making something great as the end. But delivering the
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by anton_tarasenko 11y ago
Like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html "How are stories ranked? On the front page, by points divided by a power of the time since they were submitted. Comments in comment threads are ranked the same way.
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by anton_tarasenko 11y ago
I'd gladly look at this research. The research I saw is missing the fact that time is endogenous and simple scheduling won't work.
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by anton_tarasenko 11y ago
Thanks for the correction about downvotes. Fixed. As for the metrics, being on the front page seems to drive less motivated traffic. When a user upvotes the link, he cares. When the link gets to the front page, users click it because it&#x2
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Best Time to Post on Hacker News: It's Irrelevant(antontarasenko.com)
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by anton_tarasenko 12y ago
You teach Socratic questioning as a habit (otherwise, you forget it). And as a habit, it requires repetition. Repetition, in turn, needs motivation. But the best motivation I know comes from people around. So, it's very non-techy. And
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by anton_tarasenko 12y ago
And adjusted for risks, even founders earn slightly more than the wages they would otherwise had in Google. I mean, the whole argument about "bigger money" at startups is more like a myth.
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by anton_tarasenko 12y ago
It's a bit trickier than the title says. By a "false" finding, they mean "a finding fails to yield the same result in at least one other study." But there's nothing wrong with failing a replication. See cancer
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by anton_tarasenko 12y ago
That's up to government commissions to decide whether Amazon "tends to create a monopoly" with dynamic pricing. Amazon discloses nothing about its technologies to the public. What we see is, (1) Different prices for different
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by anton_tarasenko 12y ago
This, for example: "We do, however find some price variations for Kindle ebooks on www.amazon.com, depending on if the user is logged in to the site or not." [ http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4531 ] Also see Figure 1
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by anton_tarasenko 12y ago
Doesn't Amazon itself violate the Robinson–Patman Act with its dynamic pricing? [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson%E2%80%93Patman_Act ]
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by anton_tarasenko 12y ago
Portrait orientation definitely solve some problems. Reading is easier as text is narrower. Coding also seems okay if you're not a fan of long lines.
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by anton_tarasenko 12y ago
The author is missing the point that technology R&D responds to oil prices. Strictly speaking, if oil becomes scarce and expensive, alternative energy develops more rapidly. It's the cheap oil that creates developmental risks.
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by anton_tarasenko 12y ago
Many biases have a short-term effect. If you delay the respective decision a bit ("I'll buy it tomorrow"), the impact of their tricks diminishes.
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Twitter, brevity, innovation(antontarasenko.com)
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Not So Free Facebook: How Startups Can Increase Their Revenues(antontarasenko.com)
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How Google Works: Unauthorized Edition(antontarasenko.com)
14 points by anton_tarasenko 12y ago|1 comments