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by aresant 10y ago
There is a current service - builtwith.com - that does a nice job of productizing this type of research - eg: https://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Optimizely
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by aresant 10y ago
Apple is the world's most profitable business - twice the profits of #2 (JP Morgan Chase) and almost a 4x magnitude over Google.(1) I agree with the author's final assessment - "meets expectations with some areas that need im
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by aresant 10y ago
HN title is significantly different than the question the submission actually asks which is "why do TRADERS in investment banks . . . " and should be updated
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by aresant 10y ago
Bigger to me is the VP of Product - Josh McFarland - just bailed out 30 minutes ago too: https://twitter.com/crazyfoo/status/811331557608652800 AKA outside of Dorsey, who is a split / shared CEO, who is in ch
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by aresant 10y ago
Amazon marketplace, kickstarter, and etsy have unleashed a FIREHOSE of pseudo-medical products (And other consumer products) that review systems and regulators are just not equipped to handle. A startup that I wish would happen would be a t
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by aresant 10y ago
This guy's combo of hardware and software engineering is stunning. That he then has the aesthetic capability to knock out a beautiful fucking box for the cartridge is just humbling.
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by aresant 10y ago
If you take a survey of hiring managers they will point to three primary reasons that candidates 40 - 60 have a harder time finding jobs: 1) They are typically more expensive than "market" for the same role a younger person can fu
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by aresant 10y ago
The company the article refers to is https://numer.ai/about From their homepage: "February 27th 2016, an artificial intelligence named NCVSAI joined Numerai. . . He uses an untraceable email address. . . He is complete
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by aresant 10y ago
I love the nod to biomimicry in the video - inspiration from animal strategies and adaptations is an unfair advantage in robotics design.
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Photorealistic Facial Texture Inference Using Deep Neural Networks (ArXiv 2016)(youtube.com)
2 points by aresant 10y ago|0 comments
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Holographic Remoting Player(developer.microsoft.com)
1 points by aresant 10y ago|0 comments
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Uber is deactivating New York drivers for 'advertising' for rival Juno(recode.net)
3 points by aresant 10y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 10y ago
"[comma.ai} was functionally superior and theoretically safer than the ten legacy manufacturer systems" A journalist on record saying "theoretically safer" literally makes my hair stand up on end.
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George Hotz cancels Comma AI(mobile.twitter.com)
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by aresant 10y ago
Here's the source complaint & indictment https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/file/905837/download
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by aresant 10y ago
Better details from a beta tester over on /r/oculus on Eyefluence's tech: " . . . I'm still not allowed to say how exactly it works but in my mind it's the gold standard for eye based user interfaces . . . Thei
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by aresant 10y ago
TLDR as the facts in the article were hard for me to divine at first glance: - People ride the train in Summit NJ to work in NYC / elsewhere - It's a pain to park at the train station and wastes a lot of time in the AM - It costs
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by aresant 10y ago
Two fascinating theories from the comment section @ Wapo -> "A large stationary target like a rocket is a simple shot for a sniper with a 50 cal rifle from a mile away. . . It was something discussed 30+ years ago: to have Special F
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by aresant 10y ago
Bitcoin transactions are not easy enough for general consumption. I think in the Bitcoin lifecycle a number of these early services exist at the pleasure of serving pioneering Bitcoin users / miners who have a lot of digital currency a
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Advertising Standards Launches Investigation into No Man's Sky(polygon.com)
1 points by aresant 10y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 10y ago
"More than double the fleet" . . . from 6 to 12 trucks in 2017 I have a hard time believing that Otto was more than an opportunity to pick up engineering talent and that their interest in freight - for now - is more than an ongoin
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by aresant 10y ago
Salesforce feels like a bizarre choice, although I agree with their digital chief that "I love Twitter" personally. I use twitter every day as my primary method of content discovery. So at their core the BUSINESS should revolve ar
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by aresant 10y ago
"If you work at a software company. . . you should be doing A/B testing for the same reason you have an accountant do your taxes. It is a low-risk low-investment high-certainty way to increase economic returns." Spot on, and
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Apple's AR Team Hires Magic Leap's principal computer vision engineer fri(macrumors.com)
2 points by aresant 10y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 10y ago
Add to the stack that the startup ecosystem sucks. 1) Raising an angel round - and certainly a Series A - in San Diego means getting on a plane to the Bay Area or a 2.5 hour drive to LA. 2) Potential acquirers are all up north which means n
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Series A round for Point from A16z(a16z.com)
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND LIFE IN 2030 [pdf](ai100.stanford.edu)
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by aresant 10y ago
Headline is not accurate. A subsidiary of Foxconn invested $120,000,000 total. Reference for that is the actual "story" linked to.
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by aresant 10y ago
"Also, didn't VW do this in Europe, too? Are we to believe this guy in the U.S. is responsible for the emissions cheating in Europe, too?" Yes, this is the guy responsible for Europe too. Check out the justice.gov story I lin
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by aresant 10y ago
This guy isn't the "fall guy" or just a poor engineer hung out to try instead of an exec, he deserves to go to prison based on the material facts of his plea: 1) He was the central figure in engineering the device. 2) He unde

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