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by aresant 11y ago
Pitch: "x.ai – artificial intelligence that schedules meetings" Reality: "A group of low-paid humans (that may-or-may not have been background checked) will read your emails to help you schedule meetings. They will probably n
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by aresant 11y ago
I am actually shocked to learn that x.ai has human beings reading the emails. X.AI's marketing materials state it's "An AI personal assistant who schedules meetings for you." Their default tagline in every email sent say
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by aresant 11y ago
Sounds like they offered $4.5m ("triple the last offer" of $1.5m) to go away. I assume the attorney would only make that statement if they had supportable documentation. Given that Guillory appears to be a "needs a paycheck&q
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by aresant 11y ago
360 video is cool but feels a little gimmicky for personal use. 180 degree 3D video, on the other hand, is AWESOME - that's the true-life look/feel that I think is going to be game changing and sell another 100m units for GoPro or
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by aresant 11y ago
360 video is cool but feels a little gimmicky for personal use. 180 degree 3D video, on the other hand, is AWESOME - that's the true-life look/feel that I think is going to be game changing and sell another 100m units for GoPro or
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by aresant 11y ago
Randomly who designed the website @ https://letsencrypt.org/ ? I love the landing page, it's clean, well organized and simple.
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Users respond to Yahoo Finance redesign(yahoo.uservoice.com)
2 points by aresant 11y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 11y ago
Startups have won on a lot less than the feature / ux innovation the author just laid out. Forget google - build this with a "Show HN:" to find a cofounder!
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by aresant 11y ago
SF, the city, just approved fully paid leave for new parents for 6 weeks for everybody. http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/San-Francisco-poised-t...
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San Francisco approves fully paid leave for new parents(sfgate.com)
9 points by aresant 11y ago|3 comments
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by aresant 11y ago
If they can prove it works at scale this tech instantly eliminates the usefulness of beacons. Wifi has always been the obvious solution to indoor location (lower power than GPS / works indoors / piggybacks on installed hardware &#
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by aresant 11y ago
I love Tesla the company and respect the hell out of Elon. But his presentation style is hard to watch - he is literally stammering through what feels like a dry script. I've never seen him live before is this par for the course or ner
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by aresant 11y ago
I appreciate the absolute heart-on-sleeve but you're not in "post mortem" mode, you're in transition mode! Your message - from the first sentence to choosing "default dead" in telling the story reads negative.
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by aresant 11y ago
Key quote to me from the paper's author, not covered in the linked article: "There was as much variability between LabCorp and Quest as there was between Theranos and LabCorp or Theranos and Quest."(1) Also a link to the actu
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by aresant 11y ago
Required reading for HN crowd as an accompaniment: - Why Nerds are Unpopular - http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html - re: Why Nerds are Unpopular - http://www.paulgraham.com/renerds.html
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by aresant 11y ago
I completely agree with you and in no way am being disparaging or taking away from the myriad other ways Patrick has contributed to HN. Even Patrick - in this essay - says "I’ve been probably best known for running a teeny tiny little
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Google's Organic Free Search Results(searchengineland.com)
1 points by aresant 11y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 11y ago
FEI still has the original listing on their site: Yearly revenue - $31,000 Yearly net profit - $19,000 Asking price - $57,000 SOLD It's fascinating what a small amount of money we're ultimately talking about vs. the influence of t
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by aresant 11y ago
Robotics, particularly without the gov't pig trough, needs a visionary and a long game point. Andy Rubin was a visionary and he bailed. He left Apple to found Danger which was one of the "genesis" products that led to the sma
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by aresant 11y ago
I enjoyed the article's major theme of encryption as math - but the dedication of the second & third paragraphs to disparaging analogies was distracting. Educating HN and SV on this topic is throwing so many logs on the fire - I li
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Tesla owner fined for 'producing more emissions than a Range Rover'(ibtimes.co.uk)
3 points by aresant 11y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 11y ago
I wrote this a few weeks ago on HN but your argument is missing consideration for Google's "Page Quality Score" (PQS) algorithm - which is designed to provide at least some layer of quality / $$$-bias-arbitration.(1) In
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by aresant 11y ago
"The conversionxl study is from mid 2014 so the results may be dated." The first study I linked to is from less than a year ago and finds the exact same results.
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by aresant 11y ago
Since this is trending on HN here's my CRO public service announcement: Hamburger menus have been conclusively proven to be shit UX elements. They lose on every metric against similarly sized, but clearly labeled "menu" butto
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by aresant 11y ago
Just to color with the facts - which only underscore your point: "In one incident, after receiving a complaint from Steve Jobs of Apple, Schmidt sent an email to Google's HR people saying; "I believe we have a policy of no re
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by aresant 11y ago
"Chose to grow slowly" is a great headline but that's not what happened. Their business is fundamentally reliant on an accurate and high quality parts sourcing operation, which took years to build: "To ensure it can prov
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by aresant 11y ago
Took me reading this 4800 words of instructions to get it: Twitter is the Dwarf Fortress of social.
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by aresant 11y ago
It's so funny to watch MSFT completely miss the lessons that have turned Google into the World's Most Valuable Advertising Business. HEY YOU GUYS LETS PLASTER ADVERTISING ALL OVER ALL OF THE THINGS! Look at Gmail: http:/&#x2
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by aresant 11y ago
"It's a bug that you could rank highly in Google without buying ads, and Google is trying to fix the bug." (1) I love that quote - by HN's own jrockway - when he was under employ at Google. He wound up effectively retrac
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by aresant 11y ago
The oculus forums are the best place to start - hugely helpful and collaborative - if you haven't yet though get a dk2 and scanner best $500 or so all in to see the future :)

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