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Louisiana's fiscal apocalypse(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by bishnu 11y ago|0 comments
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by bishnu 11y ago
I use my Echo exclusively with non-Amazon services: Google Calendar, Spotify, Philips Hue. So the product is quite open. That being said, the third-party experience could be smoother - it is a minor pain to have to specify "with Spotif
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by bishnu 11y ago
The banality of it all is what strikes me. A personal favorite: http://graphics.wsj.com/hillary-clinton-email-documents/#/?d... Been there, Hil :)
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by bishnu 11y ago
The only issue with Montreal is, not speaking French will disqualify you from a few different kinds of jobs.
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by bishnu 11y ago
I'm not sure how age-related this is. The Valley has started to equate "disruption" with breaking the law. This is its natural consequence.
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by bishnu 11y ago
That is an overly simplistic problem description. It's trying to identify spam/abuse in a universal way, which is a much harder (and barely coherent) problem, and then delete those tweets which makes the cost of a false positive m
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by bishnu 11y ago
A regression model trained from existing spam and abuse report data to twitter would cover ~99% of terrible at-replies on twitter. Look how effectively a hacked-together script that just uses a couple of heuristics like GGAutoBlocker works.
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by bishnu 11y ago
Detecting and hiding abusive tweets algorithmically is NOT THAT DIFFICULT. These methods are employed widely by Facebook and Google. It's baffling to me that Twitter doesn't do the same thing, and is willing to burn money on poi
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by bishnu 11y ago
It strikes me that you could have said the same thing back in 2012 when Zynga and Groupon were cratering. Likelier, there isn't much of a bubble at all, and companies tend to be properly valued.
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by bishnu 11y ago
She's over $50 000 in debt. You can't just discount that from this type of analysis.
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by bishnu 11y ago
It's worth reading about the Canadian experiments with basic income in the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/colby-cosh-what-th... The exp
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by bishnu 11y ago
Twitter is chasing growth. They are not adding this feature because the current user base demands it, they're adding it because they think they can use it to bring more people in.
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by bishnu 11y ago
Well, this is compelling stuff. Certainly moreso than the easily-dismissed Newsweek story.
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by bishnu 11y ago
I think this is a little reductive. Andy Rubin left Google to form a startup incubator that's focused on hardware and robotics (playground.global). He definitely has interest in it.
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by bishnu 11y ago
I mean, the Google search bar is still first in all those results ;)
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by bishnu 11y ago
This is surprising to me. I'm INUNDATED with Homejoy ads all over the internet. I've never used them (which also might have been part of their problem). Perhaps you just live somewhere they don't provide service to yet? :)
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by bishnu 12y ago
Court cases aren't just about the verdict. What was revealed about the inner culture of KP was very enlightening...and I suspect we're about to be enlightened about similar things at Facebook and Twitter. If at the very least the
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Google Contacts improved(plus.google.com)
1 points by bishnu 12y ago|0 comments
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by bishnu 12y ago
Marco famously tweeted "Shit." when Apple introduced an Instapaper clone into iOS/Safari. He kinda re-uses it whenever a big company does something to squash smaller ones/individuals. It's tongue-in-cheek.
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by bishnu 12y ago
This reminds me of when LinkedIn started sending me emails to congratulate my friends on their 1/2-year anniversaries at "Unemployed".
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by bishnu 12y ago
Not all done by Rovio, however. Eg, Angry Birds for Windows Mobile was ported and maintained by Microsoft.
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by bishnu 12y ago
I would disagree with this assessment. If X is not a science, it does not follow that X is a pseudoscience.
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by bishnu 12y ago
I always thought it was pretty ironic that architect of one of the biggest platforms for harassment on the internet wrote a book called "Without Consent"...and it wasn't about that. Heh.
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by bishnu 12y ago
Boy, I sure will "be proud" that the Seamless and Roku corporate accounts follow me. I'm sure that's because of my high quality content and not a craven attempt at brand/customer building ;)
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The Toast's recipe for bootstrapping a profitable media business(fastcompany.com)
1 points by bishnu 12y ago|0 comments
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by bishnu 12y ago
My neighbor when I lived in the Mission worked at Apple. We're engineers of similar seniority and he worked longer hours than I did, worked more weekends than I did, and earned less than I did. To say nothing of the perks (I work at
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White House launches ‘U.S. Digital Service,’ headed by HealthCare.gov fixer(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by bishnu 12y ago|0 comments
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by bishnu 12y ago
This is not true, per US Copyright Compendium 202.02(b) http://www.copyrightcompendium.com/#202.02(b) "The term "authorship" implies that, for a work to be copyrightable, it must owe its origin to a human bei
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by bishnu 12y ago
All these negatives are true, but I think network hiring endures because it minimizes the risk that you make a completely mismatched, square-peg-for-round-hole, going-down-in-flames hire. Or at least, the perceived risk. There is this para
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by bishnu 13y ago
I found the comments about the derision of lifestyle businesses interesting, particularly in light of some of the consternation around the Tarsnap price cut [0]: [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953

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