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by cwyers 9y ago
> “If you get a trailer right now for Spiderman on Facebook, Facebook can’t tell if you ever actually go to the movie. We can,” he told Wired. “We can tell if you look at 'Spider-Man' and look at 'Wonder Woman' and &#
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by cwyers 9y ago
And how well does that work out? My experience with ad targeting is that it's mostly awful. Amazon can track every book I purchase through them, and the ads for books to buy on my Kindle are awful. Facebook has oodles of information ab
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by cwyers 9y ago
In a duopoly condition, telling companies who want to sell products that can only be sold in the markets of two companies, putting "don't take disputes with us to the press" is rather insidious. It might not help. But Apple a
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by cwyers 9y ago
http://andrewgelman.com/2017/12/04/80-power-lie/
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by cwyers 9y ago
There are professional statisticians who believe the same as this HN cult. http://andrewgelman.com/2017/01/30/no-guru-no-method-no-teac...
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by cwyers 9y ago
> One of the several holacracy roles I have at Liip is called “Platform Gardener”. Is calling something a gardener enough to keep it from being management?
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by cwyers 9y ago
Do you think that there are actual daemons in your computer? If you have to kill a process, do you only do so in self-defense?
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by cwyers 9y ago
Thinking about this further. If the computer answers "radio," it scores a correct answer on the EM metric, even though that answer counts as a miss for the humans, assuming that I am reading the paper correctly. That seems like a
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by cwyers 9y ago
I am always annoyed at claims in supervised learning that a machine predictor is better than humans. Humans obviously are the ones that scored the dataset to begin with. If you read the paper, it goes on to say, in regards to human evaluati
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by cwyers 9y ago
Others have mentioned the improvements in range in more fuel-efficient aircraft. But there's also other incentives at play. Remember when United had a passenger dragged off the plan on a commuter flight? Turns out that wasn't Unit
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by cwyers 9y ago
Life doesn't exist on one axis. If I compiled a list of every "if your company does X, quit" heuristic that has been heavily upvoted on HN and we all started following them we'd all be unemployed.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Given your definitions, I'm pretty sure commercial AV is just parasites.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Is the infrastructure in place to support this? I feel like the removal of payphones in public places makes me hesitant to support a smartphone ban of any sort. Yes, they shouldn't be in the classroom, but if students have them in thei
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by cwyers 9y ago
http://heartbleed.com/
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by cwyers 9y ago
Houston Astros | Analyst, Baseball Research and Development | Houston, TX | Onsite | Full time The Houston Astros are seeking an Analyst for the team's Baseball Research and Development group. The Analyst will work closely with the Di
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by cwyers 9y ago
And the people who author mobile Chrome all use iPhones or Galaxies or Pixels. It's about the dogfooding -- the people who write UC Browser use it on the same phones, mobile networks and websites that the users of UC Browser use, so it
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by cwyers 9y ago
The title is "myths and reality." Where did you think the myths were going to come from?
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by cwyers 9y ago
MoviePass is run by an ex-Netflix executive, and it seems to have the same Lando Calrissian business model: they're going to have to keep altering the deal, and it gets worse every time. Netflix started off offering a library so large
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by cwyers 9y ago
Why would NULL equal itself? You're basically asking for SQL to special-case the Boolean logic so that if a null value is compared to itself it returns true. Who needs that?
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by cwyers 9y ago
Google Drive says the videos have exceeded some limit and can no longer be played. Which, to me, suggests that maybe Google Drive is not the best place to host videos.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Definitely approve of the name EntilZha for your GitHub user name. I was interested to see that coexisting with Pandas is supported, but the documentation seems either scant or unfinished, I can't tell which: https://github.
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by cwyers 9y ago
Decent Excel/Word replacements are a hard problem to solve. OOo/LibreOffice and Google Docs have been at it for a while, and aren't there. Meanwhile, I can't imagine wanting an Amazon office suite. I've used their v
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by cwyers 9y ago
It's a five-part essay -- you have to click on the links to the left to get to the other parts. It may be from there (I can't get the site to load right now either).
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by cwyers 9y ago
I think they mean in comparison to Mongo/Cassandra/etc., not other relational databases.
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by cwyers 9y ago
There is a thread on the site with the original Bitcoin paper right now. The first sentence of the abstract: > A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another wi
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by cwyers 9y ago
If you need a relatively small handful of people to control the ecosystem to make it secure from large numbers of decentralized users, then what the heck do you need Bitcoin for?
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by cwyers 9y ago
The document is littered with references to CPUs, including the phrase "one CPU one vote." I think a Bitcoin where CPUs were doing the blockchain processing would be much different that the current one dominated by farms of dedica
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by cwyers 9y ago
I've only touched enough Pandas to get a feel for it, so I'm talking more here about dplyr, but I think most of this applies to Pandas as well. Yes, SQL is incredibly battle-tested, and has a ton of features that newer systems nee
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by cwyers 9y ago
Add in all the costs of the Bitcoin infrastructure to Bitcoin's usage, too - exchanges and so on. And then you still have an instrument so unstable that you can't actually buy anything with it; Steam discontinued BTC purchasing re
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by cwyers 9y ago
TL;DR Bitcoin uses over 75% of the energy used to mint and print all the fiat money in the world for about a percentage point of the transaction volume, but it's okay!

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