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by dlg 8y ago
There's a new dental device company working on re-shaping the dental arch called Envisium ( https://www.envisium.com/ ) out of Harvard. Great early results. (Full-disclosure: I'm an angel investor in them and not a
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by dlg 8y ago
There's a (relatively new) book, Radical Markets[0] by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl that looks at how mechanisms for this might actually work in practice. Core to their argument is that most things we care about in society have increasing
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Cocktail Similarity(beta.observablehq.com)
217 points by dlg 8y ago|56 comments
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by dlg 8y ago
I don't know enough to have an opinion on either side of this article, but is it journalistically ok to make your primary source for one side James Clapper without noting his history of lying to Congress and the American people under o
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by dlg 8y ago
Would anyone here be interested in a lawsuit and/or campaign to get this changed?
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by dlg 9y ago
The Overnight app is optimized for this use-case, among other things. (Disclaimer: I’m an investor, but because I think it fills a real need)
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SIGGRAPH 2017: Technical Papers Preview Trailer(youtube.com)
4 points by dlg 9y ago|0 comments
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by dlg 11y ago
I'm friends with Peter. I don't think he'd mind me saying: He didn't set out to build the empire that he did--he really wanted independence for one person (and it just turned out that what we built was so good that lots
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$5M AI Xprize from IBM and TED(ai.xprize.org)
4 points by dlg 11y ago|0 comments
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$5M AI Xprize from IBM and TED(ai.xprize.com)
2 points by dlg 11y ago|0 comments
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by dlg 11y ago
In the economics world, tax incidence is a matter of serious study. There has been a decent amount of work on who actually pays oil taxes. Hal Varian (who later became Chief Economist at Google) wrote a good piece[1] summarizing the basics
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California legislature wants to mandate radio-readable driver's licenses(boingboing.net)
7 points by dlg 11y ago|1 comments
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by dlg 11y ago
Brookings, a center-left think-tank, has a pretty good summary of a lot of stats about income-mobility http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Research/Files/Reports/2008... (Also, a shorter note from the
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A Computational Approach for Obstruction-Free Photography(youtube.com)
4 points by dlg 11y ago|0 comments
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by dlg 12y ago
Sadly, this is not likely to have a good outcome--they drew anti-civil-liberties judges. For example Michael Daly Hawkins had a dissented to argue that it's ok for a school to strip-search a crying thirteen year-old to search for ibupr
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New immigration rules to allow 33k-53k entrepreneurs into United States(vox.com)
6 points by dlg 12y ago|1 comments
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by dlg 12y ago
More generally, it would be cool if every account automatically got two free read-only SQS queues: one for events and one for upcoming events. Every known event (startup, terminate, permission change, network error, etc) could be published
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by dlg 12y ago
At the time Facebook was building messages, Cassandra was still pretty immature/buggy (it's very solid in my experience nowadays). Moreover, FB needed a lot of people who knew the tools. They acqui-hired a team of HBase experts.
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Show HN: Tappy – Visual private messaging app with gestural camera and chat(trytappy.com)
7 points by dlg 12y ago|0 comments
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Edward Snowden talk at TED(on.ted.com)
1 points by dlg 13y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Paper's gesture problems(scotthurff.com)
130 points by dlg 13y ago|64 comments
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by dlg 13y ago
It's not available yet, but will be posted first at http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2013&rollnumber... SF HNers: Rep. Pelosi was against the ammendment.
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Engelbart: Inventing the Mouse Was the Least of It(zocalopublicsquare.org)
2 points by dlg 13y ago|0 comments
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by dlg 13y ago
Anyone who works in interactive computing should be familiar with Doug Engelbart's work. Years ago, at one of the first conferences on interactive computer, after people spent all day presenting their new work, Andy van Dam--builder of
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by dlg 13y ago
There are a few tech startups in Hollywood trying to help build a new model. I recommend this recent post for a sense of where things are going http://briannorgard.com/2013/06/14/rewiring-and-rethinking-h...
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Bill to block Cellphone Tracking without Warrant in Calif(latimes.com)
2 points by dlg 15y ago|0 comments
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The Earth has just one moon, right?(npr.org)
4 points by dlg 15y ago|1 comments
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British Government rejects pardon request for Alan Turing(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by dlg 15y ago|0 comments
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Chill.com kills Facebook autoposting after Mark Zuckerberg complains(launch.is)
10 points by dlg 15y ago|0 comments
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by dlg 16y ago
The scenario they're talking about with the SEC regulating secondary markets is the most plausible theory of and unwing I've heard yet.

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