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by edraferi 10y ago
I'd love to read the full story there - how JSON got so much momentum behind it. Do you know of a good overview blog post?
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by edraferi 10y ago
> Nobody asked for an [automobile], they asked for faster horses. FTFY, assuming you're looking for the Henry Ford reference. People actually DID ask for the telephone. It was a natural extension of the widely deployed telegraph sys
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by edraferi 10y ago
And I love it dearly for that!
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by edraferi 10y ago
From https://haveibeenpwned.com/FAQs : Why do I see my username as breached on a service I never signed up to? When you search for a username that is not an email address, you may see that name appear against breaches of
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by edraferi 10y ago
Humans still make decisions about what data to include, how to model it, how to interpret the results and what to do about it. I firmly believe in the power of data to help people make better decisions, but decision making is always a human
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by edraferi 10y ago
How does this compare to IPFS ( https://ipfs.io/ )? That project maintains a number of archival datasets, including arXiv: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmZBuTfLH1LLi4JqgutzBdwSYS5ybrkztnyWAfR... Seems like an o
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by edraferi 10y ago
I've been there. The way out I found was intentionally seeking out connections to existing social networks: 1) identify a place where you can get repeated, informal contact with people. Classes, meetups, volunteer groups are good to st
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by edraferi 10y ago
Explicitly slowing down the conversation is essential.
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by edraferi 10y ago
> It would be really nice to see someone figure out a good way to bring forums back in a way that didn't turn into a black hole. Isn't that what Reddit is trying to do? Creating a subreddit seems to be the default way to stand
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by edraferi 10y ago
The article says NPR was using Disqus. Looks like it didn't work for them, even with outsourced moderation.
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by edraferi 10y ago
What's the company?
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by edraferi 10y ago
Perhaps micro-transactions could slow new posts down enough to make a difference. Maybe use the funds to pay people for high quality comments.
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by edraferi 10y ago
> i am also starting to wonder if the agegroup being hired to implement "social" for websites is now young enough to have missed slashdot in it s prime. That's me! Can you explain the Slashdot model and why it worked? Or p
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by edraferi 10y ago
We need a social network designed from the ground up to be a public square for civic discussion between people who disagree. We need mechanisms to agree on facts, and tools to create arguments supported by those facts.
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by edraferi 10y ago
Is that still true in MirageOS, which runs as a Unikernel on top of Xen?
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Basically, you give the counter party a transaction that they could write to the blockchain and trust that they won't because you're going to give them a better option shortly. It's kind of like giving someone a signed chec
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by edraferi 10y ago
The book It's Even Worse Than It Looks is a great resource for understanding this phenomenon in the United States. The authors are longtime congressional staffers who are horrified at the institution's decline. They argue that t
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by edraferi 10y ago
On the other hand, this makes sure you associate the voice with the name, when otherwise it's easy to miss.
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by edraferi 10y ago
Going decentralized doesn't protect you from other people as much as you'd hope. Check out Bitcoin's scaling crisis and the DAO hack. Decentralization just takes the power away from a profit motivated corporation and gives it
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by edraferi 10y ago
> Good UX/UI people don't bother to pay for their tools, like in most professions, and prefer to work in software like Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Maya, Poser... Doesn't Adobe continue to charge big $$$ for Creative Cl
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by edraferi 10y ago
You should read his book, "Who Owns the Future?" He was mainly talking about how hard it is for individuals to capture value they create online. For example, it's very difficult to make money off of a viral video, popular Pin
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by edraferi 10y ago
Maybe, but Costco doesn't accept Credit Cards for the same reason, and they're doing fine.
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by edraferi 10y ago
Hadn't heard of FCC before, just checked it out. I really like the idea of parntnering with nonprofits to solicit practical capstone exercises. Seems like a good way to croas the production deployment barrier.
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by edraferi 10y ago
Planned email blast accidentally cc'd other recipients, allowing users to see each other's email addresses. They caught it after <8,000 emails went out and are fixing the problem.
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Outlook does separate start and end timezones. It's still outlook though.
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by edraferi 10y ago
Also, keyword detection algorithms are different from general purpose speech transcription algorithms. The general pattern is to write a specialized model that's really good at robustly identifying the key phrase, run that continuously
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by edraferi 10y ago
That video was great! Just started thinking about Alexa, this looks like an easy way to get moving with it.
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by edraferi 10y ago
There can be very good reasons for this. Gmail, for example, rehosts embedded images with google to protect users against invisible pixel trackers.
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by edraferi 10y ago
I agree. The Python ecosystem has a healthier amount of diversity, both in terms of Django vs other frameworks and web development vs other use cases.
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by edraferi 10y ago
That is truely awful.

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