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Is Instacart (YC12) deceptive?(webpolicy.org)
2 points by finisterre 12y ago|0 comments
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The Decline of Wikipedia(technologyreview.com)
3 points by finisterre 13y ago|0 comments
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Technology, not law, limits mass surveillance(technologyreview.com)
2 points by finisterre 13y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin gains traction, to the regret of some early boosters(technologyreview.com)
1 points by finisterre 13y ago|0 comments
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by finisterre 14y ago
I doubt that Kurzweil has truly been granted "unlimited" access to Google's resources. His title of "director of engineering" sounds impressive, but there's so far little indication he will be a very senior figure at the company.
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Bitcoin miners fabricating their own chips(technologyreview.com)
1 points by finisterre 14y ago|0 comments
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How Chris Sacca turned his student loans into $12 million, then lost it all(pandodaily.com)
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Trailer for Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley(bravotv.com)
26 points by finisterre 14y ago|49 comments
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by finisterre 14y ago
Blindsight seems to be a powerful demonstration of how a brain can perform high order actions - e.g. respond to social stimuli such as facial expressions - without consciousness. It's a reminder that many things we think inseparable from s
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by finisterre 14y ago
"I can't overstate how affective a good metaphor (or good, well revised writing in general) can be in persuading others." Muphry's law[1] strikes again. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law
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Inside Facebook's data science team(technologyreview.com)
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by finisterre 15y ago
Zipcar already operates basic peak/off-peak pricing, with weekends being pricier per hour than during the week.
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by finisterre 15y ago
> Marc is a smart dude but those predictions > are fairly obvious going forward. He's probably smart enough not to give away his best predictions.
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An API that converts phone numbers into location fixes(technologyreview.com)
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by finisterre 15y ago
The article cites Apple's roving check out approach as an attempt to "solve line issues". Isn't this close to the most inefficient way to organize the checkout/queuing experience in terms of creating uncertainty and the need for everyone (e
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by finisterre 15y ago
> our very consistent feelings toward privacy Except Zuckerberg knows that our feelings about privacy aren't all that consistent. People have become more willing to share personal information online; things that previously caused public
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by finisterre 15y ago
Where does that slide come from? Is the rest of the deck available?
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by finisterre 15y ago
The price drop - from $500 to $300 - is the most significant new 'feature' here. These devices just aren't ready to replace a conventional laptop yet for most people. I've got a Samsung one and it struggles with complex websites and sometim
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by finisterre 15y ago
Credit cards act as a buffer between steady salary income and patchy spending. Many people both in the US and Europe live within their means across the whole year, but take a big holiday or trip in the summer and spend more in one month tha
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by finisterre 15y ago
Right. IBM still invests in "technical breakthroughs or research level computer science knowledge" at well funded labs. The two biggest are at Almaden, CA, and Yorktown, NY. Like any lab looking at fundamental science, it's hard to judge ho
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Verizon Plans to Offer a Paid Fast Lane for Mobile Apps(technologyreview.com)
1 points by finisterre 15y ago|0 comments
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by finisterre 15y ago
I wonder if the Mint team ever thought of going that route; they were/are very well placed to lead users into this model. Once you get used to the idea of being able to see all your accounts and varies metrics in one place it's obvious to a
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by finisterre 15y ago
True. But consider Google's effective inflation rate. A lot of things they care about - say, Palo Alto real estate - are getting more expensive faster than 3 percent. That money is losing value. Spending on acquisitions or otherwise investi
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by finisterre 15y ago
Blekko's "search engine monte" provides blinded results from their own search as well as from Google and Bing [1], so you can perform your own experiments. 1. http://blekko.com/ws/hacker+news+/monte
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by finisterre 15y ago
> You can't simultaneously have an invite system > and a huge marketing push. I don't think Google has done a huge marketing push, yet, considering how big a product this is for them. They've done little press and haven't bought adv
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by finisterre 15y ago
One reason for this is that food prices are only one component of restaurant prices. You're also paying for the wait staff, brand, surroundings and a lot more.
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by finisterre 15y ago
I didn't claim that Facebook would take all the profits in such a scenario. Of course Microsoft would have a valid claim to some profits from a joint venture, the two companies would strike a deal over the exact split. As has been noted in
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by finisterre 15y ago
Facebook don't need to take on the huge capital cost of launching a search engine. They can take advantage of the fact that Microsoft already did. Facebook can enter the search market by deepening the connection between its data and Bing's
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by finisterre 15y ago
It may be that Autodesk wants to be part of the personalized design/customization/fabrication movement. Earlier this year they released PhotoFly[1], a consumer-focused application that creates very impressive 3D models from photographs. The
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by finisterre 15y ago
That's a step few people will bother to take, just as is the case with most vacation rentals. A credit card is enough ID for even commercial operations. Her only real mistake was to leave her "passport, cash, credit card...grandmother’s jew

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