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by firasd 7y ago
Yeah, at least in the short term. Which makes me think that beyond obvious patterns, the question of accuracy (is this a successful recommender system or not?) is hard to define in a way that can be demonstrated in a lab.
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by firasd 7y ago
Seems like the desired outcome here is an unfixed target. What does Facebook want to show you next in the Newsfeed, and why? It's gonna be different from the factors Amazon evaluates to determine your home page suggested items. So whil
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by firasd 7y ago
Bill Gurley answers on behalf of Benchmark here,saying they lost about $3.5 million but he would do it again (this answer is from 2004, seems he's addressed it in later interviews as well): https://www.quora.com/How-muc
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In-depth look at 'Release the Snyder Cut' movement (including $20k crowdfunding)(theringer.com)
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Hong Kong protesters using cash instead of cards to preserve anonymity(twitter.com)
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by firasd 7y ago
As the article mentions, agricultural fires aka crop stubble burning is a big deal too. The entire north (including Delhi) gets choked with smoke every October https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stubble_burning#Stubble_burni
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by firasd 7y ago
Preloading in the browser? I guess... my understanding was that the major benefit of AMP is the stripped-down markup. eg. in AMP you can't have a giant background video, or a bunch of JS email opt-ins driven through live A/B tests
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by firasd 7y ago
When AMP was introduced I assumed the actual content would be loaded from the canonical URL anyway. This whole in-between caching layer G introduced is very weird. Also, I think what AMP was pitted against--Facebook instant articles--no lon
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by firasd 7y ago
Fair enough. My claim was from September 2016, predicting that it will never work well in the future (and the UX problems I highlighted were from 2010 onwards.) I think it was pretty obvious that the app will need to be unbundled (about an
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by firasd 7y ago
Good move. I predicted this in my 'iTunes will never work well' post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12527098 "At this point, whatever the causes of the product problems with iTunes and related iOS apps
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by firasd 7y ago
Here's his rationale: http://harrischris.com/article/biophillic-vision-experiment-... "When the cars show up and contribute to the glitchy effect, it's the model not recognizing them well enough, as it&#
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Visually removing cars off the road with neural nets [video demo](twitter.com)
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by firasd 7y ago
When I see how successful people like Elon Musk, Trump, and (lower level success) Martin Shkreli can't stop inviting legal jeopardy over their tweets it makes me realize that self-expression is a hell of a drug.
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by firasd 8y ago
I totally disagree with this framing. So here's the sequence of events: 1) I publish an article on Medium 2) Hacker Noon requests that my article be included in their 'publication' on Medium. There is an understanding via Med
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by firasd 8y ago
I don't agree with this framing of Medium as the bad guy here. I posted articles to Medium (for distribution.) Hacker Noon requested that my articles by included in their publication, and I accepted (for the distribution!) Now if Hacke
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by firasd 8y ago
The two patients with most serious side-effects experienced dehydration and hyponatremia. This supports my view that it's important to maintain electrolyte balance during fasting (or other types of dieting like low-carb). When doing th
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by firasd 8y ago
I think normal copyright laws would apply, beyond small passages being quoted (except for maybe that Twitter's terms allow embedding tweets, thus creating a workaround). I can't just legally put together a PDF of all your HN comme
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From Literature to Web Development: My First 6 Weeks at Lambda School(medium.com)
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by firasd 8y ago
He means that dressing it up as a virtue is worse than just admitting that you want to make a profit.
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by firasd 8y ago
Anytime I see people defend this kind of practice, the John Ruskin quote comes to mind: “The dullest of all excuses for usury is that some kind of good is done by the usurer.”
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by firasd 8y ago
To offer another potential inflection point: public posts. That turned Facebook from solely a social network to a broadcast network, and--while it has been successful for their business--it led to them being mired in all these political-inf
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by firasd 8y ago
Interesting article. The worst combination is when people lean on the weight of history, but in an uninformed, cargo cult way. I feel like this is done in American discourse regarding World War 2 a lot, as stunningly exemplified in this cli
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by firasd 8y ago
I don't agree with a lot of the recent anti-Facebook narrative (much of it is prompted by the 2016 election), but I have always been a bit uncomfortable with the 'connecting people' thing he talks about here. Although I like
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by firasd 8y ago
The author Tren Griffin has many articles like this on his website, it's his 'genre'. Not sure if this was just cross-posted or newly written: https://25iq.com/featured-individuals/
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Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the Invention of the Future(theoutline.com)
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The Ever So Lovely Bézier Curve(medium.com)
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Interesting failure case of Portrait mode background detection(twitter.com)
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JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works(twitter.com)
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by firasd 8y ago
Good document! I wanted to mention, something I've found to be significant in practical testing but often not considered by web developers is reducing the total number of HTTP queries. It seems like fetching 5 CSS files of 5kb each wil
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by firasd 8y ago
I'm not too familiar with Android phones but having tried out my parents' Androids (and watched them use the phones) I gotta say everything is hidden there as well. Maybe Android is a bit more consistent, because there is universa

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