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by flashman 11y ago
'Total failure' is a pretty strong description. 'Dominant text messaging billing structure for over a decade' comes closer. And I think it's an important distinction that per-message charges disappeared because they
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by flashman 11y ago
One benefit: I could have a "Share on Twitter" button without Twitter seeing me load their button and thus profiling me based on my web browsing? > ...We determine the people you might enjoy following based on your visits to we
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by flashman 11y ago
Yes, exactly. Or let's say I make middleware for a particular piece of software. I can use BuiltWith to find companies that might buy my middleware because they're using that software. Or when I'm choosing between adding supp
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by flashman 11y ago
Some of the carousel slides are basically unreadable: http://i.imgur.com/Ysp8t06.jpg
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by flashman 11y ago
"Having attended a specific university" isn't as strong a predictor of performance as you might think. Even "having attended university" isn't a particularly strong filtering mechanism, as E&Y recently drop
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by flashman 11y ago
> right now, I can't imagine moving my 10GB+ of data to another platform. Any Dropbox killer will let you port over your Dropbox folder to its servers.
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by flashman 11y ago
This is the (ultimately fruitless) approach I used: 1. Find the people who were within SLJ's first few hundred followers (the API gives an account's followers in the reverse order they followed the account). 2. Assuming some of th
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by flashman 11y ago
> Quirky’s product line looks like a random page in Skymall Ha, this mirrors a comment from an original HN discussion of Quirky: > It reminds me of those catalogs in the seat-backs of airplanes that I end up reading when I get bored.
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by flashman 11y ago
This has limited utility since people are archiving comments in real time and uploading them to Big Query https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9869871 Here's the realtime comments feed - add .xml, .json or .rss to chan
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Ask HN: Machine learning options for binary image classification
2 points by flashman 11y ago|1 comments
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by flashman 11y ago
> The people who do pay for services like Twitter & Facebook are the advertisers and business owners who have probably observed questionable ROI on average for the past few years. Demonstrating ROI on Twitter/Facebook advertisi
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by flashman 11y ago
One thing I don't know how to do is encode information in pulses. That's why I use the record/replay method. There is probably a program that will convert a binary string to pulsed data (I believe 2ms chirps with 2ms gap betw
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by flashman 11y ago
You can use a similar technique to clone a garage door remote control. You simply have to record the transmission using the techniques mentioned in this post, then rebroadcast it on the same frequency. Broadcasting FM is as simple as loadin
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by flashman 11y ago
When watching cricket on television, the commentary team is crucial. One of the greatest commentary teams of modern times is generally acknowledged to have consisted of Richie Benaud, Tony Greig, Ian Chappell, and Bill Lawry. From Benaud&#x
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by flashman 11y ago
The greatest quote in that Slate article: "Job creation goes both ways." Who can do what they love without the labor of those who can't?
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by flashman 11y ago
I respect Maria Popova a lot but this is a rather insipid collection of motivational quotes and vintage photos. Instead of reading it as a piece of self-help, look at it as a continuation of the Protestant work ethic: that our good works in
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by flashman 11y ago
Could this be anything like the DigiNotar hack?[0] If it came out that Symantec's certificate authority was used to issue fraudulent certificates, the damage to their business could be in the hundreds of millions. What if the silence i
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by flashman 11y ago
Blogpost from six months ago, subsequently patched. OP also only submits articles from this domain.
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by flashman 11y ago
I read all the comments here and only one other suggested therapy or counselling. So before you 'shake everything up', 'engage with the PUA community' or 'shave your head', go to a doctor and describe how you f
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by flashman 11y ago
The phone could use a transmitter with circular geometry - a wire loop, for instance. It could be part of the case; I assume the magnetic field is unaffected by human touch, unlike the iPhone 4's antenna infamously did: http:/&#x
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Beyond Trending Topics: identifying important conversations in communities(data.betaworks.com)
4 points by flashman 11y ago|0 comments
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by flashman 11y ago
I don't think the court is necessarily saying electromagnetic hypersensitivity is real, or taking a position that it is caused by wifi rather than being psychosomatic. I think the court may be saying, "There is obviously something
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by flashman 11y ago
Hey Randy, just wanted to say thanks for doing so much to help others extend their knowledge of data science. I don't know where you get your energy but it's been fun watching your rising profile in the data scientist community.
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by flashman 11y ago
I give up. I really do. There's just no point trying to protect my personal information and metadata from the constellation of automatic processes collecting and storing it. All I'm really doing is crossing my fingers and hoping i
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by flashman 11y ago
Famous out-of-towner comes and marks your territory? What are you supposed to do, respect him?
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by flashman 11y ago
We use this here in Australia and I think it's worth the $197m[0] each Federal election costs. In some State elections, the upper house ballot paper is 100cm metre wide,[1] and if someone numbers all the boxes, their preferential vote
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by flashman 11y ago
At the very minimum, I would expect a voting machine to create two paper receipts after each vote: one provided to the voter and another stored internally. These would hopefully be on something more durable than thermal paper, though that m
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by flashman 11y ago
Check out the National Geographic article with much more detail: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tracking-ivory/article.htm... There's an interactive map too: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tr
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by flashman 11y ago
I'm really impressed that NYT took the time to document this. It's always interesting to see the different recommendation models evaluated and applied to real-world situations. I've been pursuing a collaborative filtering app
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by flashman 11y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663249

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