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by gervase 8y ago
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16967865
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by gervase 8y ago
I see the author's viewpoint, but I'm not sure I agree. When I touch the page of a book, I'm interacting with the book, not the text; the exception is if I'm using some kind of writing instrument (pencil, highlighter, et
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by gervase 8y ago
Often, I will search for a string such as "Cost"; I'll probably be referring to Costco, but in the map, it will also show me results for Cost Plus World Market, for example. If I'm only looking at pins, I can't see
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by gervase 8y ago
Reducing sub-optimal matchings between colleges and students, presumably. [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_marriage_problem
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by gervase 8y ago
"In order to provide tagging service to our users, a key platform feature, we are required to maintain and process data about individuals with which Facebook, Inc. does not have a pre-existing business relationship ("Non-Users&quo
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by gervase 8y ago
This led me down a rabbit hole of ancient Roman pricing information! Turns out that a pair of purple silk pants (it seems purple dye was reserved only for silk) was actually closer to 2000x more expensive than standard (wool) pants. Also, t
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by gervase 8y ago
> Why bother making it be illegal for a registered sex offender to search the database? Unfortunately, it seems to be based on an intention to prevent its use as a "social network" of sorts, which could potentially lead to high
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by gervase 8y ago
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that these are rarely packed on a geographic basis, and more on a risk (or owner?) profile basis, which kind of breaks the "buying stock in a city" metaphor.
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by gervase 8y ago
I like the concept and implementation of the proposed improvements, but I think it starts off a bit too slow - lots of repetition in 2 through 6. The reader doesn't know what's coming, so you're asking a lot for them to sit t
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by gervase 8y ago
This could probably use a [2013] tag.
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by gervase 8y ago
US government electronic services have gone unmaintained for decades ; I don't think it's fair to blame it on the administration who happens to be in power when things go sideways (see: OPM hack, etc). I'm not sure the root
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by gervase 8y ago
If you can share, what kind of variation in F1 score were you seeing between different trigger words? I'd expect even within a single product family (i.e. Alexa/Echo/Amazon/Computer) there's probably significant var
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by gervase 8y ago
Then I seem not to understand the benefit they see from tracking non-users' information - how can this be of benefit to advertisers if these users are never targeted? In particular, what benefits would be generated by linking this trac
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by gervase 8y ago
To clarify, this is about training your phone to recognize only "Hey Siri" as spoken by you, as opposed to letting you personalize your trigger phrase to something other than "Hey Siri".
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by gervase 8y ago
This only works for a couple of years; eventually, the pocket lint permanently reduces the springiness of the contacts, such that the cable is "loose" in the socket, and the connection can therefore be lost by shifting the positio
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by gervase 9y ago
It's been quite a few years since I read it, but I seem to recall it was mostly things like dams, oil fields, electric grids, and stuff like that. I don't recall if the author lists very specific information about the examples, su
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by gervase 9y ago
I can't speak to the complexity of managing a dockless system (and in particular, their profitability), but from a UX perspective, it's a total game-changer. In my city, we started with docked, but after a dockless company arrived
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by gervase 9y ago
In my (relatively limited) experience, most small medical offices pay for cloud-based EHRs on a subscription basis for this exact reason. Have you observed differently? With regards to the usefulness of medical records, I don't know en
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by gervase 9y ago
This solution is fine for individual developers, or even small shops / startups, but it would never fly in a more corporate environment. Coincidentally, those environments are also the most likely to drop $5K+ on a development machine
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by gervase 9y ago
It would be a nice enhancement to do so automatically (rather than on-click), but at least for me, this serves the purpose.
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by gervase 9y ago
What if they exert maximal effort, but achieve zero results?
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by gervase 9y ago
If they had a solution that was better than what was out there, and they are publishing their research, then it follows we should be able to find their novelty in their publications, right? So, I took a look at their publication track recor
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by gervase 9y ago
Were you able to determine if the car is capable of being manually driven as well? Or is it self-driving only? I chuckled a bit trying to imagine a situation where the SDC logic would conclude that it was necessary to floor the accelerator
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by gervase 9y ago
The following is pure speculation, and may not align with Professor Loury's intent, but I think seems plausible: There is some portion of the population who view the visibility of an action as a signal of its virtue. In other words, ac
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by gervase 9y ago
Is there any evidence that this change was the result of external pressure from Facebook, rather than as the result of internal NYT editing? Articles frequently change in content, titles, and so on after publication, after all - that's
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by gervase 9y ago
It looks like the BLS measures productivity as the dollar value of goods and services produced over the hours used to produce them. Not much detail on those the dollar value is calculated, though. Edit: I found a (somewhat patronizing) slid
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by gervase 9y ago
This is the same question that applies to any other medium, context, or means of interaction: who decides what is illicit? Just because something CAN be used to commit a crime (say, the expectation of privacy in your own home), we don’t eli
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by gervase 9y ago
As an end-user, this is obviously a big benefit to me, as I don't need to purchase devices as often, but how does this play from a business perspective? Is Apple consciously promoting this as a differentiator, or is it a side effect of
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by gervase 9y ago
Not at all! If that came off as a criticism of the engineers, it wasn't - it's a well-known phenomenon for poorly-managed employees (and/or poor process), since humans will naturally (and fairly!) optimize for their own perso
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by gervase 9y ago
Based on the article from earlier today [0], my new theory is that engineers at Google have realized that the best way to get promoted is to launch a big, shiny product (regardless of need, market fit, etc), and the easiest way to get a big

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