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The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising (2019)(thecorrespondent.com)
242 points by gws 6y ago|152 comments
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Immutable Reads on Choosing What to Work On(vasilishynkarenka.com)
1 points by gws 7y ago|0 comments
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by gws 7y ago
Had no idea, got there from Twitter. I did enjoy the article though
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Top American CEOs: shareholder value is not out primary goal anymore(cnbc.com)
3 points by gws 7y ago|1 comments
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Singularity 6(a16z.com)
1 points by gws 7y ago|0 comments
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by gws 7y ago
That can't work because of the lag of the phone to hearing aid communication
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by gws 7y ago
Nice PR piece :) We need dramatic improvement in battery capacity to put machine learning in hearing aid, it's far away
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Ask HN: Help me going from books to real projects
4 points by gws 8y ago|2 comments
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Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (2000)(doc.cat-v.org)
1 points by gws 8y ago|0 comments
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by gws 8y ago
I really don’t understand why they are doing this. This is the app I use the most on mobile up there with the browser. If there is an area where it makes sense to experiment with multiple UIs is email.
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by gws 9y ago
Not at all, I’m calling a bad parent anybody whose kid is getting abused repeatedly without the parent realizing it and intervening to stop it. Well, not a bad parent, a beyond awful parent.
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by gws 9y ago
Sure, but it’s impossible not to damn his parents for what happened since they failed to protect him as a child which is exactly what parents are for, protect children until they can protect themselves. It’s pretty weird to see someone tryi
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by gws 9y ago
If your son is getting abused and you don’t realize it or don’t want to realize it you are beyond awful
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by gws 9y ago
The show-stopper for me of all these set-ups is that you cannot sit on a sofa with your legs crossed and the machine on your lap which is by far the most comfortable setting for me
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by gws 9y ago
I agree with you, I have normal hearing and would totally buy devices that could help me understand better in noisy situations like restaurants, bars, etc. Alas, even top range hearing aids cannot do that today. And if people with normal he
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by gws 9y ago
You can get OTC hearing aids (technically called hearing assisted devices) in France in Pharmacies but they frankly are not that good. I know it will not sound much to you but for those 5k I believe your father got not only top of the line
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by gws 9y ago
Of course there are people that want to get help but you might be surprised to know that on average people wait for seven years before wearing a hearing aid starting from when they would benefit from one. There are customers (more than you
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by gws 9y ago
In which country do you live? Keep in mind that the smaller the hearing loss the more sophisticated the hearing aid you need to get a benefit. If you have a slight hearing loss you will experience issues in the "hardest" situation
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by gws 9y ago
Working inside the industry I can tell you that there are a lot of misconceptions when you look at things from the outside. Hearing aids are not so expensive because of the hardware but because of two other things: 1. customer acquisition c
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by gws 9y ago
Imagine the computer program is a neural network that has been trained with thousand hours of Chinese videos. If the human replicate the computer program including the training phase he may well have learned Chinese at the end
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Unleashing Creative Innovation and Building Great Products(online.stanford.edu)
1 points by gws 10y ago|0 comments
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Bitcoin: A flawed currency with a useful application for the Eurozone (2014)(yanisvaroufakis.eu)
115 points by gws 11y ago|97 comments
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How Munchery is literally eating the world(medium.com)
2 points by gws 11y ago|0 comments
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Software Updates: Courgette (2009)(chromium.org)
34 points by gws 11y ago|11 comments
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by gws 11y ago
Yes, that's why Rome does not have a proper subway system. Could you imagine London or Paris without a proper subway? That's Rome.
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by gws 12y ago
it's not Apollinaire, it's Christopher Logue, an English poet
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by gws 12y ago
I don't think that the religion is the issue, I think that desperate people with desperate lives will always find something irrational to fill their life with and kill for. As an example on a smaller scale (smaller as in less desperate
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Handmade Hero's new lessons about old-school game programming(gamasutra.com)
95 points by gws 12y ago|20 comments
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by gws 12y ago
Every time I read an article criticizing Go I end up appreciating it even more. Maybe it's because I've never felt the need to use generics and in all these articles the examples they give are functions of a few lines that would b
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by gws 12y ago
Guys, you are missing the mark on technical analysis. It's not about forecasting where the prices are going to be, it's about forcing yourself to follow a set of rules instead of following your emotions. There was an article on HN

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