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by harigov 10y ago
This is actually a great way to test your idea. If lots of people find it promising, it will at least remove one concern when building a startup.
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by harigov 10y ago
This comparison in dollar terms is quite incorrect. Just because France has lower GDP doesn't mean they have a lower quality of life. Also, just comparing number of workers misses the difference in number of working hours. Comparing GD
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by harigov 10y ago
Although some of the points made by the blog are interesting, he is underestimating somethings. You don't need a buy button on the boxes at all, computer vision can auto-detect the brand and let Amazon offer you an option to buy it wit
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by harigov 10y ago
Amazon's long-term play in this area seems to get clearer everyday. It will build services to retail what it has done for compute. They are building an operating system for a retail company. They provide the IT, management services, lo
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by harigov 10y ago
Not if they have no control over who is asked to label. You can evaluate how trustable labels are by manually reviewing few random ratings and extrapolating it on the entire population.
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The new News Feed(medium.com)
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by harigov 10y ago
It's a start. Adapting technology to local needs is also an innovation so I wouldn't totally discount all their achievements.
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by harigov 10y ago
It's unbelievable that they were not able to capitalize on all those Android devices that are still running very old versions of Android. Given that Google and the device manufacturers basically disowned those devices, I was expecting
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Regex engines usually have an option to set upper limit on the time they take to match so they don't end up in expensive loops. A simple solution could be to setup such time limits.
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Irrespective of whether robots replace humans or augment them, we are clearly capable of meeting basic needs of everyone. Basic Income is to economy what basic education is to knowledge and awareness. It doesn't mean that people don&#x
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by harigov 10y ago
Imagine that the money comes from no where. We have capabilities to offer people some things that they probably aren't capable of buying. Like say better food, more electronics, better homes, etc., Instead of expecting everyone to work
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by harigov 10y ago
The fact that they spent so much money in hardware to test the battery usage and the amount of effort they put in to improve doesn't seem to imply that this was just a PR stunt.
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by harigov 10y ago
For any partnership with billions at stake, I would consider such experiments as insurance. It's a good thing that Huawei is being proactive in this regards. Although I do wonder why don't they build it on AOSP instead of building
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To reduce fraud?
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This tool seems to be equally useful for modeling any complex software at the concept level. Is there any thing that would prevent this from being used in non-distributed systems scenarios?
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Or, how can we have a moveable infrastructure that probably isn't worth investing in.
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by harigov 10y ago
How do you think humans do it?
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by harigov 10y ago
Why can't you use the windows versions of bash?
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by harigov 10y ago
How is this different from - say - synthetic neurons that IBM is working on, or what nvidia is building?
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Didn't they already solved that problem for implementing "OK Google"?
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by harigov 10y ago
For the record, we _are_ treating people based on exact same observations albeit correlated on much less number of people. However, we make use of some probability, other observational and subjective evidence in order to determine right cou
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by harigov 10y ago
Given that capitalism is a balancing act, I wish there is a drive towards incorporating externalities like employee happiness, safety, environmental friendliness, etc., on to the products by introducing some sort of ratings and making sure
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by harigov 10y ago
I like the direction Spark is heading. I am happy to see that they look at Spark in the same way compiler developers look at programming languages. There are huge optimizations to be made in this space. It's insane how inefficient our
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by harigov 10y ago
I don't understand why phones don't come with a bluetooth ear piece that neatly fits in. How convenient would it be for something like Siri or Cortana to notify you through voice and asking for instructions without ever lifting yo
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by harigov 10y ago
I disagree about your assessment on AutoMicrofarm. If they execute it well, I believe there is a good market for such things. If it doesn't break my bank, I would love to have my own micro farm to product most of what I need, for the m
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by harigov 10y ago
This article uses such a broad definition of pre-colonial times. When exactly is that? I don't believe India was almost empty around 1400 AD. Quite contrary, given that there were already well established empires at that time.
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by harigov 10y ago
Isn't that the point behind the article? That the kind of foods that you produce has a bearing on the progress of the society itself.
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by harigov 11y ago
I don't see this as a problem at all, as long as these commenters are representing the opinions of Hillary. I actually believe that people/organizations should be given an opportunity to respond to these comments "officially&
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by harigov 11y ago
Apparently it does. I just opened whatsapp web and it greeted me with a message that any messages and calls through it are now encrypted.
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by harigov 11y ago
How is that not interesting? This discovery can speed up engineering new bacteria that helps us cure allergies, produce energy, etc., We still need to go through usual trial and errors but this makes them significantly easier and faster.

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