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by harryf 9y ago
Meanwhile cocaine usage in Zürich is one of the highest in Europe ( https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/drug-capitals_zurich-is-europe-... ) which boggles my mind - I assume this is the finance industry
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by harryf 9y ago
To me the most powerful balance of this era is represented by apps like http://buycott.com - consumer activism, being smart about where you spend your money. The potential is huge although awareness and probably cynicism mean it
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by harryf 9y ago
So I should check my passwords against some remote API I have no idea who controls to see if they've been compromised? Does this API always return true?
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Did you try that link when HN is the referrer? ;)
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It may be a byproduct of how Google incentivizes their engineers. As I've heard from chatting with engineers and PMs at Google, the biggest rewards go to those that take a product to its first major release and the initial marketing fa
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by harryf 9y ago
You might find it interesting to read up on other things by the late Hans Rosling e.g. https://www.google.ch/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-39211... - one of his key arguments is the Wests beliefs
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by harryf 9y ago
This problem gets even worse with enterprise sales. How to validate a market or use any of that "Lean Startup" wisdom when the sales process for a single customer is 6 months+, requires multiple meetings and getting 10's of t
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by harryf 9y ago
Thoughts in no particular order... - creates pressure to actually do the things on the list - often things that end up on TODO lists shouldn't have been there. Natural pruning saves wasted time later - add items to TODO lists is someti
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by harryf 9y ago
Nice use of "behavioural economics"
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by harryf 9y ago
This is certainly no conspiracy. More like inconsistent and ill-considered strategy over many years. I'm sure Google genuinely wants to help Wordpress here without making a power play; it would be very much in their interests to do so
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by harryf 9y ago
Think your point that the value of different kinds of privacy varies with cultural norms and as such, may be over-valued, is an interesting one but have to object to this part - don't think it's a good example. > Just one examp
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by harryf 9y ago
So after taking over one blogging platform and mothballing it (Blogger), then wiping out a host of 200X startups with Google Reader and _then_ killing Google Reader, which effectively killed RSS... after all that Google has woken up to the
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by harryf 9y ago
That was a killer feature for discovering people with similar interests and it worked best for niche / specialist content, where only a few others had also "saved" it. I've found https://refind.com to be a pa
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by harryf 9y ago
Likewise. The UI is a disaster for any pre-Apple-music iTunes users so I try to go there as rarely as possible. And after years of deleting half my music every time I switch phone or device (intentionally? https://www.rollingston
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by harryf 9y ago
I think the measure of anything like this is whether you as "the boss" are willing to wear one too and make that data available to those work for you without restrictions. If you're willing to do that then OK - let's try
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by harryf 9y ago
Looking at the EUs antitrust fine for Google - https://www.google.ch/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic... it's clear it does have the ability. The message is "you want to profit from
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by harryf 9y ago
I think therein lies the real reason why personas (often) fail - no one establishes the connection from the personas to the types of user / customer segments companies will have already established, from analysing their sales data and
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by harryf 9y ago
For me a key point of search stagnation is the search field / keyword search. There's so much more we could do if we enabled users to be explicit about search _context_ but it's hard to express that with the humble search fie
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by harryf 9y ago
Strikes me that the ability to focus and direct ones own attention will (or already has) become a new form of class divide; those who can concentrate and those who can't. And it will likely have much different boundaries than earlier c
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by harryf 9y ago
Society has always been manipulated. Facebook has nothing on religions for example. The real question is whether an individual checking out from Facebook harms themselves in some way e.g. less able to find work? We just need to make sure Fa
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by harryf 9y ago
> The poster, a European, said that one of the things they liked about HN was that when the discussion drifted too deep into an SV-centric view, people from other parts of the world would often provide a useful corrective that would then
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by harryf 9y ago
The US Airforce is experimenting with using Falcons - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/the-milit... Meanwhile the Police in Holland have abandoned an attempt to use Sea Eagles https:/&
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by harryf 9y ago
Likewise this part... > Whisper no longer employs U.S.-based moderators. It uses a team in the Philippines along with machine-learning technology. Great that they moved the problem to a place with even fewer protections for workers. The
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And caching is easy to implement independently of the API using a proxy
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by harryf 9y ago
Interesting indeed that they published this. Someone spent quite a bit of time making this; animated videos, interviews and it looks like multiple departments involved (research, marketing). Does seem like the current level anti-Facebook di
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by harryf 9y ago
> Seriously, silicon valley playing the role of "poor ole me" content provider that's "with the people" trying to defeat the big bad telecoms was completely absurd. I mean good lord, I am supposed to believe GOOG
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How Threema -a messaging app popular in Germany- does cryptography (whitepaper) [pdf](threema.ch)
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Agreed. Anyone who claims they know what possible outcomes we can expect from UBI is deluding themselves (or more likely feeling their comfort zone / world view threatened). UBI could be as significant event for the human race as inven
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This is certainly a good move. The Facebook SDK for example is widely used by many apps for Facebook ad performance tracking and analytics and that's something he public should be aware of. See https://medium.com/ios-os
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The surprising part to me is that it's only 3/4. I assume the rest are not doing any real analytics. Of course they are using 3rd party tools, because the software and infrastructure required to do meaningful analytics on a large

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