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by hooande 14y ago
You don't have to go through doctors to improve the healthcare system. You can around them, to the health insurance companies that pay their checks. Insurance companies are much more interested in statistics than doctors are, especially pre
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by hooande 14y ago
I guess I was trying to say that someone already has to have a large audience before human.io is really valuable. I can definitely see how it would help organizations, even local organizations. The issue of how to organize and utilize that
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by hooande 14y ago
It seems like human.io solves a very rare problem: "I have a lot of people who will do whatever I ask them to, but organizing the result of their efforts is difficult". This is a very real problem for the people that have it. Imagine you ha
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What Americans Actually Do All Day Long(npr.org)
67 points by hooande 14y ago|48 comments
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by hooande 14y ago
I'd like to cite the Nader Principle: Groups of people with similar ideas should look for ways to compromise instead of splitting their effort. There has always been value in collecting very different people with similar goals in one place.
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by hooande 14y ago
"In all honestly, no-one should expect anything else- the POTUS is not going to unveil new thoughts and strategies through Reddit." <-- cold, hard common sense If understanding how the world works and telling others makes you a hater, t
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by hooande 14y ago
Does anyone know more about how reddit does booking for their iama? They have a schedule and consistently book notable people. Do they have a staff dedicated to it?
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by hooande 14y ago
Hear hear. This is a +1 for padmapper, even though they might have technically lost the war. If there's one thing that's been constant over the last 5 or so years, it's that craigslist doesn't change. They don't add a lot of features or fun
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by hooande 14y ago
Another option could be to use an ensemble of exemplar svms [1], essentially training separate classifiers with a single target row set to 1 and all others to 0. This can be useful when trying to pick out examples that match a very specific
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by hooande 14y ago
Couldn't agree more with your assessment. The idea of paying attention to 4.5 sigma events is crazy. The majority of classification tasks require broad accuracy and a measure of confidence. If the edge cases and boundaries are that importan
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by hooande 14y ago
#startups on freenode, and I would be back as soon as possible.
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by hooande 14y ago
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. To Twitter, one Kardashian is worth thousands of developers. Apps don't matter to twitter. Developers don't matter to twitter. Celebrities matter to twitter. As DCurt points out so eloquently, t
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by hooande 14y ago
Can someone provide an example of an online community that has an appropriately positive attitude? Hacker News is the most civil, useful and intelligent conversation on the internet, period. HN is easily two standard deviations less cruel o
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by hooande 14y ago
Can you provide an example of an internet forum that you consider to be "positive"? HN has a higher level of discourse than any other discussion site on the internet. I'm willing to bet that the ratio of helpful comments to nasty comments o
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by hooande 14y ago
I've seen this argument made in many forms. The short response is: "Google already thought of that." People will be upset, even outraged, by the first few autonomous car accidents. But as long as they're still legal, they'll be building up
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by hooande 14y ago
Do you think that the great explorers of the past would have risked their lives if they could have avoided it? Danger is a big part of the adventure of exploration, but no one wants to die unless it's absolutely necessary. If Colombus could
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by hooande 14y ago
If I could talk to my younger self I would say: "All of the things that you care about are completely meaningless. The school assignments, girls, money for the weekend...none of it matters, not even a little bit. Gather knowledge on how to
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by hooande 14y ago
About ten years ago, the NSA got direct access to every phone call, text and email sent via AT&T from the west coast to asia. Every. Single. Message. Set up shop next to the servers and just copied all of the data coming across. I think
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by hooande 14y ago
This sounds interesting, but I think the difference in the two situations is a repeatable experimental environment. In baseball every at bat is the same...a batter, a pitcher and 8 defenders. This lends itself well to statistical analysis.
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by hooande 14y ago
This is a good idea, but maybe not a billion dollar idea. When was the last time you needed to find a product immediately, regardless of store (and had trouble doing it)? It couldn't be more than once or twice in the last week. It sounds li
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by hooande 14y ago
I think this might go down as the moment where Yahoo? lost their last shred of credibility as a technology company. And it's not this one mistake that signals the end...it's the fact that I'm not that surprised by it. If it were Google or e
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by hooande 14y ago
It's fair for a blogger to raise questions and not provide answers. But I'd be very interested to hear dcurtis's personal opinion on this. Why did they raise so much money?
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by hooande 15y ago
This deal absolutely stinks. It sure seems like someone said, "Hey Facebook, you just got paid. Why don't you buy instagram for an amount of money that we made up so that my buddies and I can get even richer?" And they made 78 million doll
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by hooande 15y ago
The third point explains the first two. Something has to be done with the billions of dollars fleeing real estate and the general stock market. You get billion dollar valuations when people are saying "I have a billion dollars and I reall
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by hooande 15y ago
Let's not forget what they say about how HBO works financially... softcore pornography and boxing pay for all of the "Game of Thrones"-level masterpieces. While they have produced unfailingly inspirational television, it's not a core part o
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Vie Physarale: Evaluation of Roman roads with slime mould(arxiv.org)
7 points by hooande 15y ago|0 comments
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by hooande 15y ago
The part that jumped out at me was this: "for most solid tumors the time from founder mutation to clinically apparent metastasis is between 20 and 30 years" If cancer is really this ultimate chimearan opponent, why don't we put more emphasi
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by hooande 15y ago
I was under the impression that "by the piece work" was currently not subject to the minimum wage. For example, if you pay someone $1 per apple that they pick, you aren't required to pay them a minimum amount per hour. Is there anyone famil
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by hooande 15y ago
Fascinating read, can't wait to look into it more closely. So far this approach seems somewhat similar to CHIRP [1] in that both concepts use bins or grids to find the most effective pairwise feature combinations. [1] http://users.cis.fiu.
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by hooande 15y ago
I think the reason that troll behavior seems so much worse online is because most of us spend our time in environments where trolls are self-selected out. Assuming that most of us don't regularly deal with assholes in our work and home life

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