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by hooande 15y ago
Is it just me, or is Louie sounding more and more like a part of the hn/reddit crowd? He went from "I don't know what this 'torrent' thing is" (implied: "I'm not a nerd or anything") to being excited about online distribution and avoiding D
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by hooande 15y ago
tl;dr: "Steve Jobs was very successful, so he must have been a genius."
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by hooande 15y ago
I don't see how this will backfire. He seems to live a right life. No one in the government cares about whatever petty crimes he may commit. Federal law enforcement only cares about petty crimes when they can lead to stopping major crimes.
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Picking Green Tech's Winners and Losers(ssireview.org)
4 points by hooande 15y ago|0 comments
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by hooande 15y ago
I thought the human angle of the piece was far overblown. The underlying story being presented is "Goldman Sachs raises prices and people starve as a result". I think that was mostly to add a dramatic point to the article. In reality it's a
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by hooande 15y ago
Great ideas, Ed. Way to bring the thinky. Though I have to ask...why haven't you made any of these things? Your #1, #4, and #5 seem like weekend projects. I can think out the basis of the technical solutions for all of them while just sitti
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by hooande 15y ago
Advertising is awful because the incentive system is fundamentally broken. The only thing a publisher has to risk by showing crappy ads is you going to another site. Even the sites with the most annoying ads will only lose a small percentag
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by hooande 15y ago
Even though you might have been wrong about those successful startups, there are dozens or hundreds of others for which your negative first impression would have been dead on. You shouldn't stop trusting your instincts because you might hav
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by hooande 15y ago
You, sir, are a genius and a scholar. This site is going to hit my paycheck every week for months.
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by hooande 15y ago
I would love to see a more accessible version of Mechanical Turk that a broader range of people could use. Maybe something in a kiosk format that could be put in low income neighborhoods. Even the most uneducated can answer a question like
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by hooande 15y ago
I find that this graph summarizes my thoughts on the US debt in relation to the world economy: http://www.china-mike.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/china-w... The United States produces so much more in terms of GDP than the next largest
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by hooande 15y ago
Let me clear this up for you: Brian Chesky is not a sociopath.
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by hooande 15y ago
Brian Chesky is not a douche. Whatever he did regarding this situation, he did with one billion dollars worth of pressure on him. If he made some kind of mistake, then it was much more likely due to the pressure of the moment than a flaw
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by hooande 15y ago
The problem with explaining machine learning is that it's not only complex, but it goes against the way that people normally think. Humans generally aren't built for making statistical calculations and going with highest probable outcomes.
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by hooande 15y ago
I think your comment is an example of the point of view that the author was talking about. The Google Prediction API won't automate the process of grouping comments or stories by content. Someone has to do the work of collecting the data an
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by hooande 15y ago
From a statistics point of view, your argument seems to be flawed. It's very unlikely for someone who is born poor to end up rich, no matter how wise their choices are. From the wikipedia page on "Economic Mobility" [1]: "Children previousl
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by hooande 15y ago
Ad companies make a lot of money. A mediocre ad network will make more money than a mediocre social site or mobile app. A $400MM acquisition for an ad network isn't even on the high end. I feel that ads represent a big problem to be solved.
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by hooande 15y ago
That's a decent summary, but the actual marketplace is far more complex and strategic than that. AdMeld was a pub aggregator, a company that offers ad optimization to a large number of publishers (relying more on scale than technology imo).
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by hooande 15y ago
"The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World" http://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Menlo-Park-Thomas-Invented/dp/1... . Highly recommend
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by hooande 15y ago
All of those statements are clearly true. Most people just want someone to give them a job and let them do it. Being told what to do by an authority figure is considerably easier than figuring out what to do on your own. College is a system
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by hooande 15y ago
This has been debated in so many threads. I want to sum up the arguments for comment scores (as see them) and maybe someone else could sum up the arguments against them. 1. comment scores let you quickly scan to see the most interesting com
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by hooande 15y ago
Is anyone on hn working on technology that is similar to a human (or even a rat) in it's ability to learn and form hypotheses? I've only known one or two people who actually tried it, and it usually didn't last long. Personally I feel that
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by hooande 15y ago
What is going to happen to the Postal Service? In 10-15 years, dead tree mail will be an anachronism. Mass mail campaigns will be much less effective because the current buying generation will have grown up ignoring letters. Will the post
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by hooande 16y ago
The OP is including a lot of different concepts under the neural network umbrella. Things like restricted boltzmann machines and hierarchical temporal memory are technically neural networks, but many computer scientists would consider them
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by hooande 16y ago
The most important aspect of the comment scores was that they let me know what the HN community thought of a particular point or argument. I'm capable of making up my own mind about any topic. I find it interesting and useful to see what ot
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by hooande 16y ago
For simple text classification, you should just use something like Wekka, rainbow or the Google Prediction API. The hardest part is always labeling and verifying your category training data. There are many open source algorithms that can do
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by hooande 16y ago
The spamminess of a site is not proportional to it's ad click through rates. Strong web communities have the best click through rates (though they don't usually generate the most ad revenue). Yahoo Mail has incredible click through rates ri
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by hooande 16y ago
alchemyapi does some basic categorization, but it can be expensive with a high volume.
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by hooande 16y ago
http://screenshots.dustincurtis.com/Quora_%2813%29_-_Who_is_...
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OhLife: A Personal Journal You Might Actually Keep Updating(techcrunch.com)
92 points by hooande 16y ago|61 comments

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