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by izendejas 16y ago
That's because the incentives are completely screwed up (to put it in the nicest terms): more page views (no matter how these come about) = more ad revenue. So what do you expect many to do? It's a sad state of affairs because the "business
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by izendejas 16y ago
"Android vs. iOS wars" refers to all the senseless flame wars that often get more attention here at HN. That's not to imply smartphones aren't world-changing devices.
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by izendejas 16y ago
That's a valid observation. Surely, immigration is good for the home country of the emigrants economically speaking (think remittances, entrepreneurs going back, etc). This, I'd argue, is indeed better than foreign aid. But what Romer is ar
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by izendejas 16y ago
I'm not sure that the situation in Dubai is one that Romer would envision. You're attacking a straw man. Having said that, I won't argue either way. The devil is in the execution no doubt. But in trying out his idea, I would hope that there
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by izendejas 16y ago
Google needs to add a little lock to all posts that are private, or indicate which are. I freaked out when I thought some of my picasa albums were visible publicly--and feared that had pulled another buzz. Luckily that's not the case, but i
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by izendejas 16y ago
Other things to factor in: - fixed costs of rent, computer equipment for personnel - variable costs incurred by servers, power consumption, etc - manufacturing (and support) of the reader Either way, $1m/day is impressive and I'm sure they'
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by izendejas 16y ago
Goes to show, Kayak should have this easily accessible from their front page.
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by izendejas 16y ago
They shouldn't think, they should start copying and in the process make it better. Bear with me: imagine you could see where your friends have traveled on this map. You enter a budget range much like you do and it shows you the options. The
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by izendejas 16y ago
edited: to respond to abraham's post directly There's a difference between training with that data and testing against it, which is precisely what I wanted to highlight here since many expected Google to use such data for training. You can'
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by izendejas 16y ago
Brilliant use of crowd-sourcing to gather a test set via the chrome plug-in. Makes absolute sense, otherwise you can overfit. Great turn-around time also.
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by izendejas 16y ago
As someone who is looking to apply, even at this stage, having YCombinator as an option is tremendously invaluable. So on behalf of the dreamers out there, I say thanks Paul, Jessica and crew. Even if not accepted, just having that door the
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by izendejas 16y ago
You need to check out Freebase.
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by izendejas 16y ago
I think this is only a problem if you're targeting niches because as I see it, if you can't use your own product while pretending to be your non-technical mother, then you shouldn't be in business unless you're selling for a premium. Unfort
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by izendejas 16y ago
I agree. The article I link below (and which I believe I first saw here on HN) should be closer to the model of what I would hope to see more of around here. It gives you easy to read data which I believe is often more helpful than any opin
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by izendejas 16y ago
Right. That's what Schmidt is referring to when he says Google wants to do "search for you". Assuming Google makes privacy controls more visible and there's someone to keep them in check, I frankly believe that this is a better model than w
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by izendejas 16y ago
It seems to be machine-dependent? I remember opting out a while back at work, but my mobile phone definitely shows me a profile, albeit one that isn't totally accurate. In any case, you guys should also checkout Bynamite . They've got this
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by izendejas 16y ago
Don't miss the link at the bottom. Yahoo! and Facebook will present the next gen Hadoop this coming Wednesday (Feb 16): http://www.meetup.com/hadoop/events/16116942/ -- If you're attending and your interested in data mining and personaliz
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by izendejas 16y ago
"AI is a software problem and if you don't know how general intelligence works, having a new kind of transistor really, really, really ain't gonna help you much." I'm not sure anyone is arguing against the latter part of your statement but
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by izendejas 16y ago
I'm staying healthy as long as possible. An exciting future awaits. Forget going to Mars... the next frontier is understanding and emulating a mammalian brain, preferably the human brain with its amazing cerebral cortex. And boy will the me
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by izendejas 16y ago
This has potential. I asked for this very thing about two months ago and surely someone is delivering. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1980806 How far do you plan to go with this? You could certainly make a buck or two if, say, you st
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by izendejas 16y ago
Thanks. Except, I'm not sure Hulu qualifies as a web startup since it's a joint venture by NBC et al. I see CareerBuilder is owned by Garnett and others, too. I just watched a salesforce/chatter ad, but again, no longer startups as they a
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by izendejas 16y ago
Sure, nothing against groupon.
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by izendejas 16y ago
When was the last time a web startup bought a super bowl ad slot? It seems to have been right before the bubble. Or maybe the pets.com ad was just so memorable--for the wrong reasons.
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by izendejas 16y ago
Perhaps. But grandchildren, brothers, sisters, etc can all help, not just children.
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by izendejas 16y ago
Whether it's wrong or not, it does make you wonder where Google's priorities are. How much time (cumulatively) did they spend on this and could they have spent this time improving their algorithms instead? Maybe it took a few hours, but sti
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by izendejas 16y ago
I'm glad you bring up that idea out at the end (by now, few will read it, but that's okay). It pains me to learn that some people in this great country (for cultural reasons?) don't do this. It's a "crazy" idea, but one that works very well
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by izendejas 16y ago
Right, the cost functions could be defined in terms profit maximization (thus, the cost being lost sales, eg). Either way, these experiments are very difficult to control because you can't fully validate models by predicting sales a posteri
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by izendejas 16y ago
No, I'm including the whole package including health care (see 2b) and military spending which I know just about everyone agrees we need to have some of (see 4), and so on.
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by izendejas 16y ago
I should be clear: more than people who are in the middle/lower classes in terms of the effective tax rate (not just marginal), and given our current situation, it may have to be even more than it is today (along with cuts) or the alterna
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by izendejas 16y ago
I'd like to see a graph with per capita numbers now. On a per capita basis, California does slightly better than the US at large: about $50.8K vs. $47k US (according to the CIA/IMF): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(P

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