karmacondon

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by karmacondon 10y ago
The upvote button wasn't enough for me. Thank you for extending the ideas of that work place sabotage concept for modern tech work, like Stross implied he would. I'm not sure what to really learn from this sabotage idea, but your
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by karmacondon 10y ago
I think it would be interesting to find a way to put the study projects to practical use. For example, look for incomplete feature requests on open source projects in various languages and critique the students on their implementations. Or
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by karmacondon 10y ago
The approach you describe is one of many. Traditional collaborative filtering using matrix factorization will "discover" the features you listed, or other non-intuitive features, from patterns in the data. They don't always n
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by karmacondon 10y ago
I'm starting to lose faith in the concept of online voting. You get Pinboard, Boaty McBoatface and white house petitions about the Death Star. Maybe it's how easily links can be shared to reach a wider audience. Or just something
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Ask HN: What do you do while you're waiting for code to compile?
10 points by karmacondon 10y ago|9 comments
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by karmacondon 10y ago
The only way I can see UBI working is if most people get no benefit. So someone making the average US income of $50,000/yr would get a check for $20k from the government and then see their taxes go up by ~$20k. Rich people would pay mu
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by karmacondon 10y ago
This is why we can't have nice things. Protest votes are fun, but they also undermine the system. "If people don't take voting seriously, then what's the point of voting in the first place?", people in power will
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by karmacondon 10y ago
Going to use HN for some quick market research... would anyone be willing to pay for a human curated news feed? Say $10 or $20 a month for someone to go through news sources and pick out the stories that will be interesting to you, and pote
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by karmacondon 10y ago
So many comments here are in the form of "People won't trust autonomous vehicles." Well I'm people, and I trust them. And it's for one simple reason: Whatever bugs they have can be fixed for every autonomous car o
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by karmacondon 10y ago
The company making the vehicles will be responsible for any damages, and paying a massive insurance premium I'm sure. There will be legal consequences for gross negligence and anyone damaged will be made whole. I don't see how tha
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by karmacondon 10y ago
As an aside, I have thought this same thing. The non-inverted pyramid style is horrible and pervasive. I would pay $$/month to have technology or people summarize these things for me.
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by karmacondon 10y ago
The US government isn't going to kidnap Edward Snowden at any point. He's too high profile and the press would eventually find out. And I don't think Putin will let him leave Russia unless it would hurt the US in some way. If
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by karmacondon 11y ago
No phonograph or light bulb on the original list? How odd.
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by karmacondon 11y ago
This is either insane, or pure genius. Has anyone else tried this?
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Sorry, You Can’t Speed Read(nytimes.com)
217 points by karmacondon 11y ago|129 comments
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by karmacondon 11y ago
YC includes a vesting clause as a standard part of their incorporation documents, in part for just this situation. I've heard that a corporation was formed BEFORE the YC application. If shares were issued in that corporation without a
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I think it's a "rule" as opposed to a strategy like "don't sacrifice your pieces in exchange for nothing" is a rule in chess. It's possible to succeed without following that guide line, but it's very
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by karmacondon 11y ago
The only way I can see Basic Income working is if the average person has a net income change of $0. That means someone making the average income of ~$45k/yr gets a $10k check from the government every year, but also has their taxes go
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I think the fundamental purpose of a business is to accomplish a task, not to employ people. For example, I don't care how many people are employed to keep hackernews running. I'm thankful for their efforts, but I don't care
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Why do you think minimum wage laws exist? It's because at one point in our nation's history, businesses implicitly colluded to set wages low. They have more power in wage negotiations than workers do, because there are generally p
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by karmacondon 11y ago
This is what passes for humor in the ml community? Ouch. I would normally flag this as being April Fool's Day nonsense, but I like the idea too much. The title is an homage a karpathy blog post that demonstrated how an RNN could write
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by karmacondon 11y ago
The problem with not intervening is that it doesn't work unless every other actor in the region agrees not to intervene as well. Russia likes Assad because Syria gives them influence in the region. They're going to give the Syrian
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by karmacondon 11y ago
So what happens to the other 200+ iphones that law enforcement needed opened? It seems like there are at least certain iphones that can be opened using this method and similar hardware based approaches. Are the feds going to move forward wi
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Well, if you want to be technical it doesn't appear that she was told NOT to use her personal BlackBerry and email server in any official way. This article mentions a memo that said "Any unclassified Blackberry is highly vulnerabl
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by karmacondon 11y ago
The data show no such thing. Correlation != causation. People self-select where they live. It could easily be that happy people choose to live in the country instead of the city, or people in cities have more stressful jobs, etc
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I still think that Uber's biggest innovation was charging 30% less than cab companies. Given a smart phone, I have 0 problem looking up a cab company and calling them (in most cases). And New York City cabs have had apps for years. The
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I would really really like to pay per article for content from the New York Times, the Wall St Journal and a few other news sites with annoying paywalls. Whenever I go to subscribe I think, "This isn't worth it because I don'
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by karmacondon 11y ago
The obvious answer here is that basic income won't be evenly distributed to all citizens. A household earning the average national income will get $1,000/month from the government, and see their taxes go up by about $1,000/mo
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by karmacondon 11y ago
There have been multiple tests of the ideas behind BI: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome * https://decorrespondent.nl/541/Why-we-should-give-free-money... * http://freakonomics.co
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I'm ashamed to admit that I'd never heard of Andy Grove until today. I did find a great discussion of High Output Management by Ben Horowitz that may be useful to fellow uninitiates: http://a16z.com/2015/11&#x

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