mherdeg

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by mherdeg 9y ago
Ah gotcha. So is the idea to signal to future partner companies that the product is like a 3rd party version of "Animoji", using cool pictures to collect a big corpus of face feature data for future products?
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by mherdeg 9y ago
huh what does 'emoji' mean in this context -- are you using some combination of Unicode characters?
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Cool, when do you expect to gather daycare data outside the Bay Area? I see one total daycare listed in my ZIP code (in the Boston area) and the search results page doesn't say anything like "we know this is a tiny number of listi
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Yeah so: 1. The US healthcare system is pretty good for some people in some places. I broke a shoulder this week in a bad fall. All local urgent care had JUST closed so I went to a local ER, the only kind of place available with imaging, to
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Huh. Could you elaborate more on the relationship between Facebook editorial policy and the plight of the Rohingya?
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Something like 1-5% of the news.ycombinator front page is customer service escalations. I don't think it's totally crazy to write a blog post & publicize it on social media as an alternative to the traditional executive-email-
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by mherdeg 9y ago
I wonder to what extent this YouTube Kids stuff represents a "moral panic" --- oh no, look at the depraved things our children are watching! And they are TEACHING an ALGORITHM to learn that LIVE CHILD ACTORS should be made to act
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Not mentioned in the abstract is that they also used real money: > During that period we obtained an accuracy of 47.% [sic] and a profit of $957.50 across 265 bets, equivalent to a 8.5% return (Table 1, Figure 3). For some reason the &qu
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Just a quick plug for one of my favorite periodicals, the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis: http://www.jasnh.com/ . If you're worried about the "file drawer problem" JASNH might help you
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by mherdeg 9y ago
The logical next step here is to write an app that lets you sell your place in line at a trendy restaurant. Take 50%. There is a natural base of sellers (the people who are waiting in line) and buyers (assuming that paying people to wait in
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by mherdeg 9y ago
If you liked that story, you might also like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_King... , which explored some of the same themes.
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Probably because yesterday on reddit, this article was trending: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/6p1iwi/til_a... ("TIL A Michigan rock collector found an impressive 93 lb. Petoskey s
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Oof yeah I should be more precise -- I think the surprise is "public default". They do make it super easy to find the setting "default audiences for future transactions: private" plus "past transactions: make to pri
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by mherdeg 9y ago
I think a lot of people are totally unaware that Venmo transaction details are public-to-the-world. Fascinating experiment in radical transparency. Also, per NYT: ""More supportively, Noam Waksman, a 24-year-old who works in digit
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by mherdeg 9y ago
When I stumbled across it a month ago by following a user's comment history, it looked like a very sparsely populated forum with monthly posts in each US state offering information about "friends" in each state or region. To
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Not covered in this Guardian article: the somewhat scarier /r/opiaterollcall (recently banned) and /r/cripplingalcoholism (not scary, just a discussion forum). I have been consuming reddit via the https://www.
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by mherdeg 9y ago
I have a lot of respect for this kind of reporting from ProPublica. It's a really good public service to report news that isn't actually new. In this case, part of the news is that the FDA's 1986 Shelf-Life Extension Program
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Huh yeah whatever did happen to Judge Kaplan's ruling restricting certain speech that contained hyperlinks? (See http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/07/technology/assessing-linki... and https:/&#x2
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Ha, that headline takes me all the way back to https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/12/10/0821224/esr-writes-... . Those were interesting times.
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by mherdeg 9y ago
As far as I can tell Theflightdeal is basically the same service -- a small army of people searches for fares (HOPEFULLY WITH SOME AUTOMATION!), checks whether there are any results whose price is very low relative to historical prices they
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Ouch, sounds like this author used a long phone tree and talked to about ten front-line phone support technicians, none of whom were able to file a bug report. Bummer. Also sounds like one or more of those people advised him to report his i
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by mherdeg 9y ago
Hmm I tried this and I see 4 reasons: (1) Seen this ad multiple times (2) Already bought this (3) Not interested in this ad (4) Ad covered content There doesn't seem to be an option for "this ad is a huge DOWNLOAD link directly ab
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by mherdeg 10y ago
Assuming Amazon paid them money for the IP addresses (which are now allocated for EC2 use) it's kind of a shame. A more forward-thinking deal would have bartered for, say, a lifetime allocation of Amazon Web Services credit. For the pa
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by mherdeg 10y ago
I've been meaning to read this essay which I believe argues that with index funds so big, prices are determined by the remaining investors who think they know better than the market -- which in theory should mean that the market gets e
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by mherdeg 10y ago
What I learned from the video game "Pandemic 2" is that the longer your disease remains undetected, the more widely it can spread; if you're asymptomatic and apparently harmless, you may be able to infect every human before y
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by mherdeg 10y ago
Typically the way that you would "hold accountable" the traditional old media is by ignoring sources that prove bad. If you think the Washington Post is publishing bad, pointless nonsense news, you stop reading it. Cancel your sub
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by mherdeg 10y ago
> It seems to me that the New York Times is just complaining that they can't control the political narrative anymore because the proles can now decide for themselves what news they will read. Thoughts? Well, there have always been d
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by mherdeg 10y ago
Wow yeah I bet those kids were not born back when web.mit.edu and www.mit.edu were still different things (plus see e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/19990208005346/http://mit.edu/ ).
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by mherdeg 10y ago
On the flip side, a 2015 study found that if there is some incentive for telling the truth, people are more likely to tell the truth. From the abstract of "Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics", Quarterly Journal of Pol
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by mherdeg 10y ago
I thought that Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age" was about the profound culture-shaping power of "massively online education" -- like Khan Academy, Coursera, EdX, etc. But maybe on further reflection there is just

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