mikeklaas

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by mikeklaas 13y ago
Hey all, I'm the CTO of Zite and can answer any questions. Here is our announcement post: http://blog.zite.com/2014/03/05/zite-is-flipping-out/
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
You don't have to be equally racist against all ethnicities to be called racist.
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
No, that is not an accurate reading of the situation. Constitutionality in Canada is governed by the judges' interpretation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is part of the constitution. In this case, the judges determined
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
I like 90th percentile as the "one number" to choose. Mean is misleading, and median (50th percentile) is too low to capture what most of your users are experiencing.
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
Cycling can never be the complete answer (weather, etc.), but there's no reason it can't be a big chunk of it (30% of all trips in the Netherlands). It's also cheap to build compared to mass transit I agree that transit is u
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
Zite - San Francisco, or Vancouver (Canada) We're building a news recommender system that aims to read you mind. Machine Learning, NLP, you name it. Right now we're mostly looking for a lead Web Developer and DevOps/System A
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
So… we actually took significant steps to solve a real problem and we solved it? I'm not sure how this is an argument against climate change.
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Because this needs to be said, too(differentkindofhuman.blogspot.com)
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
Can you give a list of races won on a Moulton? It seems surprising, if true.
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
Where can one look at that data?
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
Zite ( http://zite.com ) is a company with machine learning and data at its core: our goal is to use deep personalization technology to give people news they wouldn't be able to find any other way. We're looking for engi
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Why Kickstarter was wrong to apologize: seduction guides can be good for women(differentkindofhuman.blogspot.com)
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
This was an issue for our app. We went SSL-only for our API, which unfortunately fails with a cryptic error message if the clock is off. We eventually messages this to the user ("Sorry, Zite is broken, please reset your clock"),
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by mikeklaas 13y ago
Zite ( http://zite.com ) is a company with machine learning and data at its core: our goal is to use deep personalization technology to give people news they wouldn't be able to find any other way. We're looking for engineers eager to dig i
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
Web, backend, machine learning, mobile dev - SF - H1B Zite ( http://zite.com ) is a company with machine learning and data at its core: our goal is to use deep personalization technology to give people news they wouldn't be able to
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Google Reader is dead, so we rebuilt it for you in Zite (in six hours)(blog.zite.com)
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
650W is far too high for the output of an average person for an hour ([3] shows this is almost 1 HP which should indicate how far it is off). Here is a more informed link: http://www.sportsscientists.com/2010/07/power-outputs-from-t...
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
Backend scalability and Machine Learning engineers - SF - H1B Zite ( http://zite.com ) is a company with machine learning and data at its core: our goal is to use deep personalization technology to give people news they wouldn't be
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
I have to disagree. "Jettison" does not fit the simile he was going for, at all.
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Zed Shaw: Indirection is not Abstraction (2011)(zedshaw.com)
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
Several of us Zite employees are also refugees from academia, it turns out.
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
For those trying out the automatic start, I'd be curious to see how your experience compares with Zite's auto-twitter/google reader/fb startup, if you're willing to give it a shot.
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
Congrats to Bradford & his team. Good to see some real competition for Zite for a change :)
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Introducing Zite 2.0(blog.zite.com)
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The D Conference 2013 raises $30,000 on kickstarter.com(kickstarter.com)
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
> I'm not defending his disapproval of PG's response. Whenever you see a sentence like this on an online forum, you know the conversation has gone off the rails.
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
When we launched Zite, I (along with several other engineers), were awake for about the same amount of time keeping the servers alive. Sometimes a heroic emergency effort is required. As long as it is (extraordinarily) rare, it's not in it
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Why I'm bearish on Apple(slate.com)
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
Yeah, the shipped the best and most performant mobile browser for years, but omitted one small feature that no-one has implemented well for nefarious purposes.
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by mikeklaas 14y ago
I don't. Anonymous title editing by mods (with no note that that's what happened) is probably the worst thing about HN.

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