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The Chinese Social Credit System(wired.co.uk)
2 points by mrhektor 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do we do effective fact checking?
1 points by mrhektor 9y ago|0 comments
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by mrhektor 9y ago
This is an excellent articulation of the business case of blockchain. Too many people are getting on the hype train without being able to clearly define concrete and robust usecases.
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by mrhektor 9y ago
I recently read Hillbilly Elegy, and one of the key insights I got from there was success seemed to be related to a stable home / family, and in particular a presence of mentors and role models. I wouldn't be surprised if part of
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by mrhektor 9y ago
On a related note, I had a weird experience where I was talking about a trip to Vietnam with my friends. A few hours later, I saw an ad for air travel to Vietnam on my FB page. Now I'm 100% sure I hadn't googled or searched for Vi
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by mrhektor 9y ago
What's even worse is that the guy that got phished is responsible for U.S. cybersecurity. ( http://time.com/4881849/white-house-email-prank/ )
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by mrhektor 9y ago
I think that while these tactics are grey area for sure (specially in the case of Airbnb), I firmly believe that this would fall in the, for lack of a better word, "hustle" category. I would guess that most of the companies listed
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by mrhektor 9y ago
This is an excellent point. Sometimes, I think certain things just shouldn't get coverage, like a particularly silly / obviously wrong thing Trump tweets.
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by mrhektor 9y ago
Thanks, they're on my reading list!
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by mrhektor 9y ago
Does anybody know of any good links / blog posts that explain the actual inner workings of a quantum computer in more detail?
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by mrhektor 9y ago
Bit of background: my company is doing fintech and often there are seemingly insurmountable problems related to regulation or certain counter-parties. Taking a step back is a huge help in these cases as well; often the solution is just bett
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by mrhektor 10y ago
Science and the City by Laurie Winkless was a fun read. Some parts of it are a bit hype-y, and some parts are a bit obvious, but overall it's a great read to find out the mechanics behind things we take for granted
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by mrhektor 10y ago
Agreed! However, data cleaning is a pretty hard problem. My previous company stored merchant credit card transactions, and these transactions were large unwieldy beasts whose data model had changed many times over the course of the company.
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by mrhektor 10y ago
I found this quite cool. 1 line pitches in the comments that you can get instant feedback on. Full disclosure , I'm an alumnus of this accelerator.
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Online Pitching for Startup Bootcamp (an Asian Accelerator)(techinasia.com)
1 points by mrhektor 10y ago|1 comments
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by mrhektor 10y ago
Thanks for the advice, I think we'll fill out an application and see what happens :)
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by mrhektor 10y ago
What is an ideal stage for a company to apply to YC? We've gotten together an excellent team and partners, and are just starting to build out the value prop. However, we don't have any customers / traction yet. Should we wait
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by mrhektor 10y ago
Singaporean startup founder here who moved from the US. I have yet to meet a psychopathic CEO here in Singapore, but I've met and heard about quite a few in Silicon Valley / Bay Area. It may just be selection bias (a lot more com
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by mrhektor 10y ago
While the tool is definitely useful, I agree with your comment. Too often, tech that is quite simple is misrepresented as AI because it makes for better headlines / a larger investment round in the case of startups
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by mrhektor 10y ago
No it wasn't a complete rewrite. We started by separating out the most mission critical components. Maybe that's where we went wrong; the most mission critical components were quite large and unwieldy to split out all at once. The
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by mrhektor 10y ago
We did have a lead with a vision, and part of the vision was standards for each service (for example, file structure in Go). I can see the rationale behind it; a new dev can onboard very quickly on to a new service. But in hindsight, maybe
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by mrhektor 10y ago
We were looking to break up our monolithic rails app into micro-services so devs could iterate and develop faster. We also thought that the application as a whole would become more failure resistant. Unfortunately, inter-dependancies among
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by mrhektor 10y ago
Hi Stepan!
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by mrhektor 10y ago
"-No, look into microservices. It’s the future. It’s how we do everything now. You take your monolithic app and you split it into like 12 services. One for each job you do. That seems excessive" A 100 times yes. We tried to split