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by nemild 8y ago
A recent quote I loved from YC's Paul Buccheit (who helped inspired "Don't be Evil at an early Google"): “[Social media] is like a game where you get 1 point for being fair and thoughtful and 1000 points for character as
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I won't speak to censorship, but I will speak to the distribution incentives in social media algorithms. If these attacks got less free distribution, they might be less likely to occur. Part of the incentive around horrific attacks lik
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And for an older take, I loved this book on the first transatlantic telegraph cable as a child: Cyrus Field's Big Dream: The Daring Effort to Lay the First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
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This. Here's a piece that I wrote that touches on this dissonance: What Open Source Can Learn From Slack https://www.nemil.com/musings/oss-and-slack.html > Third, we generally overweight the importance of our p
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Four Startup Engineering Killers(hackernoon.com)
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Reupping Nadia Eghbal's excellent, Lemonade Stand: A handy guide to financial support for open source https://github.com/nayafia/lemonade-stand This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways t
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Based on your article, you sound pretty bad ass by having gone through the journey. I'm doubtful you'd have that by staying. It's a pretty remarkable path, and I respect you for that!
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What I find fascinating is how we can quantify this bias. Here are two examples of my research on the NY Times with terrorism coverage by region + general coverage by country: How Media Fuels our Fear of Western Terrorism: https:/&#x2
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Ezra Taft Benson: "One must select wisely a source of news; otherwise it would be better to be uninformed than misinformed." My own view is that you should reduce consumption dramatically, but still read some publications. And rea
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This is quite an amazing story, love the persistence and passion. One note. Just because the patents are expiring, doesn't mean this can't still succeed. Inventors and scientists sometimes think that legal defensibility is what al
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Thank you for sharing all this!
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Because for shareholders, the stock price only appreciates if the company grows. In many ways, it mirrors the issues for Hacker News entrepreneurs. To get VC capital, you have to dangle promises high returns on your equity — even if a consi
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The irony is that the current headline will perform better when shared on Facebook than a fully accurate headline. Facebook sets the incentives for every media producer today.
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One thing I'm always reminded of when I hear about an HN reader bemoaning a feature/policy: Behind every feature change (like auto plays), there's a product manager who's tested changes to show that it maximizes some sho
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I think you'll enjoy the series then, I spent several months investigating and made the same point about JSON and the Javascript-like CLI (plus great Node support, plus savvy marketing). For example: > 10gen's key contributions
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The Guardian example was heavily used by MongoDB as a case study to pitch their database to others in 2011: https://www.mongodb.com/customers/guardian https://www.mongodb.com/presentations/mongodb-
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I actually think both programs have benefits and downsides. A friend (a founder of a dev tool company used by most Silicon Valley companies) and I were just laughing the other day about the issues with CS grads. His main concern with the sm
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I think every cohort of software engineers learns this in their own way. I wrote this three years ago. Chasing the Shiny and New in Software https://www.nemil.com/musings/shinyandnew.html “I worry that some programmer
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A NY Times journalist explains why some wars are less covered in the US (by comparing Syria coverage to Yemen coverage in the US): "Conflicts gain sustained American attention only when they provide a compelling story line that appeals
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A small quib: filter bubbles don’t require using personal data. But they are about giving readers what they want. In a very different context, I ran an analysis of terrorism coverage in the NY Times to measure what a geographic filter bubbl
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Max Planck: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” Or more succinctly, sc
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I don't agree. Facebook has to make changes given the risk of regulation, reputational risk, recruiting challenges, and the mismatch in their own self-professed mission. We can debate if the change will be substantial enough to truly c
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> This explanation serves to protect Zuckerberg and Sandberg from additional blame, even as Sandberg strives to show she’s not passing the buck by noting “I want to be clear that I oversee our Comms team and take full responsibility for
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That's the one I'd read as well!
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My dad (now data science/stats professor) was at the 1986 version of this talk at Bellcore (where he spent almost two decades working). He speaks glowingly of it. Original transcript and previous HN discussion: https://news.
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Any chance you know the pieces where he most focuses on this?
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I loved this quote: > “Employees are wising up to the fact that you can have a mission statement on your website, but when you’re looking at how the company creates new products or makes decisions, the correlation between the two is not
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I spent the last two years reflecting on FB (was an early employee in social media), and put some reflections on the bubble at Facebook: https://www.nemil.com/tdf/part1-employees.html Management will laud what employe
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I hope not. I’d be curious who’s telling you to treat them as sainted inviduals. Here’s my media literacy guide that catalogs all the biases (contributions welcome): https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob&#x
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In that vein, I'm looking for contributors to my financial media literacy guide: https://github.com/nemild/hack-the-media/blob/master/financi... It's a new version of my broader software eng me

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