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by orijing 15y ago
I'm not trying to troll but is Google much better for that query than Bing? Or is it lack of awareness of Bing?
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by orijing 15y ago
So the concern is that this impacts the ranking of Google Chrome in Google Search, and that the FTC is investigating Google for favoring its own content unfairly? It makes sense in the context of travel websites (Expedia complaining about G
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by orijing 15y ago
It's just a statement that we aren't at equilibrium... i.e. that prices would have to go higher to reach equilibrium.
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by orijing 15y ago
That's interesting. Do you have a reference?
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by orijing 15y ago
Without specific evidence like phone records, how could they prove illegal collusion?
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by orijing 15y ago
When I read the heading, I expected this to be a rant about patents and the imposition of artificial scarcities to various industries like music, software and pharmaceuticals, where the marginal cost of production is negligible compared to
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by orijing 15y ago
If that were true, the sponsored content would be labeled. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3388106
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by orijing 15y ago
> Optimizing for user engagement, when you make money off of ads, is optimizing for the bottom line by definition. To claim otherwise is disingenuous at best. Well, optimizing for f(x) (revenue) is different than optimizing for g(x) (en
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by orijing 15y ago
Hi, I'm an engineer from Facebook's ads team. I worked on ads for Timeline. The article's unsubstantiated premise is that Facebook releases products solely with its bottom line in mind. Based on my experience working on ads for Timeline, I'
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Facebook's 'Darwinian' nature keeps users safe - Irish go(theregister.co.uk)
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by orijing 15y ago
Thanks for the correction. That link worked when I checked... Well, Chebyshev inequality always applies. It just might not be the tightest bound possible. Unless we know the distribution better, this is the best estimate (tightest bound tha
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by orijing 15y ago
I wonder if they can combine the experimental results from the 2.5 sigma and the 3.5 sigma experiments. If two independent experiments confirmed some hypothesis at 2.5 and 3.5 sigma, the combined evidence is surely much larger than 3.5. Doe
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by orijing 15y ago
Well, if we take the 3.5 sigma at face value and bound it using Chebychev's inequality [1], it seems that the discovery of the Higgs Boson is bounded by 1/3.5^2, which is 8%. In fact, the standard inequality is two-tailed. If we're measurin
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by orijing 15y ago
Yes, during the Lunar eclipse, the sun is on the other side of the planet. It's like [sun] [earth]* [moon] in a straight line. (The * is where the photographer who sees the moon is)
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by orijing 15y ago
Guys, some of you who are criticizing the precise "assumptions" are missing the point! He's not saying that utilization will go up to 96% precisely, or that there will be 20x fewer cars. He is challenging us to imagine the possibilities our
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by orijing 15y ago
This is enormously impressive. But what cost? The press release claims "low cost", but fails to specify a concrete number. If this can be produced cheaply, I can imagine newer laptops, especially those with constricting form factors like th
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by orijing 15y ago
The author didn't bring up the point that many of those services became successful (not yet profitable) because they were free. The years when they had no ads and charged nothing are considered loss-leaders in order to build a large network
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by orijing 15y ago
I'm confused. Did Microsoft make a deal with Cnet to include this on every download, or did a third party do this? StartNow (startnow.com) is run by an independent company: "The StartNow Start page is owned and operated by Zugo Ltd, a start
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by orijing 15y ago
I think he means the number of apps running in the background. For example, if you have the Groupon app making constant push notifications to you, that's expensive.
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by orijing 15y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I think your distinction makes sense. Facebook mimics my physical social circle very well--people I know in real life like classmates, friends, coworkers. I don't accept friend requests by people who I don't alre
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by orijing 15y ago
The same can be said about Facebook, so what makes Google+ unique in that regard?
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by orijing 15y ago
Of course that's the point. Again, I was responding to the parent ("Google should simply deliver the best results, no matter what algorithm they use to do so"), which I understood to be what results Google should choose to show. Perhaps I m
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by orijing 15y ago
That's exactly my point. I was responding to the parent's suggestion that "Google should simply deliver the best results, no matter what algorithm they use to do so." In the scenario you describe, the best results would be the stores (for e
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by orijing 15y ago
If that were truly their goal, their ads would never be the useful, because if they were the best results, they would be duplicates of the organic search results (hence useless). Or, if they weren't the best results, then the best results a
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by orijing 15y ago
Yes. Google starts around this time, and Facebook starts even earlier. When I was in my Junior year I interviewed and got my offer from Facebook when it was still September. In contrast, Google didn't get back to me until November or so. If
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by orijing 15y ago
I understand that we (on Hacker News) tend to come from a startup perspective, so it makes sense where you're coming from. But in the context that Joel was describing, that's not a valid comparison. Surely Joel isn't recommending dropping a
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by orijing 15y ago
I was surprised to find out that the cost to borrow shares (to short) was still so high. Doesn't that pretty much guarantee that the share price is somewhat above the "fair price"? The cost to borrow is like a tax. The price consumers pay i
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by orijing 15y ago
Great tool! I know you probably won't do this, but I think it's important to be clear. How can you convince potential users that you won't front-run them? For example, before displaying the sentiments you run your own trades in anticipation
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by orijing 15y ago
Thank you for only requiring the minimum set of permissions from my Facebook account. I hate it when I go to a website that uses Facebook Connect login button, but requires every single permission possible, when I just need an authenticatio
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by orijing 15y ago
That's because it considers your account low-security until you enable two-factor authentication, which having a phone with SMS allows. The number isn't to fill out your profile, and has nothing to do with privacy settings. Facebook takes s

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