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   by physcab 16y ago

   We tried using it a while ago when it was first getting started. It was a pain to use back then but afaik it has advanced quite a bit and after seeing this post I'll be taking another jab at it. If you want an out-of-the-box recommender, M
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   by physcab 16y ago

   By setting some constraints on which scores were significant, it was possible to build the resulting similarity matrix in less than an hour on a 40-machine cluster 40 machines!?! Wow. We compute our recommendations at Grooveshark in a cou
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   by physcab 16y ago

   wow thats cool. can you put your email in your profile? i have a couple extra questions if you don't mind
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   by physcab 16y ago

   how much traffic did you get before the new landing page?
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   Baidu's Google Maps: Hand-drawn images over photographic landscapes(map.baidu.com)

   3 points by physcab 16y ago|1 comments
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   by physcab 16y ago

   Interesting concept. I tend to give a lot of gifts in the form of gift certificates to friends and loved ones, and they tend to be a little bit different from your run of the mill Old Navy card. I go for "experiential" gifts, like short p
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   Show HN: Made this today, RankMyPlaylist.com(rankmyplaylist.com)

   1 points by physcab 16y ago|2 comments
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   by physcab 16y ago

   Yeah I understand. It's probably better that you aren't tied to the content. I'll be curious to see how you innovate with this idea and to see how users react to a site that isn't part of their core music destination. Good luck! Btw, if y
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   by physcab 16y ago

   Those songs definitely weren't the top songs in 2009 (globally). Here's the billboard from 2009. http://www.billboard.com/charts-year-end/hot-100-songs?year=... .
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    by physcab 16y ago

    At Grooveshark, we have a feature that does this and it works amazingly well. If you click on the people icon at the upper left hand corner of the screen you'll see a feed of what your friends are currently listening to on Grooveshark. The
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    by physcab 16y ago

    At Grooveshark, we have a feature that does this and it works amazingly well. If you click on the people icon at the upper left hand corner of the screen you'll see a feed of what your friends are currently listening to on Grooveshark. The
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    by physcab 16y ago

    Meh. I've seen recommendations from The Echo Nest and they are absolute shit. I don't know what their algorithms are but they sure do need to change them. I am a huge fan of LabRosa though, so maybe their partnership will help them out. I
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    by physcab 16y ago

    Hi HN, I'm a longtime reader and poster. I created this last night with my roommate. We're both developers at Grooveshark and came home to watch the 20/20 interview with Charlie Sheen and thought it was amazing. So we had a good laugh, pu
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    by physcab 16y ago

    My roommate and I created everything last night after watching the 20/20 interview on Hulu. We're both developers at Grooveshark.
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    Show HN: Inspired by Snowpocalypse, we created OneSpeedGo last night(onespeedgo.com)

    19 points by physcab 16y ago|18 comments
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    by physcab 16y ago

    We use storenvy at grooveshark ( http://www.storenvy.com/stores/3605-grooveshark and http://store.grooveshark.com/ ) and its super awesome. I love the emphasis they place on community as that is something we value very highly internally a
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    Hulu's Thoughts About the Future of TV(blog.hulu.com)

    4 points by physcab 16y ago|0 comments
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    by physcab 16y ago

    I tried when I went to NY a couple months ago. I contacted like 6 people and they all bailed on me ("bailed" in the sense that they had their apt listed as available on the day I wanted to go, but then couldn't offer it to me). It was a we
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    by physcab 16y ago

    I spent a great deal of time writing a recommendation engine for a major web property, so I'll just offer some brief pointers for anyone interested in this stuff: - If you know nothing about how recommenders might work, a good introductory
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    by physcab 16y ago

    My comment refers to startups. When you're building a company from the ground-up having a great product will sell itself. You don't get bizdev deals, advertising deals, or users talking about your product if it sucks. I work for a startup t
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    by physcab 16y ago

    I'm sorry, but this notion that a company can be made by a leveraged media event is stupid. Companies are made by having great products. If you have a great product, it doesn't matter when you show it off because there will always be an o
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    by physcab 16y ago

    True. But you're not accounting for the time it takes to hire a programmer that is 5-10x more productive.
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    by physcab 16y ago

    I agree with you and generally this is a great way for a startup to save money as well because new grads are cheap. The problem that you'll then have though, is that when you encounter a tough technical challenge, you won't have the benefit
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    by physcab 16y ago

    I used to develop explosives detection technology that we were hoping to sell to Smiths or TSA in a government contract. We were a research laboratory hoping to get our technology out into "industry". TSA and Smiths have their own "standar
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    by physcab 16y ago

    I disagree. Amazon's cloud is great for getting started, no doubt about that. And yes, they take care of all the administration. But the hardware and bandwidth costs are absurdly expensive. Probably somewhere between 2x - 10x as much. Netfl
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    by physcab 16y ago

    Thanks. This is getting fixed now. -chris from grooveshark.
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    by physcab 16y ago

    I don't this this is about government vs. private corporation. I just don't think anyone cares about space anymore. My sister goes to Purdue and when they dedicated the Neil Armstrong building the school had just built, there were apparent
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    by physcab 16y ago

    I was fortunate to hear Peter Hillary speak last week while I was home on Thanksgiving break. His stories were amazing. I was absolutely floored the entire two hours. A couple quotes I remember (and damn I wish I brought a pen and paper).
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    by physcab 16y ago

    One application that this might be useful for is an IP lookup. Typically they're stored in block ranges and querying can be tricky, especially if its an offline operation done with hadoop. Could also be counter-productive, but an interesti
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    by physcab 16y ago

    While I don't actually setup the networks, I do work with the ad sales team at Grooveshark (mostly in development for new proposals). This doesn't directly answer your question, but here's a few things I've learned: 1. Setting up a networ