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by prayag 15y ago
Even if you have invested time in MTurk, there is no reason you have to continue spending your time dealing with spam, dealing with task starvation, optimizing quality rather than focusing on your core competency.
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by prayag 15y ago
In it's present form no. But I do believe that if someone was to build an application with a correct work flow and focus on helping the crowd (by creating tutorial etc.) something like this could definitely work. We would love to talk to de
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by prayag 15y ago
Never seen this one before though I did play around with Haiku at one point. I will let our co-founder and Chief Design Officer know.
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by prayag 15y ago
One of the founders here. We do a number of things to maintain quality. We do managed crowdsourcing, which means we provide support to our crowd. They can ask us when they do not understand a particular task. Also, our crowd is loosely form
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by prayag 15y ago
No these are one of the most talented Berkeley CS grad students working in the field of Information and Technology for Development (ICTD).
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by prayag 15y ago
Woah!! Wasn't expecting this here. I guess facebook/google+ wasn't a good enough stress test? Are you guys thinking of making this into a venture?
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by prayag 15y ago
To anyone who knows the Finns this seems exactly how a typical (and I am on thin ice here for grossly generalizing a country of 5 million people, but let me continue) Finn would talk. Self-deprecating, modest and humorous in a very dry mann
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by prayag 15y ago
David Merill is a really smart guy and had been working on Sifteo for some time. I had a long discussion when he came to Berkeley to give guest lectures on User Interface Design and Tangible User Interface. He has a great vision about the c
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by prayag 15y ago
Facebook login button doesn't work on Ubuntu 64bit chrome.
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by prayag 15y ago
This is absolutely correct and is an important distinction and I do confess that my statements were not very precise from that regards. However, I had a long discussion with a law professor at Berkeley where she did agree that the US Common
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by prayag 15y ago
In many cases the any court (in almost any country influenced by the French law) interprets the laws and confirms if the 'new laws' is consistent with the 'old laws/ more basic laws' and not in violation with the basic premise of the consti
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by prayag 15y ago
Not really. The court interprets the law as written by the congress. There are always some checks and balances while interpretation but that's not what the court is for.
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by prayag 15y ago
This is absolutely correct. The best Supreme court could do is decide on a case-by-case basis and settle against the patents (as they did in Bilski case). They would never ever set a precedent that can potentially go as far as invalidating
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by prayag 15y ago
AirBnb is not legally liable. They are however morally liable. Every company does legal. It's the moral compass that differentiates a company and their founders.
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by prayag 15y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. This is absolutely correct.
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by prayag 15y ago
Aaron, I am big proponent of pseudonyms on internet. Though I like to associate my real name at certain places like HN. Either way, we are digressing. So what happened to the documents? How did you procure them? Did Facebook ultimately giv
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by prayag 15y ago
The problem with such a post is that it violates the first principle of user centered design. Talk to your users. Did anyone tell him that NYT is broken? Did he go and ask a single user who goes to NYT everyday to figure out what his prob
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by prayag 15y ago
Hi, I posted my name now in my HN profile. It doesn't really mean anything. I am not per-se attacking you. I am merely commenting on your arguments. I am not especially convinced of you claim that Facebook is withholding just because of the
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by prayag 15y ago
IV is just a technology scum-bag. There's nothing more to it. No, Mr. Myhrvold, ideas have no inherent value. An idea needs execution for it to produce any value. If everyone starts coming up with ideas and nobody executes them, what will b
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by prayag 15y ago
This has nothing to do with me being smart. Your remark comes across as condescending. You are right in the sense that I don't have a first hand information (I definitely WASN'T there). I am just telling you another side of the story. You c
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by prayag 15y ago
Aaron, I do agree that the reporting was pretty bad. But the points you raised were much more grave than the report. -First of all just because certain IM conversations keep coming out does not prove that certain documents that you or the W
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by prayag 15y ago
You need to get some high profile people to get some buzz going. If you can get someone like Ashton Kutcher (it shouldn't be too hard since you look well-connected in the Silicon Valley) and get a vibe on Twitter going that's going to be a
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by prayag 15y ago
That's just bull-shit. These girls are American Indians and I doubt their parents would give them a choice of either study science or stay at home. Women in developing countries face the same problem as the women in the US on top of facing
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by prayag 15y ago
Social issues? Like what? I can think of a number of economic issues, but can't think of many social issues except the superficial ones.
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by prayag 15y ago
I think its a little more than that.Nobody says that there shouldn't be farm mechanization etc. It should definitely happen. We should also do what produces highest net value for everyone in the chain. We should let the illegal immigrants w
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by prayag 15y ago
I use CloudFlare and it has improved my site performance tremendously and their DNS manager is awesome too.
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by prayag 15y ago
The only problem is that university professors are just hard to sell to. If they can solve that problem, its a product with huge value.
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by prayag 15y ago
Now here's a company that's solving a real problem. Great going guys.
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by prayag 15y ago
Yea.. Sorry about 70 Billion. My bad. That's a valid argument to make. But given the growth that the BPO industry has seen and given the industry employs mostly young people. I think its still important to consider its cultural impact.
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by prayag 15y ago
5% of world's 10 largest GDP is huge. At 5% of 1.5 Trillion dollars its about 250 Billion US Dollars. Also, the growth in BPO is also much more significant than the regular industries. In any case, it is hardly insignificant (or nonsense).

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