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by rm999 8y ago
T-mobile is horrible with security. They have this service called Digits, which lets users access their phone number from other devices. The problem is, this subverts the security model a lot of the American internet ecosystem is built on,
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by rm999 8y ago
Yeah they aren't quite comparable; I didn't want to dig into the complexities of that, which is why I followed the last thought with "incidentally".
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by rm999 8y ago
It's fun to dig up old predictions of where we'd be today. Here's an article from 2002: https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1176510 >Moore's Law scales to at least 9nm: technologist >It&#x2
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by rm999 8y ago
>I'd take ISO/IEC 9075 as an official specification Fair enough, but I'd argue it's not a de facto standard because the vast majority of implementers don't follow it. Case in point: SQL is rarely portable across
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by rm999 8y ago
SQL is by no means perfect. For one, t̶h̶e̶r̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶s̶p̶e̶c̶i̶f̶i̶c̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶: some dialects are meaningfully different than others, and even similar ones are often full of implementation details about the und
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by rm999 8y ago
I'd say we're both right: the article is based around a flawed study that hilariously contradicts the title and is full of circumstantial evidence. You are right that they cite plenty of other studies and quote qualified people. B
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by rm999 8y ago
As a subscriber I love the New York Times, but like many articles in the Wellness section this is low quality. The article starts off with: >A recent clinical trial by the F.D.A. suggests that the complications experienced by Mr. Ramire
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by rm999 8y ago
I've had a tremendous amount of respect for Mark Zuckerberg as a leader, and have gone out of my way to defend him in the past ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17128369 ). I always envisioned whatsapp as a defensiv
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by rm999 8y ago
> I believe that the success of the company is incidental to who ran it This is usually not true for successful companies, but it's especially not true in facebook's case. Mark Zuckerberg has kept incredibly strong control of f
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by rm999 8y ago
I know a few earlyish employees at Facebook, and they are easily the happiest people I've met at any company. In some respects this can be credited to joining the right company at the right time: they got in early at a company that mak
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by rm999 8y ago
Google dominated non-SMS chat in the late 2000s/early 2010s. I don't think they realized how insanely valuable that was - they were basically sitting on the future of communication. All they had to do was sit back and let network
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by rm999 9y ago
>Is it because the board was full of connected people? The board was scammed by her and lost billions of potential dollars, so that's probably not why. If anything, I wonder the opposite, why the connected people didn't do more
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by rm999 9y ago
I'm not one to normally defend Facebook, but I disagree. Advertising was not prioritized for a huge chunk of Facebook's history, so I'd argue it's not part of their core ethos (it's a necessary evil, if you will). W
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by rm999 9y ago
To put it in perspective: today you are in the global top 1% if you have at least $744,400 in household assets. You are in the top 10% if you have at least $71,560; top 50% (median) if you have at least $2,220. And the mean wealth is $52,81
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by rm999 9y ago
This wouldn't make much of an impact because the statistical distribution of music listening time has an extremely long tail, i.e. the most popular songs are far more popular than even other very popular songs. In a given market, somet
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by rm999 9y ago
I'm surprised that AOL isn't really discussed in this article. I always assumed Yahoo's ethos, as the one-stop shop on the internet ("We didn’t want to call it a portal, because a portal is a door to somewhere else, and
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by rm999 9y ago
It's in the original complaint filed by federal prosecutors. See page 16: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4406486/Vincent-R...
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by rm999 9y ago
Note that this is in Celsius - for us Americans, this is 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
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by rm999 9y ago
Hey, I just installed and played around with reactionRNN; I hate to be negative (especially to people open sourcing models, kudos!), but your model seems to perform quite poorly. It immediately failed my "easy" smell tests: https
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by rm999 9y ago
>For more than 30 years, Geoffrey Hinton hovered at the edges of artificial intelligence research, an outsider clinging to a simple proposition: that computers could think like humans do—using intuition rather than rules. This is so disr
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by rm999 9y ago
I can't speak for OP, but a big one is how to deal with the check at a restaurant. For people who are lower/lower middle class (or at the least not financially secure), you pass around a receipt and take turns deciding who owes wh
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by rm999 9y ago
>That whole ethos of just having informal personal conversations with college friends on Facebook is gone. The wall was never a good way to do this. It's neither as powerful nor as flexible as pretty much any competing way for a sma
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by rm999 9y ago
In one project at a previous job we were able to pinpoint the genre, mood, instrumentation, etc of any new song with (usually) better-than-human accuracy in milliseconds using deep neural networks. This is better in pretty much every way th
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by rm999 9y ago
This is a negative value article. It spends a lot of time dwelling on a low-value semantic argument that "when people in business say 'AI' they really mean machine learning". Sure, but these words have been used synonymo
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by rm999 9y ago
Weird - I visited Chicago a couple years ago from NYC and was shocked at how pedestrian-unfriendly central parts of Chicago seemed (e.g. River North). There were parking lots everywhere , with aggressive drivers pulling in and out. I walke
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by rm999 9y ago
Likely true, but it also depends on how you define it. The OPHI (Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative) has been tracking what they call "multidimensional poverty", which is a holistic view of poverty over health, educ
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by rm999 9y ago
> How is Google even remotely comparable to Amazon??? If you're already scared of Google and Facebook this is an easy one: Amazon's growth will increasingly depend on advertising, and they will continue to grow. Pretty much e
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by rm999 9y ago
That's an interesting one. I'd vote: Apple > Microsoft >> Google == Amazon >> Facebook Facebook is dead last by a mile.
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by rm999 9y ago
Beyond the lack of smartphones/earbuds, the two big things that stick out to me: 1. The cars. Sometime in the 90s and 00s cars started becoming a lot less boxy (compare the Camry from 1990 to 2000 to 2010 to see this). 2. Way more form
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A look back at Uber’s hellish year(techcrunch.com)
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