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Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up(lambdal.com)
42 points by sabalaba 14y ago|41 comments
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by sabalaba 14y ago
Here's a good idea, why not "go through" with the project, then fake the entire media spectacle. You could build up the exact same media hype and have less costs! Good thing they have a team member who has "...worked for over 20 years in th
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by sabalaba 14y ago
Worth noting, the PwC / National Venture Capital association Money-tree report shows total deal size and activity on a per-region basis. Silicon Valley gets 5.5x more capital and almost 3x the deal flow of NY Metro area. [1] I think of any
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by sabalaba 14y ago
Grats Sahil, I remember when you first launched. We've all been captivated since.
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by sabalaba 15y ago
Another good read is An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus, http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~greg/books/
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by sabalaba 15y ago
Reproducible research is a really interesting topic. One of my good friends in academia showed me how he was using babel (an emacs mode) to do literate programming and reproducible research. I think itsa fantastic idea, the data, conclusion
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by sabalaba 15y ago
Games + Augmented Reality? Apple could be looking to buy into steam for games, but they could also be working together on some Augmented Reality hardware / software.
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by sabalaba 15y ago
I got my first email, here's some feedback. You should make sure that the summaries don't scale linearly with the size of the content--just because an article is 10x as long, doesn't mean I want a summary to be 10x longer. Maybe scale logar
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by sabalaba 15y ago
It's less about attention span and more about signal/noise ratio.
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by sabalaba 15y ago
Feature Request: It would be great to get a weekly or monthly summary. Nice work.
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by sabalaba 15y ago
As far as the hardware goes, a lot of this stuff is already out there in different forms: Epson Moverio, Vuzix (as shown in this demo, ...), albiet not in the form factor that would allow for mass market penetration. That's where Google, an
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by sabalaba 15y ago
Looking forward to hacking on these. Hopefully they can redesign them to not look like Geordi from Star Trek.
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by sabalaba 15y ago
Reminds me of Aaron Swartz's https://www.jottit.com/
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by sabalaba 15y ago
Jason and the team over here at Hyperink put a lot of time into this and we hope that it proves helpful. If you guys have any questions or comments about it, simply post here. Good luck to everybody applying!
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by sabalaba 15y ago
Note: It involved 250 million users, so that's approx 50% of the entire FB user base. Assuming HN has a 100% Facebook user population (not unreasonable), that's where the 50% comes from.
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There's a ~50% chance you were involved in a Facebook study, here's the results.(slate.me)
5 points by sabalaba 15y ago|2 comments
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by sabalaba 15y ago
Came across this and was really surprised to find that it was not on HN. Some great research has come out of that team.
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MIT Media Lab's BiDi Screen - A depth-aware 3D gestural interface(web.media.mit.edu)
2 points by sabalaba 15y ago|1 comments
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by sabalaba 15y ago
I saw this on the front page and had to upvote-- I've been using Stripe since early June and can say that it is the best payment platform to develop on, period. It's just lightyears ahead in terms of development time, PCI compliance issues,
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by sabalaba 15y ago
high five - I was certainly in the set of people who were surprised to find out that your IP was vesting with someone else. Welcome to the light side.
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by sabalaba 15y ago
Much cool in this sector. Quora is doing a great job helping to realize the dream of the semantic web.
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Can AI Games Created Super-Intelligent Humans?(games.slashdot.org)
2 points by sabalaba 15y ago|0 comments
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26 x 26 x 2 - #!/bin/bashing Your Way to a Good Domain (babolabs.blogspot.com)
1 points by sabalaba 15y ago|0 comments
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by sabalaba 16y ago
There's essentially two major types of fraud that could occur with this system that we've thought of. 1) Seller fraud, bogus items, imprecise descriptions, etc. This is relatively easily prevented with our reputation system as it stands. A
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by sabalaba 16y ago
haha nice catch -- forgot to edit that config file when pull/merging dev --> production :) I hope you enjoyed the global variable dumps :)
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by sabalaba 16y ago
It absolutely did :)
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by sabalaba 16y ago
This semester I've been working on this with my co-founder (mekarpeles) and we were adding features and just having fun with it. I think we went way past the bare minimum in terms of features. I was really afraid to launch during the seme
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Show HN: I was afraid to launch, so I did. Babolog.(babolog.com)
33 points by sabalaba 16y ago|36 comments
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by sabalaba 16y ago
(Warning anecdotal evidence) Having worked in China on a number of startups and worked alongside people who have had to fire employees, it's often common practice to just lock fired employees out of their systems. I've had this happen to p
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by sabalaba 16y ago
I think you might have heard a similar statement in 1991 to the effect of: "It doesn't take economics into consideration. most people/companies aren't that interested in sharing their documents in an anonymous way. WWW is a web of documents

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