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by skewart 10y ago
True. But then you have to deploy and maintain that CNN yourself. The value prop is similar to, say, Twilio. Though, arguably, it's easier to run your own pre-trained CNN than it is to replicate the telephony, VoIP, and video conferenc
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by skewart 10y ago
I'm curious about how much use these general-purpose computer vision APIs are actually getting. How many companies out there really want to sift through a lot of photos to find ones that contain "sailboat"? I'm inclined
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by skewart 10y ago
Human attention is a finite and hard to capture resource. Snapchat has a lot of it (its users spend a lot of time looking at the app). Advertisers are willing to pay a lot of money for people's attention. A lot of people think there w
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by skewart 10y ago
Well, by this logic one could say that nobody wants interplanetary travel. I mean, heck, only a few people have ever been to outer space - the vast majority have spent their entire lives here on Earth - so, therefore nobody must be interest
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by skewart 10y ago
> Any cursory reading of history will reveal that cities are and always have been where humans go to die. (I'm honestly not sure if this is a troll comment or not. I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt though.) Alterna
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by skewart 10y ago
What are these laws forcing people to live in cities or somehow aimed at destroying suburbia? In reality, the laws that do exist tend to be aimed at trying to force people to live in suburbia and _not_ a dense city. Lots of municipalities
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by skewart 10y ago
I'm curious about a couple of things: 1. I far as I understand there is legal precedent establishing that electronic devices are basically the same as suitcases, and both can be searched at the border (i.e. in the same way that border
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by skewart 10y ago
True. I think the author was a bit hasty in how he phrased things here. Given the context of the rest of his writing it's pretty clear that he's talking about the overall supply chain of content as opposed to the demand side. Ba
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by skewart 10y ago
I'm glad I could help! I'd actually be really curious to hear how well it works for you.
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by skewart 10y ago
AWS doesn't offer any high-level services for training your own custom model. You'd have to build the neural network yourself and deploy EC2 boxes to run it. I've had success with Clarifai's [0] custom CV model API in th
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by skewart 10y ago
> The boutique hospitality market is already looking for ways to mimic the feel of Airbnb rooms and attempting to emulate "belonging" for travelers who are sick of generic looking hotel rooms. The boutique hospitality market ha
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by skewart 10y ago
This was one of my first thoughts too. I deleted my Facebook account years ago. I almost never use Twitter. Would a border person believe me? Would I seem sketchy? Should I create a new Facebook account and post something banal every
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by skewart 10y ago
Cloud basically just means running software on other peoples' computers in a data center somewhere. Serverless is a subset of cloud. It's a way of building and deploying cloud apps. Serverless implies a very high level of abstrac
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by skewart 10y ago
I agree. > It feels like the reviews can be bought. I assume Siftery's business model depends on getting paid by software companies when a prospective buyer makes a purchase after visiting Siftery. Maybe it's more advertising-
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by skewart 10y ago
Slicing and dicing in that way by geo, industry and whatnot, would be very interesting as someone looking to build and sell software. It's always really helpful to know what different kinds of prospective buyers are currently using -
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by skewart 10y ago
It's always interesting to see what tools people are using, but to be honest I was a little disappointed that everything on the list is a well-established, already popular app. I was hoping to see more in the way of new and up-and-com
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by skewart 10y ago
> In conclusion, net neutrality limits the ability of firms to offer long term deals. It's why we don't see things like $4.99/month youtube only data plans or $1.99/month email only plans. Sure you may think that all
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by skewart 10y ago
Net neutrality only helps consumers at a big scale in the long run. It's not really beneficial in a direct way for any individual in the short run. So suppressing net neutrality is not something that a lot of consumers are likely to p
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by skewart 10y ago
I'm surprised by the number of comments about how much money they've been losing. Their finances right now are completely irrelevant to their eventual success or failure. All that matters is getting a huge number of highly engag
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by skewart 10y ago
I think you might be right. I've long been bullish on Snap, but seeing their user numbers plateau this year has me reconsidering. 2016 was a year when they should have seen exploding growth among new user groups. Perhaps, a bit like T
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by skewart 10y ago
They're even trying to replace their workers with automation in a similar way. See, for example, https://jobs.lever.co/gigster/19fc3d07-ba71-47d9-a77d-654c96...
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by skewart 10y ago
Leave it to the person with the username 'coldtea' to be skeptical of baristas!
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by skewart 10y ago
Well, a lot of the people who can't afford to live in SF, but would like to, still live in California, consuming California water. They just live farther out in the north, east, or south bays. Of course, if SF actually had 3, 5, or 10
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by skewart 10y ago
The building regulations in SF have done more to encourage suburban sprawl than to discourage it. Of course if density weren't outlawed SF would look different, but it would still be a very appealing place to live. You could triple th
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by skewart 10y ago
The lack of street trees and the wide, busy streets make SF sidewalks really unpleasant. Another thing is that so many of the row houses have garages and driveways to the street, not an alley. So not only are sidewalks uglier - in many part
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by skewart 10y ago
Just because someone is in a position of power doesn't mean they're a good leader. A good leader is someone who people want to actively follow and support. Even though the majority voted against him, Trump did get a lot of votes,
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by skewart 10y ago
Oracle is dying. Political connections might help them die a little more slowly, but there isn't much they can do when they have fundamentally fallen behind the technology zeitgeist. Don't get me wrong, they're not about to d
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Ask HN: Where to find engineering consultants for very small scale engagements?
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by skewart 10y ago
I quit a while back. I don't miss it. The closest thing to a problem has been that I sometimes learn about events a little late. But I've found that pretty much anything I'd actually want to go to I find out about other ways,
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by skewart 10y ago
> To put it bluntly, a huge proportion of messages will not be understood at all and there is little we can do about it. What we can do is anticipate user frustration and alleviate the situation by offering a little help and managing exp

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