snikolic

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by snikolic 15y ago
Think of cool points as HN karma. You get points if things are hearted after you heart them (double if you were the original person to share them). Search will come soon...that's another beast. :-) Glad you found some good music! That's wha
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by snikolic 15y ago
Thanks! :-)
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by snikolic 15y ago
Think of the playlists as your Twitter timeline or Facebook news stream. They are chronological lists of what other people are listening to. If you login and make an account, you can follow other users and find your friends, and the playlis
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by snikolic 15y ago
I should add that we're beginning work on a new system for uploading tracks (or just pasting URLS to audio files or SoundCloud). That should make it much easier to share, and much more clear where the content comes from. It'll feel somethin
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by snikolic 15y ago
Any feedback appreciated! This is definitely a work in progress. I have a lot of music enthusiasts for friends, and we're constantly overwhelming each other with word-of-mouth music and band recommendations. I decided to build something tha
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Show HN: Find new music with your friends(flock.fm)
25 points by snikolic 15y ago|16 comments
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by snikolic 15y ago
Good idea. After the list is a bit more populated, I'm going to send an email to all of the Boston folks.
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by snikolic 15y ago
Veyron, I wish you a fine recovery from the last few days. :-) First off, I'd pay. Second, I'll donate as soon as the kickstarter page is up. Last, can you clarify what the granularity of the data would be? Are we just talking about closing
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by snikolic 15y ago
Regarding corporate exchanges: they may be private companies, but they are heavily regulated and considered vital pieces of our economy. How can we sanely say something is financially vital to our country, and then exclude 99.9% of the popu
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by snikolic 15y ago
To frame this another way: if we only use our connections for short periods of time, we can almost get 100% of what we're paying for. Woo!
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by snikolic 15y ago
In the heat of criticizing the financial industry, I forgot to say that I'm enjoying your posts, and I think what you're working on is really cool. :-)
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by snikolic 15y ago
> "powers-that-be don't want to lose control of the information" This. What happens when they inevitably do?
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by snikolic 15y ago
What happens to the industry when market access and data is openly available at an affordable price and a speed/scale comparable to what professional traders currently have access to? And why hasn't this been done yet? As an outsider to the
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by snikolic 15y ago
Neat!
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by snikolic 15y ago
I can't remember the last time I did a formal analysis, but I naturally think about this stuff whenever I work with sets/lists, loops, recursion, string manipulations, or non-trivial standard library implementations....which is basically wh
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by snikolic 15y ago
What bothers me is how simple this is. This is simple arbitrage that anyone with access to wikipedia could figure out in a few days. What makes these strategies profitable is exclusive access to information - not actual investing prowess. I
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by snikolic 15y ago
Boston/Cambridge, MA Crimson Hexagon is looking for awesome developers: web developers, backend hackers, and everything in between. We use machine learning to measure public opinion about major brands, politics, etc. using the social web as
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by snikolic 15y ago
As a non-employee, I can confirm that these guys have an awesome engineering culture and a very well stocked beer fridge. Great party last weekend :-)
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by snikolic 15y ago
I see very distinct music activities: - Discovering new music (Hype Machine, Sound Cloud) - Recommending music to friends (Last.fm, sending a YouTube link to a friend, etc.) - Active listening (building a playlist on Spotify or Rdio or Rhap
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The Obama Campaign Needs Quantitative Analysts(my.barackobama.com)
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by snikolic 15y ago
A bigger arrow to hit a bigger target, perhaps? I don't know. I obviously intuit the metaphor, but it's sort of lost on me too. Off to wikipedia... Edit: Also, I should note that this tangential thread is why I love HN.
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Google Labs Winding Down(googleblog.blogspot.com)
283 points by snikolic 15y ago|73 comments
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by snikolic 15y ago
The segment from 14:00-17:00 is pretty interesting. They discuss the Twitter ecosystem, Twitter's buy/build philosophy, and particularly the social media analytics ecosystem. "We're not going to build that kind of stuff ourselves...that's n
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by snikolic 15y ago
There's an enormous difference between controlled access to individual globules of data, and free access to the entirety of a dataset.
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by snikolic 15y ago
Ignoring legality, Aaron's actions, case specifics, etc., I have to admit: I really wish that the data in question was free and publicly available.
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by snikolic 15y ago
You're totally right.
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by snikolic 15y ago
Actually, it's the other way around. I've been been falsely answering all of the posts here on HN in the first person. The site was really built by a "we". Robert (not an HN member, sadly) is a designer, and my co-founder at http://www.flo
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by snikolic 15y ago
Thanks for the upvote! I agree with you. There's a bit of bias in all of this, and no matter how objective I try to be (or don't), I'm inherently making a political statement. Most political issues are way too complex to summarize with a we
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by snikolic 15y ago
I lied...I didn't actually fix the problem, because I didn't upload the correct version of the file, because I'm not using proper version control. Color me embarrassed. Is it better now?
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by snikolic 15y ago
Yeah, it's way more complicated than this. SS, Medicare, payroll taxes, estate taxes, etc. are all part of the proposal. I just wanted to focus on income tax for this project - I think your average joe can most easily understand income tax

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