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I my experience, this is not an exaggeration. Most of the top popularity apps expect the Google Play APIs to be present. Have you had the experience that this is no longer the case?
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The non-free Google Play APIs, which are heavily used by many Android apps. This makes it a real pain to run popular Android apps on Blackberry, for example. So in practice, very few users do. Edit: Warning - lots of downvotes in this threa
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Here's a question that will help: Many of the major outsourcing-providing countries have far more developers than even the US, so why aren't those outsourcing countries at least creating a ton of early stage startups? My answer, a
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So, let's plug these shapes into a regressor / ranker / classifier, along with some possible target variables (career path, survival rates, yearly office peer ratings, salary after 5 years,) for as many balanced samples as po
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There never will be a truly great way to learn by yourself, until very high quality free design tools become widely available. This is not the case today. Free EE tools are still terrible compared to, for example, tools used in software dev
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Confirming that Manhattan is both much cheaper or more expensive... depending on how you live. Manhattan, with their rent control laws, has one of the most bi-modal distributions of cost of living, probably in the world. Doesn't really
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"From the outside it looks like a typical content database..." You would terribly fail, if you were one of Google's paid quality raters. The task is to rate the actual value to the user, regardless of the particulars. The tas
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Interesting. Thank you for sharing. "You could might as well require of the developer to have great aesthetic sense" - Yes, the full-stack-developer trend is exactly that. I do think that is a great idea in general. Just a side no
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I'm not at all talking about minor A/B experiments after the design is built. I'm not talking about a process at all. Instead I'm talking about a goal. I'm talking about, from the start, building with the goal of ma
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The huge problem is that outsourced designers almost never "own" the product -- compensation is almost never structured based on long-term conversion rates or future value that the website earns. Even if they do partially own the
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Most common finance myth: there's one "true" gold standard valuation method. People who are negotiating against you will like to spread this myth, and of course they say their valuation is the true one. Finance Reality: There
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Just curious, what are these permanent side effects that the article is talking about?
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You should try shuffling around this pipeline a bit. Instead of: See face -> Score face -> Yes them only if score is good Try: See face -> Yes to all -> Score the faces of people who Yes you back Also would be really interesting
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This just makes sense.
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That's what quantiles are for.
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Extremely nice. So many people have gone through these programs, but so few have taken the time to build something that makes it easier for the next people who will want to go through them. I always found that strange.
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How is that buzzword so huge now? Does no one using it realize that the word "focus" by itself... conveys nothing! At least 20 different ways that I could see "focus" being interpreted, most of those conflicting with ea
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Hacker News is the most poorly maintained forum I've ever seen. Too bad the original creator left and the new maintainers can't make any significant improvements. Just empty promises from the guys who took over, who have no real a
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I've been kind of wondering what the business case for "internet of things" is for years, and now I realize. It's a modern SCADA. No more, no less.
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Marketplaces are most ruthless and often immoral in their emergent behavior. I'll definitely agree that the results are often bad. I won't agree that anyone should ignore the reality of it though. Realize that it is the most liter
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No, I'd say. The most self-evident thing to do is do whatever is best for yourself in the short term. Any other behavior is increasingly harder to gather... evidence for it being best. It's a two-sided marketplace, each side havin
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No no, this was my idea that I was planning to do someday, as soon as I got rich. Just kidding, great stuff. I hope this lasts and grows.
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Do they focus on improving conversion rates, and have any experience in the area of conversion rate optimization? Or is it reviews by random Mturk freelancers? Too often, these services end up giving you 10 minutes of whining about petty fo
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Ask HN: Website testing service, with a focus on improving conversion rates?
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Same.
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Hahah, of course it's in NYC. Well, the version I've always had in my head is that wingwomen will be matched up with men -- just to get the guys into the clubs, huge unsolved problem. But hope this works out either way.
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You guys that try to lure clueless young people into your small town career death traps are the worst kind of manipulators. Disgusting.
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Numbers talk, bullsh*t walks. Please tell me where your suggested EU city / region ranks among this bar chart: https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/tech-acquisition-rankings-ci... Numbers, please? It's not rose ti
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And once you solve this, how will you meet the people who will eventually make the biggest investment? (The acquirers.) Being in the right part of the US, you can meet all three - future employees, investors, the decision makers in charge o
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Sorry, I stand corrected. It's only 20% higher for young women than men in NYC. http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2015274... To my original point -- lots of status symbol trends are

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