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by tansey 15y ago
Hi! My startup [1] is based on an algorithm that can measure the emotional impact of text. Our blog is where we post interesting results from applying our algorithm. [1] http://effectcheck.com
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Do Social News Sites Deteriorate? (Analysis of 1.8M HN Comments)(blog.effectcheck.com)
110 points by tansey 15y ago|54 comments
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by tansey 15y ago
Admittedly, I'm not a source control or git expert by any means. However, in a lot of work environments, it is a contest. Your company decides at the outset that they will commit to use a set of technologies for the next project and that's
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Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP(nashcoding.com)
147 points by tansey 15y ago|42 comments
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When you hate your design and you're almost finished with it, what do you do?(ux.stackexchange.com)
3 points by tansey 15y ago|1 comments
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by tansey 15y ago
However, you have to use MS OS, MS development tools, MS deployment You can use Mono tools if you'd like. For deployment, AppHarbor is just awesome. ...you can't use shiny macbooks any longer I'm on a brand new Macbook Pro right now and
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by tansey 15y ago
Ah, got it. Thanks!
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by tansey 15y ago
Right, but I don't want to use PHP. I don't understand why it wouldn't be just a straight-forward CSS/HTML/JS front-end. Is there some code generated on the server that I'm not getting?
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by tansey 15y ago
I am a little confused-- why does the theme come with PHP files? Isn't it just a front-end?
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by tansey 15y ago
They are getting paid to take the risk on financial instruments, because they're experts at it. They have no need to take any risks on their technology infrastructure.
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Assessing the Emotional Impact of an Important Political Speech(blog.effectcheck.com)
1 points by tansey 15y ago|0 comments
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by tansey 15y ago
>I can tell good tea from bad tea, but I've never grown it. That's a straw man argument. If you used to grow tea, got famous for some awesome blend, started writing books about tea, stopped growing it, then joined a panel with a bunch o
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by tansey 15y ago
Overall, I'll say that the general sentiment of this panel is half true. On the one hand, machine learning research has grown to such a large field that the signal to noise ratio has dropped dramatically. Lots of people try to squeak out an
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Frustrations of Meta-Teaching(etilevich.wordpress.com)
2 points by tansey 15y ago|0 comments
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by tansey 15y ago
Just a note-- it's probably better not to have the "seeking work" option at all, or at least in another thread. It creates a lot of visual spam to sort through if you're looking for "seeking freelancer" positions.
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by tansey 15y ago
Seems like there is a qualitative difference here, though. Your office hours are effectively 37signals customer support from the CEO. Fred's are more of an altruistic way to give back to the startup community. Both are great, just noting th
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by tansey 15y ago
A bit of friendly advice: you didn't link to Munchery at all in that article. The first time you mention it, it should be a link. :) Also worth noting that the Munchery page contains no way for other chefs to join.
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by tansey 16y ago
Totally agree. I thought it wasn't listed anywhere until I looked at the comments here. It would probably improve conversions a lot if there was a simple "Pricing" tab at the top.
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by tansey 16y ago
This is provably impossible in the general case [1] and almost impossible in his specific case. It's extremely difficult to know if/when a program will terminate using just static analysis. Edit: Why the down vote? [1] http://en.wikipedi
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by tansey 16y ago
A lot of people asked us when signing up how EffectCheck works. Hopefully this blog post helps answer that a little bit. This demonstrates the kind of analysis and optimization that someone could do with our MVP.
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Delivering Bad News - A Twitter Case Study(blog.effectcheck.com)
6 points by tansey 16y ago|1 comments
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by tansey 16y ago
PG, if you really want to get hard data on whether comments have gotten "meaner", I'd be happy to help with that. It seems the chief complaint is that comments are no longer increasing the happiness and confidence of the community, but rath
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by tansey 16y ago
Sorry about that, as I noted in another comment, I used page views in the numerator and unique visitors in the denominator. I've updated the article with the appropriate percentages.
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by tansey 16y ago
I just realized looking at these numbers that I used the # pageviews per browser / total UVs to calculate those percentages. So if you're wondering why they add up to > 100%, that's why. Just understand that the actual numbers are rough
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by tansey 16y ago
> Why not follow the recursion down the rabbit hole The thought did cross my mind. ;) Seriously though, we plan on focusing the blog on analyzing press releases, political speeches, and other text currently making headlines. We just wer
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by tansey 16y ago
Thanks! Glad you like the article! My advisor from grad school had a blog post on the front page as well, with similar vote counts. He tracked about 5,000 UV total for the 48 hour period it was popular (24 hours on the front page). So the v
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HackerNews Front-Page Funnel Analysis(blog.effectcheck.com)
33 points by tansey 16y ago|13 comments
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by tansey 16y ago
If both of those are true, then doesn't that mean a whole wave of sub-par Ruby and Python developers are coming our way in the next few years?
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by tansey 16y ago
Again, tongue in cheek. :) Though I am really buying a MBP tomorrow. I'm doing it because I need a new laptop and I like the new MBP-- but you can be sure I'll have it setup to do Windows 7 in dual boot from day 1.
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by tansey 16y ago
> Also, "I'm buying a MBP" translates to "I'm serious about startups"? Well, that was tongue in cheek. But really, just the opposite-- I'm saying that I'm a total tool who's caved in to the trendy peer pressure of the startup culture. T

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