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by tansey 14y ago
DrawSomething for questions. That's hilarious-- it's the exact same analogy I used when bouncing around ideas for my NLP project last month. We ended up building http://playdeception.com and it worked out really well for the three days we
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by tansey 14y ago
Just signed Curvio up for it. We're already launched, but we have a half dozen new features/products to launch this summer, so hopefully this helps us stay on track even better! :)
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by tansey 14y ago
Facebook is not rumored to buy a Face.com-based iPhone app like you were building. They were rumored to buy Face.com-- a computer vision company that has been tweaking their face recognition algorithms for years.
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How To Find Startup Ideas(wesleytansey.com)
66 points by tansey 14y ago|23 comments
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by tansey 14y ago
Suspects win by convincing the detective that they're telling the truth. Detectives win by correctly guessing the liar. Technically, you really win based on the final detective guess. We give progressively more points for each question plus
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by tansey 14y ago
Good idea! I just put that up there quickly to give some indication of how well people are doing. You're totally right though. If we get enough players to make it interesting, we'll add a much awesomer leaderboard and do breakdowns by role
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by tansey 14y ago
Well the liar has to convince the judge that he is not lying about the answer. However, the answer is the one given by the truth teller and not the liar. So what incentive would the liar have to tell the truth?
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Show HN: Deception - A Generalized Turing Test Game(playdeception.com)
13 points by tansey 14y ago|13 comments
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by tansey 14y ago
How exactly does this make money? There's no clear indicator on the site that either it's a for-pay (e.g. a 'Pricing' tab) or free (e.g. '100% Free!') service.
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by tansey 15y ago
Subspace is exactly what I had in mind when I saw the OP. It even has a bot API, though unfortunately no one has made a fully-playable one yet.
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by tansey 15y ago
Nope. They explicitly say they do not plan to accept sitemaps.
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by tansey 15y ago
At least you get indexed by DDG. Curvio has been live for 2 months now, Google has indexed over 2000 of our pages, and we're the #1 result for over 100 different Google queries. Meanwhile, DDG still thinks you're searching for "Cuervo" [1]
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by tansey 15y ago
Is there a paper behind the design of Zen? I'm assuming it's some combination of heuristics and MCTS.
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by tansey 15y ago
Any link to the password dump from the Brazzers attack referenced in the article?
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Cold Contacting vs. Spamming(wesleytansey.com)
3 points by tansey 15y ago|0 comments
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by tansey 15y ago
This article is an excellent summary of all the frustrations I've encountered using both oDesk and Mechanical Turk. I'll add one more issue with MTurk: binary decisions. Some of my tasks can't easily be broken down into accept/reject, or so
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by tansey 15y ago
Couldn't you just add a prior probability that someone has any problem? Going to the ER is much more difficult than typing something into a web app, so you should use your expert knowledge to adjust that. It would also seem like a better ap
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by tansey 15y ago
Machine learning guy here. I'm curious: which AI model you chose on the back-end?
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by tansey 15y ago
Why I don't use DDG: they don't even index most of my startup's pages. - Google: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ix=... - DDG: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=curvio It seems DDG even thinks I'm asking about Jose Cuerv
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by tansey 15y ago
I think it's unfair to jump on the guy as being naive or young. I don't know if people who setup these dysfunctional workplaces ever improve. He probably is just not great at running a business, end of story. If you're a controlling person
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by tansey 15y ago
>"In 2010... 'For some reason, there was no digital product to help meet new friends'" There are tons of digital products to help meet new friends. Did he not even check Meetup? This just seems naive.
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by tansey 15y ago
Thanks! We're trying to expand quickly, so please do come back! We tried to use FB sparingly. It's useful to us because if you want to post comments or suggest an item, it's now much more likely you're going to tie it to your account. This
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by tansey 15y ago
Right. In a lot of ways cool spotters is a competitor. I think the main difference is that we're focused on connecting people to the show itself rather than an individual celebrity. I believe our design and positioning is also better than C
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by tansey 15y ago
Good point! I think that's one hypothesis we have to test by seeing how traffic to different episodes/items drops off over time. I personally expect there to be fat tails, but seeing the data will be the only way to find out.
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by tansey 15y ago
You can indeed do just that! :) You click a show, then we show you a preview of each episode (top 4 items) from the most recent season.
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by tansey 15y ago
Thanks! Last time I checked seenon, they picked like 7 items from the latest movie and ran those as exclusive offers for a week. There are tons of sites that pick out a few items and write blog posts about them or something. We're trying to
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by tansey 15y ago
I think that's a caching expiration issue. We're on it-- thank you!
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by tansey 15y ago
We do have some of the links as affiliate links. That's our first source of revenue which will hopefully enable us to bootstrap to the next level. In principal, there should be a system to do this automatically. What we're seeing is that Ho
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by tansey 15y ago
We've talked to a ton of people, including one costume designer for a well-known show and some mid-level people at a few retailers. Right now we are focused on gaining traffic and building up to the next level of visibility so we can start
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Show HN: My startup Curvio - IMDB for Clothes and Accessories on TV(curvio.com)
84 points by tansey 15y ago|50 comments

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