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Clubhouse: How We Used ML to Identify Relevant Notifications(blog.clubhouse.com)
2 points by taylorhughes 5y ago|0 comments
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by taylorhughes 5y ago
Such a good guy. I remember he raised a very gnarly translation issue one time in which we translated something that said “Share them” that unintentionally translated to “cut them up into pieces and share them at dinner” in Swedish. Fredrik
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by taylorhughes 5y ago
> The rest isn't implemented. In particular you can't create and moderate rooms. There's probably a hundred bugs in the existing functionality too. ...
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by taylorhughes 5y ago
[I'm on the clubhouse team, but was not involved in this decision] 1) the CH iOS app itself has a long history of powering other prototypes / small communities before CH existed — so I think the early engineers were leveraging wha
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by taylorhughes 5y ago
Phrase borrowed from excellent uWSGI docs https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/articles/Seriali...
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by taylorhughes 5y ago
(CH employee here) The job of the cofounder is to create a thing that people want, which has nothing to do with performance. The first goal is capturing lightning in a bottle with social products. Performance doesn’t matter until the lightn
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Who's Best at Predicting the Future? Why Brier Score Fails(forecastapp.substack.com)
8 points by taylorhughes 6y ago|0 comments
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by taylorhughes 6y ago
No, especially if you work on one of the many integrity teams internally trying to make it better.
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by taylorhughes 6y ago
+1 thx
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by taylorhughes 6y ago
bingo
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by taylorhughes 6y ago
Gating could be a good idea; I think also leaning less on the aggregate/average and more on the positions from reliable participants in the market would be important once there's any kind of influence or scale to this product.
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by taylorhughes 6y ago
Thanks! Right now we're focused more on building the community and usability of the product, so the market implementation itself is fairly simple. But we're following the various crypto implementations closely...
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by taylorhughes 6y ago
This is something we're thinking about continuously; it's unclear how central the prediction %s themselves should be. I am hopeful our core community can become more accurate over time, and get better and better at surfacing new i
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by taylorhughes 6y ago
Yes, separate developer account (lots of benefits, eg. no shared credentials) but our apps are all transparent about being created by Facebook Inc.
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by taylorhughes 6y ago
Hi HN, I helped build Forecast. We're a small team within Facebook's New Product Experimentation group. We think prediction markets have the potential to create structured conversation spaces, to drive constructive discussion abou
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by taylorhughes 6y ago
Signs & markings is one of the most enjoyable parts - also practical if you're looking out airplane windows in airports frequently! https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
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Facebook vs. Google: 10 Contrasts for Engineering Careers(linkedin.com)
4 points by taylorhughes 6y ago|0 comments
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How my infra startup ruined Christmas for thousands of children(medium.com)
3 points by taylorhughes 6y ago|0 comments
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by taylorhughes 7y ago
(fb employee here) fwiw I've heard of a ton of people continuing to pay housekeepers, nannies, etc. - I was going to pay our house cleaner to stay home anyway, but this removes any hesitation/excuse not to. I agree it's unne
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by taylorhughes 7y ago
Thousands of engineers at Facebook (and Google, and probably Twitter, and ...) work on stopping this kind of abuse. There are many very hard problems in this area; it is not remotely easy to "solve" a constantly evolving adversari
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by taylorhughes 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465873
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by taylorhughes 7y ago
I was editor of my daily college newspaper, which had $1m annual budget in 2006 funded entirely by student-sold advertising to local businesses. The paper today is a shell of its former self, basically a weekly pamphlet. Its demise happened
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The Antikythera mechanism, ancient astronomical computer(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by taylorhughes 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: As an app developer, do you care if an SDK is open source?
3 points by taylorhughes 10y ago|1 comments
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TCP stack written in go(github.com)
7 points by taylorhughes 10y ago|0 comments
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by taylorhughes 10y ago
We announced yesterday that our team joined Google, and as a result we've open sourced pretty much our whole codebase. This also includes our in-app user analytics platform, https://launchkit.io/users/ -- as well
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Show HN: LaunchKit open source project(github.com)
13 points by taylorhughes 10y ago|1 comments
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by taylorhughes 10y ago
My friend from college is the founder of this company. He has spent many years building Flux and trying to bring electric scooters to the US. (They spent several years just iterating on the design before the DOT would approve them for use h
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by taylorhughes 10y ago
This but with jsonp might make sense; with xhr you can always get the http response code
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by taylorhughes 11y ago
pam_exec seems to be a more robust solution to login notifications than /etc/profile http://blog.stalkr.net/2010/11/login-notifications-pamexec-s...

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