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A Clear Look at the Great Panic(thegatesnotes.com)
4 points by yungchin 17y ago|1 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
There was some interesting discussion about this a couple of days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1127274 I guess one problem may be that the new jobs require skills that the old jobs didn't, and not all of the newly unemployed w
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by yungchin 17y ago
I get the feeling, but rationally, that would be equivalent to a company that simply promises (say, in the Terms of Service) not to mess with your data. I may actually trust a company on such promises, but the real risk is in this scenario:
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by yungchin 17y ago
Well, (1) would be pointless: that means you're still decrypting server-side! The way I see it, social networks are mostly just a reworked version of (email + mailing lists + usenet) in a form that appeals to non-techies. Now, adding encryp
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Efficient history-stealing attack to identify website-visitors(33bits.org)
26 points by yungchin 17y ago|9 comments
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Jure Leskovec on Memetracker, quantitative media analysis(ethanzuckerman.com)
3 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
I liked the insights presented in this essay, although sadly I think the whole thing was mangled to make it seem relevant to recent events: the banking bailouts and the outcry over bankers' compensations should probably have been left out o
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The Fable Of Market Meritocracy(forbes.com)
2 points by yungchin 17y ago|2 comments
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See You in Forty Days(scienceblogs.com)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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Linux Foundation chief on MeeGo(linux.com)
2 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
It makes sense for Intel, because they want to get into the mobile market, which is totally controlled by ARM. So getting Nokia's platform to be not only ARM- but also Atom-compatible might get Intel a chance of entry. I guess it technicall
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by yungchin 17y ago
I think the interesting part of the essay is not so much whether the predictions for the dollar have yet come true. As you say, the principle is sound, and the problem remains today as it was back then. The interesting part, I think, are th
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by yungchin 17y ago
I agree the title is silly, but I didn't know what to change it to either :) The post seemed sort of unfinished to me, in that it doesn't really point out the fact that people apparently only want to pay for moving information around, rathe
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by yungchin 17y ago
You're wrong :) From Marco's post: "You can see the same effect on anything ranked highly by a Google search for “facebook login”, including this: http://www.khabrein.info/news/New_Facebook_homepage__new_Fac... .
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Elastic Search - You Know, for Search(elasticsearch.com)
1 points by yungchin 17y ago|0 comments
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Information wants to be free my ass(roughtype.com)
4 points by yungchin 17y ago|3 comments
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by yungchin 17y ago
The time-of-day/voting pattern is something that occurred to me too. But the scientifically sound way of verifying this would be to look at the ratio of successful items and the submission rate for different times of the day. This attempt w
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by yungchin 17y ago
> The fact remains, Gladwell's most recent book, Outliers, argues that there is no such thing as talent. That's not what I read in it. If you look up the passage about the conservatory students, you'll find that he says that you need a
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by yungchin 17y ago
> Gladwell is successful because he tells so many people what they want to hear: your lack of talent doesn't matter. Actually, I thought he told people something they really don't want to hear: your superb talents don't mean a thing u
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by yungchin 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1116108 (I thought I had a deja-vu, but the top post is a duplicate :))
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by yungchin 17y ago
Clay Shirky wrote about this, see eg [1]. The idea is that you need to minimise the number of decisions people have to make, or they won't use the service much. You don't want to cause "decision friction" on every site and every month again
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by yungchin 17y ago
Aha, thanks (cool tool, btw, Skitch). For some reason, when I search Google, the News results are halfway down the page, not at the top.
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by yungchin 17y ago
Well maybe not. Professional services companies in other sectors don't always have sales people - think law and accounting firms, and other types of consultancies (if the comparison seems odd, see my earlier question about partnership firms
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by yungchin 17y ago
Funny. But can you explain how all those people ended up there? It's not like that's the first hit on Google/Bing, or?
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by yungchin 17y ago
Noble thoughts. I'm not a lawyer, so this is mostly a question: if you're dealing in open-source only, and your product is service, wouldn't it make sense to form a partnership firm? All the things he talks about - a sense of ownership, peo
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by yungchin 17y ago
> I wonder if, when a company crosses a threshold we all think violates a Nash equilibrium, we start to oppose the company. Do you mean "we, the people" or "we, the people who think in terms of Nash equilibria"? ;) More seriously: I don
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by yungchin 17y ago
I thought the "for hire" part meant to cover cases where the copyrights are transferable to a customer of the company. So in that case the customer owns the rights, and in all other cases that are discussed in the foregoing (I agree with yo
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by yungchin 17y ago
Yes, that's exactly how I think we should look at this. The open web is full of AdSense-junkies, while on Facebook they won't have it. I'm not sure I agree that there's lack of innovation at Google; I'm trying to think of a big company that
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by yungchin 17y ago
That's what I never got about Wave - that they didn't somehow integrate it with Gmail, not even loosely. After I got a Wave account I invited a couple of friends, and they checked it out - signing in once, and forgetting about the whole ser
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by yungchin 17y ago
I really liked Chris Dixon's post "What's strategic for Google?" from a while back: http://cdixon.org/2009/12/30/whats-strategic-for-google/ ... following his line of thinking, this may be a lame me-too product, but they _have_ to run it

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