HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

paulrosenzweig

667 karma · joined October 25, 2011

https://paulrosenzweig.com
submissionscomments
paulrosenzweig··on Tesla Live Stream – Autonomy Day [video]
> "Deep Learning", no matter how big your dataset, fundamentally cannot possess this capability.

Why not? I’d agree that current models can’t, but what’s the fundamental shortcoming of deep learning?

paulrosenzweig··on Show HN: Create Chart Images from a URL
Great app! Here's a similar tool that I've seen, but haven't used: http://chartd.co
paulrosenzweig··on Root Insurance raises $100M for a $1B valuation
Hey Lionel! I bet they have a lot of Braintree alums interviewing there. Dan is great to work with.

Also, we should catch up!

paulrosenzweig··on T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account
Haha fair enough. If you do know someone at Instagram, please just tell them to search for me in their support inbox. I've included identity verification in my email. They could also just reach out to the email I had in my account before the hack occurred.
paulrosenzweig··on T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account
Great question! My phone number isn't particularly private, but I'm not sure how exactly they found it. I have a guess, but it's pretty elaborate, so they may have found a simpler route.
paulrosenzweig··on T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account
I contacted Instagram support within a few hours of the hack, but I have yet to hear back. I've bumped the thread a few times, but still silence.
paulrosenzweig··on T-Mobile Employee Made Unauthorized ‘SIM Swap’ to Steal Instagram Account
I was the victim mentioned in this story. If anyone has a friend at Instagram who might be able to help restore the account, please let me know!
paulrosenzweig··on PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API
I _love_ the simplicity. Really well done project.
paulrosenzweig··on Ask HN: What feature would you want the web to “force” next, after HTTPS?
I agree with this, but feel like there might be issues I'm not thinking of. Can anyone shed some light on why browsers are so tolerant today and why that might be a good thing?
paulrosenzweig··on Visualize data instantly with machine learning in Google Sheets
I'm at a ~100 person company. We've been using Mode for about six months and like it.
paulrosenzweig··on Developers’ side projects
I haven't heard about many disputed cases. I'd hope that if Google went around suing for possession of unrelated side projects, we'd hear about it.

Maybe the possibility of being publicly shamed is a deterrent from pursing ownership.

paulrosenzweig··on Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
I think the poster meant Adwords or some similar self-serve solution.
paulrosenzweig··on Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
I bought display ads in Nature (the journal) a while back. There's no way to purchase without talking to a salesperson. However, I expect they want to keep it this way.
paulrosenzweig··on Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
I think it comes down to them seeing themselves as a utility. You wouldn't want to be prompted for payment confirmation every time you plug something into an outlet, but this does mean that you'll have a huge unexpected charge if you accidentally leave on the air conditioner when you go on vacation.
paulrosenzweig··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
http://datafart.com

When I was learning Go a few years ago, I build a simple way to generate line graphs from the command line by piping to a cURL command. A few people still actually use it.

paulrosenzweig··on 100M Photos – Geotagged, Connected, and Available for All
The photos are CC licensed. I think they plan to own the algorithms on top extracting value from the photos. But, I totally agree that there should be simple DB download.
paulrosenzweig··on Ask HN: Connect your app to the world's networks? Is this a hard problem?
There are a few start ups offering telephony APIs. The most popular is called Twilio.
paulrosenzweig··on Show HN: Free and easy geoip API thanks to Cloudflare and Heroku
Will Cloudflare cache the same response for different countries?
paulrosenzweig··on The ill-fated tale of Phoneys, the sticker pack that went #1 on the App Store
I think if I were a user I'd prefer it be pulled. Breaking the app I paid for by releasing an update that fundamentally changes it feels like a much bigger betrayal than not allowing new downloads.
paulrosenzweig··on Courage
Is Bluetooth less open to innovate on than the 3.5mm jack? I agree that it's important to be able to create hardware add-ons "without Apple's permission", but wouldn't most of those use cases just use Bluetooth today?
paulrosenzweig··on Next steps for Gmane
For the uninitiated, what is Gmane? From their home page it looks like it's similar to Google Groups. Is that a fair assessment?
paulrosenzweig··on Legendary Apple Engineer Gets Rejected for Genius Bar Job
I think your argument that discriminatory companies will lose out to companies willing to hire more broadly is flawed for a few reasons:

1. Markets are not perfectly efficient. If Apple decided not to hire female engineers they wouldn't immediately be overtaken by another company that can use access to a larger labor pool as a decisive advantage. Even if this would be a disadvantage because other companies would hire women, they might still win due to other advantages.

2. Often the same prejudice that affects hiring is held by the customers. If a restaurant in a racist community refuses to hire minorty workers, they might do better than other restaurants. This makes it even more important to enforce fair hiring practices judicially.

paulrosenzweig··on Show HN: Intro.js v2.3.0 – Step-by-step guide and feature introduction
If you're using the library for a commercial purpose, a $10 lifetime license seems pretty cheap. You only pay more than that if you want support/themes.
paulrosenzweig··on Hosting My Static Site
To be honest, I hadn't heard of any of these static hosting providers. I've used S3/Google Cloud Storage with Cloudflare to get SSL. For low traffic sites this setup is effectively free and very easy to set up.
paulrosenzweig··on Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News
Nice site! Personally, I'd like to have the option to view by category. Maybe you could just pull this from Amazon or manually curate your own topics.
paulrosenzweig··on [dead]
It looks like this should be a "Show HN". You should probably resubmit it as one.
paulrosenzweig··on Learning from Imbalanced Classes
There is a current Kaggle competition that is a good learning opportunity for imbalanced data. The goal is to predict parts that will be rejected by quality control.

https://www.kaggle.com/c/bosch-production-line-performance

paulrosenzweig··on Amazon Vehicles
I wonder if once Tesla fights back all the local monopoly regulation around dealerships, this will naturally transition to an online car dealership. They'll have to figure out test drives though.
paulrosenzweig··on BlackBox
So is this Gumroad but for physical goods? The sales flow is similarly out of your hands, but it's super easy to set up.
paulrosenzweig··on Show HN: Also Viewing – “Sally is also viewing this page” as a service
Oh I see what you're saying. Also Viewing was actually called "Edit Guard" originally. I'll figure out how to tweak the copy. Thanks for you thoughts!
Page 1 of 3Next →