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> No ads, no political spam, no viral garbage, no pictures of what your friend ate for dinner, no psychologically manipulative algorithms. Just people talking to their friends and posting pictures of themselves hanging out.

> If someone made a new social network like that, I'd sign up today.

Get into the world of finstas, that's basically the concept behind them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/fashion/instagram-finstag...

I don't see why you would've expected it, it's not like any of those things are particularly trendy.

It comes in first, and obviously the site will be ranked in that search because the results are limited to only pages from Google.ai

S/he wasn't justifying sneering for the rich, they were saying they understood sneering at lifestyle businesses in the case of people who succeeded at building unicorn startups.

It's not about money or class, it's about success in a particular field and judgement of that particular field.

Wunderlist was based in Berlin.

That's only single-blind (experimenters are blinded to test vs control, but subjects are not). It's impossible to keep subjects unaware of whether or not they were given acid, for obvious reasons.

Yes, that is exactly why it was proposed by ~derefr to

> [offer] "safe self-experimentation sites", complete with medical researchers + monitoring equipment to capture data, and nurses to help with bad reactions?

That's what this whole subthread is about.

Facebook uses a `--clowntown` flag to let people do things without normal checks. [0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/When-people-who-work-at-Facebook-say-c...

Yes, I understood what was meant, I was pointing out that the parent comment didn't clarify it any further for the person who did not understand.

What does this clarify? "A pack of chips" isn't a common idiom.

> the slowest it could be is probably the length of the actual lecture

Have you ever transcribed content? The length of the recording is the lower bound on time it takes to transcribe, not the upper bound.

His reason for leaving Google (a "credible" sexual harassment allegation) is a liability for Uber. If he had disclosed it before he was offered the position, he likely would not have been offered it.

It seems completely appropriate for a company to take steps to limit their liabilities.

I don't see why paying for the power would suddenly become an issue. If California can afford it now, they'll be able to afford it later, even if it's paid in a different currency--it's still the same amount of wealth.

Not NSA, but the CIA funds and operates In-Q-Tel[1]. They've funded companies like Palantir and Keyhole (which became Google Earth).

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/in-q-tel

> And why introduce graph theory terminology for concepts that not really new in the database world?

Because it's developed by Facebook, and Facebook really does view all of their data as a graph.

That's because it is, for some reason, hosted on Blogger (which even Google themselves have abandoned for their corporate blog).

Pentel Graph Gear 1000: https://www.jetpens.com/Pentel-Graph-Gear-1000-Drafting-Penc...

Best mechanical pencil I've ever used. You can tell a lot of thought has been put into every aspect of its design. The Rotring 800 is similarly well-designed, but I prefer the grip of the Pentel.

Comparing two offers where one is cash + liquid equity (the case at most major tech companies) and the other is the same amount of cash + equity in a company that has no near-term plans to IPO (the case at Uber), most people would consider the first offer to be worth more.

Even if nominally the equity is worth the same in the both cases, liquidity is also valuable. (And the equity might not really be worth the same--companies have been forced to IPO at a valuation lower than their last round of funding.)

> One thing I see every once in a while on HN is people with the belief that they can spend a week or two knocking out an algorithmic trader and start raking it in. In order to break this illusion I would recommend: http://financial-math.org/ http://www.quantresearch.info/

Also, the Wilmott quant finance forums are great: https://forum.wilmott.com

> 2. if deep nlp can provide us with more efficiency than what is stated above then wouldn't it be safe to assume that is UNREASONABLY efficient?

Why? Neural nets can already detect skin cancer as well as human dermatologists [1]. Why would you assume that your algorithm is the peak of efficiency and anything that performs better is "unreasonable"?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13484372

It's words from the URL. I'm guessing they were used because the article headline isn't very descriptive.

More discussion on a similar article by the original author:

"The $99B Idea: How Uber and Airbnb Won" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13505818

Yes, it's very likely that different demographic profiles have different driving behaviors.

But given that they've shown this 40% crash rate reduction in their current demographic, it's reasonable to expect to see a similar reduction in other demographics (maybe not of the same magnitude, but at least in the same direction).

From what I've heard, the WhatsApp team has remained fairly independent internally. They're executing on a strategy separate from Messenger's.

If you're doing significant volume, give them a call and they'll give you a custom cost-plus rate.

And even your ability to read posts is questionable, given that ~Camillo didn't write any of the words you're putting into their mouth.

I think the unwritten qualification is "If it's a bad environment".

"If it's a bad environment -- it never gets better, there is no good fight, and you should flee to save yourself."

It's very possible to find places that are good to work at. It's highly unlikely for a shitty environment to get significantly better.

> I've learnt to value people in the "cooperate cooperate" quadrant of the Prisoner's Dilemma very highly, and it's not a reputation you can "buy" quickly.

This is a great way to put it. People who act in good faith are the only people I'd want to do business with, and YC has (rightfully IMO) earned a reputation for being a partner you can trust.

Yes, but it's misleading to compare city+state spending in NYC to solely city spending in SF, and conclude that SF is underspending on the homeless.

To be a fair comparison, we'd also have to include what the state of California spends on the homeless.

The "Google Transparency Project" [1] seems like a deliberately misleading name. They're not at all associated with Google yet they're going as far as using Google's logo in their logo. I wonder how legal that is, and if Google's comms team is aware of them.

[1] http://googletransparencyproject.org/