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Black-box algorithm is pay cut for 40% of workers, MIT finds(gizmodo.com)
2 points by dcalacci 6y ago|0 comments
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Mapping “Micro-Level Segregation” in Boston Using Mobile Phone Data(citylab.com)
1 points by dcalacci 8y ago|0 comments
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The Cake Licking Machine(fab.cba.mit.edu)
1 points by dcalacci 11y ago|0 comments
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by dcalacci 11y ago
>Either the studies are not confounded as the author claims, or drivers giving cyclists less space is not the problem he thinks it is because those cyclists are actually safer cyclists. mm, I think you missed something here -- It is alwa
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by dcalacci 12y ago
"I seriously didn't think it would work at all but to my surprise it did so I put my phone along side my $500 Valentine detector and they both went off same time" amazing
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by dcalacci 12y ago
The thing that sets Jawbone apart from other health wearables companies is how much Jawbone has embraced the idea of providing insights to its customers. The next iteration of these devices (Basis Peak, Jawbone up3, whatever fitbit comes up
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by dcalacci 12y ago
this is a likely side effect of selling user data to data brokers or data co-ops, where companies sell individual user data to a larger user database that's accessible to all companies in the co-op or that pay for the data broker'
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by dcalacci 12y ago
I wonder when the productivity benefit to ATK employees will outweigh the $$ they spent paying you to make this. It actually would have been very interesting to poll employees and get data on 'failed bathroom trips' per day per em
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by dcalacci 12y ago
This is awesome. Great job.
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by dcalacci 12y ago
Have you guys modeled what this would do to the airbnb economy as a function of how many users actively use your tool?
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by dcalacci 12y ago
shamelessly promoting work by a colleague of mine that detects sarcasm in online product reviews: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~oren/papers/sarcasmAmazonICWSM10.p...
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by dcalacci 12y ago
I use seafile as well - I host it on my digital ocean instance and it works very well and things sync very quickly. best part is that it does automatic, granular snapshots of my data - I've stopped using git for things like papers beca
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by dcalacci 13y ago
I get furious at the types of comments that plague these submissions to hacker news. usually it starts when someone submits an article that in some way holds society at large accountable for things like the lack of women in STEM, or someon
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by dcalacci 13y ago
>So everyone is mad cause they used their own approach to security No, that's not why people are upset at all. People are upset because whether or not someone has been able to break their system under the constraints of the contest
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by dcalacci 13y ago
>So here's my idea for a great emacs-based document editor: markdown with inline math previews coupled with a full live preview to the side. All the necessary modes for this already exist So org-mode has you covered there, basically
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Hell is other people: avoid your friends(hellisotherpeople.herokuapp.com)
4 points by dcalacci 13y ago|0 comments
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by dcalacci 13y ago
a solipsist's life is far from an ethical one. you mention creating, but nowhere do you mention who one should create for. the ethical reason for creating a product is to better others lives, not your own. you also suggest that bettering
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by dcalacci 13y ago
I didn't know this data was available! I wish we had the same breadth available through the MBTA. I'd be interested in using this data to: - plan travel directions based on past congestion patterns - pair this with any data found for NY's b
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Hack For Change(hackforchange.org)
2 points by dcalacci 13y ago|0 comments
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by dcalacci 13y ago
This is great. I started working on something very similar to this a few weeks ago. Your project is much more mature, so I may end up contributing.
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by dcalacci 13y ago
I definitely would. I've been searching for a way to write plaintext notes and have them available "in the cloud", or at least through a web interface. Evernote's appeal is how easy it is to manage multimedia content in notes. I haven't com
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by dcalacci 13y ago
I think that whether or not technologists are arrogant does matter, regardless of perception. In Silicon Valley, arrogance is really about ambition. There are some who want to replace political processes with crowdsourced or individual solu
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by dcalacci 13y ago
> So is lobbying the "subtler, wiser" way of thinking? If it is, I'm personally ready for something new. I'd argue that the 'maturity' rhetoric expresses something different. The point behind Morozov's (and others') criticism is that di
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by dcalacci 13y ago
Totally on point. I don't think it's useful to compare the value of a successful PhD experience to some amount of money. This is especially true for the people who would be considering a PhD in the first place. I agree that people value the
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by dcalacci 13y ago
A PhD is definitely not the only time that a person can delve into original research or knowledge, you're right. But I don't see any place where Dr. Might suggests that it's the _only_ experience that can lead to original research. I think
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by dcalacci 13y ago
Yeah, it's likely that the values in the article don't really mean what they are presented to mean due to average career choices. This article would say something more meaningful if it included data only from PhD's that attempted to go into
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by dcalacci 13y ago
I think that although this article notes some important disappointments in the way PhD students are treated, it is speaking to an audience that most likely doesn't exist. I don't think it's useful to compare the value of a successful PhD ex
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by dcalacci 13y ago
It's good to see a group actively trying to move PGP into the mainstream. I think that PGP is valuable, and that this work is worthwhile if only because it makes it easier to use PGP on a day-to-day basis.
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by dcalacci 13y ago
check your privilege
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by dcalacci 13y ago
yes, you're right. I misread your comment.

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