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by huangm 16d ago
Sorry, we’ll fix!
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Sentence embeddings exhibit arithmetic properties(twitter.com)
4 points by huangm 3y ago|1 comments
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Fundraising for reddit(redditblog.com)
3 points by huangm 12y ago|0 comments
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Reddit Raises $50M, Plans to Share Stock with Community Members(recode.net)
3 points by huangm 12y ago|0 comments
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Super Bowl Ads on Twitter: Visualizing the Buzz(hotspots.io)
57 points by huangm 15y ago|11 comments
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SOPA/PIPA: More than 250k tweets / hr(hotspots.io)
133 points by huangm 15y ago|27 comments
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by huangm 15y ago
We're actually using the Twitter Streaming API, which has pretty high limits even with access levels lower than the full firehose.
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by huangm 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestions - it's certainly an issue we're thinking about and looking to improve. Also, d3.js is a pleasure to work with. Really appreciate all the work you've put into it.
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Interactive Twitter Visualization: Election 2012 (made with d3.js)(hotspots.io)
86 points by huangm 15y ago|11 comments
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by huangm 15y ago
Did you actually read the article you linked? The article and the fund are quite consistent. Thiel argues that the economic growth and tech breakthroughs of the past few decades are being taken for granted, that not enough people are taking
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by huangm 15y ago
It depends on your view of what makes the world a better place. For tech startups, the distribution of world-changing impact probably closely follows the distribution of investment returns. If it's extremely bimodal, then it makes sense to
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by huangm 15y ago
Dropbox was not the first mover [1]. In fact, their entrance into the market for cloud storage/sync is in a way analogous to Google's entrance into search. You're second point sounds right. But to me, Dropbox has always been about the UX an
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MIT Startup Bootcamp [Livestream](startupbootcamp.mit.edu)
69 points by huangm 15y ago|9 comments
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by huangm 15y ago
Both true points, but not sure what you mean by "actually".
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by huangm 15y ago
In the UK, there is http://lovefilm.com Also interesting: http://zediva.com
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Moki.tv (YC W11) is shaping the media graph.(thenextweb.com)
36 points by huangm 16y ago|0 comments
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by huangm 16y ago
Most people behave differently in "near-mode" and "far-mode". I'm more willing to commit to donate $20 to charity 6 months from now, than I am to cough up a $20 this instant. SwipeGood (and BoA's keep the change program) try to short-circui
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How many users do you need for a 100MM / year consumer Internet product?(andrewchenblog.com)
58 points by huangm 16y ago|13 comments
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The Colour Clock(thecolourclock.co.uk)
271 points by huangm 16y ago|86 comments
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by huangm 16y ago
We heavily adapted http://moochart.coneri.se/ for the graph.
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by huangm 16y ago
I'd argue that looking at polarization is a good way to detect such movies, but that not all such movies are polarizing.
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by huangm 16y ago
You'll have to forgive slightly imprecise language. This post was in response to the noise around the blogosphere that Hollywood has become too conservative, and is targeting reliable niches (as you point out). We think one interesting way
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Visualization: Movies Are Getting Worse(moki.tv)
176 points by huangm 16y ago|94 comments
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by huangm 16y ago
This was an intentional choice. It attempts to fight duplicate questions by forcing users to see the search results for their question before asking it. I don't claim this to be the right design choice, but it is worth noting that there are
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Quora's opportunity to disintermediate journalism(quorareview.com)
6 points by huangm 16y ago|0 comments
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Amazon leaks details of Netflix-compete, Free for prime members(businessinsider.com)
13 points by huangm 16y ago|3 comments
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by huangm 16y ago
Here's the transcript: ----------------------- I went to my boss and said to him, “You know, I’m going to go do this crazy thing and I’m going to start this company selling books online.” This was something that I had already been talking t
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by huangm 16y ago
Pithy, but wrong. They might not be themselves differentiators, but they are indicators of a differentiated understanding of how to design a good Q & A site that elicits high quality content from high quality contributers. Technology is
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by huangm 16y ago
I have to wonder if a lot of the people criticizing this blog post actually read the whole thing. Note the title: Things I learned. She's posting about her internship experience and the lessons she learned. She's not trying to give nu
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by huangm 16y ago
This blog post is from a year ago, but I think there are a few useful & relevant ideas within w.r.t. getting users, customers and investors to try, buy and invest in your product. Narrative is important. Also probably some relevant tips

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