jwegan

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by jwegan 3y ago
"Hiring" them was just a PR tactic to keep Microsoft stock from tanking while they got this figured out.
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by jwegan 3y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/openais-employees-given-expl...
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The Startup Guide to Managing Your Email Reputation(jwegan.com)
3 points by jwegan 5y ago|0 comments
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Hollywood Actor Bilked 200 Investors in $690M Ponzi Scheme(forbes.com)
5 points by jwegan 5y ago|0 comments
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by jwegan 6y ago
Hey, I run the Growth team at Pinterest. I just wanted to comment on the article to be very clear and say we have never scraped Google search results either currently or at any time in the past.
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by jwegan 6y ago
Also biased because they are sampling people who are out and about. People who are out and about likely come into contact with more people than people who are staying at home and rarely going out.
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by jwegan 7y ago
"Up and to the right" is a relatively common business saying to indicate things are going well and that the chart for a metric (ex: revenue, users, etc) is going "up and to the right". The author made a play on this comm
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by jwegan 7y ago
The reason some people label Brave as anti-gay is due to Brave's CEO and Founder Brendan Eich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich > On March 24, 2014, Eich was promoted to CEO of Mozilla Corporation. Som
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A Million People Are Jailed at China's Gulags. Here's What Goes on Inside(haaretz.com)
75 points by jwegan 7y ago|18 comments
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by jwegan 7y ago
A direct listing is definitely not the most likely option. Only two major tech companies have done direct listings and there are also a lot more reasons you would want to do an IPO instead of a direct listing 1) Neither SPOT or WORK has don
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WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources(reuters.com)
450 points by jwegan 7y ago|338 comments
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by jwegan 8y ago
> If they do go public for $20B+ they that would be for more than Twitter and Facebook went public for Lyft is IPOing at a higher valuation than Twitter, but Facebook went public at a valuation of $100B and raised $16B. FB's IPO was
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Microsoft is building its own Chrome browser to replace Edge(theverge.com)
4 points by jwegan 8y ago|1 comments
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Facebook’s political ad tool let us buy ads “paid for” by Mike Pence and ISIS(news.vice.com)
28 points by jwegan 8y ago|1 comments
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by jwegan 8y ago
Stock market manipulation doesn't mean you have to manipulate the entire $20 trillion dollar US stock market, it just means you tried to manipulate the price of a specific stock. Super Micro's stock dropped 40% based on the story.
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by jwegan 8y ago
GDPR could be a factor since it required shutting down accounts of people aged 13-16 that did not have parental consent. Getting parental consent required having parents sign a form and send it in.
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by jwegan 8y ago
The problem is just 1 or 2 or even 10 people washing ashore on an island wouldn't be enough genetic diversity to sustain a population.
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by jwegan 8y ago
Correct, this is what everyone always hears about Burning Man. However, the idea that bartering happens at Burning Man is the most common misconnection. It is also how you can pick out that someone has never been to Burning Man (at least no
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by jwegan 8y ago
Yes it is possible. Typically this usage of push is done more to pre-fetch content to improve load times, but it certainly can be used in the way you described.
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by jwegan 8y ago
I'm not trying to hide it. Like you said it is right in my HN profile. I don't work on Pinterest's ads business and I'm not very familiar with that side of the company. I'm speaking as someone who runs ads on other
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by jwegan 8y ago
This new SDK doesn't help advertisers or users. Being able to assess the quality of users coming from different ad networks is crucial for any advertiser to assess the quality of their spend. Some ad networks might generate high qualit
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Theranos settles “series of lies” lawsuits from investor that chipped in $96M(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jwegan 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Short Uber (and Other Private Companies)(medium.com)
1 points by jwegan 9y ago|0 comments
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by jwegan 10y ago
Pinterest | San Francisco, CA | Infrastructure Engineer (python) | Full-time | onsite Pinterest helps over 150 million people discover ideas for their life. Whether it is recipes for dinner, planning their next vacation, or livening up thei
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by jwegan 10y ago
Probably branding? If Uber/Lyft start operating a lot of Teslas, then they start to loose their brand allure and people start to view them as just taxis
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Yahoo agrees to give its most vocal critic four board seats(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by jwegan 10y ago|0 comments
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by jwegan 10y ago
I think this is a lesson in how optimizing for short term metrics can hurt long term engagement when you forget your core product value. I signed up for FB in 2004 and would have been classified as a core user since I would check the site f
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How Pinterest Increased Active Pinners with One Simple Trick(engineering.pinterest.com)
1 points by jwegan 10y ago|0 comments
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by jwegan 11y ago
She had nothing to do with coming up with the financial engineering. From the article itself it says the hedge fund Starboard Value came up with the move and has been pressuring the board to do it for months.
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Experiment Segmentation: Avoiding Old Dogs and Watered Down Results(jwegan.com)
1 points by jwegan 11y ago|0 comments

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