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by photon_off 6y ago
Also there is another aspect to cardsets that might be worth thinking about, which is that they are like "polling" done in a fun and easy way (swiping on pictures) -- the fact that you can also show people that answered similar to
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by photon_off 6y ago
> You've honestly given me a lot to think about and I think I see a better way forward now. Your insight really increased my mood because I think you've discovered something very important that I am likely going to be spending
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by photon_off 6y ago
I would advise against folding it into clusters, and instead have each cardset be its own thing. What you have right now is a cardset that I'd label "General" -- abstract the backend so you can create different sets of cards
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by photon_off 6y ago
Feel free to use it however you want :) Regarding the 0.0/default/skipped -- see my other response about "cardsets", which the more I think about it, the more I am convinced will solve nearly all of your issues: - yo
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by photon_off 6y ago
> So, the problem we'd like to solve is what set of 250 or so cards has the highest predictive value in that similar answers lead to the best interpersonal matches? I think ideally you should somehow allow users indicate what kind o
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by photon_off 6y ago
Firstly, congrats on the launch. Designing and implementing a new concept from scratch, by yourself, is definitely fraught with difficulties. It's hard to know if what you're designing is "right" and if you're impl
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by photon_off 6y ago
As I understand it VCs don't acquire companies, they invest in them. The difference being that in an acquirer buys and runs the company, while a VC only buys a small portion of it and gains exposure to potential upside. In my case, I&#
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by photon_off 6y ago
Thanks for the insights. > You could negotiate retaining x% of the stock (along with rules regarding stock type, splits, etc.). Is this at all common? I would imagine that upon acquisition the buyer would prefer to simply roll the compan
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Ask HN: Is it possible to sell a startup, but also keep a small stake in it?
1 points by photon_off 6y ago|6 comments
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by photon_off 7y ago
I use honey, but I only enable it on the page before I'm about to check out, then disable it after it's found a discount. Granted, during the time it is activated they could do whatever they want with my data (including hijacking
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by photon_off 7y ago
I would like to be able to delineate strings with any character(s) of my choosing. The default could be single or double or triple quotes, but don't force me. I am sick of escaping characters in literals, I'd rather define a delin
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Asn HN: Idea for SaaS – an API to create product images that show scale
1 points by photon_off 7y ago|1 comments
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by photon_off 7y ago
Also, another one-off question: What if the data I have is relational? Must it all be squashed down? Imagine a family tree: can a "node" simply contain "parents", and the model will figure out "virtual columns"
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by photon_off 7y ago
This was extremely helpful, thank you! Perhaps you can help me with some follow-up questions: - Let's imagine a standard excel sheet (a 2d array), with columns "A", "B", "C", "D" ... "Z&quot
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by photon_off 7y ago
The landing page UI consists of three main tasks: 1) Question. 2) Options. 3) Audience. Consider making it four tasks: 1) Question. 2) Options. 3) Preview. 4) Send. This way, people can try it out before committing to sending an e-mail (wh
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by photon_off 7y ago
From a UI perspective, as well as the perspective of somebody trying to use this without possibly burning an e-mail address, please have a "preview" option before "audience".
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by photon_off 7y ago
You can look at the "legal" aspect of it by Googling "is it legal to scrape". My understanding (IANAL) is that it is OK as long as the user agreement is "opt-out" as opposed to "opt-in" (eg: clicking
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Ask HN: Briefly and succinctly – when is ML helpful for engineering?
2 points by photon_off 7y ago|5 comments
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How fly neurons compute the direction of visual motion(link.springer.com)
2 points by photon_off 7y ago|0 comments
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by photon_off 7y ago
I think I understand when this is most relevant: when there are many different things being sold that each need to have a different split. In my mind I was thinking of a team that sold multiple products, but where the split would always re
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by photon_off 7y ago
You're welcome, and I'm glad I could revive this post a bit, too :) I am genuinely curious though, who is this app for? For what group of people is splitting proceeds really so daunting of a task that they would prefer to pay a co
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by photon_off 7y ago
I don't have any feedback or strong opinions on this, but the concept of mapping (x,y,z)=>bool and having it produce a 3d object is new to me. This is a very cool demonstration; thank you for sharing.
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by photon_off 7y ago
I have no idea, but I can say with certainty it depends on the size of your target audience. Find a way to reach them and continually refine your landing page so that your funnel is as optimized as possible. Speaking of which... I can give
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by photon_off 7y ago
The main problem they have, I imagine, is sparse data. There are only certain fields (depending on category) which they force sellers to populate, eg: "name", "brand", etc. Item weight (which is distinct from _package_
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by photon_off 7y ago
Amazon has been my wheelhouse, fulltime, for the past 7 months. I'm building a site that looks at most listings per category and determines "true" scores for each one. The site also lets your filter and sort, instantly, on a
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by photon_off 10y ago
This is the typical Scala apologists' reply. It's not a problem with Scala, it's a problem with you. When it takes several dense paragraphs to explain simple problems, it means that problem is not solved easily. For some pr
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by photon_off 10y ago
This is coming from me being most comfortable with OOP and dynamic languages. If you want to write Scala to actually get things done, you will find that it's a miserable language to learn and that you will need to invest significant am
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by photon_off 10y ago
It would great if I could use this site without first having to make an account. Jsbin and jsfiddle support anonymous usage quite well, and because of that are incredibly useful.
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by photon_off 11y ago
Could you please add a legend to indicate what the colors mean?
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by photon_off 12y ago
Here's mine from awhile ago: http://techblog.appnexus.com/2011/an-animated-bezier-curve-d...

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