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by shuw 7y ago
Cambridge Analytica didn't need all data available to everyone. They had access to an API exactly as you'd describe: with ACLs and privacy options.
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by shuw 10y ago
If there's a scarcity of bartenders or cashiers, then their wages will go up until that scarcity is filled.
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by shuw 13y ago
About 3-10 people worked on this full time depending on which day in the 3 week development cycle you looked at. Most of the others helped out in their spare time in one way or another
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by shuw 13y ago
the coins were not lost, but stolen through the transaction malleability bug
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by shuw 13y ago
Skype has 663 million "accounts", very few of these were active. According to http://www.statisticbrain.com/skype-statistics/ , only 31 million Skype users are active as of 2012.
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by shuw 13y ago
I'm part of the team that built this which came from different parts of FB. I think we'll be getting some much needed rest after today, then I hope we can start telling the story of how we built it.
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Facebook highlights top moments from your friends in 2013(mashable.com)
1 points by shuw 13y ago|0 comments
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by shuw 13y ago
The example they use is navigational query for "Southwest Airlines". As far as I'm concerned, the deep links to South West airlines' site such as "Flight Schedules" are actual search results. Ignoring that, it&
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by shuw 13y ago
I sampled a few of the reviews and the regularity of text patterns is just plainly obvious. I don't believe these are real reviews.
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by shuw 13y ago
https://linkedin.com 301s to http://linkedin.com for me. Should I be suspicious or do browsers validate the certificate even during re-directs?
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by shuw 14y ago
Revenue sharing could create perverse incentives to game the system. For example, imagine someone in Africa changing their location to United States and liking Gucci, Prada, BMW to become a honeypot. Or pretending to be a celebrity.
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by shuw 14y ago
I don't know if Google announced this earlier, but this post just released more granular active (I assume monthly) user numbers for G+ than I've seen: "More than 500 million people have upgraded, 235 million are active across Google (+1'ing
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by shuw 14y ago
Unfortunately for Microsoft, there is more social commentary about the failure of the marketing campaign than actual #DroidRage https://twitter.com/search?q=DroidRage
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by shuw 14y ago
Maybe I'm getting old (closing on 30) and nostalgic but the new generation of Waterloo students are making me proud and seem to be going further than my classes. Although, I'm also gaining a little pride myself. I did was a research assista
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by shuw 14y ago
Sure, that industry exists but it is dwarfed by the automobile and maintenance industry. I'd bet 99% of modifications to cars are to increase it's reliability or to fix an existing issue. The performance part industry caters to very specifi
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by shuw 14y ago
You access the hood of your car to fix it, not to upgrade it. Solid state technology is much more reliable than the mechanical components of a car; especially over it's lifetime (cars are expected to last > 10 years, computers < 5).
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by shuw 14y ago
To add some context to the title, this isn't a traditional IDE in the browser. It's a kind of experimental touch-centric IDE with it's own semi-visual programming language (your not exactly dragging boxes around, but your not editing text e
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by shuw 14y ago
According to http://www.forbes.com/sites/netapp/2012/10/11/windows-8-rele... , Microsoft plans to spend 1.5 - 1.8 Billion dollars marketing Windows 8. That's 45$ of marketing costs per copy of Windows 8 sold to date.
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by shuw 14y ago
I was offered a job at Google and Facebook last month, both for the Seattle offices. Google offered a bit more in terms of total pay + benefits, but I considered both packages very good and therefore not a factor in my decision. Here are th
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by shuw 14y ago
Metro is a full-screen experience that is a huge contrast to the desktop. It's hard not to conceptualize that as switching. The old start menu was unobtrusive.
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by shuw 14y ago
Assuming the page you are already on is compromised / malicious. Then it link baiting you to another compromised / malicious site is not your only worry.
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by shuw 14y ago
If this practice was widely adopted, I wonder if AWS would experience a bank run/DOS in the affected and neighboring zones.
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by shuw 14y ago
the majority of Marco's post was about the experience of the Microsoft Store
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by shuw 14y ago
I'm not arguing that Moby should not try to do better. However, there should some acknowledgement that an almost identical product has existed for years and how this differs (better UX?, more features, etc).
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by shuw 14y ago
It's a great hobby project, but as a product it is late to the market. http://www.glympse.com/what_is_glympse has had a product out for several years now.
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Structured news feed for American Politics(wavii.com)
1 points by shuw 14y ago|0 comments
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by shuw 14y ago
The most interesting effect happened when I entered in search terms. If the search box was focused on page load, that "feature" would be more discoverable.
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GM planning to hire 10K computer professionals(bottomline.nbcnews.com)
1 points by shuw 14y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: panning lightbox for photo panoramas
1 points by shuw 14y ago|0 comments
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by shuw 14y ago
The beauty appears to be only skin deep. All the 1st level links I followed led to a totally different aesthetic. As far as I can see, Microsoft.com is an improvement on a single page. I would be far more impressed if the changes extended a

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