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cleantechnica.com 8y ago

38% of American Cars Were Electric in 1900

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

Why are so few Android phones encrypted, and should you encrypt yours?

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

NSA director says Paris attacks would not have happened without crypto

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www.linkedin.com 10y ago

Startup CEOs: Your Board Seat Is Hurting You

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twitter.com 10y ago

T-Mobile Customer service offers on Twitter to help their CEO search Wikipedia

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www.wired.com 10y ago

Despite the Rise of Open Source, Oracle Was 2015’s Fastest-Growing Database

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

Pirate Bay founder copies songs to /dev/null to bankrupt the music industry

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: WordPress templates using the new REST api

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

Teardown shows Nest Cam is always on even when you think it’s off

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www.wired.com 10y ago

Netflix’s New Tool Makes It Easy to Use Amazon’s Cloud–And Google’s

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

I ditched my old consumer WiFi for an enterprise solution–and I’ll never go back

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www.wired.com 10y ago

Hooli, I Mean Google, Gives Away Compression Code for Free

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differentbetterbook.com 10y ago

The thing I wish I’d known about product development

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www.electronista.com 12y ago

Panasonic intros cordless landline smart handset running Android

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www.electronista.com 13y ago

Logitech to offload Harmony remotes

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www.courthousenews.com 14y ago

Sony Tosses PlayStation 3 Upgrade Claims Aside

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singularityhub.com 14y ago

3D printers can now read CT scans and produce bone models

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OpenWrt 18.06.4 7 years ago

Encrypt VPN traffic for the whole house, instead of by device. My router didn't support this out of the box.

The title is misleading. This is an article about steel, not heavy metal as most people here expect. The subtitle is more informative: "The creation of stainless steel took equal parts metallurgy and perseverance". The father of modern metal is Iommi U+1F918

We used Papertrail for about 1 year. It works for fairly well for basic reporting, but it gets pretty expensive once you have enough volume. We moved to Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana. The power to aggregate, digest, and search the logs from various apps is quite awesome.

The answer can depend on some of the architectural choices you made when you prototyped your product. If the original use-case has changed significantly, and you find yourself fighting the codebase to get it to do what you want today, the technical debt is something to worry about. The same thing applies if you cannot scale to serve clients requiring a lot more volume than what you anticipated originally. It's possible that some clients have modified the original use-case they wanted when they signed-up with you, so your product must evolve to keep serving them. This may require refactoring, whether p/m fit was achieved or not.

Salesmen aren't a substantial part of the workforce in a dealership. Mechanics, secretaries, service coordinators are

You're describing a regular garage here. We have those on most corners. Some also sell used cars btw. The argument is centered around the sales activities, hence the comment.

Most of the personnel retained at a dealership do useful work. That same work will be required regardless of who runs the show.

Some people may benefit from this "service", but not me, nor any of the people I know. The only benefit I could see from my previous buying experiences is the act of handing out the key for a test drive. Everything else was simply designed to extract as much money from my pocket without giving me back anything in return. I had all the information I needed to make a purchase decision, the financing doesn't need to be done at the dealership, the car can be bought from a website, and delivered to the curb. A bunch of grown men sitting around all day and swarming people that enter the floor with the goal of "giving them a good deal" is not a value proposition. It's a complete misallocation of resources.

Clearly not context aware: typing "Wonder Woman and Superman" gives:

"Woman" may be insensitive, use Person, Friend, Pal, Folk, Individual instead "Superman" may be insensitive, use Titan instead

There is a lot of work done in the area of linguistic analysis and word disambiguation, and none of it it's trivial. So it will be a big leap moving from a toy project to something of actual use. Integrating with an existing ML api for disambiguation could vastly decrease the amount of false positives. Idilia, BabelNet/BabelFly and LingPipe come to mind.

Accessories should be part of the options. You need cables for example to connect the HDs to the MB, DVI adapters for older monitors, etc. Some people may have a spare one, while others will have to make an additional trip to the store.

I always wondered how you do paperwork for something like this. It must be a nightmare from an accountant perspective. What is the bill code for "blackmail" when you file the income tax and you write a 6 figure expense. In the end your cash has to balance out, you cannot not declare it. Anybody with experience in something like this?

Datacratic has been doing what you ask for a while now (disclaimer, I work for them). We do ML, audience optimization, segmentation, multivariate and nonlinear models for small clients or for some of the largest shops in the industry. But the algorithms are indeed a small problem compared to building the on-demand infrastructure, managing the dataset, and all the rest of the challenges related to managing other people's data. Trust to handle data that doesn't belong to you is earned with great difficulty, unless it comes from shady sources.

You should allow this technology to be deployed on a local server. Many companies consider their design to be confidential information, and they do not allow storage on an external server, especially in U.S. where their data can be subject to warrantless interception (Patriot Act and all).

Dropbox has also clients for Android and iOS. Mobile sync would indeed be great combined with local hosting. Sparkle Share made an attempt, but it's still far behind Dropbox. This "DIY Dropbox" is not even beginning to scratch the surface of what is available in Dropbox. Perhaps an attempt to start development on a competitive DIY solution, but far from a replacement.

The Little Printer 15 years ago

... then feed it into a shredder at the other end. A perfect metaphor for the stock market.

As others have pointed out you have a lot of work to do on your own site. Re-size the browser on your desktop an see if you notice anything that strikes you as odd. Hint: your design breaks apart. Mobile phones have a small screen so you must be able to re-size it seamlessly, before you can sell a web to mobile solution .

The Google Puzzle 15 years ago

can anybody explain what this is, since it looks like they only support 1 (ONE) browser?

Anybody has links to these presentations? It would be interesting to watch, otherwise we're just commenting about something somebody has seen.

I think you could add something else to your algorithm. Some of the key words defining the business are ranked on adwords, so a particular good keyword in the name will increase the search engine ranking of this new name significantly. Perhaps you can specify this fit with some stats taken from adwords.