madrox

Getting into even MORE nuance. Having worked on federated login with Sony, I suspect this "account taint" behavior is because Epic is using Sony's payment platform for loot crates. It&#…

I could answer, but I don't know how important it is. At the pitch level, this question isn't really the issue. People have been dreaming of VR pitches for decades...partly why the possibili…

Yeah, you have to dig a little, because the NES wasn't discontinued until 1995. If you dig into wikipedia you can see quotes that put units sold in the range I quoted in the late 80s.

That's certainly true of Snapchat in the past: http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-doesnt-delete-your-p... It's unclear how they protect images today, but they have neve…

I work in the entertainment industry for a very large company that also produces games. We've had the money, time, and interest to pursue VR. The truth is you're correct. Storytellers are ha…

I wrote about this recently as well. This is actually going to be more of a concern as we incorporate models into everyday products. Stakeholders and QA need a solid understanding of Type I and Type I…

I think what you're describing has its roots in the Grand Tour[1]. Touring Europe after college became a tradition of well-to-do Americans in the same spirit. It used to be the best way to fulfil…

Well, hopefully you wouldn't want to put your worst enemy through those things, either. Doesn't have to be the worst thing in the world for you to not wish it on someone.

I have no data for this, but I suspect an ethnographic study of gig workers would find their behaviors mirror that of entrepreneurs. If true, you can probably draw a lot of conclusions about gig work …

It continues to bother me that simply by having a problem with this particular argument against bitcoin, people assume I'm pro-bitcoin mining. Isn't it enough to have a problem with fallacio…

Exactly, discussing this requires the assumption that bitcoin has little value, instead of directly discussing its value. It may not be hypocrisy, but it's certainly fallacious. It only reinforce…

20 years ago, the best we could do was boolean filters. Then Google came along and we've been charging forth down the fuzzy road ever since. At the first WSDM conference, intent was all anyone wa…

Their entire web site reads this way. Either it's all an experiment to see if RNN-generated posts can fool HN or English is not the native language.

This has come up a number of times...probably because of the studies[1] over the last year or so. It's convenient to hit bitcoin on this front because it's conceivable to estimate its energy…

This is something I don’t believe we’ve really figured out in terms of QAing stochastic processes. Doing QA on normal code is binary...did it work or not? Doing a QA on a model is a lot more difficult…

We did something similar to a coworker when Apple Watch came out. He tried to dictate a text response to someone that said “thanks for doing that.” Someone else yelled “DICK!” afterward. Apple Watch i…

Oddly, I think YOU are underestimating the size of the change coming, too. An upended industry won't go quietly, and I think we're about to see a lot of technology innovation to circumvent t…

The lesson I learned from this comment is "if you assume security, you won't get security."

If you're serious about this and this isn't some "change my mind" meme, I'd recommend reading the culture documents of larger companies like Amazon. It's an attempt at st…

This is a study of a large travel agency, not creative/knowledge workers. This would explain why the study's results don't map to my experiences. If you're doing creative work or w…

As someone who worked in tech support early in their career, I do not. The entire process of fielding calls is terrible. You never know what's waiting for you when you pick up the phone. Could be…

English, an API with over 1.5 billion clients in the wild

It’s certainly poor leadership. If you aren’t taking an active hand in shaping culture or driving norms in a team, you’re going to end up surprised when they don’t make the same choices you would. Onc…

The craziest thing to me about this, from reading the comments, is people are on wildly different sides of this, yet no side thinks this is a big deal.

A good point. I don’t know. I’d love to learn more about how this happens in practice and what the driving forces are.

My girlfriend and I decided in January that the trade off is no longer worth it. Now it’s just about timing. While I hear what you’re saying, I’m musing more specifically on what that function looks l…

If you want to see the latest in the gentrification war, check out the San Francisco subreddit. On the one hand, it’s everyone complaining about the nuisance of the on demand scooters; on the other, i…

I often wonder about how sustainable SF’s growth is. Between the issues with housing, rent control, NIMBYism, and poor infrastructure, there has to be a price tag at which this can’t continue. I live …