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jamessunon Ask HN: What is your favorite motto?

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

jamessunon A simple way to get more value from metrics

"I don't have anything against hot new technologies, but a lot of useful work comes from plugging boring technologies together and doing the obvious thing."

jamessunon Ask HN: What are the other websites you visit daily?

https://marginalrevolution.com/ (Tyler Cowen)

jamessunon Sheetfu – Python library to interact with Google Sheets V4 API

What are some of the features missing in Airtable that you think would make it more palatable for real estate agents to use?

jamessunon Against metrics: how measuring performance by numbers backfires

"Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome" -Charlie Munger

jamessunon Six Principles for Making New Things (2008)

My favorite line in PGs essay:

"I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly."

jamessunon Washington, DC Teaming with Audi on Vehicle-To-Infrastructure Technology

"Starting this week, drivers of select new Audis who approach more than 600 intersections in the District, can know when the light will turn green, by glancing at their dashboards."

jamessunon Research project to record the “real world reactions” to a driver-less vehicle

From https://www.arlnow.com/2017/08/08/morning-notes-1720/

"VT Says It Is Behind ‘Driverless’ Van — The “driverless” van seen driving around Clarendon over the past week was actually a Virginia Tech research project designed to record the “real world reactions” to a vehicle without a driver. However, there was a driver: a man dressed as a car seat. The mystery was solved in real time on Twitter yesterday and quickly went viral."

jamessunon Bitmixer has stoped

Announcement on Bitcoin Forum, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2042470.0

jamessunon Pros and Cons of the Algorithm Age

Full PDF version of report, http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/20...

jamessunon An animal fart database

Here's my query...

SELECT * FROM animals WHERE size = 'small' AND isCuddly = 'yes' and doesFart = 'no'

:-)

jamessunon “Ticket Bot” Act Passed by Congress; Heads to President

Would this legislation apply to bots used to purchase goods and services?

Would these "ticket bots" simply move the bot outside the U.S.?

jamessunon Dynamic Pricing and Major League Baseball

Link to the referenced paper, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2796407

jamessunon Chesapeake Light Tower up for auction

- Lightship deployed in 1930 marking the entrance to Chesapeake Bay

- Replaced in 1965 by the Chesapeake Light Tower

-- One of six “Texas Towers” along the East Coast, built in 1965; the only one still in service

-- Initially staffed full time; automated in 1980

-- ~13 mi (22 km) from VA shore

-- Water depth ~ 45 ft (13.7 m)

jamessunon Study: Showing Students Standout Work Can Backfire

Abstract of the referenced study: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/01/28/095679761562...

jamessunon Vote for your favorite math video created by middle school students

I attended one of the regional competitions held in Northern Virginia over the weekend and it was great to see so many 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students participate in MathCounts.

jamessunon Hackathon for 6th-8th grade students

It's terrific to see high school students serving as mentors to the participants.

jamessunon Show HN: 1dollarthings.com – an internet dollar store

I consumed product data feeds from companies that ran affiliate programs through companies like Commission Junction, filtered/stored the product data offline, indexed it, and displayed it in any number of ways through the web.

In retrospect, I should have spent more time marketing the site and getting feedback from users instead of focusing on the technical infrastructure :-)

jamessunon Show HN: 1dollarthings.com – an internet dollar store

I worked on a similar side project a little while ago that focused on items that were below ten dollars. Like 1 Dollar Things, I used your typical affiliate data feeds. It was an interesting development exercise, but I failed to get any steady traffic/interest in the site.

I think the idea has some merit, but my execution wasn't good enough. Good luck with 1 Dollar Things!

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"Mr. Bezos’s role in transforming the brand into a fast-moving digital news operation manifests itself in the gleaming new headquarters the Post moved into last week. At the heart of the newsroom hangs a towering data analytics board detailing the patterns of Web traffic—a sight common at new digital media companies, but less so at most legacy outlets. Analytics dashboards will soon be added to reporters’ computers, and traffic figures will eventually be looked at as part of performance reviews, Mr. Baron said."

jamessunon Parents naming their babies after Instagram photo filters

Link to original article, http://www.babycenter.com/0_hottest-baby-name-trends-of-2015...

jamessunon Cellphones might be best way to get health info to inner-city pregnant women

Link to study in Journal of Medical Internet Research, http://www.jmir.org/2015/7/e163/

jamessunon Putting the digital keys to unlock data out of reach of authorities

Gist of the editorial: "All freedoms come with limits; it seems only proper that the vast freedoms of the Internet be subject to the same rule of law and protections that we accept for the rest of society."

jamessunon Bullet Points of Doom for ESPN

> They're high because ESPN has fixed price contracts into the future for the rights to broadcast sports events. If their subscriber base falls, they're still on the hook for those contracts.

If ESPN continues to lose viewers, their ad revenue will suffer. If ESPN revenue suffers, will they be able to pay the fixed price contracts they have with the largest, most viewed sports leagues, such as the NFL, MLB, and SEC (college football)?

Seems to me that this is the first domino to fall...

jamessunon Vice President Biden’s very personal speech to Yale graduates

"...it’s always appropriate to question another man’s judgment, but never appropriate to question his motives because you simply don’t know his motives."

jamessunon Ask HN: How do I get my first contracting client?

With apologies to Glengarry Glen Ross (a must see movie, BTW)...

Always Be Networking

Good luck!

jamessunon Trading cards of Scientists and Engineers

Waiting for the Dean Kamen trading card to show up on eBay... :-)