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Re:How I clean my glasses on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:46AM (#32084312)
Me too! I thought I was the only one who did this. Replace step 6 with using my shirt :)
Re:Judge temporarily blocks U.S. ban on TikTok downloads from U.S. app... on Sunday September 27, 2020 @09:27PM (#24611966)
I think they are just angry that TikTok users trolled the Trump Tulsa Rally.
Re:Ask HN: What did you get on your 5 year work anniversary? on Thursday October 03, 2019 @01:41PM (#21149670)
Nothing.

Around 5 years you should start getting 3 weeks of vacation.

Ask HN: How do big online companies perform record linkage?

Posted by LK83 on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:22AM
from the ask-hn dept.

How do big companies (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) perform record linkage (deduplication, entity resolution, master data management)? Did they develop their own algorithms and are there any published papers? Are any of the implementations open-source or do any of them use commercial software?

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Re:Comicgen: Comic Creator on Thursday May 30, 2019 @01:16PM (#20053547)
If they could add stick figure characters like xkcd it would be useful.
Re:Cryptographic coin flipping, now in Keybase on Monday March 11, 2019 @02:10PM (#19361259)
I got lost on the line "If the final answer is odd, the flip is TAILS." For example: Alice flips 1 for tails. Barb/Charlie/Danika flip 0. Why is the answer tails when most of the people flipped 0 for heads? Why use XOR instead of just taking the most common answer?
Re:Traduora is now open source on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:17PM (#19360740)
Does Traduroa use a workflow engine/library? Or did you develop your own?
Re:Show HN: Ancestor Chat – Let family chat with you after you die on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @05:44AM (#19309660)
Never watched that show but might give it a try. Aside from personally wishing I had such a tool when growing up, one of my inspirations for this comes from Superman's parents. They send their son to earth with a hologram AI version of themselves recorded in the ships computer or crystals. Superman later in life used to chat with them and learn about his origins and true parents.