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Daniel Tunkelang
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Daniel Tunkelang writes The Noisy Channel, a personal blog at thenoisychannel.com about data and business. Since 2008, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Software Patents as Innovation Tax, Rather Than Catalyst for Innovation”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a 2008 writeup on Modista, a visual-similarity fashion shopping startup, and a post on fair use and SEO. Comments cite these posts as sources, not as praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Daniel Tunkelang This site contains content that I wrote between 2008 and 2012.It is all archived here. You can find my more recent content on: Medium: medium.com/@dtunkelang Query Understanding: queryunderstanding.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dtunkelang
Most-linked posts?
- Software Patents as Innovation Tax, Rather Than Catalyst for Innovation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-03-13
What Hacker News says?
It's interesting to see how some ideas keep looping around. When I see this I'm reminded of a startup Modista from ~2008 which did visual-similarity for browsing fashion products. Here's a writeup from a point when they did only shoes, but I know they expanded beyond shoes at somepoint: https://thenoisychannel.com/2008/11/05/modista-similarity-br... I think they died over legal issues with rights to product images.…
Comment linking /2008/11/05/modista-similarity-browsingfor-shoes/
on “Show HN: Fashion Shopping with Nearest Neighbors”Submitted Retiring a Great Interview Problem as a story · 173 points
HN discussionThanks. I'm sensitive about parasitic blogging--in fact, I've blogged about it: http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/12/20/fair-use-and-seo/ In this instance, my genuine hope was to get people to read Jeremy's post, and an unsolicited email from Jeremy about his spike in traffic--which is how I found out that HN had picked up my post--assures me that I accomplished that.
Comment linking /2008/12/20/fair-use-and-seo/
on “Google’s Peter Norvig Offers Kind Words for Bing, Exploratory Search”Submitted Software Patents as Innovation Tax, Rather Than Catalyst for Innovation as a story · 56 points
HN discussionI've spent some time pondering over this, so here's my 2 cents: 1. Build your product first. 2. It's expensive. If you still believe your idea is unique[1], hire help. 3. Algorithms are not patentable. Systems and methods are. See: http://paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html If you want to patent an algorithm, you have to frame it as a computer system executing that algorithm. Then it's mechanical; phew. The default…
Comment linking /2009/12/26/r-i-p-modista/
on “Is getting a patent worth it?”Submitted Software Patents: A Personal Story as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Wolfram Alpha: First-Hand Impressions as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google’s Peter Norvig Offers Kind Words for Bing, Exploratory Search as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted WTF k: Measuring Ineffectiveness in IR and Recommender Systems as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Content, Connections, and Context as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted LinkedIn Search: A Look Beneath the Hood as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Macroeconomics of Information and Attention: How People Make Decisions as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Open Letter to the USPTO as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strata 2012 highlights - Big Data is Bigger than Ever. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Identifying Influencers on Twitter as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Practical Rant about Software Patents as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted So You Like Big Data… as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Question of User Expectations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Twitter Analog to PageRank as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Amazon's MTurk Holding Back the Rise of the Machines? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Google Evil? The Great Debate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google Image Search Gets Style as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Macroeconomics of Information and Attention: How People Make Decisions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Retiring a Great Interview Problem (2011) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Twitter Analog to PageRank as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can We Build a Distributed Trust Network? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Science as a Strategy: talk by Daniel Tunkelang (video and summary) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted In Search Of Structure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Social Utility, +/- 25% as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google vs. Bing: A Tweetle Beetle Battle Muddle as a story · 1 points
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