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johndavi

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About johndavi

Chief Digital Officer @ Regis Corp -- stop needing a haircut and go to Supercuts (or one of our other fine brands) today

Former SVP Product @ Mindbody, VP Product @ Diffbot, Director Engineering @ Cisco.

http://linkedin.com/in/johndavi/

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    Comment #36817102

    Any early access codes you're spraying around? Also how does Function compare to something like your out of the box test-ordering companies? https://www.ultalabtests.com

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    Comment #26946242

    Related to today's frontpage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26941332

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    Comment #17909285

    MINDBODY ( http://www.mindbodyonline.com ) | San Luis Obispo, CA | Onsite | Fulltime | Senior Product Managers, Director of UX, Product Marketers, Engineers MINDBODY is the leading…

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    MINDBODY ( http://www.mindbodyonline.com) ) | San Luis Obispo, CA | Onsite | Fulltime | Senior Product Managers, Director of UX, Product Marketers, Engineers MINDBODY is the leadin…

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    Comment #15073744

    Their email to users offers a transition to the Small Business product... which appears to be the same product at $10/month/device. So this is really a pricing change, though you c…

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    Comment #13895136

    To a large extent that's on the employee. If you choose to move to an area with no industrial foundation, then you are stuck with the horse you rode in on. (It's also -- knowing th…

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    Comment #13556469

    We priced our product appropriately for our customer base and the value offered by our product: which is to say, an order of magnitude more costly than a typical VC-subsidized, "ma…

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    Comment #13169107

    Yes to both!

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    Comment #13169105

    Here's a slightly more detailed description: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-algorithm-used-by-Diffbot-... All identification and extraction in our APIs is based on our ML models…

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    Comment #13160871

    We exclusively rely on ML for our core product at Diffbot: automatic data extraction from web pages (articles, products, images, discussion threads, more in the pipeline), cross-si…

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    Comment #12721336

    If anything this makes -- should have made -- taking a principled stand drastically easier. It also doesn't follow that a defense then could ever be "we won't fire..." He's not an …

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    Comment #12720661

    Public statements made under duress (however weak the duress) or after the political calculus is done are worth their weight in tweets. Any silence -- which has been anything but i…

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    Comment #11633712

    The right thing to do here would have been to award the fellowship to the voting winners and then amend your rules to exclude "applicants about whom we have bad vibes" going forwar…

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    Comment #11390043

    In very broad strokes this is how we power many of our API features at Diffbot. We have hundreds of thousands of human-trained web pages amounting to millions of individual element…

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    Comment #11205007

    Diffbot ( http://www.diffbot.com ) | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE Diffbot uses machine learning, NLP and computer vision to automatically extract data from web pages. We offer a host of …

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    Comment #11014030

    Diffbot ( http://www.diffbot.com ) | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE Diffbot uses machine learning, NLP and computer vision to automatically extract structured data from web pages. These ar…

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    Comment #10753927

    We've been tracking prices across hundreds of retailers for much of 2015, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it's Amazon. This list is a subset showing the realtime prices from dozens of…

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    Comment #10678642

    Your assumption is that obese / overweight individuals are seeking abnormally inefficient bacteria, as opposed to their perhaps having abnormally efficient microbes. I'm sure the w…

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    Comment #10440923

    Changes in the gut could be quite profound -- well beyond caloric uptake. It's quite likely that gut bacteria influences mood and other things we commonly attribute solely to the b…

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    The New Yorker had solid overview -- i.e., "how much we know about how little we know" -- of the gut microbiome in 2012: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/10/22/germs-are-us T…

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    Comment #10261332

    This is fairly close to that functionality -- but not exactly there yet. What are you looking for in an archive functionality that isn't available (a) via Slack's own export tool (…