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by Sam_Odio 17y ago
> 4. Add “spider loops” ... be nice, and add “NOFOLLOW” tags to not annoy legit search engines too much. Honeypots are always dangerous because they can end up ensnaring good visitors & bots with the bad. Yahoo, MSN, and ASK all fo
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by Sam_Odio 17y ago
> ... calculating the average (or arithmetic mean) of a stream's integers takes three registers and three operations per integer. One register counts the elements, another records their sum, and the third register holds the value of the
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by Sam_Odio 17y ago
Yes. The lease was for 4 months. Since most of the house was YC W09, they all left after the round. Three of us moved to the city (and are starting the SF house).
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by Sam_Odio 17y ago
Sure. Starting a HH outside the valley is a great way to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the people you're interacting with. I attempted an early version of the HH when I was in Charlotesville, VA. I met several great coders through
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by Sam_Odio 17y ago
An update on the Palo Alto house: All of the original residents (including myself) have moved out. However there are 8 new coders (mostly YC S09 I think) moving in for the summer. There's probably going to be availability in the fall if a
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
You're partially right, although this is outside the scope of my article. The article is simply stating that it's easier to find any investment (debt or equity) when you have revenue. Ironically, its easiest raise money when you're alre
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Meet the newest Anybots robot today at Stanford(sam.bluwiki.com)
28 points by Sam_Odio 18y ago|10 comments
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
This seems very interesting. I definitely think there's a need for competition to MaxMind's free geoip database. I registered openipdb.(org|com) a year ago with the intention of doing that but never got around to it. Is anyone interested
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
John and I organized Hacker House. It was a little nerve racking as the rent was $4.5k split between us. Thankfully, the place filled up quickly. There's 4.5 rooms and 9 people sleeping here tonight. It's a little cheaper than a regular
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
I removed that line. Thanks for the suggestion. Divvyshot is the only way everyone in a group can easily upload hundreds of photos to one place. There are competing products such as MobileMe and Troovi, but they aren't easy or free. Once
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
The hacker house has a new housemate (David from VentureBeat). We thought we'd give him a warm welcome by picking him up from the airport. He paid us back by uploading a photo of us to the Demo Day event.
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
Looks like AT&T has responded to the twitter outcry: http://gigaom.com/2009/03/15/tweeting-works-att-boosts-sxsw-...
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How to play ultimate frisbee(dpaste.com)
5 points by Sam_Odio 18y ago|3 comments
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
Fixed, thanks for the heads up.
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
Hey guys, it's Sam (divvyshot's creator). The site's a piece of crap right now, but hopefully things will be better over the coming weeks. Release early and frequently, right? If you find any huge bugs email me: so / at / divvyshot / dot
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
http://twitpic.com/1p1cd Our roof leaks and has consequentially filled a lighting fixture with water. The switch reads: TURN THIS ON AND (you might) DIE. Nobody's tried it yet. Honestly, the hacker house is a bit of a dump.* But we're
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
> 2. Consider buying a place to live outright. Saving rent or mortgage interest is better than earning the equivalent in interest because it's tax free. In the US at least this isn't always the case. Most joint filers can deduct intere
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
Generated by some software Nadim wrote: http://github.com/nadim/nadim.github.com/tree/master/ffChang...
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FriendFeed changes by author (compiled by HN user nadim)(github.com)
2 points by Sam_Odio 18y ago|1 comments
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Current YC founder looking for co-founder
106 points by Sam_Odio 18y ago
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
> I don't expect that Obama can or will fix everything. But I stand by what I said: he thinks like I do. On nearly every topic in his speech yesterday, he said what I hoped he would say. I never imagined such a thing could happen. Lucky
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QA from Anybots - the coolest thing you'll see at CES all day.(sam.bluwiki.com)
52 points by Sam_Odio 18y ago|41 comments
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Start a "hacker house" with two YC founders
34 points by Sam_Odio 18y ago|10 comments
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
Excellent response. Public firms report all of their expenses so it shouldn't be hard to see how their money is spent - just look at their income statements and statement of cash flows. I think the real reason why banks aren't reporting ho
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
Agreed. After watching the video I also find the "killer robot" title misleading. Also, why not link to the original? The linked blog post adds little value. http://www.thirdeyeconcept.com/news/index.php?page=336
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Crackers break into Brazilian government systems, issue permits to fell trees.(money.co.uk)
14 points by Sam_Odio 18y ago|0 comments
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
I have no idea if this is right or not, but I just thought I'd mention how I conceptualized the problem: I thought of the distance from point A to B as Y. I thought of walkways as simply devices that reduced Y by n times t. n is the velo
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
Good article, but the author is a little rusty on his behavioral economics. The anomaly he refers to is not the endowment effect but the sunk cost fallacy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Loss_aversion_and_the... http://en.wikipe
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
Like others have said, the site looks horrible. My first reaction was to turn and run. After trying it out, I actually found it pretty cool. It's similar to tr.im's bookmarklet. I'd spend the majority repeating the cycle of adding/refini
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by Sam_Odio 18y ago
This is an interesting coincidence. A site I run recently became involved in a tiff with Apple over reverse engineering their new iTunesDB file (which was updated Sept 2007). Backstory: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/20/2012

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