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by aneesh 18y ago
This is far more pervasive that just minimum payments. Behavioral economics research has shown the power of defaults -- make a group or policy opt-out instead of opt-in and you'll get a lot more people to join it, even though the two situa
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by aneesh 18y ago
I think that's great in principle, but I'd be wary of the communication overhead if you can't meet in person. Especially if this is something that you'd be spending only 5-10 hours per week on, it might be easier to just build a barebones
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by aneesh 18y ago
I hadn't heard of either of those sites. To be honest, I didn't know of an efficient way to give <$10 to non-profits without half of it going to overhead costs. This makes it super easy for me to give small amounts, with the added soci
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by aneesh 18y ago
I applied to MIT for undergrad, and I was thoroughly impressed by the openness of their admissions office. They are miles ahead of most schools I know of in terms of how reachable, responsive & transparent their admissions officers are
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by aneesh 18y ago
Much more than personal information, what facebook can monetize is identity & relationships. For example, with Facebook Connect, it's much harder to be an anonymous troll commenter on a blog. And maybe using Facebook Connect as a login
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yeah, the new site makes it easier to navigate, and emphasizes the top stories much more (which seems to be the goal of most news sites). (btw, clear your cookies if you want to get out of the beta -- it's "sticky" in that once you visit th
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Microsoft Launches Seadragon App for the iPhone(techcrunch.com)
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by aneesh 18y ago
Facebook is trying to solve it. It's easy to create a new email account. It's much harder (though not impossibly so) to create a fake identity with 150 friends.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Well, they're not completely ineffective. How many people do you know that have two or more SSNs? How about multiple email addresses?
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by aneesh 18y ago
Matt, that's one of the first "advice" pieces I've read that acknowledges that all people don't (and shouldn't) make the same decision in the same circumstances. Helping people weigh the tradeoffs is MUCH better advice than "yes"/"no". I w
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by aneesh 18y ago
Nice! I played around with the demo for a few seconds, and quickly saw your value proposition.
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by aneesh 18y ago
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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by aneesh 18y ago
From /. comments: "Doh! It gets patched every second Tuesday of the month."
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by aneesh 18y ago
PG: "Perhaps I should have added that 40% was more than applications usually go up year to year." ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=386730 ) So the growth rate seems to have increased.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Ah, okay. That does make it interesting. The interviewees might be a biased sample of applicants, though. I guess you could get some insight into that by looking at data on the age distribution of the the accounts that applied, and compar
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by aneesh 18y ago
TicketStumbler, like any other marketplace, definitely relies on network effects. And, Google arguably doesn't rely heavily on network effects. Google's value to me (in the short run) is unaffected by how many other people use it.
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by aneesh 18y ago
"we got a record number, up 40% from the same cycle a year before." I agreed with much of this article, but not that line. A lot more people have heard of YCombinator since a year ago, so all else equal, you'd expect applications to ri
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by aneesh 18y ago
That's just one data point. I don't have any numbers, but this doesn't seem to be the case at the big software companies.
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by aneesh 18y ago
"... Ask yourself: what open source software exists that solves a big problem in a large market? ..." Statistical software (like R), perhaps? Not sure how much it's used by businesses though, especially with alternatives like SAS, or data
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by aneesh 18y ago
Still, you are giving some amount of today's dollars in return for a larger amount of tomorrow's dollars. That implies some effective interest rate over that time period. Also, while most financial institutions use compound interest, the
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by aneesh 18y ago
"I'll give you X dollars-today, in exchange for 1.1X dollars-N-months-from-now." Isn't that the very definition of interest?
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yep, the profit motive was mentioned over and over again in the SEC document, and it seems that was the key. Because of the profit motives, loans on Prosper qualified as securities, and hence the SEC regulations applied. With Kiva, there'
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by aneesh 18y ago
Their support staff are reasonably knowledgeable & responsive (response time is hours, not days), which is more than I could say for other registrars I've used.
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by aneesh 18y ago
http://maps.live.com/ Just as clean a page as Google Maps. It's one of the few things (that, and image search) Live does better than Google. Live Maps does local search better, the map labels are better, and Bird's Eye view is impressiv
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by aneesh 18y ago
I'm not surprised. There's a selection bias in the people who bet on elections. You only bet if you think you know something other people don't -- if you're wrong you lose your money. If you're wrong as a pundit, nothing happens. As they
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by aneesh 18y ago
Good idea. Actually, I think a platform to make A/B testing super-simple for developers (like us!) could be a business in itself.
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by aneesh 18y ago
You can already change the color of the top bar once you pass a certain threshold (at least a while back, it was 250)
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by aneesh 18y ago
and it didn't work.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I'm developing a data analysis & visualization tool. I'm starting to really wish there was a nice way to separate out the math/statistical logic that I'm using on the backend from the logic I use to display the results in a pretty way.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Another good move by Amazon. Most of what I do involves working with small to large datasets. Usually, the challenge is collecting the data & getting it into a structured form. Having this openly available seriously lowers the barrier

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