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Fred Wilson Vs. John Doerr(techcrunch.com)
46 points by apu 16y ago|3 comments
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by apu 16y ago
I question the advice of going into credit card debt. You do not want to ruin your personal credit because your startup happens to tank.
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by apu 16y ago
It's not just self-taught people. Many professors, who have gone through the full range of degrees from bachelor's to master's to phd's, also suffer from this. (And grad students, who are proto-professors.)
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by apu 16y ago
In addition to the various tips and guides posted here, an important missing ingredient is actually putting in the time and effort on writing. In computer science, at least, I know many people who spend 4-8 months doing research and getting
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by apu 16y ago
If your first version is so impressive that trolls don't make fun of it, you waited too long to launch. http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html
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by apu 16y ago
Ah good point. I forgot that he had his own method, separate from Takeo's.
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by apu 16y ago
I didn't look at the source in detail, but almost all face detection systems today (including those implemented in hardware in cameras) use a variant of Viola and Jones' Haar-Like Cascade Detector [1]. The major exception is work from CMU a
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by apu 16y ago
Something I notice in common about many of these stories is how much people cite Zuckerberg in particular as a reason for joining/liking Facebook. I don't see anything like it for Larry or Sergey at Google. My guess is that Zuckerberg has h
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by apu 16y ago
Today I learned that FYIFV = Fuck You, I'm Fully Vested.
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Why netflix's recommendations are more interesting than amazon's(cdixon.posterous.com)
5 points by apu 16y ago|0 comments
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by apu 16y ago
Arrington notes at the bottom of the post that this WSJ article was published after the TechCrunch article and "was supposed to be published earlier this week, and wasn’t". He goes on to say (and it certainly seems likely to be the case)
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Wall Street Journal Investigation Into MySpace Was Quietly Killed(techcrunch.com)
81 points by apu 16y ago|18 comments
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by apu 16y ago
The expected return is (probability of success) X (value at success). In practice, the probability is what matters far more, and so that's what you optimize for. It doesn't matter what valuations/etc. are in place if the company tanks.
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by apu 16y ago
I don't know any particularly good articles/books on this subject, but Morgan Spurlock had a documentary tv series called "30 days" where he spends 30 days doing things like living on welfare, working for a minimum wage job, living in priso
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by apu 16y ago
You code in bed? Wow, your back must hate you. (And if not yet, soon it will...) Seriously, though, my back starts hurting if I don't maintain good posture while sitting; I can't even imagine what it would do if I tried to use a computer in
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by apu 16y ago
If you rewrite an essay for 2-3 weeks, why would you pick one date as the date? It serves no real purpose.
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by apu 16y ago
Based on PG's comments [1][2], I wouldn't touch lyrics. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1760835 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1761437
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by apu 16y ago
Something no one seems to have mentioned: the post is by Sebastian Thrun, a professor at Stanford. His team won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 and placed 2nd in the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007, so he's one of the most experienced peopl
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by apu 16y ago
To add to the many good responses here so far: AI is such an overloaded term with many negative connotations that it's no longer used. It's also now specialized into separate components, as researchers realize that it's not "cheating" to st
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by apu 16y ago
In some specific areas (like mine: graphics and vision), there are compiled lists of recent papers from the best conferences, along with links to the papers, project pages, etc.: http://kesen.realtimerendering.com/sig2010.html http://www
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by apu 16y ago
2 other awesome letters he wrote: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/07/your-work-was-inadequat... http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/okay-you-lazy-bitch.htm...
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by apu 16y ago
http://www.theonion.com/articles/august-5-1914,10615/
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by apu 16y ago
What's with the weird misspellings/typos all over the place? Like 'ey' for 'he', or 'eir' for 'their'?
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by apu 16y ago
I wonder if one can define a loose version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle for all documentaries: the more closely involved the film-maker is to the action, the more he/she influences it. A scene which vividly comes to mind is in H
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by apu 16y ago
It's actually bracketed: 7-8 is ideal. Anything less or more is bad for you (usual disclaimers, etc.): http://longevity.about.com/od/sleephealthandaging/a/sleep_du...
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by apu 16y ago
I agree to a large part with what you wrote, and I certainly didn't mean to imply that kids would be completely ostracized for not playing games. And of course, I also see the problem with letting kids do whatever they want simply because t
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by apu 16y ago
I use QuickDrag to do this and more: * Drag images to download them * Drag text urls to open in new tab * Drag text to search on google Highly recommended. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6912/
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by apu 16y ago
When was this? Attitudes and customs about video games are rapidly changing. As 'tptacek mentioned, it's now also a huge social disadvantage for a kid to not be playing video games (or be severely limited in their access to them).
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by apu 16y ago
While the paper cited by 'StavrosK is indeed a very important one in computer vision (it's the basis for almost all modern face detection algorithms), it's not the one most relevant for Shazam. I don't know the details of what they're doing
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by apu 16y ago
I notice that that page has a lot of text on it. Did you start it out this way, or did you start with minimal text and A/B it up to this? Naively, I'd have thought that more text = less conversions. Or is the text there to make it more SEOe

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