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by bkrausz 16y ago
1) There is no downside to applying beyond a bit of time, as you can always apply again. 2) AFAIK PG & co don't judge people on how far they've come but how solid the team is and what they've been able to do with the time given. They a
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by bkrausz 16y ago
These aren't tech startups: these are web startups. Web startups' main value is the experience, but until they have to scale there's not much value there. Early Facebook, from a technology side, is just a CRUD app that anybody could have
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Random question: what would you guys like to hear/know about applying (or YC in general) that's not already out there? I've been considering writing a blog post about GazeHawk's YC experience, but there are so many good ones already, and I
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by bkrausz 16y ago
According to ComScore only about 16% of internet users ever click on ads, and half of those clickers account for 85% of all ad clicks (i.e. they're constant ad clickers). http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2009/10/...
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I'm sorry you felt that way Aaron. For context for the rest of the HN: when giving a talk on our HTML5 heatmap generation I was using a heatmap of an NBC homepage for an example. That homepage featured a promotion for their coverage of th
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Our New Year’s Resolution For Hiring(gazehawk.com)
33 points by bkrausz 16y ago|6 comments
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Mountain View, CA GazeHawk (YC S10) Web Engineer, second hire Full description at http://gazehawk.com/jobs/ Long story short: we do cool things with Javascript!
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I would agree even if it weren't self-serving ( cough gazehawk.com/jobs/ cough )...I worked in industry for a year before starting my own company, and I'm really grateful for it (my team was awesome!). At the same time, my experiences at l
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Facebook Launches Instant Personalization On TripAdvisor(techcrunch.com)
18 points by bkrausz 16y ago|5 comments
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by bkrausz 16y ago
You're right, but Martin already said his team was working on things like scaling as opposed to iterating on the product. I think that's what every startup needs to do post launch: harden up the quality of their product before pushing forw
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by bkrausz 16y ago
"Our product development was almost stalled for months on end." Then you're doing something wrong. I disagree. When we were fundraising we got no actual product development done, and from what I hear this is rather normal. "Mo
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Yet Another Javascript Engineer Job Posting (GazeHawk, S10)(gazehawk.com)
18 points by bkrausz 16y ago
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I'm afraid you're mistaken on a number of fronts: - GazeHawk has the features you mentioned: video gaze tracks and aggregate heatmaps. Your claim of us offering "a single heatmap of one static image" has never been true: we launched with m
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by bkrausz 16y ago
We've launched, YouEye hasn't, so hard to say :). I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with, eye tracking is a young industry with a lot of potential, great to see more people getting involved in it.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Why not just write a twitter API emulator so that GitHub can integrate with Twitter clients? The interface seems mostly the same.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
If you're in CMU's network your computer is registered with them, so unless you live off-campus (which Freshmen aren't allowed to do) you can easily look up which student registered which machine (plus it's usually obvious from the hostname
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Can't upvote this enough. 1) The early homeworks in this class were basically puzzles, where if you’ve seen the style of problem before you more or less knew the answer. The goal was to expose us to these types of problems and teach us how
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Absolutely right, I updated the post.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
It was either 2nd semester Freshman year or 1st semester Sophomore year, honestly I don't remember which it was.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
The early homeworks in this class (Great Theoretical Ideas in Computer Science) were basically puzzles, where if you've seen the style of problem before you more or less knew the answer. The goal was to expose us to these types of problems
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How to Catch a Cheater(nerdlife.net)
138 points by bkrausz 16y ago|98 comments
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Good point on the redownloading part: I'd have to look into the actual numbers, if the homepage-primed connection count is still only 1 it's definitely worth it. However, I disagree about the low benefit of minifying gzipped CSS. I thought
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Yes, but mentioning a connection limit that's normally 2 (i.e. "This limit is normally 2 connection to a domain.") is factually incorrect.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
There's no excuse for a blog to have 4 external stylesheets: these can easily be concatenated. Worse yet, they're not even minified.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
All modern browsers have per-domain connection limits higher than 2 by now (Firefox is 6 for example). The problem is that JS blocks all other content loading/parsing because it can impact it upon execution.
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Where are the HN Designers/UX folk? GazeHawk (YC S10) wants you!
44 points by bkrausz 16y ago
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GameBoy Emulation in JS Part 8: Interrupts(imrannazar.com)
3 points by bkrausz 16y ago|0 comments
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Been using chrome (windows and OS X), often with tons of HN tabs open. No ban problems for me (though I'm on release instead of Chromium).
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by bkrausz 16y ago
In this case optimization refers to trying to pick the best option. PG talks about it a lot: we could spend hours trying to pick the most efficient desk layout, the best apartment for getting work done during YC, or a hundred other things.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
We do use EBS, but AWS has a flag for "delete on terminate" where the EBS is automatically purged when the instance is terminated. Not 100% sure of the conditions for this to happen, but when you have a single boolean for something like th

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