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by bkrausz 16y ago
Palantir stock at the point will be worth a lot more given a likely exit scenario. Also, they don't ice each other. Gotta be a plus.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Honestly, I wonder how much more the YC kitchen can scale. In my fraternity we had a chef preparing dinner for ~50, and he maxed out 2 convection ovens and industrial cookware. Granted, it was a larger variety than "lots of glop," but sti
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Anything that ties into GitHub well? We just switched from SVN+Trac to GitHub. Considering still using Trac but wondering if any good alternatives exist.
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Why Cesium Failed(ryandoherty.net)
1 points by bkrausz 16y ago|0 comments
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Hilarious...I wrote almost the exact same thing as a GazeHawk visualization about a week ago. Interesting how he uses the same canvas element to track opacity and display the colorization. You can split out the opacity into its own (hidd
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by bkrausz 16y ago
You misinterpreted what I said: Paypal is saying you can either have the 2.9% & $0.30 rate, or the 5% & $0.05 rate, applied to every transaction in your account. When I say that they should give you the cheaper rate, I mean whichev
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by bkrausz 16y ago
It's worth noting that this is an either-or pricing: you either get the micropayments rate or the larger rate. Why they don't give you the cheaper option is beyond me...you're paying an arm and a leg to collect on anything larger than $12.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Were someone to ignore their issues or hide them from their partner, I would claim it destroys the relationship more than anything else. But admitting one's flaws? As much as you may judge someone for a lack of self-control, you have a re
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I can see that. The problem I see is that everyone gets labeled as one extreme or the other. As much as I hate sugar-coating what I say to someone because of their gender or other quality, I'd rather get labeled as an anti-sexist than a s
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by bkrausz 16y ago
May I ask why you're hiding your gender on HN? I know of many potential reasons, just curious what yours is.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
caffeine: mocha or diet soda ethanol: [vodka|rum] + diet soda ethanol when there's an open bar: good scotch I occasionally start drinking a lot of water instead of caffeine, but that only lasts a month or two.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I bet you could get Alexis to manage it ;-).
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by bkrausz 16y ago
GazeHawk GazeHawk GazeHawk Sometimes I sleep, but not often.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
A good point. Interestingly enough, around a quarter of our testers make > $90k/yr. We don't break it down more than that (and I don't know how active they are in actually testing), but I suspect it was because of interest in the new
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I'm going to try to preempt any "PHP sucks" comments with my Quora response: http://www.quora.com/What-are-PHP-s-main-flaws-(and-good-par...
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by bkrausz 16y ago
That's actually used for security applications, as it prevents shoulder-surfing pretty readily. I don't think the average site would want to compromise the user experience that heavily though.
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Eye Tracking vs. Mouse Tracking(gazehawk.com)
67 points by bkrausz 16y ago|19 comments
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by bkrausz 16y ago
We applied approx. 4 days before the deadline. I knew a lot of apps come in last minute so I set a mental deadline of before the final weekend. We're from the most recent batch (GazeHawk, S2010). The problem was my cofounder and I were 30
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Couches are awesome, but I think beds send the wrong message of "you should always be at work". We have a mattress laying around that I'm considering moving to the GazeHawk office (when we find one), mostly as a joke, but nothing says "cre
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I know my HN participation dropped offer during my summer in YC...understandably so given how busy I was. It's picked up more now and is probably about at the same level as before I started YC. I was amazed that PG recognized my username a
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Jed (the source spreadsheet maintainer) does a really good job of keeping the newer companies up to date with public info, but it's hard to find a lot of public info on YC companies before the fact that they were YC was newsworthy.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Keep in mind the oldest YC companies have only been around ~5 years. There are some YC companies worth more than that but haven't exited. The common examples (based on others' estimations) are Dropbox and AirBnB.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I find 2 requirements for DNS (on top of the requisite uptime criteria): 1) It's not tied to any other services (so I can switch, say, webhosts without having to move my DNS config) 2) It lets me configure timeouts so I can experiment with
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Wouldn't it be free (or close to it) if you run it on an EC2 instance?
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by bkrausz 16y ago
GazeHawk (444 Castro) will have a ping pong table (if we get enough people we'll throw a tourney together) and we'll either grab burritos or order pizza. Our office space isn't built out yet, which screams "office chair races".
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Gmail Add-On EmailOracle Tracks Email Opens/Gives Followup Reminders(techcrunch.com)
4 points by bkrausz 16y ago|1 comments
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by bkrausz 16y ago
From the article: "I wrote about two startups today ... neither had involvement from the so called “super angels”" ... "except Hipmunk, which took an investment from SV Angel." It's easy to make assumptions when you only
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by bkrausz 16y ago
GazeHawk launched with a phone number: we get very few calls, but I feel like it builds confidence, especially if it's a B2B product.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Mountain View, CA. GazeHawk. http://www.gazehawk.com/jobs/ Looking for super awesome hire #1.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Strongly agree with #5: hiring sucks for startups, we'd all love to meet some entusiastic candidates. Shameless plug: GazeHawk is looking for our first hires. http://gazehawk.com/jobs/

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