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by bkrausz 16y ago
I tend to go with magnitude of possibilities. Specifically, if I'm still thinking of new applications/markets for the idea days later, it's probably worth pursuing.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I think a lot of us realize the privacy concerns and are very carefully weighing the cost/benefit tradeoff, especially from a user perspective. Instant Personalization has a distinct air of "evil" about it, but it can be very beneficial to
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Ouch... Don't worry, I'm sure your other investments will earn you at least that much ;-)
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Even if this were a POST request, once could simply issue an AJAX request of any type to Twitter and it would have the same effect. Alternatively build a form in the iframe and use JS to submit it to Twitter.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I'm amazed Twitter doesn't use nonce values on their status updates: they've been around long enough that this shouldn't be an issue. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Fortunately I think this is changing: tools are coming out that make running quantitative UX studies easier. Services like Optimizely, GazeHawk (disclaimer: that was a shameless plug for my company), UserTesting.com, etc are becoming more
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Engineer and/or UX - Mountain View, CA We're GazeHawk, we're solving difficult challenges with data visualization and eye tracking, looking for a web developer (our first hire). http://gazehawk.com/jobs/
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by bkrausz 16y ago
"If you’re an entrepeneur you believe Arrington." I disagree, I personally think Arrington made a bit too far of a stretch. Did a bunch of super angels get together and talk shop? Definitely. Are they talking about how high valuations are
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I think this is one of the biggest perks of YC: I have more friends because I did it, not fewer. I met some of my closest friends there (and even got introduced to my girlfriend through one of them). Seems like a net gain to me ;-).
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GazeHawk (YC S10) is hiring: coders & UX(gazehawk.com)
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I left a great well paying job at TripAdvisor for a startup. It was definitely a hard decision and I don't know which way it would have gone had I not gotten into YC. Had my job offered to double my salary or something rediculous like that
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Ask HN: What makes a job posting attractive?
53 points by bkrausz 16y ago|65 comments
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Static IPs only cost money if you're not using them. For most small VPSes utilization is practically nothing. I'm not saying it will replace VPSes, but it's a valid competitor.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
About time...at $15/mo these are now a viable competitor to generic VPSes.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Paraphrasing and skipping over some important points: convertible notes are awesome because you can offer people different valuations. Investors often don't want to be the first to commit. This lets you give them an incentive to do so.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
At the risk of being down-voted, does anyone else see the irony in that comment?
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by bkrausz 16y ago
The counter-argument is that, based on public gathered figures, YC is doing pretty damn well right now. I say they don't need tweaking because of that. They could tweak and try to scale quickly or get better returns, but they don't need t
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Very interesting change of perspective. I think there's definitely room to experiment with tweaks of this caliber on YC's model (not so say that YC needs tweaking themselves). I'm excited to see what they come up with!
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Some context: SXSW takes public votes into account for picking their speakers/panels (it's 30% of the rating). Many potential speakers have huge communities to tap to get votes, but we're young and haven't built that yet. If you like GazeH
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How Eye Tracking Will Redefine The Web(readwriteweb.com)
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by bkrausz 16y ago
If a constraint was that it's going in a literal time capsule that would be buried underground (i.e. physical damage to the area is not controllable) I would get a couple of SSDs and a couple of backup tapes, and save redundant copies on di
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by bkrausz 16y ago
YC W10, not S10
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Rasmus has been repeating this line to everyone for years now: I actually feel pretty bad for him. He gets quite a bit of flak for the language, when it actually does exactly what it's meant to. Everyone just likes to hate on it because it
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Slicehost for my personal box. AWS for gazehawk.com (crazy architecture, looking forward to blogging about it) Used to be on VPSLink (was one of their first customers) but they sold recently and everything quickly went to shit. Don't thin
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by bkrausz 16y ago
I see. We may be able to work something out, email me at brian AT gazehawk.com and we can discuss the details. Our upcoming plans to let you use your own users may solve this.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Two main reasons: 1) Our processing can't be done realtime (i.e. it takes more than 1 second per second of video), at least for now, so there would need to be a lag that can get significant if they user has a slow enough computer. 2) We cur
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by bkrausz 16y ago
TechCrunch was a fairly predictable example because blogs all tend to have the same format, but landing pages have varying flows and it's much harder to predict. Also with TechCrunch, I wouldn't have guessed that people would look at the to
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by bkrausz 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Right now we're targeting web-based interfaces, but expanding into different products is definitely something we're considering. It depends on what kind of demand we see for it.
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by bkrausz 16y ago
There's a significant overhead to eye tracking in terms of computation, so our costs aren't just paying testers. We wanted to price ourselves competitively compared to sites like UserTesting.com, but of course pricing was/is something we'v
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by bkrausz 16y ago
We have a nifty feature that let's you replay someone's gaze in a dot that moves around the screen. In the near future we'll have more quantitative things like how gaze order and fixation time.

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