cynusx

36 ms·

301.
by cynusx 12y ago
Riding a trend is definitely a sensible thing to do, it reminds me of a lesson that's quite common in fighting sports is to use an opponents momentum to your own advantage. That said, you can get lucky and happen to work on one of the
302.
by cynusx 12y ago
Use reverse vesting and don't put provisions in that cofounders can't fire each other. This will twist the incentives to align everybody. 1. if you do 80% of the work and he does 20%, you can fire him and reap 100% of the rewa
303.
by cynusx 12y ago
This is great, it's just a fact that ssl will not have major adoption unless there's a clear UI or business reason for it. I hope google takes it one step further and updates chrome to show an insecure warning when it detects a pa
304.
by cynusx 12y ago
I like the product and you are clearly targeting regular gym-goers that care about measuring improvement. You have the customer segment nailed down and that allows you to build a marketing strategy around the target audience their behaviour
305.
by cynusx 13y ago
it's funny you mention because I believe I have cracked the problem of pinning an altcoin to the usd but I fail to see how it would get adoption in the first place. There is no deflationary or early-adopter reward in it, the only value
306.
by cynusx 13y ago
I wonder if ordinary people would even consider holding any digital currency even if the value of it is superstable. Even if there would be an altcoin that achieves stability there would be huge adoption hurdles.
307.
by cynusx 13y ago
It requires a lot more infrastructure work to have this type architecture. In addition you move a lot of the complexity of your application to the interface level between the microservices. I think it has a good use-case if you have one res
308.
by cynusx 13y ago
Procurement process design is not only a problem in public bodies, there is a lot of corruption in private companies as well where a procurement person would strike a deal with a sales person. This deal can range from "a nice watch&quo
309.
by cynusx 13y ago
Generating CS maps from the university campus now becomes ridiculously simple :)
310.
by cynusx 13y ago
I am interested. Do you guys cover european banks? FYI, your signup for a private beta makes it very hard to click send. there is like 1 pixel on the send-button that actually triggers the action.
311.
by cynusx 13y ago
I have not have noticed that Sam Altman was bad at writing, most of the posts that made it to HN are pretty solid. :)
312.
by cynusx 13y ago
Your experience resonates with me and I hadn't seen it into words until now. It's a fate that still drives me to work harder so my future kids wouldn't ever go through it. I read that some investors have a word for it "P
313.
by cynusx 13y ago
yea, good point about Mechanical turk. Moderators would get expensive quite quickly but if it is such a royal pain I suppose it can be a paid-for feature which is sustainable.
314.
by cynusx 13y ago
sounds like a good opportunity for dating sites to do pre-moderation of inbound messages. I am sure some of it can be caught with a relatively simple classifier (machine learning) and the rest can be handled with mechanical turk. Another ap
315.
by cynusx 13y ago
Seems to me that you're complaining about nicely visual laid out websites with poor usability. I am not so sure that Fried is complaining about this. To me it seemed more that in a world full of sleek sites he prefers fake amateurism..
316.
by cynusx 13y ago
I have been running a remote team for a year now. Communication: - chat during the day (hipchat) - skype for voice calls, usually to quickly discuss something - Google hangout (highest bandwidth communication, I run my daily standups on goo
317.
by cynusx 13y ago
The only genuine reason I see for not investing in single founders is that startups are a lot of work and it's unreasonable to expect that a single founder can focus on all the different bits that need to align for a business to take o
318.
by cynusx 13y ago
yea, I might have gotten it wrong about progressive taxation. The context I picked it up on was in choosing a higher salary vs. some benefits. The benefit did lead to more spending power compared to the salary increase and HR would push for
319.
by cynusx 13y ago
hiring managers would use it to convince people to take sub-100k wages. This pretty much happens already in progressive taxation countries(e.g. belgium) where you can actually make less money by having a higher salary because your tax-rate
320.
by cynusx 13y ago
what's the frequency of crawling you guys support? e.g. hourly updates, daily updates, ..
321.
by cynusx 13y ago
I agree with the list and I would like to add a couple of points to it. 1. don't return error formats in a different data format (e.g. xml error response with a json api) 2. don't use custom request signing (hey, mixpanel and seom
322.
by cynusx 13y ago
Ahrefs crawls the internet just like Google does. SeoMoz does the same: http://moz.com/help/pro/what-is-rogerbot- Every service that builds a backlink database uses their own crawlers So to answer the question on
323.
RE: Elon Musk - "Make engineering tuition-free"(blog.noverloop.be)
1 points by cynusx 13y ago|0 comments
324.
by cynusx 13y ago
Machine learning is very heavy on statistics and mentally engaging enough, the field is called data science and there is a very high demand for them.
325.
by cynusx 13y ago
There are interesting thoughts in this article but talent is something that money can buy, ask the banks.
326.
Open source PaaS powered by Docker(flynn.io)
2 points by cynusx 13y ago|0 comments
327.
by cynusx 13y ago
docker is pretty awesome, at my company we share auxilary server around with docker (message queue system) and it's pretty RAD. I can't wait until they made it rock-solid enough to run systems in production with it.
328.
by cynusx 13y ago
marketing is different, marketing channels only remain good for a relatively short time period and sharing the knowledge around only hastens its demise. (oops, with marketing I mean growth hacking obviously)
329.
by cynusx 13y ago
she's a consultancy, her customers are banks and other types of financial institutions (I presume)
330.
by cynusx 13y ago
seems to me like you need to learn some basic programming to cleanse and reformat data. Since you listed python here already, it may be that you already know some basic programming but if a program takes forever you probably need to learn a

More ›