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by emmett 17y ago
First - great collection of links. The history of slavery deserves a more thorough understanding than what's normally taught in high school. And yet, it was not the Irish who couldn't vote as late as the 60s, nor were the Irish the ones in
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by emmett 17y ago
Your product is great, I wish I'd had it when I was studying Chinese in college. It's a great refresher now too.
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by emmett 17y ago
It's not technically infeasible; we've built a tech demo of it as well. It's a political problem - Apple won't approve your app.
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by emmett 17y ago
Claiming this is the "Chinese way" is stereotyping a country of 1 billion people from the actions of a very few. Going further and suggesting we boycott/avoid Chinese products is protectionism motivated by misguided xenophobia, rather than
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by emmett 17y ago
Because you can't stream live video to or from the iPhone over 3G yet, and it only works for h264, so it's fairly pointless. The existing apps are pretty much crap because of Apple restrictions. We're ready to pounce if and when we think it
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by emmett 17y ago
Try out Camtweet, leave your feedback: http://www.camtweet.com/account/login_with_invite_code?invit... Invite code just for you, Hacker News.
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by emmett 17y ago
We built this in about 3 days of work on top of the Justin.tv platform, I'd be curious to hear what the HN community thinks about it. I've set up an invite code so you all can try it out.
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Camtweet is TwitPic meets live video (from Justin.tv)(camtweet.com)
14 points by emmett 17y ago|19 comments
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by emmett 17y ago
The most striking thing about this list is just how many more startups have been funded by YC than by any competitor. There are almost as many YC companies as the rest put together (especially considering all the unlaunched YC companies m
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by emmett 17y ago
Neither - we were a special case; we'd already done Kiko Calendar as part of the Summer 05 cohort, and this was our second company.
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by emmett 17y ago
From personal experience: Kiko had a website at http://kiko.com , although apparently it's been recently taken down by the acquirer. We sold it on eBay for $258,000 in the summer of 06. We took follow-on funding from two angels (of a very
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by emmett 17y ago
"Insider Trading", as a crime, has a very specific definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading#Definition_of_.... It's not merely trading on things other people don't know.
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by emmett 17y ago
Posterous continues to rock. I'm curious if they have some master list of every magic integration they plan to make, or if they're just making them up on a whim as they go along.
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by emmett 17y ago
Yes, I expected Kiko to look much more like how Justin.tv has turned out. Whoops!
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by emmett 17y ago
Justin.tv. Who would have guessed that 2.5 years after putting a camera on Justin's head, we'd still be going strong? I was really expecting more of a blaze of glory followed by immediate failure, not a sustainable business.
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by emmett 17y ago
There is an on/off button for chat; it's just under the chat menu now. Obviously that's somewhat difficult to find.
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by emmett 17y ago
I completely agree there's nothing simple about that, but ever since we switched from Slony-I to Londiste at Justin.tv I couldn't be happier. It's been completely bulletproof, recovers from errors easily, and makes schema upgrades a breeze.
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Investigating sine waves in Google Trends(cryptogon.com)
29 points by emmett 17y ago|15 comments
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by emmett 17y ago
Mind blowing ideas on probability theory (perhaps new only to me). A quote on the ideas applied: Should we, in salary discrimination cases, compare salaries of equally qualified men and women, or, instead, compare qualifications of equally
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A calculus for causality?(bayes.cs.ucla.edu)
2 points by emmett 17y ago|1 comments
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by emmett 17y ago
I understand your sentiment, but you're wrong. We need lawyers who will work even for despicable clients. The reason for this rule is that everyone is entitled to legal representation they can trust. The clients really are at fault here.
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by emmett 17y ago
Reading books is mostly something you do for entertainment, like going to the movies, or eating nice food. There's nothing wrong with that! It's very pleasurable, and occasionally useful. But generally most reading doesn't make you a better
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by emmett 17y ago
You can almost always talk to lawyers for free, on an initial consultation. They're happy to talk to you in exchange for the opportunity to get your business. That will yield enough information to figure out whether it's worth proceeding. T
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by emmett 17y ago
In a couple different ways. EC2 is an amazing service, but it's not a perfect fit for everyone. We basically wanted to buy cheaper bandwidth and more bandwidth per CPU, and there's no real path for that on EC2.
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by emmett 17y ago
Your information is out of date. We outgrew EC2 a while ago.
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by emmett 17y ago
For those of you who have young children or planning to have children, here is a suggestion: investigate just how many cellphones we carry around these days, and compare that to how many were around 25-30 years ago.
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by emmett 17y ago
It's taken more than 2 hours to get my results - I'd love to get an email saying "After looking at your data, it looks like it's going to take N more hours to finish the results".
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by emmett 17y ago
Nothing that requires up front commitment has ever succeeded? Really? "Destined to fail" seems to overstate the case quite a bit.
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by emmett 17y ago
I think we're in total agreement. Libertarians share platforms with both the left and the right; we call them "left-libertarians" when they find themselves mostly voting in alignment with the left, and "right-libertarians" when they find th
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by emmett 17y ago
Yes, I generally agree that it would be theoretically possible to do a separated at birth identical twin study. In practice, the requirements are so stringent that they've never (to my knowledge) been met. The setup you describe could ind

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