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Cord blood can today save the life of someone with leukemia or other diseases that require bone marrow transplants. While other cord blood stem cell therapies may be speculative, this one is real and already works to save lives. My sister h
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Where does Slide or RockYou host?
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You might talk with Mitch Altman, founder of Cornfield Electronics. Mitch has a successful hardware business now, selling the TV-B-Gone remote among other things. http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_main.php Mitch did it without needing VC. Mitch
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Dictating letters is still niche and will likely remain so, except for people who have severe RSI or other reasons to go through the training required. If I'm spending enough time at one sitting to do a letter, and if I have the investment
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There are a few pre-CES shipping devices with 12" capacitive multi-touch screens. The HP TouchSmart TX2 for example. These are more traditional tablet/notebook PCs, but with Win7 they do allow for "iPhone-like" gestures. The TouchSmart in p
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Dodgeball is one example where the team did not view it that way. The founders were excited at the time of acquisition with the directions they thought they could go with Google. After the acquisition, they found it difficult to get resourc
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This is true, but there are plenty of other teams within Microsoft (or Yahoo or Google) that do applied machine learning. You probably won't end up with a publication in a peer-reviewed conference, but you will learn about the state of the
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What do you have in mind when you say "computer science theoretician" ? Do you mean someone who publishes in the ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing or do you mean something else?
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What do you think about halting password puzzles? http://crypto.stanford.edu/~xb/security07/index.html
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Train our runtimes to detect and reject attempts to store user passwords in plaintext?
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No. Google (and MS) can afford it, and the deal is worth it for the PR plus the head start on figuring out how to make money from the firehose. We have a few examples of people making money from Twitter -- the question now is how to follow
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There are a lot of broken bodies on the micropayment road. Millicent & Peppercoin come to mind to start. Maybe the world has changed since then, but if you were doing a company on micropayments and came to me, I'd want a clear answer as
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Yes, you're right, 2001 was a tough year to graduate. That being said, von Ahn's focusing on PhD programs, where the time to finish may be as short as 3 years, but more likely is in the 5-7 range. While these programs do pay a stipend, if y
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Congratulations!
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Speculation: Because those aren't as mobile as a phone, and because Android needs something to differentiate itself from the iPhone. First seamless turn by turn directions, now this.
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There's been some academic work on identifying these attacks recently. Most of the work I've seen crawls social networks directly. You could try contacting the authors to see if they will share their data sets. Representative example: Sybil
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Visual Studio "Express" is free, but doesn't have many of the features of the for-pay versions. http://www.microsoft.com/exPress/download/ (Link also includes downloads for betas of Visual Studio 2010 & trial edition of for-pay vers
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Jury is still out, but free/freemium music services look hard. (People don't seem to want subscription services.) lala sold allegedly because they weren't getting to profitability fast enough, imeem struggled, and Pandora needed an act of t
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Trying to find the source of this: someone recently observed (maybe here on HN?) that a number of communications methods we take for granted in our everyday lives started as accessibility options. The example that struck me was text messagi
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I recently heard about the business of teaching people how to form syndicates to buy "short sale" homes and then flip those homes for a profit. (Short sale == sell house for less than the loan value.) If you pay $$ to a guru you can get sta
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In that case, a confounding factor is that the people in the club may be able to tell the difference between the outfits. So it isn't just the second man's confidence, it's that the people there know he's willing to blow a lot of money on l
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Pocket-carry is qualitatively different. I have ideas all the time but don't want to carry around a backpack with my laptop. Once I need a backpack or bag, there isn't that much difference for me between a netbook and a "real" laptop. From
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Ian McDonald's _Brasyl_ is up there. Hard to find but worth it. Does suffer from the "quantum effects are magical pixie dust" disease but this can be overlooked. Charlie Stross, _Glasshouse_. Yes, _Halting State_ is good too, but in _Glassh
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I actually thought "Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory" was "worse" than Unaccompanied Sonata. Still I wish he'd write more short stories like that...they're more engaging than the novels I've seen recently from him.
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Why couldn't it be copyright concerns? YouTube has negotiated deals with different copyright holders. We don't know all the provisions of those deals. One provision might be "no playing videos on set top boxes." Instead of trying to explici
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Plus, don't you have a product which may benefit from developers, even if they don't start working on that project?
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You could also just carry around a small foldable keyboard. I've been using this: http://www.wetkeys.com/BlueTooth-keyboard-Flexible-HID-Inter...
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For display, you can hook up video display glasses to an iPhone today, then use ScreenSplittr to mirror the display to the glasses. With some Windows Mobile phones, like the Touch Pro or Touch Pro 2, you get TV out "out of the box" with no
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last.fm uses a plugin for your music player to record to which songs you listen, and for how long. You can then elect to expose this to your friends on last.fm or use this with last.fm's collaborative filtering to suggest new songs. The ide
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The "how many X are in Y" is also known as a "case study question." From what I understand it's a standard practice in interviews for consulting companies, such as Bain or McKinsey. I've never seen one in an interview, but friends of mine w

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