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841.
by frisco 18y ago
"Live the Silicon Valley Startup Experience" Sounds like trouble to me. I'm generally skeptical of anything that tries to polish and make accessible an inherently risky and difficult process. If you're using Startup House as a way to test
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North Koreans Launch Rocket Over the Pacific(nytimes.com)
2 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 18y ago
No, so flip that: I don't have access to any FB info now, and I don't need it for anything, so I'd like to find a way to validate people without bringing out the privacy concerns of FB connect. It's an incentivized survey that we'll distrib
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Ask HN: What's the right way to authenticate survey takers?
7 points by frisco 18y ago|5 comments
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Snow Crash has arrived: "Virtual Cocoon" simulates all five senses(crunchgear.com)
2 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 18y ago
YouNoodle.com? For all it's failings and dubious accuracy, it's basically exactly what you're asking about.
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Time Warner looks for best way to drive away customers, introduces monthly bandwidths(crunchgear.com)
1 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
848.
by frisco 18y ago
:( don't start political fights on hn. i thought this was going to be about requiring only formal logic on the senate floor, or some such. the relative size of the federal budget over the us population, not as interesting...
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by frisco 18y ago
I don't know how I feel about this. It's my favorite book, and I've read it many times, but I feel like it's something that either means a lot to you or means nothing. It doesn't translate very well beyond how you personally take it, and
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Facebook Fires Finance Chief and Offers Some Big Numbers(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
27 points by frisco 18y ago|15 comments
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by frisco 18y ago
I mean, you don't have access to pg's version control, but he released the News.YC source as a part of Arc ( http://arclanguage.org/install ) with the directive "go now, and bring forth clones." That fits my definition of open.
852.
by frisco 18y ago
Just awesome. Open source at its best: wanted the fix, wrote the patch. Hopefully pg^H^Hupstream will accept it after vetting.
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Sky Driving - Terrafugia Transition, a viable "roadable aircraft"(thebigmoney.com)
5 points by frisco 18y ago|3 comments
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by frisco 18y ago
"Remember the eight-second rule. Consumers have eight seconds worth of patience while waiting for your pages to load. This is especially true for home pages. It's like the restaurant business mantra: Don't keep them waiting, or they'll leav
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by frisco 18y ago
I think that this would just skew the leaderboard. Everyone would be following the famous members of HN (pg, bucheit, etc), and locally popular users would be distant seconds, while the normal user would make up a long tail of comparativel
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by frisco 18y ago
I was asking about the second derivative; if d(users)/dt wasn't constant, then d^2(users)/dt2 is nonzero and eternal september risk is fairly high (assuming HN isn't shrinking). If you assume idealized user growth (which doesn't happen --
857.
by frisco 18y ago
Or have glass walls. Facebook's growth rate is enormous, but it still retains its character because your personal Facebook's growth rate is actually rather small. Not that this has any obvious parallels to HN.
858.
by frisco 18y ago
Has anyone ever posted a survey HIT which asks the Turk workers about their backgrounds (and posted the results)? I'd be interested to see what the workers' qualifications and backgrounds are, and where they are, native languages, etc.
859.
by frisco 18y ago
Look at the screen and don't look down. It'll feel awkward at first, but it's supervised learning: you'll make mistakes at first, which your eyes will detect, and the keep trying keys until you get it right. Touch typing requires proprioc
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Ask PG: Is d(users)/dt constant on HN?
19 points by frisco 18y ago|15 comments
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Institute for Creation Research tries to award Master of Science in Creationism(worldofweirdthings.com)
2 points by frisco 18y ago|0 comments
862.
by frisco 18y ago
David Heinemeier Hansson has said the same thing, and talked about how it never interfered with his ability to do things like Rails.
863.
by frisco 18y ago
It's a beautiful car, for sure.
864.
by frisco 18y ago
By more global I just meant that @foo would effectively put everyone under the same domain. Email just feels more fragmented. Edit: also email puts restrictions on your identity. You're foo at some domain. @foo lets you pick a unique nam
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by frisco 18y ago
That's ironic. A subtly disguised poll to ask if polls are ok.
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by frisco 18y ago
Yes but easier to control access. You don't usually want to give out your email address as a form of general ID, and there are all kinds of clever email-hiding methods used to keep from being crawled by spammers (i.e., foo at bar dot com o
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by frisco 18y ago
We'll overshadow that eventually :) That's an unfortunate side-effect of starting out now; Quantios was in part chosen by virtue of domain-name availability, so "Did you mean..." is a predictable side-effect of that while we get off the gr
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by frisco 18y ago
URL-names just hit me as the breakthrough of Twitter, actually. I hadn't understood the power of Twitter at all until the other day I was reading a blog where the author referred to someone as @handle. My name is not unique: but, if we ha
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by frisco 18y ago
If by AI you mean machine learning, yes. If you mean "human-like-interactive-thing," yes but not in a way that means we're substantially closer than we were 15 years ago. AI in the ML sense is quickly becoming critical to business and is o
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by frisco 18y ago
> That potent duo has collectively bet $25 million on the still-private company. Back when 2-year-olds with $25M raised could reasonably be guessed to be public. Different times...

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