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by gregcohn 14y ago
Good post. Are are any of the similar devices more open, in terms of both data accessibility and format?
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How does BrowserID work in the use case of a native mobile app?
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Los Angeles - Full time - technical Ad Hoc Labs (makers of Burner for iOS - http://burnerapp.com ) are seeking talented engineers (back-end, mobile, telephony) interested in our mission of building a privacy and identity layer for the phon
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http://hnnotify.com/ for notifications re replies, via email. been testing it a few weeks; works great.
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Low priority tasks and mid-term storage, low-priority long-term storage. The right way to get to inbox zero is to ruthlessly categorize incoming email into the right buckets for GTD or some comparable system, bumping them into Asana, Everno
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Related question: should I register for a DUNS number even though I don't need one right now? We have a live app in the US app store, charge money for it, etc., and have never been asked for a DUNS, though I did note it was one of the requ
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And store it where - on your hard drive?
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The point of the post is to discover passive investment opportunities, not employment options.
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One big hand an hour is the definition of a linear return on time.
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Yes but there's such a thing as leverage on labor. E.g., you could start a coffee cart & hire someone to manage it; be primarily a financial partner in purchasing a small business or house-flip; etc.
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Do you trade long only, or short too? Ie, are you trading pure volatility, or more looking for situations where there's a temporary dip in pricing relative to fundamentals? Do you monitor daily, > daily, and/or use any automated tools
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Yes. After a quick look at this (very interesting) suggestion, my intuitive reaction is that a lot of the borrowers are likely to repay based on their credit histories and the desire to protect them. My #1 question, however, is what makes
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Are you opening additional locations? Was it a full-time job for the first 18 months?
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This is an unlikely avenue for me given my geography, but out of curiosity and for the purposes of the discussion, are you basing the return on equity invested or on total value of the land?
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OP here: I don't have a hard time horizon or criteria on outcomes, just some idle assets that I don't want to put all into the stock market. I believe there are lots of ways to generate returns on assets in compounding ways, and I'm interes
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That's an interesting number of trades -- less than one a week. Can you elaborate on your methods for identifying, holding/monitoring, and exiting trades? How many hours a week are you spending on this?
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Can you elaborate more on how you make money from them? I have some interesting domains I've had for years -- selling or otherwise trying to monetize them seems interesting.
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this is great. how did you identify and qualify this opportunity?
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Do you have a way to make money from poker that isn't a linear function of the hours you spend at a poker table?
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isn't there some controversy re MtGox? E.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/22/lulzsec-rog...
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interesting. out of curiosity, what do you use for a trusted exchange and/or bank?
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find someone you can trust. it's not that hard. start with people who are already trusted by people you know.
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Ask HN: what are your best (relatively) passive, non-stock-market investments?
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This is a very lazyweb kind of question. There are any number of old school photo apps you could use (e.g. Flickr with private groups) and any number of new photo apps on the scene with this value proposition (e.g. Tracks). A detailed look
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I think email is overwhelming for most high-communication people, but also that most people are kind of stuck with it, and there's a lot of friction in switching between platforms. Gmail is certainly the default platform at the moment, but
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I'd suggest you consider product management. At the right company, product management is a good overlap in the venn diagram of "thinking up cool stuff", "tradeoffs & problem solving" -- ideally with exactly the kind of technical insigh
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Snapchat was a clever take but not particularly defensible. The real test is whether FB will allow a strong competitor to survive and continue to consume its api. Basically Twitter did the same thing to many of the basic tweet consumption &
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What are your criteria for this? "Beautiful" and "drives conversions" are two different things. Also lots of threads on Quora by special interest (e.g. https://www.quora.com/Onboarding/What-products-have-the-very... )
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this is the most important comment on this issue I've seen in a while. The fact is not just the fb learns which apps to clone; they learn who to promote the clones to AND can drive distribution in a way no one else, other than twitter, pos
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Go by at night. Sometimes neighborhoods that are fine by day are sketchy after dark. Even better if you can get inside the apartment at night. It's probably when you'll spend most of your time there, and the lighting and neighbor noise le

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