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by hooande 14y ago
This sounds like a good idea. I think it gets one thing wrong: Hacking living social was not about gaining access to anyone's living social account. It was about getting passwords that were reused on sites that actually matter (banking, etc
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by hooande 14y ago
What people don't understand about YCombinator is that they are ultimately in the business of making friends. The few thousand dollars they invest in startups isn't meant to be seed money, or enough money for founders to sustain a business.
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by hooande 14y ago
I wonder if the posthaven founders have decided to make this into an open source like "foundation" (garrytan had mentioned interest in an earlier comment [1]) I think a lot of people could get behind the idea of a permanent entity that wasn
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by hooande 14y ago
I believe that Chinese hackers are the scariest thing in the world today. I think that the threat from cyber warfare might be slightly overblown (though the next pearl harbor will most likely be a cyber attack). The real threat is the fact
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by hooande 14y ago
Farmers feed antiobiotics to their animals because the antibiotics make them bigger. No one knows exactly why, but farmers know a more valuable pig when they see one. This is how capitalism works. If farmers can make more money by giving an
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by hooande 14y ago
Henry Ford was notoriously ill-informed. He sued a newspaper for libel after they said he was an idiot. In the trial they asked him in what year the revolution that founded the country took place. "1812?" facepalm edit: unfortunate typo
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by hooande 14y ago
The odds of governments or major corporations, M$'s biggest customers, switching from windows to linux are virtually nil. Institutions are heavily invested with Microsoft, linux Office won't be the tipping point for a switch to a whole new
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by hooande 14y ago
There are a LOT of very useful things that drones can do. A short list: * delivering food * scouting location based markets * observing weather patterns * optimizing traffic flow/stop lights * crowd management * emergency reli
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by hooande 14y ago
The big issue with robot cooks isn't a machine that can cook food...those have been around for some time now. The real question is can the robots cook safe and healthful food with no human assistance ? Any Board of Health will agree that t
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by hooande 14y ago
Social hacking at its finest. The benefits of a fake girlfriend go far beyond attracting a real girlfriend. Everyone looks differently at someone who is dating a hot chick. This could be just as valuable in terms of general networking or
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by hooande 14y ago
> A forger could have randomly changed Charles to "Charley", looked up an appropriate address, edited the metadata, come up with all the Hollywood touches, wrote the whole damn thing (quite an endeavour since relatively little material
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by hooande 14y ago
Fear not, Ben Franklin already went down this thought path. An old fashioned library will stock most of these titles, and might order the others on request. I'm fortunate enough to live in a city where the library does home delivery ("It's
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by hooande 14y ago
Let me try to present the other side of this argument in a way that doesn't sound crazy: When one of your people dies, it really hurts. If you were the one in charge of guaranteeing the safety of that person, its a failure much deeper and m
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by hooande 14y ago
The context is that a "Moment of Silence" overlay was placed across many websites at 9:30 am today, organized by Causes. People who were checking hackernews at 9:30 am might want to discuss the experience. I thought it was a solid gesture,
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by hooande 14y ago
Is this the study you had in mind? http://www.princeton.edu/~mjs3/salganik_dodds_watts06_full.p... I read about a similar experiment in the book "Automate This" by yc alum Christopher Steiner. They seeded a music website with unknown song
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by hooande 14y ago
I like this move by the businessleads.com team. If they hear back from Zuckerberg, this blog post is the set up to a pr knockout punch. Nothing is better for customer acquisition than a visible demonstration that the damn thing works. If th
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by hooande 14y ago
"(the first 30 days are free!)" Why? I don't understand the arbitrary 30 day limit, or the need to be charging at all for the basic service. It seems like the best way to gain adoption for a product like this is word of mouth. As a totall
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by hooande 14y ago
The reasons your iPhone 5 lets you get directions, communicate and make dinner reservations are the global information infrastructure and the tcp/ip protocol, both products of a national innovation policy. I know that most people under 30 d
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by hooande 14y ago
It wasn't a crazy idea at the time. couchsurfing.com had been a thing for years. "couchsurfing with a better UI" doesn't sound like a billion dollar idea, but it doesn't sound crazy either.
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by hooande 14y ago
"Although only 51 percent of American adults are currently married, 72 percent have been married at least once." [1] Tricky number. Roughly three out of four of people get married, but as we know half of those marriages end in divorce. The
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by hooande 14y ago
Yes and no. Curing cancer is going to take more than "traditional chinese medicine and the many energies". But it's not written that it's going to require 4 years of college and 4 more years of medical school. You do still need experts, but
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by hooande 14y ago
> It probably belongs to a fuzzy set of existing situations canvassed by cases raised in the past thousand years. Computers own those. Don't write off expert systems because you can't see how you would implement it right now. It would t
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by hooande 14y ago
To get water out of the air, it has to be condensed into liquid. Condensation requires a significant temperature difference, and the best way to get that is refrigerant. I'm surprised that he was able to do this using only a solar powered f
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by hooande 14y ago
Use the money to prepare yourself for a large amount of funding. One of the first things they'll tell you at YCombinator is that vc and angel investors are very particularly about a company's legal structure. pg has open sourced the docs he
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by hooande 14y ago
Can I ask why you're charging for this at all? The cost to you has to be close to negligible. Even with expensive hosting, I would be surprised if you had to pay more than $200/mo at the height of popularity. You might want to look into spo
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by hooande 14y ago
Two ways to answer this question. The practical answer is: $5MM isn't a lot of money to a VC firm. They have hundreds of millions or billions of dollars to invest. Ryan Carson has a strong reputation in the tech community and he's an accomp
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by hooande 14y ago
You missed the point of what pg said, in both spirit and semantics. Semantically, pg said that it's empirically difficult for one person to start a big company on their own. This does not preclude the possibility of it happening. It's just
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by hooande 14y ago
Here is the deal with politics on hn, as I understand it... As hackers , we like to learn about complex systems and figure out how they work. Politics can be very complicated and there's a lot going on behind the scenes. Any story that exp
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by hooande 14y ago
I think this article is using the term "nerd" in high regard. "smart" as opposed to "glasses and giant backpack". The article paints these people as colorful characters and rock stars. If anything, I thought it was a little too fawning. The
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by hooande 14y ago
I've long thought that machine learning would be a great tool for detecting cancer and other diseases. There is a small but growing body of research to support this idea, but very few practical implementations. [1] [2] [3] Ultimately detect

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