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by hooande 16y ago
AdSense was designed to help Google offload their abundance of keyword inventory. They have millions of people bidding on keywords. Web pages have keywords. So AdSense is a great tool to help them sell what they already have. Adsense wasn't
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by hooande 16y ago
Do you find that self service ads pay significantly more than remnant advertising/ad networks? I know that a negotiated direct sale will pay several multiples of what AdSense will, but do the self service ads come close to that?
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How a 16-yo Kid Made His First Million Dollars Following His Hero, Steve Jobs(gizmodo.com)
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by hooande 16y ago
I'm not a Yahoo"!" Technology Evangelist, but I want to express my agreement with sh1mmer. Being Google isn't the only definition of success. Yahoo is the best company in the world at selling online ad space. Search advertising makes way
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by hooande 16y ago
Fine. In broad terms, he leveraged the file sharing networks of the time. He put the name of our site on files that were shared very often and we had our college friends seed them on various services. It seemed crazy at first, but there is
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by hooande 16y ago
I was part of a startup years ago that did many of those things and much more. I still won't go into the details of what it was that my cofounder did, but it made a big difference. It was a social networking site, before social networking
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by hooande 16y ago
I can understand your situation, but I like their proposed approach (if I understand it correctly). A lot of people like to make appointments in order to be able to plan their time. During YC, you can schedule a 20 minute block of time with
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by hooande 16y ago
OhLife is one of the few apps that I use every day. If you've ever tried to keep a journal or any kind of organized daily log, I highly recommend it.
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by hooande 16y ago
I've definitely noticed a trend towards graph based thinking in recent computer science publications. My half baked theory on this is as follows: Graph based thinking is a result of the rise of social networking. The term "social network" w
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by hooande 16y ago
Interesting that they used the research equivalent of a Minimum Viable Product. From the paper: Of course, more complicated semantic network models are certainly possible. For instance, one could construct a weighted network. However, we s
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by hooande 16y ago
Supply and demand applies to equity distribution, whether you're technical or not. If you have skills that are rare for a particular startup, then you should be able to demand a larger share of equity. Every cofounder should get equity base
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by hooande 16y ago
I might have been wrong when I said "gross domestic product per capita". I meant to compare the US to similar sized nations, like the Roman or Mongul Empires. It wouldn't be possible to get figures to back this up, it's just an estimate on
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by hooande 16y ago
I won't question that american leaders have acted like dictators at times. Though technically, they were all still democratically elected and subject to impeachment. From my knowledge of history, a representative democracy is just more effi
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by hooande 16y ago
Not to challenge you, but what do you mean when you say " Historically speaking, competent and well-run monarchies outperform republics in almost all metrics except maybe military"? The United States seems to have done pretty well as a repu
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by hooande 16y ago
Can you tell us any more about how it works? Are you looking at the content of the page and comparing it to similar pages? Looking at the url's ranking on various social services?
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by hooande 16y ago
This is an idea I have wanted to implement myself for a long time. I was very sad that Google Bookmarks doesn't provide full page search and still requires me to think up and maintain my own hierarchy of tags/labels/whatever. Nice work, I'l
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by hooande 16y ago
There are times when I could swear that Scott Adams reads Hacker News. But IIRC, these are written weeks or months in advance.
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by hooande 16y ago
Did you actually try it the other way? I think that any girl who would analyze and respond to empirical evidence would be my kind of lady. Though knowing my luck she'd find the flaws in my experiment and reject me due to a problem with the
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by hooande 16y ago
NPR and PBS seem to have no problem with balanced and insightful journalism, despite being publically funded. Many people accuse public broadcasting of having a liberal bias, but in my years of listening I haven't heard that much if at all.
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by hooande 16y ago
This part of the article jumped out at me: "When UGA’s Runco was driving through California one day with his family, his son asked why Sacramento was the state’s capital - why not San Francisco or Los Angeles? Runco turned the question back
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by hooande 16y ago
ZeroCater is an amazing service. I recommend it for any startup.
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by hooande 16y ago
The atomic bombs were devastating and impressive, but they didn't do much more actual damage than the B-29 fire bomb raids on Tokyo in terms of loss of life and property. When you can drop bombs at all, it doesn't really matter what kind of
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by hooande 16y ago
Why do I feel that #2 is the most important thing on this list? I'd imagine that any VC firm would invest in a company that is "growing faster than Twitter did", no matter who the CEO was or what the specific market was. From all of my expe
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by hooande 16y ago
From my understanding, the biggest barrier to using hadoop/cassandra is that they are very difficult to install. Unless you have a lot of experience with similar technologies, the time spent learning new concepts isn't worth it for most sta
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by hooande 16y ago
I would say that it ceased to be "your" data once you typed it into facebook. Common sense should say that anything you send to a remote server is no longer under your control. I don't understand what the other side of this issue is. If you
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by hooande 16y ago
I'd have to normalize the data for all kinds of bubbles in a variety of markets, not just the dotcom bubble. Plus, I couldn't see how to determine who was new rich based on the data. In the light of morning, I'd like to amend my statement t
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by hooande 16y ago
People can interpret a data set in so many ways. I don't know which people you put into the "technology" and "finance" categories. I just went with the people that Forbes put into the categories of "Finance" or "Investment" vs the people th
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by hooande 16y ago
This is a pretty weak argument. Windows is notoriously insecure, but many people choose to use it everyday. Making decisions about tradeoffs between insecurity and convenience is part of life, and it's not for us to assume what most people
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by hooande 16y ago
What purpose does this serve? Maybe you could explain to me why someone would do this? What is the benefit of using several different domains instead of subdomains or subfolders on the general site?
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by hooande 16y ago
To be fair to loopt, the market changed between 2005 when they launched and 2009 (ish) when foursquare launched. 5 years ago people weren't nearly as comfortable with the idea of location based social networks. Loopt and the deals that they

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