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by hooande 16y ago
People who have no experience with long term financial security aren't likely to try to build it. I would venture to guess that most of the scammers you have met did not come from families or backgrounds that put a lot of emphasis on long t
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by hooande 16y ago
How is that delicious-like tagging system different than trying to figure out what people will like based on what other people with similar tastes like? It seems that a recommendation system with sufficient input would easily be able to ide
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by hooande 16y ago
Enterprise software sucks because corporations have little incentive to improve it and it's almost impossible for a startup to gain a foothold in terms of sales and adoption. There are so many smart hackers and the problems are so obvious..
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by hooande 16y ago
Is Readability just opencalais/alchemyapi, or did they build it themselves?
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by hooande 16y ago
Men dominate just two of the 15 job categories projected to grow the most over the next decade: janitor and computer engineer. Women have everything else: nursing, home health assistance, child care, food preparation. The entire premise o
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by hooande 16y ago
Investing more time in a bad cofounder is pointless. You need to ask yourself, honestly, whether this guy can do the job you need him to do. If there are any maybes, ifs or doubts...if you aren't sure that he's the kind of person who will f
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by hooande 16y ago
The college experience is like any other experience. People who enjoyed college can't imagine life without it, and recommend it to others. People who didn't have good experience (or any experience at all) will tell you that it isn't importa
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by hooande 16y ago
What other options are there for small websites? Has anyone heard of anything that could be a credible replacement for adsense?
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by hooande 16y ago
If I understand the Prediction API correctly it's a text classifier. I would imagine it's a bayesian classifier, like the kind found in most spam filters. I don't know how accurate it is...it would be nice to see how it performs on a standa
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by hooande 16y ago
Just my two cents: I thought ideas #1 and #6 were really good. #1 seems like it's "in" right now...the sooner you could do that, the better.
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by hooande 17y ago
My biggest question from this article is "What is the alternative to Wall Street?" What else should our best and brightest students be doing? I feel like the passion and creativity required to do a startup aren't any more common in the ivy
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by hooande 17y ago
On the tv show Mad Men, Don Draper described it as "we let our people be unproductive until they're productive". I think this applies to any kind of creative work. If I know exactly what needs to be done and how to do it, I'll just do it. I
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by hooande 17y ago
This site is great, I plan to use it soon. I wish it said something about paypal more clearly on the home page. Finding out whether or not you provide payment processing options took some looking. Overall it looks great.
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by hooande 17y ago
This is flagrant linkbait. I start to write a witty comment responding to this post, but then I realized that's exactly what they want us to do. They even told us, explicitly in their book, that their forumla for success was to create contr
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by hooande 17y ago
That's a nice approach, but a naive bayes classifier doesn't seem like it would be the best method for this particular problem. You probably want to do an N-gram analysis, like that performed by libtextcat http://software.wise-guys.nl/libt
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by hooande 17y ago
Your situation is entirely normal. Most ad agents take around 30%. If anyone charges you significantly less then they are probably new and inexperienced (which isn't always a bad thing). Most websites only monetize 50% of their ad inventory
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by hooande 17y ago
I looked at the methods used in the paper and it's clear that my definition of "privacy" varies greatly from the author's definition. Essentially they are saying that if you know what rating someone gave 8 movies and the date that they gave
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by hooande 17y ago
I understand that there isn't a commonly accepted term for "I'm creeped out by how much information about me is available", but we need to stop using "privacy". If we keep throwing the word around it will lose all meaning. Someone taking a
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Stateless, fault-tolerant scheduling using randomness(tech.backtype.com)
22 points by hooande 17y ago|6 comments
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by hooande 17y ago
"I like cash," Mr. Buffett said.
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by hooande 17y ago
So what is the value of the real time web? This article seems to say it's about immediacy, about finding out things faster than you would have before. I've also heard that the real time web acts as a filter for news, so you can use the peop
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by hooande 17y ago
Is video that important? I hate it when the only way I can understand what a product does is by spending 2 minutes to watch a video. Has anyone does tests to see how much video improves conversions?
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by hooande 17y ago
I think this is how most equity investing works anyway. You get the feeling that one or more of the founders are "superstars" and decide to back them, not the idea or product that they pitched you with. The lifetime contract is an interesti
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by hooande 17y ago
Wow. This is one of the most racist comments I have ever seen on hacker news.
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by hooande 17y ago
I think you're doing great. A lot of people on this thread say you should spend more time being social. There's nothing wrong with that, but if I had it to do over again I would do it your way. Yeah I had some good times as a kid. But now a
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by hooande 17y ago
I agree with you that intelligence does exist and it needs to be measured. Measured by the completion of medical school/college, by whatever heavily IQ-correlated traits that investors look at or by a wide variety of indirect measurements o
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by hooande 17y ago
If IQ is a valid measurement, then why isn't it used to make important decisions? While your surgeon example may be a bit contrived, it raises a valid point: Why haven't you ever considered the IQ of your surgeon? Does anyone even know thei
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by hooande 17y ago
Comments like this are why I love news.yc
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by hooande 17y ago
Standardized tests of any kind are fundamentally flawed. You can't measure a person's intelligence using a test. You can only measure very specific things, and even then you can't expect to do a good job of it. Does a high SAT score predict
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by hooande 17y ago
I've been using Sensobi for awhile and it works great. Once it's installed, you don't have to do anything but check it every few days.

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