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by hooande 17y ago
Did they really list the "I'm feeling lucky button" as a time saving feature in their first press release? I've spent a lot of time writing documents like this recently and I can only imagine how people would scold me for including a such a
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by hooande 17y ago
Does anyone think that more relevant or interesting ads are a good solution? I agree that CPM is broke. People really don't like ads, as evidenced by the popularity of AdBlocker. Paying to show people a lot of something that they hate doe
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by hooande 17y ago
Most funded companies are incorporated in Delaware. Many VCs insist on it. Delaware has positioned itself as "business friendly" with low corporate registration fees and a legal system that favors business interests. YC recommends that all
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by hooande 17y ago
"On average, black students earned a 1.9 GPA while their white counterparts held down an average of 3.45" The ratio between black and white GPAs = .55 "Ogbu worked from the 1990 census data, which showed that 32.6 percent of the black house
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by hooande 17y ago
Ideas have value. Most good ideas are a result of the unique perspective of the person who has them. Many years of life experience (working in an industry, talking to others, etc) usually go into coming up with a new idea, not to mention re
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by hooande 17y ago
Actually I've heard that it was good email etiquette to include a link in the first paragraph where applicable. It allows the reader evaluate the product/service on their own, then come back for the sales pitch.
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by hooande 17y ago
I don't agree with all of the details, but I think the author is dead on with his point. I've been thinking for a while now that in about 5 years people will be asking "How do we save the universities?" instead of "How do we save the newspa
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by hooande 17y ago
I think that pg was making a point...a company with only $15,000 investment was able to compete with a company with $10,000,000 in investment. Is the company with 650x the amount of resources going to have more traffic in the long run? Yes.
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by hooande 17y ago
A railroad company could have moved into the trucking or air freight business. But newspapers had no chance to move into the "world wide web" business. There was nothing they could do to match the information distribution capability of soci
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by hooande 17y ago
It seems like that approach greatly increases the cost of starting a company. Finding a suitable partner for "marriage" isn't easy...ask any middle aged single woman. It's almost a full time job in and of itself. And then you have to face
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by hooande 17y ago
Interesting to see google talk about it, but not a lot of news here. If someone clicks on an ad in the first or in the last position, you wouldn't think it would effect their likelihood of buying something on the destination site.
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by hooande 17y ago
So let me get this straight... people told you to study hard and over achieve, and now you're upset because things aren't as easy as you were promised? Welcome to the real world. Sad Fact #1: Everything people tell you isn't true. Even your
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by hooande 17y ago
No.
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by hooande 17y ago
Any YC founders who spent the summer in Boston know that this information is very valuable. Bookmark this one in case YC moves back out there and you have to borrow an air conditioner from Jessica.
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by hooande 17y ago
There are no set topics on hacker news for a reason. As I understood it, the main criteria was for submissions to be intelligent and informative. This article is one of the most rational discussions of the US health care system I have seen,
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by hooande 17y ago
That may or may not be true. Every search has a stimulus. Most people don't wake up with a craving for widgets and go straight to google. Something that they encounter offline or online leads them to believe that they need to buy widgets. T
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Turning Out The Lights: Splashcast(blogs.wsj.com)
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by hooande 17y ago
Do you have any kind of results that demonstrate how accurate your recommendations are? I checked your site but couldn't find anything
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by hooande 17y ago
I have some background with machine learning and I'm reading this book now. It doesn't seem like way a good way to learn much about applied statistics, but it does a good job of illustrating how data mining impacts people's daily lives. The
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by hooande 17y ago
Congratulations, Bump! I've always wondered how the apps in those commercials are chosen. Does Apple just choose the apps that they like?
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by hooande 17y ago
I want to point out that the author spends more time in this article talking about the problems associated with having multiple founders than he does the benefits. All of the benefits he outlined were individual: motivation, skills, connect
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by hooande 17y ago
From what I saw, the author was saying that the two functions of college should be separated. Part of college is classes and academic preparation. Part of it is social, meeting like minded and intelligent people. He made the point that the
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by hooande 17y ago
I think the author's point here is that most people just don't want to let go of the _idea_ of the american farmer. Culturally, we want a farmer to be a guy riding a tractor or milking a cow, not some guy who puts animals into boxes and the
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by hooande 17y ago
A regularized singular value decomposition is one of the most powerful machine learning algorithms available. Two decent open source implementations are SciPy ( http://www.scipy.org/ ) and SVDLIBC ( http://tedlab.mit.edu/~dr/svdlibc/ ). Tim
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by hooande 17y ago
For what it's worth, almost all technology patents read like this. I check out patents on http://www.freepatentsonline.com sometimes just because it's interesting to see people try to describe incredibly complex processes using the most g
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by hooande 17y ago
It's really not very difficult to get into MENSA. The test is about the equivalent of a US public school gifted program. I think the "average" hackernews user would pass without much of a problem. It's far more difficult (and prestigious in
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by hooande 17y ago
Here's a link to their research paper, if anyone is interested. http://www.media.mit.edu/cogmac/publications/orkin_aamas2009...
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by hooande 17y ago
I think Kamen is wrong for dismissing a video game (or any kind of software project) as frivolity. I'm not sure that giving a water purifier to a starving village is necessarily "better" than a video game that provides millions of people wi
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by hooande 17y ago
I bet you could build one in about 5 minutes and see what people think. http://slinkset.com/
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by hooande 17y ago
It's probably worth noting that the US also currently has the highest GDP of any country in history. While our debt is catastrophically high, we also produce more per person than any nation our size.

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