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Dan Ariely: The Significant Objects Project(danariely.com)
36 points by huangm 16y ago|4 comments
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by huangm 16y ago
Foursquare ( http://foursquare.com/ ). Foursquare's ascension into the mainstream has been incredibly fast & impressive, especially given that on the surface there was little differentiation among all the competing LBS check-in services
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by huangm 16y ago
Actually, the price of good engineers being high + high unemployment speaks precisely to a misalignment of supply/demand.
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by huangm 16y ago
Looks neat. Couple suggestions: 1. Add some suggested artists that let me click and immediately start watching/listening. You want to demonstrate the value asap, so anything you can do to reduce thinking will help. I spent awhile thinking,
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by huangm 16y ago
Thanks for the kind words. We'll be adding Netflix integration soon.
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by huangm 16y ago
We are making a visual search engine for movies and TV. Users can quickly navigate, sort, and filter titles along intuitive dimensions like rating, release date, genre, actors, directors and writers. Users can also rate and review movies, r
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Show HN: Instant Movie/TV Search(moki.tv)
31 points by huangm 16y ago|9 comments
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by huangm 16y ago
I think he's referring to all the "Instant" copycats.
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by huangm 16y ago
AngelList ( http://angel.co/ ) is innovating a lot in this arena.
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by huangm 16y ago
While Instagram's "overnight" success is certainly impressive, it's worth noting that this wasn't the team's first product. Instagram was a "pivot" from Burbn, an in-browser foursquare of sorts. Founder/CEO Kevin Systrom tells the full back
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by huangm 16y ago
I don't think Silverman (aka Zugwat) is broke -- the article's title is just a reference to the magnitude of the stakes that he played.
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TiVo successfully defends patent for "time-warp" DVR(online.wsj.com)
16 points by huangm 16y ago|3 comments
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by huangm 16y ago
I think you might be misunderstanding his proposal. He suggested raising $50k from 5 investors at a $500k post-money valuation, implying that you're selling 10% of your company to the investors in return for $50k -- and not that you're some
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by huangm 16y ago
There is a big difference between believing that government ought not be involved in certain things and believing in anarcho-capitalism. Your comment seems to be just unnecessary adhominem. If you disagree with the parent, then why not pr
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by huangm 16y ago
Comparing the growth rates is pretty sobering: 1980 2010 US Population 226MM 307MM = ~36% growth US Prison Inmates 0.5MM 2.3MM = ~360% growth
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by huangm 16y ago
Symmetric follow doesn't have to fail for asymmetric follow to succeed. Twitter's innovation allowed them to create and serve new use-cases. That's all
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by huangm 16y ago
Because you can express that sentiment with an upvote, a comment should probably have more substance than just the fact that you "liked" the parent comment.
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by huangm 16y ago
Obviously, there are a lot of unstated assumptions underlying these points, so I'll add the caveat that if none of the above appeals to your sense of curiosity, then maybe Quora really isn't for you. But I just wanted to balance all the ne
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by huangm 16y ago
What is the best advice for a startup applying to Y Combinator? http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best-advice-for-a-startup-a... Why does Quora use MySQL as the data store rather than NoSQLs such as Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, etc. http:
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by huangm 16y ago
My points above are not meant to convince you that Quora is good, but that it is worth checking out. It was in response to comments like 'I saw connect with FB and bounced.' Appeals to authority and hyperbole are rhetorical devices used to
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by huangm 16y ago
What's with all the negativity around here? It's easy to look at a product, have several quick gut reactions, and then simply write it off. For all the open-minded-ness that the HN community prides itself on, it certainly doesn't seem to be
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Steve Jobs Talks about ATT, Flash, Gizmodo, Google, etc @ D8 (video)(loopinsight.com)
29 points by huangm 16y ago|10 comments
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by huangm 16y ago
Hedge fund incentive fees are taxed as ordinary income.
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by huangm 16y ago
1. What matters most to you: team, market or product? 2. You've said that you typically don't lead rounds and let others lead instead. What other angels do you respect the most? 3. Are there any deals that you regret passing on?
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Hurt Locker Producers To Sue Thousands of Piraters(thresq.hollywoodreporter.com)
33 points by huangm 16y ago|30 comments
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CDixon, MSuster discuss VC seed funding(venturehacks.com)
4 points by huangm 16y ago|0 comments
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by huangm 16y ago
I know the author's intent is to weaken Jobs' arguments, but to me he seems to strengthen them. The vast majority of people driving cars never need to drive on country roads. Anyone that needs to drive on country roads is by no means forced
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Debt: The first 5000 years(blog.longnow.org)
22 points by huangm 16y ago|2 comments
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by huangm 16y ago
The author's thesis is that Facebook ads are bad because they can't harvest demand the same way Google ads can (no purchasing intent), so once Facebook has exhausted its share of 'gullible' or 'naive' businesses who give ads a try, their pr
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by huangm 16y ago
'Overpaying' is just an opinion. Obviously we can only speculate, but many people scoffed at Google's share price at IPO - anyone who bought-in despite that now looks like a genius. Also, as outsiders, it's impossible to know enough about w

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