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by il 16y ago
If anyone wants to hack on this together, shoot me an email (email in my profile) I'm thinking of some...interesting uses for the data.
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by il 16y ago
We're not on reddit and this story isn't hacker news. If you want to be charitable, there are much better ways to do so. Signups for the sake of an iPad are not in any way useful to this startup. You're actually hurting them by wasting the
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Arrington: Y Combinator Thinks Small
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by il 16y ago
Which of his points offend you? I found myself agreeing with many of the slides, and they seem to map pretty well to successful startups.
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by il 16y ago
Even if you avoid fraud and the payment processors, the US government will almost certainly shut you down. They don't like competition. See e-gold,1mdc, Liberty Reserve,Phoenix Dollar,etc,etc - pretty much anyone who has tried to create an
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by il 16y ago
I just sent you an email. I used to research the carding/malware scene I can probably answer all of your questions. It's not that easy to drain a bank account- which is why malware authors will typically sell bank account info in bulk for a
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by il 16y ago
I agree, but then you have to make a distinction: Do you think Patrick is cool because of his exceptional SEO/business knowledge, or do you think Patrick is cool because he is active in the community? Two very different things.
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by il 16y ago
I would argue he could derive tremendous financial benefit from posting here in terms of furthering his career, networking, consulting gigs, etc. I'm not saying that's the reason he posts here, but it is a tangible fringe benefit. Here's a
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by il 16y ago
I was actually struggling with wording my post so it didn't look like an attack in any way, because I really don't mean to be negative at all. I'm not attacking Patrick at all! I think Patrick is a great guy! I think Patrick works very hard
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by il 16y ago
I know the HN community looks up to Patrick as something of a "guru", and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him, the information he shares, and his contributions to the community. But... You know, there are lots of people out there
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by il 16y ago
I was very confused at first too. This tutorial helped: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=19065
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by il 16y ago
I think these clones are taking the concept way too far...having a total stranger call you every day saying "I miss you and I love you" is creepy and deranged. EDIT: It gets worse. Who would want to receive a random phone call of "I want to
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by il 16y ago
This post makes so many wrong assumptions I don't have time to mention them all. Here are a few: 1. SuperAwesome makes $0.50 CPM from that one ad unit(probably a small rectangle). I'm sure they have multiple ad units on each page, so th
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by il 16y ago
His blog has gone seriously downhill in recent years. It went from serious personal development to new-age psychobabble.
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by il 16y ago
That site is nice, but they also want to charge me close to $2000 for a list of sites using a single technology, I could definitely do this myself for much less. Anyone want to build a free version with me?
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by il 16y ago
I'm interested in the technology behind your crawler, you could potentially use it to discover many more things, like which sites use popular APIs etc. What language is it written in? What do you use for the backend/DB? How fast is it? I'm
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by il 16y ago
You're absolutely right. I'm already seeing traffic shift away from (cheaper) long-tail keywords in my campaigns.
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by il 16y ago
If nobody likes paying taxes then, why don't we as a society legislate ourselves lower taxes and cuts in defense spending? I believe there is a famous quote about that.
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by il 16y ago
Yeah, I was wondering if investors knew they were in it for the long haul when they were investing.
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by il 16y ago
Not to nitpick, but indinero is anything but enterprise software, it's very targeted at small businesses. I think the sales funnel for indinero and enterprise software is totally different. Jessica definitely knows how to network though :)
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by il 16y ago
I think it's really cool that Web 2.0 entrepreneurs actually want to build businesses that have a clear business model, sell a product that people want, and have a clear path to long-term, sustainable profitability. That said, I don't know
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by il 16y ago
I don't know how prevalent this practice is exactly, but I have it on good authority that sites like decaptcher.com are making a mint selling this service.
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by il 16y ago
You're probably not going to tell me more about these tools, although I would be very curious to learn how they work. All I have is anecdotal evidence- I know several people who are making their living spamming Craigslist and outsourcing th
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by il 16y ago
Right, all I was saying is that the majority of the _income tax_ you pay goes to military spending. I'm not counting FICA, as nobody is discussing raising or lower those taxes.
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by il 16y ago
I'm just drawing a distinction. I would describe myself as an anti tax liberal.
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by il 16y ago
Maybe if more Americans knew how much we were spending on war they would be less inclined to support it. "Death and Taxes" is a well-known and clear infographic of government spending: http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/ It shows mili
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by il 16y ago
I just want to point out that most of the taxes you pay in the US do not go to the upkeep of society you may benefit from (which we can define as schools, police, education, etc). Most of your tax money either goes to propping up a bloated
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by il 16y ago
That's one datapoint. The counterpoint is the thousands of forum owners who mistakenly relied on captcha to prevent spam at the expense of other antispam measures, like GeoIP.
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by il 16y ago
Heh, I know people who are working on breaking reCaptcha. Maybe they should get together and learn from each other. If you're saying that it's possible to prevent manual, outsourced captcha solving, I would have to strongly disagree. It's s
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by il 16y ago
You got it right :) Specifically, in this case, it's all about how well you can upsell and how effectively you can email your existing customer base to keep them engaged.

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