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by jmtame 16y ago
I have been looking for the original research done using the newspaper for a while now. I remember reading about it before and I always wanted to refer back to it but never found it. Glad to read this again.
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by jmtame 16y ago
i'm not familiar with the rules proposed in december, was this in reference to the proposal that google and verizon drew up?
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by jmtame 16y ago
I just interviewed Josh out of my own personal curiosity; the original source is from a book called Startups Open Sourced which I'll post a link to on Hacker News in a week or two. I'm currently looking around and trying to find people to
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by jmtame 16y ago
The Groovesharkers are a fascinating group of folks =] "At no point in Grooveshark's history did I ever believe Grooveshark was going to fail. The same goes for Sam. Grooveshark is more than our product and Grooveshark is more than our idea
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by jmtame 16y ago
they even included a guarantee with each one they sold. quoted in Return to Little Kingdom: "The demonstrations provoked curiosity and Jobs and Wozniak made cassette tapes of tones that friends would need to call their favorite long-distanc
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by jmtame 16y ago
incidentally, if you look up the "top 100" movies on piratebay right now, you'll see tron legacy show up as #3. i think this goes to show just how popular this movie is--the visual effects were incredible. was there any information on how t
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by jmtame 16y ago
I'm making an assumption here, but maybe the original folks who made up HN are voting less. so you might have newer people doing more voting, and they may not understand the quality of comments before upvoting. similar to how google looks a
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by jmtame 16y ago
I wonder if it will make a comeback. Tron Legacy (DVD rip) was the #4 most downloaded movie on piratebay yesterday with 12,000 seeders and the DVD doesn't release for another 2 days.
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by jmtame 16y ago
Doesn't count as a blog per se, but I'm publishing a book with 35+ interviews of younger startup founders. Think companies like AirBNB, foursquare, Reddit, Hipmunk, Grooveshark, Github, Weebly, etc. I think I spoke to mainly YC founders. If
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by jmtame 16y ago
those college loans are split up, you pay them off in monthly increments like $100 or $200 a month, which is basically a car payment. you could consult for companies with technical skills on roughly the same amount an engineer would get in
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by jmtame 16y ago
for every guy like pg, there are 9 others just like him who went bankrupt where did you pull this number from?
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by jmtame 16y ago
i wonder if he's using the emigration argument to try and convince people to support this, or at least get their attention. i'm not sure if people will get behind the founder frustration argument, but if people think jobs are at risk they m
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by jmtame 16y ago
did you use a particular ranking function for information retrieval or text analysis like bm25? i'd be curious
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by jmtame 16y ago
congrats jake and wil! this solves a problem i have nearly every time i meet with someone new. i'll look them up on facebook and linkedin, i'll try to figure out more about them or at least get a picture so i know who i'm looking for. notel
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by jmtame 16y ago
i talked to him yesterday to ask him where the badges came from since that's one of the most popular features of foursquare. he left google on a friday and joined areacode on a monday which is a company that builds games (now part of zynga)
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by jmtame 16y ago
socialcam holds the record for fastest interview ;)
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by jmtame 16y ago
I would be interested in the flip side. Which sites stand to gain from the algorithm changes? Wikipedia? Stack Overflow? Yelp?
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by jmtame 16y ago
someone else is doing the editing, for good reasons =]
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Hacking your apartment's electronic entry system(jmtame.posterous.com)
72 points by jmtame 16y ago|35 comments
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by jmtame 16y ago
Good TLDR: "So what do we have in total? A Web application with SQL injection flaws and insecure passwords. Passwords that were badly chosen. Passwords that were reused. Servers that allowed password-based authentication. Systems that weren
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by jmtame 16y ago
“There are all these great programmers out there who think starting a startup requires esoteric business knowledge." - Paul Graham
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A5/1(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jmtame 16y ago|1 comments
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by jmtame 16y ago
is this an application? what is this?
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by jmtame 16y ago
i'd be interested in talking to you, can you e-mail me? it's on my profile
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by jmtame 16y ago
from his blog on his shirt design web site: http://beetnikaesthetics.com/blog/beetnik-tutorial-a-must-re... click on the link to "25 must read t-shirt tutorials," you'll learn most techniques for shirt design there.
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by jmtame 16y ago
i just realized you do other shirts on your main site, so maybe you have a special deal arranged to do shirts. if so, that's really cool. plus i didn't realize you went to the same school as me ;)
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by jmtame 16y ago
if I understand this model, he has to get a certain number of orders (say 100) before he can actually print. the price of each shirt depends on a bulk amount and if he doesn't hit that, he can't ship the shirts. for these shirts I'd suspect
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by jmtame 16y ago
i've had trouble finding geographical boundaries on neighborhoods in U.S. cities (e.g. downtown areas and residential neighborhoods). anyone know where i can find this?
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Ask HN: What questions would you ask YC founders?
2 points by jmtame 16y ago|0 comments
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by jmtame 16y ago
"Strengthen commercialization of the about $148 billion in annual federally-funded research and development, which can generate innovative startups and entirely new industries;" i'm curious what exactly they're planning to do there. would

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