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UX(+UI) designer? Ridejoy needs you. Engineers too. (YC S11)
1 points by kalvin 15y ago
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UX(+UI) designer? Ridejoy (YC S11) needs you. Engineers, community managers too.
1 points by kalvin 15y ago
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UX(+UI) designer? Ridejoy needs you. Engineers, community managers too. (YC S11)
1 points by kalvin 15y ago
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by kalvin 15y ago
Andrew Mason may only own 7.5% of Groupon, but the absolute value of Andrew's stake right now is almost certainly much higher than if he had decided to "preserve equity" and skipped one of the many rounds Groupon has raised. (Long-term, may
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Love Kickstarter or Airbnb? Ready to jump? Come be our first engineer (YC 11)
1 points by kalvin 15y ago
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by kalvin 15y ago
People do give rides all the time :) we're helping people form carpools, in the legal sense. Millions of carpools already happen each day among people with shared destination/interests, and the insurance laws around that are pretty well est
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by kalvin 15y ago
I don't think those polls captured intensity, either. After several months to get used to no points, I feel very strongly they should be brought back. These threads are much less useful without them, especially when I don't have time to r
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by kalvin 15y ago
I didn't recognize it as an allegory until halfway through, because jailbroken iPhones already have a very comprehensive free-cracked-app store, and I can only assume Android users have way more options. Is this one of the reasons games are
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by kalvin 15y ago
When you say "these sorts of issues", it sounds like you're talking about injustice everywhere. You want to fix injustices-- food for the hungry-- instead of "adding happiness"-- better food photos for people with smartphones. In which case
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by kalvin 15y ago
Hey HN, I'm a long-time reader and this is my first Show HN (exciting!) It's a collaboration between me, jasonshen (of rejection therapy / cold showers / winning isn't normal), and randy. We'd love feedback. Do you belong to any of these ca
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by kalvin 15y ago
I'm going to repost this here because it actually tells me why I'd want to route all my JS through a third party, and I had to click through the blog link below to find it: http://blog.proxino.com/post/8388203148/catching-the-worlds-... "
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by kalvin 15y ago
Used iBurn last year, super useful. Sad. But relatedly, this site http://burnermap.com is pretty awesome; it lets you figure out what camp your friends are staying at on the playa. (They should have a lot of the camp geodata that iBurn ne
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by kalvin 15y ago
Agreed, this is my favorite too. And, after you encrypt your primary drive, you can either leave your Time Machine drive alone (which seems silly, but it's an option now, whereas before using FileVault created an encrypted disk image, which
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by kalvin 15y ago
This was by far the biggest missing feature from Rapportive, which is already one of very few free services I'd pay for. In addition to just seeing the sender's photos, LinkedIn title, recent tweets (hover to see whole thread), etc. in the
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by kalvin 15y ago
Even Microsoft started small. What PG likes to say is: YC is looking for startups building the next BASIC interpreter for the Altair (which was almost as obscure then as it is now.) Something minimally useful in or adjacent to a market that
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by kalvin 15y ago
No, ProFounder requires users to send non-transferrable email invitations to their friends and family (or "community"), i.e. pre-existing relationships. Afaik they don't provide a way to meet investors on the site, like you're suggesting. F
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by kalvin 16y ago
It's probably more. Based on public numbers/guesses (Harj: http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-companies-that-get-a... , http://www.quora.com/How-many-people-teams-get-rejected-by-Y... , http://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-Y-Comb
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by kalvin 16y ago
I'm glad you did it! I wouldn't have seen this if you hadn't, I'm going to use it, plus you proved something I'd always believed was true-- time of posting can make the difference between a 15-point story and a 140 (and counting) point stor
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by kalvin 16y ago
Slightly off topic, but if you're ever somehow lacking for great reading material, just read yishan wong's other answers on quora. Lots of insight, not just about startups, and often hilariously entertaining.
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by kalvin 16y ago
Best guess: It won't start deflating (or popping, if there ends up being even more money) until well after Facebook et. al have their IPOs next year. Just watch for articles in 2014ish quoting experts on the consensus "we aren't so skeptica
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by kalvin 16y ago
Title doesn't do it justice. The photo-sharing part isn't what's novel. They seem to be building a social graph automatically weighted on physical proximity+frequency, using smartphone sensors (the most important one of which happens to be
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Remind HN: Deadline to apply for YC Summer 2011 is tonight at 8PM PST
12 points by kalvin 16y ago|5 comments
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by kalvin 16y ago
Lots of discussion of this elsewhere. It looks like some people who don't tether (but use a lot of bandwidth) are also getting the message, leading people to believe to that AT&T is looking solely at bandwidth usage. http://modmyi.com/
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by kalvin 16y ago
Interesting. I'd heard of this happening and it made you sound strangely clueless (and a bit of a jerk). Thanks for the explanation.
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The Reinvention of Silk(nytimes.com)
3 points by kalvin 16y ago|0 comments
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‘The Information’ by James Gleick (a book review)(nytimes.com)
2 points by kalvin 16y ago|0 comments
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From a Brooklyn Startup, MakerBot, a D.I.Y. 3-D Printer(nytimes.com)
2 points by kalvin 16y ago|0 comments
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by kalvin 16y ago
Things I didn't know (no idea how accurate they are, if anyone has more detail, chime in): On the Enron Corpus: "He bought a copy of the database for $10,000 and made it freely available to academic and corporate researchers. Since then, it
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Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software(nytimes.com)
115 points by kalvin 16y ago|60 comments
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How can we make it easier to rediscover great content from our past?(kalv.in)
10 points by kalvin 16y ago|1 comments

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