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by kalvin 16y ago
The "gives start fund cash to charity" title is just great marketing (like the campaign itself.) - Corporations get tax deductions for donations to nonprofits too, so this won't cost the full 150k. And this will get far more than 15k signup
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by kalvin 16y ago
That's definitely not the case. This isn't your usual shareholder meeting. 40,000 shareholders (I'd call many of them "fans", really) showed up last year and many of them have more enthusiasm than wealth. You can get tickets just by holding
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by kalvin 16y ago
I googled "sharpen a knife" yesterday early afternoon and I'm pretty sure I got ehow high on the front page. Now it's halfway down the second page. Appropriately, the summary for eHow is: "on 3/31/2009 This article provides a high level ove
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by kalvin 16y ago
She wrote several followup answers in the comments thread, one of which addresses your question (though it might not be satisfying!): http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/fjwkh/why_exactl... Someone else wrote my favorite answer: "
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by kalvin 16y ago
I think the real issue isn't whether or not founders are "worth" 10x or 100x or 1000x the 10th employee (arguable, no real answer) but whether the extreme variance that exists in early startup employee equity is fair. I once surveyed severa
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In Monopoly Live, a Computer Runs the Game(nytimes.com)
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by kalvin 16y ago
Interesting factoid that might affect your voting... anyone know more about how Watson's confidence level factors into its betting? Watson has an “Achilles heel,” because its betting is restricted to its confidence level, according to “Fina
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by kalvin 16y ago
I average 40 credit card transactions per month, or about $20/month -> $240/year under SwipeGood's average-50-cents-to-charity-per-swipe model. Assuming that's typical, since the average American household donates approx. $1000/year, a
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by kalvin 16y ago
I've been using this on my Gmail account for a couple months in beta. (It was also available for Google Apps Premier/Education/Gov). Surprisingly it hasn't been a hassle at all-- anyone who uses their Gmail for "everything" should start usi
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by kalvin 16y ago
I've talked to at least a dozen people who moved into SF in the last 16 months and every one of them used Padmapper, including me. It's great. If Craigslist ever made acquisitions... or added features... this would/should be at the top of t
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by kalvin 16y ago
Amazing. My favorites: "Startups: How I Closed My First Round of Financing In Three Hours Using Only A GNU C Compiler", "John Carmack Severely Admonishes SQL", and "Torrent of all Apple Passwords" For comparison, real headlines on HN right
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by kalvin 16y ago
- E-mail/calendar/docs: Google Apps standard edition - Hosting: Amazon EC2 - Invoicing: Freshbooks - Analytics: Google Analytics - Project management: JIRA, Rypple - Scrum: Greenhopper - File-sharing: Dropbox - Version control: Git - Code R
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by kalvin 16y ago
Wow, did the Ask HN on "what is the YC W11 social network startup that's hiring called" get deleted? There were at least a dozen comments on it last night, it was high up the front page, and now I can't find it.
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by kalvin 16y ago
They charge ~$130 for a consultation, unlike private lasik centers. Can you elaborate on your comment? There aren't actually that many reviews of them online.
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by kalvin 16y ago
Lots of gems in here. One humorously self-effacing anecdote: "At that time we knew that a talented engineer in a tough to get tech was worth about $1.5 million per head. Thus, I knew with relative assurance that since we were going to hire
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by kalvin 16y ago
Nobody's mentioned this yet, so: this is particularly notable because it's "Mitch Kapor's startup" (famous for Lotus 1-2-3). Used to be called Foxmarks.
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by kalvin 16y ago
Lots of shitting on Dave McClure from people who've never met him. If you had a friend who was a great guy but happened to have a ridiculous online writing voice, and terrible taste in fonts, you wouldn't hate on him for it. The few times I
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by kalvin 16y ago
Why did this get downvoted twice? It's completely reasonable, and I happen to agree that it would be useful (and not just for 'hypersocial crm')
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by kalvin 16y ago
If, hypothetically, you were starting a new venture yourself, what kind of change would you want it to make in the world if it succeeded?
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by kalvin 16y ago
I've been using Teamviewer for a month now and it's pretty incredible compared to my past experiences with remote desktop tools. It's basically Remote Desktop + Skype (it navigates firewalls, has VOIP, etc.). No chat though. Highly recommen
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by kalvin 16y ago
Located in San Francisco near Caltrain and BART. Recently funded by NEA, full compensation, great co-workers. One Block Off the Grid (1BOG) is looking for front-end and back-end engineers (web developers) to help us bring the consumer solar
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by kalvin 17y ago
that was a bit vague. here's an example of a quality answer (though the real strength is in the consistency of the quality, for now) in response to the question: How did Chatroulette become such a global phenomenon so quickly? 21 votes by A
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by kalvin 17y ago
brief impressions, last used it a few weeks ago: - insanely polished for a private beta. (see treyp) - nitpick: no full-text search (no indexed answer content to display when query doesn't match any question content) and/or an easy way to r
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by kalvin 17y ago
Video lectures are only available for the current quarter (at least that used to be the case) and only for registered Stanford students (or affiliates.) Look up SCPD.stanford.edu to see if that's changed...
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by kalvin 17y ago
Hey, that's my video! I cropped it out of the online video for the final lecture of CS 103B (automata)... it's pretty funny that it's the most inspirational CS-related video on Youtube (that the NYT blogger could find.)
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by kalvin 17y ago
All large foundations invest their assets with the goal of maximizing returns, not just the Gates foundation.
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by kalvin 17y ago
Shoot me an email at the address in my profile in case we need someone in the summer or at the end of our lease in September :)
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by kalvin 17y ago
Thanks-- fixed. I reversed our names :) (we flipped a coin)
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by kalvin 17y ago
Not a hacker house, but hacker-minded: We've got a spot opening up February 4th (8 months+) at 8th and Howard in SOMA. Two conscientious guys who're into startups, one CS, one business-minded. Details at http://www.jasonandkalvin.com
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by kalvin 17y ago
- Do you think people should receive necessary medical treatment based on ability to pay? That's the alternative universe where health insurance companies charge based on cost. - Should the government should try to hire younger, less educat

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