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   by markbao 17y ago

   Quality not quantity.
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   by markbao 17y ago

   I prefer WTFPL. DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, December 2004 Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar 14 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France Everyone is permitted to copy and
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   by markbao 17y ago

   Hey, that's my startup! Thank you :) Any ?s, email me at mark@ramamia.com or 617.395.5633
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   by markbao 17y ago

   That's true. The online payments would have to have a huge audience comparable to its paper circulation. If we're talking WSJ at $1.50 newsstand price, it could be $0.10 per article... if advertising was consistent online, which we know i
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   by markbao 17y ago

   I agree. I'm dealing with the same problem in one of my startups too, which deals with consumer micropayments as well. I think Tipjoy is taking a step in the right direction; the problem is just payment fulfillment. And without a ubiquitous
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   by markbao 17y ago

   This is a step in the right direction. They have to make it easy enough and cheap enough yet profitable enough. It's like a previous discussion on ebooks: for intellecutal content, hit the spot where people want to pay money for it, but thi
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   by markbao 17y ago

   Given how unfathomably large [1][2] our universe is, there is life out there. We can't be so special, that in all of the universe, we're the only living organisms. [1] http://content.ytmnd.com/content/c/1/4/c14120ab010cd708c758f... [2] co
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   by markbao 18y ago

   This is extremely inspirational. 9oliYQjP, I can't find any contact info for you. I'm currently looking into the mobile market right now, and would like to chat a bit. If you're open to this, can you email me at mark |at| markbao |dot| com?
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   by markbao 18y ago

   Quick jumps might take a bit of time. For now, though: http://hnstartups.com/list
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    by markbao 18y ago

    Great ideas, Gordon. Master index page is an interesting idea. Not sure about how useful it might be, since there's already search, but I'll do that soon. Edit: done. The alphabetical list is ordered with pagination — do you mean have lin
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    by markbao 18y ago

    I thought about tags. I think it might be just better/easier/less cluttered to mention some keywords in the descriptions (which are searchable.) If HNStartups blows up enough, I'll add them. Thanks for the link to that wiki!
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    by markbao 18y ago

    I added "hnsearch" link to each listing that executes a SearchYC query on the startup name.
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    by markbao 18y ago

    Thanks! Fixed.
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    by markbao 18y ago

    I built the wiki from scratch. There was a rogue ruby script that was running for no apparent reason, taking up all the server resources.
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    by markbao 18y ago

    Hi! A bit of time ago, a guy asked for a listing of everyone's startup on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=568951 So here it is! On Sunday I spent a few hours hacking together a wiki thing in Rails from scratch. A few things that ne
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    Hacker News Startups: Listing/Wiki of startups founded by HNers (not just YC)(hnstartups.com)

    205 points by markbao 18y ago|47 comments
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    Curse of the Social(unalone.tumblr.com)

    24 points by markbao 18y ago|0 comments
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    by markbao 18y ago

    Really? https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount
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    by markbao 18y ago

    http://www.google.com/search?q=%28kiyosaki%7C%22rich+dad%22%... https://www.richdadcoaching.com/
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    by markbao 18y ago

    It's ludicrous for a stock brokerage with real mony at risk to pull an April Fools prank, let alone one that deals with a trader's buying power/balances. Ridiculous. Plus, I'm sure that there's some kind of SEC rule dealing with accurat
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    J.K. Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination(harvardmagazine.com)

    42 points by markbao 18y ago|3 comments
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    by markbao 18y ago

    Try https://domize.com/ — Power Search, which lets you specify vowels/consonants/alpha/numbers, endings, prepositions, verbs, synonyms, or load a list of domains from a URL to a text file. Plus it's lightning fast. Not exactly regex, but
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    by markbao 18y ago

    Also, in some cases they need the BB software for academic work.
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    by markbao 18y ago

    #6,988,138 Internet-based education support system and methods http://www.google.com/patents?id=RX94AAAAEBAJ&dq=6,988,1... In plain english: http://mfeldstein.com/images/uploads/Blackboard_Patent_Claim... * I'm a BB competitor, so i
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    Youth Bloggers Network Acquired By Teens in Tech(techcrunch.com)

    2 points by markbao 18y ago|0 comments
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    by markbao 18y ago

    Exactly. It's like reworking the scoring of the SAT from 1600 to 2400. If you have ANY kind of scaling system in place (which is integral in any kind of ranking system), it will always be converted.
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    by markbao 18y ago

    Is there a HN meetup in Boston? If not, I'd be happy to organize one.
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    by markbao 18y ago

    I'm curious. The tour guide guy—since he's regularly giving tours of these areas, would he be exposed to enough radiation for it to have an effect on him?
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    How to Write With Confidence(copyblogger.com)

    1 points by markbao 18y ago|0 comments
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    by markbao 18y ago

    Ah, okay. Wrong guess. Everyone can downvote me now :)