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by pdenya 12y ago
Has there ever been big business in retrofitting cars? More likely a small number of hobbyists will retrofit and for the rest it'll gradually roll out from manufacturers. Cruise might be hoping for a partnership with Audi or somethin
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by pdenya 12y ago
> a text based online football game What? Can you describe it differently? I have no concept of how this could be played.
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by pdenya 12y ago
Wow, that's rough. Not much you can do against a vulnerability that'll destroy the trust of your entire customer base. A DDOS is one thing but I probably would have paid the millions in this case.
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by pdenya 12y ago
They might get some flack for suddenly being less open about data. Adding a [download my ratings] button on the account page seems much less ambitious than maintaining an API so that might be on the table in the future.
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by pdenya 12y ago
"Don't bother trying" -- great advice.
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by pdenya 12y ago
> Added card-type dropdown ... Their selection isn’t stored or used for anything. I wouldn't have thought of on my own, adding extra fields that do nothing except increase conversion.
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by pdenya 12y ago
Seems like most companies disagree with this, great people get preferential hiring treatment and get to skip interviews. The story of Zuckerberg taking candidates on hikes is a good example. I wonder if it would be as effective to just tel
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by pdenya 12y ago
I agreed with your moral position that it's the players right despite the fact that it's wasteful. Your last sentence is out there though. We're talking about kids in college, no one has put a price on their intelligence yet.
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by pdenya 12y ago
Our company uses Trello and Slack. This is basically Trello + real time updates on the comments + separate user-to-user private chat. This could almost replace Trello for us but won't replace Slack. Slack also has: - very good mobile&#
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by pdenya 12y ago
I have Mavericks running fine on a core 2 duo ~2007 mac mini with 2GB ram. Where did you get the idea that it's slower?
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by pdenya 12y ago
Definitely. They're not required to put a "Cancel" button on the web interface. If they wanted to raise the bar on work required to cancel they could easily force people to email support rather than putting a (..fake?) button
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by pdenya 12y ago
So the House Committee on Rules committee butchered this bill to the point where it actively went against the legislative intent. In case anyone is curious, here's the current members of the House Committee on Rules: - Pete Sessions,
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by pdenya 12y ago
I don't know why you're so down on this. It's a competitive game that looks fun, no one is forcing you to take part. The code created here isn't even useful for any other purpose! It's not some 99 designs contest fo
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by pdenya 12y ago
Google Website Optimizer is still around. It's called Content Experiments now and it's under Google Analytics. Optimizely is cool because it lets you run arbitrary javascript for tests without modifying the code base in most case
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by pdenya 12y ago
If it was successful it would drain your battery, failed attempts should cost almost nothing so this fits with the bug theory.
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by pdenya 12y ago
Voice recognition is a good thought and totally doable. A camera probably isn't a great choice for a bathroom mirror though.
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by pdenya 12y ago
Very cool animations and most fit the principals nicely but there's very little info on this page. I found the wikipedia page helpful and relevant - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animatio...
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Quiz/Prep for YC Interviews(blog.pressfriendly.com)
2 points by pdenya 12y ago|0 comments
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by pdenya 12y ago
It's interesting that you've always found yourself having too many good candidates, it doesn't seem like a common problem.
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by pdenya 13y ago
As a former comic reader, owning a physical comic is like owning a book. It's satisfying but convenience will win for most of the market.
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by pdenya 13y ago
It's got a common longboard design with a common wheel color. The tech is the differentiator, and yea, as you said, 1/3 the price.
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by pdenya 13y ago
Why is that a relevant question now? How would doing this be more helpful without the results of the algorithm you're attempting to cut corners to approximate?
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“Don’t ever call me” and other reporter tips to be press friendly(blog.pressfriendly.com)
6 points by pdenya 13y ago|1 comments
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by pdenya 13y ago
make -k "[a 5432 character string containing only A]" From make man page -k, --keep-going Continue as much as possible after an error. While the target that failed, and those that depend on it, cannot be remade, the oth
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by pdenya 13y ago
Oh man, I love this idea. Disney IP access for a startup could be huge.
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by pdenya 13y ago
np, we do a lot of other cool things with it too and more to come. For example, when you're preparing emails for each reporter we provide recommendations for which pieces of the pitch you should send to them, based off the same machine
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by pdenya 13y ago
We generate a press list by comparing the results of your story wizard (all of the text about your story and your business that you enter into our system) with reporter archives. To go into slightly more detail, we've train classifiers
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by pdenya 13y ago
It's because high end web design companies aren't sourcing customers who are googling "San Francisco Web Design". What are you looking for more specifically? An agency?
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Show HN: PressFriendly – PR software built with machine learning for startups(pressfriendly.com)
50 points by pdenya 13y ago|18 comments
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by pdenya 13y ago
It's no trouble at all to work on a personal branch and merge it back in once it's fixed/complete. Especially if you're planning on doing it and are using a tool like git flow.

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