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Russian gangs take 1.2B passwords, 500M email addresses, biggest Web heist ever(venturebeat.com)
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Talented Mexican hacker's Silicon Valley job search(facebook.com)
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The King of Apple(facebook.com)
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by pshin45 12y ago
> Second, there is a lack of diversity on Product Hunt. It’s mostly white men talking to white men. “The reason for that is that Product Hunt started out with people in my network, which is still largely guys,” Hoover said. “But we’ve b
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What makes a “good” startup event?(medium.com)
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What makes a “good” startup event?(medium.com)
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FTC Alleges T-Mobile Crammed Bogus Charges onto Customers’ Phone Bills(ftc.gov)
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by pshin45 12y ago
Hi Ryan, I remember seeing somewhere that you had recently applied to YC with Product Hunt. It seems like you guys did not make it this time, which is unfortunate and surprising given PH's great traction and the impressive community yo
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by pshin45 12y ago
Hah, got me thinking maybe PG's pre-Viaweb startup idea to put art galleries on the Web was just too far ahead of its time[1]. [1] http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html
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by pshin45 12y ago
As someone in another comment already pointed out, YC previously funded a company called "Verbling" ( https://www.verbling.com ) in their Summer 2011 batch whose original selling point was to provide an instant, one-clic
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by pshin45 12y ago
On the contrary, it might just mean that their product is expanding beyond its original tech-centric customer base and is now reaching a much larger but less tech-savvy demographic as well.
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by pshin45 12y ago
I was actually discussing this post a few days ago with one of my UI/UX designer friends, and he made an interesting point - On news forums like Hacker News we see a lot of failure stories from engineers and marketers about how and why
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by pshin45 12y ago
I really enjoyed this post and it reminds me of another related post from several months ago that got a lot of attention in the design community: http://insideintercom.io/the-dribbblisation-of-design/ tl;dr - Good desi
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Marissa Mayer’s Pay Tied to Another Company’s Performance(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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Watch This Guy Con Homeless People at the Apple Store(priceonomics.com)
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by pshin45 12y ago
Not to nitpick, but doesn't changing the title of the article like this (from "Shades of grey" to "CEO complaints : employee not motivated after being fired") go against the HN Guidelines? > [...] please use the
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by pshin45 12y ago
It's refreshing to see a company like Weebly that is able to be successful and profitable without having to go down the "MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR UNICORN OR BUST" path that seems to be almost mandated by VCs nowadays. It's s
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by pshin45 12y ago
> By conventional standards, Jobs and Wozniak were marginal people too. Obviously they were smart, but they can't have looked good on paper. They were at the time a pair of college dropouts with about three years of school between
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by pshin45 13y ago
> 1.) Email is the world’s largest platform. > 2.) Engagement in email far outshines apps. > 3.) Everyone else is too jaded to take advantage of it. This is no doubt the same rationale for Square Cash[1] i.e. send cash to you
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Buffer's Open Salaries Formula(facebook.com)
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Here are the Web's worst April Fools' jokes(dailydot.com)
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You're The Expert, Can You Or Can You Not Do This?(9gag.tv)
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by pshin45 13y ago
Exactly, reminds me of one of my favorite quotes: "We survive by breathing but we can't say we live to breathe. Likewise, making money is very important for a business to survive, but money alone cannot be the reason for business
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Different Customers, Different Prices, Thanks To Big Data(forbes.com)
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by pshin45 13y ago
If you asked college admissions officers in the 1950's what kind of student would be most likely to succeed, they would probably describe someone who was white, male, and came from a middle-to-upper-class background. Not because those
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by pshin45 13y ago
Here's my take - Hackers have simply become more business-savvy. Let me explain... "Full Stack Startup" is clearly not a new idea, as tptacek mentioned in his comment; just a modern application of an age-old business concept.
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by pshin45 13y ago
I'm impressed by your insight into the industry - A lot of your observations really resonate with my own experiences. I'd love to talk shop some more sometime if possible! My email is pshin45@gmail.com. I tried reaching out to you
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by pshin45 13y ago
Same with me and Final Fantasy VII - 17 years after it came out, I'm still listening to the soundtrack[1] regularly while I work, and while I'm doing so I can vividly see all the scenes from the game playing out before my eyes. Ma
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by pshin45 13y ago
I feel compelled to plug the 2013 sci-fi film "Europa Report"[1], a great movie that no one watched. Space.com called it "awesome" and "stunningly realistic"[2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by pshin45 13y ago
Is it just me, or is the "Request for Startups"[1] page in serious need of updating? For example, are "Things Built on Twitter"[2] and "iPad Applications"[3] still a valid way to build a $XX billion company in

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