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by sdrinf 15y ago
Might wanna have a look at the list of questions asked during a marriage fraud interview here: http://www.immihelp.com/greencard/familybasedimmigration/mar...
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Ask HN: Visiting San Francisco in September, recommend startup event?
7 points by sdrinf 15y ago|3 comments
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by sdrinf 15y ago
Why, realtime performance distribution, of course. Think about it, with state-of-the-art piracy, currently you 1, can listen to 2, any music 3, anytime, 4, anywhere. So the only thing that's really a competitive advantage to channels is tim
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by sdrinf 15y ago
Will do, thanks :)
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by sdrinf 15y ago
Thanks for the offer, but I'd really prefer London for the occasional visit -opportunity cost is a PITA, as they say, and half a day downtime for an hour of consultation is not acceptable.
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Ask HN: accountant recommendation in (north) London?
1 points by sdrinf 15y ago|4 comments
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by sdrinf 15y ago
Also, protip: > I would love to go to work for a company out there that is already making a dent in their market (e.g. Twilio) but I just don't know if I am "qualified" enough to work for some of these companies. Please do not make such
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by sdrinf 16y ago
> Just to test this out, if anyone is staying quiet about their project for fear of attracting competition, could they please reply to this comment and say so? Um, now that you've asked, the most important part of any secret is knowing
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by sdrinf 16y ago
I suspect you're searching in the wrong branch of the solution tree. Brains, you see, work in strangely similar ways to that of other muscles in your body. You can certainly get "quick fix" improvements, but over the long term, they will ne
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by sdrinf 16y ago
> What are the keywords I can use to start learning about this? It's really comes down to personal choices (see the discussions about vi vs emacs), and for this reason, it's hard to track down quality advice -esp. keywords. Instead, tr
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Be aware, most spammers also know this trick, and it's fairly trivial to strip -identifier s out the addresses. Spamfiltering, on the other hand, just works.
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Consult with our handy HN proxy desk neighbour list :) https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?authkey=CIqAl7wO&hl... Original discussion / inspiration here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1517204 Good luck :)
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by sdrinf 16y ago
The idea, and more importantly, the presentation thereof -sales pitch- usually answers by itself a whole range of questions, including: target market & opportunity, positioning, ballpark estimate of market size, competitive advantage; a
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Yes. Even if they're in a startup, the best is usually keeping an eye on the menu, and options available (knowing your opportunity cost allows you to make more informed decisions).
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by sdrinf 16y ago
This, in fact, could be quite wrong. Consider the fact, that most modern websites include a search engine of one form, or another; and the usage graph of the web has an extremely long tail. Even considering the top 100 most visited websites
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Here's an alternative hypothesis: the bing toolbar might look for explicit search queries (either strings entered into a textbox, or q=, query= parameters), and navigation from such pages to external domains. This would match all "search
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Can't speak for grandparent, but usually this is code for "we had drug problems in the past, _do not want again_." See, being tolerant towards psyche-affecting material is only cool up until the party, where irreversible data/PR/marketing l
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Here's a detailed piece on metrics, with relevant tool recommendations: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2151257
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by sdrinf 16y ago
"Startup fails" is the reason why these companies have the so-called "limited liability". They file for bankruptcy, founders get on with their lifes, investors see nothing. This is, in fact the vast majority of the cases, and the reason inv
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Remember, folks: A/B testing a feature does not equal large-scale deployment. The question isn't whether this move is right, or wrong, but rather, is a statistically significant proportion of the target demographic going to click through to
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Everyone, who's any good, is already buried with lucrative contract offers, or building a startup of his own. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to push your vision into a level of reality , at which these kind of people would
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by sdrinf 16y ago
In order of relevance: * Doing e-commerce, funnel analysis is the metric by which your startup will live, or die. Mixpanel might help, but if your app has non-trivial business logic, implementing it by yourself might be better * A good exte
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by sdrinf 16y ago
A viable alternative is to check out professional designer services; themeforest, and 99designs spring to my mind. You can substitute potentially giving away a portion of equity with smart usage of available capital.
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by sdrinf 16y ago
What's the license of the document?
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Other than linkjuice, what help would you like, and accept from HN? (I think this is only fair: for I feel the transaction between you, and HN (or at least me, personally), is in massive inequality, and if there's a scalable way of repaymen
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Both actually: Time-based attacks exploiting the fact that we have fast networks, and rainbow/brute-force attacks exploiting CPU speed.
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Which big book thread? :)
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Celebrity, or meritocracy? With comments, that's the ultimate question. See, when Joel writes a small piece of advice for B2B sales ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1987223 ), knowing the background he's coming from, that advice get
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Part1: take a cold hard look around. What do people want? Most of these "smart, energetic teenager with no responsibilities" are hyped up on The Next Big Thing, which has historically a very poor hobby-to-business conversion rate. Don't do
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by sdrinf 16y ago
Forums aren't a software problem -they are inherently a sociological issue: community building & forming, spam filtering, navigating the political intentions, etc. If there's a single conclusion of Google Wave, it's that being "realtime

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