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by seats 14y ago
Guess it depends on definition of interesting and recently. http://www.austinemerging100.com/list.php HomeAway and BazaarVoice both just had IPOs. Indeed got bought for likely ~1 billion this year too. Phurnace exited to BMC for ~500 mill
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by seats 14y ago
last time around http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4291075
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by seats 14y ago
Not to mention wanting something to break if the secure implementation somehow were separated from the code using it (versus silently reverting to PRNG).
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by seats 14y ago
yup, I can see my idea being the start to a sci-fi movie. Even what you describe though is still just building more arms in an arms race. Natural selection itself needs mutations as fuel. Another crack-pot thought - figure out how to decrea
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by seats 14y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to use natural selection and human behavior to our advantage? imagine a compound that causes bacteria to adapt in a way that makes us easier to control them. like putting fluoride in our water we'd distribut
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by seats 14y ago
The way Schrodinger said it "Thus, the task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees."
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by seats 14y ago
If more web services supported CORS, pure client side apps would be way easier to do and less kludgy than via proxy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing
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by seats 14y ago
In general starting from zero you'll find some customers somehow, even just randomly and then you have to be awesome for them and build from there. The level of churn and flux at the low end of hosting is actually pretty high. You could put
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by seats 14y ago
I've never heard of any of those companies. I'd be careful going with someone that you don't know a single other person who uses. Social proof matters for service businesses like hosting, because point in time performance is such a weak ind
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by seats 14y ago
Thanks that's nice to hear. Not in the cards for me. Technically still under non-compete, but even if that weren't the case at this point I am connected to so many other hosting providers that I'd rather just support them in doing the right
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by seats 14y ago
We did talk about something basically like what you describe for both slicehost and RAX, but it really doesn't solve the problem. Take that EC2 definition itself (which is frozen in time in 2007, surprise surprise), how many 2007 Opterons a
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by seats 14y ago
for just cpu change, less than 300 but certainly more than 4. In just the 2 year from 2006-2008 before we exited to Rackspace we had more than a dozen cpu variants in production. We loaded the machines in a way where 'roughly' (with some ha
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by seats 14y ago
I cofounded slicehost and spent a lot of time at Rackspace thinking about this exact problem relative to Rackspace Cloud Servers. The real issue is hardware skew. We like to buy/sell and build on cloud as if it is a pure utility where eve
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by seats 14y ago
When there is no free alternative to what you are doing, they'll still buy (in my case that was hosting). Otherwise, your best bet for getting developers to buy things is to try and sell them stuff that would be boring for them to build. Mo
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FloJack: Bringing NFC to iPhone/iPad (kickstarter)(kickstarter.com)
52 points by seats 14y ago|49 comments
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by seats 14y ago
Ouch. Net revenue margins at 2%. There's more top line margin in farming. Makes me wonder if there isn't an antitrust case here somewhere. Feels highly predatory by music license holders.
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by seats 14y ago
Everything from 2 people working on an idea who haven't yet quit their day job all the way up to say ~1 million in revenue or ~1 million in funding. That upper end is a bit of an outlier, but it happens enough that it's not entirely rare. T
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Why You Should Apply to TechStars Cloud(techstars.com)
52 points by seats 14y ago|13 comments
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by seats 14y ago
I wouldn't say so. -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4421764 If anything I think both YC and TS just reflect the wider market with some extra noise and ideally better outcomes.
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by seats 14y ago
I run TechStars Cloud. Roughly complete for me. Key thing when you look at this data is to remember timing. I've only run 1 program thus far and it only completed 3 months ago. Wouldn't expect to see much in the way of exits after 3 months
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by seats 14y ago
This is technically true at the moment but not for long. Once the crowd funding portion of the JOBS act is accepted by the SEC, anyone can invest up to 10% of their annual income in startups.
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by seats 14y ago
The comments by others as a response are correct in that elementary particles are dimensionless. One interesting point to add though is that only integer spin particles (the force carrying bosons) can share quantum states, which means they
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by seats 14y ago
Google incurred that cost early, but that tipping point of being 'worth it' to engineer for uptime came pretty late in the game for twitter. Interestingly AWS appears to be in the camp where it's not heavily focused on uptime either. A pret
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by seats 14y ago
One thing that is interesting about looking at both mean and median is getting a feel for the shape/variance of the returns. One huge winner could randomly happen in an otherwise low-quality program and that incubator would appear higher
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by seats 14y ago
Tangential, but was just thinking about this today. Last week I visited the white house as a part of this program -> http://www.businessfwd.org/ The two topics I brought up with the administration were patent reform and immigration re
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by seats 14y ago
A company has customers. Part of the value was that he could try out new products/features on an existing customer base. That part resonated with me and after parting with my company was something I definitely missed.
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by seats 14y ago
"When you first approach an attractive stranger, having established at least an indication of mutual interest through eye contact, try to make eye contact again at about 4ft away, before moving any closer. At 4 ft (about two small steps awa
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by seats 14y ago
tptacek or others with domain knowledge- Is the timing attack hardening suggested in the blog post a standard approach? If I was trying to attack a system and knew loosely that they did what he suggested (hashing then comparing vs comparing
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by seats 14y ago
That particular provision is actually just making permanent a temporary exemption that already exists. The intention is to increase capital available to startups because of the extra tax incentive for investors.
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by seats 14y ago
2 days ago, Startup Act 2.0 was introduced to the house floor (a). The highlights of the act, which include many of the suggestions in this thread- 1 - Create a new STEM visa so that U.S.-educated foreign students who graduate with a master

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