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by somberi 12y ago
Hey there. The startup I co-founded has been accepted by IBM partner for Watson. A few weeks into it, we are still doing the "form-filling" marathon and have not had access to an instance. Seems like the API, when available to pub
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by somberi 12y ago
Good work Renato and credit to plugging at it for 2 years. If the social friction this game has bought your life is the reason you are selling it, let me ask you a question: What happens if you cold turkey on the game for the next few month
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by somberi 12y ago
I have some experience in this space. A decade ago, I led a talented team to design the largest (at that time) satellite-based network to expand India's largest bank (it was not then) to rural india. The government, via Reserve Bank of
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by somberi 12y ago
From their site - http://www.givedirectly.org/faqs.php We use a rigorous audit process. 100% of the households we enroll are audited by a second field team that operates completely independently from the team responsible fo
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by somberi 12y ago
Tim Hortons has been owned by a large U.S. chain before. It was spun off from Wendy’s in 2006 and became a publicly listed company that is now widely held by Canadian financial institutions, without one controlling shareholder (Quoting from
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by somberi 12y ago
I was going to write this part in my original email but wanted to stick to the main concern about use cases. I do live 3-4 months a year in NYC and in my pre-war building, T-mobile has spotty coverage. If I travel to Connecticut, 90 minutes
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by somberi 12y ago
Asking to learn. I travel often all over India and most parts of Africa. I have consistently received cell phone signals in 90% of the places. Local sim cards are easily available and the prices are ~20cents per message. In this context, I
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by somberi 13y ago
Looked at GreenAddress. Very cool. I have some relevant questions, that may be OT in this thread. Can we chat? I am at kalepune (google's email). Thanks
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by somberi 13y ago
May be a stupid question - The Social Face Classification (SFC) dataset that they refer to - Is it published to the world? I wonder if they can deduce "emotions" from SFC dataset and use it as a training set for images in the wil
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by somberi 13y ago
I envy your ability to write clearly and combine different threads together.
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by somberi 13y ago
As someone who has found a startup, one point I would add is - Make sure you are within 50 miles of where the VC activity is. That for practical purposes means this; be based out of SFO (+Bay Area), NYC (+Boston). VCs want to fund businesse
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by somberi 13y ago
I was one of the early customers of Simple. When I received their card in that lovely cardboard with a rubber band on, I was hooked. I really wanted to move to Simple. But did not. I mean I still have an account a few hundred dollars in it,
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Part 2 – Airbnb in NYC: The Real Numbers(skift.com)
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Airbnb in NYC: The Real Numbers (skift.com)
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by somberi 13y ago
Thank you! This is lovely. After reading pages and pages of HN where so many know the secret of the elixir, it was pleasure to play with something from the heart.
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by somberi 13y ago
This article is from 2010. It is relevant today as well, albeit differently.
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by somberi 13y ago
Good, profitable companies tanked as well. This was 12-13 years ago, and I am unable to recollect some names. I am sure others here can chime in. Even priceline, arguably, at 50 cents was is not reflective of the soundness of the company.
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by somberi 13y ago
I had the same approach, and when the bubble burst, my darling stock Priceline tanked to 50cents! I liked them, so I bought more at that price, and did well, but that is sheer luck. Many good companies around that time could not claw their
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by somberi 13y ago
I am older than your average HN reader and had invested during the the 90s bubble, but luckily did not lose any money. The choir of the press sounds very similar now as it did before. I kept it aside and asked myself if I thought these co
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Online shoppers more likely to buy from White sellers.(futurity.org)
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by somberi 13y ago
In the demo, is all the bounciness necessary? Does it have to zoom when I click on any of the dots? Why not just show me the data when I mouse over? The zoom does not give me anything new. May be you have good reasons, just my 2 cents.
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Tiny satellite aims to inspire schoolchildren(bbc.co.uk)
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by somberi 13y ago
Sounds a lot like Share-Cropping.
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by somberi 13y ago
Even if Brent may have overestimated the cost of operating a vehicle, assuming he makes 2X of his projection, that is still less than L.A minimum wage ($8 today. Increasing to $10 by 2016.)
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by somberi 13y ago
The Sandra-Bullock movie "Gravity" cost as much to produce as the Mars mission recently launched by India (~ 100Million USD). Gravity made 500Million USD. Something does not sit right.
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by somberi 13y ago
Very useful. Thanks.
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Ask HN: Anyone remember brigit.com
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by somberi 13y ago
Dalai Lama: "Someone asked me if I like counseling the rich or the poor, more. The rich. Because they come with the awareness that wealth does not solve problems".
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by somberi 13y ago
I am asking to learn. If I have to use this card, do I also have to have my cell phone with me all the time? If I go downstairs to get a Bagel in the morning, I need to take my phone, or else no Bagel for me? And it seems from the "Ip
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by somberi 13y ago
Fantastic work and is relevant to something we are working on in this space. Thanks. On a lighter note I tried "sarah palin + sexy" and I got John Mccain, Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney.

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