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by tkiley 17y ago
Is this permanent? HN is a good source of google juice for interesting new startups, and it would be a shame to see that go away...
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by tkiley 17y ago
This is the visual equivalent of destructively loud mastering on popular music. It's interesting to see that the same tradeoff applies to both formats: postproduction techniques add generic excitement and "pop" to an entertainment experienc
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by tkiley 17y ago
Thanks for the encouragement! I've been meaning to write more about it, just been too busy. I'll try to get it done next week, now that I know there is an audience :)
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by tkiley 17y ago
I build my product in 2006. I didn't get into YC in 2007. My company became ramen profitable a year ago. Then I found a co-founder. I broke just about every rule of thumb that typically applies to startups, and my company took a while to ge
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by tkiley 17y ago
I don't think this is just another RSS reader. Here's why: In a typical RSS reader, the relationship between the user and the content producer is more pronounced; the user proactively selects content sources and knows where each piece of co
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by tkiley 17y ago
If this catches on, I could see a lot of site owners crying foul over the fact that google is scraping the choicest bits of content w/o providing any page views or ad revenue.
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by tkiley 17y ago
Interesting that the EFF used the FoIA just to obtain a copy of this agreement. I would have assumed they could just bluff their way into the developer signup process and then refuse the agreement once they get a copy of it.
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by tkiley 17y ago
The madlibs form has a "sign in as guest" link, while the original sign-in form does not. The article doesn't specify whether a guest sign-in is counted as a conversion or not.
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by tkiley 17y ago
No. Read this: http://www.railstutorial.org/chapters/modeling-and-viewing-u...
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by tkiley 17y ago
+1 on the location. I currently live and work from an old renovated cotton mill in Dalton, GA. Only drawback is the limited population of local hackers and entrepreneurs.
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by tkiley 17y ago
This article has spent an hour or two on the front page with no discussion. I've always wondered what that means; perhaps in this situation, it means that YC's active commenters aren't active PHP developers? Regardless, I think this is a pr
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by tkiley 17y ago
This: http://votesimple.org/ I would like to see this kind of thing in the USA someday, but there are some pretty significant practical hurdles in the way. I think it's possible to design around the problems, but I just haven't had the ti
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by tkiley 17y ago
My startup was rejected for YC summer '07. I launched it while working full-time for another company, built it to profitability over the course of a year and a half, and quit my day job in February of this year.
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by tkiley 17y ago
The at&t knowledge base article they are referring to was last updated on June 11; this isn't new.
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by tkiley 17y ago
Running elections is hard, but it's getting easier. If web, phone, and (limited/proxied) snail mail voting mechanisms were in place, we could reach out to far more Americans than a traditional congressperson ever does.
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by tkiley 17y ago
Good point. Votesimple has gone as far as it can go on an after-hours shoestring; to take the next steps (backers, detailed plans, some fundraising) I need to start dedicating a significant amount of time and money to the project.
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by tkiley 17y ago
This is a perfect example of why Votesimple (or something similar) is necessary! Americans should be up in arms over the opaque, back-room nature of our legislative process. We can easily design a system that results in a "no" vote on last-
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by tkiley 17y ago
I would love to have a third party in the US Congress! However, a more traditional third party in congress is probably pretty much impossible, thanks to Duverger's law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law ). My hope is that this
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by tkiley 17y ago
This is an excellent point: Simple majority rule is dangerous, and California is a perfect example. That's why we're not aiming to take over congress; Votesimple is designed to be a minority third party that happens to represent the interes
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by tkiley 17y ago
Exactly! Transparency is key. Our current legislative system is a convoluted mess that violates all sorts of principles of good design. For instance: The often-repeated of packing a bill with unrelated provisions to pick up additional suppo
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by tkiley 17y ago
Good point. Members of congress are supposed to represent their voting district; unfortunately, this has fallen by the wayside, and now each member of congress represents a party, an army of campaign contributors and lobbyists, a set of pol
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by tkiley 17y ago
Excellent questions. Yes, 1 member out of 435 is a drop in the bucket - the goal would not be to control the congress, but to give people a reason to care about the issues, and a reason to engage in discussion and debate that encompasses al
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by tkiley 17y ago
Hello News.YCers! Today, I'm submitting an idea that has been growing in the back of my mind for some time. The American political system is broken, and it's high time we apply our hacker creativity and startup ingenuity to reverse the risi
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Votesimple: Direct democracy through congressional proxy(votesimple.org)
9 points by tkiley 17y ago|27 comments
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by tkiley 17y ago
Wow, that's pretty cool! Funny, though, the first thing I noticed: There are a TON of small issues in the website design that should be fixed (at least in FF3 on mac), and the poor attention to detail in the website makes me skeptical of th
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by tkiley 17y ago
I can't find any mention of this in medical news sources; it sounds interesting, but the fact that it's being reported primarily by general interest media leaves me a bit skeptical.
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by tkiley 17y ago
Another neat hack from Fabrice Bellard, the guy behind FFMPEG and QEMU. Granted, it's not technically "broadcasting" the signal because signal strength is so low, but it's a neat trick.
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Generating a Digital TV signal with nothing but a VGA card(bellard.org)
39 points by tkiley 17y ago|3 comments
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by tkiley 17y ago
A few weeks ago, InQuickER was on the front page of News.YC. You all suggested 50 new hospitals for the service (thanks!), and this is how we're following up on your suggestions.
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by tkiley 17y ago
Some of the tools look like great implementations, but if I ever saw a website use the "expose" tool ( http://flowplayer.org/tools/demos/expose/index.html ), I'd be pissed. It doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose, except perhaps for a fi

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