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by ztan 16y ago
For those who don't know, Anybot is YC founder Trevor Blackwell's other (main) company. They are currently shipping a telepresence bot for $15000. (And my understanding is that the bot does not currently support two way video?) Also, Yuri M
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by ztan 16y ago
He was hired by MS and worked on the Kinect team afterwards.
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Low-cost video chat robot(hackaday.com)
36 points by ztan 16y ago|25 comments
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by ztan 16y ago
I'm curious in how things would have turned out had he not been kicked out of YC. My guesses are he probably wouldn't have been that much better off. My analogy for this would be the situation of a Harvard drop out. You've already accomplis
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by ztan 16y ago
Thinking out loud for #4. If YC becomes the major choke point. I can then see the emergence of another "Pre YC" stage forming. In this stage you are mentored (by perhaps YC alumnus) to maximize your chances of becoming funded by YC. Eventua
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by ztan 16y ago
That's $6M every batch, at least $12M a year. Assuming YC classes does not expand. I think PG mentioned about 1/3 of the YC companies fail. So that's $4M in the water every year. Out of the rest 2/3s chances of being a Heroku are... actuall
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by ztan 16y ago
>p.s.-I love Hacker News myself, and take all my students there to open it up to them. I have nothing against middle school students. I like kids. I also think exposing HN to kids at an early age is a great idea. However something about
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by ztan 16y ago
No, I do mean Blizzard Entertainment. Besides the fact they have total independence from Activision in terms of operation. They've also had a long history of doing stuff like this. They shutdown the open source project Freecraft in 2003 lon
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by ztan 16y ago
The interesting thing is there are plenty of SC2 maps/mods that use the word "Warcraft" in their name. There are even ones with "World of Warcraft" in their name. Yet Bliz only chose to go after this guy. None of the other maps seems be get
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by ztan 16y ago
For those who are interested, here's another copy of the removed video. Not sure how long it will stay up though. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roIOpHq0vUc
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by ztan 16y ago
I too find that partnership interesting. Mainly because of the fact I can't quite figure out what could Groupon bring to the table for Tencent if they already have Tuan QQ? Am I missing something?
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by ztan 16y ago
My 2 cents: 3. Habits are often formed because of/to adapt the environment. (evolution?) Hang out with smoker friends all the time, higher chance of becoming a smoker. Or if you have a door that doesn't shut/lock properly. It could lead yo
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A shark inspires an artist to build a new hydropower generator(engadget.com)
3 points by ztan 16y ago|0 comments
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by ztan 16y ago
I disagree. Reason: I think the problem with Intel is that they are more of a manufacturing company than design company. What I hear from insiders (anyone at Intel care to validate/correct?) is that the company's culture as a whole value th
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by ztan 16y ago
The thing i find interesting about the diagram is that it feel like the center point should be some sort of balance point, but in fact it is just medium skill with medium challenge lacking a descriptive word.
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by ztan 16y ago
Y Combinator probably does not count as a startup. But I'd still have to say YC has been the most inspiring company for me in 2010. Seeing PG talk at startup school about why right now is the best time to do a startup had a large impact on
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by ztan 16y ago
Yahoo PR single handedly gave the Pinboard guys a hockey stick growth. http://twitter.com/PinboardIN/status/15562023131676672
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by ztan 16y ago
My guess is that the floating head and staring contest with Jimmy Wales banners finally got to him. http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTe... Interestingly from what I can see in their published tests and stats for t
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by ztan 16y ago
My new theory is that kickstarter actually works best as a demand gauging/preorder tool for a completely finished product that is in the process of working out a mass manufacturing deal. These guys already knew exactly where/who to go to an
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by ztan 16y ago
I'm a new user. I too have just discovered today that quoting pg does seem to make some people here uncomfortable. However even they admit themselves that those are words we quote are of wisdom.
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by ztan 16y ago
>Why is that I also have the biggest urge to code something fun when the time is best used to get good grades? According to PG, "There are three variants of procrastination, depending on what you do instead of working on something: you
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by ztan 16y ago
"Internet high five. Place hand here" Did anyone else actually touch their screen after seeing that?
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by ztan 16y ago
i kind of lost some respect for him after his endorsement for tony robbins...