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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Hipchat is shutting down, what should we switch to?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: What would you like to see in a developers only job board?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Any nosql databases with offline access besides couch base?

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wivb.com 9y ago

New York students can apply for free college tuition June 7

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Looking for someone to take over dental practice appointment alert software

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uptime.mainstreetcomputing.com 9y ago

Gem of the Week #5: will_paginate

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Rate My Idea: OpenFunny

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Anyone here just laid off from Ask.com?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Anyone have any experience with CPA advertising?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: How can I estimate my conversion rate?

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www.auctionroulette.com 15y ago

AuctionRoulette is Live - Watch random, hot auctions with live bids

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Are you exposing users real names with FB Connect?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Anyone have a contact at Cuil?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

I Hate Captcha- Come beta test my alternative

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www.pikk.com 15y ago

We've added First Prize to comments on Pikk

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www.pikk.com 15y ago

Vote on the new DreamIt startups

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www.pikk.com 15y ago

New Techstars companies posted to pikk- come vote on them.

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Any downside to using Gravatar?

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rentahotspot.com 15y ago

Would you use this service (myfi rental)?

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www.bytearray.org 16y ago

3D is coming to Flash

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startuponestop.com 16y ago

A daily startup email list, HARO for startups

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hackermedley.org 16y ago

Hacker Medley Episode 5- Computer Vision with OpenCV

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www.inc.com 16y ago

10 Tips for Bootstrapping Your Marketing

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Ask HN: Anyone doing OpenGL in ?

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Tell HN: I've added Facebook login to Pikk

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www.pikk.com 16y ago

Vote on the Techstars 2010 Boston startups

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knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu 16y ago

Cuil founder gives Wharton Business School interview

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svase.org 16y ago

It costs $750 to Pitch to Garage/Microsoft?

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www.kapauldo.com 16y ago

A Game of Tennis Has 20 Possible States, 3 Are Redundant

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news.ycombinator.com 16y ago

Anyone here ever sell anything on ebay? Part II

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I would invest a few days or weeks and write a detailed and precision spec. Then you can work with freelancers. The biggest risk is scope creep because it sours relationships quickly. If you invest the time to write a spec, there is far less risk. A spec is a narrative and a list of specific screens and functions. I have run a dev shop for 10 years and can help you with a spec if you're interested.

Buffalo is a undergoing a downtown Renaissance and has cheap real estate and a lot of technical talent being under utilized by banking Java applications. Come here you'll get great talent, great food, great culture, nys tax breaks, cheap real estate.

It's a private institution. So long as it doesn't accept public money or break any discrimination laws, it should be allowed to keep its admission process private. Does anyone honestly think George bush was admitted because of his grades? Let's find something meaningful to be outraged about. We are never going to win this one and it's not worth fighting.

It's definitely not solved from a technical perspective but it's really hard to compete in a business perspective. The market wants good fast search. If you come up with great fast search, it's still hard. The only opportunity I see from the business perspective is to challenge the visual paradigm. Having said that, there are tons of opportunities from the academic perspective such as inferring context, letting users control context, etc.

I am a business school graduate. It's a little shocking to read this but also hard to argue. I think many degrees have no value except for serving as a requirement for entry into a career.

When the bubble bursts there are going to be no buyers so I hope people who made a few million are slowly converting back to usd.