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It should have a difficulty setting, the higher levels could ask you to solve integrals or differential equations. :)
Can you say how much money?

When they were just starting, I remember thinking, "How narrow and trivial. Do they honestly expect to make money?". I'm looking to make this lesson even more potent.
What kind of rates were you getting? I heard tell of 10+%.

Of course, if you lose the principal, it's not likely to pay off now, but still impressive.
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Was just wondering , what do people expect of IPhone Apps ? Has Apple store reached a saturation point ?
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I think it is necessary in some cases to work extraordinarily hard, or perhaps even over a long period of time. But that in itself shouldn't really be a criteria for anything, IMHO, b/c it can lead to tunnel vision. At the very least, I keep seeing this mistake in my own approach to things.

Another thing I've noticed is that it also matters how much I like whatever it is I'm working on. If I like it a lot, I will naturally remember thing about it well, have better insight, and learn more about it. However, I may also be less productive because of this, i.e. going off on tangents.
Off topic, but, regarding your research, do you know if anyone has determined the characteristics of problems that AI has historically been most effective in solving, vs problems that humans have been best at solving?
Sorry. I meant to reference the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter (http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/unit-mixups.html#mco).
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If someone offers you 10% interest, it is practically a given that the whole thing is not very trustworthy. I assume therefore that people investing in Iceland only did so with superfluous money that won't be missed too much.
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I've been thinking about the iFundedThat.com idea for a while. Have you come up with a solution to get around the regulatory hurtles? In general, you can't publicly solicit the sale of securities on the internet without having to deal with the SEC. If you want to talk you can email me at thomaspaine at gmail dot com.
The PR skills of Iceland's government are terrible. They keep saying OMG we are going to go bankrupt. Surely then no one is going to lend them any money.

I don't think other countries aren't asking for debts to be repaid. Then it's just the creditor of the banks which are asking for their money. Presumably the savers want to take their money out. So it's a run on all the banks of the country. But since they already nationalized the banks, surely they just have to print more currency. The currency takes a hit and it feels like Russia in the 80s, but it's probably still better than other outcomes.
My interest rate at Landsbankinn was around 14%, which is normal because of the high interest rate from the Central Bank (15.5%).
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Actually no, they are not saying we are going bankrupt, the world media is.
This is the same model Songza is/was offering nearly 1 year ago.
You would expect that your counter-party puts in more effort, I would say.
Ask HN: Door-to-Door Selling Stock to Fund your Company?
I was talking to my cousin last night, and he's formed up a partnership to get into green energy (I won't bore you with details) He said they had a large funder which they rejected because the guy was just too hands-off.

He mentioned something in passing, though, which bugged me. He said that he had found another funder who was willing to pay x dollars just for the opportunity to sell stock in his company in the local area.

This set off an alarm. Isn't it illegal to sell/trade a non-traded stock? If not, where do you draw the line? I remember reading about various ponzi schemes and such and the reason why the SEC was formed. Is it still possible to just go door-to-door and fund your company? If so, what are the worries in doing that?
I've just read that ING has bought the British savings accounts from Landsbanki and another Iceland bank. That means your money is safe.
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It was about 6%. Not market leading but competitive. The main reason why I opened the account was that it was one of the few ISA providers accepting transfers in.

They have more of my money than I would be happy losing but I consider myself to be more fortunate than most. I believe my position, and salary, to be secure for the next two years and icesave only has about one-quarter of my savings.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7658417.stm

Not only that but apparently good old Alistair has my back.
they had a large funder which they rejected because the guy was just too hands-off

Huh? Doesn't seem logical to me. Too hands-on, maybe, but turning down money b/c some investor trusts the people he invests in just doesn't make any sense.

As for your query, of course there are huge, huge legal worries here. As a friend once told me, "The IRS is a kitten compared to the SEC. Don't #### with the SEC." Not to mention that no future investor will want anything to do with said company.
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Our monetization strategy is not dependent on traffic, although ad revenue from the consumer site is definately a bonus. As for our biz model, I'll post about it separately once we can disclose more.
Good points all around. We definately have to focus on keeping these SEO users on the site longer. More importantly, to have a good acquisition funnel to convert them to registered/regular users.

I'm not so sure all traffic is created equal, but the marginal benefit of all traffic is certainly positive.
Right. Of course the general mood of people changes though.
yes we are giving all these freedoms right now but still we can definitely improve upon them. still you think there will be some major improvement? i am planning to implement code inspection to improve code quality over all. whats your take on that ?
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May be one reason why Japan is working so hard to develop robot women. :-)
Interesting funder's point of view
Yossi Vardi is the biggest known Angel of internet start-ups in Israel. One of his famous success stories was ICQ which was funded by him and sold for $287 million dollars in June 1998.

I read an article about him in the Israeli "The Marker", which points out a few interesting things about the entrepreneur - funder relationship.

I've translated a saying of his that was quoted in the article:

"When I hear a pitch by an entrepreneur I look for a few things in them. First, they have to be very talented. I'm not interested in good or great entrepreneurs. I want them excellent. They have to be nice people, since some investments don't ripe in early stages. I always tell my wife that in case the investment fails in early stages, at least we gave a "scholarship" to a good guy and not to some idiot. Moreover, they have to be focused on the arena I like which is the internet. If they meet those criterias, there is a good chance I will invest in them. What exactly they are doing is less important. Business plans are a wonderful part of science-fiction. They are developed for people who love sausages and don't know what are they made of. How can one conduct a 'due diligence' on something that is only in his mind."

I would love to hear your thoughts,
Tomer.
Don't want to get all diggity here, but...perhaps instead of trusting suits with your money, you might want to put them in a special kind of atoms that don't rust...or decay radioctively...It's kind of retro, but throughout history, it's been a sound thing to do.
I love this guy. Yossi keeps it so real. He says he's lost so much money funding "great" business plans that he doesn't give a shit about them anymore.

He invests in great teams. That keeps it simple.
Sounds to me like this is pretty much the YC investment strategy: Fund good teams, and ignore the business plan because that's almost certainly going to change anyway.
I was at Oracle at the peak of the data warehouse/data mining hype cycle. Every presentation cited the correlation found between sales of beer and nappies (diapers). The only problem is, it probably never happened.

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well I think thats because Ning is not really a collection of networks with small sub-categories, but instead a collection of networks for actual people. So there may be more than one entrepreneur group who want to talk to each other
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I'd go as far as nice, but not amazing. Hyperbolic headline happening.
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Isn't SIDS when a baby suffocates because they are sleeping on their stomach or in a room with poor ventilation? Or are you saying it isn't as sudden and accidental as we are led to believe?
Would add the Book of Proverbs in there if you are talking about building character.
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Touche... anyways expect more iphone apps, expect to be swarmed with them now that the nda is out the window, stop reading this and start developing something, its the cool new sandbox. No saturation point in sight. From a discovery and find point of view, saturation point for that long since pasted. But there is gold gravy on the iphone, and all future mobile platforms that follow.
Why is there no broadcasting functionality? Isn't real time location much more interesting than where your cat were yesterday?

Then you could put one on your girlfriend as well. Pussycat tracker.
Are you talking gold? That's just silly. you know how little Gold there is compared to the needs of the world? And you know that a gold based economy basically puts all the power in the hands of those who physically own the gold - what happens to countries like Chad and so on?
I'm not worried. All this is just hype, things are quite fine in the world. Money does not disappear until value does, and people are still producing a lot of value.
usually you need substance before form, but with Wufoo 'form' is substance; great business model.
I've read all of them except the last one. And I can assure that it's definitely a good stuff. And makes you think more than a little. Which is also a good stuff.
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Another indicator that the USA made a great job at selling their debts to other countries, where entire states have now to pay for the greed of a few people.

Each cent that is missing now (which went to american banks when they were selling these products) has to paid by the entire world now.
i would consider finding great people harder than finding a good business plan or idea. you're essentially banking on the "diamond in the rough". hoping the people you find will produce something outstanding. it's risky both ways, and i guess you have to go with your instincts.
When will people learn that any anonymous datasets don't stay that way for long on the internet?
It must be a pretty odd monetization strategy if people checking out the product is a bad thing. Even a visitor who will never be a customer might have friends or blog readers that will.

Do you work for the NSA? Have you considered deploying a login barrier and a splash screen to drive people away? ;)
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Seconded. We hear all kinds of things about how much companies exit for, but rarely about what they earn. Even an order-of-magnitude or a per-employee order-of-magnitude would be interesting.
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> Each cent that is missing now (which went to american banks when they were selling these products) has to paid by the entire world now.

This leads to a fantasy bailout scenario: the whole world who has lent America money agrees to forgive 50% of America's debt (or any other large percentage) in return for America's military getting out of other countries (and staying out for at least 10 years).
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Haha... I never said having traffic is a bad thing! I'm just comparing what the merits of long tail SEO traffic is vs direct or SEM traffic.
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Yeah but how many clicks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop?
This probably belongs in the original DuckDuckGo feedback thread (but it's long buried now) but why does the "more images" link to a Google image search?

The thumbnails are fed from Flickr, and I fully expected to be taken to Flickr when I clicked 'more'.
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There are ten finalists, and they are all worth looking at.

As for more images, the image feed is actually coming from BOSS. They just happen to use a lot of Flickr. Ultimately, I hope to have the more links load more images off the BOSS feed, but for now I just sent it to the best image search (IMHO).
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I guess it also depends on how good you are at assessing people as opposed to plans.

Given how hard people find interviewing, I'm not sure it's that obvious to spot great people.
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There are ten finalists, and they are all worth looking at.

I think he meant that his question belongs in that thread, not your post.
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Good point. Sorry josefresco.
I think colleges should constantly measure the % their students who have become entrepreneurs in their life.
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#1 -- Well he didn't suggest that everyone do it.

#2 The actual amount available at any given time is not so important as over time whatever amount there is reflects whatever "amounts" of goods, services, value and labour "exist". You have the same the other way around with the paper money supply. Increase it, and "over time" there's just as much "inflation" (not a price increase BUT a money devaluation) to cover that. So how much gold Chad has compared to other countries matters exactly zero.
"Missing"? "Money itself isn't lost or gained, it's simply transferred."
Seriously? 3 pictures, poor use of 'Hack', and posted to YC News? The end result being "don't put too much ice in your drink"? This is one of the few times I could downvote.
Hey, as long as EVE Online (CCP) doesn't go under, I'm straight.
To encourage users to sign up you just need to encourage more interaction / personalisation. Easier said than done, I know.

The news aggregation game is a bit in-and-out... traffic we receive (as a publisher) from aggregators comes in and mainly bounces. These readers often browse multiple sources to get a view on an individual story (to get a wider spectrum of views, more detail, better pics, more user insight etc).

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Maybe users can ultimately choose their own sources, or NewsCred can choose for them, based on where other people are going. The key is in achieving a good depth of coverage, rather than just pointing people at the big media sites.
What you should worry about are two things, regarding value:

1) You should worry when your country produces significantly more "money" than your country produces value. See Bailout Bill (I fail to see the value produced in writing up $700 billion taxed on firefighters and teachers).

2) You should worry when organizations like IMF and the World Bank extend loans to these other countries, jack up in the interest and take up more than half of the country's budget on the interest instead of the principal. Most of the countries we "help out" end up becoming more impoverished after we extend a loan to them, and much of what we build ends up doing more harm than good. Worse, the money does not even exist in the first place.
People have little faith in effort because they feel it's too easy to be labelled a failure.

For example if you spend months studying only to fail a course there is no one to blame but you. If you don't study in the first place and blame society, genes or circumstances then you are blameless. You were dealt a bad hand, luck isn't on your side... I'm sure you've spoken and heard these words.

This isn't to say that society, genes or circumstances DON'T effect outcome (in a myriad of complex overlapping ways) but they have become scape goats for many peoples lack of endeavour in life.
If you are actually arguing in favor of a fractional reserve system, I fail to see any logical support for that.

A fractional reserve system has two truths, two facts:

1) The debt will always become greater in a country, because the money is debt in the first place.

2) The income disparity will always increase, meaning you will never be able to overcome poverty, sickness, or even war. The very way the fractional reserve system works is by nature transferring wealth from the lower and middle-class to the upper, and from there it goes to a few very wealthy, very elite.
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People asked the same things about the Facebook platform 3 months out.

Here's the reality: The apps that made the most money in the long run did not launch in the beginning of the platform. Those who launched in the beginning did not gain any leverage by which their other apps grew. The biggest apps on Facebook are not those who launched early on (with a few VC backed exceptions).

My point: the best is yet to come.
Not a bad article, but most of the examples given of "lonely dissent" seem to me to fall much more into the "vegetarian" category than the "clown suit" category.

For me at least, the feeling upon encountering somebody who tells me that he wants to have his body frozen after he dies isn't "Oh wow, what a crazy idea I've never heard before", it's "Oh, another one of those". Cryonicists (if that's a word) are too numerous and too well connected to each other to really count as lonely dissenters.

Oh, and I could have done without the "PS. I am awesome" bit at the end.
Whenever I read articles like this, it makes me wonder why half of it even needs to be stated; then I go and look at the code base for some of the companies that I do development for. At that point I realize that, planning, documentation, and "fixing broken windows", are all activities that you need to build into the core values of your company from the start. They need to be so ingrained in the culture, that people participate in them on an intuitive level, instead of it being a after-thought. The time spent working around "known bugs" far (exponentially) exceeds the time it would have taken to fix them before they were part of the current stable release.
Seriously, I know you like the product, but this sounds like a 'business school recommendation letter'
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Wow - this is exactly what I needed this morning actually. Is this mirrored anywhere? The site is down it appears.
The diagram pulled a Verizon and has 1.42 cents in the last image instead of $1.42 or 142 cents.
OK, so firstly, "choosing the best out of three options" really doesn't count as "hacking", especially when the best option turns out to be the default.

Secondly, what a terrible experiment. Even if you accept the premise that coldness vs corn syrup is a worthwhile tradeoff, they don't even mention how long they waited before taking the temperature measurement. A temperature vs time graph might make this article worthwhile.

And now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and "hack" my morning coffee, by asking for a cappucino sans live skunk.