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aidscholar | 12 years ago | on: True Link (YC S13) To Help The Elderly Avoid Scammers With Pre-Paid Visa Cards

Bit confused with the difference between this versus something like an Amex pre-paid card. Why would someone use True Link over one of the existing pre-paid card options? A web interface?

aidscholar | 12 years ago | on: Tell HN: The front page of Hacker News has been deindexed from Google

Sounds like overaggressive spam detection.

aidscholar | 13 years ago | on: Authority

Really like the landing page design. Is the design available for use as part of Authority?

aidscholar | 13 years ago | on: How I built up the courage to quit a promising career with a six-figure salary

While an interesting story - I'm not a fan of the guest blog post pitching a "coaching program" + squeeze page.

aidscholar | 13 years ago | on: YC without being in YC

Can someone explain the mantra "Do stuff that doesn't scale"? Is this another way to say focus on the hard stuff? Then scale later?

aidscholar | 13 years ago | on: DevBootCamp: Learn Ruby on Rails in 9 Weeks

Anyone know if there is something similar for people who can't attend during work hours (but willing to put in a full shift after work/weekends)?

aidscholar | 14 years ago | on: What’s the ROI on Cool?

The font on that page makes it so hard to read. Instant bounce.

aidscholar | 14 years ago | on: Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products

I really don't want a big black bar on top of my gmail.

aidscholar | 15 years ago | on: Equation: How Much Money Do Spammers Rake In?

I hate how the article doesn't mention any numbers / metrics except for the final dollar value.

aidscholar | 15 years ago | on: Conference Organizers Suck at Name Tags

Any linkable images of the nametags? Just curious to see how they look.

aidscholar | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Condensr.com, Yelp Snippet Summarization

Link to the paper summary for the sentiment analysis used in this app: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/rbg/code/content_structure/index...

aidscholar | 15 years ago | on: Startup idea for you: Modern e-commerce isn't enough

milo?

aidscholar | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Opportunities for Structured Data?

Yeah - Vast really does pets. http://www.vast.com/pets

Do you really think there's still an opportunity in Travel given ITA/Google?

aidscholar | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Opportunities for Structured Data?

It's hard even to measure the quantitative stuff now. For example, how do you perform a query like "find me 10 colleges in the west coast, that offer both a CS bachelors degree and masters, ordered by average entry SAT score"?

aidscholar | 16 years ago | on: Diapers.com will leave larger shoes to fill than Zappos

Are there any other retail categories with the same type of regular repeat purchase?

aidscholar | 16 years ago | on: Ask YC/HN: What's a problem, any problem, you'd like to see someone solve?

Isn't this covered by Indeed/Simplyhired?

aidscholar | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: VPS - Where should I go?

I'm happy with linode. Decent prices, good service.

aidscholar | 16 years ago | on: Rails 3.0 Beta Release

These guides are being updated for Rails 3:

http://guides.rails.info/getting_started.html

aidscholar | 16 years ago | on: New Wordpress Default Theme for 2010 In Development

For some reason it reminds me of the Thesis theme. Maybe the choice in fonts?

aidscholar | 16 years ago | on: Ask HN: Review my webapp (vertical search engine for scholarships)

I'm curious but how are you determining database size? What do you feel is an adequate size?