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If you wish to target post-round startups, it can be a little bit easier to contact a vc firm's talent team (such as: http://a16z.com/talent-services/ ) who, if you pass whatever c…

Missing my personal piece of advice: Interested in startups / smaller companies? Easiest thing to do is email / interview with one or two VC firms. I know both a16z and greylock do…

Confusing if you try to go to hacker news, I recommend imgur.com :-)

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There are dozens of claims that it is good for women - STEM is a desirable field - yet artificial barriers to entry are created by gender roles. Further, women in technology and le…

I don't understand how using an external attack tool is grounds for anything. If Hamed could use it to search for exploits an attacker could have used it to search for exploits. Es…

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062938

A lot of hate for graph search going on but I am pretty excited. > photos I like taken in New York in 2010 - great way to find something again without filtering through activity lo…

That makes a lot of sense! thanks for the link :-)

A lot of comments about how no one owns a CD, its a waste of resources yada yada yada For me, I own a car from 2001 so CDs are great. I buy CDs at concerts/shows, as I've long surp…

Sorry for coming down harsh but I don't understand how to interpret any of the individual curves, since it looks like they are five points on five different axis with a curve fit t…

I archive everything re: the "inbox zero" lifestyle ( http://inboxzero.com/ ) and when i click see my results it is just a blank page. I would be really interested if you could pul…

Perhaps less popular in this audience, but it hard to find many live streaming sports (legally) without a cable subscription. The Rose Bowl, for example, was on ESPN yesterday and …

Bummer to hear, I too reported a privacy setting circumvention, and I did receive compensation. I think a big part of it is being the first person to report the error.

The article steers the reader, wanting them to conclude that there is something wrong with data science as a field that is solved by _human_ intuition - this left me feeling much t…

A cool tool with an unfortunate name. I'm not going to send a link to datafart.com/mygraph to someone with whom I only have a professional relationship.

I am a Stanford, but not in the MBA program. My understanding is that many students do pay full tuition. Graduating with an MBA from the GSB guarantees that you will find a high pa…

While not being able to comment on 6.001, at Stanford there is an alternative for ``enthusiasts'' called 106X, which is a sort of more intense version of the 106B class and is taug…

Try carat ( http://carat.cs.berkeley.edu/ ) - shows you over time what apps are using the most power.

The politicians in KC greatly supported the movement in an effort to boost entrepreneurship in KC. They are working on a program called LaunchKC ( http://launchkc.com/ ) to foster …

For everyone quoting super low numbers: I live in a dorm at Stanford University. I have contacted about a dozen different services looking for someone to clean my 300 square foot s…

I did some research on the declining editor rates for a course project. Without recreating our entire paper, I want to make this important point. Wikipedia is not (necessarily) nea…

Out of curiosity, do you have your girlfriend as a starred user? Is your pattern of facebook interaction notably higher than with other friends?