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I'm building a game, and need a 3D Model of the world, like the geographical data from Google Earth, but at much much much lower resolution. All I can find on the web (searching vi…

Anyone have information on Ooyala? Besides tech crunch mentioning that they've raised 8.5 million series B, I can't find much on the company. The video analytics / hosting for busi…

Why is this surprising? Why should college degree imply ability to find a job? Alot of my classmates appear to do little more than drink + party. I know for a fact that I would not…

how does this make money?

What does it mean that Zuck has 3 seats -- one empty, one he holds, one by Andressen -- does Andressen get to vote as Andressen wishes, or does he have to vote Zuck wishes, or does…

Is it just me ... or does "IBM BladeCenter E" sound much more impressive than the little box in the pictures ...?

Read "How to get Rich" by Jack Dennis ... see his part about giving out equity.

How popular is it? Do you have numbers on how many downloads it have?

Hi! I'm writing an iPhone app. Everything's done, except for wanting to add in a button where when the user clicks it, it'll pop up the iPhone / iPod touch email client (with a pre…

If apple gets 30% and makes a max of $45 mil; then all the users together got no more than $45 / 30% * 70% = $105 million. If this is the case, this seems like a very small market …

We just got a new office; and for security purposes, we'd like to have a bunch of webcams, with data streamed to a centralized server (for motion detection / logging). "Privacy" is…

Is there a firefox plugin where I can place my cursor over an Unicode chinese character, and have it tell me the pinyin / definition of the word? thanks!

I thought I once read an article to that affect, but I can't find the article on Google. (Get all these links for torrents to porn, but not articles documenting how bit torrent sta…

After watching "Touching the Void", I have been inspired to go mountain climbing myself. I'm posting on Hacker News as I've been a programmer for the past 10+ years and have no mou…