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mojaam

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    Comment #17887648

    Would love this technology or YouTube's auto transcript to automatically transcribe all podcasts or audio in order to make them searchable.

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    Comment #10404095

    Hmm, another cool web scraper is import.io I use to think web scraping was limited to obscure proprietary companies like connotate so I'm glad to see more of these tools becoming a…

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    Comment #10213368

    Oh well, what can you do? It's like how the Kleenex name has become genericized whereby "the popularity of the product has led to the use of its name to refer to any facial tissue,…

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    Comment #8646630

    Sounds like a nice idea but isn't Google News already doing a decent job on this? It's going to be hard to beat the speed of Twitter or Google News in my opinion but I'll be curiou…

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    Comment #5582689

    "The most important input for your pricing is quite simple: are enough people buying it at its current price? If not, you might have a pricing problem, but not necessarily. If enou…

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    Comment #4073241

    Interesting read. I didn't realize how lucky I am to be in the U.S. when it comes to payment services. PayPal got such a huge clout!

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    Comment #3998877

    Ugh, so depressing... go to college, rack up enormous amounts of debt, and hope to find a job so that you can start paying off the monthly minimums for the seemingly the rest of yo…

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    Comment #3998846

    I think a map like this of tech companies or startups for the entire nation better yet the whole world would be really amazing. Very neat!

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    Comment #3997773

    There are people not on Facebook? I keed, I keed :)

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    Comment #3992660

    Just tweeted this to the author and thought I cross-post it here as well: Wonderful piece, I just had those same thoughts in the midst of all this facebook IPO frenzy... stay hungr…

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    Comment #3091547

    Great point on people being terrible predictors of their own happiness. Their own future for that matter. I think it really depends on how much of an optimist or pessimist you are …

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    Comment #2036294

    I love this OkCupid-esqe postings although I think Facebook could do a lot better but maybe they're concern about people's reactions to what they know.

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    Comment #2020161

    Grammer/spelling check needed but otherwise good analysis. basically to me, Tumblr does not suck if it will stay on all the time.

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    Comment #1995440

    Sweet idea. Glad I was able to grab one of the 500 invites, I usually lose out on these kinds of things so thanks! Although there might be similar ideas such as Dipity and Allofme …

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    Facebook + ChatRoulette = FaceRoulette

    It's like Chatroulette but only for people from Facebook. No fakers and dirty old men anymore! Give it a try and spread the word!

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    Comment #988846

    how about a better link/image? http://www.usfst.com/media/media-news/infographics/usdebt.pn...

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    Comment #927544

    Although this is depressing, it's also a good learning tool.

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    Comment #760053

    Wouldn't expect it to show up on the front page if it was harmful.

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    Comment #760048

    Nice work both of you, going to start using both. Don't know if tablesorter has any pagination capabilities but that would be nice if hnsort included that.

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    Comment #751962

    I'll give them credit for how they are communicating and hope for the best to them. I'm sure the developers there gained and learned something in all this. Unfortunately though, if…

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    Comment #750258

    Is this really blind? A lot of people would probably search for something they are used to searching on say google and can maybe recognize the search engine based on the order of t…

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    Comment #746990

    Never thought I'll see that on a google service. Thanks for the cache.