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what's the killer use case for this api?

Yeah, you could say that. Lots of the features are simply writing uris that trigger intents. That said, they're selling passive tags for $3 each. The user who buys that is likely n…

love sahil and ajay.

(this is actually a fastcompany article on single shot persuasion in general, but it's very applicable to pitching)

re: square -- consider the source. it makes sense that the square coo would be "anti nfc." the notion of "nfc payments" as the way of the future detracts from the vision he's pitch…

My one recommendation would be to have a plan. Don't quit your job or start a startup just to do so - just because you feel like that's what people on HN do. Do it for a reason - a…

It's not really a hacker quiz - it's more academic CS terms. But it's fun.

Interesting niche. One comment on the front page - I think it's great and clean, but I think it undersells what you're doing. The "highlights" that you have (linked form the pale b…

is spam morally questionable? or is it just frowned upon by social norms

When you "go live" or launch a beta, who do you tell, what outlets do you notify ... where do you send emails to get the word out (examples are digg, techcrunch, reddit etc...)?

I've been in this "business" for a short time, and I've met several. Which goes to show you, your personal experience is generally a bad foundation for making sweeping generalizati…

taproot should have a new york branch. they're not the most "hacker-focused" outfit, but i've enjoyed my work with them. (fyi - this is not a teaching organization, it's more of a …

If Android manages to clear the porting obstacles that await it as it's distributed over more than one reference device, and if it manages to deliver a high bar of quality (at leas…

Wow. That is a stunningly bad captcha. Just really bad ... I sometimes wonder how these things went from trying to solve a simple problem, to creating unusable provisioning process…

I've thought about this before... Wikipedia covers unstructured data, but we need something to be its analog for structured data. Others have pointed out freebase (which kicks ass …