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    Comment #23970189

    Also there is another aspect to cardsets that might be worth thinking about, which is that they are like "polling" done in a fun and easy way (swiping on pictures) -- the fact that…

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    Comment #23969696

    > You've honestly given me a lot to think about and I think I see a better way forward now. Your insight really increased my mood because I think you've discovered something very i…

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    Comment #23969502

    I would advise against folding it into clusters, and instead have each cardset be its own thing. What you have right now is a cardset that I'd label "General" -- abstract the backe…

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    Comment #23969484

    Feel free to use it however you want :) Regarding the 0.0/default/skipped -- see my other response about "cardsets", which the more I think about it, the more I am convinced will s…

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    Comment #23968529

    > So, the problem we'd like to solve is what set of 250 or so cards has the highest predictive value in that similar answers lead to the best interpersonal matches? I think ideally…

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    Comment #23968225

    Firstly, congrats on the launch. Designing and implementing a new concept from scratch, by yourself, is definitely fraught with difficulties. It's hard to know if what you're desig…

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    Comment #23898435

    As I understand it VCs don't acquire companies, they invest in them. The difference being that in an acquirer buys and runs the company, while a VC only buys a small portion of it …

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    Comment #23898350

    Thanks for the insights. > You could negotiate retaining x% of the stock (along with rules regarding stock type, splits, etc.). Is this at all common? I would imagine that upon acq…

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    Ask HN: Is it possible to sell a startup, but also keep a small stake in it?

    This is possibly a very stupid question, but I'm curious. Imagine I own a start-up called Foo. Facebook offers to buy Foo for $n. This sounds great, except I think there's a good c…

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    Comment #22468055

    I use honey, but I only enable it on the page before I'm about to check out, then disable it after it's found a discount. Granted, during the time it is activated they could do wha…

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    Comment #22467894

    I would like to be able to delineate strings with any character(s) of my choosing. The default could be single or double or triple quotes, but don't force me. I am sick of escaping…

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    Asn HN: Idea for SaaS – an API to create product images that show scale

    Occasionally, on Amazon, I've seen that some products will be positioned near a silhouette of a person, for scale. This results in an image that cleanly relates the relative size o…

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    Comment #22429872

    Also, another one-off question: What if the data I have is relational? Must it all be squashed down? Imagine a family tree: can a "node" simply contain "parents", and the model wil…

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    Comment #22429821

    This was extremely helpful, thank you! Perhaps you can help me with some follow-up questions: - Let's imagine a standard excel sheet (a 2d array), with columns "A", "B", "C", "D" .…

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    Comment #22428812

    The landing page UI consists of three main tasks: 1) Question. 2) Options. 3) Audience. Consider making it four tasks: 1) Question. 2) Options. 3) Preview. 4) Send. This way, peopl…

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    Comment #22428734

    From a UI perspective, as well as the perspective of somebody trying to use this without possibly burning an e-mail address, please have a "preview" option before "audience".

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    Comment #22428703

    You can look at the "legal" aspect of it by Googling "is it legal to scrape". My understanding (IANAL) is that it is OK as long as the user agreement is "opt-out" as opposed to "op…

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    Ask HN: Briefly and succinctly – when is ML helpful for engineering?

    Given how ML is now the cool thing, I realize this may make me look, um, not cool: How would you describe what ML can offer me, a non-ML-saavy tech organization? When does it work …

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    Comment #22335400

    I think I understand when this is most relevant: when there are many different things being sold that each need to have a different split. In my mind I was thinking of a team that …

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    Comment #22335064

    You're welcome, and I'm glad I could revive this post a bit, too :) I am genuinely curious though, who is this app for? For what group of people is splitting proceeds really so dau…

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    Comment #22334153

    I don't have any feedback or strong opinions on this, but the concept of mapping (x,y,z)=>bool and having it produce a 3d object is new to me. This is a very cool demonstration; th…

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    Comment #22334097

    I have no idea, but I can say with certainty it depends on the size of your target audience. Find a way to reach them and continually refine your landing page so that your funnel i…