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Re:Dear Venmo: Update Your Privacy Settings on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @09:28AM (#17858610)
Relevant parody video - Venmo CEO: We’re Fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWFLztKBrLY
Re:Meet YC This Fall on Monday August 27, 2018 @12:53PM (#17852607)
Agreed but they also say "We’ll be adding to this list in the next couple weeks." So time will tell.
Re:YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:08PM (#17614803)
Hi Adora,

Can you explain if every startup is accepted or not? In the link it states "Last year, over 13,000 companies applied to participate in Startup School, and 95 YC alumni volunteered their time to advise over 2,800 of those companies participating across 141 countries." How many companies will be accepted this year? Or do all applications get accepted?

Thank you!

Opposing player on Second base could see the sign from the catcher and then sign his own back to dugout or player.

Player batting can see his own dugout or his own third base/first base manager and easily receive a signal from them.

As is now all major broadcasts easily show the catcher's sign and it can easily be decoded back to his pitches. Without the use of cheating you could only really get the signs today by having a player of your own on second base.

Re:Amazon Cash on Monday April 03, 2017 @04:25PM (#14026795)
Just to point out if you add $50 on this service over the next month or so you get a bonus $10 added to your account as a digital credit: https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16219202011&pf_rd...
Alexa is not a reliable source for traffic reporting. It is based on toolbar installs and potentially some A9 advertising data.

Why would traffic matter at all? If NYTimes wanted more ad page views they would just remove the 10 article cap on US traffic. If this was a chance at them trying to pad traffic numbers then any US based advertiser would easily see the origin of the traffic and not pay for it.

Re:Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @11:04AM (#13221005)
It could simply imply it's "illegal" due to the contract those publisher sign with the SSPs and Exchanges that clear their inventory. i.e. "; iv) create "forced visit" traffic; v) create invisible or nested IFrames loading pages or ads; vi) intentionally falsify clicks: vii) modify or obscure display of ads; viii) fraudulently generate requests or clicks; or ix) use any means of artificially generating ad impressions or clicks, including third-party services such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, auto-surf, and click-exchange programs."
Re:Twitter launches Fabric mobile app for developers on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:14PM (#11161481)
Follows the launch of the Flurry App last week: http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/18/yahoos-flurry-unveils-rede...
Actually down to just 1 at the time of 10 PM EST on Friday
Re:Oyster, a Start-Up for E-Reading, Raises $14 Million on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @02:25PM (#7059114)
Oyster, a Start-Up name that was already a name for another startup… oyster.com
Why is everyone so whiny? Should everything be free in life? In a time when PBS's budget is drastically cut I am glad free content still makes it out and I am happy to support it. No one is forced to watch ads.
Re:$250 Million For A 14-Year-Old's Big Idea: Origami Owl on Friday October 25, 2013 @08:55AM (#6611265)
Um Herbalife?
Re:LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @05:03PM (#6601702)
An easy hack for them to collect their users phone numbers too.
"In their seminal 1998 academic paper introducing the idea of Google, Page and Brin criticized advertising-funded search engines as “inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers.”"

-- The times have changed.

Ask HN: FitBit Flex or Jawbone Up

Please let me know if anyone has had experience with either or has another option they like. Reviews of wearable tech are all over the place. I am leaning toward the Jawbone but it sounds like quality just isn't there yet. (http://bgr.com/2013/08/15/jawbone-up-vs-fitbit-flex-review/)

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Re:Defeated on Monday August 26, 2013 @10:08AM (#6277105)
Can people stop complaining? Every other day the front page is covered with posts on people "giving up" and "this not being the American they love." Since all of these intrusive efforts have started how many attacks have happened?
Re: on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:45AM (#6133584)
Re:The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @12:22PM (#6058538)
I like how "red" means excitement youthful, bold. Reminds me of RED bull.
Re:New York City Launches .nyc Domain Names on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @05:18PM (#5980800)
Glad they wasted 200k to apply for this dumb TLD
Re:Salesforce Buys ExactTarget for $2.5 Billion on Tuesday June 04, 2013 @04:33PM (#5821958)
Another horrible deal for SF. BUDDY MEDIA ring any bells? I also loved this bit "It ran a $21 million loss on $292 million in revenue last year."

If I make $1 a year that means I earned $21 million and one dollars more than this company did last year.

Re:How to Make a Viral Video on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @09:44PM (#5790411)
Kinda just a worthless piece of PR for ReelSurfer. Why is this on the front page?
Re:Facebook, One Year Later on Monday May 20, 2013 @05:13PM (#5740067)
What the hell that lady was spending half of her retirement account on one investment. That is horrible financial planning no matter how the stock does.

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