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53,799karma·6,821submissions·October 11, 2007
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I haven't seen a desktop like that since Dan Quayle was vice president.
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This is absolute B.S. I work for an online tech pub (The Industry Standard), and we have also attended YC events and reported on YC startups. There was never any restrictions on the timing of our repo…
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This is not HN, but it is a must-read for anyone who thinks China's economic modernization has brought about free speech and other basic elements of a democratic society.
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Unfortunately, the underlying problem which hurt the old Google blog search -- spam blogs -- hasn't been effectively addressed. Some of the secondary items in individual news blogs and many of the sea…
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Until now, Semantic Web applications have been a solution in search of a problem. There are some cool apps out there, but no killer apps ... at least not yet. I got excited when I saw the OpenCalais d…
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Just a quick thing to add: I spoke with the CEO of Ancestry.com after I wrote this article, and he brought up an important fact relating to the digitization of public records: OCR technology doesn't w…
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My bet: Post-FSJ Dan Lyons