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This is a ubiquitous business model that will succeed where evernote failed.

Just more evidence the media, that for months has been sounding the alarm that Web 2.0 had burst, is almost always useless and wrong. Tech media no exception. I guess it's not burst. The Nasdaq s…

tired of it too . just another platform for tumrblr people who are grownup to channel their narcissism. And most of the articles are of low quality, with unnecessarily large font and stupid pictures t…

yyaawwn people also thought Facebook was ruined when they stopped only accepting edu emails

Issac Asmimov's the Final Question ends with a sentience that spans the universe

although the market is very efficient, I believe there are a handful of people who have genuine market timing ability

Despite all the news over 'safe spaces' and SJWs on campus, the academic process itself (including peer review, tenure, and other aspect) tends to be very illiberal. Capitalism tries to make…

wish I had bought put option on this. PBR (petro Brazil ) may also be at risk there are probably a couple dozen such energy,mining ,drilling, etc companies that may fall 50% in a week. A 4 cent inves…

As violent as boxing is, it's very rare for fighters to die. Same for Football. Mountain climbing, rock climbing, downhill skiing and snowboarding are more dangerous, but the dangers get much le…

If I were a VC investing in consumer internet technology, I would be looking for market dominance, a clean user experience, a unique angle that differentiates it from similar services, scalability, hi…

Not to brag, but I could have predicted the rise of those examples given. Had I been able to invest, I would have done so. Evernote, on the other hand, I would have stayed away from..

Had those word been filtered none of this would have happened. I'm surprised Microsoft didn't have some overriding system But then how you filter out stuff like 'the Holocaust didn'…

The lump of labor fallacy is a pervasive one Despite all the hype over outsourcing, the number of Silicon Valley jobs is close to the 2000 highs http://www.spur.org/sites/default&…

arxiv makes it virtually impossible to publish unaffiliated but stuff like this makes it on a supposedly reputable website

Selling out of the money puts will almost never generate a downdown. Hence an infinite sharpe because the denominator is zero. Technically you are still beating the risk-free rate but there is a lot o…

and some billionaire fortunes have been lost; in the end, you get the overall market performance. Maybe there is some excess. It would be interesting if there were a study about if stocks of companies…

Historically, consumer staples have much better risk-adjusted returns than any other sector. Buying and holding these stocks will beat active management and the S&P 500. Active management, despite…

As I have found, sharpe can be a misleading measurement of risk due to path dependence.

you can get very high stats (good shapre , low draw-downs, lots of of winning months) just by going 'long' short-duration bonds and or selling far out of money index options. The problem is …

yaaawn more misleading titles. 'Pulling out' would imply lower valuations, of which there is no evidence for startups like Snapchat, Pinterest or Uber. Instead of selling, what is happening …

<i>he show ended in 2004. The same year that Facebook began, the year that George W. Bush was re-elected to a second term, the year that reality television became a dominant force in pop culture…

How does one 'deliberately practice' writing? Using longer words, writing more? It's not like the most successful writers or writings are the most complicated. Maybe it's also abou…

As someone who has spent 10 years writing online with little to nothing to show for it, this does not work. You need connections, good luck, and or genetically endowed talents to succeed. More hours w…

the traffic, money (from the amazon links) and attention he gets is a great motivator to keep making more posts.

What if two people make opposite predictions about Twitter's future? Would they both be wrong?

Facebook is not a fair comparison. But I quit Facebook because it made me unhappy and dissatisfied. Twitter makes me smart. How did this even get to the front page? HN needs some better quality cont…

It's like a joke i heard awhile back: It's easy to talk to the dead, it's getting them to reply which is hard.

These logos aren't good. A logo should have some degree of symmetry, simple enough to draw, original, and not readily resembling something in real life or a prior logo. this is an umbrella plus t…