christophe971

Never talked to them, but I did address the differences between TheBigDB and Freebase here: http://thebigdb.com/faq

I'm seriously considering it actually, but not 100% sure at the moment... :) And yes, it would be awesome for fandom, but the whole point of the service is to be able to have all kinds of data in it, so... :)

Not really. I addressed this in the FAQ: http://thebigdb.com/faq

In the absolute sense, you're right they don't; but in the practical sense they do, especially open time-dependent statements.

The easiest example is this: We're in 2010. X has been married to Y since 2009; In the DB it would be represented exactly like that: a "from" time period, no "to" time period, meaning "it is still true now".

They divorce in 2013. X married to Y from 2009 to "now" isn't true. It should be downvoted. but X married to Y from "2009" to "2013" is actually true. It should be created and upvoted. That fact surely won't change overtime.

Yes, simplification + open API is at the heart of the project.

The first one because it makes people actually want to use the service, the second one because it helps having up to date data about all sort of things.

Absolutely, thanks for your question!

Actually yes, but in a different way, I was thinking of accelerating the power of sudden downvotes, but nothing is set in stone yet. So yes it will happen, how exactly is yet to be decided. Thanks for your question!

That's exactly right! There are a lot of data on the web, almost none of it is structured in a way that lets other easily access and edit it.

For example, as you can see on http://denisthebot.com, having that kind of API makes it trivial to built smart question-answering engines.

From the sample of people I follow, it really looks like the engagement is down from the early days: fewer posts, fewer comments and worst, fewer new accounts created.

I'm fully aware it is a completely non-scientific "study", but you would be hard-pressed to find anyone not working at Google saying "G+ is really thriving right now!"

That is pretty much what I wrote here: https://plus.google.com/104656859697947622609/posts/2LHxjAnQ...

And yes, I still believe it would really help salvage G+ from the situation it is in right now...

I hope they're working on it, but like I said, I'm mostly worried about the politics of it.

Also, they might reject that idea just on the basis that their interface won't be as simple with this...

You're right, the name isn't perfect: It actually means that no deal can last more than 72hours.

"Have you considered partnering with some well known players to help launch the service?"

Yes! After launch, the first thing I'm going to do trying to find meaningful partnerships.

Thank you for the feedback!

The HN crowd mostly interested in promoting their web applications should probably check this out: http://72hdeals.com/developers

Your feedback is highly appreciated!

Instant Messaging? Like Google Talk or Skype?

What we would do with the domain or the site ?

Since they invest mostly in people, and then their projects, you should apply.

A message to anyone still believes the specs have something to do with the success of a tablet, against the iPad:

Only two things matter: The price, and the OS.

No tablet is even coming close to competing the iPad to this day only because of these two things. I'm not sure I actually have to dig into the mass grave of all "iPad killers" to prove my point.

Then it's doomed. Any tablet with a higher price than the iPad fails to generate any kind of lasting interest, I don't see why it will be different here.

Which is sad, the Xoom looks like a great tablet.

True, but it his hard to do a 3 lines article when you're called "Business Insider".

I guess TechCrunch will do 10 big paragraphs on the subject.

You have been "working" on an idea for several months?

I don't want to sound rude, but have you ever heard the saying "ideas are worth nothing" ?

On the subject of giving up, depends how worthy your project is. If you're a good competitor, you can still beat them or sell your company a few years later. Otherwise, you can still... pivot: http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/06/pivot-dont-jump...

27 GB with markup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

Probably 1/10th of that is real text data, so no more than 3 GB.

Some clickable links:

The previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2171135

The website: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/

I didn't know about it, but it failed formidably on http://tldr.it/summaries/13805

As usual, "that guy" is correct :)

Sorry for the over-simplification. I edited the original post.

Thanks for your comments!

"I visited - didn't know what to do." True, the only place it is really explained is here on HN, I'll fix that quickly. [edit: fixed]

"Categorize/tag them so I can browse startup-related articles (or whatever category I want)" I don't want it to become this "big", I just want to have a bookmarklet when I'm reading a good Paul Graham's article, and check if someone did a TL;DR for it already. One click.

"Auto-fill url's as people are typing." Auto-fill with what?

"If the story I'm interested in has already been summarized, take me to it." The bookmarklet does that.

"Could definitely build a mini-newspaper/ezine type of thing around this." Maybe, I'll wait to see if the website is of some interest for an interesting number of people first :)

"Don't force me to use my twitter account to do a submission - please!" I thought it was a good idea for moderation/spam protection... Maybe I should rethink that...

"Good job! Keep the iterations coming." Thanks again !

Since there is no moderation for now, I didn't feel like it was a good idea, but thanks for the input, I'll be thinking about it!

Here are the clickable links:

http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/

Example of TL;DR: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/5tropy

$50M cash is a fantastic exit for a company created only 4 years ago, with one round of funding ($6M).

Congratulations to the team! I hope the guys at IAC won't destroy the brand/product though... I hope their blog OkTrends will continue to publish fascinating articles too, it would be a great loss.

I'm not sure. PoSV is more a movie about Steve Jobs than anything else. TSN and PoSV both show to the public that "he (Bill & Mark) is not an evil blood/money-thirsty being, he had some opportunities and took them".

If PoSV was made about Bill, it would have been even more similar to TSN.

I actually find Zuckerberg about as "awkward" as Bill Gates. I think people understand that, well, Mark is a nerd, and his nerdiness isn't going anywhere.

So if he just stays nice, and do charitable things, people will eventually like him. It has already started, The Social Network has been huge boost for that.