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wave··on Review my hackathon MVP - Amazon instant search

One suggestion I have is that since search is the main feature of your site, you may want the search box to stand out. Maybe it should be little bigger and in center of the page

wave··on Lengthen My URL

You can get the original URL using http://unshort.me service.

wave··on YouTube Instant Creator Accepts Job At YouTube

Things are not measured by how difficult or simple it was to create. It is measured by the result it produces.

He also validated for them that users want YouTube Instance without the company doing any work or taking any risks. For this reason alone, he deserves more than a job offer.

wave··on Ask HN: How to monetize 5 million+ pageview Twitter widget?

You may want to use http://unshort.me api service to unshorten the links.

wave··on Twilio Slashes Prices As It Looks To Further Boost Growth

Just in case you are not aware of the following: Twilio can't fully handover forwarded calls to another carrier; therefore, you will be charged for the length of the call rahter than for the time it takes to reroute the call to another carrier.

wave··on YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth

I particularly enjoyed Jawed Karim's speech about the concept of killer app starting at 8:56.

wave··on Alex Payne — My Get-Back-To-Work Hack

Instead of blocking the distracting sites permanently, using iptables might work little better by restricting access by time of day or duration.

[edit] I found the following: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=192953

wave··on Facebook Plans to Boost Staff 50% This Year, Zuckerberg Says

Is there anyone would like to share his or her experience working at Facebook? Do they have a hacker friendly environment?

wave··on Tr.im is now in the process of discontinuing service

Unshort.me is doing it. Look at the following post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=577457

wave··on Team Apart (YC S08) hits the right price for collaboration: $0.00

whather, I am not sure if you can get into the details of your technology, but does your service use Adobe’s Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP)? Is that the reason you can provide a free service?

wave··on Hidden Secrets of the Amazon Shopping Cart

Duplicate post. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=434830

wave··on Great place for hacker recipes

I usually don't want to go out and buy all ingredients needed before making the food. I want a website that tells me the list of food I can make with ingredients I already have in kitchen.

wave··on Palm Pre Launch Guide Leaked [pdf]

Palm's design philosophy is becoming very similar to Apple's. Now, they are also using Internet marketing campaign similar to theirs.

wave··on The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General

Is there any specific reason why would like to be in your twenties again?

wave··on Ask HN: Explain AWS

Others mostly answered your question, but if you like to run MySQL on Elastic Block Store (EBS), you should read the following article:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?ex...

If you take the approach described in the above article, you should think about creating a symbolic link to your EBS volume instead of changing MySQL configuration file.

wave··on High Performance Web Pages – Real World Examples: Netflix Case Study

If you are interested in this class, it is online:

http://cs193h.stevesouders.com/

wave··on Did Arrington actually pull off the CrunchPad WiFi tablet?

It is nicely designed. Here is what it looks like:

http://zee.posterous.com/did-arrington-actually-pull-off-the...

wave··on Reverse image search engine

You can use http://imageheader.com/alpha , which reads image file and displays all information about the image including geolocation tags. This is alpha version

Example:

http://imageheader.com/alpha/index.php?url=http://farm4.stat...

wave··on Photos from YC (W09) Demo Day

From what I seen in the photos, wattvision seems interesting.

Live feed of watts used by Y Combinator: http://www.wattvision.com/house/live?h=208803

wave··on Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect

You can hear it on the following video how Auto-Tune can make anyone sign like a pop star:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpu6C70WROM

wave··on What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

I should have rephrased the question but it is too late now. I was looking for startup answers. What would you start if you knew you couldn’t fail?

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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=285927

wave··on Ask HN: How do you bill your clients? (for your app)

Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=198502

wave··on Ask HN: Cost of servers & bandwidth

I think in addition to their own servers, they use AWS http://www.slideshare.net/tracylaxdal/justintv-aws-the-start...

wave··on Printing only what you like (Format any web page for printing)

Design suggestion: On the print page the menu on left to Remove Background, Remove Images... and etc, all have different sizes (width). I think this makes your site to look unprofessional. I suggest to use the same width.

wave··on Panda - Open source solution for video uploading, encoding and streaming.

Are there any demo websites created using Panda?

wave··on TC50 interview with Mark Cuban

Here is the video:

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/700958

wave··on About the origins of the equals sign

Robert Recorde wanted to make his math books clear and accessible. He was the first to write such books in English, rather than in the Latin or Greek of the educated elite.

Also, little more about this subject on the PBS site:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/ance-equals.html

wave··on Video Response: A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution

The video talks about the reason Etsy received $30 million investment.

Thank you for pointing this out. It is almost exact copy. I am not associated with the blog, but I just found the link from my Friendfeed feed.

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