abstractbill

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by abstractbill 12y ago
YC used to get a lot of criticism for only funding "trivial web companies". You don't hear that so much these days.
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Justin.tv has shut down(justin.tv)
396 points by abstractbill 12y ago|137 comments
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Ask HN: Why don't we use ICBMs for transportation?
9 points by abstractbill 12y ago|12 comments
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by abstractbill 12y ago
That is awesome. Have there been any aviation/aerospace companies yet?
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by abstractbill 12y ago
I've lost track of many of the different doctors I've seen over the years. Is there any practical way for me to get at that kind of information?
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by abstractbill 12y ago
I had a drive in one of Cruise's prototypes a few days ago. This technology works. About a year ago, my family had a car crash that shook up my 3-year-old daughter so much that she still talks about how scary it was. This technology
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Meet The $10,000 Sensor That Could Make Cars Driverless(forbes.com)
14 points by abstractbill 12y ago|0 comments
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by abstractbill 12y ago
Anything else is CYOA I don't think so. The people fixing the obamacare website most likely want obamacare to succeed, and are aware that there's a hungry media out there ready and waiting for the next story revealing just how
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by abstractbill 12y ago
YC talks aren't recorded, for similar reasons. When you know every word you say will be potential fodder for a sensationalist news story, it's harder to be blunt about what went right and wrong.
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by abstractbill 12y ago
The policy will only affect Justin.tv, not Twitch.
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by abstractbill 12y ago
If you anticipate that anyone will ever use or maintain your code in the future (including you), you should document it. Right, I think we don't disagree that much. In particular, if you don't anticipate your code being used
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by abstractbill 12y ago
I'm probably in a rather small minority here, but I believe documenting things you know are very likely to change can be irresponsible (or at least unwise) if you know the resources needed to update the docs are unlikely to be availabl
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by abstractbill 13y ago
Nice, I had stopped donating for a few months because apparently I'm that lazy ;) Just signed up for monthly donations - I'm #87.
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by abstractbill 13y ago
Y Combinator invests in non-profits.
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by abstractbill 13y ago
Congrats guys, we are loving Zesty :)
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by abstractbill 13y ago
What they currently do is crumple zones. That's not what I was talking about (the entire skin of the car being a honeycomb sandwich).
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by abstractbill 13y ago
I've often wondered about this. Instead of just having a single thin metal skin that deforms, wouldn't it be even better to have multiple skins sandwiching a kind of honeycomb structure? That way you have even more stuff to defo
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by abstractbill 13y ago
I fear popular science... The same arguments were made when Carl Sagan was busy popularizing science. But Neil Degrasse Tyson says he was hugely inspired by Sagan. Who knows how many other scientists were? Who knows how many future sci
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by abstractbill 13y ago
Submissions don't move down the front page as quickly as this did (I think it went from #3 to about #25 in less than a minute) without getting flagged a bunch.
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by abstractbill 13y ago
But we've been fucking around with nature for a long time without fully understanding it. In fact a lot of that fucking around has led to us understanding nature better!
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by abstractbill 13y ago
This is the second time in a few days Cosmos has made it onto the front page and then received a ton of flags very quickly. Can someone explain why?
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by abstractbill 13y ago
Congrats Sam, and congrats YC!
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by abstractbill 13y ago
Well I don't think the whole system has to be broken down and rebuilt from scratch. There are lots of pretty basic ideas floating around for getting money out of politics.
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by abstractbill 13y ago
"But it feels really unfair. People seem to be more sensitive to relative economic status than absolute. So even if people are much better off being poor today than king 500 years ago, most people compare themselves to the richest pe
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by abstractbill 13y ago
There's a YC startup for everything these days: http://www.7cupsoftea.com/
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Full-stack engineer, San Francisco
1 points by abstractbill 13y ago
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by abstractbill 13y ago
Very nice Randall, congrats!
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by abstractbill 13y ago
Not anymore - the girls and culture are all moving to Oakland!
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by abstractbill 13y ago
Hah! As it happens, I had just started experimenting with designing a new Lisp dialect when I got Emmett's email! It was working out pretty well, and I was having a lot of fun, but I think the world needs livestreamed creativity more
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by abstractbill 13y ago
If you're interested in streaming more general programming, check out twitch's sister site, justin.tv - more specifically the new Creativity category ( http://www.justin.tv/directory/creativity ). We have a bu

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