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by aresant 11y ago
Some interesting data about prime: - Estimated at 40 - 50 million members(1) - Estimated at $4 - 5 billion in revenue (1) - That revenue = ~15.5% of Amazon's total revenue, incidentally this is just subscription revenue, not the money
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by aresant 11y ago
the company was founded October '13 the series B was in March '14 where the founders took the infamous $6m So they wouldn't have qualified for long term cap gains right?
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by aresant 12y ago
The conclusions: 1) The last two decades, however, have led to a “ghettoization” of distinctively Black names, namely, a distinctively Black name is now a much stronger predictor of socioeconomic status. 2) We find no relationship between h
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by aresant 12y ago
PathSense is hiring a systems engineer, software engineer, and machine learning scientist in San Diego: https://pathsense.com/careers/ PathSense is building a better location stack for iOS and Android that delivers the
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by aresant 12y ago
Something that surprised me when I first started hiring employees was how hard it was for people to manage their cash flow, especially at the more limited levels. We started with a once-a-month paycheck, which my co-founder and I were used
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by aresant 12y ago
It is fascinating how much the "micro-transaction" model on the iOS platform continues to bury everything else. Spiderweb throwing in the towel I would guess has a lot more to do with their #1 point "Competition on the App St
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by aresant 12y ago
With this thread + yesterday's about WWDC being so "oversold" and people lamenting their desire to go back to the 500-person meetups of yore I thought I'd share a tip. I've found it helpful to purposely target the s
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by aresant 12y ago
I recently had lunch with a guy that set up telecom networks in ex-soviet bloc countries in the years following the fall of the Berlin Wall. He worked with American / Euro companies and interfaced with the hard-scrabble governments tha
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by aresant 12y ago
Short term, ranged, and non-clinical studies always remind me of the story of the "Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes" (1) AKA - x-ray machines placed in shoe stores so you could stick your foot in, dial up the radiation, and see your wigg
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by aresant 12y ago
Two things: First - the cat is out of the bag, and never going back, when it comes to applying direct response & testing methodology to journalism. I recently had the pleasure of bumping into a YC-startup called naytev.com that optimize
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by aresant 12y ago
This is exactly what Siri should be. Apple has 800m credit cards on file (1) In one fell swoop Apple could own the local delivery market, shocking how perfect of a concept / execution this is. (1) http://www.businessinsider.
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by aresant 12y ago
Very interesting. A key feature of Sunrise is ""Users can access their calendars from Google, iCloud, and Microsoft Exchange, as well as connecting to a wide range of other third-party apps. " Microsoft clearly understands th
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by aresant 12y ago
Totally clear. I inferred the opposite "I wrote the same posts and it didn't matter". Thanks for the added context of you've done the same thing, had the same exposure level on posts and seen insignificant results. Appre
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by aresant 12y ago
Good content WRITING is about 20% of the job. Good content MARKETING is about 80% of the job. It's a misnomer to think that the stories you see in the headlines have arrived there organically. PG has a brilliant article on this topic.
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by aresant 12y ago
This made the rounds this AM on the Oculus reddit sub. The demo is currently 404'ing if you try to download, developer posted that he's bug-fixing and updating tomorrow. (1) but of course a redditor posted a mirror (2) And if you
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by aresant 12y ago
"Figure 4 shows the result of an experiment we ran to test rendering with JavaScript for better web performance. . . [The test failed and] even after we turned off the experiment, it took almost a month for pages in the enabled group t
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by aresant 12y ago
Video of Carmack's first two games Shadowforge & Wraith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7py_FGQ5tU Along with abandonware links to play 'em on your IIGS emu Or for the 68kmla guys hiding out here on your ori
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by aresant 12y ago
From the fringes - how typical is a 8:45am - 4pm (3 days a week anyways) schedule for HN googlers?
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by aresant 12y ago
This reminds me of a VICE program around Columbian Narco Submarines (1) The show highlights, at one point, a guy who engineered an incredible drug "torpedo" that could be towed behind a fast boat, cut and dropped instantly if trou
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by aresant 12y ago
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." I love that quote and it's attribution a 19th century British prime minister (1) illustrates how long this "trend" has been around. So when the aut
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by aresant 12y ago
Somehow missed this until I saw it pop up in the San Diego VR group feed this AM - just backed - looks awesome and would love to hear more about your plans for VR @ the next meetup.
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by aresant 12y ago
If a user used Stripe "the chance that a visitor would abandon their donation at the Checkout step halved from 22% to 10%" You can see even in Stripe's earliest UX the desire to dramatically limit the "pain" that go
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by aresant 12y ago
If you download on a PC you should also: a) Use VR Player https://vrplayer.codeplex.com/ or equiv. b) Set to dome projection c) Set to barrel distortion
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by aresant 12y ago
There is a good chance that VR done right for mobile - Samsung Gear via Oculus being the first - will change the game. I have played a bit with a very preliminary version of "Virtual Desktop" (1) and it is shockingly usable even a
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by aresant 12y ago
So the guy straps himself to balloon, rides straight up for 2 hours, 25 miles high. So 12.5 mph, a little faster than the average bicycle pace. Straight up. Works with other engineers in secret for 3 years to knock out a badass space surviv
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by aresant 12y ago
I get it. And my experience is my own. As others have said in this thread "I could have made other choices" But when you are way down the river, playing with other people's money, and with dozens of employees counting on you
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by aresant 12y ago
I love articles on this topic because they're uplifting and hopeful, I hate them because they are unrealistic. Y-Combinator's expectation for start-ups is that they are to be "all-consuming" (1) From Sam Altman's &q
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by aresant 12y ago
There's an interesting back story on the Women.com domain. NBC owned women.com and women.net from the takeover of iVillage. A domain broker - Benjamin Padnos - won the domains at auction at SEDO for $1m in 2010, but the CEO of NBC - Je
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by aresant 12y ago
The article concludes that google is dramatically ahead, which is no suprise but I AM suprised, anecdotally, how good Siri is vs previous iterations on my iphone 6 and OS 8 It feels close to "good enough" for the majority of funct
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by aresant 12y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed the visual design and layout of this site. That he took the deck and turned it into vibrant and unique feeling content made it feel more special than a normal blog post. Not sure where I'm going with this but I lik

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