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by boxcardavin 9y ago
Riding an ebike has dramatically changed the routes I take when commuting because I now prioritize safety and enjoyment over pure efficiency or avoiding inclines. My commute is 25 minutes on an ebike vs 70 on a regular bike, or 30 in a car
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
Some of the moves YC is making with their SS feeding the Core program and statements about aiming for 10k startups a year has me worried about how far they can stretch their founder-mentors and partners. Bias disclosure: I interviewed for S
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
We'll see, Kalanick has said that without self-driving in Uber's future they are dead.
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
I think this whole Uber situation is a good reminder to the valley that the "No Assholes" rule is still a good policy.
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
Multiple stable 2.5amp sources for a Pi and other devices is important and not always reliable with many 12v->5v converters or even with (how I would probably do it) with a power bank that acts as a buffer and is charged via 12v. It&#x27
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
I'd recommend reading The Rise and Fall of American Growth for some useful numbers on this. Between 1870 and 1970 the standard of living increased so dramatically due to a few key inventions that the author calls "onetime" ev
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
From my experience that is generally because academic = not hacker. By not hacker I mean that they find it hard to slam something together quick and dirty.
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
Small investors lack the biggest benefit of a good VC – good connections. $120k from 12 non-F&F investors = 12 people to bother you without much benefit.
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
Kinda, one of the original ideas was to make a beer-dispensing fridge for my neighbor as he is 'slimming' and wanted to have his fridge limit how much beer he drinks. The real genius – dispense the beer INTO the fridge so you only
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
If this last week's episode does one good thing it will be to convince programmers that it's not that hard to get started doing ML stuff. Not to say that it's all trivial or straightforward, if you look at the linked image be
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
It tells you a lot about what the person who made the graph thinks about their audience's sophistication.
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
Offerup has always seemed like a half-baked app that barely works. It has always made me wonder if they do enough business to justify their investments and valuation. I will say that selling from mobile on there is much easier than any Crai
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by boxcardavin 9y ago
Do it if it's your top priority. Do you have a brand and brand name that is out there and essential to you or your customers right now?
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
This is super fun and impressive, I'm going to get it going on my machine and start playing immediately.
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
I don't think the problem here is what the human mind can comprehend because identifying where these methods break down is actually pretty easy from a math perspective, and the breakdown doesn't change as you go up and down with t
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Eh, it's not really that consequential because anything big will need way more horsepower than you're gonna get on any mobile GPU to be able to done in a reasonable amount of time. We built a CLI tool for our stuff on AWS and our
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Any sense of how much helium will permeate through the grain structure of the drive enclosure during its lifetime?
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
VCs invest in people they know and people who know people they know. Need-ta fix that first, but those peeps might not be the type of peeps you wanna know. "The game is the game."
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Your SaaS is a subscription to help people build a SaaS? What is the Software component of your service?
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Can you describe your training or dataset you used?
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
The point is that they're not designing their product from any sort of first-principles, it's more a style of design whereby they are using a single hardware widget augmented with a phone. They didn't tailor their product to
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
I'd also love an informed answer about this.
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
I tried to schedule my wedding for the Saturday before the (Monday) eclipse in my GF's rural Idaho hometown so that my science friends would have a reason to make the 800 mile trip from Seattle. Unfortunately, all hotels in the path of
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Google's commitment to SDCs has always seemed half hearted so I wonder if this indicates that they are getting more serious about it. Moonshots at X have been getting the axe, the SDC stuff seems to be the only obviously viable one rig
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
I'm always fascinated by people's fascination with smart mirrors. I don't get it myself, but I like their enthusiasm.
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
You'll probably be ignored here on HN as people will assume you're just trying to growth hack since your title (and post history) suggest you're not a regular. Aside from that, hello fellow kiwi! Does this violate IGs TOS? It
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
I have noticed that CS majors tend to be separated into two groups, those who got linear algebra and those who got THROUGH it. Programmers are very logical in their thinking but most are not what I would call traditionally mathematical in t
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
Fascinating, I'm curious to see if any of the tech press or even mainstream press pick up on this. If they do, will they pixelate the sample images??
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
What did getting into YC 'liberate' you to do that you later found out was just a mental block?
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by boxcardavin 10y ago
The (17.6%) increase is unlikely to be something that only one programmer can do, so the market takes over and most devs are already making top 3% income in their countries.

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