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by jhuckestein 13y ago
The difference is that Instacart, with a few orders of magnitude less resources, can deliver your groceries within two hours today and Amazon can't. Obviously, as your volume increases, it makes sense to own more steps along the value
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
As has been said, the front doors open sideways. IIRC the doors also don't need to open as far up as in most pictures. In fact, they have sensors to prevent them from smashing into garage roofs and the likes and then you can weasel out
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
I see only benefits to releasing something like this proposal. Even if absolutely nothing comes of it, we all learned some interesting Physics, Musk learned what happens when you publish your unfinished proposals, others may start thinking
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
Well, if the problem of building a hyperloop or similar system is now reduced to the more well defined problems mentioned in the post, we're still better of than before the proposal. The OP claims that the structural analysis and graph
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Bradley Manning apologizes to the US(theguardian.com)
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
One thing I always find, even when dealing with USCIS, or press, or really anyone regarding this matter, is that only very few people truly wish to make it difficult for immigrant founders to stay in the country. In fact, I have never met a
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
It sounds to me that you have discovered an important and often underestimated property of disruptive ideas. How did an 18 year old change the way we communicate online forever? How could a clerk at the patent office usher in the era of 20t
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
After reading that Noisebridge has regular German classes I made a mental note to build my next hardware project there. Somehow, strangely, having the FBI show up there doesn't make me want to hang out there even though I don't ha
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
Suspicions of what? Last I checked naming your company wasn't a federal crime
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
With these kinds of things, I'm always unsure what the proper way to handle them is. A lot of smart people say to under no circumstances talk to law enforcement, ever. I'm sure a lot of you have seen links to that effect on HN. Th
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
It looks like USG wants US companies to either run on a cloud that has an NSA backdoor to or to provide a backdoor to their own services.
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
Big thanks for the offer, just sent you an email. I started out asking for a CC before the trial, but on a small adwords test campaign that converted exactly zero out of a few hundred people. Then again, that may have been because the entir
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
Thanks for looking into it, I really appreciate it and will mull over this for a while. A revamp of the pricing is pretty high on my list anyway. I don't have any data to suggest that larger companies have bigger conference calls, but
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
This practice of creating a lot of traffic on rural lines is known as traffic pumping. AFAIK the FCC has closed this loophole, stating that termination fees may not be collected for VOIP calls. IIRC this new rule will take effect in 2014. B
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
The point of recurring revenue is that you don't have to work to earn the $5k each month. Depending on how long they have been working on this, it's definitely a good investment of their time. If they wanted, they could now go and
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
To clarify: My point is about the marginal cost of providing a customer with service. It's not useful to talk about a certain amount of recurring revenue if you have terrible margins. I could start a business that gives you two dollars
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
Nice, I'm a big fan of 2600hz! I'm currently on Twilio's first tier volume discount (I assume there's further volume discounts that aren't on the website), paying .8 cents/min IIRC. I looked into buying voice m
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
The best part about their $5,000 is that most of it will be profit. I'm pretty happy with my own SaaS application, but because I provide a telephone service I have pretty low margins. This is by far the most annoying thing about my bus
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
I hope they have a standing connection to the server during the throw and detect ... disconnects. That way, they could detect crashes and give approximate credit for the height. I don't want to throw my phone high into the air, watch i
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
I always play with a Rando Calrissian and he won the last 3 out of 3 games. It's quite intriguing actually
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I find it surprising that so many people here are reluctant to try soylent and afraid to "risk their health" because it is made by "a bunch of 20-something computer scientists". Do you really think the traditional food i
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
It's noteworthy that the Washington Post sells for $250MM, compared to for example OMGPOP which sold for $200MM last year.
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
It sounds like your previous endeavors failed before the stages in which you'd wish you had one or more great co-founders. What if you raise a lot of money and want to share the responsibility with someone? What if something urgently n
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
You don't need any tricks for the sticky footer. Just use position: fixed on the footer and add a padding-bottom to the body for the same height as the footer. In absolutely ancient browsers it will simply show the footer at the bottom
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
I love to stick it to Goldman as much as anyone else here, but I think the story is probably more nuanced than "Goldman jails innocent programmer for leaving the firm". I know that I have on occasion kept copies of source code for
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
I often struggled with this as well. When you go through life with practically no effort and somehow achieve many things that are hard for others, it's easy to feel guilty. Especially because most of our parent's generation lived
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Netherlands set to open 11 iPad-only "Steve Jobs" schools(spiegel.de)
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The "Your" battery talk happens because Tesla charges extra for cars with larger batteries. I agree, though, that this will likely not be the case one or two generations down the line.
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I clicked through to a post on zero knowledge web applications and thought it was pretty interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853294 The basic idea is build web applications that only store encrypted data on t
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by jhuckestein 13y ago
Does anyone have any experience building zero knowledge web applications that are more complicated than a password manager? Does this extend to apps in which people interact? If so, it should be possible to implement this for full-stack Jav

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