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by nlh 7y ago
I rarely get such a viscerally negative reaction to reading something as I did reading this article. The party is not over. It’s never over. There are always always always more ideas, great businesses waiting to be built, and wonderful oppo
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by nlh 7y ago
This reminded me of something I’d long forgotten about — sometime in the early 90s I somehow got my hands on a small portable (handheld?) TV and it was amazing. I seem to remember it had a 2 or 3 inch full-color screen, a big CB-style tele
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by nlh 8y ago
There's a huge difference: Yes, the bank only holds $0.10 in cash, but at least in the US, the F.D.I.C. backs up every dollar in your bank account up to $250,000. That's a major reason the reserve banking system functions. If th
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by nlh 8y ago
This is super cool! > I taught myself circuit board design and found a niche market that I designed a few products for that sold like gangbusters with zero marketing for a few years until the market cooled off and low cost knock offs sta
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by nlh 8y ago
I lost my dad recently (he was 84 and lived a wonderful and healthy life, which I consider a huge win for him). He had a terribly bad stroke that left him very much alive, but without the ability to speak, read, or write. He was a professi
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by nlh 8y ago
Matt Levine (author of this piece) is amazing, and I suggest everyone subscribe to the ‘Money Stuff’ newsletter. It’s this column, every (week) day, and it’s absilutely hilarious. I describe it to friends as “The Daily Show in written form
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by nlh 8y ago
Putting aside the politics / personal matters here, a nerd question (this is HN after all!): Does anyone have a sense (even broadly) of the specific methods that were used to intercept Bezos' texts? Did he use an iOS or Android d
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by nlh 8y ago
A LOT of people are talking about and planning on this exact strategy. It’s for that reason that I agree with you - I think it’s going to look a lot like that NYE a year after Uber had the $300 surge price fares and all the drivers started
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by nlh 8y ago
It’s such a slippery slope, but you’re so right. Chemists designed a chemical that’s optimized for engagement too — it’s called heroin! On the other side, one could argue that just about any successful product or service, by definition, opt
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by nlh 8y ago
Reading Zuck’s post actually made me quite sad. I’m in perhaps the minority of folks that don’t really care too deeply about FB tracking and advertising to me, but I feel strongly about the social implications of FB and the fake news probl
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by nlh 8y ago
Very cool of you to be active on this Ilya! Happy to chat - I'll drop you a line.
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by nlh 8y ago
I have to say, a few years ago I was the world’s biggest Segment evangelist. My absolutely favorite analytics service, and for any web project I worked on, installing Segment was step 1. I ran it primarily on my own company’s site (100k vis
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by nlh 8y ago
Not by default. The big frameworks are first and foremost client side frameworks, which means in an extreme case the server is just sending down <html><script src=.../></html> (basically), and the client framewo
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by nlh 8y ago
Agreed, but: I think that might cross the line into what a loan actually is vs. what income actually is (or at least the IRS might have something to say about it). I know the $40k in taxes sucks, but if you step back and think about it, i
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by nlh 8y ago
This sucks. Sorry to hear they did that to you and I’m glad you made out ahead of the game. A company I worked with had the opposite approach — they not only allowed for early exercise, they allowed for immediate exercise of all unvested sh
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by nlh 8y ago
To echo this sort of experience, I recently bought the pragprog book The Raytracer Challenge, and it was similarly satisfying. I wasn’t really out to follow OP’s advice to “get into” graphics, but I saw the book release and wanted to give i
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by nlh 8y ago
I was talking to a friend today who said, fairly succinctly, that Facebook's single biggest problem is that they Totally and Royally Suck(TM) at PR. I wonder what would happen if they were just straightforward about this. "Friend
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by nlh 8y ago
I have a slightly different take -- I think that 'next thing' is AR (glasses, contacts, etc.), and I think Apple is as poised as anyone to take advantage of it. The big revolutions in computing devices have been room full of equip
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by nlh 8y ago
Not at all - I can't stand voice UI (at the moment). The problem with voice UI as I see it is that until it's perfect, it's horrible. Even if Siri is 80% great, the 20% of the time I have to repeat myself 3, 4, 5 times to g
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by nlh 8y ago
I've met two deeply talented software engineering minds in my life, and they fall on opposite ends of the spectrum: The first I met when I was in my mid-20s and he was about 17. Gifted kid, absolutely. He'd published a programmi
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by nlh 8y ago
I'll write a longer post about this one day but you bring up a really good point. Identifying the very specific "greed emotion" that makes us make less-secure financial choices I think is a really valuable skill. That'
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by nlh 8y ago
Ditto here. I know it’s not even close to technically the best or safest or most independent etc. But it really does Just Work. I’ve got basically every photo I’ve taken since ~2002 in a single archive, easily scrollable by date on any of
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by nlh 8y ago
I’m glad this got posted and I hope this gets resolved and MailChimp does the right thing (I’ve also upvoted the OP). But man, I don’t envy companies deep in the anti-spam/fraud business. The impression I’ve gotten is that when you ac
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by nlh 8y ago
(Not PP) I just discovered his writing recently, and he publishes a daily newsletter that's, more often than not, all of funny, interesting, and informative. I haven't gone back to the archives, but the day-to-day is terrfic: ht
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by nlh 8y ago
I visited India in 2017 and while I didn't get to drive, I spent a lot of time in cars/tuk-tuks/busses and got a keen sense of the driving conditions. I actually quite liked them! (I know, this sounds crazy). It's absol
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by nlh 8y ago
Ditto on the sentiment. I’m not a Googler but I’ve worked closely with a few, and Jeff was revered accordingly (along with the Chuck Norris-esque jokes). I’d honestly never heard Sanjay mentioned (and didn’t know who he was) until I read t
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by nlh 8y ago
Definitely will be interesting. I'd say this -- for sure, $1.44 per day is better than $90/month, but is it that much better? (Also, $90 is on the high end -- Scalyr charges more like $50/month for 1GB/day disclosur
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by nlh 8y ago
Interesting -- they're going after the various log management companies (Scalyr, DataDog, Splunk, Sumo Logic, etc.). Figured this was bound to come eventually since it's a very very big market and their basic CloudWatch product wa
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by nlh 8y ago
You’re entirely (technically) correct. The issue is that side-effect often comes into play because employees like to calculate potential future outcomes, and that’s done based only on overall company value (since that’s one of the only data
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by nlh 8y ago
Anecdote: I was just in Japan and w/ a train-loving buddy, and he found the fastest in the country for us to take a ride (The Hayabusa line between Tokyo <-> Sendai). Super fun! It tops out just over 200mph for a few stretches

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