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by sah2ed 10y ago
The article does link to the watch (a Garmin 235) on Amazon [0]. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Garmin-Forerunner-230-Black-White/dp/...
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by sah2ed 10y ago
I think you are missing his point. There is nothing wrong with the methodology (using her own Garmin watch as conclusive evidence) but there is something to be said about the medium through which she was exposed (the Internet). The problem
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> "Today, 10 years after of SHA-1 was first introduced, ..." That part from the original article seems to be missing something?
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Thiel is not the only one to make that observation. Alan Kay has said something along those lines -- that there have been virtually no compelling inventions in computing for a while now [0][1]. [0] http://stackoverflow.com/q
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An AI Hedge Fund Created a New Currency(wired.com)
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Good luck on your future endeavors. But I can't shake off the feeling that the company hired too fast and decided to let go of a few folks to avoid raising more funding. Of course as you said, the whole thing was amicable.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> ... it's a major cause of startup failure among technical founders...including, quite possibly, mine Now that you've brought it up, is a postmortem of your startup written up somewhere?
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> And Apple and Google (both working also on self-driving cars) have a massive amount of data on drivers. That assertion may be correct regarding purchases, browsing habits (especially for Google) and places you visit via their respectiv
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by sah2ed 10y ago
You can always email the mods to help out: hn@ycombinator.com
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> The World Bank, for example, makes lots of overseas investments in places ... Perhaps you meant the International Finance Corporation (IFC)? The World Bank's mandate is primarily to give out loans to developing nations. The IFC is
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> ... but I probably wouldn't focus on that stack starting now if you are into the startup or california scene. That is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. In tandem with their marketing of Azure, MS is pushing SQL Server on Linu
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Mind providing a source for that quote? Both Google and Bing link to your comment as the canonical source for that quote from Barksdale.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Be sure that as such powers increase they'll obtain more sophisticated tools to help them catch smart alecks. There's also the possibility of seizure -- not getting your encrypted hard drive back because you refused to co-operate.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> 1) payment per article, at prices comparable to aggregate ad income; Unfortunately, this kind of micropayment will not work for most people and perhaps more importantly will lead to less revenue for the publisher. Clary Shirky has writ
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by sah2ed 10y ago
You are correct. In fact the distinction between your two examples i.e the car (a tangible good) and the program (an intangible good) is what economists refer to as rivalry [0]. A car is a rivalrous good. A program is a non-rivalrous good.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> My guess at what happened: the natural hyper growth engine ran out, they tried a bunch of things to jump start it, none of them worked, so now they are on the slow growth path. Sigh. No need to guess, the other co-founder wrote his own
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by sah2ed 10y ago
While you are at it, can you guys also do a feature comparison between Graph Engine vs Neo4J vs JanusGraph (vs Apache Giraph)? Thanks
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by sah2ed 10y ago
I actually didn't know about the user revolt which you speak of, so thank you for at least bringing it up.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> You get to a certain point in your experience where you have fewer questions to ask, and most of the questions I do have are already answered. That assertion is correct if you are at the cusp of retirement. For most people, they'l
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by sah2ed 10y ago
JavaScript frameworks are rarely ever worth buying a book to get up to speed for. Books like this [0] are a much better time investment as the deep knowledge gained would be useful beyond the currently trending JS framework. [0] https:&#x2
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Previous discussions on HN: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13414570 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12722590
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Surely, Money.Net [0] is a first step? It was founded by a former top executive at Bloomberg: Morgan Downey. [0] https://www.money.net/
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by sah2ed 10y ago
On a philosophical level, what you are asking for is what Google's AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) was designed to solve except that this will leave us with a web much broken than how we started.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Chat bots would make new and prospective customers FAQs/enquiries easier for lots of small businesses, especially in emerging markets where a large swath of people are coming online for the first time via their mobile phones. Many of t
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Someone posted a different take on display ads on HN recently [0] called http://pleenq.com/ [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13327125
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by sah2ed 10y ago
> Wouldn't reading a book about React before they started working with it be preferrable? Great in theory but difficult in practice. Developers rarely ever have the luxury to pick up a book as a means of getting up to speed when t
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Looks like you left out the URL to the Slack group. In any case, why don't you use Slackin [1] to allow interested people to become members? [1] http://rauchg.com/slackin/
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Once you make a pick of Postgres, you can go as deep as your free time allows you to.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
Was scratching my head why anyone would build an Uber clone but his explanation makes perfect sense. He is tackling a market that Uber might never enter -- rural areas.
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by sah2ed 10y ago
At least he was upfront about it by putting a disclosure in parenthesis.

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