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by tristanho 4y ago
The results are what you would expect if you measured two identical fonts, ie random. You can make the _claim_ in your comment, but there isn't statistical evidence that this effect is more than random, or if the same people were teste
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by tristanho 4y ago
The very first prediction in this piece is wrong: > Business as usual continues; the human population peaks at 8.5 billion, liquid fuels production remains more or less level by the simple expedient of consuming an ever larger fraction o
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China's Yutu 2 rover spots cube-shaped 'mystery hut' on far side of the moon(space.com)
8 points by tristanho 5y ago|1 comments
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An upper bound on one-to-one exposure to infectious human respiratory particles(pnas.org)
2 points by tristanho 5y ago|0 comments
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Alzheimer’s vaccine step closer after new treatment reverses memory loss in mice(telegraph.co.uk)
11 points by tristanho 5y ago|1 comments
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by tristanho 6y ago
Understood, thank you!
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by tristanho 6y ago
Thanks for sharing all this Isaac, is incredibly interesting to read! If you don't mind: what's the most likely source of this new disease? What's the worst case scenario, and how likely is it to play out?
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by tristanho 7y ago
The system described by the author of this post actually already exists, and was indeed created by google: https://books.google.com/talktobooks/ It's just really not that good (yet)...
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by tristanho 7y ago
This article makes pretty blatant errors: > We thought the net would break the monopoly of top-down, corporate media. But as business interests took over it has become primarily a delivery system for streaming television to consumers, an
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by tristanho 7y ago
They did not just broaden the API. Previously, extensions were written in Javascript, roughly following open web standards[0]. This let you write your extension (nearly) once and have it work in all web browsers. Now, all of those Javascrip
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by tristanho 7y ago
Hey there, Readwise founder here. Unfortunately 'My Clippings.txt' is a narrowly (and honestly, pretty awfully) defined format that Kindle devices generate. So that won't work for Google Play Books. That being said, we want t
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by tristanho 8y ago
Thanks :) For us, we're really not that dogmatic about bootstrapping vs VC. VCs are definitely not evil, just optimized for a certain class of business, and probably not in our best interest at our stage. For another business, VC might
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by tristanho 8y ago
We actually maintain an open source tool called Bookcision which is for easily exporting your Kindle highlights which follows roughly the same approach we take (but is non-automatic, unlike our product): https://readwise.io/
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by tristanho 8y ago
Founder of Readwise here -- just posted this article from ~10 months ago on a whim. Happy to answer any qs or chat about how the decision to start bootstrapping has gone since then (well!)
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Why We're Bootstrapping Readwise (2018)(blog.readwise.io)
107 points by tristanho 8y ago|34 comments
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by tristanho 8y ago
This is great. The one thing I don't see mentioned is the cost. How much more does it cost (say compared to DigitalOcean) for a VPS in Iceland? Not implying an extra cost wouldn't be worthwhile, but curious if it's a marginal
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by tristanho 8y ago
> Delivery is around US $7. That’s enough to cover operational costs, says Maron Kristófersson, the chief executive officer of Aha. “The electricity comes to 25 cents,” he says. > A delivery can be completed in as little as 4 minutes,
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by tristanho 8y ago
Hey HN, happy, but also a bit nervous, to be launching 1.0 of our reading product: Readwise. We were first on HN about a year ago, when Readwise was a simple tool to organize Kindle highlights. Since then, we've completely overhauled R
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Show HN: Better reading retention via spaced repetition of your highlights(readwise.io)
11 points by tristanho 8y ago|1 comments
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by tristanho 8y ago
Pretty annoying. This is following them completely banning any "posting" on behalf of users via API. (e.g the feature to cross-post tweets) While this change was definitely made in the interest of preventing spam, it also made Fac
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by tristanho 8y ago
Fun learning from this article: the Ontario Municipal Employee Retirement System does its own venture deals (including this one!) and has invested in a ton of startups: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/omers-vent
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by tristanho 8y ago
My impression was that he had semi-retired to spend time with his family (and good for him! he certainly deserves it after founding YC) That being said, I've certainly missed pg essays as of late...
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by tristanho 8y ago
Notably, Paul Graham is listed on the curriculum! Is this going to be pg's first appearance in years?
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by tristanho 8y ago
> The latest change (June 2018) has much more impact : Google decided to reduce the limit of free requests (25000 map display per day to 28000 per month - that's around 1000 map display per day, so 25 times less) IMO the biggest tak
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Ethereum-Based Blockchain Betting Platform Augur Just Launched(fortune.com)
4 points by tristanho 8y ago|0 comments
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by tristanho 8y ago
Given these cameras are: * Fairly easy to make, a la github instructions * Can command a _very steep_ margin per sale, compared to an app * Offer (imo) most of the product value by being something physical/tangible you can show to your
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by tristanho 8y ago
Wow, this is just such a great idea. Dan (author) if you're reading these comments, you should definitely sell these cameras as a product. Also would love to see some side-by-sides of an actual image and the Draw This photo. EDIT: inst
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by tristanho 8y ago
I recently read this phenomenal article on stablecoins: https://medium.com/reserve-currency/why-another-stablecoin-8... Here's some relevant context on how Tether works: > A traditional asset-backed stablecoin
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by tristanho 8y ago
I find IH to still be incredibly valuable. Sure, the interviews/podcast are still the best part but, despite being relegated to the footer, they're hardly hidden! It's not like they've gone anywhere. Willing to give the
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Organic matter preserved in 3B-year-old mudstones at Gale crater, Mars(science.sciencemag.org)
2 points by tristanho 8y ago|0 comments

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