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by tristanho 10y ago
> ... said Erika Reinhardt, co-founder of VotePlz, a nonpartisan nonprofit that launched today. Non-profits don't need to earn money :)
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by tristanho 10y ago
Given that Tesla, OpenAI, and SpaceX are successful, what does Elon work on next?
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GM, Lyft to Test Self-Driving Electric Taxis Within a Year(wsj.com)
17 points by tristanho 10y ago|4 comments
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by tristanho 10y ago
The demo video in the article is kind of incredible. It's one of those magical moments where you're just like "aha - this is what the future looks like." Despite the necessary security and safety criticisms that are like
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Watsi 2015 Year in Review(watsi.org)
1 points by tristanho 11y ago|0 comments
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by tristanho 11y ago
Wow - sounds really good and took about 30s to make: https://www.jukedeck.com/share/8e36d5703267cefbe1a924bf800f9... Awesome idea and execution, quite jealous I didn't think of this!
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by tristanho 11y ago
Relevant thread on how people on HN always bring up Betteridge's: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4842803 Maybe there should be a law about people mentioning the meta law about HN on HN?
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What it feels like when a competitor utterly rips off your entire company(medium.com)
19 points by tristanho 11y ago|0 comments
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by tristanho 11y ago
Not a complete answer at all, but it looks like the former CTO of stripe, Greg Brockman, is going to be involved[1]. I assume to start they're gonna look at people close to the YC network? [1] https://twitter.com/gdb&#x2
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by tristanho 11y ago
It's very similar to what he talked about here: http://blog.samaltman.com/unit-economics At least for the first section of the interview.
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Hack the North YC Panel – Do Things That Don't Scale(youtube.com)
1 points by tristanho 11y ago|0 comments
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by tristanho 11y ago
The condescension and bias against Snapchat in this article is pretty ridiculous... who writes these kinds of one-sided articles? Obviously Snapchat isn't guaranteed success, but it's hardly a failure yet. A reminder that Facebook
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by tristanho 11y ago
New startup idea: self-driving solar-powered bikes which make sandwiches for you and collect payment via smartphone app.
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Kik Receives $50M Investment from Tencent at a $1B valuation(blog.kik.com)
3 points by tristanho 11y ago|0 comments
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Thoth Technology Awarded Patent for ‘Space Elevator’(techcrunch.com)
1 points by tristanho 11y ago|0 comments
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by tristanho 11y ago
Is it just me or does the S15 batch seem to have a crazy number of medical/health startups compared to previous batches? There were at least 2 on the front page yesterday. Maybe they're just all launching on TC early? Not saying i
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by tristanho 11y ago
From the Instagram TOS[1]: "5. We reserve the right to force forfeiture of any username for any reason." Not saying that this isn't terrible customer service by Instagram, and they definitely should have given better notice,
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Room.me Wants to Prevent You from Getting Stuck with Horrible Roommates(techcrunch.com)
1 points by tristanho 11y ago|0 comments
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by tristanho 11y ago
You can read it via https://www.google.ca/search?q=Airbnb+Raises+%241.5+Billion+... if you're so inclined... the article is pretty dry though.
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by tristanho 11y ago
For point 2, try pressing: SHIFT + OPTION + VOLUMEDOWN Definitely agree on the widescreen aspect ratios though, could make a really cool experience even cooler.
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by tristanho 11y ago
You don't get to a valuation of $40B in 6 years moving slowly ;)
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Trading Open Standards for Corporate Ones(calacanis.com)
4 points by tristanho 11y ago|1 comments
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by tristanho 11y ago
Hey Liz, as a student at University of Waterloo, our school provides a co-op system and job matching tools to help students find jobs. I know a lot of North American schools provide services like this and it seems like you'll be compet
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by tristanho 12y ago
Probably the most shocking/interesting line from the article in my opinion: The first Kentucky Christmas meal sold for a pricey $10 (almost $48 in 2014 money) and contained fried chicken and wine; now, KFC’s Japanese Christmas meals c
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by tristanho 12y ago
I want you to know that I laughed at your comment (plus your name) probably harder than anything else this week.