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by vecter 10y ago
Irrelevant grammatical nitpick: I think the word you're looking for is "jibe", not "jive". From M-W: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jibe verb: to be in accord
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by vecter 10y ago
The baby (or the fact that it exists and will be born) is purported to be the savior of humanity. Sound familiar?
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by vecter 10y ago
It's been too long since E&M. I forgot about magnetic fields being normal doh. And of course, the last point about no magnetic monopoles should be sufficient to make a spherical field impossible.
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by vecter 10y ago
Can you explain how the Hairy Ball Theorem applies to the spherical magnetic field? My first intuition is that the magnetic field would not be a tangent field because you'd want all of the force lines to point inwards to the center of
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by vecter 10y ago
Hi and welcome to Hacker News! No need to leave a comment saying thank you, an upvote is more than sufficient :) In general, unless you have something meaningful to add to the conversation, it's best to refrain from making comments (ev
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by vecter 10y ago
That's ... not a valid argument against a different point. It's 1:41 AM on the west coast and despite the NY Times clearly calling the election for Trump, Clinton still has a forecasted 1% lead in the popular vote. Given Californi
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by vecter 10y ago
Hi and welcome to Hacker News! Please only post comments that add something meaningful to the topic of discussion (a proclaimed artificial intelligence that claims to have predicted this result much earlier).
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by vecter 10y ago
This is great advice. YC hammers home hard the point about not "playing" startup. You should be spending most of your time building your product, talking to users, and selling (or some variation thereof depending on your market).
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by vecter 10y ago
I think that's an overly cynical outlook on job hunting and not in line with what I've actually found on the hiring side. In general, I've found that people have specific areas of interest. Some people love social products, o
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by vecter 10y ago
I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me ... Sounds like you agree?
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by vecter 10y ago
I applaud Jack for making a big move to try to save Twitter. I hope to see more big bets from them, especially in the main app. The current course clearly isn't working.
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by vecter 10y ago
Our company was part of YC S12, which was a huge batch before YC sharded itself into clusters. During that summer, Garry was one of few partners we actively sought out for advice. He was always extremely helpful, especially with product and
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by vecter 10y ago
You're missing the forest for the trees. You can replace "brave enough to do this" with "brave enough to play at that open mic night" or "brave enough to talk to that cute girl in class". In all cases, the
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by vecter 10y ago
Why not? The only thing preventing you from doing this is your self-formed limited beliefs in what you can or cannot do. You could literally decide to just do this and start doing this tomorrow. Don't sell yourself short, everyone else
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by vecter 10y ago
Android App Engineer @ Kamcord, San Francisco, CA (ONSITE ONLY) We're changing how people share the internet. We let you record a 15 second video reaction to anything you see on your phone; from a news article to a funny video, along w
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by vecter 10y ago
Yet those people chose to be around him? No one has ever forced anyone to work for Elon Musk.
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by vecter 10y ago
Almost every statement he makes is pure nonsense. > dark matter is likely a product of black holes what product, specifically, and through what mechanism? > and probably just an even distribution of black holes. That just contradicts
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by vecter 10y ago
dxbydt nailed it on the head: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12362642 If you want to make actual contributions to the machine learning part of machine learning (i.e. not building infrastructure and pipelines), then yo
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by vecter 10y ago
What are you talking about? Real geniuses go to Harvard all the time (or to other elite educational institutions). Y Combinator has always been about business. That's the point of a startup: to build a successful business, not to build
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by vecter 10y ago
You're incorrectly attributing the failure of paid productivity apps to the app store's structure, when in fact it is entirely unrelated. It just so turns out that the market for paid productivity apps on iOS is small, no matter w
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by vecter 10y ago
Please stop. This is HN, not reddit.
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by vecter 10y ago
> Who would you rather have working on the Linux kernel: someone who has been following development for 10 years and has read most of the source code, or someone fresh out of school with a CS degree? False dichotomy. I'd rather have
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by vecter 10y ago
That's fascinating. Could you explain what made you love the book so much?
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by vecter 10y ago
> Yup. The difference is I'm looking for info, not assuming I'm right. I can respect that.
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by vecter 10y ago
I don't mean to be rude (so please don't be offended if my tone sounds overly negative online), but are you aware that your theories are incredibly crackpot in nature? I'm asking a sincere question, not trying to insult you.
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by vecter 10y ago
Most of my friends don't live near me. I stay updated on their lives via Facebook. What's so sad about that?
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by vecter 10y ago
Why does that make you sad
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by vecter 10y ago
If a person uses Facebook in a given day, they've received value from it. Otherwise they wouldn't have used it.
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by vecter 10y ago
Your claim of "no value" is clearly wrong. A consumer internet company cannot be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, have billions of users, and add "no value".
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by vecter 10y ago
Facebook adds "no value whatsoever"? One billion people every day would disagree with you. Facebook is the primary method that billions of people across the world use to stay in touch with family and friends. It's one of the

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