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811.
by wheels 15y ago
This didn't ever really get to the "Why?" part. It just basically says that the opposite is stupid. My theory: humans behave differently, and generally more civilly, in environments where they (subconsciously) believe they have a chance o
812.
by wheels 15y ago
That's basically what the Open Innovation Network is: http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about.php
813.
by wheels 15y ago
Do you own the company? I am a co-founder. From my reading, this article was primarily targeted at founders, so I responded in kind. Edit: As a side note, there's a hidden subtlety in your phrasing that's worth pointing out. When you'r
814.
by wheels 15y ago
One thing that's interesting about startups though is that it's not always clear which side of the table is which. A lot of the intros that I end up dropping are with folks from companies that are more important than us. (That's actually
815.
by wheels 15y ago
So, I'll be a bit contrarian on this. I get a lot of intros. I get a lot of mail. But my chief role is not a networker. My role is to make sure the company makes money. It happens a lot that I'll have some contact of a contact do an in
816.
by wheels 15y ago
So, this is a totally superficial comment, but here we go. Brian, as part of all of this crisis stuff, I think it's time to have a new profile picture taken. One where you don't look so, how should I say... 20. From rough calculation, I'm
817.
FileVault full disk encryption overhead on Lion(anandtech.com)
19 points by wheels 15y ago|4 comments
818.
by wheels 15y ago
For the record, Airbnb has raised 3 rounds of funding, so YC's percentage is probably closer to 2% than 6% (0.06 * 0.7^3). Other than that I don't see how your point is relevant. Sure, I get that YC's share of Airbnb is valuable. But it'
819.
by wheels 15y ago
It sounded like you were making a special case for being a software developer (since you tied it specifically to a CS curriculum). If your statement is simply, "Having useful skills that other people don't pays." then, well, uhh, duh.
820.
by wheels 15y ago
What they will never understand is how we get it so intuitively— not unless they put in the decades we did to get there. Huh? That's pretty much like any other skilled trade. I don't understand tractors like my grandfather does and he's
821.
by wheels 15y ago
That's silly. It implies that YC doesn't trust AirBnB's board, who all have more skin in the game, know the situation better and on top of that, are mostly personal friends of the YC partners.
822.
by wheels 15y ago
Even if YC did have such a thing, consider that Airbnb has raised like 20x more than YC has invested into their entire portfolio since 2005. Airbnb is worth more than YC. It's not that YC doesn't give tips on how to do some of your init
823.
by wheels 15y ago
Yeah, the implied YC association in all of this is a bit bizarre. AirBnB raised about 0.01% of their financing from YC. They've got a strong board comprised of some very experienced, good VCs. Saying that YC should handle this would be l
824.
by wheels 15y ago
Size isn't the problem with SQLite databases. It's that it's unbearably slow with even fairly trivial joins and most of the other operations where it'd make sense to actually have an SQL database. SQLite is fine for tabular data, but then
825.
by wheels 15y ago
Insurance (and by extension dealing with insurance fraud) for this sort of thing is a solved problem. They don't need to do it in house. They just pick up a policy from one of the institutional insurers and pass on the cost with a markup.
826.
by wheels 15y ago
> And I see absolutely no reason why it won't happen again. It will happen again. And it was clear that it'd happen at some point. And worse will happen. Shit happens, especially at scale. > I think this problem kills the busi
827.
by wheels 15y ago
Interesting bit that I worked out the other day that might be non-obvious for those not familiar with the demographics of Norway: The 76 people that were killed in the attacks is a larger percentage of the country than the 4000 killed in th
828.
by wheels 15y ago
Aside from hyperbole about their legality now or in the future... The way I suspect a deal would be structured is that the institutional investor would not be insuring the homes of Airbnb's customers, but insuring Airbnb against claims, wit
829.
by wheels 15y ago
I understand the problems of setting a precedent. I don't, actually. If the financial industry has taught us one thing, it's that you can insure anything . Let's assume that this is a very rare occurrence and that the total cost of maki
830.
by wheels 15y ago
Bad analogy. The war isn't over patents, it's general competition. It's more like the UN pushing you to sign a treaty pledging not to use nukes just after you spent a pile acquiring them. Now if patents were only used defensively (which t
831.
by wheels 15y ago
I suspect home owner's insurance would not cover this since they would probably see it as an unlicensed rental. I've thought for a while that Airbnb will need to develop an insurance system. I'm sure that lesser incidents of property dest
832.
by wheels 15y ago
This already got flagged to death for being so grossly inaccurate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2806250
833.
by wheels 15y ago
It's worse than that: he cites billionaires in dollars for the total number, while the source for the number killed is billionaires in yuan. These are actually 72 out of 60,000 [1], not 115. Flagged for being terrible "journalism". [1]
834.
by wheels 15y ago
To amplify that a bit, in terms of accessing the file system, it's a pretty common security assumption that physical access and root access are equivalent. Since my phone is the system where I trust physical access the least , by extensio
835.
by wheels 15y ago
Android supports text passwords as well. Also, in a sane security model, it'd be possible to separate having a long password for elevated privileges (i.e. things that could further open the door to compromises like booting and installing a
836.
by wheels 15y ago
I recently joined the cult of the smartphone (after my feature phone finally kicked the bucket). Since I, like presumably many folks, set things up so that I could check my email, used the web browser and let it store some passwords, I bec
837.
Android account passwords are stored on disk in plain text(code.google.com)
193 points by wheels 15y ago|88 comments
838.
Post Q2 Results, Should Nokia Rethink Its N9 Strategy?(thehandheldblog.com)
5 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
839.
by wheels 15y ago
I buy about 20-30 books per year and probably 100 rolls of toilet paper. If you haven't stopped using toilet paper, I wouldn't worry about your library. Not buying books for environmental reasons is for the overwhelming majority of lifest
840.
by wheels 15y ago
I can't tell if bookstores have gotten markedly worse or if I've simply become more discriminating in what I'm looking for. When Barnes and Noble, Borders, et al first swept through the US I thought it was wonderful. I've spent an inordin

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