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aurenhon It’s Our Moral Obligation to Make Data More Accessible

I'm the author of this piece. would really appreciate your thoughts and comments. I’d love to learn about other datasets that could really change the trajectory of society if made accessible. Also would love to read a counter-argument to this.

aurenhon DaaS Bible 2.0: Why Data Standards Matter

+10 to this comment. linking data is simple in theory but extremely hard in practice.

aurenhon DaaS Bible 2.0: Why Data Standards Matter

thx -- really appreciate it. it took me six months to write so I am glad it was helpful. just added comments on the bottom of the post if you want to ask any questions: https://www.safegraph.com/blog/data-as-a-service-bible-every...

aurenhon DaaS Bible 2.0: Why Data Standards Matter

this is actually a really good idea! really impressive what you built in a short time.

aurenhon Show HN: Placekey – An ID for Every Place

Random -- but Placekey also has a theme song (and it is pretty good). More open projects should have a theme song.

check out the Placekey theme song ("Placekey open the world") on soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-417054017/placekeyparty/s-MI62Sf...

aurenhon DaaS Bible 2.0: Why Data Standards Matter

I'm one of the authors of this (along with Will Landing, CEO of FICO). would really appreciate your comments. I've been getting a lot of comments about good examples of standards that we forgot to include -- please list them here and I will update the piece.

aurenhon Show HN: Search tweets for style, not content

played around with this. well done!

aurenhon Show HN: Requestbin.com – A modern take on the old RequestBin

We've been using the Requestbin alpha for a few weeks and have found it valuable for us. Interested in other people's thoughts on this.

aurenhon Naval Ravikant: Seek Wealth, Not Money or Status

In this piece he goes into the status game that so many of us play and why you should be opting for another game (wealth) instead.

aurenhon YC Annual Letter 2017

agreed Andrew. We we need to democratize access to data. Of course, that does not mean that the underlying data needs to free. It can be expensive. But the data needs to be available.

If you are a self-driving car start-up today with $120MM in funding, you still have no data on how humans drive or how pedestrians walk. That's something that is going to be really important. And Apple and Google (both working also on self-driving cars) have a massive amount of data on drivers.

Put something together here: https://medium.com/safegraph/where-should-machines-go-to-lea...