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hornbaker

2,083 karma · joined October 16, 2011

I'm a serial tech entrepreneur. Have done a couple EIR stints at Sequoia and co-founded a YC company. Spent 9 years in the Valley and currently live in Austin, where I work from home on various projects.
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hornbaker··on The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM
Anyone know if the Pi will work with a Chameleon3 USB3 camera from flir.com? If anyone has computer vision coding experience with a setup like this, pls email me (profile), contract opp potentially.
hornbaker··on Waymo’s Hiring Binge
Waymofos would be better.
hornbaker··on What Happened to the Hiccups?
Google Trends shows a marked increase in searches for hiccups from 2004-present, also.
hornbaker··on Redneck Bank
Love the edginess and design, but taking the user off-site (to the oflows.net domain, whatever that is) for sensitive application forms doesn't build a lot of trust imo.
hornbaker··on This person does not exist
botornot.com was registered in 2006. Someone was forward-thinking.
hornbaker··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
CRISPR / designer babies
hornbaker··on Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
Also ethylene glycol poisoning (antifreeze).
hornbaker··on Lyrics Site Genius.com Accuses Google of Lifting Its Content
I wonder how many companies Google has wounded/killed with their search infopanels. For example, yesterday I searched for “speedtest” expecting Ookla’s speedtest.net to be the top result. Nope, now it’s a one-click speed test offered by Google at the top. Great for users, devastating for the sites at the top of the SERPs.
hornbaker··on Show HN: Should you buy a house and rent it out?
Not just you. I input $3,500 rent, and it used nearly double that for the calculations. Hugely misleading.
hornbaker··on What Is Suspension Trauma a.k.a. Harness Hang Syndrome?
So true. Be aware that you may have no symptoms in your legs at all, and still develop pulmonary embolisms.

As an otherwise healthy and fit adult male, my first symptom of my PE was a sharp stabbing pain in my chest when inhaling. Thinking I was having a heart attack, I self-admitted to the ER. I had 12 PEs in my lungs, and with ultrasound they found a 3" long deep vein thrombosis under my left knee. My left leg had absolutely no symptoms or pain. My PEs and DVT resolved with a 6-mo course of blood thinners, but I was lucky. PE mortality rate is around 15-20%.

Set your "stand up" timer for every 90 minutes and actually pay attention to it! And it wouldn't hurt to take a daily baby aspirin (probably should ask your doc first).

hornbaker··on An amphibian fungus has become “the most deadly pathogen known”
"You can't catch me 'cause the rabbit done died"

- Aerosmith, Sweet Emotion

hornbaker··on AirPods
Sure they do, depends on your ear size. Happens to me if I simply bend over. (Still love my AirPods, but am forced to use silicone wraps on them if doing anything active with them.)
hornbaker··on Earnest Capital is live
Very cool, Tyler. Just applied. :)
hornbaker··on Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
That’s surprising, given the CDC’s view on the matter:

“[Small rodents] are almost never found to be infected with rabies and have not been known to transmit rabies to humans.

In all cases involving rodents, the state or local health department should be consulted before a decision is made to initiate postexposure prophylaxis.”

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/other.html

hornbaker··on Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016)
Squirrels (and others rodents) virtually never get or transmit rabies, so that’s not really a concern.

Source: am DVM.

hornbaker··on Guesstimate – A Spreadsheet for things that aren't certain
Calling https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
hornbaker··on How to Grow Old (1951)
Neat coin! I just launched a coin project[1], but by carrying them in your pocket they’re meant to remind you to look for opportunities to help someone and then give it to them to pay forward. My first coin[2] has helped at least 3 homeless people in its short life.

[1] https://butterflycoins.org [2] https://butterflycoins.org/coins/2srf

hornbaker··on Tesla sues its alleged saboteur for $167M
Surprised he didn’t ask for $420M.
hornbaker··on Dropping Acid
Great, jonesing for a thousand dollar device now. Is there an iOS app that does something akin to the OP-1?
hornbaker··on Physicists Still Don’t Know What Puts the Curl in Curling
Tour pros routinely swing driver at 120-125 mph, and produce ball speeds of 180-190 mph. I’ve seen numbers in the range of 2,000 - 4,000 pounds of force applied to the ball.
hornbaker··on Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results
It’ll work until they launch a Google- product.
hornbaker··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
For fans of extreme detail, I'd recommend The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker[0]. Iirc, he devoted several pages to the feeling of the curls of a brown paper bag carried in his hand.

0: https://www.amazon.com/Mezzanine-Nicholson-Baker/dp/08021449...

hornbaker··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
A gif of what happens when one step is just slightly too high:

https://imgur.com/hl3YWJD

hornbaker··on Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exploits
Cats can right themselves in about 12 inches.

The problem is they land with legs extended down from floors 1 to about 7 (bad: impact is transmitted up through shoulders and hips), while higher than about floor 7 they spread their legs out and attempt to parachute (better: impact is uniform over entire ventral surface, terminal velocity is lower, mortality rate drops).

Source: am DVM and interned at AMC in Manhattan.

hornbaker··on Fin
Apparently Venmo founder Andrew Kortina and Facebook's former Product VP Sam Lessin have been working on this in stealth for two years:

https://www.producthunt.com/newsletter/486

hornbaker··on Show HN: Battleweb, a game to play while you're working on or browsing the web
This is a labor-of-love side project of mine, just seeing how far I could push the boundaries of Firebase and Chrome extensions. Hope you like it. :)
hornbaker··on Show HN: Battleweb, a FPS MMOG played over the entire internet (Chrome ext)
This was a labor-of-love experiment into how far I could push Chrome extension functionality. Install it then come back to HN and battle with us.

It's a game you can play while you're working on or browsing the web. Shoot at or chat with other players who are on the same site as you. Or just blow up DOM elements.

Built with a few thousand lines of ES6 and Firebase.

Would appreciate any and all feedback.

hornbaker··on Show HN: MMOsteroids: JS, Go, and Webrtc
admin/password works
hornbaker··on “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
A metric TON of them are.
hornbaker··on Scientists Reverse Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler?
Cortical, in this context, refers to the cortex of the brain (the wrinkly, outermost layer).
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