jtemplestein

I wonder if this screen + mouse + keyboard (+ camera + speaker + mic) interface is really the right level of abstraction to model a “digital entity”

Sure, you can do everything a human can, but it also seems VERY inefficient

As an alternative, maybe you could just do network in/out?

This is a great idea for v2!

How does this create consistent characters between frames?

My understanding was that this is very hard to do reliably without dreambooth style fine tuning, which is expensive and slow

love to see this - the london HN meetup is where we found our first few engineering hires at monzo!

we owe a lot to dmitri, stevie and that meetup

my email address is first name at monzo.com if you're looking for a place to host it

What a great appointment!

I've had one brief interaction with Gary a long time ago, and he's been a role model ever since

I had a difference in opinion with my cofounder and wanted to leave the startup we'd founded, even if it meant leaving the YC program (which I adored), and would likely lose my visa to stay in the US. Seeing how distressed I was, Gary took me aside somehow simultaneously made me feel heard, but also told me that it's up to me to come back stronger from this moment.

It made all the difference to me, and I've thought back to that moment many times in the years to come.

I'm originally from Germany and moved to San Francisco three years ago, when I was 21. People are often surprised that I don't have a strong German accent and I jokingly say that it's because I watched all 10 seasons of Friends a few times in a row. It's a joke, but I'm convinced it has a lot to do with it.

There's an interview with Max Levchin somewhere in which he says that he watched some TV show over and over and repeated everything that was said in order to rebrand himself as a midwesterner after he moved to the US. His English is really good, too.

Dear Language authors, please stop using single-letter names or generic terms for programming languages. It messes with the Google.

Most of these hacks (and the comments in this post) miss a crucial point about standing desks. They are supposed to be ergonomic. [1]

Putting your laptop on a bunch of boxes puts a lot of strain on your arms. Of course this also doesn't work if you have a big display on your desk.

I'd be interested in hacking a standing desk that is

1) ergonomic

2) offers support for both laptops and big displays

3) has a usable keyboard drawer for both standing and sitting position

If all else fails we'll just make a living selling desks like that. (and no, geekdesk does not meet all requirements)

[1] http://www.infologix.com/images/usr/ergonomic-computer-cart....

A German startup is doing this, too: http://www.captchaad.com/

IIRC Microsoft even tried to patent this. The article's claim that only one company is working "as the middleman between advertisers and webmasters in order to display CAPTCHA ads" seems slightly exaggerated ;)