myth_buster

There is an interview where Paul mimics Michael saying "I'm going to buy The Beatles catalog". Paul at that time thought Michael was joking.

They get more distracted by the phones I believe. Specially in between rides when they have to accept ride requests in a timely fashion.

I've seen drivers parked in lots when they are awaiting a request but in places where parking is charged such as downtown, I think they prefer to keep looping around blocks.

There may be an interesting case study to be made on the environmental impact of these idling cars.

I was partly referring to this https://twitter.com/bartt/status/653946266938818561

When you try to enter office's multi-level parking but your access key doesn't work.

When the Director/VP/Head says "even though the market has turned, we have _no_ plans to lay people off"

When you receive a notification that your <enter company's source control> privileges have been revoked.

When you see a voicemail (or tweet in case of Twitter) from HR around Friday afternoon/evening or early Monday morning.

When you apply for vacation but the request is denied for unspecified reasons ("We may need you here during that period").

When your manager keeps postponing your ++year() roadmap meeting requests.

I think this is probably the best case to point out the reason for avoiding backdoors in the system. The author put it more eloquently...

  The problem with cryptographic backdoors is not that they're the only way that
  an attacker can break intro our cryptographic systems. It's merely that _they're
  one of the best_. They take care of the hard work, the laying of plumbing and
  electrical wiring, so attackers can simply walk in and change the drapes.

On a related note, Shinichi Mochizuki has been speculated to be Satoshi Nakamoto.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/05/19/ted-nelso...

I think the point here is that it's important to understand the _domain_ you are working in.

Another anecdata is that when working in oilfield services, it was beneficial to understand geology and related fields.

  Lets also not forget that if you can't make money off lifesaving drugs, 
  you also won't bother to invent any new ones. 

This is not true.

Would this end up being the pivotal moment of this decade? There is already speculation of recession in the 12-18 month time frame[0] and the energy sector [1] is going downhill since April. I'm seeing some cities and suburbs expanding unlike anything in a while but how much of that could be sustained?

To word it differently, did the Fed blink or are the underlying indicators where they want it to be?

[0] Given the cyclic nature of recessions, we seem to have artificially delayed it a bit.

[1] https://www.google.com/finance?catid=us-TRBC%3A50&ei=jLpxVtG...

Startup is not for everyone.

Not everyone wants to work on developing consumer App/Product, marketing and sales. There are people who would like to work on libraries, algorithms or just a large swat of data. I'm sure people developing React, Angular, Bootstrap, TensorFlow etc are happy with what they are doing.

Or a technical co-founder.

The takeaway (I believe) is that the process is _Random_

I take the odds as dating or finding a friend; in a large co., some times you may find the fit other times you may not.

I believe you can check the ones that were dropped in the "Undelete" sub.

https://www.reddit.com/r/undelete

  Sure, HN isn't perfect

One of the biases that affects HN is the demographics. A lot of the HNers I would assume are working at big tech firms and their stories gets (unintentionally) upvoted to the front page as normalizing this feature would be quite difficult.

The way I look at is as an opportunity cost for both producers and consumers.

In place of a valuable app/product, what the consumers would get is a lemon.

"Please stand by for message from our sponsors who help keep your food fresh."

<VideoAd1>

<VideoAd2>...

<VideoAdN>

"The trial period for your Freezer™©® has expired."

  Atlassian was founded in 2002, but it hasn't taken any outside 
  investment. The last two funding rounds from Accel and T. Rowe Price 
  were done to let employees sell some of their shares, and Atlassian 
  says the cash wasn't used for operations.

That's impressive!

Pre-IPO discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10708908

Craig Wright's home raided by Australian police[0].

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-fo...

  4XX response > Is the user being throttled? > Are you Twitter? > 420 Enhance your calm.

A weed reference?

Clever naming!

If you are viewing from work they may block the domain for obvious reasons...

  Optimists argue that throughout the history of capitalism, new technologies 
  have always led to new jobs in the long run. But pessimists say that this 
  trend isn’t guaranteed to continue, and the chance that we are in an era 
  where wealth is created without jobs raises very thorny questions about how 
  that wealth will be distributed fairly.

Nothing keeps the populace employed as good ol' agriculture does!

Sure there are "new jobs" but job creation doesn't have a fundamental law analogous to the law of conservation of momentum. Efficient tech is at it's very heart a job destroyer. So with growing population and shrinking meaningful jobs what we end up with is civil unrest. Hence we have people employed doing busy works who come home to constant stream of "news" and "entertainment" and another section doing the busy work churning out these contents! Apart from breeding inequality it also breed discontent. Perhaps evolutionarily humans are wired to feel satisfaction at the end of a hard days work.

The snaps would be at best fuzzy what with you traveling at the speed of light...

The criticism on this thread is just incredible!

How about the Christmas tree lectures folks? Any anecdotes or your favorites? :)

Discussion on previous lecture https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8718875

  I've always found the idea that the operator complicates things ridiculous

Given that there are interview questions on the behavior of post/pre increment operators shows that there is some subtlety to it which creates ambiguity and complexity. So given that they want the language to be accessible, it makes sense to reduce ambiguity.

OT, the "5 minutes" I believe is an estimation and one reason why we feel that the response is fast. As a thought experiment, if they say your car is "10 minutes" away, it would perhaps be a different experience.

  They make a ton of revenue....

I was commenting on the medium article linked which said...

  In order to increase the value of the company, Basecamp has decided to stop 
  generating revenue. “When it comes to valuation, making money is a real 
  obstacle. Our profitability has been a real drag on our valuation,” said Mr. 
  Fried. “Once you have profits, it’s impossible to just make stuff up. That’s 
  why we’re switching to a ‘freeconomics’ model. We’ll give away everything for 
  free and let the market speculate about how much money we could make if we 
  wanted to make money. That way, the sky’s the limit!”

Reminded me of the SV episode where Russ Hanneman asks Richard to not generate revenue because once you do people would start quantifying it.

If they don't generate revenue then the sky is the limit!

  organizations has more of an impact than the official PR-heavy moves 
  made under the institutional brand

I believe heavy handed central planning at a large scale is destined to be inefficient. Sure there would be fragmentation but the system would be fluid. The chances of bad decisions taking the ship down will be reduced.