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Can you perform the same model/garment fit with an uploaded model image? If so this would be revolutionary in reducing returns of online garment shopping. To see how a garment stretches when put on consumer's body type would be very beneficial. Ideally this would be done in real time but even a minute's wait to see how the item will look on you might be acceptable for consumers if it means less disappointment when you try on the item physically at home and elimination of a return.

To add to this I would like to say that if you do reach out to candidates be cognizant of the fact that you interrupted their life with this solicitation so be sure you provide all relevant information about the job, position, duties and details about your startup in the email so the candidate can make a decision if they are interested or not from your email.

If they have to go out and spend 30 minutes to an hour to google stuff about you then it's probably not going to happen.

Lastly if they don't respond to a LinkedIn message or email within a week just move on and don't keep sending follow up emails. There is a reason the candidates didn't respond because they don't want to and shouldn't have to spend even 5 minutes responding to your unsolicited email

Thanks

> The difference is often less than a penny. But it adds up for larger trades. Schwab, for instance, says that for orders of 500 to 1,999 shares of S&P 500 companies, the average savings from price improvement is $10.80.

Ok and Schwab charges $4.95 for trades. So an investor ends up saving $5 per trade. S&P 500 companies stock price ranges from $20 to $1200 so to buy 500 shares of a company with $20 price per share would mean you spend $10000 resulting in a saving of 0.05%. On the other end of the spectrum you spend $600,000 resulting in a savings of 0.0008% assuming that when they say "average savings" they mean "average savings" per trade and not per share.

Just to put the whole thing in perspective.

We have an EM who took on grunt work (but critical) so the team could focus on tasks on the charter of the team. Personally I really appreciated that because otherwise the team would have had to spend a few sprints doing the grunt work. His rationale was "You guys are doing great work and your momentum is great. I don't want this stuff to slow you guys down. I'll take it on" +100 for that attitude.

If a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound if no one's around to see it or hear it fall? That seems to be Google's logic for not disclosing this.

The feedback might have been good but the tone of those comments had hint of snark. Considering the product is to help you remove negative sentiment from your responses I would say they were good use cases.

replace blathering and blabber with more constructive words

This comment and the one above it in the thread are perfect examples of use cases of "Should I send it?"

Not technically a new browser but check out Get@ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/get/id960699421?mt=8

It is a curated web experience.

That is genuinely funny!! Might be an accurate estimate too!

Why not just emit the sound when going below a certain speed AND ONLY IF there are pedestrians closer than a certain distance? That would be more expensive for sure but doesn't cause unnecessary sound pollution.

The cup example was to show that people are dumb enough to sue a cafe because they got burned by hot coffee. It's an example of overreaction. Instead of thinking "I ordered a hot coffee, maybe this cup is going to be hot and I should be careful", people think "I ordered a hot coffee and because the cafe gave it to me in a cup I am going to assume it's the cafe's responsibility to make sure I don't get burnt" When people get burned they react by finding scapegoats.

You have to beware of overreaction to the bad investment. Generally folks are not savvy investors. Just look at the large number of small investors in the stock markets. When greed takes hold or FOMO does and lots of people lose money it will lead to an overreaction against investors wanting to put money in companies. This will lead to VC/angel investment drying up which in turn will curb startups.

Remember we live in a country where a cafe has to put the following disclaimer on Hot coffee paper cups "Caution: The contents of this cup could be hot!!"

You should watch the episode of Black Mirror where a game developer creates a horror game with a neural link causing the gamer to "see" and "feel" things that aren't there. It goes horribly wrong. Let's hope this future you imagine never arrives.

What wording did you change? I don't see any mention that you will be storing my email address?

Does LinkedIn have a different policy regarding scraping LinkedIn pages if you are an extension vs. a crawler? I read recently that LinkedIn is fighting tooth and nail to prevent crawlers from scraping their content.

Just curious.

EDIT: Found this on the user agreement

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement

k. Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots, or any other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons, or any other technology or manual work) to scrape the Services or otherwise copy profiles and other data from the Services;

"By teaming up with COBINHOOD, together, we will launch your project to the skies and beyond." Doesn't really give the warm and fuzzies. Also why not have clickable links on your "media" icons if you were really featured on Bloomberg?

The gains only come if they exchange the ETH for USD for a profit. If they hold on to the ETH there is no gain hence no tax to be paid. Again it seems the more I read about this discussion the more all of these "cryptocurrencies" sound like securities than currencies.

I'm not a fan of cryptocurrencies myself but I am trying to argue the spirit of the transaction which considered ETH as a currency.

Legally I am with you 100% that the investors are out of luck. That's the price of "investing" in a highly speculative vaporware "currency".

I was considering ETH to be a commodity like candies. That might not be technically a fair comparison. Replace candies with another currency. GBP or Euro.

Agreed. Like I said IF you consider ETH a currency. If you don't then that's an argument against all cryptocurrencies in general.

No sorry if you consider ETH to be a currency and payment was made in that currency then repayment is expected in that currency. Let's say you borrow US$1000 from a friend. That $1000 would have bought 1000 candies when you borrowed that money. One year later 1000 of the same candies costs $800 because the USD became stronger. You cannot repay your friend with 1000 candies and say you are good. You took $1000 and your friend wants $1000, not something that was equivalent to $1000 at the time you borrowed the money.

public class A

{

   private int exid;

   private string M;

   public A()

   {

      M = "The result is:";

   }

   public string y(int u, int v)

   {

      return M + (u+v).ToString();

   }

}

public static void Main()

{

   Console.WriteLine(new A().y(1,3));

}

Now add hundreds of lines of such code and you'll get unreadable code. It is not in the eyes of the reader, some code is just unreadable.

This is an extreme example though.

I suppose it is good knowledge to have incase you find yourself in the seed investor's shoes. It is likely that many on HN have an interest in understanding this from a seed or angel investor viewpoint. That's why I read these. But then again what do I know.

Silicon valley might have been an American creation, but it has thrived due to immigrant founders. Please don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

Subscription model businesses are actually pretty good businesses if you can service a genuine recurring need with a genuinely good product at a reasonable price point.

I order diapers for my kid on a subscription. As a consumer it works great for me since I didn't have any upfront one time cost like $700.

The problem I see with Juicero and its investors is that the machine is not unique, it is redundant, the investors were clearly blinded by the founder's pedigree to overlook the simple clear fact that the machine was not needed and the founder was delusional to think the machine was needed.

Can we agree that if any founder makes a statement comparing themselves or their vision for their product with Steve Jobs and Apple, that they are automatically disqualified from being funded? Steve Jobs was one of a kind. If you are like Steve you don't have to say it, people will figure it out.

This investment seemed to me to be in search of the next Dollar Shave Club.

When you make statements like

"The more I pay attention in the Bay Area the more I’m noticing that it’s a place of absolute poverty."

"Much of the East Bay is extremely poor."

You really need to quantify absolute poverty and extremely poor. Without some numbers to back it up the article comes off as out of touch.

Also with you living in San Francisco when you write all these things about large areas of the Bay Area as being extremely poor the article feels a little like you are looking down your nose at the "rest of the people". Sorry but that's what it comes across as.

is this a /s post? I get a server overloaded message when I click the link

I would point you to Netflix, a large company with a decent culture. They didn't ask every employee for input (AFAIK). They hired one person and gave her the time and resources and access to upper management and tasked her with coming up with the culture document. 12K people in a stadium for an hour or even 4 hours won't be productive like you want it to be. In the end only a few people will speak up because not everyone speaks up in a stadium full of people.