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"This was a collective decision taken by all impacted companies"

I think they were put under pressure by other companies using the same IPS, not their customers.

It's not just the lack of API's that makes it hard for digital health startups, a big hurdle is the perceived lack of security of a cloud based solution in regards to health care data.

A friend of mine works for a digital health startup, and the majority of the RFP's they receive automatically disqualify them if they have anything hosted in the "cloud", so they are forced to buy and maintain all of their own servers.

In addition to these costs (which could already be considered prohibitively expensive) they have to use enterprise versions of proven ETL and BI tools for the perceived added security benefits (i.e. they can't use open source).

I think you're lucky you feel like that. Nowadays I see social media as inescapable if you're younger. I think there is an immense pressure to have a presence, so you don't "miss out" on something.

Of course once you have a presence you are left open to a 24/7 bullying outlet that is far harder to detect as a parent/teacher. Think about getting shoved around the schoolyard - every teacher would know the bully (even if they did nothing about it) vs. being tormented online anonymously via apps your parents have never heard of.

I'm really surprised that Venmo started as an SMS service, not a mobile app. It blows me away that the product has been around for that long and evolved to the point that it's at now. Funnily enough this is also how Shazam started.

I think it really speaks to the execution aspect of a startup - be good at doing 1 thing, create a committed user base and then scale. According to the article Venmo's target audience was originally college kids who didn't have cash on hand to pay food trucks... Now they're doing $700mm in transactions.

I think that if someone is a legacy at an Ivy league school (in the sense that you are implying) then that person probably isn't trying to lead the lifestyle that comes along with launching a startup.

I think the the things they highlight are all attributes that define hungry/ambitious people, and/or they correlate to things that would hold people accountable and keep them on track.

For example:

Ivy League School and working at a prestigious company? You don't get either of those by being a slacker.

Younger team, woman co-founder and more than one founder? You better believe there is going to be more pressure to prove yourself and not sell early or give up (vs. being a single founder or an older proven founder).

Standing out from the crowd at demo day or getting noticed out of all the noise of social media? That takes some dedication. I guarantee that the people who did get noticed that way didn't just send one email or one tweet. They were hustling their idea hard.

Great read though. I loved the point that startups don't have to come from SF or NYC to be successful!

I disagree. These are some great examples of interfaces that make gathering user input more intuitive. You couldn't possibly delegate this information automatically, i.e. travel dates.

Also there is no mention of gradients... The article is exclusively about reducing the number of interactions to get the desired user input by using features other than default dropdowns.

This is a far cry from an article touting that they increased conversion rates by 300% by changing the color of the sign up button, and in fact it is changes to GUI's like this that separate "something useful" from being used, or being completely ignored.

The whole point is that everything's changed. These people are griping about lack of free food in the office, bad pay and lousy benefits. They also complain that Google is "constrained to thinking in the browser." Too bad they didn't stick it out to see the self-driving cars, and none of these people were working on Android.

This chalk actually has a special coating that prevents that from happening.

This post from a while ago explains why "Mathematicians Are Hoarding a Type of Japanese Chalk"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723202

can you add functionality to search by job title other than as a filter? great tool though!

Wow, you aren't kidding when you say Netflix pays well!

It's nice to see a curriculum that hand picks courses from a few different MOOCs and other relevant resources - that has definitely been a weak point of MOOCs as most of them don't have enough depth/breadth on their own for you to learn all of these things.

I also think this is a great point:

"Work on project outside of the classroom. Notes: Create and maintain a website, build your own server, or build a robot."

A business is the perfect use case for the 1-click buy button Amazon introduced a few weeks ago, Amazon Dash.

According to caniuse.com it is fully supported on all major browsers now too.

Reminder: Plasma is the fourth state of matter, an electrically conductive gas that can carry magnetic fields and electrical currents.

I think focusing on children is the right way to tackle this issue. Per the author's point she works in an environment with an equal mix of male/female. Teaching kids from an early age that their gender doesn't limit the career they pursue will make this more the norm than not.

If only I hadn't squandered my life savings on beanie-babies I could've invested in Yo before it went public!

If you are waiting for someone (at a physical location, for a call, for an email, etc.) a well timed "yo" would be a good reminder.

Last time I was in Tokyo the subway stopped running very early (either midnight or 1 AM) compared to NYC where it never stops.

That has obvious benefits such as helping maintain cleanliness, but I still wouldn't eat a meal without washing my hands after riding on the Tokyo subway.

It is interesting to note that one of the cults he shut down used a juice bar to recruit candidates.

This fits well with his point that as the times change so do the "cults", as the leaders are just con-men praying on people's loneliness and insecurities.

Anyone would be skeptical of a group of people it had all of the earmarks of a cult from the 60's (robes, rituals, communes, dirty hippies, etc.), but what could possibly be more innocuous and "normal" than a group of attractive women wearing yoga pants indulging in the latest diet fad? So what if there if there is a side helping of brainwashing, you're part of a hip new community!

I think the Kinks sum this up nicely:

"Eyes down round and round let's all sit and watch the moneygoround"

My first impression on reading this article is that the sites he names (techcrunch, careerrookie, etc.) have hundreds of thousands of indexed pages of actual content. They may be being practicing black hat seo (or just wasting marketing dollars), but their content is actually relevant, and their referral traffic from these links probably outweighs any SEO penalties they are receiving for these practices.

It should be pretty obvious that you can't spend a weekend creating an SEO link farm and expect to get to the front page of Google... Try bankrolling a professional editorial staff for a year and generate actual content in whatever niche you want and then run your anchor text experiment. Post a link to HN with those results!

Is this an attempt to standardize the grid layouts that everyone has to either build themselves or use a framework like bootstrap for?

While this article can be seen as dated in regards to the definition of success that the author posits (making himself and 20 men rich by the standards of the locality), I think that the path the author lays out to achieving that success is still very relevant to this day.

The author was not denigrating "brilliant" men; instead he was explaining a type of "brilliant" person that focuses their energy on coming up with brilliant ideas, but will not stay focused long enough to see it through to finish. Imagine if you are reliant on a co-founder who wants to be pivot every 6 months simply because all of the challenges of the first brilliant idea are solved, and all that remains is the hard work and execution?

The outcome of that scenario would likely be the outcome he experienced in his first business venture with his college friend, "[Carroll] is a bad employer for himself, but he could put a lot of ginger into somebody else's business. . ."

One of the monetization ideas that stands out to me is trying convert app users into email subscribers. Permission based marketing is insanely more effective than any form of display ads, and to the author's point if you aren't being a schmucky spammer it would be a great way for Indie Developers to build a trusted brand and make a splash in the app store every time they released a new game.

I personally would have downloaded all of Dong Nguyen's other apps had I received an email about them. Although I think the only way he could have experienced more online vitriol is if he started spamming users with dating apps...

Edit: out of all of the games I have downloaded I have never once given out my email address or even been asked for it via the app. Is anyone doing this now?

This article is nothing but a sensationalist headline that makes little sense and has even less substance. The following quote sums this up:

>Recent studies show that few post and no one clicks through on likes, what’s a poor boy to do?

90210 to see products.

I like it. I want the herb garden. But I want to know exactly what herbs I am getting. Or is that information already on your site?

I have felt for a long time that the MOOCs are broken because there is no holistic learning plan; a strength of one site is a weakness of another. You guys have fixed that. I wish you the best of luck, and I hope that your site becomes a resource I rely on in the future. That being said, there are a few UX issues which would greatly improve signup rate and ease of use:

1. You should list all of the subjects on the home page not just 6 of them!!! The only way to view classes by subject is via search. But I want to be able to browse! Search is too much effort. Use this as an opportunity to list the highest rated classes by each subject. Put your data to good use.

2. The only way to browse all classes by subject is by un-checking the subject box in a search results page, but if your browser width is over 1200px the filter results tab becomes static and you can't see all of the subjects and filters :(

3. What is the main benefit of signing up? Add a CTA in between the search box and browse courses section of the homepage. Maybe also add a screenshot of the learning path, so I immediately know what benefit I am getting/why I shouldn't just use your site to find courses on coursera or udacity.

4. Have landing pages per subject with a CTA to sign up.

PS I wouldn't have taken the time to write this if I wasn't absolutely in love with your site and what you are doing.

Viewing Soylent as a replacement for every single meal would be scary and potentially dangerous. However, I think it would be difficult to compare the nutritional value of a meal comprised of McDonalds and Coke to a meal of Soylent and to find the Soylent wanting or not superior in every way.

Personally I'm excited to get my month's supply of Soylent, because at the very least I know it won't kill me, and at the very best I'll have some more free time and extra pocket money to spend with good friends or a good book.