ianthiel | 4 years ago | on: AirPods don't “just work”
I've experienced most of these issues. Also, it appears this blogpost is from the future?
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ianthiel | 5 years ago | on: Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress
Why is this being downvoted? These are references to primary sources that directly contradict facts presented.
ianthiel | 6 years ago | on: Are Humans Fit for Space? A ‘Herculean’ Study
Humans are living beyond earth, right now, as you read this, on the ISS.
ianthiel | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you self-host?
"self-driving" ones car may become the common parlance before we die
ianthiel | 6 years ago | on: Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B
Stripe supports ACH: https://stripe.com/docs/ach
ianthiel | 6 years ago | on: What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by oil wealth?
I hadn't considered this perspective before, thank you.
ianthiel | 6 years ago | on: Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China
Advanced Persistent Threat
https://attack.mitre.org/groups/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_persistent_threat
ianthiel | 6 years ago | on: Can Uber ever be profitable? Yes. Here's how
After watching the Tesla autonomy day video I'm bearish on Uber et al.
Source: https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE
ianthiel | 6 years ago | on: Five new Real-Time detections of fast radio bursts with UTMOST
The three bursts 1ms apart don't appear to be natural (or at least, we don't currently understand how they may occur naturally). The signal may be extraterrestrial.
ianthiel | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: EmailRep, free API to query email reputation and report bad senders
Hey everyone, excited to share EmailRep with this community. My co-founder (@jkamdjou) and I are here to answer any questions you might have. A few folks here are already using it to detect malicious signups, and we're using it ourselves for phishing detection. Cheers
ianthiel | 7 years ago | on: iOS 12 is all about making your iPhone work better
Unfortunately I’m finding this to be the case with much of TC’s content. A shame because there used to be genuinely interesting commentary all over the sure not long ago.
ianthiel | 12 years ago | on: Facebook’s $3B offer for Snapchat explained in one image
Fair point. Let's say it's 2x, in which case Snapchat still exceeds Instagram. I think we're splitting hairs here, I certainly agree that the chart is misleading in a very real way (primarily due to how Snapchat is reporting uploads/shares), but the point it asserts is still valid re: Facebook's offer.
ianthiel | 12 years ago | on: Facebook’s $3B offer for Snapchat explained in one image
As noted in the article linked: "...88% of snaps sent to one recipient."
If the KPCB chart were adjusted such that one send = one upload (certainly a better measure) I doubt the delta between Snapchat and Instagram changes much.
ianthiel | 14 years ago | on: Unpaid Internships: Bad for Students, Bad for Workers, Bad for Society
Why should students who aren't able to get paid internships be denied the right to have an unpaid internship? I would not be where I am today were it not for unpaid internships.
Some people would be helped by mandating all internships be paid, but these are not the people who need the most help. The people who need the most help are the ones that would be cut off from any chance at early work experience by such a system.
The idea of everyone having a paid internship is nice, but many places will simply stop offering them if unpaid interns aren't an option.
Also, no one is forcing these students to work anywhere. Yes, market forces drive them towards an internship, but there are many internships in the market.
If unpaid internships were banned or otherwise made illegal, companies could still bring in students as volunteers, which are unpaid. They would still get the same experience and be in exactly the same position, except now they are no longer eligible for college credit and certain legal protections. How is that a better system?
Are there any compelling arguments why unpaid internships should be made illegal? If not illegal, then how should/could they be reformed?
ianthiel | 14 years ago | on: LaunchRock Launches
What you're describing doesn't seem lean. Why "build a thing" if you haven't first identified a demand for it? A landing page can be a part of identifying this demand.
ianthiel | 14 years ago | on: Twitter Bootstrap
http://www.leandesigns.com/ is also a great tool, but this is a great gift to the larger community from Twitter, and for that we thank you.
Disclosure: I'm an adviser of sorts for Lean Designs
ianthiel | 14 years ago | on: Why my Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone
Seeing as that was 7 years ago, yes things are a bit different now =P
ianthiel | 14 years ago | on: We have 5 ideas and can't decide on what to build, so we made this site
Clearly I didn't =P
ianthiel | 14 years ago | on: We have 5 ideas and can't decide on what to build, so we made this site
You need to randomize the positioning of each idea, whatever you put in the top left will most likely get the most votes regardless. Randomization helps account for this.
ianthiel | 15 years ago | on: Airbnb vs *
This is a very fair point, I think in some cases people are primarily interested in functionality as opposed to design.
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