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kennystone | 5 years ago | on: Mozilla VPN

Really smart from Mozilla; they leverage trust in their brand with a product for which trust is the most important feature. Making a VPN is a non-trivial technology project, but it's pretty straightforward how to do it well.

kennystone | 6 years ago | on: $1B for 20,000 Bay Area homes

George Pullman made a town outside of Chicago for workers to build his railcars. It didn't end well:

"the town and its design were... a paternalistic system that took away men's rights as citizens, including the right to control their own domestic environment"

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1030.html

Happy that google is making this investment; it's worth a shot even if it is far the ideal way to build housing. Hopefully the NIMBYism that defines this area won't kill it.

kennystone | 9 years ago | on: Amazon Go

The queues at stores have always been the worst part of the experience. You put stuff in a bag, which is effectively a queue, then you wait in a line - a human queue, then you de-queue your cart on a belt, which is another queue, it gets scanned item by item and then placed right back into a similar bag to where it started. Good job Amazon for finally working to eliminate the queues.

kennystone | 12 years ago | on: Are You Really Gluten-Intolerant? Maybe Not

Many of the staples of the Western diet simply haven't been around for longer than 15,000 years (agriculture), many in fact less than 100 years (heavily processed foods). It's not about ancestors all eating the same thing; it's about the fact we've introduced tons of new things, some we can handle and some we can't (and it probably varies per person).

kennystone | 12 years ago | on: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL

This is not true at all. Apps on Heroku are built on open source software (Rails, Postgres, etc). You can always decide to host it all yourself without too many issues.

kennystone | 12 years ago | on: Theranos

checkout wellnessfx... affordable, nice design, pretty easy (although they use a big needle), and they track results over time.

kennystone | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013)

San Francisco, CA; PlanGrid (YC W12); Looking for engineers in SF

We’re a small team of construction engineers, software engineers, and ex-rocket scientists, building intuitive, beautiful tablet apps for construction. We love disrupting an industry that makes up 11% of Global GDP because no one ever cared to do so (for comparison, defense is only 2.5% of global GDP). Our users are project engineers, architects, superintendents, and electricians, and they love our app (because it helps them build real things more efficiently). We're looking for front-end engineers with a passion for making beautiful intuitive products. Our front-end tech is iOS, Android, and backbone.js. You will be our twelfth team member and sixth member of engineering.

We've been around for a year and we're growing fast. Unlike a lot of early stage startups, we measure our growth in revenue, not users, and it's been exponential since the day we launched.

Competitive salary, equity, company engineering retreats to Mexico (this years location:http://i.imgur.com/kEiI2ej.jpg), and an office next to a beer garden (Hayes Valley, SF).

Send your info to: [email protected]

kennystone | 13 years ago | on: YC W13 Will Be Smaller

Eating isn't the problem. The problem is making decisions throughout the day. It takes willpower to say no and ask tough questions, and your willpower gets drained through the day.

kennystone | 13 years ago | on: Filepicker.io JS V1 - Full filesystem API in Javascript

Being able to write files to a filepicker url - which ends up in a users cloud account - is very powerful stuff. We're using it to automatically sync zip files that take a long time for us to process. Having a very easy to use layer of abstraction for all these cloud APIs is brilliant.
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