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While I agree with you view it’s reflective only of the “western” market. I believe they’ll have a combination of cheap services for established markets and grow advertising for developing markets.

Google and Facebook will turn to developing countries with over 100M pop to bolster bottom line the next decade, and for the US, per your first point, continue to acquire more consumer eyeballs and fold them into the parent company (take special note of their recent rebranding) for top line gains.

Facebook aren’t oblivious to these challenges and are investing in new-media experiments (I.e. hardware). It’s important to view these as just other viewports for the social connectivity. Think back to the explosion (and then clamp down) of social FB Canvas gaming on Facebook, they’ll launch v2 of that in an improved fashion with Oculus and pair it with Portal, then push majorly of compute to the cloud - watch out Xbox and PlayStation (probably PS6, not next-gen).

All this to say: Facebook is now a holding company looking to scale across the digital consumer landscape and encourage opt-in data sharing. I think they’ll go through a tough period but aren’t in any immediate danger.

“[SoftBank] put into WeWork, an astounding total of more than $18.5 billion for a company it values at $8 billion.”

Wow. I think when they do end up writing that HBS case, this will also serve as a wonderful example of sunk cost fallacy.

I think it’s getting easier by the day to port a PyTorch model to something that can be production ready, like Tensorflow Lite. It’s cumbersome, but doable. For me, I like to optimize my workbench and just deal with the final steps of pain to get it to prod.

I feel you’re closer to “somewhat co-founder” status if you’ve contributed to major milestones over 5 months, especially without pay and no major investment.

Assuming you’re negotiating pre-money and you’ll get a non-competitive salary; id like to see at least 10%. Consider you will be diluted very soon.

In Commonwealth countries at least, some synonyms for recitation are “tutorial” or “study group”.

Yes, this confused me too. Especially considering Spandan Madan is an MIT researcher, I don't understand the overt branding of a different school

Auroracoin will only be "huge" should it be used like a currency. Right now, it's an interesting experiment that's going to lose all it's value within 1 month post launch.

I see no mention on merchant resources, an ATM, payment gateways, or anything else mentioned that will help the wider Icelandic community conduct business.

One thing that Dogecoin has done well is enabling it's use as an actual currency. The phrase "1 DOGE = 1 DOGE" is a testament to the fact that they're attempting to not rely on big brother Bitcoin to establish a value. Now, there's arguments for and against this approach, but the point still stands that it's value is only as strong as it's utility as a method of exchanging a value for goods and services.

Dogecoin found the right market and the marketplace adapted. Auroracoin is manufacturing a market, but with the expectation that its value will plummet post 'Air Drop', will the marketplace adapt to accept these fiat replacements?

The juice might not be worth the squeeze.

You're then in a grey area of synonyms, it's not always hierarchical. If you're in a race for superlatives, then it's time to get creative. You could try: "paralyzed with terror".

Based on the discussion here at HN, I've updated the title in my blog post to call out "ISPs" generically and not TWC specifically. I felt I did my due diligence sufficiently before crafting my title, but as we know, a sample of one is not statistically significant!

Make sure you restart your browser after applying the rules, especially if you had YouTube open. I've had a few people mention this issue.

Some people are having more success using a deny rule, rather than reject. This doesn't make sense to me, as there is a timeout wait element for deny rules, but give it a shot.

Thanks for the detailed comment above. As I said earlier, I'm no networking guy! However, before posting I did test on a friend's Verizon FiOS connection, my own Verizon Mobile Hotspot, and also the various message boards I read complaining about speed appeared to be overwhelmingly TWC. I do understand that's not ideal proof. This was just intended to be a share of a quick fix.

Any suggestion to make my blog post more technically sound, I'm all ears! I can't seem to find a conclusion in all the HN comments except that "it could be a bunch of stuff going wrong", and to be honest, I don't have the expertise to find said conclusion.

I can only refer to anecdotal evidence I have seen on forums, Reddit, and from friends. That being said, it seems to be a stronger correlation with TWC rather than Verizon, but YMMV. Let me know if you uncover more details!

I implemented a quick fix that worked for me, but I'm not a networking guy. I would love to hear more if you get further details.

I agree. Over condensed copy can easily come off as insensitive and pushy. I feel this is pushing me to try that browser extension.

People should not be afraid of long copy, just make sure your hook is sweet enough to get people on board for a meaningful ride.

This article is hugely exaggerated. Once all is said and done, you're simply attaching more relevant data to a photo which helps remember important moments. My grandparent's photo albums and scrapbooks have now been replaced by my TimeHops and SnapJoys.

Does this remind anyone else of the "X Minute Abs" craze?

Another paid post from TC about a copy cat company.

I was convinced the iPad Mini was for me, until I just looked up the Paperwhite. However, I read a lot of articles and rely on Reader or Pocket. Does the Paperwhite support any such functionality?

Startups are risky beasts, but this action appears to lack backbone and tact.

This concerns me because this is Zyngas leadership tone on display. It does not invoke confidence.

No and no; when we are sufficiently globalized and companies are taxed (fairly) by all countries. In your example, France is pissed off they're not getting a slice of the billion dollar pie because Google sits in the US. Our archaic ideas of "nations" are tied to land masses - not a great partner to a distributable service that can be accessed almost anywhere near the speed of light.

Not having used TweetBot before, I struggle to justify the price based on the feature set. No scheduled tweets, no short link analytics, etc.

Personally, this app falls into a weird space between the native Twitter client (consumer) and HootSuite (professional). I can't bring myself to label TweetBot as pro-sumer, due to lack of features.

Nothing to do with credibility, certain positions are indexed by the Department of Labor which require a base salary and base experience. Highly likely that you did not meet the requirement as a fairly new employee or the base salary was too high for them to justify hiring you.

Like the old poker adage: if you can't recognize the sucker, then it's you.

One does not simply build a sandbox. A sandbox evolves like an organism to those who inhabit it. It's taken EVE over 10 years to get to it's current level of polish. Good luck to him, but the article reads with too much overconfidence.

I'm surprised this was not patented already.

I close my lid and my MBP (last of the 17" line) never sleeps. Really frustrating.

With such a lofty goal I do not understand why they capped at $1000 donations. Missing out on the big fish.

It's not about figuring it out, the key thing here is transfer of risk. Its certainly won't be "bs" if you get a fine due to a breech.

Apologies for the formatting, I am on my iPhone.