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annerajb··on AMA with YC Partner Aaron Harris on Applying to YC – S17 Deadline Is Tonight
I am feeling a little worried of our changes while applying to YC. I remember reading that YC looks for companies with can grow up to 10BN.

While we think we can definitely grow upwards of 1 Billion which is what VC firms usually look up too. After 1 Billion is gonna depend a lot on being able to lower the cost of the product enough to increase volume

How hard is this rule? What if the company cannot reach that 10 Billions in Revenue in the future is that a weighted heavily on the application?

annerajb··on iPad 9.7‑inch
A diff between the previous generation ipads and this one would be appreciated!
annerajb··on Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA
Thanks,

I read that a long time ago and forgotten that was there.

annerajb··on Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA
How would yo go about looking for such things outside SV, LA, NY ie. major places?

I agree with you that there is a void in R&D stage VC funds.

annerajb··on Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA
Does YC typically invest on startups that may possibly have overlapping market segments?

For example Boom Aero focused on supersonic and another startup applies to YC with subsonic aircraft.

From what I read typically VC firms usually don't fund two companies as such example.

annerajb··on Michael Seibel, CEO of YC, is doing an AMA
I am on your same boat. We been working for the past year to get the HW prototype build and at a stage where we can demo it. We are still around 6 months on finishing but lack of funding and advice would definitely accelerate our progress. (Paying for assembled boards instead of hand building each as a example of how it would make it faster.)
annerajb··on An app that lets you pretend to receive a call when a co-worker distracts you
This seems great for those situation where telling the person that you are busy, or cannot attend them anymore wont cut it.

Usually a phone call is the only detractor for them to interrupt me. at the end it ended up being just to let me know something like i got this to compile!! which could have been done on slack or lync.

annerajb··on SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition
Woudn't the need for depressuration be removed if using airlock since you only have to depressurize the airlock volume?
annerajb··on Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recommended by Consumer Reports
If they have some automated setup for doing this web browsing (maybe a selenium that visits websites for 10 hours?)

They should be consistent after a restart and I bet they charge them to full before conducting the next test.

annerajb··on One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay Is for Suckers
I had something like this happen.

The buyer from hungary filed a item not received claim and they took my money from my paypal account (it has been negative ever since).

5 months later out of curiosity I sent a message to the buyer and he replied that he did received. But since the case was closed in Ebay there is no way for me to forward the email I received from him to get my account back up in good standing...

I was sent to collections and filed a debt verification letter which they didnt reply correctly and havent responded to it and two years later still does not show on my credit report.

If it ever does I will just file the debt verification letter again and ask for small claims court.

annerajb··on Starting a real business
I was so exited about Stripe atlas.

But for me it came around 2 months late.

I already used a online website to register a C-Corp and they have no process to "import" your c-corp you either start all over again or dont use it.

I also have no idea what would I have to do to "close" the existing c-corp and start anew using atlas.

annerajb··on Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco
Just saw this: https://electrek.co/2016/12/14/uber-autonomous-rides-califor...

I am confused do they require a permit or is uber changing the claim/capabilities of the car to evade getting a permit?

annerajb··on AirPods are now available
AirPods are now orderable.
annerajb··on My Pixel has a manufacturing defect
Scary This days i rather pay a good premium if it has better support.

On the good side my Nexus 5x broke 1 week before it's 1 year warranty expired. Apart from the hassle of them not shipping replacement to Puerto Rico they sent me a 1 day replacement. After forwarding from Florida to Puerto Rico +4days. it was a brand new phone and didn't give me any trouble I did have to spent like 5 days without phone while I did their troubleshooting steps.

I missed the days I had sprint where I would just go to the store and be out with a phone in a few hours.

annerajb··on Autopilot Full Self-Driving Demonstration [video]
What's the most amazing is that Elon mentioned on twitter that it's only using data gathered in the past month since they announced the hardware/first video.
annerajb··on .NET Framework – What's New in C# 7.0
Microsoft has great .net core tutorials Here is one just for your usecase: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/your-...
annerajb··on Facebook is 1-2% responsible for the election?
I saw yesterday around 10 post claiming trump won the popular vote and everybody that said otherwise was lying.

Today I saw a news article saying how the website where that fake news originated from is a conspiracy blog less than 2 months old run by one person. That was the "news" organization that said Trump won the popular vote.

annerajb··on From Kubernetes to a complete application development tool [video]
Thanks
annerajb··on From Kubernetes to a complete application development tool [video]
looks really good.

How is the terminal being done websockets?

annerajb··on How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
BTW HPE provides some storage solutions where you can scale it up to 8 petabyte (in a single rack afaik).

I have a really small setup but i would personally look into a dl580 as VM host and having two for redundancy. And a dual path storage system in my case I used a 2u MSA2400 (not sure if that is the latest name)

Since it could continue to scale up and provided dual path too.

I don't have experience running CEPH so I am not sure what are the hardware requirements for CEPH.

(Disclaimer I work at Hewlett Packard Enterprises with servers)

annerajb··on No One Saw Tesla’s Solar Roof Coming
BTW this is now being shifted. They are allocating less and less to outright leasing. Musk said he expects in two years that all of their sales will be either loans by banks or outright full purchases and the leasing business going away.
annerajb··on Powerwall 2 and Integrated Solar
Tesla version integrates the inverter and has double the capacity(14kwh) for the same cost as LG Chem REsu 9kwh version

One 14 kWh Powerwall battery $5,500 Installation and supporting hardware starts at $1,000

annerajb··on Apple, this time you made a mistake
If they just upgraded it to a 1080
annerajb··on Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years
LG Chem the supplier for the GM Bolt battery said they expect more than 35k this sounds to me like the car is going to be aggressively prioritized in ZEV states.
annerajb··on Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years
There is a section that says customer deposits. I thought that's where the Model 3 Deposits and pending order deposits went.
annerajb··on Tesla reports first quarterly profit in more than three years
Not just that they mentioned that they could push that to a million cars annually but that it would be very unwise/taxing for them.
annerajb··on Smartwatch sales are tanking
Unless people resort to another device like mounted glasses for web viewing and picture taking. Or a ipad for bookreading, web browsing and picture taking.
annerajb··on Elon Musk SpaceX AMA
I believe I recall talking about using water in the wall lining of the crewed area as shielding for radiation.

Also the radiation exposure during flight which would be the worse is equivalent to smoking for two years and dropping it. (I personally thought it was gonna be higher)

annerajb··on Canadian pilots no longer have to fly real aircraft to keep valid licences
What is the purpose of the head position tracking? Did the aircraft you build the simulator for has some sort of advanced HUD that always shows correctly no matter the position of the pilot head??
annerajb··on Canadian pilots no longer have to fly real aircraft to keep valid licences
As a pilot that is learning. Why can't a simulator recreate the real flying experience? Especially on this fly by wire aircrafts?
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