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hieuon Consuming the Bluesky firehose for less than $2.50/mo

Only two outcomes: either everyone can access it or only few big companies can. While not ideal, the former is much better.

hieuon Ask HN: What is Hacker News's business model?

I don't think this was how it got started but you can think of HN as content marketing / recruiting channels for YC.

hieuon Ask HN: Would you use this app to stay active?

Thanks for the insight. I should have mentioned that this is designed to work with your TV in your living room. You'd power walk in the same spot.

hieuon Ask HN: Would you use this app to stay active?

Do you watch anything on TV?

hieuon Magic Leap One Teardown

I think first impression is important but not a key indicator of long term success. The first iPhone unlocked the mobile web browsing use case, which is huge. People had always wanted to browse the web, just not on mobile. That alone makes the first iPhone a revolutionary product. Magic Leap One has to create new user behavior, which is much much harder.

hieuon Show HN: Wesify – an easier way to sell anything

We don't know the final price. Wesify = We sell it for you. :-)

hieuon Show HN: Wesify – an easier way to sell anything

Thanks! Can you share what you're working on?

hieuon Show HN: To read books again, read one page every day

It works for me, too. The inspiration was from this TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQMbvJNRpLE.

The idea of marginal adjustment is both simple and powerful.

hieuon Launch HN: EasyEmail (YC W18) – Gmail plug-in that helps compose emails quickly

I think the fact that it looks like toy is a plus to YC. https://blog.ycombinator.com/why-toys/

Great founders + (seemingly) toy/stupid/too hard ideas = how YC selects.

hieuon Why getting traction is so hard these days

Relevant previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12044872

hieuon Show HN: Taste the world's authentic food each day

After many nights watching food videos with an empty stomach. :-) It'd be great if you can give me feedback on: 1) Would you use it? If not then why not? 2) Any suggestions Thanks!

hieuon Leaving the Nest

I think these people apply the same principle to many other decision making processes in their lives, not just picking clothes, which is very visible hence everyone talks about. I guess saving on clothes is small but many little things add up quickly.

hieuon Angular 2 Beta released

They mentioned Adwords here, too. http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2015/11/highlights-from-angula...

I'd argue Adwords is one of the most important Google products.

hieuon Show HN: AirTube – Android app that plays any song you name instantly

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn36PKFFG_E

hieuon Show HN: pure client-side Connect Four AI with Web Workers, AngularJS, Firebase

My main goal in building this is to demonstrate that at this point (with HTML5 & V8) Javascript is not only good for UI but also for computationally intensive tasks like AI. Human vs human is also interesting, though.

hieuon Show HN: pure client-side Connect Four AI with Web Workers, AngularJS, Firebase

Thanks! No, it doesn't play optimally even though this game has been solved. That's not really fun, either. What it does is to try to think like human and at the same time as deeply as possible. If you click on the number, it will show more stats. The computer lost more than 20 games up to this point.

hieuon Show HN: pure client-side Connect Four AI with Web Workers, AngularJS, Firebase

Thanks! PVS (Principal Variation Search) is an improved version of AlphaBeta. How much improvement depends on the quality of your move ordering algorithm. http://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Principal+Variation+S...

hieuon Show HN: Client-side Connect Four AI with Web Workers, AngularJS, Firebase

Thanks! One way to beat it is to play on mobile.

hieuon Ask HN: Tell us about your side projects.

I've been working on http://www.hupland.com for almost a year. The idea is to help you to improve your Heads Up NL skill by playing, studying your games, and monitoring your ELO rating. I had this problem myself few years back when I was a graduate student struggling with financial issues. I was trying to earn some money on online poker sites but I couldn't afford learning by losing first. I'm pretty close to the MVP-version launch (only 1 feature: play with friend).

One thing I've learnt was that it is really easy to get distracted due to all context switches and conflict responsibilities. So I try my best to touch the code every day (even 1 line CSS change is good enough).

hieuon A Visitor's Guide to Silicon Valley

What's so special about Vietnamese food in the Valley? I'd really like to know.

hieuon PG: Thank you for putting on Startup School

Here is what I did for myself.

9:30 Andy Bechtolsheim Founder Arista Networks; Founder, Sun Microsystems http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/271978319 0:02:00 (not full)

10:00 Paul Graham Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/271983983 0:00:00

10:30 Andrew Mason Founder, Groupon http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/271983983 0:29:30

11:00 Break

11:30 Tom Preston-Werner Founder, GitHub http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/271992324 0:03:20

12:00 Greg McAdoo Partner, Sequoia Capital http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/271992324 0:36:00

12:30 Reid Hoffman Partner, Greylock; Founder, LinkedIn http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/271992324 1:04:00

12:55 Lunch

2:30 Ron Conway Partner, SV Angel http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272002787 0:01:00

3:00 Adam D'Angelo Founder, Quora http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272002787 0:40:00

3:30 Dalton Caldwell Founder, Picplz; Founder, Imeem http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272002787 1:08:30

3:55 Break

4:15 Mark Zuckerberg Founder, Facebook http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272002787 1:50:30 and http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272007200

4:45 Brian Chesky Founder, Airbnb http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272007200 0:23:00