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If there's a job where I just get to explore the wonder of Google Maps all day, I want it.

Via Bloomberg...

"Terms of the loan are onerous. Investment firm Hudson Bay Capital Management can demand repayment of more than $3 million of the loan on Aug. 1, and the rest on Aug. 5. Proceeds from a planned stock sale must also be used to repay the debt.

If Helios and Matheson Analytics fails to pay, it will be subject to a 15 percent annualized late fee until it makes good on the obligation. If the company is 48 hours late in its payment, Hudson Bay can require the company to repay the debt at 130 percent."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-27/moviepass...

Becoming movie payola was the way I thought they would go. They could be an avenue for studio to discount tickets to specific films without some of the problems of traditional couponing. This could either just drive buzz, or could allow studios to goose opening weekend sales by paying MoviePass to push films, as well as reimbursing MoviePass the ticket cost.

Probably not enough to become profitable though.

Totally agree on the USB-A models.

On the other hand, my USB-C Yubikey only lasted a month in my pocket before the case fractured and flaked apart. Whatever plastic they encased it in was not up the job of being on keyring. Additionally the plastic sleeve inside the USB-C plug broke and the thing became trash. Yubikey shipped me a new one, but looks to be of the same design. That was last summer. The photos on the website appear to be the same, hopefully they've improved the quality.

While it's certainly possible, most people have their own ideas and problems they are already working on. Relationships and execution end up counting way more than ideas.

On balance, if you have a great idea, you'll be better off growing it with good mentorship compared to the small risk that it gets stolen by a mentor.

His sister is a federal judge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryanne_Trump_Barry

The merger is set to close next Monday. DOJ can file for a stay, but the judge warned them that would be unwise.

I think the DOJ will just take it as a loss.

It is amazing to me that law enforcement's trigger for using deadly force so light that two teenagers arguing about a video game can get a third party killed across a state line.

In the case where the person on the other end isn't a native english speaker, (the calling a restaurant clip) why doesn't Google figure out what language they speak and speak it to them?

Say a user drops their phone in a desk drawer and goes on an 8 day hiking trip.

He/she comes back and can't remember their passcode. Is the phone now a brick?

Nothing like fixing a bug by changing the spec.

"Live the circle. Feed the circle. Be the circle."

Gavin Belson?

To tack on to this, why would investors want to own WeWork bonds vs equity in the company?

In the case where bond holders do well, wouldn't shareholders do better? And in the bad scenario, with as many long term liabilities as WeWork has, are the bond holders going to be substantially more secured than the shareholders?

Does WeWork own anything real to secure the debt?

I have found it to help.

It's not a perfect solution, but I find part of the process of being less involved with my phone is acceptance of the fact that I might not be able to be able to address every need at every moment and that's ok.

I would love this to work with the same phone/carrier technology that allows Apple Watch LTE and iPhone share a phone number.

Thank you, this is interesting.

Yeah, a fair point differenting the fall risk on playgrounds vs construction sites. It’s not apples to apples.

I am American and was in Denmark with an 18 month old toddler last year. We spent hours at many different Danish playgrounds.

There was one interesting design paradigm I noticed that I think is reflective of a difference in parenting cultures.

On the all the Danish play structures we played on, all of the elements where a kid could fall more than a few feet were in areas of the structure that required a sufficient level of coordination to reach, like climbing a ladder or using climbing holes in a wall. Less coordinated kids were stuck at the lower levels of the structure where there was fun stuff to do for younger kids.

This thoughtful design allowed us to sit far away from our kid while he played knowing that the structure was designed to scale the risk with his capability.

Here at home, my toddler could climb to the top of many climbing structures using regular steps, and fall six feet down to the ground through the open doorways where you might find a ladder to climb up or a pole to slide down. A six foot fall is too risky in my mind, even though I'm not much of a helicopter parent. In fact, 15% of construction fall fatalities are from six feet or less.

I think this kind of smart design can help give kids confidence to take risks when they are able and ready.

That's capitalism for you.

It's backloaded. 5% of the stock grant vests in year 1, 15% in year 2, and then 40% on year 3 and 4.

The argument is that they have a demanding work culture which people want to leave after a year or two, but are then incentivized to stay to earn out the bulk of their grant, or alternatively that they promise huge grants knowing that many people will not get to the point where they are collecting the bulk of it.

Many (most? all?) newspapers have a firewall between ad sales and news/editorial. Since news and editoral on FB is pretty much the news feed, I think duplicating the newspaper model here might be something like so:

One could split Facebook into a "connecting the whole world" company that Zuck talks about constantly and the ad company FB actually is.

The ad company would have exclusive license to fill of all the ad slots on the platform, and the social company would request ads through some kind of interface which had strict privacy controls. The ad company would take a cut and pass the rest of the cash to social network.

Just one way I think it could splitting the company could work.

I was really interested by how much of Robinhood's UI is designed like a game, versus offering a way to really research or analyze stocks.

It's not a perfect metric, but 86% of people accessing publicly-financed homelessness services in 2016 reported that their last residence was located in King County.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/king-coun...

Mozilla has ~$500M revenue/year.

I don't think you'll find a alternate non-Apple/Google/Microsoft player with similar backing.

Google Maps is my pick for the coolest website on the internet. Truly a killer app.

Facebook jumped the shark when it switched from being a social network to being a news network.

I wish IFTTT were faster. Many recipes only seem to be run a few times a day.

I've been concocting a bunch of things in AWS Lamdba lately which should be in a service like IFTTT.

I can't speak to the Dubai comparison, but Seattle is bringing 10,000 apartments online this year.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/seattles-re...

Congrats to the founders, early employees and to the VCs!

Condolences to the rest of the employees as well as customers.

Apple's support page on USB-C power seems to be a sign that all is not well at Apple.

> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201700

  You can verify that you're using the correct version of the Apple
  USB-C Charge Cable with your Mac notebook and its USB-C AC Adapter.

  The cable's serial number is printed on its external housing, next
  to the words "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China."

  • If the first three characters of the serial number are C4M or FL4,
    the cable is for use with the Apple 29W USB-C Power Adapter.
  • If the first three characters of the serial number are DLC or CTC,
    the cable is for use with the Apple 61W or 87W USB-C Power Adapter.
  • If the cable says "Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China"
    but has no serial number, you might be eligible for a replacement USB-C charge cable.

For a company whose brand was for quite some time "It just works" to ask you to read a serial number, printed in gray, in 4 or 6 point font, off a light gray cable is dumbfounding.

Here's a photo of an Apple USB-C charging cable to illustrate what finding the serial number looks like. http://i.imgur.com/ffVLDYl.jpg

The serial number is right below the control key, if you're curious.