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psawaya

2,930 karma · joined February 20, 2009

Founder & CEO of Elsewhere, a new kind of video game company. https://elsewhere.zone

Previously, co-founder of Human Interest (YC S15).

e-mail: me ahhht paulsawaya daught com

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psawaya··on Show HN: A paperless 401k with automated advising built-in
No, employees can opt-out and make trades as they wish. We add extra fund options to each plan to make sure that this is possible.

That said, we've found that most 401k users don't want to bother with analyzing and choosing between dozens of confusingly-named funds. They're much happier (and better off financially) with a solution that automatically gives them a globally diversified, low-cost, regularly-rebalanced portfolio without doing any of the work.

psawaya··on Show HN: A paperless 401k with automated advising built-in
Yes! We work seamlessly with Zenefits (you'd simply add us as an external administrator).
psawaya··on Show HN: A paperless 401k with automated advising built-in
Thanks! What sort of firm is it?
psawaya··on Show HN: My first portfolio site - Full Stack Engineer
Great site, another typo:

"I jumped at the change to build it." -> "jumped at the chance"

psawaya··on Bloomberg Terminals Suffer Widespread Failures
When I was there (2008, intern), they were in the process of moving server code from Bigs into separate services (BAS's, if I recall).
psawaya··on Care to beta test Sketchwrite? Feedback wanted
Looks like you need to turn off development mode for your Facebook app: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6w9xis7qx3tm33f/Screenshot%202015-...
psawaya··on Game about squares
Great work!
psawaya··on Game about squares
This is great. I'm especially impressed with how the game teaches its own mechanics without ever spelling anything out.
psawaya··on Game about squares
I made a web based one a few years ago which I'll take the opportunity to shamelessly plug: http://sokobanjs.com
psawaya··on Show HN: Breach – A modular browser built on Chromium and Node.js
This is a great idea. I've wanted to build something like this for a while, but never got around to it.

I think people here are missing the point. Firefox and XUL is also a JS-scriptable UI over a browser, but it's a terrible environment to work in.

The UI is the main thing that differentiates web browsers. Our tabbed browsers have looked the same for years now. This is going to enable all kinds of awesome experimentation and customization. I'm super excited to see where this project goes.

psawaya··on Ask HN: Do we need a 'New' New Mogul?
Yes!
psawaya··on Microsoft Is Suddenly a New Company. But Is It Too Late?
The video game market basically resets every five years with a new generation of consoles. Totally different from software platforms, where consumers stick to an old choice because they have legacy software written for it.
psawaya··on [dead]
I did this, and it was a lot of fun. Recommended!
psawaya··on Humans.txt
Oh, hey:

https://medium.com/humans.txt

psawaya··on Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
Implement login via Mozilla Persona. It's really easy to implement (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/persona) and e-mail based, so it should integrate into HN very easily.
psawaya··on Calendar Plus has launched
Congratulations!

I'd be interested to see some more detail. For example, how useful was the Facebook page compared to e-mail support? Can you show us a graph of user growth? What are some other things you tried that ended up not working so well?

psawaya··on Ask HN: Clojure code worth reading?
Thanks so much for these!
psawaya··on Big Data University: Free Database And Hadoop Courses
I logged in with Google auth, and it still sent me an e-mail to confirm my e-mail address. That's unnecessary.

I'm really glad a resource like this exists, though. Looking forward to working through the Hadoop Fundamentals course.

psawaya··on WWDC 2012 (June 11 - 15)
The iPhone 4 was announced at WWDC '10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone_4

psawaya··on Digramly - build diagrams online with great ease for free
I like this! I tried to bookmark it with Cmd+D, and noticed you trapped that keyboard event for the duplicate function. It might be better to use shift instead of meta to avoid colliding with copy, paste, etc.
psawaya··on Udacity Course on Building a Search Engine
That's a very ambitious goal for an introductory CS course. Still, I wonder if building a search engine is a motivating goal for new programmers these days. I'm sure it's been tried many times before, but a class that introduced programming and game development at the same time would, I imagine, be more exciting to potential programmers.
psawaya··on Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."
> It's kind of questionable that a one-paragraph throwaway rant like this has hit the front page of HN.

I was hoping that it would provide a good starting point for a discussion about using Facebook. I think it did.

psawaya··on Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."
Here's a good counterargument, entitled "In Defense of Negativity": http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20110903-00
psawaya··on Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."
According to this (dated) study, Facebook has a fair share of Gen X'ers.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/16/study-ages-of-social-net...

psawaya··on Stallman: "Facebook is an international parasitism project."
Not at all. I sympathize with what rms is saying, and hoped it would provoke discussion about the daily tradeoffs of using Facebook.
psawaya··on Show HN: Q&A for HN users
This site feels like a classier version of Formspring. Nice job!
psawaya··on New: Apply to Y Combinator without an Idea
What would the in-person interview focus on, if not an idea?
psawaya··on Request for Startups: Kill Hollywood.
The Apple TV (if it's real) would definitely facilitate this. Imagine the opportunity to build apps that compete directly with television programming, on the same device.
psawaya··on Reddit traffic doubles in less than a year, to 2 billion monthly pageviews
I admit that it's hard to measure this in an absolute way (and I agree pageviews is a flawed metric), but I submit that in two years, reddit will be as popular as Twitter is now.
psawaya··on How to stop SOPA: Don't build it.
Just out of curiosity, has anyone here applied the same refusal to work with/hire someone who was affiliated with building DRM? Or any other example of Big Content trying to cripple technology.
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