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This is a very good point. Before seeing this point, my initial reaction was, "Nope, it's way too early to worry about quantum computing." But, the security cost / risk of being few years late can be so high for nations that they don't have a choice. They have to invest in it early.

I'd love to hear from crypto expert HNers about what the industry is doing to prepare for the possibility of quantum computing disrupting current crypto solutions and if there are any interesting (long-term) startup opportunities.

I can’t keep up with whether it’s fat, sugar, carbs, or anything else that I need to avoid to lose weight. I’ll just try to eat food that’s not very processed / not very artificial and eat small portions. I’ll just try to very roughly count calories and keep track of the simple math of calories in vs calories out.

- "Product so good that people wanna tell others about it" doesn't mean this is an excuse to hide in a corner and keep building the product. Product can't be "good" if it's not based on frequent and lots of conversations / interactions with users.

- The point about "exponential growth in market" is very important if your startup wants to raise money from VCs and has similar goals. Otherwise, focusing on creating value even in mature markets can be a good choice too. Same point applies to the "Huge if it works" point too.

- His point about real trend vs fake trend is also a good point for your own product's real usage vs fake usage. Are people "really" engaged and using your product or are they just thinking that it's cool but not really using it?

- I have nothing to add to what he said about the team, but team is so important that I wanted to mention it as well.

- His point about optimism is another point where team (or advisors or well-wishers) help. A startup is a roller-coaster. You will have days of negativity and doubts. At that moment, a team member (or someone similar) who pushes you and encourages you is very important!

- Love the points about "We'll figure it out" and "I've got it"

- "Bias towards action" doesn't mean being busy for the sake of being busy. In my career, I've seen so many months wasted because action wasn't based on well-thought-out logic. So, certainly keep bias towards action, but don't use it as no excuse to not think. A good way to not move fast is to move fast in unnecessary directions.

- The "Never lose momentum" point is so difficult in real world (unless you're lucky). But, good to be reminded about.

- The point about "Distribution startegy" is another great point. Every distribution strategy we are thinking of is going to turn out to be harder than we thought. Still, finding new / unexplored distribution sources compared to your competition can be a great win!

- I am sure this wasn't intentional, but I'll say that the talk didn't focus enough on users / customers. In the end, it's all about creating genuine value for the customers / users.

Exciting research for someone who did their best work recently. But maybe scary for someone who think their best work happened few years back.

Thank you! Do you recommend a few books or courses that would have better / more relevant coverage for people interested in the space?

Sorry, I meant to say 10 frames (for 30 fps). Fixed.

Very cool! But, as others said, I'd want to look at the latency. Some animations in Dark Souls 3 are 8-10 frames long (ie, about 300ms). Reacting to such quick animations may completely fall apart depending on the latency introduced by network. Are there any videos of action games being played on this?

> But if you only have 3 hours per week to exercise

I think the point is that you don’t have only 3 hours in a week. You can bring physical activity in many other things you’re already doing. One minor example that I’m trying to focus on: I go for a walk when I take any phone calls.

How is your experience with WSL? Do you get stuck in a lot of corner cases with it? Or does it work seamlessly most of the time? Guess not, considering you’d “greatly prefer Linux working on root.”

Such articles always give too much importance to the hardware (which is somewhat important, no doubt) and not enough importance to the software.

Many people are looking for quality alternatives to Macbooks, Mac Mini, etc (myself included). Mac Mini hasn’t been updated for 4-5 years. So, I started setting up a Windows desktop as a Mac Mini replacement. But when it came to finding all the alternatives to the OS X software I was using, and when Windows started showing me notifications about “try Edge,” “give us your valuable feedback,” etc, I went back.

If only Ubuntu could have native MS Office (needed for docs from lawyers), Sketch / Adobe products (needed for working with our designers), etc!

Just like .com didn’t cause confusion with DOS and Windows .com executables.

They are talking about things like generics. Considering the years it took for a team of people to build Go, I think it’s fair to assume they didn’t just forget about generics and that it was an intentional decision.

I'm glad to hear that all the problems in the world you see, you take charge and solve them. On your own. Always!

The original post said, "(YouTube is) a store of culture almost. A wealth of information and video would be lost, like rare videos which are only on youtube."

So, they should just save ALL the videos on YouTube that they think represent the culture of our times. Got it. If they think there are few petabytes of videos that are worthy of archiving, they should buy storage for them all. If they don't do so, then they are lazy. They weren't talking about one video, mind you.

ps, this comment of mine is not as polite as I want my comments to be. But, when you're calling people lazy and sitting on their butt, I think it's okay to write a not-so-polite comment.

The original post said, "(YouTube is) a store of culture almost. A wealth of information and video would be lost, like rare videos which are only on youtube."

Archiving a store of culture and almost infinite rare videos is definitely not a straightforward and easy solution. Yes, you can save few interesting videos locally. But, that's not the point of the original post.

I never understand this “If you’re so worried, take action” argument. We all have concerns about thousands of things. I’m concerned about kids’ education in the whole world, I’m concerned about animals getting killed for fun, I’m concerned about Comcast being my only realistic ISP, I’m concerned about thousands more such things. I should be able to have and show concern even if I can’t actively do much about them due to my focus on other, even greater concerns (even if they’re selfish concerns like taking care of my family).

This comment seems unnecessarily hostile. But, still, I'll change my previous comment from "there is" to "there may be" so that it's clear that I'm not claiming any data. Just guessing (reasonably, based on experience).

With sufficient data, I'd expect self-driving cars to be better at predicting what such leans mean. Moreover, for every one human driver who notices such a lean, there may be another human driver that doesn't even notice a pedestrian who has already started walking.

Well, yeah, because they're talking about FB the product, not FB the company. From that point of view, "FB sucks and I'm using Instagram now" is a very valid statement.

> Isn’t the problem with internet news is that it comes from everywhere, enforcing a kind of chaos of truth and a race to the bottom?

No, the problem with internet news is that it's getting easier and easier to promote a lie as truth. With a monopoly in media, promoting lies will become even easier (for that monopoly).

The global scale makes even that cheap computing become fairly expensive. So, it's only natural that we'll take punch card type ideas (at local scale) from the past and apply them at our global scale.

I have thought about buying an Apple Watch multiple times. But, then, I see comments from a lot of Apple Watch users who say that they completely stop using it after few months. For many of them, the utility is not strong enough. Have things improved in that regard? What do you Apple Watch users think about it now?

- I don't see why customers would be so specific that they only want to look at cost of goods and not other costs. Most products and services people buy are based on their value for them, not based on their cost of goods.

- If you include equipment, rent, and utilities in your cost calculations, then you have to include software developers and servers that are powering the app. I am not talking about apps that you build, publish and forget. Most apps have backend and engineers maintaining and supporting them.

- You ignored my point about the customer acquisition cost which is likely to be the biggest cost for most apps.

Why is customer acquisition cost (which can be many $s) not considered part of the cost of the app if it's considered part of the cost of Starbucks (through rent)? Why is Starbucks server a cost, but your app's developer isn't? Why is Starbucks equipment a cost, but app's infrastructure isn't?

> when the choice is a $2 cab ride or a $4 luxury cab ride, a lot more people will pay the margin.

But when the cab ride is a more realistic $25, and a luxury cab ride $50, most people will go for the $25 option. See Uber Black vs Uber X.

Yeah, I was primarily talking about using Skype for business / work messaging. Hence the point about integration etc.

I don't think that's true. Switching to another messaging service means you lose all past messages. It also means you need to integrate all other services (like Github, Google Doc, Travis, and many others) to this new messaging service. That is a lot of friction!

We all asked the same question about Facebook. All social networks before Facebook had faded away. But, Facebook didn't. Potential Slack buyers think that Slack is also here to stay in a similar manner. EDIT: I'm not saying Slack is Facebook.

One reason why I think Slack may survive longer than ICQ, Skype etc is how well integrated it is with all other services. For a tool to replace Slack, it should also provide the same level of seamless integration with GitHub, Google Docs, and a hundred other services. That's much harder to do than just building a messaging app.

Can you not discount a lot of companies like this? Google makes a web page (after all, that's where most of their revenue comes from), Apple makes just a phone (that's where most of their revenue comes from), etc and they are many times bigger than any conglomerate.

You're missing his point. Maybe you should consider that people who don't have the same opinion as you (Go doesn't have this feature, so it sucks) don't have the same opinion for valid and rationale reasons, not just ignorance.

This is the blocker for me too. Support for a zero knowledge server where even if someone gets access to the filesystem on the server, they can only see it encrypted.

Other than that, Syncthing is absolutely amazing!