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Re:A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing its statu... on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @03:59AM (#19561633)
A contrarian bet has outsized returns.
Re:Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @02:22AM (#16272164)
Simple Token, led by Fab.com / Social Median's Jason Goldberg. CTO + team is Germany's most experienced blockchain developers. They are making a Stripe for tokenization.
Re:Ask HN: Did anyone's life ever gotten more comfortable after accept... on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @05:38AM (#12000472)
Why not just take a loan from a bank? That way you can spend that hiring and managers to let you off the hook of day to day operations.
Re:A Rock-Sorting Robot on Thursday May 26, 2016 @11:21PM (#11783680)
Crossing my fingers for a Lego sorting robot...
Re:Everything You Need to Know About Cooking with Blood on Saturday October 18, 2014 @07:35PM (#8476733)
In the Philippines, Dinuguan is one of our top 5 best known dishes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinuguan
Re:Yahoo Is Buying Mobile Analytics Firm Flurry For North Of 300M on Monday July 21, 2014 @08:08PM (#8066776)
We just removed Flurry because Crashlytics' Answers is way too awesome.
Re:A startup postmortem with a happy ending on Saturday May 31, 2014 @10:25PM (#7827937)
If anyone is looking to do the same. Our office in Davao City, Philippines is open and free. We have Internet, coffee and meetups monthly at least.

Meals can cost as low as $2 and lodging as low as $4 / day. Everyone knows English and very westernized compared to other SEA nation.

Email eric (at) lifebit.com if you are interested.

Re:It's Adventure Time on Saturday April 26, 2014 @04:33PM (#7652659)
The Ice King is one of the most tragic characters ever written in recent times right next to Gollum. When you consider he was pivotal to how the Earth survived and how he protected a main character throughout childhood at a great ongoing personal cost - its astoundingly deep. The lore/universe is also very imaginative in the right way (somewhat grounded but very creative). Highly recommended. Watch Season 1 and 2 before judging because S01 is a little rough.

Ask HN: How do you look for houses to rent for several months in Silicon Valley?

Posted by twidlit on Monday December 09, 2013 @04:03AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi HN,We are a startup from the Philippines and are staying in SV for 3 months for an immersion. For our lodgings we are left to our own devices. I've been looking at Trulia, Airbnb and Zillow for houses to rent but I don't have any idea if the prices are fair or are the location strategic or convenient. We are planning to rent a car. Our immersion host is at Sunnyvale (Plug N Play). Any help...

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Re:SteamOS on Monday September 23, 2013 @06:43PM (#6434656)
I am sure it will be just 3b or 3c. a VR peripheral would be a long shot but I would be glad to be wrong. :)
Re:SteamOS on Monday September 23, 2013 @05:34PM (#6434313)
1. Steam

2. Steambox

3a. some VR peripheral (looks like a VR goggle/headset to me)

3b. some special cross-play between Steambox and Windows/Mac/Linux

3c. cross play between steambox and PS4

Re:John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @10:12AM (#6172938)
Wow. this is a big win for the team. Carmack can go deep and can also look at the controls on an instinctive level since he made Doom and Quake.
Re:Lob (YC S13) Debuts a Cloud Printing and Shipping Service for Devel... on Thursday July 25, 2013 @06:38PM (#6105428)
Where is the pricing for stickers?
Re:Yii 1.1.14 release candidate is available on Sunday July 14, 2013 @08:25PM (#6042912)
We are using this for our web and backend at Lifebit and i can confirm this makes PHP development so much more enjoyable. We have tried Code Igniter, CakePHP and a bunch of others. Has the right mix of community, documentation, weight, speed and code commits activity.
Re:Indie developers cannot self-publish on Xbox One on Wednesday May 22, 2013 @02:45PM (#5752934)
This means that most of XBLA type/calibre is still going to happen (90% or 100% of XBLA had publishers)

This move is more for quality control (plus data on the lackluster downloads of Xbox Indie games) rather than hatred for indies. Its still short sighted but it would also make Xbox One deal with less cruft of games, thereby avoiding the signal-to-noise being bad (remember all games are not silo'ed anymore.) making the game library browsing experience just generally more appealing to the mainstream customer. I doubt these demographic will miss Xbox indie-type games, heck I don't think they even visited that tab.

But I do like the intense focus on games by the PS4 camp more. Just happy that Xbox One and PS4 are now going in totally divergent paths.

Re:Apple reports $9.5 billion second quarter profit on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @07:20PM (#5598621)
Moat? Itunes, OSX, Objective-C, App store, iCloud, even the brand. These are all moats of varying strengths.

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