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Taxis, even in San Francisco, were woefully inadequate prior to Uber. Further, it not as if taxis were driver friendly. The majority of the money went the the medallion holder. The…

I am curious, when HN became reddit? This seems like a total social shit post not in keeping with HN.

For the lazy - Conclusions: A patent strategy can indeed affect a tech startup company’s growth. The data indicates that companies that have patents in earlier rounds (especially b…

Great, thanks!

Great article, is there any place where I can read more about the technology behind the company?

Good article, although his use of the word "chemicals" as a negative is pretty silly. Particularly, in this sentence "Fermentation and curdling involve hundreds of chemical reactio…

Original WSJ article (paywalled) - http://www.wsj.com/articles/canarsie-hedge-fund-collapses-14...

I would exclude from this explanation, state funded VCs or sovereign wealth funds that invest in later stages. They are most commonly investing for strategic reasons or just piling…

This is why the landing pad is run autonomously.

What really happens with most government run investment where funds are allocated to outside investment people or groups (ex. EU funds), is that the investors have limited incentiv…

Relevant: Sony cancels the movie's release - http://deadline.com/2014/12/sony-scraps-the-interview-120132...

I would love to say this is shocking, but it has become routine to see double digit percentage increases in San Francisco rents. I am curious to see if the increases were as extrem…

Literacy too started by a small group of individuals making most of the content and having a near strangle-hold over communication. Then ask literacy expanded, so too did the commu…

There is no question that this is an ad. It is also devoid on any informational or actionable content. This is pure click bait.

And another reason to switch to Android.

There is a great discussion happening about the Watson API with one of the heads of the API program at IBM. It would be great to see HN take the lead on this. I think it would be o…