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This is very cool and makes me smile because I used to use a simplified version of this as a take home project in engineering interviews. One usecase I find particularly interestin…

Thanks for the comment! Our approach has been very much depth-first rather than breadth-first. We’re laser-focused on the private credit industry for now and plan to stick with B2B…

not sure if I'm understanding what you are comparing with. what is your alternative? if we are taking authz as a need in your org and also a single point of failure for your entire…

Unlike Plaid, Finicity and Yodlee have direct integrations with some banks. Example: Silicon Valley Bank has direct integration with Finicity. SVB through Plaid breaks quickly (bec…

I hope you find extra motivation from the extreme contraints you forced on yourself in the longer term. Making yourself live on 24k in NYC is not a good idea. Publicly sharing that…

If I have to make a guess it’s much more likely that their deep learning algorithms learned nudity is more engaging (without them using that as a feature). This obviously doesn’t m…

Perhaps the author is in an alternate universe. Unlike what the author thinks linkedin revenue isn't largely fueled by recruiter business. It is driven by where he thinks they are …

My focus is on hiring marketplaces, and ensuring equal opportunity is one of the most important challenges in building an efficient marketplace. I am also a strong believer that di…

How would you feel if you opened a program and the program started to check your file system to see what other programs you had installed? Not true. You definitely figured out how …

You can't generalize but most often that is the case. Having said that I'm surprised nobody brought up maybe the most important factor: sunk investments. If you have a brand name a…

And in your investor deck you "promised" your VC investors there is a potential for huge monetary return in this. That's what the VCs will look at anyways. Side benefit to communit…

Not sure about wine glasses but universities have at least 7 times more incentive to publish BS papers these days. >> "These days, the average British pour of wine is 250 millilite…

The term "Web 2.0" is an unfortunate choice and as a consequence it has been rarely used correctly. Funny enough I've been to a Web 2.0 Conference about 10 years ago where almost e…

> all these annoyances can easily be avoided by choosing the right browser. The right browser == non-graphical browser. Good joke. You can achieve the same by installing a simple b…

> Uber, AirBnb, Snapchat, Dropbox, etc will all crumble. None of these companies are anything special. Lol. Please share some of your wisdom with us. Leaving aside taxi companies l…

You "need" to make $1.5M/year for "similar" lifestyle. Maybe you should either reconsider your lifestyle or your math skills. note: I made the assumption you didn't move to a villa…

In December 2015 I received an e-mail with the following subject line from AWS, around 4 am in the morning: "Amazon EC2 Instance scheduled for retirement" When I checked the logs i…

Perhaps because her name would be indexed by the search engines as this story is shared thousands of times? Would you like the #1 search result for your name to be a sexual harassm…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowledge Humans transfer knowledge most effectively when they are communicating in person. Of course this does not mean you will achieve the hi…

HN is clearly preventing any so called "election hacking" related articles to appear in the first page. Interesting.