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Another headstone in the google graveyard. This one doesn't make any sense to me, either, unless there are weird regulatory issues they want to avoid since it seemed like a very po…

This is one of my pet peeves of GDPR! Your nephew and IP Octet cases are very extreme edge cases that we shouldn't build policy around if there are major drawbacks to including the…

This actually was his second offense.

The people actually building the buildings (developers) are, generally, different than the people renting out buildings (landlords). Developers profit when more units are built, la…

Regardless of relative value, in most cases it is cheaper to just demolish and rebuild office space than gut + renovate. SROs/boarding house cases make a little more economic sense…

Especially once you get big enough to require a retention policy and have to delete your years of knowledge repository! Better off documenting separately from the start.

As much as the HN crowd dislikes to hear it, the biggest gaming console in the world is the smartphone. PC Gaming is almost as big as the entire console market, bigger than any ind…

That's the point, though. I could make a non-crypto based money transfer software that does not store sender or recipient information in the db. That too would make it impossible f…

A new small apartment in San Francisco cannot be built for less than $800k these days, so coming in a $333k per resident is not too surprising to me in a similar high-cost city wit…

As a mediocre armchair accountant, I'm interested in how to read their P&L since so much of the loss is depreciated clothing, which they presumably continue to rent out even after …

What? It absolutely needs to be up -- those ads being served are on Facebook and Insta, not display banners on random sites.

This is a great, clean explainer. Series B seems to be the sweet spot to me if you would like to avoid working at a FAANG but want similar EV in your comp package, assuming you are…

I'm a bit confused reading this. Is the lawsuit that users signing up for e.g. Venmo didn't know that they were also giving their transaction history/whatever to Venmo, or that Pla…

I once used a very dumb feature flag set up to get around a rule an Apple reviewer told us were breaking, just for review period. The supposed rule violation was around for a year …

ah, the Polish Alt-Right is a problem?

It's just wild to me that HN commenters are predominantly starting the timeline at her resignation ultimatum, and not what prompted it. She was working on a known-to-all controvers…

I'd wager the list of folks who: -hold a meaningful enough short position for a potential attack to be worth, say $500k or more (not a rando robinhood trader with a $200 put) -are …

I loved Sprig. I used to use them as my example of a favorite product when asked in interviewed. Problem: I am hungry right now and can't/don't want to cook. Solution: As the found…

As someone who as implemented similar CC blockers before: people who forget to cancel leave after one month, leave a bad reviews which affect future growth, and make churn numbers …

Maybe just a little before Casper was founded, I bought a memory foam mattress off of Amazon that was well-reviewed and could be delivered with Prime. It's been a great mattress. T…

This is an important plot point in the book the excellent Sci Fi novel The Three Body Problem.

Looker is a lot easier for business users to do simple ad hoc analysis in my experience. Periscope is easier to turn basic SQL into visualizations and dashboards, Looker requires y…