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Hi Suvinay! Do you all have a website that keeps interested people updated about the upcoming Swarm hardware? I would like to follow this work. Thanks!

I think this is a large part of the problem. I believe that the standard quantitative models used for productivity are no longer accurate. They are somewhat precise, but do not cor…

Hello fellow data workers! Lately I’ve been getting rather frustrated with some things at work, and was wondering if this was endemic to just my workplace, or to the field as a who…

They are valuable, except for the fact that machines can now do the disinfecting aspect of the job (the most important part) better and faster than they can. See: http://tru-d.com/…

Understood. I think one of the problems is that (fill in the blank: society, parents, students, guidance/admissions counselors, et al) seek to categorize and create blanket answers…

Agree 100%. Great conversation tangent over on reddit's FI sub about this article, and specifically, the fear that those of us who were/are responsible will be taxed to support tho…

That's not entirely true. See: http://yscouts.com/executive/where-did-fortune-500-ceos-go-t... Stanford has some fantastic opportunities, sure. But those opportunities come with si…

Agreed. I've just gone about it by refusing to sign the IP agreements, OR by editing the document to say that anything I do on my own time is mine. Have yet to run into an issue wi…

Snagged my house in Morningside, which is in the city. You can still get pretty inexpensive houses throughout the East End, but you'll need to put in some elbow grease. Average pri…

Ooooh. Talk dirty to us. YC Pittsburgh batch. Dig it.

Born in Pittsburgh, raised in Pittsburgh, started (and failed, 2009-2014) my own company in Pittsburgh, currently have an excellent tech job in Pittsburgh and am going to launch th…

I'm registered as a Republican, and in theory, would rather date a Republican than a Libertarian. In unsurprising news, every woman I have ever dated has been a Democrat, and my wi…

Bingo. My academic studies of political systems, US politics, game theory and economics leads me to believe that a true free market economy is the causa sine qua non for a more tol…

"Current and future quality of life for myself and others trumps paying lip service to ideals that are never realized." Agreed. However, I bet we differ on the means by which one s…

I go back to the old-school, small government intellectual Republicanism (this may sound crazy to many of you, but I assure you, at one point it existed). I realize that this is cu…

It's funny you say this, because I am a Republican pro-life lesbian. I have used both OkCupid and Tinder in the past, and I 1. Didn't find OkCupid to be terribly good for filtering…

Seconding this for the lesbian community. For heterosexuals, sure, this may only be a hookup app. For lesbians? Long term relationships from Tinder abound (I say this as a lesbian,…

Hey--sorry, forgot I hid it for a while. Anyway, it's kate (dot) mcginley at gmail. Talk soon.

As someone with 10+ years of mad success in sales/marketing/hacking growth, from my own startup to Fortune 500 level in several verticals, here's what you have to do: 1. Yeah, some…

Reminded me of this article (link below with TL;DR). So we have two strong examples of how changing environment can reduce crime and improve lives. Perhaps we should change our cur…

While this is true, many disadvantaged students don't even know this, because they don't even look at these schools in the first place, as they assume they cannot afford to attend.…

Awesome. Thanks!!

How do you know? I don't mean to be rude but I'm just curious as someone who applied and was rejected. My team and I are planning on continuing on. Good luck to everyone else who i…

Hello. I have. I had no college degree. I was a drop-out. I worked as a line cook, for $9.70/hr (no tips). No economic help from my family. $9.70/hr. Had my electric turned off a f…

Glad to see there is a market out there for this. I applied to the YC Fellows program and pitched my idea as 'uber for nurses'. And here I was thinking that I was coming up with a …