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If you have an Alexa you really need to try playing Jeopardy on it. The Jeopardy Alexa skill and Akinator skill are fairly quick casual games that are very worthwhile.

Not OP but heath insurance, taxes and other costs that can be marked down exactly as being for Employee #X are in the 40%. Paying for an office having light, power, internet, manag…

This seems pretty accurate. A lot of consultancies or professional services models also have a hefty bonus structure. This can strongly impact your total compensation.

I'm quite impressed by this presentation. There is a tremendous amount of content here to excite some different audiences about opportunities for planet scale changes. I'm super co…

One small error on the list: The Chemours Company 7685 Kiln-DeLisle Road, Pass Christian, Massachusetts, USA That should actually be Mississippi not Massachusetts. It is probably t…

I don't like the naming. "Apache 2.0 with commons clause" is not the right way to describe this licensing paradigm. It is fundamentally no longer Apache 2.0. I appreciate the motiv…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609

During the online poker boom there were many such stories. The amount of money moving around online poker in 2005-2009 was just insane. Lots and lots of people went from 1k or less…

A note, why do they use such small sensors (11mm) rather than the large sensors in full-frame DSLRs (42 mm)? Didn't quite get that constraint as being absolutely necessary.

It sure seems that way. If I understand their copy correctly this looks really really really expensive. I'm assuming the tweets per request is the limit to the result set returned,…

This should let early employees and any investors who want to get out to get liquid. Otherwise they might have trouble unloading their equity without some other mechanism being mad…

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump does not resolve anymore https://twitter.com/potus still in operation

Very surprised to see this on HN front page. Control theory is a fabulous subject and has nice relationships to computational theory because classical (and more modern [s/d/o/nl/MP…

Highlights for me: Started ordering stuff for the mars ship now, started facilities construction, possibly hitting a first launch in 2022 and a second launch window in 2024. An ext…

It is more like how Berkshire Hathaway owns Duracell and GEICO and actions in one don't directly impact another.

Benchmark here has quite different time pressure than potential common stock holders. They need to get liquid.

It is important to note that Statoil is majority owned by the Norwegian government so it's priorities are maybe a bit more complicated than more independent multinational oil and g…