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My bet is on the Chinese with their enormous pig farms which feed every pig a constant cocktail of antibiotics to ensure they grow faster to be the ground zero for an antibiotic-re…

The most amazing fact about John Conway is that he actually enjoys teaching (even to undergrads). Most profs of his calibre actively shy away from teaching to focus on research. Ha…

Perhaps we can recycle the concrete to build Donald Trump's Great Wall

Considering how hard it is to explain how Google Analytics works to the standard business owner, I imagine it wouldn't be hard to obscure all manners of data collection programs fr…

I doubt anyone on HN would pay for a service like UFlix when the DIY alternative is much more efficient. For less cost we use our own US-based vps, running something like the shado…

I hope Paul Buchheit becoming a provost doesn't mean he won't be part of YC going forward. A little part of me is hoping to have him on our interview panel again to show him how fa…

I don't know why, but no public cloud to my knowledge offered even the Maxwell GPUs. As cool as these cards are, I really hope they become available on AWS soon. The current AWS GP…

100% agree. It's a tradeoff. If I had a lifestyle trading business, the corporate tax rate in HK is 0% (17% for revenue derived in HK, 0% for non-local revenue). On the other hand,…

The default option for #shares was 10k @ $0.0001 per share The list of fees is at: https://stripe.com/atlas/faq#Are-there-any-additional-costs-... We have to file everything oursel…

March 5th - We signed up to the waitlist the instant we heard about it April 8th - Received an invite. They gave up a form to fill out online where we had to upload some IDs and ot…

This is how you do great content marketing and branding. This entire video series is about inspiring people with a side benefit of illustrating what makes YC special. Compare this …

What you see in a 2 line press article is literally the simplest way to describe what their business is doing right now. The point of demo day is to get people interested in your i…

Every time I check HN, there's a new crypto tool, encrypted databases, and tips on hardening your servers. No matter how secure your system is technically, there is always the requ…

I thought this was a joke with the answer being "because there's a giant park instead of buildings"

There really isn't that much difference in the substance of the requests which was not what I expected. It's more the frequency and how the requests are delivered that is different…

Not exactly. If you use an standard VPN protocol right out of the box (read: OpenVPN), then yes it is automatically blocked. The OpenVPN SSL handshake is different to regular SSL. …

As someone with a startup that operates in both India and China, I completely agree that India will be the next big thing. Both are messed up in their own ways. The difference is t…

The price the manufacturer is looking to sell, this doesn't make sense. Sure it offers more hardware flexibility than a PI, but its ultimate form factor makes it at best a pi type …

A new Meteor and Django in the same week. Feels like Christmas come early