Viewing profile — ryana

Realizing that I can keep running notes has been a great productivity hack for me. I have long been a heavy note taker but struggled at how to best tie them all together. Something…

I’ve used podswap for my Gen 1 AirPods and it was fantastic. It took a couple cycles for everything to be back to normal (full charge, full volume) but they were up front that it t…

Honest question, would a 3 year time-to-failure be considered imminent?

We bought a Zinus mattress recently. $260 for a queen size and pretty great so far.

Those are probably books from Academic Library partners, since they tend to have the rarest and most valuable stock. Every book that comes in gets scanned and assessed to one of a …

As a prior BWB employee (with no equity or outcome from this sale) I'm happy to respond to some of these concerns. "Very much enriched the owners" is quite a stretch. Especially co…

I am always sad to see responses like this. Statistics is a very well-defined mathematical discipline, and any good research firm will use weighting techniques to adjust for demogr…

> Of course almost all challengers have hacky tech under the hood because they don't have the resources. Tesla has a larger market cap than Ford, GM, or Honda.

GitHub has something like 75 million repositories. GitLab seeing a spike of ~40k repos being imported so far would need to continue for 5 years to match GitHub's current scale.

Thanks for the honest reply. I think that helps some of us square the circle on why you felt so strongly about not cutting ties. It does a lot to make sure this doesn't come off as…

So does Sam denounce the previous actions of YC banning companies who supported SOPA from demo day? Either YC is an organization that takes political stands or it's not.

That's awesome. $200M per delivery seems a little tight to design and build 25 planes from scratch (the latest version 787 is ~$300M for comparison) but I'm sure they have smart pe…

The data would say otherwise. See the graphic at the bottom of this page and feel free to peruse the linked dataset as well. http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/2015

They were nice enough to provide some numbers, so I tried to figure out what's going on with Borderlands. First thing, they say that a move from $10.74 to $15.00/hr will cost them …

As someone who has spent a lot of time in the non-profit and B-Corp space, I'm very interested to see how this plays out. It's an interesting idea and one that can definitely have …

> There are a lot of talented coders on HackerNews who could built any app currently on the market in a weekend. I see comments to this effect every now and then on HN (ie. any ski…

Groupon may not have lived up to the hype, but they're still putting millions of people in restaurants each year. And part of the reason they didn't live up to the hype is because …

"Look.. look at Amazon. That company has never posted a profit. And yet every trader I know is falling over themselves throwing money at them. It's the belief in investing in somet…

Just wondering, how often in the past have you purchased some kind of meal replacement shake to solve the problem? If never or not often, why will Soylent be different?

$1.5B for a company started, grown, and still based in Atlanta. Great outcome for a growing ecosystem and hopefully we'll see the early employees from there start to reinvest in th…

This post is 2 years old. Any reason to resurrect it? My first thought reading through was that treehouse had some recent layoffs or poor results and this was a "hah, look at you n…

It's not any different from being able to do that to hardware. That's why cars have to meet certain standards in order to be legal for driving on public roads. It seems likely to m…

"In douchey-business-guy fashion he tries to put an entire community of transdisciplinary people in their place" I think his point is also that this type of thing is not just accep…

I noticed that there are no FOX Broadcast Company channels on their channel list. That's a shame because I'd really want to keep Fox Soccer Channel if I was switching. I would gues…