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I wonder what fraction of the hardware goes into hosting the human operator and into ensuring their safety. How much hardware cam be optimized away when there is no longer a human …

At first, yes. Longer term, self-driving construction vehicles will likely change the entire market - perhaps similar to how self-driving passenger cars would change that market. V…

With the construction equipment market at $160B, this certainly is quite a sizable niche. Specializing in it is clever. And an $80M round sounds sane these days

> If you use WebSockets for "realtime push", then HTTP/2's server push feature could potentially be used as an alternative. One thing to keep in mind with HTTP/2 server push is tha…

Yep. Livesheets more or less.

It certainly is a good idea. Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I've been toying with the idea of having users use a data flow diagram to structure complex spreadsheets. Still ha…

Interesting. As I understand it, you use a spreadsheet as input and then create the data flow diagram. I certainly see how seeing the data flow diagram means better clarity and err…

Thanks PG. Please do.

I've submitted an application and am having second thoughts about applying to YC. Is there a way to unapply?

True. As a broker of sorts, it is essential that AirBnB withhold details of the two parties. But the company need not hide that they do so. The certainly would not be ashamed if ne…

The debate of more vs. less transparency is not trivial. Regulatory and competitive considerations make this difficult. Sometimes it is simply human nature to be secretive - partic…

I am not involved with Stypi but I think the key points from the article are "it wants to let native applications like Photoshop sync changes between multiple users" and that "they…

Congrats on the launch Stypi team. Just curious about the underlying tech. Are you using operational transformation (OT) like google docs does OR are you using an alternative such …

SEEKING WORK, Dubai, remote. Developer. C/Python/Django. Contact: omar.shorbaji@gmail.com

Reminds me of Paul Graham's observation: "Twitter is important because it's a new protocol. Fundamentally it's a messaging protocol where you don't specify the recipients. It's rea…

For compatibility in general, http://roaringapps.com/ looks like a decent guide. Not sure about Oracle 10g though.