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I wonder if you could make the kite itself lighter than air to avoid issues where the wind dies down? E.g. a kite shaped airship.

The article is an excerpt from the book here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collision-course which appears to have been published in 2014.

I have a similar tic. I just edit my hosts file to redirect those requests to localhost. Then when I mindlessly navigate to one of those sites it doesn't work and I realize I did i…

I don't know if the parent comment is correct and that the difference is tax deductible... but if so it is real money. If the marginal tax rate for the Dr. is 50% (like it probably…

It may just look different now. At my company (Mixpanel), the modern equivalent is our support team, which is filled with smart, hungry people who want to get their foot in the doo…

we're a/b testing the button copy... the Starter package is free and the Growth package pops up a plan builder with pricing. It's complicated because the price is based on your use…

(founder of mixpanel here) I'm really excited about this release - sampling has been necessary to support some of our largest customers for many years, but has a bunch of issues, a…

I hadn't heard of this person before, but a couple of points resonated with me: First, the framing of equality and redistribution, and the suggested emphasis on focusing our effort…

Sabine Baring-Gould is a character in a non-canon Sherlock Holmes novel by Laurie R. King called `The Moor`. If you enjoy fictional accounts of widely knowledgeable characters, I r…

(I work at Mixpanel) Honestly you could probably write a quick pipeline to dump your json data into Mixpanel and then use JQL -- it would be a little hacky but if you have less tha…

I just got a Feldgrind after breaking two low-end hand grinders in as many years. I laughed out loud with joy when I first started using it - it feels like a tank in your hand and …

You should read more about QSBS: http://www.andersentax.com/services/for-private-clients/busi... Under certain circumstances, QSBS (Qualified Small Business Stock) rules will signi…

Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" goes into great detail about Isaac Newton's life, and his focus on alchemy and theology. It is of course fiction, but well researched and utterly …

What's your local community college?

Those figures were already adjusted for inflation (it says 2016 dollars)

Hey HN, No boring /jobs URL needed here, just a message: I run the Machine Learning team within Mixpanel Engineering. We are a small but impactful team within the company. We envis…

yes, it's in the works

thanks, fixed!

Mixpanel (YC S09) | San Francisco, CA [ONSITE] Mixpanel is growing very rapidly - 13 people at the start of 2013, 36 by Jan 2014, 120 at the beginning of this year. Currently 200. …

100 hours is nowhere near enough time to meaningfully change someone's life. You'll spend that long just gaining their trust -- and why should they follow your advice, anyway? This…