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AirMap | Santa Monica | Onsite, full-time | BD, Technical Acct Mgr, Data Sorcerer and Engineer, Senior Software Engineers, Application and DevOps Security Engineers. Help make dron…

I'm a lawyer, with a split practice between IP lit and tech trans, and tried some modest entrepreneurial ventures pre-law school that ended up failing, and I read HN for largely th…

Yeah, how has this not generated more comments? I felt like an absolute stalker as soon as that woman moved, and the subsequent images have made it only worse. Bizarre is an unders…

" It's disorienting for the 1st click on a name to expand a comment, but then the second click (on the same-styled name) to open another webpage (rather than collapse)." Ditto.

In rare moments of digital altruism.

A-fscking-men.

Well done (I'd say better than the original). One of the things I find most surprising is the data on the bus lines. I'd assumed, as a recent LA transplant, that the bus lines woul…

I was going to say that 20% seems exceptionally low, but I see how the pensions were being backed out. Fire and public safety, and their corresponding pensions, make up the bulk (l…

Yeah, this was an astonishingly valuable list of "shit not to do, if you're trying to grow up."

Seems utterly improbable. That was my first reaction to: Apple would never do this. Per my comment elsewhere, I'm not sure that's a terrible thing by itself.

I'm torn between enthusiasm for these awesome additions to to Google Maps, and the longterm effect on one's sense of wonder at the vastness of the world. Something of the wonder of…

Agreed, entirely. I realized that I've been using FB as a surrogate for an email newsletter for side web projects. I also realized that many people I know use the feed as a surroga…

A slight deviation of topic, but I think this point is too-often ignored: "VCs apply money to fix problems and risks in order to increase growth." VCs want you to increase your ris…

This news is actually a brilliant illustration of the sloth of academic publishing. I used Color as an example in a book review of an academic text on the knowledge economy, writte…