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Google wouldn't do anything interesting like that if they bought Pandora. The first thing they would do would be to require a Google+ account to use it, which everyone would hate. …

The problem is that Steve Jobs isn't around any more to give the company the proper focus and hold everyone to a high quality standard. The recent slippage in quality and focus mir…

I draw the opposite conclusion, as all of your examples are from several years ago. Three of your four links are more than 1600 days old! Ever since AirBnB became the most valuable…

Yes, things have dramatically improved, but there are still taboo subjects on HN. For example, try saying any of the same things about YC's own AirBnB and see how that goes over. I…

I wonder how much of their most recent round of funding went towards this.

Tim Cook doesn't seem to care about anything other than the supply chain. He came from being a COO, so that's all he knows. Consider how many different models of iPad there are.[1]…

This is the best explanation I've ever seen. Just lots of focus, attention to detail, and iteration until they got it right: http://inventor-labs.com/blog/2011/10/12/what-its-reall…

The cracks in the facade of phony, good-for-bragging-rights-only "valuations" are really starting to show now. Hold on, this is going to be quite a ride!

The only reason humans have had nothing to fear from machines so far is because of their brains. What happens when those are no longer a differentiator?

But if we just keep interest rates low / near-zero forever , then we can keep inflating the debt bubble forever too! Problem solved!

Biotech included: http://www.businessinsider.com/venrock-partner-bryan-roberts...

Even though I really appreciate the idea behind it, I was never all that comfortable running f.lux on my Macbook. I never understood why it was free yet closed-source. It made me s…

The "something else" is money laundering (i.e., all-cash purchases with zero oversight). Thankfully, the US government is finally starting to crack down on this stuff: http://www.n…

Zuckerberg is the new Bill Gates. In the 90s, Gates was notorious in his ruthlessness to define personal computing as a 100% Microsoft-only experience. Today, as you pointed out, Z…

"What if text was actually text?" Imagine if you traveled back in time to the 90s and showed this to someone and said this was coming from the CEO of two multi-billion dollar 21st …

If I had a self-driving car and some time on my hands, I'd get rid of my home and be in that thing practically 24/7, seeing the land and enjoying having it drive me around. No way …

Or people could still own self-driving cars and rent them out AirBnB-style when they aren't home. In the suburban sprawl where the majority of the USA lives, we already have a nice…

> Mom, dad, and kid all need to go to work/school at roughly the same time. That's okay, once automation really gets going, Mom & Dad will be out of work, solving that problem.

The article only gives three examples of APIs that are "missing" on iOS, and one of them is the vibration API. Since when is the vibration API a "good example" of something necessa…

> Doesn't sound like they'll have the extra people. When automation wipes out 99.99% of jobs, nearly all people will be "extra" people. Globally.

> That homelessness persists in Silicon Valley has puzzled me. The reason is (as the paragraphs just below this line indicate) in fact the same reason for a great deal of issues in…

Yahoo finance says the market cap is only $340M, but all the articles leading up to today said their valuation was going to be $2.5-3B. Did they really only IPO less than 20% of th…

So lemme get this straight: it's okay for someone to post this advertisement-disguised-as-an-article about a YC-backed company's product that doesn't even do what it claims to do (…

The report doesn't really say how this happens or what it means exactly. Does this result from say, people's fingers getting cut by the processing machines and little bits of flesh…