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how about custom domains? are they more or less trustworthy than a gmail/hotmail/yahoo account?


On our website, custom domains are usually an employer domain and are rarely scammers.


do you have a source?


How do you deal with blisters? I tried barefoot running, made it about 1/10th of a mile, and had to walk back on my heels because my feet were raw and bleeding. I had large blisters for a few days after.


Not an expert, but I think this means your foot is sliding across the ground.

I do not develop blisters nor callouses because the feet are not landing hard and they're not sliding.

A couple of observations then. First, you can't bring your old form and start cold. Be prepared to work up to it by walking and gradually adding running. Second, the new form involves a more bent-knee, hopping, springy aspect. This vid was very helpful for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jio7DK15Q1E

It's funny that we learn how to run in diapers and then spend decades learning again.


Practice. Your feet adapt. I did give it up though, because stepping on rocks was still super painful.


Was your post antagonistic towards the YC company or removed for an otherwise valid and transparent reason? If hacker news is removing posts by competitors, or giving their startup founders free range to remove posts I should probably start using it differently.


My Show HN post didn't mention the YC company, and the post was reinstated without any revisions of the post itself after I emailed dang.


What's the current cost per base pair? Is a significant portion of the funding really going into synthesis?

Do you foresee synthesis costs falling quickly? It seems like its a major factor holding back commercial applications of synthetic biology.

Congrats on the funding and best of luck as you continue to scale!


This is Patrick, I lead our Design team here. Rather than commercial applications being held back by synthesis prices, it's the large scale demand from foundries ours that helps synthesis companies scale up their processes. If you assume that synthetic biology is going to be done by-hand for the foreseeable future, demand doesn't scale as quickly and prices stay high.


in other words, the robots are coming to steal our jobs?


Robots are coming to handle the tedious, manual labor, so that we can focus on more interesting pursuits. Then, the robots will be able to do that, and we can retire.


We are discussing a puzzle games. Part of that will be discussing puzzles. Maybe don't read comment threads talking about things you don't want any more information about.


There's a ton of ways to discuss The Witness without spoiling the game. The entire point of the game is to solve the puzzles, spoiling the puzzles is incredibly counterproductive. What's more, if you're actually genuinely stuck and want someone to give you hints, Hacker News is not the appropriate venue for that.


"The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel." - Neil Gaiman, "Neverwhere"


A fan asked Neil Gaiman about it and here's the exchange:

A fan: "You're either paying homage to Gibson, which is weird because the two books are in different genres and he isn't mentioned in the acknowledgements, or perhaps there's some manner of Jungian collective unconscious phenomenon at work here, in which you have unwittingly mimicked Gibson, or..?"

Neil Gaiman: "Or it was a very small joke, essentially pointing out that since what is arguably the most famous opening sentence in SF was published in 1984, the nature of what a "dead channel" looked like had completely changed, from grey static fuzz to a pure dead blue. Well, I thought it was funny, anyway."

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2004/12/some-days-bears-on-top...


I'd forgotten how much I'd laughed at that line. Gaiman is great.


Didn't pg say there was a self-driving car startup? I don't see it.


Not everyone presents on demo day, some opt-out meaning they might not be listed here.


I'm pretty sure they did demo. Sama posted a picture of their sensor on Twitter yesterday.


Did he mention 'strong ai'? or is the 'exo-cortex' basically really good siri/google now?


Strong AI is a really hard thing to achieve and it isn't always clear that it is a sell-able commodity to individuals. But something in the direction of an exocortex can be seen as valuable to individuals because it will give them additional capabilities.


Its worth noting that the Keith Hennessey's entire blog is anti-democratic party's economic policy. He has only worked under republican congressmen and presidents. This is hardly an unbiased source.


But, It is a source, of a first hand account of who P. Bush was. Regardless of Mr. Hennessey's Political associations he did deal directly with Bush on a near daily basis.

Also stop for a moment and think about your former and present bosses, how smart do you think they are, do you like or hate them, do you often defend them? I think it says a lot that Hennessey felt compelled to defend Bush.


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