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Time dilation goes to infinity at the center of the black hole - at the singularity, not at the event horizon

That is incorrect. The inside and outside of the black hole are causally disconnected. For someone who passes the event horizon the entire future history of the universe plays out above them as the universe warps down into a single beam of light as the black-ness engulfs you.

From the perspective of someone outside, nothing ever "crosses" the event horizon - it just slowly redshifts into darkness and appears to take infinity to "touch" the even horizon.

There is nothing "happening" inside of any black hole right now that has any corresponding time in the outside universe. From our perspective, it happens in the infinitely far future.

Imagine working hard your whole life that you get to a point that most cannot even dream of getting to and having some schmuck on an online forum who knows nothing other than some headline hoping that you would fail.

It appears the trend is becoming that just by being negative and short on everything is some kind of lazy hack to appear intelligent.

Again, how do YOU plan on overcoming the marketing/word of mouth barrier?

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Can you provide a granular breakdown of why I would pick this vs Stripe atlas?

Hi Peter, thanks for doing this again.

I'm a startup founder from India who'd love to learn more about how to gain access to US capital markets and startup ecosystem. (e.g. Annual VC deal volume in US is typically 25x that of India).

I'd love to know what you think are some practical ways of going about this, any common gotchas etc.:

1. Opening a delaware c corp via stripe atlas, any common mistakes you've seen?

2. For a small bootstrapped business (<$100K ARR), are there any realistic ways for the founder to immigrate to the US? (mainly to access a better ecosystem, community)

3. For setting up a remote team: Say that I keep the tech team in my home country, what's the best way to, for example, set up a sales team in the US? (common use case for B2B SaaS)

Not very professional to just point the user to a google doc/sheet.

How do you manage collaboration (i.e. allow users to add features but not make any random changes or delete the whole sheet)? Feature upvotes? Do we ask people to raise a number by 1 in the "upvotes" column.

A proper solution should come with a dedicated frontend.

Like a FOSS alternative for canny.io

They typically have a person's different social media account links and work history. Isn't that personal data?

Is crunchbase/owler/cb insights and every other public data aggregator/lead generator service also illegal by the same logic?

I want to know how many of the total 3600 engineers are just maintaining the main uber app and how many are off in other ventures (self driving etc.)

Hate to be cynical, but I feel like they're just releasing a new one every week just to stay in the news.

I am starting to think everything is an ad for Hey on hacker news these days.

Welp, now Google will lock this API down soon.

We're living in an age where twitter rants on Apple draw more attention than the entire lifespan of a quite fintech unicorn.

I'm a software developer myself. For me, its more like a disengagement from the whole thing.

Do you remember when android/ios were new and there were all new and fun games coming out like angry birds and such? Everyone was into it for a couple years.

Now, if you look at those same games (or even apps from the same era), every single thing about them is made to suck money out of you. It just does something to you, and I've noticed this in most people I know too, it just makes you sick.

Rather than constantly worrying about how not to be a sucker when searching for a new app, I now frequently decide that whatever it was that I wanted to do, I could do some other way or not do at all rather than be subjected to the constant victimization by aggressive monetization everywhere you look.

The hard truth that we, the tech industry, are currently not accepting, is that the value of a lot of the software out there, is actually zero or close to it. The industry has matured. Commoditization is imminent.

Software will be like auto, energy, medicine. Just another industry. Software developers will be like plumbers, advertisers, electricians - It'll be just another trade, but the past gold rush and the remaining few nuggets still out there will blind us all to this fact for the next decade at least.

Wow, I find it amazing how some innocent founders find their posts/tweets/etc blocked, ignored or shadowbanned and somehow, if you're someone, you get attention everywhere for free.

Doesn't seem very fair. I thought at this point hacker news' spam detectors would flare up and stop bumping everything 'Hey' to the top.

Not trying to put on a tinfoil hat but, there is simply no way in hell to get this level of PR and attention unless a significant portion of all Hey activities have been carefully and methodically planned for weeks and months.

I deal with the same difficulties myself and the App store mafia cut is a real problem but I just don't think I'll ever be able to trust them again with such aggressive PR tactics.

Welp, looks like it was removed? I'm not sure what's going on here..

The plot thickens.

As an android user, I'm so jelly. Those screenshots look delicious, well done.

I feel like amazon literally hasn't bothered updating their UI since the 90s. I love audible, but god damn their UI is depressing and actually makes listening to audiobooks a worse experience. There's no better alternative either :(

They were actually acquired by a crypto startup:

https://coscout.com/organization/canya.io

Seems a bit shady if you ask me. Looks like the founder has also moved on (as per linkedin). So yeah, this just looks like a cash grab.

It's really disheartening that when you don't even have any twitter/blog following, stuff like this happens to thousands of people and nobody ever hears about them.

To anyone who wants to learn more I highly recommend https://www.profgalloway.com - Basically a bunch of idealogy around why the big four need to be broken up.

Welcome news!

This guy is trying to emulate x86 in the browser and run the actual Flash player within that:

https://medium.com/leaningtech/running-flash-in-webassembly-...

If you're looking for market/competition research, I'd recommend https://coscout.com as well, for info about companies, funding, competitors, tech stack etc

It's in alpha right now, so you'll have to get in the waitlist, though they're only a few weeks away from launching AFAIK.

Full disclosure: A friend of mine is building this :)

Agreed. It's definitely up to the user to make smart decisions.

However, it's not so cut and dry either. In my last company (B2C mobile app based), we were pretty much getting beat by several competitors. And it showed across all metrics, ratings/reviews/downloads/web traffic/retention/engagement - what have you.

And later on we found out that the founders had been fudging up the metrics and presenting to investors which is why they actually were never able to raise the round, but came very close. By straight up lying.

If some form of business/product intelligence is used to identify such red flags, it can save a lot of bad decisions and heartache from ever happening for everyone involved.

In that regard, I welcome more empirical evidence based decision making (aka statistics/machine learning etc.) where it's appropriate.

They said they're in the final stages of testing right now, they'll first roll out slowly to customers that they're already working with, then the waitlist and then do a wider release for everyone by the end of next month.

Best bet would be to sign up on the waitlist for now https://coscout.com/dashboard

A friend of mine is working on coscout. It's in beta right now, but he showed me some pretty insane machine learning based insights for companies, investors and founders.

Things like

- When will this company raise the next round? - What is the net worth of <literally anyone>? - What is the probability that this investor will invest in you? (given your sector, founder age, pedigree, gender, market conditions, do you have an MVP or not etc.) - A bunch of other complicated stuff I didn't really understand

Definitely worth keeping an eye on if you're into this kinda stuff: https://coscout.com/

... that was pretty uninformative. The first 4 paragraphs the author is just talking about nothing.

React Fiber is nothing new. It's more than an year old. Facebook has talked about it many times. Anyone who uses React would know this.

Shouldn't we prefer official sources instead of articles written by third party content writers that are clearly not that knowledgeable? Seriously, this article looks like the author was being paid by character count and not quality.

This is pretty ingenious. I wonder if something like this can have an effect on call to action click rates. But I guess if the user notices then they're more likely to be pissed.

Well this was pretty scary. Anybody got a link to the chrome canary fix? And what about mobile browsers?

I consider myself to be quite a bit privacy concious. But how do you even protect against something like this? IMO there should be a clear opt-in unicode URL character conversion in browsers.

This is excellent! Thanks for sharing this.

I wonder what even goes on behind other larger frameworks like bootstrap that makes them so huge.