Hacker News: ConnorBoyd

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

ConnorBoyd — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:07:26 +0000

The S-1 itself isn't made public in a confidential filing.

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Things unexpectedly named after people (2020)"

ConnorBoyd — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:53:31 +0000

I was surprised to learn that Cakebread Cellars is actually named for its founders, Jack and Dolores Cakebread

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "America Gave Up on the Best Home Technology There Is"

ConnorBoyd — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 19:32:00 +0000

Last I heard, Starlink isn't reliable in a forest. The trees intermittently block the signal.

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "As climate warms, a rearrangement of world’s plant life looms"

ConnorBoyd — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 18:14:00 +0000

It's called the "greenhouse effect" because the CO2 traps heat in the earth's atmosphere, just like the walls and roof of a greenhouse trap the heat inside the greenhouse. Greenhouses are also enriched with extra CO2 to boost yields, but that's not why it's called the "greenhouse effect"

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Aura: shipping software that was delayed for 4 years because of patent licensing"

ConnorBoyd — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:41:53 +0000

CD quality is 1.4 mbps

16 * 44,100 * 2 = 1,411,200

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed"

ConnorBoyd — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 23:10:41 +0000

They traded based on material, non-public information, so I would have to say yes, this is definitely insider trading, but I'm not a lawyer...

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware"

ConnorBoyd — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:57:30 +0000

Nobody except the eight cameras on the car

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "How crazy am I to think I actually know where that Malaysia Airlines plane is?"

ConnorBoyd — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 04:49:37 +0000

I definitely wouldn't consider that to be a "melt-down"

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Battlecode 2015 – AI Programming Competition"

ConnorBoyd — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:44:47 +0000

Maybe because that would give an advantage to people using faster languages, and they want it to be more about the machine learning algorithms

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Want to get rich? Don't pay off your student loans"

ConnorBoyd — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 20:25:21 +0000

11% might be the long-term historical average (last 75 years or so), but that still sounds pretty high.

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Microsoft Announces Windows 10"

ConnorBoyd — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:35:04 +0000

They're really bad at numbering. First the Xbox One, and now this

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Shirt.codes: Get a T-shirt of your favorite code snippet"

ConnorBoyd — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:10:53 +0000

Well that's kind of boring

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "A New Analytics Toolbox with Apache Spark – Going Beyond Hadoop"

ConnorBoyd — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 20:03:55 +0000

10 nodes with 100GB each. 100 nodes with 10GB each. 1000 nodes with 1GB each. Spark is built for scaling out.

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Charleston, SC police plan to sting UberX drivers"

ConnorBoyd — Sun, 20 Jul 2014 19:19:39 +0000

Sort of a misquote. The Bloomberg article quotes the Google Ventures managing partner, who says the long-term market value could be $200 billion or more. This article makes it sound like that's their current valuation. Still sounds too high, but it's not quite as ridiculous.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-15/worth-more-than-toy...

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old Surveillance"

ConnorBoyd — Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:01:18 +0000

Plus for international travelers, restaurant wifi is sometimes the only way to get internet access

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Apple Confirms Its $3 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics"

ConnorBoyd — Thu, 29 May 2014 00:59:46 +0000

So they buy Time Warner and still have $120B left over

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Quora in the next YC batch"

ConnorBoyd — Fri, 09 May 2014 22:07:09 +0000

According to their wiki page, Quora's valued at over 900 million after their most recent round of funding.

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process"

ConnorBoyd — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:09:06 +0000

I did an hourly internship last summer and got 4th of July off, paid. It must depend on the company.

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Aug. 1, 2012: When Oculus Asked for Donations"

ConnorBoyd — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 03:43:14 +0000

Plus $16M back in June

New comment by ConnorBoyd in "Google Passes Exxon to Become Second-Most Valuable U.S. Company"

ConnorBoyd — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 21:39:55 +0000

Their search revenue is still advertising revenue though