You never actually explained getting the 100 people. Just that eventually you hired a user acquisition team

I have a very large network, so I thought I could acquire the first 100 within days. But the truth was different. No one wanted to be a Volunteer. They didn't understand it. I had lot of critics. But slowly we gained. Then we started tapping into our Volunteers, once we worked out the details.

Hard graft I will wager and almost always.

Hey Colin, didn't know you hang out here as well. Sounds like I'm in good company.

how did it go?

We just went past 8,000th Volunteer today

This was always the idea. I remember Jason Calacanis saying on This Week In Startups months ago that Uber is in growth mode, eventually when push comes to shove they'll increase the price to get to profitability and have the market share to stick it out.

I believe this is the backend for AWS Glacier

I use you.com. Best of the few I've tried. Can you please align the cards to be in the same row ? If you look up "access database spring" you'll see what I mean, 2 large empty rows with one result each that should be combined.

Any chance of business detail cards like google has (hours, map, address, reviews)?

So happy to hear. Yes. I agree with you. The current design needs to be improved. Next week we're releasing a big update to make the right side more aligned more often.

Yes, I think the yelp app will get some of those updates... We'll increase the priority in the backlog :)

When I saw cockpit initially I thought it'd be a crutch that would atrophy my cli knowledge, your comment makes me see the great use case

I agree with most points here but surprised by "Musk is not a coder and has never worked for a company that develops code as a core business function". He was a part of x.com / PayPal

Yeah, the author didn't seem to do his homework here. Musk is extremely competent at programming. Wrote and sold a game when he was 12, started and ran two s/w companies. He approaches real world like its software - that it can molded as he likes.

I think that’s a partly fair assessment. He hasn’t code in decades, saying he is a coder when 99% of his career is management is wrong.

PayPal isn’t a social network. They are different beast altogether. Elon likes to work on companies with tangible assets such a money transfer, cars or rockets. Social media’s asset is attention seeking from users. That’s much harder to monetize. Only ads have been able to stick.

How do you know this? I find it very likely he has written some code here and there through the years. Whether that is Python, C++, Matlab or R, who knows. As chief scientist at SpaceX he at least needs to do some modelling on a regular basis that requires - at minimum - tweaks to some code.

What?! Do you know what the job of a CEO is? I answer your comment with your question. How do you know he tweaks some code? What proof do you have?

Board meeting -

"How's, like, the code that gets the spaceship in the air and back down again. Is it all working ok?"

"Yes Elon, should work fine. It's basically just typing."

"Great! Should work without any problems."

Sure, it's speculation, but remember that he is the Chief Scientist (think CTO) as well as CEO. Major technical decisions go through him.

In an Elon fan's eyes there's nothing he can't do !

They're saying it isn't one of the best acquisitions. Turns out it was for FB

I've seen references to Benihana online or in American tv. Why does it warrant it's own punctuation here? "..attended my own birthday party. At Benihana."

I understand it's a Tepenyaki place which are expensive places to go to. Though the novelty wears off. Is it considered tacky in the states?

How do you report spam on HN?

45% of my days salary just for being on call.

1.5x my hourly rate for any call outs.

2x my hourly rate for any call outs on weekends and bank holidays