NathanKP

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by NathanKP 13y ago
The way I see it Bitcoin is inspiring people to create these insanely powerful mining rigs. Once they've developed the technology then its possible to make a more general application to other fields, not with the exact same hardware of
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by NathanKP 13y ago
I agree. Rather than arguing against the data in the study its easy to just use the strawman argument of "but it's paid for by Airbnb so it must be biased." But I will say that I would like to see the actual original data in
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by NathanKP 13y ago
The paper may be commissioned by Airbnb, but I think the fundamental findings are pretty solid. Of course I'm probably fairly biased because I'm a pretty heavy Airbnb user, with more than ten Airbnb stays in NYC in the last couple
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by NathanKP 13y ago
I sure hope this was meant to be sarcastic and isn't just a ridiculous attempt at spreading FUD.
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by NathanKP 13y ago
I'm no Google fanboy but what you are saying is a pretty strong accusation. Where is the data to back what you are claiming Google is doing?
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The introduction summarizes the result of his study within the first few paragraphs: At this dosage, the anecdotes claim the usual generic spectrum of positive effects on mood, depression, ability to do work, etc.... I concluded that if an
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by NathanKP 13y ago
The OP also wrote a very detailed study of how Silk Road works: http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road#lsd-case-study In it he mentions a potential test to verify that what you receive really is LSD: An Ehrlich test is a reagant
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by NathanKP 13y ago
Another way to think about it is to ask "Where does the incentive come from to keep members of your family alive, healthy, and happy?" A government defines a group of people who tend to have some sort of patriotic emotional bond w
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by NathanKP 13y ago
Companies are transcending power now. We are becoming the eminent vehicles for change and influence, and capital structures that matter. That doesn't sound like a better world. That sounds like a worse one. Governments tend to at lea
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Save Airbnb in New York: Legalize Sharing [Petition](action.peers.org)
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True. Those are both examples of problems where a string map using user supplied strings as keys would be the best solution to the problem.
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by NathanKP 13y ago
__proto__ is an old, deprecated feature of JavaScript. The proper way to get the prototype of an object is with Object.getPrototypeOf(object) and use Object.setPrototypeOf(object) to set a prototype. I'm assuming in this example what t
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Survive vs. Flourish(medium.com)
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This is a good guide which explains the best technique I've found, and which I'm currently using in production for the startup I work for: http://blog.argteam.com/coding/hardening-node-js-for-product... Basic
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by NathanKP 13y ago
Wow if his stand was near MOMA I probably walked right by it yesterday without noticing... I usually just ignore vendors around the park because 99% of the stuff being sold in that area is mass produced crap that has no value but to extract
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by NathanKP 13y ago
One massive advantage of the API first architecture that wasn't mentioned in this article is that it makes proper unit testing much easier because of the clear distinction between the server side API code and the client side JavaScript
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Very cool idea. I would highly recommend reversing the colors on the site however. It just looks wrong with the landmass being black and the water white given that the rest of the site uses a theme of black being the background and white be
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by NathanKP 13y ago
The code for the C implementation is incredibly verbose compared to the code for the JS implementation. JS: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/program.php?test... C: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.deb
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by NathanKP 13y ago
It's a pity that there is no Ad Block for apps. I hate in app ads like the one on the Craiglist app in the example picture, and I refuse to use any app that wastes screen space on ads like that, unless they have an ad free paid version
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by NathanKP 13y ago
Airbnb definitely isn't as host focused as something like couchsurfing.org but it also definitely isn't as purely property focused as your traditional hotel chain. To me the property focused listings are a way for Airbnb to attrac
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by NathanKP 13y ago
There is definitely a difference between writing nitpick reviews and writing negative reviews of a place based on legitimate issues. If you leave negative reviews complaining about finding a hair on the carpet then yeah good hosts probably
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by NathanKP 13y ago
I guess in a traditional hotel you don't care about the hotel owner and you are one of numerous faceless people passing through on a daily basis so leaving bad reviews is easy. In the Airbnb system not only have you met the host face t
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by NathanKP 13y ago
I guess the issue then is that its hard to balance trying to be nice to the person and being honest in your review. Personally I don't have a problem calling out issues in my reviews because I feel like I owe it to future people who wa
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by NathanKP 13y ago
Wow... You guys seem to have had horrible experiences. May I ask what area you are staying in? I've stayed at Airbnb places in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn area about ten times now over the past couple years and my experience has been sa
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by NathanKP 13y ago
Yeah I'm in the market for a new Hacker News reader because the one I was using before has broken since I installed IOS7 and no longer shows the full text of comments. But this app doesn't show any comments yet so its still got so
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by NathanKP 13y ago
I tried it out on two of my API servers and it seems to work flawlessly. I'm impressed with the beautiful style of your website. Honestly I'm not willing to pay $19 a month for more than two servers though. Maybe if it was around
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by NathanKP 13y ago
These are the things I've been able to do in the past year or so that I thought were pretty interesting and enjoyable: * Code to render PDF's into images using asynchronous streams to make it extremely fast. * The same thing for v
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by NathanKP 13y ago
It sounds like you have enough skills. Maybe the only skill you need to develop is how to sell yourself to the type of companies you want to work for. If you don't mind some completely unsolicited advice: I just checked out your HN pro
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The jobs that have problems that are novel or interesting, are damn hard to get. I disagree. The monthly Who's Hiring thread here on HN is full of great jobs solving interesting problems. If you find those jobs "damn hard"
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by NathanKP 13y ago
putting together CRUD apps and laying out contact forms That's the problem. If that's all you are doing 90% of the time after ten years it's time to move on to a different company. Once a company gets large and has numerous

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