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by aneesh 17y ago
Props to the guy that figured it out on StackOverflow! I still wonder about how that transaction got through without triggering a fraud alert.
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by aneesh 17y ago
Trevor comes on at about 1:10 in that video clip, if you want to skip forward.
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by aneesh 17y ago
That's true for everything except credit card data. If you have to ask, storing users' credit card data is almost always a bad idea. The information is very sensitive, and any compromise is very serious. That's why if you store payment
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by aneesh 17y ago
I'm not trying to say that's the only reason you should go to college -- meeting smart people is simply one of many reasons. There are a lot of valuable payoffs that come with minimal risk, like the degree itself. And there are plenty of
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by aneesh 17y ago
For many people, probably not. But there is a huge variance. How much more money did Steve Ballmer make in his career because he met Bill Gates at Harvard? Nobody knows, obviously, but the odds on anyone becoming a multi-billionaire (lik
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Vanish: Self-Destructing Data in the Cloud using a DHT(vanish.cs.washington.edu)
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by aneesh 17y ago
My anecdotal evidence definitely agrees with these conclusions. My Twitter click-through rates are pretty low. In fact, the best clickthrough rate I get is from people who subscribe to my blog via email.
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by aneesh 17y ago
This reminds me of Karel, another beginner language that lets you move a robot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%28programming_language%2...
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by aneesh 17y ago
This is basically a Keynesian Beauty Contest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
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by aneesh 17y ago
> RescueTime is too analytics-oriented Maybe, but what gets measured, gets done.
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by aneesh 17y ago
The used copies of the older first edition are reasonably cheap. http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0387975136/
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by aneesh 17y ago
> Suicide is never the result of outside details, it's a personal disorder. If you look at the Wikipedia link tokenadult posted, it's clear that there are huge variances both over time ( http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons
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by aneesh 17y ago
Ah, I never noticed that :-)
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by aneesh 17y ago
Saying the Putnam is a next step from AMC12 problems is like saying the NBA is a next step from pickup basketball with friends in middle school! There are people who can do Putnam problems for fun, but those people generally know who they
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by aneesh 17y ago
One of my biggest problems with Google Reader is those annoying unread counts. It makes it feel like email you have to get through ... so I quit Google Reader about a year ago, and started using Twitter as my new "Feed Reader". A stream y
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Emacs Speaks Statistics - Easy scripting in emacs with R/S-Plus/SAS(ess.r-project.org)
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by aneesh 17y ago
Traffic to HN was around 30,000 uniques per day at the end of April (source: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html )
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by aneesh 17y ago
I've definitely noticed that effect here on HN, and it doesn't seem so pronounced on many other sites. Here are the first sites I could think of, and they seem pretty flat. Sites like HN and TechCrunch have less content on weekends, so yo
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by aneesh 17y ago
It's interesting to note the significant drop-off on weekends in Alexa's data.
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by aneesh 17y ago
"But, I see on HN a lot of people whipping up simple webapps and sometimes complex webapps with out any revenue being generated, and just running it for the fun of it" I really don't think most of the hobby projects are paying anywhere near
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by aneesh 17y ago
It's not vaporware. I saw a demo of it several months ago, and I'd bet it's feature complete by now, or close.
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by aneesh 17y ago
There's a webapp based on that at http://dontbreakthechain.com/ (not mine!)
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by aneesh 17y ago
That's not quite correct. They didn't give Apple $46m. The $46m that they're "giving up" is money they would never have had otherwise. The town had 2 choices: 1) Don't give any tax break. Apple will likely go elsewhere, and the town doe
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by aneesh 17y ago
The UI is really clean, and the workflow seems pretty straighforward. Great job! The "Add Story" sidebar doesn't render properly for me when hints are enabled (FF 3.5, Windows 7). The submit button is hidden behind the hint bar -- maybe t
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by aneesh 17y ago
Test the waters with MIT OCW ( http://ocw.mit.edu ) and Academic Earth ( http://academicearth.org ) for lots of lectures & problem sets, and then make the jump if you feel that'll make you happy.
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by aneesh 17y ago
> "Already, I'm confused. Which one of these versions allows me to use all 48 GB of my server's memory? ... Just try to make sense of it all. I dare you. No, I double dog dare you! " Dare accepted. It's actually right there, 1 click a
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by aneesh 17y ago
I recently had to call 911 when I witnessed a highway accident happen. I must've called within 30 seconds, and the operator (I got through without any wait or busy signal) told me they already had several reports of that accident -- with
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by aneesh 17y ago
It's a very cool field, and it's been around for longer than most people would think. Follow @againstthespin on twitter if you want to get my (infrequent) thoughts on the subject. And read Moneyball by Michael Lewis if you want a brilli
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by aneesh 17y ago
I don't think it is real. I've listened to Gates speak several times, and this piece sounds nothing like him.
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by aneesh 17y ago
I'm a sports fan in general, and a cricket fan in particular. I've been working on a structured data repository for cricket matches to facilitate sabermetric-type analyses. Repository: http://data.againstthespin.com

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