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by aneesh 17y ago
How does the server know the CVV2 code that was generated by the Emue card? Or, given the card number, and other variables like time of day, is the CVV2 code determined by some function?
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by aneesh 17y ago
There's an important fact not mentioned in the article: schools and students often have incentives to take more AP exams. For example, I was in a school district where AP exams were free for students. And the schools often get special r
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by aneesh 17y ago
> "if you know you want a technical major but you're not sure which, choose Computer Science." I disagree. If you know you want a technical major but you're not sure which, choose Math. It is the common factor that all other technic
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by aneesh 17y ago
That makes no sense - the more books they sell, the more money they lose. No business should sell below their marginal cost for any length of time unless they're really desperate for market share. What's more common is selling the hardw
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by aneesh 17y ago
Given the age distribution of HN readers, it's clear many of them are still in school. So their responses to this poll may not be very meaningful, at least not in the same way as the responses of those no longer in school.
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by aneesh 17y ago
You can bypass a version check to upgrade directly from Windows 7 Beta to RC: http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/04/07/delivering-a-qua...
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by aneesh 17y ago
Yes, you're absolutely right. I made that assumption, and justified it by seeing that Compete's numbers matched up well for the past 12 months (Compete unfortunately only goes back 1 year, hence I went to Google Trends).
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by aneesh 17y ago
Well, Torpig obtained credentials for 8310 accounts, so I'm guessing that's just a $10-1000 estimate of the loss per account. But from my experience, $1000 per compromised account seems quite a bit on the high side for credit card accounts
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by aneesh 17y ago
Looks like you'd have to go back to 2006, but yes, that was the case not too long ago. http://www.google.com/trends?q=myspace.com,facebook.com&...
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by aneesh 17y ago
I've used MySQL extensively for personal projects (all of mine have been at a pretty small scale). I've also used both Oracle and SQL Server for projects at large companies. There's probably not much of an advantage in the database engine
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by aneesh 17y ago
I like the thought of this, but you can't see who upvoted a particular article, so it'd be difficult to make any sort of recommendation.
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by aneesh 17y ago
> How are they computing "brand value" ? I found page 6 of this pdf: http://www.millwardbrown.com/Sites/Optimor/Media/Pdfs/en/Bra... The summary is that it's the NPV of the brand's future earnings, multiplied by the fraction of that r
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by aneesh 17y ago
Since it's US-specific data, perhaps Google only made this available for US search queries.
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by aneesh 17y ago
Try it out at http://perlcritic.com/ . The feedback is usable - when the tool finds something to complain about, it provides a link to documentation explaining what it didn't like, and the way it "should be".
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by aneesh 17y ago
A more informative list, straight from the source, is here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-A... I'm pleased to see thinkers like David Shaw & Eric Lander included.
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Math Trick: Calculating the Square Root by Hand(itl.nist.gov)
48 points by aneesh 17y ago|20 comments
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by aneesh 17y ago
http://www.djangosites.org/
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by aneesh 17y ago
I never felt any barrier to posting on HN. Nearly everyone on this site is pretty welcoming. Just comment on something that interests you, or that you know something about. By the way, for me, and I suspect many others, it's not really a
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by aneesh 17y ago
Most users have no idea how much of their PC purchase went towards a Windows license.
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by aneesh 17y ago
PC, with Windows & Linux dual-boot.
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by aneesh 17y ago
There's no substitute for a good mathematical intuition, especially as you tackle the more difficult problems. But having a standard bag of tricks up your sleeve can be very helpful. Just use them as a tool, not as a crutch. If you're int
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by aneesh 17y ago
These are good to keep in handy. In particular, this one: "The integrity of an email message cannot be guaranteed. If a received message seems out of character for the sender, double-check before taking it seriously." I've come across too
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by aneesh 17y ago
Posted earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=563190
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by aneesh 17y ago
I found the process of coming up with the estimate just as interesting as the conclusion itself. It is described at http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/04/print-is-still-king-only-3-... (linked to by the original article)
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by aneesh 17y ago
A good A/B test is often "sticky" (usually using cookies); once you're in a certain bucket, you stay in that bucket. So a different browser could conceivably make a difference.
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by aneesh 18y ago
> and Yes, he's not a great hacker (he's smart and knows enough about technology but the couple Gen 1 Microsoft employees I've met say he can't code worth a darn) I disagree. I've met & talked with an early Microsoft employee who i
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by aneesh 18y ago
You'd first have to prove that the diagonals bisect each other (so that you can say b = 2h). I'm not sure whether that result was known at the time, but it's not too hard to prove.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I don't think there is one. At least from what I can gather, this isn't quite a proof that the diagonal of a unit square has length √2. The tablet tells us that the Babylonians knew the length was √2, but it doesn't tell us how they knew
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by aneesh 18y ago
What's the best way if you're a non-profit? Are there any banks or credit card processors who would waive fees for non-profits?
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by aneesh 18y ago
PayPal, Amazon's payments API, or Google Checkout. And possibly others I don't know about.

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