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by arikrak 12y ago
This is one of the top things people always asked Kickstarter. In general Braintree now seems like a better choice since it lets people pay with Payapl. Though I don't know if it could meet Kickstarter's needs to hold onto the mon
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by arikrak 12y ago
Thanks for your answer (here and on SO). I guess I'll wait it out...
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by arikrak 12y ago
The estimates of stars seem reasonable; the estimates of Earth seem a bit ill-defined. (The study he links to discuses Earth-size planets, but there are many other factors that go into Earth's suitability for life.) The real issue thou
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by arikrak 12y ago
Anyone know how Ruby 2.2 works with Rails on Heroku (with unicorn)? When I switched from 2.0 to 2.1, it caused all sorts of memory problems so I had to switch back.
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by arikrak 12y ago
Looks interesting, going to watch rest later. I wonder if the graph of trade with England is really the 'basis' for all scientific graphs of data. Didn't Descartes develop the idea of graphing Y in relation to X? http:/
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North Korea Behind Sony Hack: U.S. Officials(nbcnews.com)
1 points by arikrak 12y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 12y ago
It's a bit ridiculous how Google shows those numbers on top and people constantly quote there are X results for Y when the real results are always far off from that. There are 382,000 results for {number of "google results"}!
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by arikrak 12y ago
It was a great achievement to send humans to the moon, but I don't really see the point in going again. Or in sending humans to Mars. It won't be a place where people can live. No matter what happens to Earth, there will still be
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by arikrak 12y ago
I had my own simple 'captcha' on my site (since recaptcha could be annoying), but now I added recaptcha since it looks like it will be easier on users. You just need to query recaptcha's service and check if the json string t
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by arikrak 12y ago
It sounds like he's just discussing certain aspects of the film, while ignoring much more glaring issues. It's not ice clouds that are the issue, it's the entire story. [Spoiler alert] Here's the whole plot of the movie,
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by arikrak 12y ago
True, though wait until Amazon starts selling insurance, loans, mortgages and legal services. (See http://www.wordstream.com/articles/most-expensive-keywords )
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by arikrak 12y ago
I know this won't happen, but it's a ridiculous idea. Google's search revenue is what helps fund many of its other projects; they couldn't be separated.
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by arikrak 12y ago
Whatever the official collisions stats, I often see reckless bikers in NYC, so there should be some enforcement. E.g. bikers who zip by the wrong way against a red light and almost hit a few pedestrians.
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by arikrak 12y ago
They assume over the long term their changes are improvements even if takes getting used to. Though maybe they just need something to do, so they change the design regularly...
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Show HN: Algorithms for Interviews(learneroo.com)
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by arikrak 12y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7383672 though they changed my title to normal text.
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by arikrak 12y ago
I always thought that people should have more built-in search power when they code. It's funny that Microsoft is taking the lead over Google on this, though I guess Google doesn't have their own IDE. Soon, modular projects will ju
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Nucleosynthesis periodic table – The Origin of all Elements(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by arikrak 12y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 12y ago
Cool idea. Maybe make it easier to get started, it's a bit unclear initially what to do. Also, maybe have a mini version where you just place 20-30 armies instead of 100.
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by arikrak 12y ago
In general, startups do not follow the professional practices of established companies. When you interview for an established company, they're usually professional and they get back to you afterwards. When you interview for a startup,
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by arikrak 12y ago
I analyzed my HN posts with the Watson API on an Oculus Rift and the singularity happened.
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by arikrak 12y ago
> The national rate of failure for startups is 75-90%... This means for every [Techstars] company that is acquired, there is a company that fails. For a program that is picking the best startups, this is not that impressive. A 1:1 ration
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U.S. Takes Asteroid Threat Seriously, Saves Nukes(online.wsj.com)
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by arikrak 12y ago
This is a major (and long-planned) move on CloudFlare's part. They're going to lose money in the short-term, since the primary reason many small-to-medium-sized sites upgrade to CloudFlare Pro is to get SSL support. Many other sit
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by arikrak 12y ago
It's great that they're finally coming out with free SSL for everyone. They planned to come out with it in early 2014 but ran into a number of technical issues. http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/17/521
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by arikrak 12y ago
Pretty good marketing move on their part. Though it could also be useful when you need an math/data image generated.
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by arikrak 12y ago
How do they get such precise prices? If I was selling something for 140k, I would sell it for 140k. But they sell it for $141,015.42.
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by arikrak 12y ago
I wonder if you should just bump into 4th version so people don't think it goes with Rails 3.
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This isn't charity, their goal is to lose money initially and make it up in the long run. They only want to give it to startups who will be likely to spend lots of money after year 1. This is a simple way of making sure the company has
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Show HN: Learn Algorithms by Solving Challenges(learneroo.com)
6 points by arikrak 12y ago|2 comments

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