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by aston 16y ago
Getting in at the early stages is a great way to ensure you have the ability (actually, the right) to invest at later stages. You can basically chalk up any losses in the seed stage as the price you pay for better deal flow, or maybe as mon
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by aston 16y ago
Best part about that line is the homophone: "I sell water to a whale."
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by aston 16y ago
You were looking for the Endowment Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_effect ).
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by aston 16y ago
Scribd is unnamed, but is doing more than fine.
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by aston 16y ago
Visa and Mastercard are cards owned by the banks. They take a cut mostly because they can, but also because the infrastructure involved to process a transaction isn't free. For what it's worth, non-bank cards like American Express take a la
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by aston 16y ago
No JSONP?
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by aston 16y ago
Looks like it's founded by one of the founders of YouNoodle, which had similar foundations in big data crunching. Is this a rebrand? A new company based on similar technology?
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by aston 16y ago
Cool analysis here. I think it's a bit too superficial to serve as the last word, though. If I were the sound engineer on this type of album, I definitely wouldn't worry about autotuning parts where only one vocalist is singing. With enough
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by aston 16y ago
Seems to be missing hella ::- 1ee27 // Northern California slang for "lots of" or "very" http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-03/physics-studen...
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by aston 16y ago
Awesome that RTM's dad ends up beating everyone with the unstoppable self-replicating program. Like father, like son: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
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Hardware update « Wakeblog(blog.wakemate.com)
1 points by aston 16y ago|0 comments
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by aston 16y ago
It's pretty darn close to 1 - 1/e.
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by aston 16y ago
Dunno if this holds up for others, but Bing is substantially faster than Google's homepage to load, even with all of the crazy graphics... Impressive.
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by aston 16y ago
Not true. Calculus would be the same (a radian is a radian). sin(pi + x) != cos(x) in the new system, though.
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by aston 16y ago
Here's a fun factoid: your iPhone 3G (and mine) will totally miss out on iOS4's multi-tasking. If Apple is better than Motorola/Verizon in terms of keeping older hardware up-to-date, it's not by much.
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The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon(damninteresting.com)
4 points by aston 16y ago|1 comments
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by aston 16y ago
The Whitehouse Correspondent's Dinner invites comedians knowingly. Wanda Sykes was a speaker for Obama's first one.
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by aston 16y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/24/carol-bartz-talkes-with-mic... Previously discussed on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1375044
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by aston 16y ago
The reason .sort() doesn't return anything is because it sorts in place. That way you won't get confused between the returned list and the sorted one. Maybe you're looking for sorted(dir(<obj>)), which gives back a new list?
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Xobni brings Google Gadgets to Microsoft Outlook(xobni.com)
25 points by aston 16y ago|20 comments
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by aston 16y ago
Isn't the majority of the challenge in nice notation similar to typesetting with text? The difficulty is in making it look nice, not knowing what data you're attempting to display. I should think you could encode pitches, start times and du
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by aston 16y ago
This bookmarklet's been around for ages. Odds are you've upvoted tons of stories submitted using it. The quality of the linked content is what matters, not whether the submitter took the extra 30 seconds to copy and paste the title.
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by aston 16y ago
CMU Alum.
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by aston 16y ago
Can't even miss notes. Every time you press, a note comes out. The only thing you can fail at is causing the notes to play at the right time.
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by aston 16y ago
First off, Jessica is awesome. Second, this interview gives a rare glimpse of the YCombinator through the eyes of a non-pg founder. In particular, I was surprised to hear that Jessica didn't see a "vision" in the early days and that it was
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by aston 17y ago
Looks like the fill characters spell out "LOL" a good chunk of the time [1]. Awesome. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xVXQCrPxQ&feature=featu...
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by aston 17y ago
I saw the Mos Def/Robert Glasper/Chris Dave get-together in San Francisco twice. You wanna talk about steep tickets, that was it: $70 each. On the other hand, totally worth it...
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by aston 17y ago
The criticism of rap in the middle of the piece seems both misplaced and undereducated. Some of the most musically complex instrumental music I've heard in the past few years has come out of the hip-hop world. Take a song like T-Pain's "Cho
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I was the one who came forward about the Macbook Air(sam.bluwiki.com)
310 points by aston 17y ago|144 comments
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by aston 17y ago
Here's the breakdown: []["sort"]["call"]()["eval"] is the same in javascript as ([].sort.call()).eval The part in parentheses calls Array.sort with an undefined this object, defaulting it to window . Array.sort returns thi

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