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by benmanns 14y ago
In Lynchburg, VA (it's no San Francisco), my peers think that around $20/hour is a good rate for an internship at a fairly large insurance company. Some smaller businesses and non-profits pay around $10/hour. I've got a lot more experience
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I think the difference here is that Amazon is taking in massive revenue and investing it in future infrastructure. Jason Fried advises against taking no revenue now while expecting to "figure out" some way to make some revenue in the future
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Here's a diff that shows the differences between a fresh Rails installation and RailsApps/rails-stripe-membership-saas as of ea5bc35c02de4be277682dca964bff8dcb84917c. https://gist.github.com/3955802
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Or try running an A/B test on it, and submit a blog post with the results to Hacker News!
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Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619059
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Why should they do that? For their sake or for yours?
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Or, if you are, predict catastrophe 100% of the time.
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Here's the JSON endpoint with the data from the launch: http://services.redbullstratos.com/LiveData/Get
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I was referring to the section that stated, "We have identified several individual students with solutions publicly posted (github included) who will be expelled from the course in the coming days if these solutions remain public." People w
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The fact that people publicly posting their work would get expelled disappoints me. During the Machine Learning class on Coursera, I did all of the programming exercises myself. After submitting the assignments and getting 100% scores, I wo
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`whois google.ie` returns % Rights restricted by copyright; http://iedr.ie/index.php/mnudomregs/mnudnssearch/96 % Do not remove this notice domain: google.ie descr: Google, Inc descr: Body Corporate (Ltd,PL
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How much of this could be because there is no real way for people to found companies without taking on this risk? Perhaps this might reduce the risk profile of founding a startup enough that family providers or risk-averse developers can
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The difference here is that storing Bitcoins is like having cash sitting on the server that thieves can pick up and run away with. If you steal from Amazon the Apple store, an ACH or credit card chargeback will set everything straight. If a
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If someone licenses a product to you for free, you are entitled to it for free, without the worry of having the vendor extort both you and your clients.
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What happens when you become large enough to justify an organization account at GitHub and it no longer becomes beneficial for you to either use or continue to operate Legit Teams?
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Dart does compile to JS while CoffeeScript retains a one-to-one mapping between CoffeeScript and JavaScript. Read the "golden rule."[0] [0]: http://coffeescript.org/
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While I didn't see any public mention of it, you can use curl --data-binary @your-file.png http://tinypng.org/api/shrink
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It may be that Google uses location information from your IP address, which, for the Microsoft servers running the competition, is in Redmond. If you search "what is my ip address" in the competition, Google's results show "Your public IP a
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by benmanns 14y ago
Nice! I don't think this is how you were supposed to do it, but you could submit this as a bug to the Stripe team, or even suggest it as a new level for the next CTF.
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I spent a great deal of time using index.php and README as filename parameters, and using the contents of those files as the password attempt. This attack worked in my local environment, but not on the live ctf. It took a while to realize t
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True, but don't forget that you still get charged for usage by AWS.
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In this case, who makes up the difference? I would assume that it would be on Square's end to make up the 2%-1.32% difference, so it's likely that Square would be the one to terminate your account. However, I do wonder what kind of perks yo
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by benmanns 14y ago
Note that the URL in the one-liner references the master branch, which can be updated at will by jtwaleson. A much better idea would be to use a link to a specific version if you are going to make claims towards its cleanliness: curl -O
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I think that the problem that we will always run into, is that any human-performable task will either be cracked by someone writing a bot, or made trivially inexpensive by apps that charge as little as $0.00139 per solved captcha (see [1]).
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What happens if someone uses something like LastPass, RoboForm, or any of the other automatic form fillers to legitimately sign up for your website? I would imagine that these would "guess" that username means username and email means email
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Here's a jsFiddle in HTML5 mode with the table code pre-entered if anyone wants to play with it: http://jsfiddle.net/bzf9W/
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Why don't botnet operators use a peer-to-peer style command centers? According to the original article on the FireEye blog, the network was taken down with only "three days of effort."
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Another curious statistic: according to the sales numbers on http://www.humblebundle.com/ , Linux users on average pay more ($12.50) for the choose-your-price bundle than Mac ($9.99) or Windows ($7.98) users.
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I don't believe they are increasing prices, but rather showing different, better quality hotels that are pricier to Mac users.
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True, but by working for "roughly X/hour" you've established that the typical exchange rate for your time is roughly X/hour. If I were to ask you to do some work for my during your off time, I would have to pay about X ± X/2 depending on h

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