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by benp84 9y ago
Though #54 is "How long ago did you start your company?" for which the average is 4-5 years. So, subtract that off for the age at founding I guess.
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by benp84 9y ago
Try a Cracked.com article. I left one open for 10 minutes and had 50,000 requests and 80MB transfered.
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by benp84 9y ago
Those numbers are in two different units: wealth is $ and GDP is $/time. Increasing wealth/income ratio could mean people are saving more.
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by benp84 9y ago
As a combinatorial optimization problem, integer programming is the best tool for solving Sudoku. Fast, accurate, and guarantees the optimality of the solution. I'm impressed at how well this neural network did anyway though!
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by benp84 9y ago
Well, I think I found the problem: despite my meticulously-defined bucket access policy, it turns out I had write permissions enabled for "any authenticated AWS user" in my access control list. I did not realize there were two sep
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by benp84 9y ago
That's my impression too, because no one would manually add plain text JS to a .gz file, but wouldn't that imply that someone has broken into so many AWS accounts that they needed a script to hack them all!?
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by benp84 9y ago
The tracking code is definitely in the file. The checksum has changed, the last file modification timestamp is well after the deployment time, and I can see it when I download it straight from the S3 API.
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by benp84 9y ago
Yes, sitewide SSL. The site is [redacted]. Affected files are: https://[redacted].s3.amazonaws.com/js/scripts_2017-05-28-17... https://[redacted].s3.amazonaws.com/js/scripts_2017-05-28-18... Accor
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Ask HN: How did this tracking code get in my site's JavaScript?
18 points by benp84 9y ago|8 comments
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by benp84 10y ago
"can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 Gauss)" I'm just amused by this conversion. Who is this for? Are there people who know one unit of magnetic flux and not the other?
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by benp84 10y ago
Tim Ferriss has "a little trick" to supposedly solve every complicated life problem in 2 minutes.
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by benp84 10y ago
I think his comment was mostly figurative.
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by benp84 10y ago
I wonder if any of these farming tasks would be more efficient with a swarm of mass-produced drones with the right software. Does farming currently use such large, expensive equipment because it leverages the attention of the operator, or b
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by benp84 10y ago
I once built a MS Excel add-in in C++ that worked perfectly when compiled by Visual Studio in debug mode but would not run when compiled in release mode. Obviously, debugging in release mode was a huge pain. Long story short: at some point
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by benp84 10y ago
Don't forget the DE annual report fee ($50) and the DE annual franchise tax ($175 - $180,000, depending on share count). Plus the registered agent ($50) I pay $275/year. [ https://www.delawareinc.com/delaware-franch
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by benp84 10y ago
That's per second of average transaction time, meaning one second times the total number of transactions (per year I guess?). Kind of a meaningless metric in my opinion.
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The smartest minds in finance on how Wall Street is going to change(businessinsider.com)
1 points by benp84 10y ago|0 comments
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by benp84 10y ago
Great resource! Thanks for the link.
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Tech Spars: Founder Fights Boxing Added to Boulder Startup Week Lineup(bizwest.com)
1 points by benp84 10y ago|0 comments
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With New High-Speed Wireless, Facebook Claims Another Corner of the Internet(consumerist.com)
1 points by benp84 10y ago|0 comments
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Droplet – A Smarter Way to Water Plants(smartdroplet.com)
8 points by benp84 10y ago|2 comments
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by benp84 11y ago
Subscription pricing is also a mechanism of price discrimination: users who need it once pay less and users who need it regularly pay more, as they both should. The author is fortunate to be in a position of sustaining a business on new use
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Alpha 2, the First Humanoid Robot for the Family(indiegogo.com)
1 points by benp84 11y ago|0 comments
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by benp84 11y ago
Except that one requires login.
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9 Reasons You Should Be Using PyCharm(blog.michaelckennedy.net)
2 points by benp84 11y ago|0 comments
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by benp84 11y ago
Did you read the article? They're basically A/B testing their notifications and forms. It's nearly costless and they quickly scrap what doesn't work.
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by benp84 11y ago
So in other words, a bunch of people guessing which hypotheses were true was more accurate than actual scientific studies of them (71% vs 39%). Great.
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by benp84 11y ago
That was my take-away too. They had an idea to fix a problem, it worked but not as well as hoped, so now they're learning and iterating. Sounds like any experimental project (or startup). They got 28 million stoves out with a budget of
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by benp84 11y ago
Light moves 3*10^8 m/s in a vaccuum, which is 7.5cm per clock cycle of a 4GHz processor. The processor is about 2cm wide, so not much room for improvement I figure.
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by benp84 11y ago
I'm pretty sure it was a comment on the state of the education environment, not a personal opinion.

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