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by biot 10y ago
Has this metric been surpassed since?
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by biot 10y ago
Why build a quad core CPU when you can just wait a few years and a single core CPU will be just as fast?
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by biot 10y ago
Discussed a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12159844 (same URL, minus the unique hash)
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by biot 10y ago
If you must, serve up the authors as an array that is a sibling of the posts array. So if you have 100 posts written by only 3 authors, you have: { posts: [ /* 100 records */ ], authors: [ /* 3 records */ ]
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by biot 10y ago
Did you mean to submit a link? Or is this just a generic "hey, let's discuss this subject" kind of post?
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by biot 10y ago
The article already addresses this: While $200,000 is certainly a sizable reward — one of the highest offered in corporate bug bounty programs — it won’t beat the payouts researchers can earn from law enforcement or the black mark
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by biot 10y ago
Javascript is the new turtle.
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by biot 10y ago
If Burger King introduced a new burger called the "Large Mac", how prominent the "golden arches" logo is for McDonald's doesn't factor at all into whether or not this is trademark infringement. Same goes for t
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by biot 10y ago
Don't use this if you do business in Canada. Under CASL you could face fines of up to $10M per violation: http://www.zorbloglaw.com/2014/07/is-that-email-worth-10-mil... Compu-Finder got a $1.1M fine: http:&
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by biot 10y ago
Bad news (there is no cure): “We both found the same brain structure involved in the cortex,” he says. “Both tinnitus and chronic pain are chronic conditions—there is no cure.” Good news (there may be treatment): Rauschecker
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by biot 10y ago
Macbook Air... Notebook Air... I can definitely see that consumers might find the similarity confusing given that they're in the same category of goods and services.
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by biot 10y ago
If your day is only 50% productive, then clearly working only 4 hours a day would make you 100% productive! Only it doesn't work that way. Unless you have laser focus, most people can't pick and choose the times that they are prod
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by biot 10y ago
Normally I'd agree with you... see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6434400#6435092 However in this case when you receive a cease and desist letter informing you that you don't have permission yet you explicit
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by biot 10y ago
It doesn't change your point, but Ecuador's country code is EC.
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by biot 10y ago
First prize is $25,000 USD. Doesn't seem worth it given that it appears one must upload their code, eg: https://github.com/amazon-picking-challenge In comparison, Netflix gave away $1,000,000 for a better recommendatio
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by biot 10y ago
Are you saying that because you think about murdering people all the time? It's a valid question; I pass no judgment.
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by biot 10y ago
All text submissions are the same. HN really should change the styling as even the most upvoted text submission by the HN staff shows up as the same dim text, like this one from 'dang', a moderator: https://news.ycombin
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by biot 10y ago
That was my point though -- excluding people who are in different markets, have special language needs, etc. etc. you're left with 95+% of the US market who have very efficient ways of legally licensing all but the very latest unreleas
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by biot 10y ago
A person in the US who, for example, wants to watch all but the latest season of Game of Thrones can go to iTunes and, within seconds, purchase and start watching. And it will be in better quality than the torrent which was ripped off some
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by biot 10y ago
> Techies in San Francisco don not only hoodies but > also T-shirts with “G∑∑K” emblazoned on the front. Really, a geek would actually wear a t-shirt like that? It sounds a bit like someone who is a computer neophyte wearing
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by biot 10y ago
It soon becomes obvious that you cannot always find the solution within the puzzles themselves. Given that fact, it's no spoiler that if the solution isn't contained within the puzzle, maybe you should look to things outside the p
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by biot 10y ago
What would you change? If you were a manager, would you expect people to put in only 2 hours of actual work per day, regardless of when their butt is in the seat?
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by biot 10y ago
Clickable: [1] http://bit.ly/2acARwG [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarium_Capital#Recent_perform... [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxtXMlPSQAY
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by biot 10y ago
What's the typical cost of bringing in someone to investigate and write up a technical due diligence report?
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by biot 10y ago
If nobody downvoted, then the author of the comment would be unable to distinguish between "the community doesn't value my comment" and "my comment was ignored". A downvote sends a clear signal vs. a lack of signal
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by biot 10y ago
I sometimes both downvote and reply when I feel that it would be helpful. At other times, the comment is self-evident as to why it was downvoted (and/or already has replies from others) and a reply only adds noise instead of signal. Th
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by biot 10y ago
Voting gives a sense of agency in that one can influence HN in a positive way. By upvoting, I am making HN more positive by promoting comments that I think add to the discussion. By downvoting, I am making HN more positive by demoting comme
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by biot 10y ago
The supervisor is what is responsible for restarting the worker or not. If you have a process that saves files to local disk and the disk is full, causing the worker to crash, the supervisor can recognize that reason and conclude that the w
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by biot 10y ago
Details are in the article. Yahoo needed to overcome Google's guaranteed payments of $300M/year, thus the $375M/year amount and favorable exit clause in the event of a Yahoo acquisition.
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by biot 10y ago
1. Earn sufficient income outside of job. 2. Quit job.

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