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by dvdhsu 9y ago
That's cool -- you should share a link! I've actually also been working on something just like this, which is why I asked for feedback with this. I'll post it on HN tomorrow via a Show HN so we can compare! For anybody intere
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by dvdhsu 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'm asking about 1. and 3. 1. I have a theory on why VP sucks -- is it right? What do other people think? 3. Yes -- I'm looking for feedback, but in the context of why visual programming is no good. Also b
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Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck?
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by dvdhsu 9y ago
I'd be interested in taking a look; email is in profile.
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by dvdhsu 9y ago
Is there interest in a cryptocurrency index fund? The idea is you could just buy an index fund composed of, say, 50% BTC, 20% ETH, 15% LTC and 15% ZEC. I'm fairly certain that one of these cryptocurrencies will 10 or 100x in value over
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by dvdhsu 10y ago
You "kill" vim by preinstalling a friendly text editor by default, like TextEdit or Notepad. Many of my technical friends (myself included) use vim, but vim will never be used by everybody, everywhere. When most people first get a
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by dvdhsu 10y ago
I think this industry won't last for very long. Mile-earning cards are dependent on merchants paying high fees. In most of the developed world, interchange fees have been capped (e.g. 40bp in the EU). Once that happens, these rewards c
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by dvdhsu 10y ago
Right -- I think this is a problem for many recent startups like Doordash, Postmates, and even Uber. Their pitch to investors that this was a land grab -- whoever conquers the two-sided marketplace first dominates it and extracts profits la
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by dvdhsu 10y ago
The time and process are both fine by us. Just sent an email to Kirsten -- thanks for taking the time again!
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by dvdhsu 10y ago
If possible, private would be better for us. I'd be happy to make literally any 25' slot you have over the next 2 days. This is really generous of you, and we really appreciate it. Thanks!
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by dvdhsu 10y ago
Sid, are you willing to meet with us quickly too? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Obama's Exit Interview(vanityfair.com)
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by dvdhsu 12y ago
Cool! I found the usernames interesting as well, since not many studies have been done on them. "dragon" is both a common username and password! In reply to another child post: the enormous number of "michael" passwords
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by dvdhsu 12y ago
Found it copied here: http://www.gravitycomputing.co.nz/joels-totally-fair-method-... """ This is such a common question here and elsewhere that I will attempt to write the world’s most canonical answer to th
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by dvdhsu 12y ago
In celebration, most of the patients on their website are just $50 away from being funded: https://watsi.org/ . Go fund one of them!
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Fund any Watsi patient for $50(watsi.org)
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by dvdhsu 12y ago
I was reading Why Nations Fail , recently, and came across a similar sentiment: > While the Egyptians were building the great pyramids of Giza around 2500 BC, the English constructed their most famous ancient monument, the stone circle
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by dvdhsu 13y ago
I've thought about this problem a lot, and was thinking about building something similar. This idea is essentially Lockitron, except it's more mobile (both w.r.t the door/bike, and to w.r.t. its physical location). That mucks
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by dvdhsu 13y ago
Paypal buying eBay items wasn't actually the primary method for stimulating growth. Initially, Paypal offered new users $20 for opening an account, and $20 for referring somebody to open an account. They then dropped the bonus to $10 f
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by dvdhsu 13y ago
I've posted about this many times, but it's worth noting that the Machine Learning course on Coursera is CS229A(plied), which is different from CS229 the one most Stanford students take. The Coursera one is more useful if you want
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by dvdhsu 13y ago
> who were called to be the first programmers of ENIAC. Interestingly, Ada Lovelace, also a woman, is considered the first programmer. She wrote a program to compute the calculate "a sequence of Bernoulli numbers with [Charles Babbage
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
I don't think so. Hotmail used to have a similar "feature": when the email address hadn't been logged in for 270 days, the account would be available again [1]. This was troubling because if I had signed up for some other service using my H
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
One caveat though: the Coursera ML course is CS229A(pplied), which focuses on applying machine learning, rather than the mathematics behind it. The "real" CS229 lectures are on YouTube [1], and go much more in depth. 1. http://www.youtube.
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
Comparing the actual number of prisoners in two countries isn't very useful since the two countries have different populations. It would be a little like comparing the food consumed each day by everybody in China, compared to the same numbe
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
Office jobs come with a ~1.5 hour lunch break, where workers go home for a lunch and nap.
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
Though Coursera's Stanford course and SEE's course are taught by the same professor, they are different. The Coursera one is 229A(pplied) and doesn't really explore the math behind the techniques; the SEE one is the original 229 that most S
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
This is similar to how the system at Oxford works (I think this is how the rest of the British universities do it as well.). Your degree class (essentially your GPA) is solely based on tests you take at the end of every year of your degree
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
That was my first question as well. I think Flip was unlucky in that their releases coincided with the rise of smartphones, which took their lunch. When one device just takes video and costs around as much as an subsidized smartphone, there
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
> I think it renders your comments to you alone until $delay minutes elapse. Yes, that's correct. I think the main purpose of 'delay' is to allow you to edit your comments before the rest of HN sees it. A lot of us read through our comm
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
It really depends where you go. If you're in the big cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Hefei, etc.), you'll be fine without Chinese. If you go into more rural areas, Chinese would certainly help, but you'll certainly still be able to buy

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