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by egillie 10y ago
We're seeing the same problem with lovely paper birch trees and the birch borer in the northwest http://oregonstate.edu/dept/nurspest/bronze_birch_borer.htm
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by egillie 10y ago
Says they're not taking new registrations at this time
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by egillie 11y ago
Some companies layer external fraud protection on top of stripe. Have you tried any of those, or do you know if other payment processors (braintree, adyen, etc) have better built-in fraud protection?
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by egillie 11y ago
I think of Pinterest as replacing magazines à la 'Better Homes', and magazines didn't seem to suffer the novelty problem.
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by egillie 11y ago
Flexport | San Francisco "Flexport is one of those rare startups that will not merely satisfy its market, but grow it. There will be more international trade because of Flexport, and international trade is a very big thing for there to
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Ask HN: Is anyone using GraphQL / Relay in production?
11 points by egillie 11y ago|3 comments
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by egillie 11y ago
Flexport | San Francisco "Flexport is one of those rare startups that will not merely satisfy its market, but grow it. There will be more international trade because of Flexport, and international trade is a very big thing for there to
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by egillie 11y ago
What happens if it's rainy and windy? You've just opened up part of the roof!
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by egillie 11y ago
Flood myths are astoundingly common https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths
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by egillie 11y ago
Flexport | San Francisco Paul Graham says, "Flexport is one of those rare startups that will not merely satisfy its market, but grow it. There will be more international trade because of Flexport, and international trade is a very big
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by egillie 11y ago
There's some evidence for that! http://www.sciencemag.org/content/320/5880/1217.abstract
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by egillie 11y ago
You can play around with something similar here: https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/
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by egillie 11y ago
Then again, you see studies like this: http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/lean-out-th... so perhaps negotiating less is acting rationally
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by egillie 11y ago
Oops, I should have clarified that the study was within the US -- edited! Looks like Google's US market share is ~65%, and globally it's ~70%
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by egillie 11y ago
Bing + yahoo now have just over half of google's marketshare (edit: in the US): http://searchengineland.com/bing-reaches-20-percent-search-m... Anecdotally, I've noticed my campaigns getting a better CTR on Bing (
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by egillie 11y ago
Is the class still curved? Because if so, then choosing 6 points would always be the correct strategy.
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by egillie 11y ago
Flexport | San Francisco Flexport is a platform for global trade. We make it easier for the next generation of brands to get their products to market. Paul Graham says, "Flexport is one of those rare startups that will not merely satis
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by egillie 11y ago
How did you like it? Have you looked at Sift Science, by any chance?
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by egillie 11y ago
How is this different from the Obfuscated C contest? http://www.ioccc.org/
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by egillie 11y ago
Flexport | San Francisco Flexport is a platform for global trade. We make it easier for the next generation of brands to get their products to market. Paul Graham says, "Flexport is one of those rare startups that will not merely satis
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by egillie 12y ago
Great title, great cover, nice job Al!
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by egillie 12y ago
It has also led to a sharp rise in kidnapping and trafficking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women_of_China#Sex_traf...
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by egillie 12y ago
Without getting too specific, a family farm like ours is definitely not worth $2mil, and outright selling it wouldn't cover me + siblings going to Stanford. But the key is that it's enough to borrow against -- Stanford just wants
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by egillie 12y ago
With "typical assets" -- my family was below the income thereshold but didn't receive any aid from Stanford in '06 because our family farm was worth quite a bit. Lots of ways to slip through the cracks with these polici
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by egillie 12y ago
Flexport | Software engineer | San Francisco, CA Our goal is to create a world where anyone can freely trade regardless of geographic, cultural, regulatory, or logistical boundaries. By dramatically simplifying the process of importing good
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by egillie 12y ago
Google Native Client is a big push for native -> web, though I haven't heard much about it lately...
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by egillie 12y ago
Flexport | Software engineer | San Francisco, CA Our goal is to create a world where anyone can freely trade regardless of geographic, cultural, regulatory, or logistical boundaries. By dramatically simplifying the process of importing good
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by egillie 12y ago
Flexport | Software engineer | San Francisco, CA Our goal is to create a world where anyone can freely trade regardless of geographic, cultural, regulatory, or logistical boundaries. By dramatically simplifying the process of importing good
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by egillie 12y ago
Flexport | Software engineer | San Francisco, CA Our goal is to create a world where anyone can freely trade regardless of geographic, cultural, regulatory, or logistical boundaries. By dramatically simplifying the process of importing good
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by egillie 12y ago
SSDs as RAM + projects like Tachyon are the future of big data processing -- current workflows are still way too slow. I wonder how this will affect Spark.

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