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by frisco 17y ago
(Hint: you can't truncate a hash and get a subset string of the original password to still work.)
752.
by frisco 17y ago
There's this confusion that VCs exist primarily to help innovative startups get off the ground. This just isn't true; they really exist to generate returns for their investors. The complaint that entrepreneurs are so underserved by VCs mi
753.
by frisco 17y ago
You're right that it's a probabilistic prediction, so accuracy is a little subtle. If we give 10 people chances of 70% and 7 get in and 3 don't, internally we count that we were 'correct' for all of them. For right now, the website is sho
754.
by frisco 17y ago
Can't say too much right now, but we solve as many, if not more, problems for colleges as we do for students. If you're applying now -- please tell us what would make the site more helpful and useful! (My email's in my HN profile now.) Th
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by frisco 17y ago
we've seen that weighted gpas are usually taken apart by the colleges and don't matter as much -- it's highly dependent on unweighted gpa, though. if 10 years ago a school had 100 students applying with 4.0s, now there's over 1,000 (and we
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by frisco 17y ago
Their return policy is so lenient and customer service so good that you can order 5 pairs of shoes to try on and return four with no problem. And, they all get there within a couple days max. I've never ordered from Zappos, but I've heard
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by frisco 17y ago
Yeah; I think he should be in the air about now? Also, does anyone know if jetBlue ever got back to him on his request? The 30dayflight page for the letter wasn't updated.
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by frisco 17y ago
Paging dcurtis...
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Csv2mysql builds CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements from csv files(code.google.com)
2 points by frisco 17y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 17y ago
It's Mac-only.
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by frisco 17y ago
Has the whole piracy episode taught us nothing? You cannot control the internet. The internet is about the efficient conveyance of information: it's basically a law of physics that nothing can stop information from spreading.
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Tell HN: SHDH34 going on now, hacker heaven.
1 points by frisco 17y ago|0 comments
763.
by frisco 17y ago
Looking back, I spent too much time worrying about my scores and not enough time making sure my essays reflected my unique achievements and skills. That's still framed in the broken system in place now. Can your really tell someone
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by frisco 17y ago
I'm sorry? Can you be more specific? Given what we're working on, reputation is all we have (albeit as a function of how well our software works). We'd never do either of those things.
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by frisco 17y ago
Can you give me an example of an ethical issue arising from this view? Quantifying something doesn't impose a system of beliefs on its own.
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Quantios is hiring: help reshape the college admission process using data(quantios.com)
23 points by frisco 17y ago|15 comments
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by frisco 17y ago
Oh -- sorry about that! I found it through stumbleupon and didn't realize there was an affiliate link at the end. It won't let me change the URL now though.
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Personal Cell Phone Jammer, $27.41(dealextreme.com)
40 points by frisco 17y ago|52 comments
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by frisco 17y ago
I just watched the trailer. My cofounder couldn't stop laughing. That's miserable. We were joking that we should go on and come back at one of their ridiculous offers with technical minutae: "I'll give you $250,000 for 51%, you'll get 49%
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by frisco 17y ago
Highly reminiscent of Ken Thompson's "Trust in Computing" speech where he talks about how you can't trust anything you have written yourself from scratch, down to the compiler, even if source is available: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/
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Apollo 11 Mission Timeline(history.nasa.gov)
3 points by frisco 17y ago|0 comments
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CSS Debug Snippet(snipplr.com)
20 points by frisco 17y ago|3 comments
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by frisco 17y ago
Shareholder value and revenue aren't necessarily the same thing at very early stage companies. Shareholder value can be built through brand recognition and integrity, and sacrificing that for short term revenue is destroying long term shar
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by frisco 17y ago
One of the big bottlenecks here is access to the low latency network connections & data streams. Successful HFT systems integrate information from ultra low latency news wires, trading activity in microsecond timescales, and are consta
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Ravoux's slavemaker ant(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by frisco 17y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 17y ago
With an Ono-Sendai.
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Gcc Misinterprets Trivial Loop as Infinite(kernel.org)
56 points by frisco 17y ago|32 comments
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by frisco 17y ago
It's coded in a really interest dialect. Completely unreadable to me, at least. I wonder what the Shuttle source looks like. I'd imagine its in a higher level language (C?), and that it's likely been rewritten several times since the 70s.
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by frisco 17y ago
Hope this doesn't look like I'm spamming HN; I saw this and just thought it was really interesting. It's an clever tactic in that provided atomized nicotine without any of the associated chemicals or smoke, but (apparently) the same experi
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Blu: Electronic cigarettes that look, feel, and taste like the real thing(blucigs.com)
1 points by frisco 17y ago|3 comments

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