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by hackathonguy 7y ago
"On average, the fund holds 1.4 percent of all of the world’s listed companies." This blew my mind.
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by hackathonguy 7y ago
Ah! That sort of proves the point, doesn't it? 25% of 694 is 173, which is even higher than 132 villages where there were no female babies. That means there are actually more female babies than you'd predict in advance. Or is my m
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by hackathonguy 7y ago
The article doesn't indicate how the villages were sampled. Suppose a village has a birth rate of 8 babies a year (2 babies every 3 months). There's (roughly) a 50% chance the babies will be male and female, 25% chance that they&#
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The Superhuman Controversy and the Shifting Ethics of Software(newyorker.com)
1 points by hackathonguy 7y ago|0 comments
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Replicating GPT-2 1.5B(medium.com)
1 points by hackathonguy 7y ago|0 comments
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An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud(nytimes.com)
1 points by hackathonguy 8y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What internal tools does your company have?
2 points by hackathonguy 8y ago|1 comments
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Request for Startups 1: Remote tools for remote teams(earnestcapital.com)
1 points by hackathonguy 8y ago|0 comments
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
I completely agree, but would like to note a common fallacy following this logic. If my hourly rate is $20, I might think that a $200 phone is worth 10 hours. The thing is, the majority of those $20 I make are probably already allocated to
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
It's worth noting that Jeff Bezos has a lot to gain from publishing these threats. While publishing the descriptions of the photographs may sting, publishing the photos themselves would hurt a lot more. Now that he's made the accu
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
I'd love to hear more about perceived opportunities in legal tech. For some reason, the legal industry seems very averse to change, but I'm sure that's not always going to be the case. (Lawyer here).
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
Not OP, but gonna pipe in as a Jerusalemite: in Israel, being a foreigner is almost a default state. Consider that a very significant portion of the population only came in the last 30 or so years, and a vast majority of peoples’ ancestors
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
Spot on! Jerusalem is great: perfect weather, incredible people, easy access to nature, lots of culture all around. Only downside is it’s getting a little expensive - in Israel, second only to Tel Aviv and the surrounding area.
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Netflix pays $100m for “Friends”(recode.net)
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Why hourly time tracking doesn't work for software development(bocoup.com)
4 points by hackathonguy 8y ago|0 comments
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
Related question: do you charge by the hour? If so, what's your hourly rate and what software do you use to track your time?
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
Anyone using Brave? Would love to hear your impressions.
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8 lost masterpieces of art (2013)(history.com)
3 points by hackathonguy 8y ago|0 comments
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
Pinning, bundling, gestures and embedded todos/reminders all make Inbox the best email app there is. Hats off to the Inbox team - you've made a great product. I'll miss it.
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
Ramallah in particular is a very westernized, modernized city. To illustrate, the city has KFC branches (which no city in Israel has), and coffee downtown can run you $6 (compared to $1 in cities like Nablus).
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
The oldest building on the list actually dates to 1190.
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Ask HN: What are things people consider to be scientific, but actually aren't?
1 points by hackathonguy 8y ago|6 comments
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The story behind the smallest plot in New York City(medium.com)
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Show HN: Eggshell – a simple BASH script manager for Mac
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
Just thought of another ZKP - my niece can prove to me that she knows the password to a device by logging in, without me ever knowing the password myself.
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
This can easily be remedied by having the verifier ensure the prover is in an empty room, equipped with only cardboard and scissors.
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
Zero knowledge proofs are fascinating - as a non-mathematician, I particularly enjoy real-world examples. Two famous examples ("The Ali Baba Cave" and the "Two Balls and the Color Blind Friend") appear in the Wikipedia a
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
I've found that human help is a surprisingly cost-effective means of personal life automation. A cleaner comes by every week to clean our apartment; a company sends over a box of groceries so we don't have to shop; a nurse takes t
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by hackathonguy 8y ago
I’ve had similar experiences with CEOs of large tech start ups. I’ve learned that when an email is clear and concise, the response rate astonishingly high.
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Ask HN: What's your startup's TLD?
3 points by hackathonguy 8y ago|1 comments

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