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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
A fair counter-point, I acknowledge that there is a fine line between investing too much and too little in R&D (but I suppose we all knew that).
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
Spend too much time keeping your weapons in development and you may find that by the time they are ready your strategy for implementing them is no longer relevant or, worse, that you have already lost the war. A good analogy for the importa
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
Actually, I did that and even provided a non-paywall link myself (although it doesn't appear to be working for everyone). My point is that there has been a rise in paywalled articles being submitted to HN and reaching the front-page, w
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
Interesting, the ?share appendage to NYT links usually works for me. There must be some other parameter ?share uses to bypass the paywall (perhaps geolocation).
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by kapnobatairza 12y ago
Can we just make it a rule that if you are going to be posting news from a source that is notorious for paywalling or geowalling, you at least attempt to provide an alternate link (either in the comments or in the submission if you can reta
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
I know this is not what you want to hear right now but this is where the importance of KYC requirements for any company dealing with financial transactions comes in. I imagine you made a trade-off between providing a frictionless service an
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
The idea that video game clones has gone from "being the exception to being the rule" is cute. The author clearly didn't grow up in the 80s/early 90s when cloning video games WAS the norm. How many pong, breakout, astero
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
I don't particularly think the politics of an executive defines the corporate culture of a company, so I'm not boycotting Mozilla just because the CEO has made some questionable political contributions. However this post sends the
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
Yes, if you use a weak seed on a service like brainwallet to deterministically generate your keypair then it is quite easy to brute force / dictionary attack your private key. This is why clients like Electrum force you to use a long p
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
I think what it comes down to is that most of the HN community are engineers who can appreciate the low-fault tolerance nature of aviation and understanding how failures occur. Additionally, there are so many systems involved in a safe flig
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
Max2 Inc. >>LOCATION<< New York City >>WHO WE ARE<< MaxSquare is developing a suite of capabilities accessible through SMS, mobile apps or the web that allows local businesses to leverage what we call the "the l
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
Are we going to start reposting links from comments in other threads now? Taking a page from Reddit? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7220288
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
Interesting idea - Why not take it further and create a new Wikipedia similar to the "simple english" version but for short articles. Maybe a "summary" version of the encyclopedia that is limits articles to a certain len
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
Looks like a more accessible front-end client for IRC - this is awesome. I love using IRC for communication and this just makes it an easier sell on less technical colleagues. I hope that the Slack service supports using your own IRC client
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
Not quite sure how I helped you with the latter but I am glad to help!
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
Seriously, this wasn't even a particularly dense paper to read. The only conclusions one can draw from this research is that "sex differences in gene expression in human brain relate and may even help explain well-recognised diffe
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
I have a pen like this - Uses some sort of graphite-metal alloy. They are no replacement for real pens, or even pencil. You end up writing in what looks like faded pencil, not to mention there is a significant amount of friction between the
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
I know it is crappy looking, but I made one for you :D http://i.imgur.com/gIryQlj.jpg
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
I frequently travel to developing countries (particularly in Africa/Middle East. I think what is more important than speed is reliability. Most countries have some sort of decent mobile internet service to some extent - it is just spot
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
MaxSquare Inc. >>LOCATION<< New York City >>WHO WE ARE<< MaxSquare is developing a suite of capabilities accessible through SMS, mobile apps or the web that allows local businesses to leverage what we call the "
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
MaxSquare - New York City MaxSquare is developing a suite of capabilities accessible through SMS, mobile apps or the web that allows local businesses to leverage what we call the "the local marketplace API". We believe there is a
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
Programmable mag stripe cards are really nothing new. This implementation is quite nice and sexy though. I can see immediate problems with it though: 1) Card thickness. Most makers of programmable mag stripe cards try to make their card the
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by kapnobatairza 13y ago
New York City. Full time. MaxCrunch ( http://www.maxcrunch.com ) is a fledgling startup that wants to be the "eBay of local businesses". Help us build a platform that makes clearing services and inventory up to the last minute fast, reliabl
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by kapnobatairza 14y ago
I never said that would be their first thought. It is simply another consideration and part of the reason that China would not tolerate an escalation into a real war with South Korea. The only way for North Korea to "get away" with crossing
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by kapnobatairza 14y ago
1) Any government is paternalistic about their citizens abroad, especially one's with money/connections/influence. And I'm surprised that you think that US citizens getting killed through North Korean action in South Korea would not lead to
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by kapnobatairza 14y ago
The situation is not so delicate that China would be able to brush off these deaths for strategic reasons. I'm not even sure what you think a strategic reason for China biding it's time would be. A vague reference to intelligence/surprise a
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by kapnobatairza 14y ago
Of course there are larger geopolitical issues at play... Economically, China has no reason to defend the DPRK and every reason to maintain trade relations with South Korea and the US. And, China obviously does not want the US to have even
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by kapnobatairza 14y ago
Yes, the qualifier was important. As I stated elsewhere, with affluence comes influence. If we were talking about factory labourers, China would obviously care much less about their fate. When you are talking about people that make up the u
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by kapnobatairza 14y ago
You are incorrect that "they could [sic] give a shit" (you probably meant couldn't) about wealthy Chinese citizens. With affluence comes influence. Maybe if we were talking about factory labourers they would not care, but when a country's w
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by kapnobatairza 14y ago
China has a huge number of affluent tourists in Seoul and Jeju island. If NK crosses the DMZ, it will put those tourists at risk - And if North Korea kills any Chinese tourists, you can rest assured China will breaze into the country throug

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