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by minouye 9y ago
Cool Tools by Kevin Kelly - a must own if you're interested in making things. https://www.amazon.com/Cool-Tools-Possibilities-Kevin-Kelly/...
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The China GPS shift problem(en.wikipedia.org)
20 points by minouye 9y ago|6 comments
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by minouye 9y ago
Flow https://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Perennial-... Antifragile https://www.amazon.com/Antifragile-Things-That-Disorder-Ince... High Output Management https://www.amazon.com&#x2F
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Ask HN: Good examples of well-written developer docs?
2 points by minouye 10y ago|2 comments
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by minouye 10y ago
But who pays and how do you avoid adverse selection problems? In the study you cited, it sounds like compensation often comes from the recipient (in addition to a payment from the government). This seems like it would skew towards ability t
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Show HN: WikiRoulette – Randomly browse Wikipedia(wikiroulette.co)
8 points by minouye 10y ago|9 comments
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by minouye 10y ago
Speech-to-text seems like a technology that suffers from the 9x effect[1]. Creators overvalue the impact of voice transcription, and users overvalue their existing input options. Even for the desktop, speech will be roughly 2X faster than t
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by minouye 10y ago
Why not use upvotes of the post instead of user karma? Having the community upvote the recommendation in context is more important to me than how much karma the user has. I find that some of the most insightful book recommendations come fro
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Can we speed-listen and still understand?(medium.com)
2 points by minouye 10y ago|0 comments
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Build Your Own Video-Rate 2-photon Microscope(parkerlab.bio.uci.edu)
1 points by minouye 10y ago|0 comments
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by minouye 11y ago
Interesting info and highlights how powerful Costco has become. They continue to capture revenue streams outside of margin from actually selling goods (credit card bounties/rev-share, membership fees, etc.) and they presumably were abl
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by minouye 11y ago
Will the Boss shutdown affect Duck Duck Go?
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by minouye 11y ago
These "Heroku is too expensive" comments all look at absolute costs and not relative costs. They are paying roughly $200 a month to Heroku. If you do some rough calculations to figure out revenue (use Stripe fees and make assumpti
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by minouye 11y ago
Absurd title, but great lifestyle business. At the numbers stated in the article you get the following annualized revenues: 2000 customers: $12.4M 2500 customers: $15.5M 3000 customers: $18.6M Assuming that margins are pretty good, that&#x2
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by minouye 11y ago
Link?
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Sam Altman: “Founders underestimate how much a bad accelerator hurts them”(twitter.com)
2 points by minouye 11y ago|0 comments
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by minouye 12y ago
Net income includes non-cash expenses (i.e. it doesn't explain change in cash position--that's what Statement of Cash Flows is for). Cash flow can be positive with a loss and vice versa.
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by minouye 12y ago
If you want to learn more about the genesis of Doom/id software, Masters of Doom is a fantastic read (also an amazing audiobook narrated by Wil Wheaton). http://www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Cultu...
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by minouye 12y ago
True not the best wording. Was thinking about it more from the perspective of Reddit taxing Amazon. If I were Amazon I'd be disappointed not because of the poor quality traffic, but because a top 100 site, with threads on every conceiv
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Reddit’s tax on Amazon purchases(mattinouye.com)
6 points by minouye 12y ago|2 comments
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by minouye 12y ago
Supposedly the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_v._3Taps
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by minouye 12y ago
There is no way that this is true. eBay has a similar affiliate program and historically I believe they do around 4-5% of GMB (gross merchandise bought) for the marketplace side of the business. I'd imagine Amazon would be in the same
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Why Messages in iOS 8 will make driving safer(mattinouye.com)
2 points by minouye 12y ago|0 comments
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by minouye 12y ago
From the report: Our data consist of daily transactions for 2,807,476 households from January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2013, and include both banking (i.e., checking, savings, and debit card) and credit card transactions. We observe the d
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by minouye 12y ago
The biggest sales uptick -- 61 percent for big-ticket items -- went to merchants that use Amazon Marketplace...That means Amazon still indirectly benefits, since it collects a fee from merchants on its marketplace. Not sure why they burie
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by minouye 13y ago
I recently started a project that takes screenshots of top news sites every hour: http://newsabovethefold.com It's really fascinating to look at once you've collected a decent number of screenshots to animate through:
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Pypal.com redirects to Coinbase(pypal.com)
1 points by minouye 13y ago|0 comments
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by minouye 13y ago
The idea that Bezos has already turned the WaPo into Amazon's personal PR factory seems highly unlikely. Esp. when you see articles like this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/0
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For your security(mattinouye.com)
1 points by minouye 13y ago|0 comments
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eBay debuts new local service provider marketplace, eBayHire(techcrunch.com)
3 points by minouye 13y ago|0 comments

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