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by noodles23 10y ago
My bet is on the Chinese with their enormous pig farms which feed every pig a constant cocktail of antibiotics to ensure they grow faster to be the ground zero for an antibiotic-resistant epidemic. Edit Source: A Chinese government official
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by noodles23 10y ago
The most amazing fact about John Conway is that he actually enjoys teaching (even to undergrads). Most profs of his calibre actively shy away from teaching to focus on research. Having his energy and passion made linear algebra fun. He was
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by noodles23 10y ago
Perhaps we can recycle the concrete to build Donald Trump's Great Wall
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by noodles23 10y ago
Considering how hard it is to explain how Google Analytics works to the standard business owner, I imagine it wouldn't be hard to obscure all manners of data collection programs from oversight. In times like this, the importance of civ
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by noodles23 10y ago
I doubt anyone on HN would pay for a service like UFlix when the DIY alternative is much more efficient. For less cost we use our own US-based vps, running something like the shadowsocks proxy. It's the same rig we found to work the be
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by noodles23 10y ago
I hope Paul Buchheit becoming a provost doesn't mean he won't be part of YC going forward. A little part of me is hoping to have him on our interview panel again to show him how far we've come.
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by noodles23 10y ago
I don't know why, but no public cloud to my knowledge offered even the Maxwell GPUs. As cool as these cards are, I really hope they become available on AWS soon. The current AWS GPU instances are so weak we're contemplating buyin
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by noodles23 10y ago
100% agree. It's a tradeoff. If I had a lifestyle trading business, the corporate tax rate in HK is 0% (17% for revenue derived in HK, 0% for non-local revenue). On the other hand, funding in this part of the world is pretty depressing
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by noodles23 10y ago
The default option for #shares was 10k @ $0.0001 per share The list of fees is at: https://stripe.com/atlas/faq#Are-there-any-additional-costs-... We have to file everything ourselves but we do have a few guides availa
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by noodles23 10y ago
March 5th - We signed up to the waitlist the instant we heard about it April 8th - Received an invite. They gave up a form to fill out online where we had to upload some IDs and other details. April 10th - The docusign (digital signature) e
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by noodles23 10y ago
This is how you do great content marketing and branding. This entire video series is about inspiring people with a side benefit of illustrating what makes YC special. Compare this to content by other accelerators (of which there are many).
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by noodles23 10y ago
What you see in a 2 line press article is literally the simplest way to describe what their business is doing right now. The point of demo day is to get people interested in your idea for follow-ups. Read: http://paulgraham.com&#
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by noodles23 11y ago
Every time I check HN, there's a new crypto tool, encrypted databases, and tips on hardening your servers. No matter how secure your system is technically, there is always the requirement to make parts of it "insecure" (in th
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by noodles23 11y ago
I thought this was a joke with the answer being "because there's a giant park instead of buildings"
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by noodles23 11y ago
There really isn't that much difference in the substance of the requests which was not what I expected. It's more the frequency and how the requests are delivered that is different
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by noodles23 11y ago
Not exactly. If you use an standard VPN protocol right out of the box (read: OpenVPN), then yes it is automatically blocked. The OpenVPN SSL handshake is different to regular SSL. There are certain ways you can disguise the traffic and the
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by noodles23 11y ago
As someone with a startup that operates in both India and China, I completely agree that India will be the next big thing. Both are messed up in their own ways. The difference is that in India, things are generally getting better. There are
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by noodles23 11y ago
The price the manufacturer is looking to sell, this doesn't make sense. Sure it offers more hardware flexibility than a PI, but its ultimate form factor makes it at best a pi type substitute rather than opening up new possibilities lik
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by noodles23 11y ago
A new Meteor and Django in the same week. Feels like Christmas come early