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by rory096 11y ago
That's basically Lyft Line[1], which offers fixed price $5 (at least in Manhattan[2], not sure about other markets) smart routed shared taxis. Seems like buses would just be a matter of improving routing further and scaling each vehicl
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by rory096 11y ago
Author missed DeepSound, the program used to embed secret data onto audio CDs. http://jpinsoft.net/DeepSound/
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by rory096 11y ago
>400m 400 feet!
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by rory096 11y ago
Yes. It's explicitly allowed. >Thanks for being concerned for the quality of HN! We're grateful for users like you. But please don't flag stories only because of a paywall. Accounts that repeatedly do so lose their flaggin
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by rory096 11y ago
rjvir said the .com though. getdropbox.com doesn't count, but they managed to get dropbox.com after they raised enough money for lawsuits. http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/13/dropbox-acquires-the-domain...
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by rory096 11y ago
Whoops, TIL. Sorry about that.
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>Of course such comparison ignores transaction costs, administrative costs, risk, diversification across asset classes, et al. That's exactly why mutual funds underperform. Given the EMH, it makes more sense not to spend so much t
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by rory096 11y ago
Just Excel for the line graph, image-maps.com to avoid doing all the map <area>s by hand. I was actually wondering if there's some way to do this that's less... 90s. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti
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by rory096 11y ago
Thanks. A big part of my strategy was to build up http://reddit.com/r/ottoplay , which is up to 130 subscribers – I've been pushing it in all my posts so far. (At first it was just me talking to myself so there&#x2
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How I got my side project's first 3500 users(ottoplay.tv)
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Airpooler and Flytenow were the startups in the space. (Had the idea myself a few years back.) The FAA ruling was pretty unambiguous: http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/15/faa-bans-planesharing-start...
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by rory096 11y ago
(None of this applies in this case, because the code was evidently literally copied and pasted. Let's assume it was just design inspiration. IANAL.) This would be a question of fair use in derivative works: https://en.wiki
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by rory096 11y ago
>Alien is not setting a record for venture fundings. VentureSource counts four U.S. companies since 1992 that had raised 13 equity rounds through the second quarter of this year. So at least 4 series M, too.
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by rory096 11y ago
Yes, but ed's statement still stands. Payday loan APRs often reach into the hundreds of percentage points. https://www.scc.virginia.gov/bfi/files/pay_guide.pdf http://www.in.gov/dfi/2366.
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by rory096 11y ago
>The border guard then escorted him to his car and made sure he did a U-turn and went back to Canada. >To their surprise, however, when they arrived at L.A. International, they were not only detained and questioned at length by U.S. a
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by rory096 11y ago
Thanks! My next plan was probably a node-webkit downloadable version, but a Firefox version would probably be even easier. It doesn't rely on all that many Chrome APIs – basically just the start button, keeping track of/changing w
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by rory096 11y ago
While those incidents are obviously outrageous, refusal at the border isn't the same as prosecution and certainly nobody was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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by rory096 11y ago
Hey HN, After cutting the cord I was sick of having to decide what to watch whenever I flipped the TV on, instead of sitting back and letting it play like cable does. This side project of mine auto-generates channels and redirects your brow
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Show HN: OttoPlay – Watch Netflix, Hulu and YouTube in channels, like TV(ottoplay.tv)
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Wow right it was Silverlight... I think I raged so hard I blocked that out of my memory. Not that the flash on Hulu or Amazon are any better. I did have some luck with YouTube's old player and injecting their js->flash API, but stil
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by rory096 11y ago
As I said over on /r/netflix, great app, and the implementation is hands down better than rabb.it's RTC method. Did you start after Netflix switched to HTML5 video? I'm curious how you might've dealt with the old fl
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Do you guys have data on the tradeoff between subsetting for smaller file size and cache hits? When people use subsets on the CDN, are they de-duped so the same subset on another site would still be cached? If it does make a difference, wou
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by rory096 11y ago
A 3-minute speech... at YC Demo Day.
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by rory096 11y ago
Great opportunity, thanks guys. I'll point out that first yc.submittable form is a bit confusing: http://imgur.com/ITk71jN I guess the "YC Fellowship Application" is a link to it? I wasn't sure where to
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by rory096 11y ago
Thanks for the link! Figured it was a bit more complex than just a host file, being Google and all.
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by rory096 11y ago
One might even say he's addressing slow thinking , rather than grandparent's fast .
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by rory096 11y ago
But even there you can just sign up with a fake email and see 3 free. It's a minor inconvenience, sure, but not that much of one.
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by rory096 11y ago
> http://go/codegolf How does this work, some sort of TLD magic? (That shouldn't be possible, right?) Is it just routed within Google's internal network?
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by rory096 11y ago
Editor’s note: This week, to mark the 170th anniversary of the appearance of the first issue of The Economist on September 2nd 1843, this blog will answer some of the more frequently asked questions about The Economist itself. MOST newspa
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by rory096 11y ago
See also this previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9870347

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