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by sskates 13y ago
Oh that's awesome. What was your team name/year? I may have saw you on the scrim servers.
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Reasons to compete in this year’s Battlecode programming competition at MIT(spenserskates.com)
53 points by sskates 13y ago|20 comments
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by sskates 13y ago
On any payment network the fees are a result of the risks of credit card fraud. Card processors can't cut fees without losing money. It's an efficient market as it is.
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by sskates 13y ago
I remember discovering that referencing things outside of the local scope cost an extra bytecode back when I did battlecode. Also calling a method cost an extra one too, so ideally you'd just copy paste your methods all over the place!
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by sskates 13y ago
Kind of like Facebook?
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Ask HN: Method to keep track of large number of sets with high cardinality
1 points by sskates 13y ago|0 comments
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by sskates 13y ago
Careful! A lot of would be Drew Houston's end up discouraged by naysayers. As a founder, it took me a while to know who to listen to. One of the toughest things about doing a startup is people telling you you're wrong all the time
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by sskates 13y ago
Reminded me of http://paulgraham.com/prcmc.html , which equates selling your company to hiring someone else to manage it full time. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to focus on anything else.
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by sskates 13y ago
Congrats guys!
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by sskates 13y ago
How is it suboptimal? $2,500 per life saved is pretty good, let's say that's 10 lives a year for him. How could you do better than that?
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by sskates 13y ago
The Economist article cited two groups that are lobbying to fix this- Innovate for America and FWD.us.
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by sskates 13y ago
In both instances it depends on the length of the secret you hold. If your private key is small enough you can brute force it as well. That sounds like it's equivalent to requiring a password of a certain length. Now that I think about it,
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by sskates 13y ago
Doesn't storing a hashed and salted version of a user's password accomplish the same thing as storing a user's public key? I suppose the other advantage of doing this is it's easier to do without the password leaving your machine. edit: I s
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by sskates 13y ago
Wow- this is awesome! It's really cool how people's friend distribution by age is a convolution of their age and the age of the general facebook population. It's also scary in a way to see a snapshot of how I'm likely to change in the futur
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by sskates 13y ago
Almost all startups run into trouble at some point. If you don't have a good relationship with your cofounder because of one the problems, it's unlikely that you'll create a successful startup given the high probably of running into a down
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by sskates 14y ago
Startups repeatedly make the same mistake of not talking to customers enough and dying as a result. One of the most helpful guides is to try to make a mistake in the other direction. Try to talk to your customers too much. No early stage st
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by sskates 14y ago
I love the seed round in 65 characters: "NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNYNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNYNNNNYNNYYYYYYYYYYY" Really explains raising money to somebody who has never done it before.
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by sskates 14y ago
The study asked about "preferences of physician-participants for treatment given a scenario of irreversible brain injury without terminal illness", which is a very different scenario than randomly having a heart attack when you're 50 and ot
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by sskates 14y ago
The number of deaths from the tsunami is listed at about 16k ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and... ). I'm surprised it was so high, but in general deaths from natural disasters are low in number, compared to regu
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by sskates 14y ago
Really? It's somewhat of a bad sign that he couldn't even manage that.
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by sskates 14y ago
Thanks for sharing that. Do you think you could have better spent your time elsewhere outside of tech startups?
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by sskates 14y ago
One way to tell- if you asked them, would they say that they should have spent their time doing something else? What do you think they would say? (Or if you could just ask them, that would be even better!)
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by sskates 14y ago
The companies failed, but did the founders end up worse off than if they had been random engineers at Microsoft?
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by sskates 14y ago
Ang Lee was, even after 5 years of failure. I have heard of quite a few people in other industries (namely entertainment and art) that just failed to make it and would have been better served having spent that time pursuing something else.
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by sskates 14y ago
Yes, I know there's a strong selection bias in who I hear about. That's why I'm extremely curious to find even one data point on the other side. If you have one, please share!
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by sskates 14y ago
How many people have worked on their own startup in the valley for 5+ years and had nothing come of it? Before I made the leap to working on a startup full time, I searched for a while for an example where 5 or more years resulted in comple
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by sskates 14y ago
I'm just asking for a few examples. Do you have any where they advertise an open job but the pay is low?
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by sskates 14y ago
Yeah I think him manually clearing a table over and over again was the big problem here. The amount of entropy that had to be introduced into the process to turn a routine task into millions of dollars of loss was tiny. He just needed to cl
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by sskates 14y ago
Do you have an example of a job opening where they're offering 60k for a MIT programmer? I can give you a bunch where they offer substantially more (all $100k+ with just an undergrad degree): https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/#t=sq&
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by sskates 14y ago
Speaking as one, MIT programmers go for a lot more than 60k.

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