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by stevewepay 11y ago
What is the legality with respect to downloading this file? Could it contain material that would put us at legal risk?
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by stevewepay 11y ago
When I went to U of T, my tuition started at around $1900, and ended at $2500/year in my final year, all of which was covered by my scholarship. In addition, residence at New College was about $6000/year including meal plan. So
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Maybe because it's good marketing? If someone reads about it on the Washington Post, they're more apt to believe and contribute than someone who sees a random Kickstarter campaign with nothing but a Youtube video.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
The EU has already said that the referendum is about staying or leaving the EU. Leaving the euro would be the best thing for the country. You can't rehabilitate your economy if you don't have control over your own currency (dropp
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by stevewepay 11y ago
It's never been out of the question. In the years that they have been kicking the can down the road, all of the EU financial institutions have been preparing for this exact thing. You can expect Greece to exit the euro with little to
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by stevewepay 11y ago
On the contrary, this is where you can really prove that you are worth your salt. There is no better arena to prove yourself than a real-live production-down situation.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Actually I think it's slightly different. Champions don't fear loss otherwise they would never try for the last second winning shot. Champions like Michael Jordan, etc, believe they should win every single time because they are t
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I did it to count the tiles, and was going to work on a full-on cheating program but never got around to it. I did find the algorithm online though, it's pretty interesting.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
It's pretty much as other people talked about, I used OpenCV to try to detect the board, and then isolate each tile, and then used Tesseract to try to figure out the letter. The biggest problem I had was whenever the red score bubble
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I used Tesseract and OpenCV to process Words With Friends tiles.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Finish school. You're only young once. Why waste your youth working, when you have the rest of your life to work? Explore school, explore intellectual pursuits, learn things that actually interest you without the constant stress of w
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by stevewepay 11y ago
>Node's event driven design is also called "co-operative multi-threading" I think you mean multi-tasking, not multi-threading. And isn't cooperative multi-tasking the Windows 3.1 model on DOS? Not sure how cooperati
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by stevewepay 11y ago
What is the technique to shutdown and restart a server without losing connections? Is it just making sure the connection isn't closed or reset before shutting down the server?
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by stevewepay 11y ago
The credit bureaus simply don't care. I had my identity stolen and then bad information was mixed into my account information. It took years to get things straightened out. Even to this day, years later I can't do any online cred
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by stevewepay 11y ago
This has been going on since the dot com bust. My friend had to train his offshore replacement at his company. He did things like train them saying one thing in the morning, and then say the exact opposite thing in the afternoon. The rep
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I honestly can't tell from the article if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
One question I have is, when do you know to abandon a trading strategy that used to be profitable, but has not been profitable over the past N number of days. At what point do you throw in the towel and move onto another strategy?
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by stevewepay 11y ago
It's definitely not common these days to send a thank you note. It used to be a lot more common 20+ years ago but these days, it's pretty uncommon from my experience. But I don't think there's anything wrong with sendin
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Silicon Valley’s Youth Problem (2014)(nytimes.com)
35 points by stevewepay 11y ago|18 comments
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Most of the time the hash isn't successful, so you modify the block slightly and try again, over and over billions of times. Question: What exactly gets modified over and over again? Is it the nonce that gets tweaked through every i
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by stevewepay 11y ago
(WePay employee here) One thing we have spent a lot of time working on is protecting our marketplaces and their customers from regulatory risk, which is something not a lot of people think about. We've noticed the card companies are
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by stevewepay 11y ago
If you're an actor and want the most opportunities, you go to Hollywood. In the same vein, if you're in tech and you want the most opportunities, you should go to Silicon Valley. Just like Hollywood, Silicon Valley can be a very
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I'm not a Musk-apologist, but he already denied that vehemently on Twitter. And the "source" of that statement is anonymous with little credibility. Seems like an easy case of libel.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
ChuckMcM can always be counted on to have a thoughtful and interesting comment. He is my #1 favorite HN commenter.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
Wouldn't it actually encourage people to relocate outside of NYC/SF, which would be good for the economy, according to the article? The drastic difference in house prices would mean that you could sell your house here, and move t
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I play poker in card rooms often, but I don't consider it gambling. There is an aspect to luck, but it's mainly skill. Betting and knowing how to bet is a dominant aspect of the game, and there is a huge skill component to that.
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by stevewepay 11y ago
I wonder how many years this battery will last before requiring replacing? Storing power over the course of the day is an intriguing idea, because the house is generally empty then. Instead of selling back to the power companies, I would r
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by stevewepay 12y ago
Testifying isn't as big of a deal as someone who bring a lawsuit against their company. There are a lot of people who testify in lawsuits, and their names never make it to the articles. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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by stevewepay 12y ago
WePay (YC09) - Palo Alto/Redwood City - Full-Time - Only current US work authorizations Company Description WePay is a fast-growing payments company that has built its API specifically for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfu
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by stevewepay 12y ago
You can't really compare thread pools to semaphores. They're don't have the same intended use, where semaphores are a low-level synchronization mechanism and thread pools are a bit higher up. In fact, I would wager that man

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