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Testing Freelancers with Trial Projects(beyourowncto.com)
1 points by wimagguc 7y ago|0 comments
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by wimagguc 7y ago
We use user agent histogram as a security litmus test on our payment sites. If we see a spike of a smaller set of user agents without increased traffic (or a longer ‘tail’), we can almost be certain that something shady is going on. Not sup
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by wimagguc 7y ago
Mean is 3.125, median is 2, and mode is 2. All of those are averages.
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by wimagguc 7y ago
Imagine the day you're hired to be a test pilot, and _officially_ graduate as the worst pilot there is!
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by wimagguc 7y ago
Putting this here for the argument's sake: I think children do get bored with all the distractions from internet, screens and what not. If you've ever seen a teenager mindlessly scroll Instagram on their iPhone, that look is pure
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by wimagguc 7y ago
Wouldn't that be incorporated in the inflation though?
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by wimagguc 7y ago
An 1924 Ford cost $265 (In this Freedom Mailer: http://www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Ford/1924_Ford/1924... ), which in today's money is only $3,968 (based on https://www.usinflationca
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by wimagguc 7y ago
(CNN, June 20) Apple recalls batteries in some older 15-inch MacBook Pros: https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/tech/apple-recall-macbook-pro... For everyone who's involved, seems like it's not a one
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by wimagguc 8y ago
Nice one! So is the trick that: 1. JPEG allows text comments 2. Browsers don't enforce correct HTML (alternatively, is "��JFIF,,��r<html>" correct HTML?) 3. And exif tools mostly work based on header & statistic
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by wimagguc 8y ago
I went to see one of the championship finals a few years ago, and it is excellent fun. There are two built-in moments which are bound to be awesome: (1) when the box round is over, tension is through the roof, and the boxers are sat down ar
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by wimagguc 8y ago
Unless you write down that password or use it elsewhere, that can be considered secret. Compare that to the difficulty of sampling someone's voice by simply eavesdropping.
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The meaning of life is crowdsourced(yakuzuzu.com)
1 points by wimagguc 9y ago|0 comments
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by wimagguc 9y ago
How children lost the right to roam in four generations - highly related article and previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13547089 From the comments there it seems that it's not about (perceived) r
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by wimagguc 9y ago
When it comes to batteries, disposing them is the smaller problem as it’s quite straight forward to recycle. Mining resources is what accounts for the majority of pollution & environment damage.
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by wimagguc 9y ago
If price was the only factor that matters, we could be using nickel-metal-hydride batteries. They also last longer. A more important aspect where Sodium would be better than Lithium for batteries is that it doesn't catch fire that easi
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by wimagguc 9y ago
Who are the students though? I'd assume that parallel computing is mostly interesting for university-grade "aspiring scientists", which is reinforced by the example software (a parallel 2D Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics(SPH)
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by wimagguc 9y ago
I'm not familiar with the German legal system but the sum did depend on what they've uploaded. (It was detailed in the letter, if I remember correctly, $600 for half an episode-of-whatever and $3000 for multiple movies.) As for th
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by wimagguc 9y ago
To remove pirated movies from the interwebs there are two options really: either attack content providers / trackers etc, or, find the users directly. In Germany, as soon as you start a torrent client, your traffic is being monitored b
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by wimagguc 9y ago
Feynman’s method to understand complex problems is so simple and elegant! Surely you’re joking, mr Feynman: ”I can’t understand anything in general unless I’m carrying along in my mind a specific example and watching it go. Some people thi
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by wimagguc 9y ago
I learned about this video from HN last year or so. The relevant discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11952927 ...and the Youtube links still work too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2c
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by wimagguc 9y ago
What’s interesting is that it correctly finds Namecheap whois-guarded domains too. If I search for the guarded domain directly it shows the correct record as the owner’s address/etc being WhoisGuard, but then if I search for a non-guar
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by wimagguc 9y ago
The previous discussion with Bitcoin crossing $9,000 is still warm (posted 19hs ago) at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15782222 Do we have anything new to add at each 1K step announcement?
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Identifying viral bots and cyborgs in social media(oreilly.com)
1 points by wimagguc 9y ago|0 comments
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by wimagguc 9y ago
I'm on the market for another startup idea and one of the most ubiquitous advice I'm hearing nowadays is that "there's a startup in every Excel sheet". From that perspective WSJ is doing a great job in making the be
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by wimagguc 9y ago
From this blog post: MIT alumni in their 50s ( http://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2015/04/30/mit-alumni-in-thei... ) "Lesson: Unless you are confident that your skills are very far above average, don’t ta
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by wimagguc 9y ago
Oh, sounds like while most bots are only posting stuff, some do actually consume it for analytics-reposts-engagement. This is huge because (wait for it) Twitter could be the first social network written and consumed entirely by bots!
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by wimagguc 9y ago
I’m writing this from one of these museums (The Natural History Museum) after having been in the Science Museum yesterday. They are both well worth a visit and since they are next to each other and both donation-only, I definitely recommend
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by wimagguc 9y ago
Indeed, create a neural network in only two lines: import * as nn from 'neural-network' nn.create()
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Ask HN: Tool to query/plot data (SQL, JSON etc)
2 points by wimagguc 9y ago|0 comments
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by wimagguc 9y ago
It's not really tips, is it, it's just a high-level React-Native-exists article. While I'm on though, what I'd really want to see in the next great-tips article are: (1) How to make a project more future-proof? (Try it y

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