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by yeukhon 9y ago
I am not much of an investment person, but 600M for a classified site is actually pretty impressive for an old, well-established company. If they are able to maintain a high profit with low operation cost, then buyer can project more earnin
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Well, many of the secretive startups remain secret because (1) they do have a great product but they want to test the water first, keeping initial customer happy and until enough maturity they go out and take over the market (and in many c
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by yeukhon 9y ago
When I read Magic Leap, my head reads it Major League" all the damn time.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Thanks, I didn't read that properly. Hopefully truth will come out of criminal investigation.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I was born in Hong Kong and I lived there until I was 12 years old. Around age of 8, 9, when I was in my 3rd, 4th grade, the school installed a computer lab and we had to take compute class every year. This was around 1999, early 2000. We l
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by yeukhon 9y ago
If 600M is profit (not revenue), that's 400M short from 1B. That's not a bad valuation, also consider the user base is quite strong. Using both yield 3B is very conservative IMO. If you buy it for 3B, then you will get your invest
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Well, they advertised m1 as such and such hardware spec. I don't know if in their ToS they state they would be allowed to change the spec without notifying customer. Maybe. I believe m1 is only available on PV.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I believe they aren't allowed to change the hardware spec, so at some point they will not be able to get supplies anymore. As far as SimpleDB, yeah, believe it or not, on AWS bill, it still exist and most support engineers from Amazon
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by yeukhon 9y ago
How come Levandowski isn't sued for stealing data? Doesn't what he did to Google considered stealing? I would have called for police investigation for someone so prominent stealing my company's data.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
More impressively they also maintain older instance types such as m1 they rarely pull them off the shelf completely.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
RPi corrupting SD cards, how did you confirm it was RPi the one at fault?
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by yeukhon 9y ago
It depends on what you want to do with a home server. Is it a home entertainment system with ready-to-use entertainment UI? A computer in a compact case no larger than the size of a modem/router with just an OS installed (Linux, Windo
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by yeukhon 9y ago
"At Bell, the financial motive was not grants but contributing to the company’s product lines. This seems reasonable to me, both because telephone service is a public good and because, as Gertner notes, the challenges of improving phon
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Well. WinsorGreen is the successor design of WinsorBlur so I am assuming Blue exists and it's just a matter of time to finish building Green.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
How does it affect the environment, despite their efforts to keep heat and CO2 emission as low as possible? How's the wild life there?
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I tried, but nothing from the response... is that normal?
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Why Ashburn: According to [1]: "Ashburn is the Internet’s boom town. It sits atop the world’s densest intersection of fiber networks, making it an ideal location to store and distribute data. .... It was home to MAE-East, the Internet’
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by yeukhon 9y ago
> Installations will start in June, beginning with California Would be interested in NYC. So a couple questions for those already done this: * any tax benefit / government subsidies I should be aware of? * starting small, recommenda
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I don't know, one hand I feel that exposes risk of versatile trading, on the other hand it doesn't seem like anyone would care, because growth/number is micro by seconds, and it takes days to see real spike.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
(and I can't do any frontend work). Every job has its own difficulties and its own obstacles. off-topic, btw, I read tpacket == tptacek. He can easily hide in Linux kernel. No one noticed, until now.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I understand REST's original motivation, but having a modern protocol to work with resources on a computer doesn't seem too much to ask.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Well, I think both are idiots. I didn't know the probation office was involved. But judge has the final say in the sentencing. There are many ridiculous rulings, some are harmless and for giggles, but some are seriously fucked-up like
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by yeukhon 9y ago
I agree but also have counter example, perhaps not yet as an interface for two systems. But let's start with this: What if I can ask my OS to do things I normally do over some protocol like HTTP in a RESTful style? Create user, list di
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by yeukhon 9y ago
My #1 complaint is there is no OOP client available from service provider. i.e. building a driver to consume the response and turn that into your client code. The irony is I often write my own harness for REST service, and those are general
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by yeukhon 9y ago
It's called finding people with similar interest. Knowing other technologists are interested in solving social issues isn't something we easy can get on othet sites which are overpopulated. HN is in a good size and the folks are m
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Oh trust me, given the current track of records, the Administration can grt confirmation easily. Hearing is just for show for the Adminstration.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Not true. Plently of submissions about books and arts.
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Disagree with this rule. This forum should not be a place for just showcasing freakin personal tech project only. Yesterday I read someone asking the community share how they spend their work day. One HNer said he works as a professional fi
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Python's Tox tricks and patterns (2015)(blog.ionelmc.ro)
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by yeukhon 9y ago
Yes, but my suggestion is don't put up a wall between your visitors and your site. You set up a hyperlink on keywords such as "password", "miltiary encryption", and the only reason one would do that is to link to so

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