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by zck 15y ago
I'm ignoring the 990 sites it didn't have to check because it wasn't relevant to the quote I was discussing: >Bloom filter allows Chrome to use precise verification service practically only when the user actually goes to a malicious web
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by zck 15y ago
>Bloom filter allows Chrome to use precise verification service practically only when the user actually goes to a malicious web site. Not quite true. This ignores priors ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability ) How many websit
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Tony Hsieh (Zappos CEO) on hiring humility -- don't be rude to your driver(youtube.com)
2 points by zck 15y ago|0 comments
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by zck 15y ago
Does that mean Arc3.2 might show up soon? Also, thanks for putting years on the dates of newsnews.html . You might've done it before, but I just saw it now.
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by zck 15y ago
One method that seems to be gaining in popularity is to order the people you let into the site by how many people they invited signed up. So someone who shares your site with their friends gets in before someone who didn't. Of course, this
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by zck 15y ago
For him, marginal dollars have negative utility. This may be because of morality -- he could consider the act of giving mathematics prizes antithetical to promoting good math research; it may be because of his focus -- he knows that he woul
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by zck 15y ago
How does it compare to s2010? I wonder if there are more applications for summer, because you can apply for after graduation, rather than in the middle of the school year.
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AT&T and T-Mobile: the case for a merger(boingboing.net)
2 points by zck 16y ago|0 comments
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by zck 16y ago
Nope, it doesn't. It may encourage it, but by no means is it required. Common Lisp was the first standardized object oriented language, actually ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Common_Lisp_O... ). You can write Lisp code th
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by zck 16y ago
I was wondering why I was logged in, able to comment and vote. They're letting back in members slowly, with Reddit Gold members having a larger chance of being allowed in: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/gv63r/nobody_can... .
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by zck 16y ago
Joel, this response is disappointing. If you don't want to respond to the actual content of mpyne's response, just say so, or don't respond. Solely attacking the style of eir response is ridiculous. You're better than that.
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by zck 16y ago
The author has since resigned as a moderator: http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/2029/my-letter-... As an off-topic aside, when I took Real and Complex Analysis in my senior year of college, the author of the Stack Overflow post
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by zck 16y ago
from the article: [Gates and Ballmer] also wondered how they might reduce Allen's company stake... That's different from reducing his influence; this reads like they were trying to take away vested stock. That's not the same as saying "beca
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by zck 16y ago
This would require a lot of work to not violate FERPA, which is a federal law preventing educational records -- such as course history -- from being disclosed without consent from the student.
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by zck 16y ago
If it's what you love, it's never a bad time. This is true for virtually anything. There are times when it may be easier or harder to make a living doing so, but if you love it, you should work at it.
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by zck 16y ago
>60/40 isn't measurable, but if you know you're providing more value than the other founder, it's going to be close enough... The problem, of course, is that you have to convince the other founder that you're doing 50% more, will always
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by zck 16y ago
HN isn't really the place for this kind of question. Check out the guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) for the kinds of things that belong here. Specifically, the first paragraph: >On-Topic: Anything that good hack
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by zck 16y ago
It's this link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773106 from 591 days ago. It's the spike in August 2009, approximately doubling the unique IP count. It's less impressive for pageview count, though.
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by zck 16y ago
It doesn't help you with this project, but ongoing support should be something addressed in your initial contract -- e.g., "20 hours of post-shipping support are included. Additional support may be purchased at a rate of no less than $XXX p
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by zck 16y ago
Logging in using FF4.0 on Windows XP works fine for me. That is, unless you're trying to make a list of users who just logged in ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976 ), so you can DoS the server, in which case I didn't just log out
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by zck 16y ago
"Anyone want a calendar?" "Yeah, I'd love one." "Here you go; for your convenience, it's got a speaker to remind you to get an oil change at my garage." "Huh, that's weird, but I'll just remove the battery and I won't hear the message." Onc
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by zck 16y ago
Thanks, but if I'm being honest, this comment is directly aping Joel Spolsky's style. I'm glad it worked.
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by zck 16y ago
If you hit a pothole, and your tire pops, you bring it to Jim, your mechanic. "I can fix your tire for $150", Jim says, dreaming of the used boat he can afford with your money. He takes your car into the garage, and puts it up on the lift.
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by zck 16y ago
The page "List of lists of lists of lists" has been created and deleted three times: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists_of_lists
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by zck 16y ago
>(Fred Wilson): I am also talking to my friend Mark Pincus who had an idea like this a few years ago. Mark Pincus is better known as the founder of Zynga, unless this is another Mark Pincus.
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X-ray machine from 1896 compared to modern version(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by zck 16y ago|0 comments
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by zck 16y ago
>I was somewhat disappointed that the OP showed us a C Major scale without really explaining what a "major scale" is-- a collection of whole and half steps... I agree. I find it very frustrating that Western music breaks the twelve note
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by zck 16y ago
Washington, D.C. Most Issues 1. congress (48) There's a joke to be made here.
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by zck 16y ago
ifconfig eth0 down ?
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by zck 16y ago
>Couples who choose not to have kids also have better, more satisfying marriages than couples who have kids. Well, of course, given that some couples have kids by accident. If you agree to wait on having kids for five years, then -- who

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