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110,930karma·51,752submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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Note that its not illegal yet to blind optical sensors on a UAV/drone.
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This. After seeing the URL posted above, I clicked the link just to see if it was Steve's book. Disappointed he doesn't put his name prominently on the landing page.
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Most opt outs cost you about 15 minutes extra; one time flying from MIA to ORD, I had to wait 40 minutes extra because I opted out.
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Not true. I have a commodities trading account I use to trade corn, soybeans, and hogs. Minimum opening balance was $5K (Tradestation). Scottrade and others have a minimum of $500. Now if you're talki…
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I needed reminding of this, hence the tattoo I got: This Too Shall Pass.
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Self-driving cars can't get here fast enough. How can we get them here faster? Google folks: There are people out there willing to work for free to help self-driving cars get here faster. Make a way…
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Congress upped the minimum flight time requirements, without thinking about the consequences.
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Don't display them to the user without two-factor authentication then. Everything can be compromised at some point.
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I'm in a weekend long iOS bootcamp as we speak :)
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Correct. I don't want Stripe to do the conversion. We want to receive dollars from US customers, and Euros from EU customers.
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When I interviewed with Twilio, they let me know the next day I wasn't a good fit (they wanted a hardcore developer with DevOps skills, I'm a decade-long SysAdmin with some developer skills). While I …
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Can I use PayMill to except payments from clients in the EU if I'm a US-based business?
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I blacklist is modified, notify me via SMS (the same way Google/Facebook can handle you not able to get into your account).
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I argue that mail clients should have a blacklist option: When logged in as account X, NEVER permit me to send email to email address Y.
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Not true. I walked away from my primary residence because it lost over $100K in value. My credit score only dropped from ~705 to 655 (per Creditkarma.com). Also, only one of my creditors lowered my cr…
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This. I'm very familiar with stop orders. They're useless once the market goes to hell (the exact conditions you need them in).
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I think with the automated trading example, it makes it seem much easier for anyone to dip their cup in the stream. When you think Facebook/Instagram, you think "Damn, those guys got lucky as hell". W…
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I have roughly 33GB of email in Gmail; I definitely can notice a lag when I'm searching for something.
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http://code.google.com/p/maczfs/ Not boot volume though.
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Have a link for this product? Interested.
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So, it's basically Linux's LVM.
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How impervious are they to flooding?
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We have SQL Server 2008 boxes with 128GB+ of ram; we're able to run all of our production databases right out of memory. This would be cost-prohibitive in a virtualize environment such as AWS, Linode,…
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Unused capacity is a market inefficiency. If you've got a jet deadheading somewhere empty, or have extra seats when someone hasn't bought out the whole cabin, that's an opportunity to offset your cost…
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Who's door do I have to beat down to get one?
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Invite only baby. Trying to figure out how to get an invite code.
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I think people on HN sometimes underestimate the importance of the middleman in economic life. You don't have to be B2C or B2B with a direct product or service. Often the most profitable position is …
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Was too quick in Calculator; my fault for multi-tasking.
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We run gear in multiple physical locations, but both the application and data is stored/backed in S3. This allows us the redundancy of S3 without the cost and fragile nature of EC2.