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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: A scammer just tricked me out of my Selfie ID

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

How to Fix San Francisco

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techcrunch.com 9y ago

The end of the automotive supply chain

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: How do engineers find good non-technical partners?

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earlz.net 10y ago

Analyzing the $5.6M Exploit and Cryptsy's Security Failings

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secushare.org 11y ago

15 reasons not to start using PGP

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coinfresh.com 11y ago

Show HN: CoinFresh – Crypto Exchange We Applied to YC W15 With

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decorrespondent.nl 11y ago

What we give away when we log on to a public Wi-Fi network

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

This is why they still call Oakland the Wild Wild West

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Chinese Concept - The train that never stops at a station

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Startup failed in Vancouver, move to SF to work? Pay Bitcoin for Rent?

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Modular smartphone

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: How to hire a sales person for SME?

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www.cypherpunks.ca 13y ago

Stop NSA from reading your instant messages with OTR

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blog.rickygu.com 13y ago

Show HN: From idea to App Store in 10 hours: Bitcoin Trading Game for IOS

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: NDAs, do you sign them?

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

Khan Academy on Bitcoin

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i.imgur.com 13y ago

The reason Bitcoin Crashed today

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www.vancouversun.com 13y ago

Lockheed Martin pays $10M for D-Wave's Quantum Computer

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github.com 13y ago

Bitcoin arbitrage - opportunity detector

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adblockplus.org 13y ago

Google has Removed Adblock Plus from the Play Store

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www.youtube.com 13y ago

How the Tesla Model S is made

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www.bitcoinwatch.com 13y ago

Bitcoin is almost $30

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www.washingtonpost.com 13y ago

Man suffers second-degree burns from Samsung smartphone battery fire

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lifehacker.com 13y ago

HTML5 Lost, Facebook remake Android app Natively

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Ask HN: Should we keep building this cloud managed tablet for the classroom?

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emphatious.wordpress.com 13y ago

Warning: This Website Is Upside Down

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blogmaverick.com 13y ago

Don't Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort

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marketingbeforefunding.com 13y ago

16 Ways to Write Kickass Copy for Your Startup

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prettify.co 13y ago

Show HN: Professional PowerPoint & Keynote Design as a Service Platform

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Appmaker 13 years ago

Looks neat, However, the widgets are not loading for me.

[dead] 13 years ago

$24 more and you can get a Nexus 4 with Quad-core, 720p display, 2GB ram...

Look like they intentionally made opt out a pain:

Procedure: You can choose to reject this Agreement to Arbitrate ("opt out") by mailing us a written opt-out notice ("Opt-Out Notice"). For new PayPal users, the Opt-Out Notice must be postmarked no later than 30 Days after the date you accept the User Agreement for the first time. If you are already a current PayPal user and previously accepted the User Agreement prior to the introduction of this Agreement to Arbitrate, the Opt-Out Notice must be postmarked no later than December 1, 2012. You must mail the Opt-Out Notice to PayPal, Inc., Attn: Litigation Department, 2211 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95131.

The Opt-Out Notice must state that you do not agree to this Agreement to Arbitrate and must include your name, address, phone number, and the email address(es) used to log in to the PayPal account(s) to which the opt-out applies. You must sign the Opt-Out Notice for it to be effective. This procedure is the only way you can opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate. If you opt out of the Agreement to Arbitrate, all other parts of the User Agreement, including all other provisions of Section 14 (Disputes with PayPal), will continue to apply. Opting out of this Agreement to Arbitrate has no effect on any previous, other, or future arbitration agreements that you may have with us.

Canadian cellphone companies are pretty much a oligopoly with 3 big players, Rogers, Telus, and Bell. All 3 of them are super expensive and locks people in on super long 3 year contracts. These companies are so shady they create multiple "discount brands" to make consumer feels like they have more choices. It's not till recently that Canadian government realized the need to create competition and auctioned off some AWS spectrum to a couple "startups", namely Wind and Mobilicity and couple other ones.

Parallel computing is limited by Amdalah's Law. Having more core does not mean you can have have more speed because it's not easy to use all those cores. Most imperial languages are not designed with running codes on multiple core and few programers are taught how to design their algorithm for using a handful of cores.

I can see this platform being a good tool for students and researchers to experiment with algorithm speedups by making their sequential code, parallel.

In my parallel programming class, our teacher had to rig together a computer lab to connect the 12 quad core computers to simulate a 64 core cluster. Then again, 64 core cluster of Parallella would cost like $7000. You can get the same 64 core setup by buying 8 x 8 core consumer desktop computer for under $3000, which will still be more cost effective and probably have ten times more computing power because of the x86 architecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahls_law

It seems to me that more and more companies will just run their own "kickstarted" campaign without Kickstarter like the Lockitron guys. The companies will also no longer be at Kickstarter's mercy to shut down their campaign when they feel like, and don't have to pay the commission. Now it's so easy to setup credit card payment with Square and put up your own"Kickstarter" page.

I cancelled my sign up because of this

THIS APP WILL RECEIVE: Your basic info Your email address (myemail) Your profile info: description, activities, birthday, education history, groups, hometown, interests, likes, location, questions, relationship status, religious and political views, subscribers and subscribees, website and work history Your stories: events, games activity, notes, photos, status updates and videos Friends' profile info: descriptions, activities, birthdays, education histories, groups, hometowns, interests, likes, locations, questions, relationship statuses, religious and political views, subscribers and subscribees, websites and work histories Stories shared with you: events, games activity, notes, photos, status updates and videos Your app activity from: music apps, news apps and video apps Friends' app activity from: music apps, news apps and video apps

>I'd imagine the younger generations will gradually stop pursuing these degrees because of the terrible ROI in terms of debt to future income.

The problem with this is that most 17-18 year old don't have a sense of what ROI of their education will get them. Many of high-school graduates will be thinking "oh I like to read shakespeare so I'm going to major in English", and they probably have no idea how long the $100k will take to get paid off after their job.

I think if anything that will solve this problem once and for all is to make liberal arts minor degrees and only offer STEM as majors.

The super short product life cycle of android is making me hesitate to buy one now because it always feel like the next generation is just around the corner.

A123 cells are about 180wh per kg, hes using 20ah 4 at 104 cells in series. so thats about 104 3.7 = 396 volts at 120ah. multiply that together you get 47kwh of energy. These batteries would be around 500lb.

These battery pricing must've came down a lot over the past couple years because this would've cost something like $40k couple years ago, but a quick google for pricing looks like the battery pack he is using can be bought for around $13k pricing source: http://www.a123rc.com/goods-468-Excitingly+Powerful+A+123+20...

Co-founder of Prettify here. Thanks for the feedback. We started working on this last thursday and this is our low fidelity MVP. We are totally embarrassed by the quality of our website right now, but they say if the MVP is not embarrassing, then it's launched too late so we forced ourself to "launch" early to get feedbacks. Sorry about the grammar mistakes, we drafted the copy in like 10 minutes and we were suppose to proof read it before we "launch", but it was forgotten.

Two things we will definitely work on from looking at all the feedbacks. 1. Add some sample work 2. Change the pricing model

We are thinking of add a pricing model of flat setup fee + lower per slide fee for those customer with bigger pitch deck. Another idea is "name your own price" model. What do you guys think?