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MrMeker

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    Comment #9233455

    Adblock?

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    Comment #9211861

    This would never work in the US: if you need to pay a hospital to check your irregular heart rhythm but you can't authenticate... what happens?

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    Comment #9208198

    I have a lot of the same feelings about TED. The presenters come across as arrogant and usually misrepresent their project as ready to work, when in fact all they have is one dubio…

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    Comment #8910654

    Explain? I think OP is right. The energy to melt the ice has to come from the whiskey. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_heat

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    Comment #8472578

    Not really. "range" returns a list, "xrange" returns an iterator. I assume that the list is much easier to reason about in a JIT. In python3, range is a type of its own and certain…

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    Comment #8315364

    Have you watched Silicon Valley? The plot is exactly like this.

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    Comment #8121365

    [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po95OPQzDmc Forgot to actually add the link!

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    Comment #8120993

    Location: Northern California Remote: Hopefully not Willing to relocate: To SF/SV for one week Technologies: Python, welding, machining Resume: Founders of HN: I am at an interesti…

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    Ask HN: Who needs an intern for one week?

    Founders of HN: I am at an interesting point in my life. I have completed one year of college, living and working in my hometown. This coming school year, I will be moving across t…

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    Comment #8110502

    Minor (major?) nit: I'd like to see a post about "The top HN reply to any submission that makes any sort of statement." In it, the author could show a number of top replies, each t…

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    Comment #8015485

    Not a good choice for a name. Google Keep has been around for a while and does something similar: organization.

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    Comment #8014009

    Selenium and Sulfur both have a certain smell to their code, just rotten. I prefer Oxygen.

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    Ask HN: Where to go in Mountain View / SF?

    I will be visiting SF and Mountain View Friday-Sunday this weekend. I am interested in computer and mechanical engineering. I would love to visit your startup. I would also like to…

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    Comment #7950199

    This seems to explain the sentence. Thank you, now I have something to read about for the next few hours.

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    Comment #7948339

    "It’s one thing to check that the derivatives of a function are zero and another to feel the plaster taper to a sharp point." Those are two very different things. A sharp point is …

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    Comment #7881730

    Conejo is spanish for rabbit.

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    Comment #7784499

    The announcement says the sample is from the "apac" region, which I think is Asia-Pacific.

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    Comment #7779414

    "Honestly I think the sense of entitlement nowadays is way too high, people use a product that is free and needed weeks or months of your own free time" How is he going to recoup a…

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    Comment #7711321

    It seemed broken that this comment was at the bottom, so I upvoted it.

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    Comment #7579151

    As a dishwasher who makes $8/hr, tips are very important. Mine are based on a percentage of sales, like the "tipout" mentioned in the article. I don't know where the author gets th…

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    Comment #7546948

    The normal RaspberryPi is available at Radio Shack. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=289254...

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    Comment #7542112

    This already exists for most browsers. Pressing Ctrl+H should take you right to it.