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Hey, I am interested. Have worked at Udemy(a PHP e-commerce shop at the time) where I built a lot of cool products like the course feed, notifications, wishlist and note-taking. Al…

What are my options? Google is not helping at all. I don't have backup codes, I broke the phone that had the 2FA app and I don't remember the password. There is no manual processin…

how do you prove to the bank the non-existence of a clause that would void the trust if this is done(and noticed)? the main point I tried to make above was this: in normal life the…

1- 50% of what? Revenue into the company or dividens/salary etc out of the company? if it's the latter, then, how do we make sure that you don't spend $500.000 for trash bins for t…

It's a sales tax, not a 'buying' tax. Say, a company sells you a $100 item for $100, forgetting to include the tax in the final price. And say no one ended up paying tax for that t…

Then the government taking a criminal's drug money would also be theft? Also, he took it from a government wallet, not directly from a criminal. Edit: Just to clarify, I was just p…

Can you please send me an invite? We are building something that's going to be heavy on the server side and this looks like a really good deal. My email is visible on my profile. T…

you'd be better off if you mapped those 10 numbers to a number in [0:(10!-1)] interval since there are only 10! different potential answers. So you make the job of the algorithm ea…

No one cares if he will make $100M from this or not. $100M is less than %10 of the total value of all the bitcoins currently in the market and we can just think of that %10 as the …

Thanks, this looks great. Apparently they also have colocation space -- asked them how much it'd cost us. Will post here once I hear back(if I hear back soon :) ).

Actually he is right - gpu instances are pretty cheap if you use the spot ones. http://ec2price.com/?product=Linux/UNIX&type=g2.2xlarge&regi... But the thing is I am not sure if am…

Hi everyone, We need to build a GPU compute box (thinking GeForce GTX Titan Black[$1000] as the GPU) for training Convolutional Neural Networks and building services on top of the …

Hi everyone, I shared the old version of this website before and got a lot of valuable feedback from you all(thanks!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7012059 You made me real…

I would love to talk with more social workers/activists/organizations working on this and similar issues. Please feel free to send an email to me at seckincansahin@gmail.com I have…

I agree that the goal shouldn't be making the life too easy for the homeless - instead I believe that we should focus on helping them re-integrate back to the society, at least for…

I agree that there are multiple complex causes of homelessness and that we need to address those issues. I have been thinking about this for a while and I have talked with a lot of…

Hi everyone, I am organizing a crowdfunding campaign to give blankets/food/books/glasses and new year's postcards to 1000 homeless people in San Francisco. Since we as the resident…

Why is he your hero?

I want to learn more about the business world and how to do business/investment(esp. in the tech world but not necessarily). I want to learn from the greatest business people and I…

I am curious about this too. Please elaborate if you know anything about this.