svrocks

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by svrocks 15y ago
well of course, they're changing the world one daily deal at a time. what has nuclear engineering ever done for society?
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by svrocks 15y ago
You can find Aerons online (ebay, craigslist) for a fraction of retail. I am currently sitting in a full-featured Aeron that I got for $400. I bought it 6 months ago and have no complaints so far.
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Ask HN: Why do new browser tabs not include the original tab's history?
6 points by svrocks 15y ago|5 comments
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by svrocks 15y ago
Is there a reason why r/trees is the only subreddit with a chat group ;-)
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by svrocks 15y ago
I predict you would get many more users if you could get an email reminder (with link) when new high-quality movie torrents hit piratebay
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by svrocks 15y ago
I agree with all your points and would like to hire you to code up my idea for mashing up internet memes and home improvement supplies. I have already purchased the domain name: lolcatphotosharinghomedepot.com. Although I have made this muc
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by svrocks 15y ago
no i just made this yesterday, it only takes snapshots of current deals. If you want to collect revenues going forward I would set up some kind of cron job and run it every night at a reasonable time (11pm Eastern US time would probably wor
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by svrocks 15y ago
Ha yeah the code is a mess. I have used BeautifulSoup before but I don't understand how it works well enough and just wanted to get something out the door
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by svrocks 15y ago
Yes but I wanted to be able to collect sale statistics, so either way some scraping would need to be done on the links
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Show HN: Groupon Scraper in Python
8 points by svrocks 15y ago|8 comments
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Poll: How many Groupons have you purchased?
5 points by svrocks 15y ago|6 comments
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by svrocks 15y ago
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by svrocks 15y ago
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by svrocks 15y ago
More than 1
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by svrocks 15y ago
Wow. Google revolutionized the way we entertain ourselves, learn information, and interact with each other. Groupon has revolutionized paying $5 less for a pedicure on Sundays before 1pm.
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by svrocks 15y ago
because there are far more people who don't care about such trivialities as profitability or sustainability than those who do
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by svrocks 15y ago
Great idea, but I think this would be much improved by some standardized test cases, especially for the algorithms. I saw a lot of haphazard 3-input tests.
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by svrocks 15y ago
After choosing a different way to find the angle, my answer matches yours. Kudos for having a much simpler answer.
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by svrocks 15y ago
wow that's an interesting and counterintuitive result. I need to figure out why my integral doesn't line up with that
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by svrocks 15y ago
2 pi R h gives you the surface area of the side of a cylinder with height h, since you are taking the circumference of a circle and multiplying it by h
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by svrocks 15y ago
Ah you're right, I missed a factor of 2 in the top integral. Will edit shortly.
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by svrocks 15y ago
Assumptions: 1) Earth is a sphere with radius r 2) "Sky" is a hollow spherical shell with radius R The surface area of the entire spherical sky is: 4\piR^2 This can be represented by a spherical integral that I'm not sure I can write clean
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by svrocks 15y ago
5028
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Google Code Jam question solved using Shakespeare programming language(go-hero.net)
4 points by svrocks 15y ago|0 comments
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by svrocks 15y ago
As someone who fits that profile with scary accuracy, I can maybe elaborate on the phenomenon. Asian-American children grow up with much external motivation, which gives them a sense of purpose and work ethic. The problem is, external motiv
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by svrocks 15y ago
Amazon went public in 1997 for $18/share with 1996 revenues of $16MM and $(6MM) net loss. Google went public in 2004 for $85/share at about 100 P/E
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by svrocks 15y ago
I participated in one of the trials for Lahiru's project. The system was very intuitive: it's basically a metal detector that interacts with a computer to store state. As you approach the edge of metallic object and the metal detector beeps
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by svrocks 15y ago
Barry Eichengreen...what else is new. Career Fed-monger. I remember reading his book in college about how the gold standard was the cause of the Great Depression. Later on that year I attended a guest lecture he gave in which he made fun of
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Ask HN: Does a consumer-friendly site for comparing health care costs exist?
5 points by svrocks 15y ago|0 comments
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by svrocks 15y ago
link repost: http://future.rouli.net/?query=cubs_win_the_world_series

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