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rcorin··on What is going on in Argentina?
Booking.com shows the price in official pesos, thats why she charged 200usd as 160k ars, when you pay domestically. She didnt make you a cut.
rcorin··on Show HN: StyleXfer, Professional style transfer for HD photos
hello, creator here. Any questions / feedback is welcome! Beta testers get 10 credits for free if you signup today ;)
rcorin··on Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm
Cool! Also, have you tried giving some bits of the key to the adversary?
rcorin··on Google AI invents its own cryptographic algorithm
So basically the NN is learning a one time pad?
rcorin··on LinkedIn sues anonymous data scrapers
Your analogy is better if the books or articles are written by the same users, like eg research papers and the editors (like Springer) dont allow the writers to even share their articles on the web.
rcorin··on Show HN: Hapibelly, Rotten Tomatoes for Restaurants
Relevant info: the lawsuit of craigslist vs padmapper and 3taps: "3taps claimed that Craigslist was a public website, so anyone, including 3Taps always had authorization. The court disagreed with this..." (Wikipedia)
rcorin··on Ten Commandments of Sushi
This reminds me of a funny Asimov's story that describes you perfectly! http://www.asimovreviews.net/Stories/Story309.html
rcorin··on Announcing Starfighter
"when a candidate arrives at a company's interview, spot-check them on their understanding of a few of "their" trickier solutions."

The verification burden shouldn't be on the hiring company, it should be Kalzumeus...

rcorin··on How I Got to the App Store Top with a Simple Currency App
Agreed. But I still tought the top category app should drive so many installs that even users launching the app just once should generate more than that. Looks like the the business category is driving less installs than other more popular ones, like games or photo apps...
rcorin··on How I Got to the App Store Top with a Simple Currency App
So, if I understand correctly you've the top biz category app and it's just generating ~100$ daily in ads? Seems a bit low actually :(

ps: would love some support for multiple data-sources per currency: for instance in Argentina we've official dollars but since they're impossible to get we also have sidemarket "blue" dollars...

rcorin··on Startup advice, briefly
My problem with this isn't that the advice is obvious, but rather obvious _only in hindsight_: "The best startup ideas are the ones that seem like bad ideas but are good ideas.", "the fast-growing market is going to be important but others dismiss it as unimportant"

these aren't obvious at all before they happen, not just for first-time startup people but everyone.

rcorin··on How HoursTracker earns five figures a month on the App Store
Can you elaborate on those mistakes? :)
rcorin··on Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?
thanks! any US recommendations?
rcorin··on Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?
thanks! any recommendations for US?
rcorin··on Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?
thanks! any recommendations for US?
rcorin··on Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?
thanks! any recommendations for US?
rcorin··on Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?
thanks! any recommendations for US?
rcorin··on Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?
And this is not true of the others? I've not seen guarantees against that in any of the other vendors...
rcorin··on Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?
Agreed, we do have several vendors and do distribute the workload as much as possible. In our experience when a server goes down the whole data center has problems, so even if it's more inconvenient the best is to really have an assortment of vendors.
rcorin··on Ask HN: Best value/price dedicated servers in US and Europe?
forgot to mention our current providers: ioflood for US, and serverloft for EU.
rcorin··on Ask HN: Is it worth to develop Android apps for Amazon's Kindle?
Thanks! Indeed we suspect it's likely like you say---Kindle people aren't app purchasers, but we'd love to see some real evidence. We also offer ad-based free apps, btw, and our category isn't reading & books, it's photography apps.
rcorin··on Ask HN: Is it worth to develop Android apps for Amazon's Kindle?
actually, I'd welcome opinions where s/Amazon/XXX for XXX!=Google Play Store :)