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milkmanjron Rich Hickey is retiring from Nubank

might be because Nubank is a brazilian company and in Brazil, English isn't the first language.

This is a really amazing game.

"Architecture" to "1936 Summer Olympics" Time: 123.123 Seconds

Number of links visited: 9

[ "Architecture", "History of Europe", "Ancient Greece", "Athens", "1896 Summer Olympics", "1900 Summer Olympics", "1904 Summer Olympics", "Olympic Games", "1948 Summer Olympics", "1936 Summer Olympics" ]

Im telling all my friends about this one!

milkmanjron Spotify Platform Rules

As a huge fan of rap music in general, I think there are many songs which promote illegal activities.

milkmanjron Oculus Rift Pre-Orders to Open on January 6

Flight sim in the rift is what I spend the majority of my free time doing.

Not sure what type of flight sim you are into, but using a proper yoke, throttle, and rudder pedals makes the experience much more immersive.

milkmanjron Ask HN: Have emails been sent for first YC Open Office Hours?

Applied. no response yet.

milkmanjron Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

The rise of SMS based apps is very real.

This one looks cool though. Would love to try it when/if it rolls out to Los Angeles.

milkmanjron Stripe Connect v2

current balanced customer who is soon to be a stripe convert.

very thrilled about this and being able to payout internationally as a marketplace!

milkmanjron [dead]

Store my location in a cookie or local storage -- I'll just check the page every day before I head out the door.

milkmanjron Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web browser

what operating systems will it support out of the box?

milkmanjron Sift Science (YC S11) raise $18M to stop credit card fraud with machine learning

Awesome stuff. I use sift science, in addition to some basic fraud prevention, and what they are doing has allowed me to sleep easier at night.

Kudos to the Sift Science team!

milkmanjron Ask HN: Secure VPN unlimited

Came across https://www.tunnelbear.com/ the other day. They seem pretty cool.

I've used https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ while traveling abroad. It has worked quite well.

milkmanjron Balanced Will Release an API to Push Money to Debit Cards

I love Balanced.

Pushing money to debit cards is cool, but my customers don't have a problem providing banking details. Especially since payouts are fast as is.

But international payouts, that would be huge!

milkmanjron Have I been pwned? Check if your email has been compromised in a data breach

Awesome.

The LastPass checker is really nice. Whats scary is that it found a few other people that had the same password as me.

For the Adobe breach, LastPass also emails you a sample of the password hints of others -- its kind of funny how people remember a certain string.

milkmanjron Europe's Ryanair vs. America's Southwest

I think it would be more worthwhile to compare Ryanair to Spirit Airlines.

milkmanjron Ribbon Is Building P2P Payments For Consumers, No App Or Account Required

They may be taking the Square approach which is "refunding" debit cards with the amount of the transaction.

milkmanjron TextTeaser – An automatic summarization algorithm

Very cool. What made you open source it?

Also I remember it being a bit pricier to use the API. What made you to go down on price? I'm tempted to hook this up to my app right now.

milkmanjron ASK HN: Do you remember what it was like when you first used the internet

i remember when i ditched AOL in favor of free internet..

altavista was my preferred search engine.

*netzero, lycos, altavista were some of the people who offered free dial-up internet.