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How to Calculate Standard Deviation of Cash Flows in Excelhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85dea342fa4f3a94120074ed4170eb&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fcalculate-standard-deviation-cash-flows-excel-47112.html&c=2528046250258679793&mkt=en-usWhen reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...May 17, 2012 4:22 PM
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How to Calculate Standard Deviation of Cash Flows in Excelhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a855421740142739630cbfd3fa4e3e2&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fcalculate-standard-deviation-cash-flows-excel-47112.html&c=2528046250258679793&mkt=en-usWhen reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...May 17, 2012 4:22 PM
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How to Calculate Standard Deviation of Cash Flows in Excelhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a8557b2d6db4e9c8f9930bcf9b41b98&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fcalculate-standard-deviation-cash-flows-excel-47112.html&c=2528046250258679793&mkt=en-usWhen reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...May 17, 2012 4:22 PM
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How to Calculate Standard Deviation of Cash Flows in Excelhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a853f315c744ac8adfd61aad99120ff&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fcalculate-standard-deviation-cash-flows-excel-47112.html&c=2528046250258679793&mkt=en-usWhen reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...May 17, 2012 4:22 PM
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How to Calculate Standard Deviation of Cash Flows in Excelhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a854c6e493744d9bae4da4b80acfe8f&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fcalculate-standard-deviation-cash-flows-excel-47112.html&c=2528046250258679793&mkt=en-usWhen reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...May 17, 2012 4:22 PM
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How to Calculate Standard Deviation of Cash Flows in Excelhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85d4473ea44f71af75d2c3430b3907&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fcalculate-standard-deviation-cash-flows-excel-47112.html&c=2528046250258679793&mkt=en-usWhen reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...May 17, 2012 4:22 PM
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How to Calculate Standard Deviation of Cash Flows in Excelhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85790d0dad4effa2a866806e5b907a&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fcalculate-standard-deviation-cash-flows-excel-47112.html&c=2528046250258679793&mkt=en-usWhen reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...May 17, 2012 4:22 PM
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How to Calculate Standard Deviation of Cash Flows in Excelhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx&aid=&tid=6a85641cbf754be3bdbfc8de115a7574&url=https%3a%2f%2fsmallbusiness.chron.com%2fcalculate-standard-deviation-cash-flows-excel-47112.html&c=2528046250258679793&mkt=en-usWhen reviewing cash flow data for your small business, knowing the standard deviation can help you determine if the numbers are out of whack. Calculating standard deviation manually can be ...May 17, 2012 4:22 PM
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Startup Competitions- Miss Congeniality Theoryhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3881057On the circuit of startup competitions, a familiar formula plays itself out. A smattering of entrepreneur teams puts out 2- to 15-minute powerpoint pitches to a small all-star cast of VC's and a large cast of people-paid-to-be-there.At the end of the affair, a winner-takes-all prize is awarded to the best presenter, usually selected by popular vote.What's interesting about this system is that on top of the systemic shortcomings beauty pageants have (Nobody pays close attention, everyone is distracted, the time is too short to get an in-depth understanding of the project or the presenter, there's just way too many to choose between) many of the reviewers have little in the way of technical background to suss out snake oil versus the golden goose, or business background to sense who has a chance of making their whizbang predictions into reality and who couldn't sell booze to a drunk.It's never as simple as "invest in the winner" to a deep-pocketed attendee at one of these events, but it Apr 23, 2012 9:26 PM
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Show HN: Premium Nature & Meditation Music Web App (my first solo project)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3845094>>>>> TimeForZen.comApr 15, 2012 11:08 PM
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My mission to solve the problem with Facebook, Google+ etc.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838747Now I know everyone has their own issues with the current state of social networks. Some have issues with privacy, some have issues with too many friends, some have issues with spam. My issue is with all the above, but more importantly I am sick of the fact that I look like everyone else and I don't own the content. I am being controlled and it needs to stop.I am tired of feeling like I live in an apartment complex where I have no control over how things function or look. It's not even like a complex anymore. It's more like a prison.Best quote in a long time..."If you aren't paying for a product, you are the product."Your data is being sold to advertisers so they can find sneaky was to throw their ads in front of your faces. And who is going to take the time out to actually go through on FB and customize your ad experience so they are relevant to you? Not me.For the past year and a half I have been working on a solution to solve these problems and many others. It's been a very difficulApr 13, 2012 8:39 PM
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Another AirBnB Host Horror Storyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760981QuoraQuora connects you to everything you want to know about. LoginSign UpAirbnb:Has anyone had the experience of your Host listings being turned off by AirBnB due to bringing to their attention problems with their platform and procedures? John Cohen, NYC HostYesAirBnB recently hid all my listings. At the same time they cancelled over 19 bookings adding up to over $7000 dollars most likely more. Here is a copy of the email sent to those inconvenienced persons.Dear xxxx, We were just informed by John Cohen that your accommodation starting on xxx, April xx, 2012 (reservation xxxxxxx) is no longer available. You should know that hosts are penalized for canceling reservations and removed from our site if they do so frequently.I am no longer able to access my account to see my future payouts -- approximately $2000 dollars -- or when I will recieve $954.At the suggestion of an experienced attorney I have backed all information that was in my account including changes that were occurring afteMar 27, 2012 11:38 AM
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Advice needed: what's a destitute hacker to do?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3715834First of all I ask that anyone commenting please leave off criticism of how I got into the situation I did. Trust me, I've already thought over millions of times how I must be an idiot to have gotten into the situation I'm in, and if I could go back and make different decisions I would. But right now I'm not exactly in the best shape to handle criticism, and don't need to be convinced of anything. What I really need is advice for improving my situation, or any info about programs or employers, etc. that I don't know about. I never had a course in high school or college on how to deal with poverty, even though that might have been really helpful right about now.I graduated from a state university in 2009 with a degree in Computer Science. I graduated with honors and a 3.81 gpa. My gpa could've been a lot higher, but I struggled with untreated clinical-level anxiety throughout school which lead to severe procrastination or simply not turning in certain projects. I got a 1520 on my SATs, Mar 16, 2012 11:47 PM
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PSN automatically "roots" your Facebook, no permission granted.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3691286I have been meaning to link up my modern warfare 3 account with facebook (new feature) so I could see which of my facebook friends play. Today I finally did it and paid very close attention to the permission I was granting to the game. Call of duty asks for permission to access all your basic info, view your photos, and post to your wall. A bit hefty, but I wanted to see who else was playing modern warfare 3 so I agreed. I was logged in, and when I went to my friends list i was informed it found no results so was pretty much pointless. Immediately I checked my account settings on facebook thinking I would just remove access and forget about the whole thing. I was not so shocked to find that call of duty had allowed itself more access than it asked for. I WAS however shocked that there was another app allowed in the last 24 hours called 'Playstation Network' and it had a pagelong list of access permissions all of which were completely open and I had never been asked to allow that. (I'm Mar 11, 2012 9:07 PM
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Ask HN: Review my idea - Hosting SEOhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690713Background: This idea was borne out of an internal tool I created to figure out and validate SEO strategies for websites I own. I figure since it works for me, I could try and sell this to a different industry/niche - in this case 'hosting'. This tool currently does not have an UI - I run sql queries directly on the mysql server to get my information. I have created a mockup UI to show how I expect it to work.UI for explaining the app functionality - http://axemantech.com/HostingSEO/Pain point it solves: Currently there are many seo apps that show serp rankings, on page and off page seo stats but seting up the system is generally painful. I dislike having to add keywords for my website, add data for my competitors, etc. This generally happens because these SEO apps are generic.How to solve this: Since this app focuses on a specific niche, it will already be setup with all the potential keywords for the niche (and will continously add new ones). All the data that the customers (people pMar 11, 2012 5:25 PM
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Comcast Fraud: Bait and Switchhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3611281If you go to the first page on comcast and try to add HBO to your service it says its only $10 a month if you have digital cable. When you try to signup for it, they send you to a customer service rep who says you can only get it if you have the digital starter package. The up sell for me is $100 per month.This is classic bait and switch, done by none other than comcast:Problem : Order InformationWILLIAM > Order InformationKingsley > Hello WILLIAM_, Thank you for contacting Comcast Live Chat Support. My name is Kingsley. Please give me one moment to review your information.Kingsley > Hello! Thank you for choosing our Xfinity Service with Comcast. How are you doing today?Kingsley > Would you kindly verify the last four digits of the Social Security Number on your account please?WILLIAM_ > 6425Kingsley > Thank you one moment please.Kingsley > Our Premium channels(HBO, Showtime, Starz etc.) would require a base level of at least our Digital Starter package.Kingsley > I would not be able tFeb 20, 2012 4:19 AM
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Ask HN: Wefunder has been invited to Washington DC. What should we ask?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3572511Last week, we launched a petition (http://wefunder.com) to raise awareness about the Crowdfunding securities reform being debated in Congress. Thanks to HN and Reddit, after 2 days, over $4 million was pledged... causing Wefunder to be invited to Washington to talk to some of the lawmakers involved in the legislation.On Friday, we're flying down to DC to meet with staff from all the players in the debate - two Senators (Brown, Merkley), the lead Congressman (McHenry), and the President's Office.Some good points were raised in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3529045. What other concerns or questions can we bring up? We have a chance of influencing the legislation.As an example, one question we plan to ask: High-growth startups obviously don't want 3000 investors on their cap table. Can the proposed funding intermediaries give a business one giant check, and manage a fund of small investors, one for each startup?Feb 9, 2012 7:04 PM
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Ask HN: 200k student debt, degrees not very useful. What to do?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3473836Situation:About to graduate top 10 law school.Top 10 undergrad, BA in random dumb social sciences junk I regret studying (high GPA).roughly 200k student loans by the time I graduate.Performed mediocrely in law school (put in serious effort, but, it's tough, at least for me. Lots of other excellent students here. Did well in some classes, but not most.)As a result, didn't get one of the big law firm jobs I was expecting to justify the investmentBest current law job prospects pay 50k and stay pretty flat (public interest). I've applied to just about every legal position, clerkship, fellowship etc. out there. I've got a gig right for right after I graduate but that's pretty short-term, and I want to think about the future here.Not that into law. Its not as interesting as i thought. Also the opportunities suck -- its status/prestige-obsessed if you want to make good money doing something besides personal injury and hoping to get lucky, and I failed in that competition, top 10 JD aside. Oh Jan 17, 2012 5:12 AM
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What was Google thinking(Contains text from the blog)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460094This is the text contained in http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-thinking/blog as written by Mocality CEO You can follow the blog link to read the full story(of which I propose since it is of better quality) but just in case you can't access the site here is some of the contents that the blog contains. Note: Some resources such as images might be missing and also I didn't have enough time to format the content properly============================================= Links to some of the resources contained in the blog ============================================= https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mocality-wordpress/audio/douglas.mp3 http://blog.mocality.co.ke/files/2012/01/Incoming_Call-Redacted-20111221-1133502.pdf ============================================= I’m very proud of the business that we’ve created here at Mocality, but I’m especially proud of two things:1. Our crowdsourcing program. When we started this business, we knew that (unlike in the UK or US, Jan 13, 2012 11:12 AM
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Node PR, you can do betterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3441427Today I've read this article http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/07/building-consumer-apps-with-node/ and i find it a little disturbing. Node.js is a totally cool piece of technology and I'm loving it, but in this article node is embraced for the wrong reasons - let me be the advocatus diaboli:It’s JavaScript!Yes it's JavaScript, and as he said every developer knows a little JavaScript. But JavaScript has some bad parts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook and as a newbie JavaScript developer you can easily shoot yourself in the foot http://wtfjs.com/Code re-use at every level: browser, back end & databaseWe at 9elements dream of all tier code re-usages for several years https://github.com/janv/kupo but in the wild I actually don't see it. Also, do you really want your super secret business logic shared with the client? Code re-use ain't easy, but someone has to do it. There are some great concepts like http://nowjs.com/ but I guess the status quo of JavaScript is not there yet. We neJan 9, 2012 4:12 AM
