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I would love global and not require a bank account sign up (want to be minimally intrusive). And yes thousands of outgoing transactions a day would be great.
Hey HN, this is my first blog post! Its about my saga of searching for Leonardo DiCaprio on the Rotten Tomatoes website. Search on that site is about the worst I've ever seen.

It's a comedic spin on a series I hope start about venting on various things in the tech space. Let me know your thoughts!

Hey Adam - what does "funding a jackpot via insurance" mean? Do you pay out $10m jackpots now or only when you hit a certain scale?
Re:Ask HN: What is a good alternative to Google Adsense? on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:49PM (#22911396)
What are the other larger players (non-niche?)

Ask HN: What is a good alternative to Google Adsense?

We have a website that we are trying to monetize with ads. Google Adsense has been rejecting us due to Covid delays.What are the best alternatives to Adsense? Has anyone done a proper study of CPM among the top ad networks? Everything I find online is so spammy and hard to ascertain legitimacy.

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That’s great. I’d like to collect all sorts of data because it’s unclear what the triggers could be. Thank you.

Ask HN: What are Legal Services to help promote your Instagram?

If I have an Instagram that I truly believe has great content but doesn't have many followers. What paid resources or mechanisms do people suggest? I have tried promotions within Instagram but I don't get many follows, just likes and comments (people enjoy the content).Everything I google search for is the epitome of the shady internet. Was hoping the Hacker News community could provide some...

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Ask HN: How do you find what sites/services can help your business?

I see all these new y combinator companies/things people post on hacker news that would greatly help with various projects. For example, maybe I would like to use Stripe for my payments or Amazon S3 for storing data. But then there are less known companies like RankScience (randomly googled) that can help with your product. Is there a site that can help you find these more nuanced services?I...

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Ask HN: Hiring programmer to help teach a particular project?

I have a project I want to work on. I need to use Amazon EC2, S3, webscrape, and a couple other things. I don't mind spending money to get the work done but I would also like to learn to do it myself. I've been going through resources online and it's a bit much to learn given I also work. Is there a site I can list out what I want to do or the skill set I need and have someone instead of do it,...

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Thank you. Should have clarified that I know to use their API. But will this just be an absurd amount of data? I'm comfortable with python/R. What other languages should I use? Any database languages?

Ask HN: Can I store a segment of Reddit pages every minute?

I have some experience programming but want to work on a side project that would require me to have Reddit pages stored every minute. I would probably just work with the top subreddits to start.I basically want the titles, # upvotes, # of commments stored every minute. I want to do this on new, rising, controversial, and hot.I've done some research and I can only find people have pulled the...

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Re:Best Way to Learn VBA for Excel on Sunday January 04, 2015 @01:39AM (#8833620)
Thanks for the response. I'm looking for a more comprehensive way to learn it though.

Best Way to Learn VBA for Excel

Did some Googling for learning VBA for Excel and didn't find any standout resources. I know some java and python. Anyone have any suggestions of resources they have found useful. Thank you!

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In general, I like to give new technologies/apps a chance. I have spent some time looking at the payment space and the concept of "treats" is at least interesting. I think the name "treats" undermines what it does.

If you swipe their debit card seven times you get one of these "treats". If this caught on, the network effect may arise where people start paying for friends coffees/small gifts. The question is, is the value of rewards that are giftable > credit card's value. Not sure that it is but I'm also not sure that it is not.

The comments have been brutal but I wouldn't completely dismiss the concept just yet.

Really awesome stuff!