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jwmoraes | 3 years ago | on: Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study

Isn’t the article confusing correlation with causation? I read like there’s a correlation between acceptance rate and author’s pedigree, but the article sounds like the pedigree is the cause of the high acceptance.

I’m no expert, so please correct if I’m wrong. But for example, how likely is that a Nobel prize winner produces worth-publishing research? Or how likely he is simply good at the skill of paper writing?

jwmoraes | 8 years ago | on: Site:s3.amazonaws.com filetype:xls password

Source: https://blog.rapid7.com/2013/03/27/open-s3-buckets/

jwmoraes | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Get an alert when unknown devices join your network

Could not find the same use case on that tool. But it's interesting anyway.

jwmoraes | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: Get an alert when unknown devices join your network

I know there are probably many other tools for the same purpose, but just built this while learning about ARP protocol.

jwmoraes | 8 years ago | on: An Image Processing Startup with No Servers

Glad, it helped. :)

jwmoraes | 8 years ago | on: Cracking Bitcoins private keys generated from weak passphrases

not really looking out to make money with this. The main purpose was just learn more about how bitcoins works (specially about key and addresses generation)

jwmoraes | 8 years ago | on: JSONbin.io – Simple JSON Storage (Beta)

Loved the minimal UI.

jwmoraes | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: NameLabs – Get Serious About Naming Your New Business or Product

Hey folks, I have been working on this SaaS for a while and I'm launching it today. You know, any feedback is really really appreciated.

jwmoraes | 9 years ago | on: Stack Overflow is down due to an attack

That's sad. :(

jwmoraes | 9 years ago | on: Google Spreadsheets and Python

For free ? Where would the python code run ?

jwmoraes | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you find more clients as an independent contractor?

I would still recommend Upwork. Start very small, try to score some low budget fixed-priced projects. It's not that hard even for beginners in the site. Then do a good job and make the clients happy so that they write amazing reviews about you. Then keep biding on bigger projects. It worked for me.

If you have done something a million times, so that you can partial or fully automate, like say 'integrate google analytics into your website', then you might consider selling as a low price gig at fiverr.

Hope it helps.

jwmoraes | 9 years ago | on: Neural Net Side Project Makes $3500/mo Trading Stocks

I had been asking myself this since I started following IndieHackers a couple of months ago. And now this article has brought up that issue more intensely. Point is, how can we really trust any article from the website if no minimal check is happening on the interviews ?