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If you're in the United States, "Use the exchange rate prevailing when you receive, pay, or accrue the item."

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=130524,00....
Well, except that it doesn't matter for average consumers. If you read the article closely, what the consumers want is to get a tablet and use it comfortably. Why should they bother if they want 7" or 10"? Heck, why should they even bother to think about that?

This is different from a TV screen size, you don't have to hold the TV but you definitely need to hold the tablet, too small and you can't get your things done, too big it would be annoying to hold on to it as well. It does prove that Apple had done research and a lot of testing to get the correct size. Once this correct size is being pushed out, I don't see why consumers would want to prefer other sizes.

Note: When I say consumers I refer to average consumers, geeks like options and customizations, but average consumers don't want to be bothered by these.
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> After all, if the trade is internal on MtGox, it's just a double in a database.

Dude, don't use double to represent money.
Can you show us what kind of hammock you're using? I'm thinking that not all hammocks can really be used for everyday sleeping. I'd very much like to try this though.
If Dropbox would have used client-side encryption (in addition to their server-side security measures) you wouldn't need to worry about issues such as server security.

That's why you shouldn't trust statements like: "Theoretically we can read your data, but we make sure only you can access it". If there's the theoretical potential for abuse it will happen sooner or later. Either deliberately or not.
Dropping support ≠ stops working. Dropping support means that if you go to them with a support query their support staff are legitimately allowed to say “use a newer browser”.
"Full Screen Mode" is not really about full screen. It is an attempt to simplify the concept of virtual desktops, making it more intuitable to ordinary humans, while also putting applications or tasks into a linear arrangement so that they may be navigated more easily with multitouch gestures (task switching).
I guess my reason is selfish. I prefer to read this way. I find content I read in print tends to have more of an impact on me when I can take it away and properly absorb it.
On which platform do you run it? On my Linux machine I haven't seen a single crash during the last months.
I really don't like the idea of putting all of "my social events" into one unified screen.
I actually do read all of my friend's facebook messages (and I do add only actual friends).
I think I read about 50% of the tweets of people I follow.

Adding both timelines into 1 view would make me miss a lot of "important" things
"Further, as N950, including its device software, is not a commercial device, the quality and/feature set of N950 is of beta quality and comes without any warranty or support whatsoever."

(from release notes [1], via Engadget and MyNokiaBlog)

This seriously strikes me as "we initially thought the market would want a QWERTY slider, but we changed our tack to a full touch-only device, and now we want to unload the stock we made of the initial version".

[1] http://www.developer.nokia.com/info/sw.nokia.com/id/3744886f...
Robert,

Just want to say congratulations! I've heard only great things about what you're doing, and I hope you can improve the quality of web translations in Japan.

I've been involved in a number of multi-lingual Japanese sites, and I wonder how you feel about competition from Japanese companies.

As I'm sure you know, translation is one of those things that every large company knows they need, but doesn't want to spend a lot of time and or money on. Accessing an API and getting translations seems to be well beyond what most web companies here are capable of, and so you see companies like J-Service[1] which gives their 1-click solution to site translations. I've seen a number of sites (usually 市役所s or 観光協会s) that have used J-Service as a quick-fix for their translation needs.

While services like J-Service have a number of failings (SEO being the big one), their ease of deployment makes them a low-hanging fruit for a lot of sites.

Do you find yourself tempted to go in a similar route with MyGengo, or are you more focused on a global strategy with your API at the forefront?

Keep up the great work!

[1]http://www10.j-server.com/pro/
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Though the iPod experience was significantly better than competitors when it first launched, within a few years Panasonic, and iRiver had devices which neared the usability of iPods. I've got a ZuneHD, and it is much more usable than the iPod touch (I had one of those too).

Though usability had a significant affect on the initial strength of the iPod, I believe it was Apple's HUGE marketing effort the created exponential growth.

I see the same thing in the current market. As Apple is selling both hardware and software, and taking all the profits, they invest heavily in marketing and create a single consistent message. If we compare that to Android, who is responsible for marketing? The hardware manufacturers are doing most of the marketing, which creates a fragmented message re: Android, as each maker is trying to sell their hardware. People can only absorb so many messages, and I think it gets confusing for people.

I think comparing the two markets is a bit simplistic. Due to the app ecosystem, and a stronger demand in OS capabilities, I think this will be a different market. But Apple's strength in marketing and current 'darling' status should be considered in any market comparison. The market gives Apple a halo, and Apple has been exceptionally good at keeping it polished.
Not sure what this is about, since I refuse to visit TC anymore, but I do know that eu$1MM is not a lot of money in the translation game...how do they expect to own it? Oh wait, do the scare quotes mean they bought a domain name or something silly like that?
Which is actually a good thing, provided you know what you are doing.
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I'm curious, does sleeping in a hammock affect the health of your back or your composure?
Just FYI: claiming you're going to "own" translation makes you sound idiotic, and I'll never use your services because of this. :)

Good luck, though.
Read somewhere that Steve Jobs was under alternate medication. Anybody knows any details about that alternate medicine?
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It has always been the case that customers can end up knowing more about a business than its owners. In the world of modern web based businesses with vast user bases however, it is so much more prevalent and significant that it should form an integral part of business strategy.
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"The neat causality of rational choice ontology, always at odds with quantum physics, was further jumbled by the environmental crisis, exposed by Rachel Carson’s 1962 book “The Silent Spring,” which revealed that the causal effects of human actions were much more complex, and so less predicable, than previously thought."

Shades of the great postmodern philosopher Alan Sokal ( http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/ ).
What's the theoretical limit here? When you have 50 cores on a 22nm die, wouldn't you have to start worrying about signal interference?(Disclaimer: I have no training in semiconductor physics so if this question is naïve I apologize.)
Guess you could use our services for a different reason instead. But we'll live.
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Agree with showing visible comment scores, disagree with karma of a scorer adding more weight to comment scores.

Ok first the agreement.

When I was a non-member of HN, I use to skim through the comment thread and pick out good comments based on the score and most of the times, the HN community was great at identifying the best comments (Key phrase = "most of the times"). Then the scores were removed and I found myself regularly having to sift through the comment thread cause, like what the OP says, the top comments are more than likely the people who commented the earliest on the thread. In a comment thread where you have at least 30+ comments, you do sometimes find some interesting comments in the middle of the thread but again, without comment scores, I have to go through every one of them to pick out what is good or not. I would more than likely not be bothered if the thread had 100+ comments unless I'm absolutely interested in that topic or if it had comment scores.

As for your solution, I disagree with the bigger the karma of the scorer = the more points is added to a comment score.

I've seen this before in a particular forum and what I noticed was that users will start "blindly" agreeing or pandering to users with high karma just to get them to vote on their comment. I.e. If pg disagrees with say climate control, and a topic comes up in regards to that, you'll more likely see the comment thread heavily gravitating towards pg's views. Basically, what I am saying is that, doing this may result in a lot of comments being partial towards a user with high karma points if he/she participates in that comment thread.
I was solving similar problem but with a datagrid. I ended up adding my own scrollbar (so that I have better knowledge of what to preload) and populating the datagrid with an array of references to a single "Loading" object. The reduction in allocations sped it up a lot as well, I guess.
Because web design is a horrible abomination suffered by an enthusiastic few and a miserable many; because there is a fundamental, unsolved problem of presenting a specific amount of information (not too much, not too little) to users in a medium which can be radically different from user to user.

A design that would look good on your layout would look terrible on another user's widescreen; a design that would look good on a widescreen will look awkward, at best, on your setup.

It doesn't help that so many people are still clinging to CSS as the primary answer for this, since it is completely ill-equipped to deal with this problem.
According to MtGox they attackers ran into the $1000 limit, so it was not a verified account.
Ad platforms capture behaviour but rarely capture quantifiable opinions. Advertising based in this premise is like chasing a shadow.

You may assume that based on a detailed behavioural profile a user should click on my ad and buy my product.

Capturing the opinion of a user (or users in aggregate) in a way that can be relayed to an ad platform is more likely to result in higher relevancy advertising, as you can move closer to the users beliefs about themselves, which governs their behaviour.

So in summary, behaviour is a poor reflection of beliefs. Opinions are a better reflection of beliefs.

Capturing opinions and matching these with advertisers is a better matching system.

This is the direction I am working in anyway.
Retail investors who do it a la carte are going to net hurt themselves anyway.

This assumes there aren't any adept retail investors in the public market. There will still be an increasing number of savvy retail investors who will now be inhibited from investing in one of the most symbiotically valuable relationships in an economy, one between young organizations in need of capital and public investors looking for more relevant early investments. Instead, the growth of the private markets will dilute these investment opportunities for the public and now offer them to already rich investors. Shouldn't organizations and economies work to provide more integral investment opportunities to the general public instead of increasingly reserving these for the fortunate few?
Do my coworkers need to know that I'm a fan of internet memes and exceedingly cute cat pictures? The presumption often seems to be that people are anonymous because they want to hide something, or be jerks. I want to be anonymous because my interests are esoteric and I know my co-workers wouldn't understand, or would tease me.

HN is sorta anonymous, but the core purpose of anonymity is undermined. The purpose of anonymity is that it shouldn't matter if I'm a dog, my arguments should be what matters. Anonymity prevents punishing people with discrimination.

Meanwhile, on Hacker News the tying of all comments to an account leads to easy censorship. A previous account of mine had accumulated 1200 karma over the course of 6 months. One day I reset cookies and came here and looked at a thread I'd been participating in, only to notice that none of my comments appeared! Turns out I'd been silenced by the censors of HN. I wasn't trolling, I wasn't engaging in personal attacks, and I got no warning... in fact, they made it appear to me like I was still participating, wasting a significant amount of my time.

The community liked my comments over all. My average score per comment was just a bit under 6. Clearly I was a contributing member of the community.

My best guess is that one of the mods at HN didn't like an opinion of mine and so they silenced me... rather than rebutting me.

After investing all that time in a community, to be so unceremoniously censored, I will not make that mistake again.

I will only make comments places where I can be anonymous, and don't have to create an account. I only created this account because of a moment of weakness where I saw people missing a piece of history that was painfully obvious to me (and that thread has since, itself, been censored. The entire discussion removed from the index of HN for no apparent reason. It was actually a pretty good discussion before it got censored.

I know that revealing the censorship on HN will result in this account being destroyed as well. But like a soviet citizen being hauled off to the gulag, I just hope that a few who think this is a just society will hear my story and be wary, lest they invest time in the community and have it taken away as well.

Now, please excuse me as I log off to see if this account really appears in the discussion, or if I've just wasted 15 minutes writing and editing it.
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There's no inside information, it was all public. That case doesn't apply unless he knew something that only Mt Gox "employees" should know.

And I've never seen him say he should keep the money (he said they didn't even ask him the money back), he just disagrees with the decision of rolling back by force, which affects the whole Bitcoin market, not just himself.
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Right, because it's always a mistake to talk about your personal exciting vision for where you see your business going.

You've come off as either making a very bad joke, or a customer that any company would be happy to lose.
Aaah, you're claiming luxury requires artificial value inflation, especially due to being under-produced. I can see that, and it's a usable definition. Apologies for not catching it earlier.

How many people subscribe to either of our uses of the term, I have no idea. But under that (or a similar) definition, you're entirely correct, Apple isn't luxury. Different only in the lack of (significant?) artificial inflation, and therefore less social prestige?
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>no need to max out on MtGox limits.

He didn't. He could have withdrawn it all if he wanted.

>who would then proceed to roll back the transactions.

But that's the thing; as he said, regardless of his money, rolling back all the transactions sets a bad precedent. How can people trust Mt Gox now?
Just wanted to say thanks to Matt_Cutts for addressing many relevant issues/questions here on HN. Your responses are appreciated and not always taken for granted.
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Some companies will squeeze money out of everything when they get the chance, this reminds me of a €13 'administrative processing' surcharge I recently got on a €7.50 invoice I forgot to pay.
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By the way, I learned that there is a sysctl to force your laptop to restart after a kernel panic.

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Fairly convincingly nice and elegant UI. It clearly owes a lot to iPhone and iOS, although that is not to suggest that it improves on iOS, and certainly not on iOS 5, although the maps do look good.

The history feature looks like a privacy nightmare. One swipe away, and someone who borrows your phone for even a moment can immediately see everything you've been up to. Where is the empathy for the user? BTW if I let someone borrow my phone, that means I have already unlocked it for them, but it doesn't mean I want them to have one-swipe access to everything.

As an aside, next time they should consider having a more likable and less arrogant-looking person do the talking, and without (apparent) overdubbing. It came off as slightly creepy.

I'd love to play with one, but I don't expect it to make any dent in iPhone. I am curious what other cool features it has that didn't make it into the video... since it's Nokia, we can expect a lot, so they do have my attention at least temporarily.
They do have an understanding of how the internet works. You type what you want into google and you get it. Maybe its not how the internet worked before, but hey its nice to have to not keep downloading HOSTS.TXT.
This is true, but I don't wish for this. Dropbox with client-side encryption would be a different product where a lot of their features would be very difficult to sustain. For example, easy web access or having iOS and other apps easily sync using the Dropbox API.

I am happy with not putting sensitive files on Dropbox, and encrypted the few I do.
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What you are saying is you want booth the brilliant 5 and the average 1000.
More importantly, how do you have a girl over if you only have a hammock?
We are looking forward to taking all of the risks laid out in your opinionated statement. Movements/Startups like Bitcoin are the reason Guy Kawasaki uses the half-mimicking quote: "paradigm shifting," in all of his presentations. And Bitcoin is justified, because they are way beyond the elevator pitch.
That's the point: you won't with that attitude.

I can name 3 online translation services that are much bigger than you. How are you going to "own" a space that already has much bigger players?

I was a fan of your service (mainly because of our large Japanese user base) up until this point. But you know what, I'll live without your service. :)
People had a healthy mistrust of banks and also means to store money outside them (precious metals). The bank panics didn't have lasting damage, recovery was fast and they didn't get bailed out by the government. Perhaps government control has mitigated against these little panics, but it set the stage for real meltdowns and slow recovery afterwards.

There are two distinct functions banks do: money storage and lending. These can be completely separate. You only need a money store for the convenience of not having to carry metal. Nowadays, you may want an electronic store as not to have to carry cash.

As for lending, that is a function much older than banks themselves. You don't need consumer deposits to lend money. Some banks do operate that way, but there should be a more clear distinction. We could have 'vault banks' and 'lender banks'.

Both 'vault banks' and 'lender banks', or combinations can operate in a free market.
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This is an exchange issue, not a BitCoin issue. The exchange is entitled to behave however it wants. In fact, if it wants to remain profitable it should behave in a responsible, reliable way. In this case it means appeasing the majority of its users.
Let me know if you go through with this project. A very safe, legally codified, trustworthy middleman seems definitely necessary at this point.

I don't have the requisite knowledge, and probably not the fiduciary responsibility, but I'd like to at least observe your progress. Email in profile.
"First up, who stole the bitcoins from whom?"

Allegedly one account with a lot of BTC was hacked. The Bitcoins were stolen from that account.
I'm not sure I understand what is cynical about it. The union represents a small number of taxi drivers and tries to improve their economic position at the expense of that of everybody else in the city. Moreover, basic price theory shows that the union is likely to hurt "the people" (i.e. everybody else) more than it helps the drivers, because they don't just increase the fare (which would be a pure transfer from customers to providers -- fair or not, it's not a net loss) but they also decrease the number of rides. If it weren't for people imagining that their own economic well-being was somehow wound up with the taxicab union, they'd be better off, and thus eroding public support for the taxicab union is a public service.

Sincerely, your friendly neighborhood economist.
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My point is that if you decide early on that you are bad at something you probably won't spend time on whatever that is and you'll have very little chance of getting better at it. And then you'll just conclude that you've always been bad at that thing and that it's a fact. I like to have the power to decide what I'm good at.
That reminds me of a polyphasic sleeper than slept for 1 hour every 4 hours of something like that.

Then I asked him:

- And at night?

- At night I sleep!
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Anyone recalls the movie "I'm a legend" ? Just saying..... :P

On topic: If this is true, this is great news. I know they are supposed to test it and that takes time, but I find that a lot of these "found cure for xxx" news kind of fade away after awhile to never be heard. It's not the first time I read a cure for cancer or HIV, but never comes out.
You still need some simd to get the performance numbers talked about as it has 512 bit wide extended SSE registers.
Where exactly do you live? Many offshore banks offer privacy even against police authorities, and tax evasion reaches billions per year. The crackdown on that is fairly recent (5-10 years) and still very ineffective.

The main reason why Bitcoin can't be considered grown-up is because there aren't guys like Soisson showing up dead.
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Re: comments about much bigger players, as a developer at a compay (moo.com) whos revenue is a _rounding error_ on our competitors balance sheets, I can say from experience that you don't need to be bigger to provide an awesome product, amazing customer service and make a ton of money doing it.

"Owning" translation doesn't have to mean being bigger than the competition, it just means being better.