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Forex Income Engine
Creator of FIE 3.0 is Bill Poulos, he is the founder of Profits Run company. He has over 30+ years of trading experience and over 10 years of experience in developing trading education courses. He developed Forex Income Engine software in mind of easy trading program that is for busy regular day people who can’t be glued to the computer for right signals to buy and sell.
Considering all the security issues with the Bitcoin ecosystem and the resulting mistrust, I think you need to be very explicit about your security.
What music from the 1940es is such a great moneymaker today that copyright holders can't bear to lose distribution privileges? Rarely are even 2 year old tunes really big sellers.
Is Android still open source, though? As far as I know Honeycomb’s source is still not available.
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Yes, you are bound by Maltese taxes and its legal system. It's EU, though, so it's not that different than the UK or Germany, for example.

Companies can't promote the opportunity -- and that's a key point covered in the slides. OpenStarts, like Crunchbase, lists all sorts of companies but for those that are Malta public LLC's, you can inquire and solicit a prospectus. So the user is asking the company; the company never promotes. Investment may be made by anyone, regardless of nationality. If they can invest in SAP, for example, they can also invest there.
Thanks for your wonderful suggestion!

Honestly speaking, I haven't considered this because at first, it's hard to find anyone willing and able to deposit $10,000 (Mt. Gox limits withdrawals, including redeemable codes. Can be lifted though.) Even if that happens in reality, I have already designed some counter-measures:

- The system will automatically break large orders down to 50 BTC increments in a chain. Execution of new orders in the chain will require validation of status of previous rebalance process.

- Limit orders won't be executed further, because the price must increase.

- Market orders will be executed at higher and higher prices, and due to low liquidity, the spread will be larger too.

- The user will run out of margin very soon.

Since I mention that Bitcoinica guarantees liquidity, measures like this must be implemented. Hopefully they are useful to counter malicious trading attempts too.

I'll think about this in detail though. Will further refine my algorithms before the launch of Trading API (which is very dangerous if the algorithms are problematic).

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This is amazing! I was lamenting the loss of my smartphone recently <ah..the eternal need to stay connected!> Been using an old nokia phone. Made a simple gmail to sms channel using ifttt. Loving it.
Being selfish serves no one
Point taken. :) Sorry. Removing my post (and taking most of this thread with it.)

EDIT: Except I didn't realize I can't do that after folks have replied. Anyways, it's pretty clear a lot of folks didn't find it funny or appreciate it. I went from about 90 karma to 55 or so. Sorry to be a bother.
Thank you for your encouragement! Wish you good luck in your careers too!
The first page of the document explains it all, however:

Innovation patents are a new type of patent available only in Australia. [...] Innovation patents are granted without examination, usually within 1 to 3 months, whereas standard patents are examined only after paying the examination fee, and usually take 2 to 4 years. After an innovation patent has been granted, the owner or any person may request
examination, and such examination must occur before the owner can commerce or threaten to commence infringement proceedings.

So basically you could submit anything you want as an invention patent. The paper is more or less worthless as long as you don't get it examined.
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Nobody should use GoDaddy, not only startups.
Let me preface this by saying that I am a very big fan of NFSN and host almost all my stuff there.

If you are considering them for domain hosting, consider this tough:

* They are not a domain registrar, they are reselling from PublicDomainRegistry. They actually mention in their FAQ that webhosting is their core business and that they only offer domains as convenience at a cost-recovery price.

* Their DNS service is made for webhosting as well. They support the most common records like A, AAAA, TXT, MX, but you can not freely edit your zone.

* NFSN's DNS servers are all in the same place (they offer a second location for an additional fee I think). I don't remember any downtime, but if you need 100% bullet-proof DNS uptime, consider using another provider for DNS.

* Every additional item costs a little bit (although it is still pretty inexpensive): DNS costs $0.01/day, Email forwarding costs $0.03/day, Whois privacy costs $0.01/day.
the site is at http://lipsync.it/
Court documents show failed Google deal with Sun over Java, share revenue
Very interesting, could you do this for http://askbot.org, please? My email is evgeny.fadeev at gmail. Thanks!!!
There is this new economic system being proposed to address all these realities of the future with the advancement of automation:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Panoply
Just some random nitpickery, but "NULL" has a specific meaning in C, which is 0 cast to a void pointer. So preferably talk about a "NUL" (as it appears in most ASCII tables) or perhaps "null character" (which is what recent C standards prefer instead, cant remember why they changed though).
It looks great. It's good to see more things appear in the Bitcoin space.

I would add a tour page, perhaps with screenshots so people can see how it works without signing up.
The askbot product demo is at http://askbot.org/en/questions
Viola is a common misspelling (of voila¹) that gets parodied by the more intelligent.

ZOMG !!!!111oneone!!!

--

1 - voila is the English language word equivalent to voilà. Voilà is French and so should be italicised to indicate it's a foreign word. There's no need to use voilà as one can use voila. Viola!!!!!oneone11!
GlobalSign Hires DigiNotar Investigators After "ComodoHacker" Makes Big Claims
The patent not only provides methods for creating a spherically-shaped body that provides an interior structure of the snow man/woman, but also describes how a generator can provide a sufficient electric charge to attract and adhere snow to the outer surface.
Don't know about the 40's but I expect the Beatles still sell a lot.
Does the legal justification for copyright differ in the EU vs the USA? In the USA, the nominal basis is to give a creator a monopoly over reproduction for a time, to encourage that creator to make more.
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Yeah, I understand your concern. Bitcoinica has several features/characteristics that make itself like no other:

- There's no Bitcoin wallet. Most incidents happen with stolen or lost wallets. Bitcoinica holds all the money and coins in traditional banks and other exchanges (currently only Mt. Gox).

- Bitcoinica runs on Heroku. Generally apps hosted in the cloud are more secure. Ruby on Rails itself is very secure too. (protect_from_forgery, html escape, force_ssl, etc)

- No account minimums. If you're unsure, you can deposit $1 first and try to do some trades.

- Margin trading. This reduces risks. You don't have to deposit 100 BTC worth of USD when you want to long/short a 100 BTC position. 20 BTC is enough. Only when you lose a lot, you can consider adding more margin.

I think trust is a common problem for all websites like Bitcoinica. That's why we designed the platform in the way that attempts to solve the fundamental problems.

There's instant deposit and withdrawal too. You can transfer money from Mt. Gox when you want to trade and transfer it back after you close your position. (Assume that you trust Mt. Gox.)
APT threats call for a reality check
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while inotifywait -e modify -e create -e delete -e move -r $1; do
rsync -vrae 'ssh -p 2299' --delete $1 noentrar@noentrar.net:files/$2
done

Here you have → https://forrst.com/posts/Two_10_seconds_scripts_to_keep_your...

I made this long time ago, the same concept just with inotify, to don't abuse the my small bandwith
The 'at' shouldn't be in the title here. The original 'Whither TechCrunch?' is correct - it means 'to where is TechCrunch going?'
The site looks exctly like http://jekyllrb.com/ . Are the project related ?
And if they won't sell them at a reasonable price, you're stuck with an ugly domain name.
OpenDNS? http://www.opendns.com/

As part of a filter I imagine $domain.$tld would get a highscore if $domain.xxx exists.
I used rsync to sync files I was working on to a server >10 years ago. Only difference is that it can detect changes to file locally then update the server. To retrieve updates from the server, it relies on cron to poll the server, rather than implement some kind of push notifications. That said, it's always nice to ensure people are aware of what alternatives exist.
From the 40s, I don't know, but that's not really the question. Before this vote, the limit was set at 50 years, which meant that all those bands from the 1960s, who are still making decent money, would start to lose income. Think the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, the Supremes, Bob Dylan.

Of course, I don't feel terribly much sympathy for them - they've all lived lives of privilege that I will probably never know, and I don't see why they should be able to continue making even more money from something they did half a century ago.

I wouldn't mind so much, except that in the music world, the idea of a derived work has received such a broad definition by the legal system. I mean, I don't think it unreasonable that the Beatles should continue to receive money for copies of their performance of Hey Jude, but why can't another artist do a cover without having to pay them, 50 years down the track? IP was supposed to aid creative expression, not stifle it!
All security is compromise–Bruce Schneier.
Since PayPal is reversible, we don't support it currently.

However, there's something that comes into my attention: do fraudsters have any incentive to deposit money fraudulently on a trading platform? What if I limit the account's withdrawal feature for 30 days?
Comparing the two is kind of pointless. Cybercrime involves actual theft, fraud or vandalism, while those problems of "drug trafficking" are merely a consequence of some drugs being illegal.
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> I absolutely hate Krugman....

Why? ... Perhaps your views are different. Can you please point to a few good writers which you like with contrasting views than his.

(Asking a serious question. Since I, for one, like his views a lot)
IPhone 5 production gearing up – 150K phones per day
Scott Chacon has also written the best book on Git, which is published by APress Publishing:

http://www.apress.com/9781430218333

Buy it in ebook format from apress.com and download the pdf.
So does anyone know if you can pass params to mgc:// to populate a new message? I've been passing random stuff to it from mobile safari. But haven't gotten it to do more than open the app.
Looks pretty cool. I dislike the random pink highlighting, it's noisy. Avoid smiles, as cool as it is, you must look professional in business ;)

That said, maybe a security section would be great. eg encryption, security, independent audits, etc. Here's an example: http://help.github.com/security/
But open(3) is a function call, so it can be hooked.
Thank you for your suggestion.

Yes, I will definitely do that if the test run is successful. Probably I will launch the Tour together with Trading API.
Sure, but it's unlikely a thief would.
The bigger news is the settlement talks. Is Google really going to cave and pay royalties?
How do you mean, "if"?
What is up with Google's silly caste system? Being pigeon holed into an SA role and looked down upon by freshly minted developers with little experience "oh, you're just an SA..." is exactly why a senior systems architect like myself will probably never work at Google.

Google seems to want to give their employees the popularity contest atmosphere of an undergrad school so that the elite can feel smug and superior as they slave away in an effort to get the rest of us to click on more ads.
Hopefully you had a pre-launch page where you collected email addresses, then you can email these people upon launch.

Facebook or Google cpc ads.

Submit your site to business/product directories.

Post about your web app on relevant forums (ie. if it is an app to help accountants, find some accountant forums to post on).

Join linkedIn groups and post about your app in there.

Create a facebook page/twitter and post updates regularly. Include these on your webpage, in your email signature and try to get as many likes/followers as you can.

Cold call/Cold email anyone you can find that are potential customers.
Thanks. Yes, I have a long to-do list for these now:

- Tour

- Terms of Service

- Privacy Policy

- Security

- Help (probably)

A lot of writing work! I'm a non-native English user though.
There is a fork, the 3.x series, that's not open-source. Ice cream sandwich, AFAIK, will be as open as the 2.x series.
For wildly varying values of "simple"...
Iron and redstone for compass. Gold and redstone is clock.
Germany and the UK have hugely different tax and legal systems, many startups from across Europe incorporate in London due to the fact that London is much more business friendly.

Won't OpenStarts itself be counted as a form of promotion ? - most hedge fund websites block people from outside their home country so they don't get prosecuted for offering an investment opportunity in countries where they're not licensed. Your building this directory for the sole purpose of helping companies get funded, that's probably enough for you to be classified as a financial promotion.
Ok, so the current version of Android is not open source.
Thirty one consultants cant be wrong....can they?
And thanks to the beauty of open-source, they can't make it proprietary.

Except they can. All of Android, with the exception of the Linux kernel under it, is not protected by a "viral" license like the GPL.
I think it's funny that this is so high on the front page, yet there are no comments yet. Seems everyone is hoping to find the magic bullet.

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a one-size-fits all solution. You might cover a college campus in stickers, pair up with a local organization to use you app at a function, visit businesses and pitch it, hound tech bloggers, etc.

Do you have a web app? If you do, this would have been a nice opportunity. Tell us what it is, and ask for advice on how you might promote this specific kind of web app.
Oh, uncensorable? You mean as long as the government permits both parties to be connected to the internet. When they block either of you, it's about as good as a hundred dollar bill.
The hacks were an attempt at surveillance, most likely from the government.

"These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered--combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web--have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china...
Well, of course. But bitcoin doesn't have even that.

Though I would suggest that you would have to time your entry into the quality rifle investment market well to avoid getting hit by a speculative markup caused by people's expectations of their future intrinsic value.
That might have been true about the USA once upon a time, but ...

The [Copyright Term Extension] Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever endpoint is earlier.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

I'm not sure that extending copyright from lifetime+50years to lifetime+70years was really aimed at encouraging creators to create more.
Why? To better incentivize people to make music in the 1940s and 50s?
5 Guidelines to Evaluate Accelerator Programs
I don't consider side projects a good metric either. I hardly have side project for a simple reasons because, I get pretty much burnt out by the daily work itself.

Unfortunately salary hoppers are so common among the job hopping crowd, that its sufficient enough to say the most and nearly all job hoppers are salary hoppers.
> Why?

He has a tendency of twisting basic economic theory to fit his political agenda. It makes me nauseous.

> Can you please point to a few good writers which you like with contrasting views than his.

Just read the Wall Street Journal. They actually specialize in this sort of thing. You'll get a far more accurate picture of what's going on. NYT is good for regional and national news, not for business and economic commentary.
Without knowing what it is you do ...

A cost effective way of getting users (I'm guessing this is ultimately what you want) at the same time as getting decent feedback is to use a crowdsourcing solution to get educated / computer using people to review your site. Ask them to sign up and use the product and go through a number of steps. Pay a thousand people to do this. If you have a good product they will keep using it.
Hopefully you had a pre-launch page where you collected email addresses, then you can email these people upon launch.

Typically this is a pre-development page, whereby you're basically tricking people into thinking you already have something, just to gauge the viability of what you're thinking of building.

In other words, it's a sleazy practise.
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Micro-nit: you mean "pallets" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallet, not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palette).
I mean, I don't think it unreasonable that the Beatles should continue to receive money for copies of their performance of Hey Jude, but why can't another artist do a cover without having to pay them, 50 years down the track? IP was supposed to aid creative expression, not stifle it!

This extension only applies to their recordings (as performers). The songwriting copyright is already set at 70 years, so nothing is changing there.
I'd be happy to proof read your copy, just drop me an email davedx@gmail.com :)
It's open(2).
Yes, here on my x86_64 it can be hooked.
But I've seen lots of setups where this was not doable.
As I said it depends how the libc's wrapper is written.
How do I logout without a logout button?
"could it be the previous price was really low?"

We can answer this by comparing prices to other providers. For example:

Amazon (a standardised but not a cheap provider) used to charge $0.15/GB bandwidth out but now charges $0.12/GB (and does not charge for bandwidth in): http://goo.gl/n1ZxZ And this is tier one; it goes down to $0.05/GB or less for bulk bandwidth.

Appengine used to charge $0.12/GB out, but under the new pricing will charge $0.15/GB out (and still charges $0.10/GB in): http://goo.gl/QgA3n

Does this suggest that Google was running a charity, that it is merely covering it's costs, and that Google's world-renowned infrastructure costs more than Amazon's?
Disagree completely.

As long as you truthfully state what it is you are doing and what will happen when the user leaves their email - their is nothing sleazy about this.
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Here in the UK the yout' say they want "opportunity". Well Opportunity #1 is "education" and they ain't interested in that.
Are you attributing Techcrunch's success to Arrington's style? In other words, are you saying it's necessary to interject drama, shaky ethics, idiocy, and questionable sources when reporting on the startup world to be successful? That doesn't seem very flattering to the startup world.
Spread seems high.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341138
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What did you make of the Last.fm story?
The site looks great! However, what I'd really love to see in a platform is not advance trading features, but an easy way to convert USD to BTC and vice versa. I realize that this is a real challenge given the anonymity provided by the Bitcoin network and the only real instant transfer of money is through credit cards (which like to chargeback). If someone would solve this problem, you have a winner.
All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
If you compare to Forex brokerages, yes. But consider the volatility of BTCUSD, you can make profits despite the high spreads.

Usually BTCUSD can fluctuate 5% - 20% everyday, and the spread is only about 0.5% - 2% (one side).
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"No one has to propose it openly since the threat is implicit."

What threat? There is no threat at all. It is not implicit or explicit. It is just another TLD for them to move into and make $$$.
Where does he explain how and when the hosting died? He jumps from SSL revocation to hosting downtime.
Bitcoinica runs on Heroku. Generally apps hosted in the cloud are more secure. Ruby on Rails itself is very secure too. (protect_from_forgery, html escape, force_ssl, etc)

Uh-oh. Ruby on Rails has a lot of default settings that are decidedly not secure; our own Patio11 wrote an article on this topic for the CACM not too long ago.

You might want to sit down with a security professional before too long, and get an outside opinion on your code.
use all social media channels to market and make sure that you continue promotion/marketing after your web application has been released
Hit F3 and write down your house's coordinates.
I think it comes down to persistence. The methods you use will vary over time and depending on your app, but the key is to keep trying things and learning from each one.

When I launched Hacker Newsletter (http://www.hackernewsletter.com) I was thinking I would get 1000+ sign-ups the first month. It was more like 100, but what I did do was keep publishing it each week and over time I kept trying things, making connections, and proving it was something serious. Now I'm approaching 6000 subscribers and growing each week.
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Aren't up and down votes invisible?
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Well, wonderful suggestion - I'm trying to break your scheme for my own amusement. ;-)

Note that the attack works fine if the system allows me to keep buying BTC at, say, Mt Gox' price plus 10%. (For values of "works fine" which handwave a lot of practical issues, like paying you untraceably and making sure that I don't get undercut at Mt Gox too often.)

Maybe you should switch to 1:1 leverage for all accounts once the total balance goes over $1000 until you've had some time to think this kind of thing through?

EDIT: you also want a security@ account and a PGP key. I'm also happy to remove this discussion if you'd prefer that; I arguably shouldn't have posted the first post publicly.
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Yes, Microsoft Did Change The World More Than Apple
I finally got into it with the kids (11 and 7) after hearing their friends talking non-stop about it. In less than a week they were memorizing all the non-redstone crafting recipes, setting me on fire (in non-PvP mode), and setting up TNT traps for me. Their older friends are coding mods.
Question for @zhoutong ...

When did you start working on this project and have the negative events (guy losing 500K, MtGox hacking, etc) of the last few months affected your development and outlook?

Site looks great. Twitter bootstrap?
It doesn't have to be pre-development. For my product, I created this page about 3 months after development began, and 3 months before public release. I used the signups to get beta testers before launch, and then announced to the rest after launch.

Anything can be a sleazy practice if people use it for sleazy purposes, but it's not the practice itself.
"Pay a thousand people to do this."

Whaa....t? You'd need a lot of money!
It's not that simple. One would think that 3.x series is the current one, but on the other hand, there has been at least one major release in 2.x series after the release of 3.0.