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I wouldn't take the other side of this bet

You should be more than happy to take this bet, at any amount that he's willing to offer. I know I would be, as long as it was denominated in USD.

Let's say the wager was $10k - if you buy about $198 worth of BTC at the start of the bet, you're guaranteed to come out ahead by at least $9,802, regardless of what happens. Do the math if you don't believe me - that's a bet I'd be happy to take...

If the bet was in terms of Bitcoins instead, then I'd be a lot more hesitant - you could still hedge against an unbounded loss by buying the BTC up front, but if the price of BTC went down by more than 50% you'd end up losing USD even though you won the bet (also if the price went up by a factor of more than 100 but less than 101, which is unlikely enough to mostly ignore), so you'd need to be somewhat of a BTC bull to be comfortable with that.

Edit: I see now that Longbets mandates that proceeds go to charity, which means that if you followed my strategy you'd be making a donation in some cases since you don't see winnings from the bet. I suppose that changes things a little bit, but even so, I'd happily throw in $198 of my money to make sure with 100% certainty that $10k went to charity.

Which makes it extra scummy if it's true that the offerer of this bet won't accept any challengers...
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We've had tremendous innovation in the medical field - just look at life expectancies over the last few decades. Thiel's argument on transportation is also weak - cars/planes haven't gotten faster but they've gotten much more efficient.

The biggest innovation failure lies with the government. And governments can certainly test things out and 'fail' as we can in consumer Internet. In fact these days, almost every government policy seems to fail!

This is probably due to the cumbersome nature of the democratic process - whereas entrepreneurs can quickly disrupt inefficient systems and rely on the market to validate them.
Top billed actors have an excellent chance of making their full rate on an average movie.

Founders have an excellent chance of making nothing on an average startup.
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i have a fundamental question regarding stm in general: for 'manual' locking, we need to worry about dead-locks, for stm, i feel live-lock would be more sinister, and extremely hard to debug/reason about. not to mention the fact that, it would make client code non-composable as the transaction size or the system load increases.

or am i missing something ? thanks for your insights !
> What's the worst that can happen with such a C&D?

Bad press. Lots of bad press.
Flashing is declinning, but there is no vector animation engine for the Web yet.

SVG? A bunch of xml is not exactly what vector graphics animation needed.
Building a marketplace is hard. You'd want to prove that you are capable of being scrappy and still build a community. Once you've got that, then you will have a better pick of developers because at least you have some proof of traction.
Thanks wpietri, and excellent advice. Have some beginning docs and trying to schedule meeting with a couple Hawaiian start-up lawyers
what about the number of foot pedals that aren't used for guitars..? this is a foot pedal. i'm only complaining because i was really interested in an arduino guitar foot pedal.
I cook a lot and cannot think of any totally non-scaling ingredient, although some things go out of proportion a bit; e.g., the relative volume of water used to cook rice goes down as the recipe grows.
Another big difference between PSU and Harvard is that PSU has 38,000 undergraduates, and Harvard has about 6,500. I'm not sure how to compare such different population sizes. Think of it this way - if you took only the top 15-20% of Penn State, you'd have a class size about the same as Harvard.
What is the context in which this appeared?

Happened inside a website or at the browser's home screen?

Edit: alright, seems it happens on the home screen:

http://superuser.com/questions/359931/get-rid-of-chrome-home...
You could say the same just about any site you set as homepage. Yahoo is a fine example.

As for myself, about:blank is probably the URL I visited the most in my life.
the guy who owns test.com emailed me once because I wrote a paper on IIS vulnerabilities and had 'test.com' as example URL's. turns out a lot of people reading my paper would copy+paste the example exploits and own the test.com server (which just happen to be running IIS).
Here are two labels I love:

http://ninjatune.net/

http://www.rhymesayers.com/

I think there's plenty of room for small, focused labels.
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Flash may be a declining asset, but it seems like nearly every web page I visit still uses flash. It has a ways to decline before developers can just ignore it.
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The most interesting part of this article: How someone could leave Apple to work at JC Penny! Really? For some reason I have a feeling he's doing it mainly for the money, but that's just me speculating...I surely hope not.
Definitely. The article actually tries to make that exact point - measuring the lifespan in years at minimum.
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It would be nice to see the article itself. I would be curious to see how/if they controlled for selection bias. That is, the summary indicates they took images of the brains of novices and experienced meditators. It does not indicate that they took images tracking changes in brain activity as people progressed from novice to experienced.

I'm not saying that it's implausible that neuroplasticity effects can be found in the default mode network, just that those with the strongest symptoms might not easily (or ever) get to the "experienced" stage and the implied relief.
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I've been a SDET for two months now, and I am fresh graduate. What I've experienced so far is that you have to have a good understanding of the product, the workflow and each scenario. Also you need to be a good dev for automation purposes and troubleshooting should not be a pain in the neck for you.

Communication skills will definitely come in handy since working based only on specs can sometimes mislead you in a very bad manner.
totally agreed abbasmehdi "find people who are..." and thanks for the comment.

regarding basic web development: we've built several sites over the last 10 years, but have never learned to hack in a language (e.g. RoR); just bits of code as needed and lots of 'wysiwyg' manipulation.

we're basically trying to build a web application and think given our current jobs and lives it would take us a year or longer (much, much longer!) to acquire that sort of skill set, so we think best handled by experts (or experts in training).
Liblime seeks trademark for an open source product created by an NZ library
"...keys being pressed..."

Is it possible, then, that carriers have in their databases the passwords of every server that every system admin has connected to over ssh from their smartphone?
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If it's a Unix-like environment, learn as much as you can about at least one Unix shell (try "zsh" or "bash"; just stay away from "csh" or "tcsh"). You should understand things like process management, e.g. "&&", "||" and subshells. You should also understand file management, e.g. ">", ">>", ">|", and the program "tee". These help with testing because you frequently have to write scripts and organize output files, and you have to understand how the system handles things like failed programs.

When testing it's quite common to have to deal with lots of files and do filtering. Think of how you'd organize data. Reuse things like scripts for driving tests. Learn tools like "grep" and "diff" and "sdiff" and a scripting language like "perl" or "python". For example, it's very common to need to automate test audits by filtering out volatile data such as time stamp lines and comparing the remainder against a set of golden results.

Learn at least one widely-used testing environment, such as the "unittest" and "doctest" modules of the Python standard library. It doesn't matter if your company will use something else, it's useful to pick up on some terminology (e.g. the concepts of setting assertions and creating standalone testcases) and to see how at least one framework does things.

Practice being pessimistic. For any given system, don't let yourself only test the "easy" stuff; try to think about weird things that could happen. Boundary cases are often very useful, e.g. what happens when -1 or 0 are given as values, or very large numbers.

Practice editing. Tests should be extremely focused because when they fail you want to know exactly what went wrong. This kind of focus also helps outside the world of testing.
This article is impressively bad.

While the 8-module chip does share a few things (mainly a vector processing unit, that becomes two when doing the 128-bit SSE operations) they really can run 16 threads on 16 ALUs. But, they'll have sse contention if they schedule more than 8 256-bit vector operations (sadly intel won't bring this instruction set to market for a bit). Bulldozer is pretty cool, but sadly the tech press decides to shit on the underdog in a market that multiple companies have successfully sued the monopolist for anti-competitive behavior. :(
Actually I think this is a fabulous idea. Obviously hackers would need to believe in what you two are doing, but I am under the impression many hackers just like some freedom. They like to live in exotic and beautiful places (ahem..Maui), they are comfortable with living expenses paid (ahem..airfare, room, food) and a bit of cash for the rainy day fund.

There are a lot of freelance hackers and a lot of people who would jump at the idea. Naturally, it depends what your idea is and how big the pay and equity are, but this is cool and creative.

I have been to Hawaii and if I new how to properly program I'd be on board! Good luck
(owner of http://finaltouchapp.com here)

I am all for critique and there are plenty of things to critique on that site.

But the support button critique is a pseudo problem up there on the line with the line spacing.

There are several ways to contact me and most people still know what an email is.

Could it be further from the logo, sure. Is it a real problem, no.
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Yes, 3+ hours sounds incorrect. Also, it's not like KDE builds in 15 minutes either. I don't see how a long build time makes the project immature, feel free to suggest the connection.
I don't really understand your argument here. SVG is supported by every modern browser, has strong tool support (Illustrator, Inkscape and any programming language with an XML package) and has very powerful animation capabilities, eg http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ex/
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Thanks Jade. "Yes I spend countless hours..." Exactly how we got here! Just emailed you at gmail.
Here's a link to the trademark claim in question: http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=7...

Note the status:

> Current Status: An appeal of a final refusal to register the mark is pending before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. For further information, see TTABVUE on the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board web page.

Their trademark claim is basically dead in the water. Multi-touch is a generic term. I leave it to the other reply in this thread to deal with the debate about the novel work Apple/Fingerworks did.

edit: You probably owe other posters in this thread an apology for accusations of lying, based on your own misconception of what multi-touch actually means.
Wow thanks so much for the information! This als0 goes to everybody who responded to this thread.
Thanks for the validation 'doc' :) We're hoping to find that right pair.
If their lawyer never thought beyond the client/defendant in this case then that lawyer should lose their job.

The worst that can happen as a result of this C&D is 1) The Streisand Effect 2) Major news organizations smell blood in the water and decide to ramp up coverage 3) Lawsuits and Senate hearings

If the WSJ picks this up like they did the UDID, you can say goodbye to Carrier and all of the data they collect.
As much as I wish the innovations of g+ and Facebook were centered around RSS and email, this is just the way new technologies evolve. Identity management and permissions management for who can see a user's content just don't have a good standard yet. Therefore private companies are rolling their own proprietary solutions and competing with each other.

At some point, the standard techniques for dealing with these issues will become Standards. This is a well worn path. Html was a standardization of the previous 10 years of work on markup languages, plenty of them proprietary. There are other examples... ODF standardizing on XML and cloning established MS Office functionality... etc.

Real Standards that could address the article's concerns are only reasonable when NO innovation is necessary, merely choosing a methodology that has already been built and proven to work in practice. IMO, Java more or less committed suicide when it started a standards-first innovation process, which resulted in many multi-year projects doing design-by-committee of an api before anyone tried to build an implementation or an actual product on top of it.

As long as G+ is introducing features not available elsewhere, the fact that it's a currently closed system just isn't a reasonable criticism.
I never would have thought that in the States your would have to pay to write to Congress. Anyone know if that's the case in most countries (in Canada it's free http://www.parl.gc.ca/SenatorsMembers.aspx?Language=e)?
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It is not offensive, as long as you offer meaningful amounts of equity (it sounds like you are at the idea stage and are basically looking for cofounders, and you should probably offer cofounder-size stakes and use the same care you would take in selecting a cofounder.)

Good people have an enormous number of opportunities right now. The risk you run is that you'll attract only people that aren't very good, and not realize it, since it doesn't sound like you have a strong enough tech background to put them through a solid tech interview. So my advice is to find a friend of a friend who has been through the full cycle of hiring engineers and shipping a successful project, and have them vet your choices.
Sure, but the system for doing this has been essentially rigged against the artist for years. Very few see fair royalties after the very expensive radio promoter has been paid, and the advertising budget has been tallied, all of which comes straight out of the artist's bottom line -- essentially the money for this promotion was loaned.

And even fewer of them have the resources to pay the accountants and lawyers it takes to make sure they're not getting ripped off.

It's partly the immense dissatisfaction that artists have with this system that motivates them to find other ways to make money.
The problem with longbets is that you can post a challenge without being required to accept a bet.

That's pretty shady, especially since it sends a misleading message to see a bet being offered with no challenger - without knowing about that part of the policy, I'd assume that meant nobody had the balls to take them up on the bet, not that they themselves didn't have the balls to accept any challengers!

Longbets should be removing bets from public display if too many reasonable challenges have been submitted without an acceptance. I'd leave it to them to decide what "reasonable" means, maybe something like falling within a certain range of amounts (perhaps making the offerer specify this beforehand?), with argument content that passes a cursory review.

I'd at least suggest that they manually review "bets" that pass a certain threshold of page views and/or challenge requests, and tried to determine whether the bets were proposed in good faith or not, up to and including interacting directly with the people offering the bet and asking them for explanations about why the challengers didn't meet their requirements.
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My company makes 7 figures in revenue selling and hosting Flash-based websites (portfolios for photographers).

Our attrition rate is not that high but when people leave, it's now always to go to an html site (usually WordPress-based). Before it was usually to a Flash-based competitor.

Our HTML5 service is in beta and appears to be promising (for us).
I was agog when I downloaded the LaTeX binary install for my new Mac a few years ago and discovered how massive it was. LaTeX is almost as big as the entire operating system disk!

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The big problem with Flash is that we're going to have a billion mobile Internet devices in a few years and none of them will display Flash in a mobile browser. iOS and Android alone should hit a billion devices. The iPad and Kindle are probably going to be two of the hottest gifts during the holiday season.
> Historically, those industries required less talented people in order to stay in business. Somebody has to sell the product, answer the phones, sweep the floors, etc. If you created a company that could operate with out all of those less talented people, this would be a boon.
> Even if you presume all those less talented employees are mindless drones, if you can provide the same service with fewer employees, you now have all the value created by that service, plus you have all those extra mindless drones to go produce value someplace else.

Right, but what about the time when there's nothing sufficiently valuable for those people to do? Historically, we've been very able to replace old jobs with new ones - technology simultaneously freed people up and created new job growth segments. The question is whether technology is still capable of creating enough new jobs.
Thanks teyc. By scrappy do you mean it could be cobbled but the idea/marketing would trump poorly executed code?
Meditation affects people differently; for a few people it is associated with seizures or other problems. See this article for more info:

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It's not us geeks that will decide this. It's people who never understood the things he's talking about, and therefore won't miss them much. The things he's talking about are all more complicated than the thugs replacing them for the common use case (though it makes many more complex things impossible), which makes this somewhat inevitable.

Tools will come out to ameliorate the problems with the new order of things. That things are controlled by a handful of entities is much more worrying, though.
While the 8-module chip does share a few things (mainly a vector processing unit

And more importantly, the decode and dispatch unit, which only run every other clock for a given core -- thus limiting any given core to a theoretical maximum of a mere 2 IPC, and in practice a lot more than that since the dispatch unit has limitations of its own, nevermind branch mispredictions and such.
it's a bit sad that in the most decentralized media, people tend to stick to the most centralized utilities to communicate with each other (I use them too). but:

> With less sarcasm: What use is this if one already reads the blog?

none. if you don't want to use it - don't. move on.

giving users another subscription channel is not a problem. a problem appears when someone uses these closed platforms as their only communication channel, f.ex. it's impossible to move a fanpage with it's community out of facebook. when people and organization treat it just as another feed broadcast (as whatwg did), everything is fine.
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What? Why not? iCab, Opera mobile, Opera mini, and dozen other browsers have already existed in the App Store for a while now. There's no rule against shipping a browser that uses UIWebView.

(There was some fuss around Opera mini because it doesn't use WebKit but it was eventually approved as it doesn't render HTML directly, it's like Amazon's Silk.)
Not the whole thing, but you could start with this:

http://www.amazon.com/Computers-Typesetting-Volumes-Boxed-Se...

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"convert them to pdf or something"

Yeah, that's what TeX does.
Thanks Geoff, solid advice.

Forgot to mention in post that we have an acting CTO/senior advisor that has held that role at several other companies (and currently employed as such) that would help us identify/vet the pair. He's interested but unwilling/unable to leave his job and he already lives in Hawaii! ;) But, he's going to basically 'donate' an hour a day to review code and help shape strategy, and is interested in coming on board for salary/equity if we can find seed.

We're still struggling with what constitutes fair equity. Obviously x% of 0 is still null. So on the one hand giving over founders share is attractive; on the flipside, we're trying to offer some cash/benefits up front to hackers while bootstrapping; wouldn't founder equity also include founder 'stakes' (no pay, doing it for the love/risk, etc.)?
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that doesn't solve the OP is really talking about, it merely moves it around.
This is true. Google would prefer that the internet were run by the largest adware company in the world (which is ironically named after a very large number).....

But the point here is that the decentralization of the internet actually protects everyone. It prevents a single set of interests from trampling over everyone else's interests.