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But trolls are usually shell companies, aren't they?

What's to stop them from declaring bankruptcy and wash their hands of the whole thing?

Since the troll's targets would probably have to pay their lawyers upfront, I don't see how this bill would make any difference.
That's a great diagnostic. Paint ASPERGER on everyone's back. The ones who don't care to remove the mark are likely to have Asperger's (or be John Asperger).
Honestly, we didn't put in a refund statement because until we read this post of yours, we never thought about it. Thanks for the suggestion.
I don't think this has as much to do with the Pareto principle as it does with long tail economics. I get the distinct impression from the article that the author and his partner are considering doing this full time as a career. They clearly have a long way to go, but especially in the beginning, they stand to gain a great deal by getting their apps in the $30-50/day revenue area than letting them stay (I tried to avoid the word "languish") in the $15-20 range.
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To be fair: THOMAS is usually very slow at putting up amendment text, sometimes taking weeks or months after a vote to put up floor amendments.

(I have complained, and they said the should be there the next day, but then I pointed out about 25 cases where it wasn't, and they kinda stopped talking :P)
Are you a: (Please choose only one option)

1. Knight

2. Knave
I play either to be entertained(maintstream games are good at this) or to feed my need of being competitive(Quake and such games are good at this). All people don't play games for their artistic value, although many games have a highly artistic value.
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You're right. We took it out because it looked awful on certain devices.
To those who are bitching about reduced privacy on the WWW, take a look at the world we live in....kids as young as 11 taking their own life due to being bullied on FailBook, low life scumbags sharing child pornography, the same scum using the web to find their next prey. If you have something to hide then build your own WWW. Quit bitching about "it's not the same Google", everything you have ever done on the WWW has been monitored, cencorsed and/or recorded. Get your game face bitches, because in 20 years Google will be able to tell you what time you took a crap and the exact portions of food it took to produce that turd!
I don't really understand why something like JSFiddle isn't open sourced. Is it just too much work?
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that there is fraud in the vast majority of cases. Just that there is some subset of that behavior that produces fraudulent activity.
As others have mentioned, increasing units without increasing infrastructure will only make things worse. NYC is great because of its transportation, subways for intra-city and rail for the suburbs. Even then, NYC isn't perfect. The middle class can't afford to live safety in NYC. It is polarized for the rich-poor. Living in Manhattan is price-prohibitive, $2500+ for a decent one bedroom. The bronx is mostly poor with a high crime-rate. Queens/Brooklyn are polarized too. The middle class need to commute from the suburbs (NJ, upstate NY, long island/CT), with commutes of 1 hour+ each way. Fortunately the rail system can mostly handle it, but it is still a lot of time out of the day.
Well, my calculations used BFL's Mini Rig SC, which was $20 per GH/s before they increased prices ($30k for 1,500 GH/s).

You would certainly need to fab your own ASICs, and at that volume economies of scale would come into play, so I don't think $20 per GH/s, or even less, is an unreasonable estimate.

Current hash rate is 65,000 GH/s (I think calculated around 40 or 50), so 65,000 * $20 = $1.3M. 50x that would be $65M.
I believe, without hard date to support, that the more HR people a company has in general, the less likely they are to hire people with Asperger's. And if those same companies do hire an employee review process that becomes very political/subjective/social is going to filter employees with asperger's out.

If you have a job that fits their skills and don't ding them for not say golfing with the "team" I think there are opportunities to pick up highly talented people that other companies are not chasing who will stick around.
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Mainstream economists believe in free markets, and they also understand market failures and moral hazard. Government failure also exists.
Hey Kenneth, Jessica from inDinero here.

I appreciate you expressing your thoughts. Let me try to address them for you.

inDinero shook up our whole business model at the beginning of 2012, pivoting from a self-service model to a full-service model. As a result, we’ve been dedicating the vast majority of our resources to our full-service clients.

This has impacted response times for our self-service clients, but we see that as a necessary compromise in the growth of our company. I’m glad you decided to upgrade to our full-service package!

It looks like we could have done a better job on our calls with you today in describing our payroll offerings. Yes, it’s absolutely true that we use Intuit as the backbone of our payroll service. We think at this stage of inDinero’s growth that we need to invest our resources in developing our web-based dashboard and providing the suite of bookkeeping and tax services that our clients require. Using Intuit as a payroll backbone allows us to keep our focus where it needs to be.

While many of our payroll clients have their pay days on the 1st and 16th of the month, we can support any pay dates and periods you would like to use. I’m sorry if this was not made clear.

We do use Google Docs with some clients to share information because many of our clients find that a convenient medium, but we do not use it for sensitive information exchange. Generally we use it only for the reporting of hours for hourly employees and reimbursement amounts.

I hope I’ve addressed your concerns, and your Finance Team at inDinero is still very eager to work with you and show you how we can make your life easier. We look forward to proving that to you.
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But that would at least make it appear that Apple was trying.
Give him his own project to do, or try to make it as standalone as possible. Give him the option of working from home 5 days a week. Problem solved :)
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to try to be a little clearer - I meant swap amongst MySql/Oracle/SQLServer/whatever. It seems that this was (still is?) one of the purported advantages of an ORM in general, and I was just curious how often it really even comes into play.
Soviet Russia was pretty inventive in high tech.

As a matter of fact, they did have patents in the Soviet Union, although those were more like a commendation badge, not a monopoly to reap the benefits; but it seemed to work.
I swapped from MySQL to Postgres, and everything worked fine, although I dunno if you'd called Ruby ActiveRecord an ORM...
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This blog post makes a ridiculous argument to defend its point.

To paraphrase the author, "Apple should control the rankings of an app in the app store, and it should not be influenced by illicit methods".

Now, suddenly, paying a third-party to advertise your app inside their app is an "illicit method" of getting it discovered.

It's called advertising. Developers can choose (or choose not) to pay money to promote there app in dozens of places and the app will increase in ranking in the App Store because advertising works.

It's like saying you want people to discover movies by going to the theater and choosing them by only by name, and NOT by watching trailers, TV commercials or viewing the posters. It's just a ridiculous argument that all advertising is by definition bad.
I imagine the author of this article would find it perfectly fine to have apple tell him what political orientation or religion to have.
No but it's written a way that it's easily interpreted like that.
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Many repairs of the sort mentioned are probably better made with a mold-able epoxy putty such as Sugru (http://sugru.com)

A 3d printer is killer for things like: a small, intricate, complicated prototype that is easier to model with software than to sit down and carve, make out of clay or paper.

In fact I don't know why I didn't think of this when my daughter proposed to me a complicated jewelry piece that clearly would need a lot of moving pieces and would be difficult to prototype in metal. 3d printing services FTW!
The stock market is a place the stock is traded.

A bitcoin exchange is a place where the bitcoin is traded.

Obviously this is neither the only actual, nor potential use of bitcoin.
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Or, if you really like acronyms: SSCCE http://sscce.org/

Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example

This applies to answers on SO/lists/forums/etc, as well as questions. Everyone benefits from clear communication and examples.
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I am more ignorant than anyone on this subject, I too have similar questions on the stock market as a whole, not just traders. Originally, stock market was created to raise large amounts of capital for big projects/companies. Once the IPO is done, people keep buying and selling stocks - how does it benefit anyone other than the seller who makes a profit? It doesn't add extra capital to the company, doesn't "create" anything (physical, digital or otherwise). Maybe this question is really dumb, but I really can't understand why traders (and other wall streeters) are paid so much
Heroku can help out by giving less cryptic, finicky error messages when you try to deploy Rails to their site.

Half the benefit of their UT on Rails course was probably in getting Heroku pushes to actually work.
Goldman sure acts like they think it's a zero sum game.
As a small app developer, I am gonna up-vote this thousand times (I wish). We small developers need to unite and throw companies like these (paid promotions, paid reviews) out.
Ask HN: Lunch with a millionaire, what to ask?
I'm 25, I have a lunch coming next week with a millionaire (which happens to be the Chief Technology officer of the F-500 company I work for).

It's a rare chance so I'm composing a short list of questions that I'm going to ask him. Please let me know if I miss anything important. Your advice is really appreciated!

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1/What are 3 skills you think the most important to your success?

2/ Is networking a must to be successful? If yes, How do you expand your networks? (go to conf, meetup, keep in touch with old friends...)

3/ If one advice you could tell your younger self, what would that be?

4/ Do you read often? How do you apply knowledge in books?

5/ Is being a millionaire what you originally aimed for or it's just a sweet side-effect? :)

6/ Which one is more important to your success? Technical skills or entrepreneurship?

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If you really are curious, you should go to a psychologist. Self-diagnosis will do no good.
"There are always 2 parties to each transaction and one makes the money that the other one loses."

Completely false. Wealth is not fixed. There can be two winners, which often happens.
Apples vs. Oranges. Avalon built and shipped 20 Thash/s in ~6 months. But it would certainly take 12+ months to do 3500 Thash/s.
Realtors get around this by giving you an offer review date: "we're looking at offers this Monday". It induces all the offers to come out of the woodwork and encourages bidding wars.
I wonder what is to stop a launderer from accepting stolen bitcoins, but then just keeping them. Who would the thief go cry to? Even if the thief complained to the community to harm the launderer's reputation, they would have to tell the community what coins were involved before anybody would listen. Physical retribution, as could/would be used "in meatspace" no longer helps.
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_Where is the artistic value in this game?_

Blowing stuff up is fun? Try Robotron, or Serious Sam. You're saying I need to examine someone's motivation and weigh a game's social conscience before I install the thing, or I'm a bad person?

Get real. Blowing stuff up is fun.

Once upon a time at Atari, one of the head Marketroids in the home computer division decided "No violent games!" The problem was, all of the non-violent games they were able to come up with _stunk_. They sunk millions into developing titles that didn't sell.

I "played" _Dear Esther_ and it was interesting, but I uninstalled it and there's no point in going back; I won't play another game like that.

I want to play games with a social conscience as their primary mission about as much as I want to attend another mandatory sensitivity training. [For the record, I only had to do that once, a long time ago. :-) ]

For the most part, games are made to make money. This is what companies _do_. If you're saying that _Dear Esther_ is the answer, then the question is very silly indeed; it's not what the market wants.

[For the record, I do think that "bikini armor" in RPGs is stupid, and I wish they'd stop. But my Old Fart notions are swamped by the cash represented by a legion of 15 year old boys.]
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>I love the idea of Wall Street jocks vs. Internet Nerds in FOREX.

Wall Street has had its own nerd contingent for a long time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_analyst
Small app developers were a bigger beneficiary of AppGratis than paid app developers ever were if I understand the ratio of free apps to paid placements mentioned elsewhere in this thread correctly. By a factor of 7:1 or so.
A lot of companies fragment themselves into smaller chunks with employees under 49 to avoid laws like this.
We're working on this ourselves. With the next release we're doing a full set of docs and we're making a number of things on the setup side easier.

Robert and I really want to see people using LT to learn programming and I think we have some very compelling things to offer there. :) Robert is going to be making some rounds once 0.4.0 is out to see what we need to do to get folks like Hackbright Academy and dev bootcamp and all the others around here using it.
> Once the IPO is done, people keep buying and selling stocks - how does it benefit anyone other than the seller who makes a profit?

The IPO (initial public offering), isn't necessarily the stocks only public offering, so the trade of stock on the market provides the firm the capacity to raise additional capital via further public offerings. (The demonstrated ability of the firm to do this may also influence its ability to raise money through other financing means.)
Sure sign of a top in Bitcoin. I remember the same thing about real estate - CNBC was doing a national tour about real estate and how there was nothing wrong. Then boom.
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Great article. I had similar thoughts when I quite my Investment Banking career.

What I was surprised by in the bank is how many people think that the money make other people respsect them. They forget though, that most billionaires are respected for the things they created, not money they made. Money is just the by-product.
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Hi, Ryan! I saw founders.cc on Twitter a while back. I'm looking forward to buying your book as well! I think you're doing great work.
I didn't share.
It's "clicking a button" in the same way programming is "typing on a keyboard" - people execute trades of different asset classes for a huge variety of reasons and with different motivations and outcomes.

Let's talk fundamentals: if we didn't have an equity/bond market it'd be much much harder for companies to raise money for growth and investment. If we didn't have an IPO market you wouldn't have company exits - the most common forms of company exits are IPO or sale to a listed company. Without exits it wouldn't be economical for VCs to invest in startups.

All of these things are interconnected, having liquid public markets play a huge part in economic growth by both directly and indirectly financing the growth-makers.
Not only for apps, but for anything in the world. If you spend a lot of money on advertising, your "thing" will sell more copies. True for electronics, cell phones, movies, TV shows, shoes, clothes... you name it.

The author of the original blog post thinks good apps should be decided by Apple and not influenced by advertising. What world does he live in?
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Were they in person or via email as someone speculated?
To be fair, the perspective here is insanely skewed. Most of the people here have moved to SF in the past 5 years or so and have this idea that the city should basically rebuild itself to optimally accomodate the SF startup community. However, much like everyone's hometown, people actually live here and care about maintaining a bit of the culture. Deciding that because people who have a lot of money and need housing right now are temporarily moving here necessitates rebuilding an entire city with those peoples needs in mind and basically not caring at all about current residents needs and wants seems pretty silly and selfish honestly.

It seems like "improvement" is the modern code word for "build housing poor people can't afford so we can get rid of the poor people"
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You simply repeated what I said and stepped around the main point - "everyone's doing it" and "it works" doesn't make this practice any less tacky.

C|Net repackaging installers and stuffing them chokeful of 3rd party malware clearly works great! Nothing wrong with it.

Norton Antivirus scaring the shit out of unwitting users with its messaging also works wonders for subscription renewal. Nothing wrong with it too. See, even other AV vendors are now adopting the practice. Who we are to question it, right?

You want them to pay, you must create a pain point, which is fine and this is what demo/shareware/nagware models are based on. But if your plan for monetizing your game is to continuously discomfort your users, then your product is basically a perpetual crippleware and the ethics behind it are inherently repulsive.
So that means, if the database contained emails, call records, or sms, The feds could read all of it.

That sounds like a security risk waiting to happen at your cell phone carrier and email service provider.
It'd almost be worth it to build in an evaluator for Scheme, just for SICP. Maybe someone will be able to do that as a plugin when the beta is released.
Apple is sometimes very strict about enforcing the way things were meant to be. With the number of apps using IAP for buying items within the game, I would wager that Apple meant IAP to be able to buy just about anything that exists within the app.
Some games benefit from push notifications as reminders to do something like "feed my dragon or else it will die" or "your free spins are available now". These are integral to the core mechanics of the gameplay vs. a marketing message like "buy some coins for $1.99, on sale now!" or something to that effect.
even if we generously assume that it would take $100 million of ASICs

You always conveniently ignore the fact that legitimate mining is at the verge of shifting to ASICs, too.

Perhaps your $100mio figure is accurate today, but it won't be long before you have to apply quite a significant multiplier to that.
Where did you get this information?

When I looked at their site I didn’t see information about what kind of SSDs they are using and, based on the price, assumed they are MLC (consumer grade). I’d never want that on a server.
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You lost points with the whole "legalize heroin" thing at the end :-). That said, this issue (Taliban extortion) was covered on the major news channels as well. But the questions that were raised were two fold. One, how did people validate that their bribes were actually paying for protection, and the relative cost of bribes versus the relative cost of private security (aka Blackwater) to protect the supply convoys.

I don't think anyone in the stories had credible reasoning (they were pushing the "Taliban Toll Roads" meme pretty hard). Now I can believe that actually getting a handle on what was or was not going on here, given the situation with both Pakistan and Afghanistan is difficult if not impossible. And I can certainly believe that percentages of these contracts are going to shady people. But what wasn't clear was how much of this was simple theft and how much was part of the "war effort."
That doesn't seem to be the case, at least in a lot of the major recent crises like mortgage refinancing. It wasn't that they were running the numbers better; it was that they were misrepresenting the underlying quality of the securities in question. Look at the MBIA lawsuit where it was clear that folks on the selling side knew that the securities were garbage. Same with Enron.

There's a popular saying on Wall Street: YBGIBG. It means "you'll be gone, I'll be gone"... by the time the scam gets exposed, the folks who perpetuated will have received their bonuses and be long gone.
Thanks for the downvotes guys. Might be a bit better if you engaged in the argument, but hey, you're busy and you disagree with something. Wish I knew what that something was.
At the time, 40-60% of Yahoo page views were done with an empty cache: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/04/performance-research-...
If Bitcoins are valued at around $100 dollars a piece is it possible for me to make a $10 dollar purchase using bitcoins?
And this is just going to continue with cloud services, isn't it? SAAS, PAAS, IAAS, etc.
You probably don't care if you can convince tptacek, but to random people following along (who you might be able to convince), calling tptacek mindless undermines your goal.
I'm not sure how much things have really become worse here, as opposed to just shuffling things around.

20 years ago, a lot of people would have owned a Nintendo system or similar, which had all the things you discussed and more. 10 years ago, most cell phones could run third-party apps, but the requirements were so strict that almost none of any interest were available. The PC was theoretically an open system, but Microsoft was doing their best to close it up with business measures that were about as effective as these technological measures are today.

I'm not trying to defend in any way what Apple and friends get up to here. But I think things are not as bad as you say, or perhaps were always as bad as you say. The fight for openness is ongoing.
I too like webp, both for lossy and lossless images (particularly lossless), and you're right, the best I got (lossless) was 34.5kb using:

cwebp -lossless -pass 10 -m 6 MaxCDN-WebP.png -o image.webp

Still that's not a bad compression improvement given that 'pngcrush -brute' failed to improve compression and pngout managed only to bring it down to 50.1kb