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> exactly the sort of response I expected of Jobs.

> this smacks of paranoia

Counterpoint: Isn't company-wide email randomization similarly paranoid or self-defeating? If so, at least he's in good company (Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have used this tactic).

"UPDATE: In a version of the memo I first posted, there was a repeated paragraph, with slight differences. This might have been a software error–several versions I got of this entire memo had different punctuation in various places." --http://allthingsd.com/20090402/the-entire-facebook-goodbye-g...
I would say the programming skills requirement for the game is just beginner level. At least that was my hope making it. If those languages are new to you it will take a little overhead but not much.
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I never bother to read the comments when I read a blog. Don't care. I get to have discussions here and on Facebook, etc. Blog comments sections are just not used by enough total people (like HN), nor enough people that I actually know (like FB), to be an interesting place to have a discussion, most of the time.

And another side benefit of disabling comments is that it eliminates the need to moderate and filter out botspam for fake Rolexes and herbal supplements for "male enhancement."
Awesome. I would love to participate, but I think my exams will get in the way. :(

Downloading a replay is taking a very long time. Also, is there an easy way to plot things like projection vectors?
That's just $4 per registered user, so it's not a ton of money. And they've gotten people to give them a ton of data. Venues, locations, tips, activity.

I've been a user since the Dodgeball days, and I personally wouldn't invest in them at this point. But I don't think it's a crazy gamble.

Facebook took $2.24 billion in investment before going public. Twitter took $1.16 billion. Free-to-use network-effect businesses are expensive to build, because you need to build a mainstream-quality product and keep it running quite a while before you can monetize. Indeed, it's best to wait as long as possible before monetizing.
This seems like a bit of a stretch to me, absent other information. Why do you suspect mtgox has been manipulating the exchange rate (or at least providing an exchange on which to do so).
> "X have upper hand" implies that on average X are better off than non-X.

I don't think that's a valid inference, honestly. Firstly, "average" is too tied to distribution and biased outliers and asymmetry. Perhaps you intended to compare medians.

"have the upper hand" I think means that when you compare proportions of X to non-X within strata that the proportion of X decreases with increasing status.
Fwiw Ben Horowitz is pretty bullish on four square and mentioned a similar anecdote to yours with his trip to Paris.
I wasn't suggesting stupidity, just that people tend to think about the worst possible situations when presented with new technologies.

It is handy that the aforementioned sources of power start to diminish as people are also settling in for the day and are less apt to use their car. You are certainly not going to be driving while you are sleeping, for instance, which is a great time for the car to give back to the grid for a while, as needed, before charging back up for the morning. However, the idea that your car isn't juiced up for that late night emergency that happens, maybe, once in your life is a concern many, including myself, will have.

I don't think a car with appropriate learning systems would need to get in the way of your normal life here, but knowing you have a car available for those rare emergencies is a comfort blanket many will realize they have.
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Get off the interstate and notice the details. Lots of beautiful.
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So, that's just the mnemonic for remembering the names, which is only marginally interesting, and which I already called out for being anglo-centric in another comment. What I like is how easy it makes to spot, say, an octave, at a glance.
The medallion system is certainly far from optimal and a different regulatory regime that allows for innovation while still addressing concerns around impact on traffic (public roads=classic tragedy of the commons case) and passenger safety would be widely welcome. It could certainly improve the customer experience on many axes (quality, availability, timeliness, cost, etc) though I'm skeptical it would do much to improve the lot of the average driver. Taxi driving is a relatively low skill field, so there wouldn't be much incentive for these new ride sharing companies to treat drivers any more fairly than they are currently treated, since drivers will need to work for whichever companies have the largest market share of potential fares.
This is getting a bit off topic, but agreed it's a factor. My point is mostly about the mindset. You don't have to wait until some government prescribed age to do what you want. We make our own future.
Well, I guess that answers the question about Bitcoin, whether it will be the dominant cryptocurrency. The answer is no.

So now the question is, how long until an acceptable cryptocurrency comes along? And what does version 2.0 look like?
Ask HN: How long did it take your MVP to be validated?
For those who made Minimum Viable Products and put it out on the market, how long did it take you before your idea was validated?
I'm curious what others think about this. I'm a fan of Foursquare and their team and hope I am wrong about this. I'm also confident they will still have a large exit.

That being said, without a product hook that's very engaging, I think it's hard to build a local ads business, which is what I think Foursquare sees as its revenue stream. Do people see Foursquare differently, as say, an ecommerce company? Do they even need a growing product hook to build a good local ads business?
Perhaps only part of the resume. As a programmer, seeing real code, quality of commits, and working example projects made a big impression on me when recruiting intern-level developers. Also can see engagement with OSS, if applicable. Would be curious what sort of companies (size, location, focus, developer-to-other ratio) you're applying to and who they're seeking. Thanks!
They are pretty.
I really like this analogy - very clear, and it gets at the essence of what's going on here.

Reminds me of this similar abstract explanation of zero-knowledge proofs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof#Abstract_e...
So don't write code - do something that requires less focus and creativity, but is still productive.
Similarly. Chrome 26.0.1410.65 on OS X 10.8.2. Not so much a crash as a lockup -- no mouse movement, except for a single frame update about 45 seconds in.

I assume it's a WebGL problem. My logs are spammed with "kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL): Channel exception! exception type = 0xd = GR: SW Notify Error" and "UserEventAgent[235]: Could not get event name for stream/token: com.apple.time/1882: 0x3: No such process"
I always thought sharting meant something else but love the sense of humor by these guys :-) This looks like a really cool game!
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I drove my Jeep from Alaska to South America, because I wanted to.

In all, I drove 65,000km (40,000mi) in 22 months, through 17 countries.

Without a doubt, actually leaving was the hardest part.

I highly recommend such a trip.

All my stories and photos are at http://theroadchoseme.com

For anyone wanting to do something similar, http://wikioverland.org has all the logistical information you'll need (borders, paperwork, gas prices, etc. etc.)

Edit: I'm in the early stages of planning the next one, which will be bigger :)
Happy to answer questions - thanks for taking a look!
Pretty sure the intrinsic value is all the stuff you can buy on silk road.
Ive been using timetrap https://github.com/samg/timetrap
In the detailed guide it said that slurring, triplets, pretty much anything not specifically mentioned is unchanged.
Unless you put it in a one quart ziplock baggie. Then it's cool.
I don't know how it'll look like, but I know how it will NOT look like.

It will not look like a currency tied to an exchange run by amateurs.
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They're physical. You can wipe your ass with tulips but Bitcoin can't help you there.
I think the difficulty of moving dollars in and out of the various exchanges makes it risky to draw much conclusions about which way things should go when Mt. Gox is down (A vaguely reasonable explanation would be that people get a little more sell happy on bad news, with a limited supply of dollars looking to buy).

My intent was a little sardonic though.
I'd say since Stack Overflow, in terms of how it made life better for developers.
It probably fell off the list the first time around because the title seems like it "must be linkbait," so many resisted clicking on it until it's high up on the front page. Then you start reading and realize it's about as far from linkbait as you can get! Amazing work by Hugo Teso, and also going the extra mile to show the PoC on Android is exactly the right method to get this problem noticed and increase the chances it will be worked on.

I think talks like these are the absolute best way to light a fire under vendors (or an industry) to get these issues addressed. In this case we're no doubt talking about a very expensive remediation process. It also makes you wonder how bad the security will be for the next-gen GPS based systems.

I do worry the protections are not strong enough for researchers who give these talks, especially in areas like national security. It's a brave thing that Teso did going public with these vulnerabilities, and I sincerely hope we aren't reading about harassment coming his way in the future.
"Create a species" doesn't seem to work, even with all fields filled out.
No, I did not say MtGox was manipulating the market, but people with accounts there were.

See my further comment in this thread.

Also note that fraud (all forms of it), the criminal element, and everything bitcoin related is not exactly too far apart from each other on any given day.
It sounds like something weird is going on, I would expect the following behaviour: if you have a font with the cat glyph installed on your system all browsers display the cat, if you don't have a font with the glyph then no browser displays the cat.

Why does Safari show the cat while Chrome doesn't? I can think of two explanations: (1) Mac OS doesn't actually have a designated place to put fonts for all applications to find (I don't use Mac OS so I have no idea how it works, but this sounds unlikely), (2) Mac OS does have a central location for fotns but Chrome doesn't use them and just uses some fonts it comes bundled with. Is either of those two explanations correct? If not, what is going on?
How South Korea Traced Hacker To Pyongyang
Good point. Interestingly, I work for the government[1]. It wasn't until this facility started operating 'like a business' that a lot of the promanagement, antilabor activities took off[2]. I'm always amused by my small government libertarian colleagues that keep moaning about the government cutting spending on us, but also want all food aid and social welfare gone. One day they'll realize that we're on the government dole. Fortunately, I've developed a good poker face.

EDIT:

[1] US since I shouldn't assume anything about my audience.

[2] I'm speaking about this facility, can't speak to government operations in general.
Yeah, my first thought was, no one I know has ever used foursquare, after so long without significant traction why would anyone want to pump it up? Having said that, there's a huge opportunity for someone that can become search for the real world. Foursquare might just be best placed to move into that area.
I agreed with you until the last line. Weeding out intentionally bad commentary must never be done at the cost of quality commentary.
Did you verify your email address?
Ask HN: How does Ribbon's in-stream Twitter payment work?
Recently, Ribbon.io announced in-stream payment option that lets you buy things without clicking away from Twitter.com.

How did Ribbon implement this?
They're using 3rd parties like Dwolla for that.
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to host a static website?
I have tried:

1. Amazon s3

2. Custom simple node.js web server and a PAAS like Heroku, Appfog etc.

3. Linux server running nginx (so far more expensive than the above options)

Any other awesome static web hosting services I'm missing? I'm looking for absolute ease of use here
As it happens, I did that calculation last night: If SR facilitates $70K per day of business and funds are escrowed for 5 days, that’s $350K in escrow at any moment; dividing by 11M BTC gives a value of around 3 cents/BTC. I don't think there's any way to get $30 from there.
http://onbitcoins.com/2013/04/11/bitcoin-theft-mt-gox-trust/

A Mt. Gox investor was surprised to see his account suddenly pillaged. Will Bitcoin theft call into question trust and confidence in the system?
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Now if foursquare can improve on Yelp's model and address its faults then maybe?
" Attacks of this kind work only when the auto-pilot is on, so the trick is to switch it off, then fly the plane by using analog instruments. "

Seems like auto-pilot is required to be on already. A wild guess, but maybe his exploit feeds the auto-pilot incorrect information, causing it to make counteracting decisions that effectively give him control.
Visibility is low for actual replies on Tumblr. It doesn't properly facilitate discussion. I can quickly discern that there are 4k+ notes on a post, but I have no indication of how many are reblogs vs licks, let alone reblogs with actual responses.
Actually, we knew what the market wanted. But that need doesn't help anyone at the end. I created a system so users can digital sign documents. People wanted the silly Adobe PDF signature like to instead using their national eID. So, those signed documents aren't valid to a judge.

Our biggest problem was that. Immature market because: a) very few people uses their eID cards, b) there were technological knowledge involved in the process.

We did a great job on taking down all the barriers but the OS ecosystem right now is a mess with the digital signatures.

We really felt like Credit Card Companies when they launched, no one used CC in the past until they become a major need.

When the government worry about stimulating the use of eID as it should be expected, is when we will see the market grow and know what people need about eID. But do the adobe thing is just a piece of cake and even using it on 1000 documents, all will be pure crap before a judge of the European Union or any country, I assume, outside the United States.
The real price would probably be much higher right now, if people had the money. A lot of them have money deposited on MtGox, and they can't quickly transfer it to other exchanges, so there's a lot of BTC supply, but not a lot of USD supply (in forex, there's supply-supply, not demand-supply, if you can call BTC forex).
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MtGox's new signup rate has grown significantly in the past month. It went from hundreds to thousands to over 20,000 new traders yesterday. A crash coincides with high volume (1 hour+ trading lag) -- a perfectly technical reason to fix the issues now regardless of the finances. At some point they need to get the new infrastructure in place (see: http://coinlab.com).
Just turned 52. I just started a new job at a great company, after 11 years with Microsoft (7 of which were my "dream job"). The new work is fantastic, and I'm learning a ton of new stuff.

I see programmers get trapped into thinking they are too old and have to manage. After a couple years of no programming they've often lost the knack and all they can do is tell other people what to do. It is incredibly hard to recover from this.

In fact, there are lots of ways to get trapped. I won't enumerate them, but "getting into management" and "not learning new stuff on a continual basis" are classic ones.

If you become the expert on something; if you're the "go-to" person in a large group for a particular piece of technology, my advice is to find something else to do, within a year or two, or you're gonna be stuck. Nothing lasts forever in this industry.
> The notion that you need to work like crazy doesn’t come out of the blue, there’s data to back it up.

Then show us some data. I see two successes mentioned that fit this "trend". Treehouse is mentioned as an outlier - but that's 1/3 of the examples. This is not how "data" works.
My vast naivety may be showing here but isn't every web app essentially a CRUD app?
How long do you get to keep calling them amateurs? They are running an exchange that deals with millions of dollars of money, and people continue to use them.

They're not amateurs anymore.
I just transferred all my BitCoins to https://btc-e.com - for whatever reason, you are only allowed to withdraw 100 Bitcoins/24 hours. Probably a fraud insurance element - MtGox will cover any fraud, and they are limiting their losses to 100 Bitcoins at a time.
And they'll sell you a "safer" iphone on the other side for $900!
I am embarassed to say I spent many hours with Pop-Pop when I should have been doing something else! http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/pop-pop/
nearlyfreespeech.net or any other hosting website?
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> In the unlikely case something very bad happens to bitcoins between now and then (or ours are stolen or become unavailable for reasons outside our control), we reserve the right to pay $2,000USD instead.

Does this go both ways? What if Bitcoins are worth $500 USD at come award time? Will you still be paying in BTC, or will you just pay $2,000 USD instead?
So a glorified (and quite expensive) CouchSurfing?
much good saying you don´t mean to troll or hate & that your purpose is to start a conversation with a title like that ;).
The pricing page lists "administratiors", not sure if that's a pun or typo. The github.lanyrd.com page has "upcoming [78]" and "past [415]" at the bottom, clicking the past tab takes a second or two and then it completely removes the upcoming / past section, no console errors but the network request (to http://github.lanyrd.com/?context=past&component=107&...) returns:

{"eval": "$('.js-component-107').html(null); lanyrd.truncateFacetLists();"}

I'm using Chrome 26.0.1410.64 on Windows 7.

edit: the upcoming/past thing seems to work now.
The replays range from 1-8MB from what I have seen. The speed from Amazon ranges from 150KB/s to 250KB/s.
It would be more interesting to see a visualization of throughput vs. problem size. That would almost certainly give a better sense of how good this approach is, and it would let us compare to other CUDA monte carlo implementations, like the one Nvidia has had on their CUDA site for years:

http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/2_2/sdk/we...
Wonder if these folks know it's stolen or if they bought it second hand. If the latter, then I feel sorry for the sith lord whose face is now plastered all over the internet.
Log into Facebook and press alt+F4.
Are you referring to normal garbage collection or recycling centers? In my area, garbage collection is done by a pretty large company. They have a decent online presence which allows me to pay my bill there etc.

I'm always on the lookout for viable b2b opportunities. Do you have domain knowledge of this? Would love to hear more. I would email you but no contact info. Shoot me an email if you're not too busy. Email is in the profile.
As long as their methods are still amateurish.

They're just taking off.
"...would not notice..." this? you're missing a "not"? (and have an extra apostrophe!)
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Pricing is based on the number of members - silver gives you up to 180, and the gold plan allows up to 500. If your company have 500 employees out speaking at conferences your annual events budget already measures in the tens of millions of dollars, at which point we're a small fraction. If we can make your event participation just a few percentage points more effective (and we're confident we can do a lot more than that) we're an absolute bargain.
Good stuff

I'd suggest you simplify your ^pricing.

Use the most important feature to differentiate. e.g number of people in a team or number of events. As it is presently, it is quite confusing.

^http://lanyrd.com/pro/
Anecdotally, myself and several friends use Foursquare fanatically. Though I've been waiting forever for Foursquare to do something more with the service itself.
b2b markup? I've often thought that if it's too cheap then "enterprise" level companies may not take your product seriously.
I don't believe you can get that cross polination at Sun Microsystems (or other big name IT Company) though. Yes, they'll be working on problems that other companies need to have solved, but they'll be working on these problems. So if you are an enterpreneurially minded CS Student, then that means they got a headstart on these problems, along with a bigger budget and more coders to solve them.
I would approach the problem as follows. If I'd intern, I'd first find an internship in a totally unrelated field (like metalworking or gardening)and see whether I can help to implement systems to make work easier. And if it works, you have a first product which the company you intern at won't try to sell.

PS: Divide 1000 papers into stacks of 1000 and give to 10 people to subdivide into stacks of 100, which divide between themselves and 9 other people. Let all those people further subdivide the sheets till everyone has someones sheet. Put out an alphabetical list of those 1000 people where they can write some way to contact them. Or let them write their email adress/phone number on the paper next time you have a test. This way, everyone has to deliver 1 paper to one other person and receives 1 paper. There's most likely a better solution, but I can't think of one right now.
Not half-bad as a revenue strategy. As an event organizer (the Startup Conference is May 30, check out http://thestartupconference.com and contact me if your startup raised money in 2013, we'll put you on stage in front of 1,000 people), the one thing I receive over and over are offers from completely unqualified "partners" and sponsors that don't even bother to check who our audience is. At that point, I stopped answering to the worst offenders.

I like the concept of a branded page for the sponsors, tying together multiple events. Serious sponsors have a long-term view and will have a methodical approach to sponsoring multiple related events over an entire year.
Might want to check out http://taskwarrior.org too.
"I’m your typical “balls to the wall” founder that will sacrifice all for the sake of the startup" ... "I founded and ran GooseChase, which makes running scavenger hunts incredibly easy via iPhone & Android apps".

Some of this stuff is beyond parody...
Its important to note that right now the Mt. Gox prices (the default graph) are not representative, because trading there is suspended. This is the link to the bitcoin-24.com market: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitcoin24/USD
very valid. Also recognize that in many competitive industries and jobs - you´ll be working hours like that - home run or not. In consulting - 70 hours a week is completely normal.