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Hi, I have recently launched Gamealoon.com which is a crowdsourced video game information and media and social network website. Gamers from all around the world can come, create and share their opinions, news, videos and more in the form of articles at Gamealoon. Also, they can connect with each other via the fully featured twitter-esque social network. Currently the challenge I am facing is that I am unable to get early adopters for my website.

Also, I want to reward the user for their contribution to the system. I am thinking of providing them some share from ad revenue or points via some gamification system via which they can exchange their collected points with something tangible. Its just that I am unable to think through how I should approach this problem or is it even the right time to approach the problem or not. Please advice and provide your valuable feedback.
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I really look forward to the day the rest of the world doesn't give a crap about whatever the US does. A decadent hegemony in decline that doesn't even realize how infantile it looks.
Yes, but reporting back every program you choose to watch to the TV manufacturer certainly isn't.

Naturally they bury this little fact deep in the T&Cs where you won't even get to read it until you get the TV home, and who reads T&Cs? Almost nobody & the LG knows it.

How well do you think this TV would sell if they had to emblazon "This TV will report what you watch to LG so that they can sell that information to anyone" across the front in the store?
Github users frequently have public email addresses or email addresses on their commits. It is also reasonable to try to match $foo@domain.com with the username $foo.
Roman, with respect, you do not understand TA if you reject it based on it being a "self-fulfilling prophecy". There is ample criticism of TA but this sort of hand-waving is a sign of ignorance. If you are truly interested to learn, may I suggest starting with:

http://www.amazon.com/Technical-Analysis-Trends-Robert-Edwar...
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Time to put a packet sniffer on my home network & see whether our Panasonic smart TV does the same!
Clojure is my favorite JVM language, too (alongside Kotlin), but I think Groovy can fill a different role even if your go-to language is Clojure. Groovy is great for writing non-lispy DSLs; one of those is Gradle, that's quickly becoming the de-facto standard JVM build tool, slowly but surely replacing Maven. Also, I think Clojure is better for "serious" projects, while Groovy is better for throwaway scripts (not that you can't do serious projects in Groovy or "non-serious" ones in Clojure).
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Quine: a program that produces its source code as output

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
The author writes in the link:

> Note that the goal here was to make the source code as
small as possible, not clarity; so even the original code
before minification is a horrible mess. This doesn’t do
justice to the elegance and simplicity of proper raytracer
code; I’m writing a book to right this wrong.
On the other hand, don't make the mistake of thinking that simply eating healthily, exercising, and not smoking or drinking will help you avoid cancer. It won't. I've just watched someone learn that lesson the hard way.
The 'massive breakthrough' where little has changed
Elaborate isn't quite the word I would use...
As much as I love some sarcastic posts, this has no content what so ever. This doesn't belong on HN.
The sentence -- "First, we have rolled out an over-the-air update to the air suspension that will result in greater ground clearance at highway speeds." -- for some reason deeply amuses me. I thought that it was scary to push out OTAs to phones (I hope everything works like it did in the dev environment); I can't imagine pushing an OTA to a $85,000 car!

A few sentences later, though -- "Another software update expected in January will give the driver direct control of the air suspension ride height transitions." -- concerns me. Tesla's car computer is becoming increasingly complex, and the fact that the infotainment system will have such complete control over the car -- and will still accept data from outside sources -- is very concerning. I hope that at some point soon Tesla will begin talking about the security methodology that they use for the firmware running on the car, and how they prevent unauthorized code from running.
He deserved it. Not because he was a great player but also because he is a great human being, a good human being. He always kept his cool in matches (never ever abused), never endorsed alcohols or tobacco or similar deeds. He has a beautiful family and he also made it clear in his speech, that family is very much important and can help you succeed in life greatly. Sachin Tendulkar is a great human being and that is why I guess we will all miss him alot more. A true symbol of gentleman's game...
Miners are computing hashes for a very specific chunk of data. And it's also double SHA256 which is not used in any standard key-derivation function. Specialized mining machines implement a lot of shortcuts to optimise for that exact hashing (in silicon!) and are useless for anything except Bitcoin mining.
I'm a native Brit but my wife is mainland Chinese. My wife and I have always shared our accounts anyway, and now we're completely plugged in to the family financial system.

It's a little different with us. Her sister has a family in China (Hohhot) and her parents sometimes live with us (for several years at a time) and sometimes over there. Whoever they live with supports them completely, and get their pensions. So the flow is reversed from what you describe, but the basic principle of shared financial resources and support is the same. e.g. My wife's parents own two flats in China and the revenue from them go to the Chinese branch of the family. We all know basically what everyone else earns and the money from the 'apex' of the family tree goes where it makes best sense. In contrast on my English side, every family unit is discrete. My parents helped us with the purchase of our first house, it's not that there's a lack of generosity in any way, but arrangements are on the basis of one-time gifts. The Chinese way is continuous real-time resource management but in service of a very long term view.
> Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party confirmed a magazine report on Nov. 13 that it had removed from its website speeches that predated the party taking power in 2010, as well as placing markers on its site asking search engines to remove these from their archives.

The standard behavior of search engines in such cases should be to remove the entire website from the index. All or nothing.
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It's important, really important. Imagine how sales would be impacted if they had not spent this money and built a crappy controller. Also factor in the suggested tail of the console is 10 years.

I just hope they've spent a similar amount of money on making sure the damn thing is quiet when in use.
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Next time I buy a loaf of bread I shall ask for the terms and conditions, just to be sure...
I just checked out the author's site. He seems much higher up that wall than grandparent poster :)

- born in uruguay

- worked his way up to google

- learned BASIC at 5 (and made childhood drawings that included handwritten basic code)

- read First Blood at 9

- wrote first short story at 7

Meanwhile I go to grandparent poster's site and find... well. I think I sort of understand where the criticism is coming from.
"Higher Order Perl" is a very good book. I do not believe that any substantial fraction of the things it shows would take anywhere near 20x as many lines of code in Python as in Perl; certainly none of the examples I just looked at would.

Could you please (1) give a couple of concrete examples that don't involve regular expressions (yes, Perl is very good with hairy REs; no, very few 3000 line programs consist mostly of REs) and (2) indicate your level of expertise in Python?

Thanks!
Strangely, I use a unique email for github, like I do with most sites that allow attaching "+comment" to the localpart of email addresses. Are attackers really this sophisticated, or where did they get the list?

Edit: Nevermind, I guess github allows authenticating with a username, in addition to the email.
So as there have been instances of an OTA update "bricking" phones, there will likely at some point be an OTA to cars which causes mass crashes and casualties. It's just a question of when...

Yet more movement of freedom and power from individuals to corporations.
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Errgh. What's with this hipster "no trailing semi-colon" style? Other people have to maintain this stuff you know.
So the Chinese plan is to make the West poor by making vast quantities of cheap goods and sell them to us at discount rates, while manipulating their currency to make sure we get the best deal possible. In return we give them vast quantities of paper with IOU written on them.

We're toast!

The Japanese tried that back in the 70s and 80s. How did that work out for them? I also seem to remember they had a huge construction boom, skyrocketing property prices and a very high domestic savings rate.
I'm delighted that my choco ration is going up to 25 grammes.
Many of us don't have a problem with it. :)

On my type of work, the tools are chosen by the customers, not me. So usually .NET in Windows only shops, JVM languages in heterogeneous shops, and a little sprinkle of C++ via JNI/Interop if really required.
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Why does he assume that 404 means there isn't something on the server slurping the submissions...
He certainly doesn't shy away from questionable use of statistics for his own benefit. That and the quip about the odds of being struck by lightning are quite ridiculous IMO.
By the way I think my terms are more than reasonable;

Bitstamp traditionally has lower prices than MtGox, so that's in your favour.

My terms are such that if any trade happens below $321, you win - not just daily average or what have you.
I'm very disappointed in how archive.org handled this. I mean, they just delete all of their archives as soon as the source blocks archive.org or requests they delete its archives on them? Then what's the point of it all?!
Glad to see the Lib Dems haven't been caught doing this (yet).
Fun use of noise :)
Doesn´t it take 10^100 universes to crack 8192 bit RSA?
There was a time when I would have wanted this - I was a python guy for years. But I've found I can be just as dynamic in scala (perhaps even more so, given implicits), without having to give up type safety. E.g. his example looks almost identical in scala:

List("Rob", "Christopher", "Joe", "John").filter{
_.size <= 4
}.foreach {
println _
}
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Interesting to see spillover effects from the bitcoin drama over the past few days
Awesome! I tried to look into building a simple raytracer many times, but the either math gets me everytime or I just didn't come across the right "raytracer for dummies" tutorials.

Any suggestions?
I love it.

Diversification of investments is awesome.
Indeed, thank you for this!
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>Not even sure why people are using file manager anymore

Browsing/sorting/deleting/moving pictures/movies quickly
I have several HDD filled with multimedia content and sorting everything would be a pain in the ass without a graphical file manager.
Computers have become fast, I remember rendering a scene like this in PovRay in the mid-90's and it took hours.
Is it still worth unleashing a miner on my lappy to go spelunking for Litecoins, or has that ship sailed too?
The merchants have their prices fixed in USD, when I pay Coinbase tells me how much Bitcoins I should send to transfer the equivalent of say $10 and then they directly convert it to the merchant's preferred currency and deposit it at their bank account. This insulates the merchants from the price swings completely, which is cool for now, but I don't think will be needed later.

I'm aware of option 1), but I'm focusing on option 2), which is possible even if people don't stop speculating - the national currencies are pretty stable even though the exchange rates are only based on speculation. I believe this is just a question of volume and widespread adoption, which is happening for XBT with the recent large investments in many Bitcoin start-ups, so there's hope :)
Is it true that Apple doesn't have a single store in India?
It's also pointless because there are top-level CAs that use smaller keys. Hence if your key is bigger, hackers would go after the smaller and easier-to-factorise keys, gaining you nothing.
"But where's the fun in that?"
On a laptop forget it, difficulty is way too high.
For a fast GeoIP JSON API, you can try Telize which is open source and has a public API : http://www.telize.com

It is built on Nginx + Lua so it has very minimal overhead.

Source code is on GitHub : https://github.com/fcambus/telize
Just one foot note (as I have just taken my own advice and turned it on). Suddenly I couldn't push/pull through the git command line access as it would not accept my password.

Took me a bit to work it out but you need to go here https://github.com/settings/applications and create personal access tokens.
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I love to see similar Adverts with divides between
- Israel and Lebanon.
- North Korea and South Korea
- East Berlin and West Berlin
etc...

For me, this is one of the areas where technology can enrich our lives.
> Doesn´t it take 10^100 universes to crack 8192 bit RSA?

That's easy to test:

a = 2^8192 ≅ 1.09 * 10^2466 (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E8192)

b = 10^100 universes

If we assume one universe can only crack one value, then we need many more than 10^100 universes. But it's reasonable to assume that one universe can crack more than one encrypted value. Let's say that each universe can crack a million values. Then 10^100 universes is too many.
its not stable unless there is huge volume of transaction done. can't predict anything as of now. bitcoin value can be controlled now by few people doing the transactions.
Alternatively one could use Elliptic Curve Cryptography to mitigate potential DOS issues as it less computationally intensive. For example a 409 ECC key is equivalent to a 7680 RSA key. For more on this read "ECC Cipher Suites for TLS", RFC 4492.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4492.txt

Be sure to take note of which curves to use as only some are supported by the TLS standard:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16334662/some-elliptic-cu...
Well that's a remarkably narrow view of what should appear on HN!
and you find a blog with 1.5 semi-coherent posts and a shitty sidescroller? :-)

I'm not criticizing the author or his work, I'm just saying that writing a recursive function that does p + kv recursively shouldn't take a lot of code. Do I need to end each comment with a smiley face to prevent it from being taken the wrong way?
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I worked for a system like this, but for Philips. Could be that the company ( cannot tell the name!) sold the solution to LG. Actually this was meant to display channel suggestions, not ads. Seems like since last time they twisted it. Quite a shame.

It was an opt out system, every TV got a unique ID, but it was anonymous - Philips didn't knew who you were. If someone watched something more than 15 mins, it was send to the DB and was profiled. After a while, the system learned your preferences - also depending on the watching hour - and started to show, per request, recommandations what to watch - which channel was the most close to your preferences. It worked like a charm.

But indeed, no personal data was collected so I don't really understand the fuss. Same for this case, LG sens anonymous data, and returns best ads for you. A little better than Google, i might say.
Agreed. I am also and I felt quite emotional!
Mr. Musk seems to be ready to put his money where his napkin calculations are.. maybe that´s the secret.
Noob here. Are the various crypto currencies floating around exchangeable via a trading exchange of sorts?
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Very nice. I myself have been learning SPAs.. Seems to be the future of web dev: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617290750/ref=as_li_tf_il?...
Also, increase the last int in line 34 to get deeper reflections.
> I'm delighted that my choco ration is going up to 25 grammes.

I suspect that Americans, and those under 30, aren't going to understand this reference. As to those both American and under 30, well, they're double double plus unable to understand this reference.

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984
Yeah, except for the fact that they are dealing with relationships torn apart by partition.
yes, I know exactly what you mean and this was my first thought as well.
You joke but I can totally imagine a future where there are embedded sensors in the bread that transmit local conditions and (after ingestion) health/medical data.

Such a loaf could be given away free if the data collected could be repackaged and access to it sold to the highest bidder (I'm thinking pharma companies might pay).

A (imho insidious) way to get this accepted by the public would be to target humanitarian efforts first. Tracking health and disease in refugee populations is a real problem, so this system could offer tangible benefits. The refugees aren't really in a position to complain about privacy aspects and it'd be unpalatable for anyone to try a cost/benefit analysis when considering immediate survival against future privacy concerns (esp when it's framed from the point of view of saving a child -- as it usually is). Once this is considered 'normal' in such situations, it could be a short hop (or slippery slope?) to the supermarket.

If you think this is ridiculous, please remember that there was once a time when having robots read our email was considered hugely invasive by much of the public (Gmail launch).
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It's just like in the 60-ties the US government calculated that there is a 0% risk of accidental detonation of nuclear bombs[1],because they have not experienced it yet.

I believe that electric cars are safer than gasoline cars,but the sample size for Tesla is way to small to draw such conclusions yet.

[1] Eric Schlosser, "Command And Control"
My two cents is that every Java interpreter/compiler -- indeed, every language interpreter/compiler -- should have a lint-check built in.
Is there a cryptocurrency index anyone has made?
I've met plenty of competent sysadmins who could definitely rebuild a degraded software RAID array or troubleshoot a faulty network interface, but didn't know perl.

I've watched people who didn't know python edit existing python scripts and make the change they wanted. To be fair, I've seen the same thing happen with well-written perl scripts - but only the kind that don't use [[ vs [ or the hundreds of random $* variables.
Rainbow tables are a space time tradeoff for specific known inputs, since the BTC blocks are not generally 'known' nor do some blocks occur more frequently than others rainbow tables are useless. Even when passwords are merely salted rainbow tables are abandoned as not worth the time.

You could pregenerate a 'longer' chain, but the problem is the 'legnth' of the chain is calculated based on difficulty not number of blocks, so you'd need more computer power than all miners combined.

If you want to get cynical about US / Chinese approval for BTC it would probably be willingness to buy enough hardware to precompute a longer chain.

The algos to exploit are the RNGs used in the ECDSA portion of BTC which allow you to derive the private key and directly spend bitcoins, there aren't any currently known weaknesses in relation to SHA256 in BTC. The RNG issue is specific to certain implemenations of BTC and has nothing to do with the protocol itself. (Similar to how an exploit for apache is not a weakness in HTTP)
This is the most important reason why Chinese family members don't love each other that much. You never know if your relatives are just nice to you or they are after your money. It complicates everything and when things go bad they go really bad.

If managed well it can be great though. My college roommate has a "college sponsorship" program within his extended family which helps pay his tuition.
How about a brand new MacBook Pro w solid state memory?
Reading the headlines, it is therefore easy to assume that the Tesla Model S and perhaps electric cars in general have a greater propensity to catch fire than gasoline cars when nothing could be further from the truth.

Actually, the Data do not support Him. He is starting to tread on shallow ground, and perhaps should re-evaluate and stratify his data analysis to fires 'on public highways'.[1,2] That is where all of the Tesla Fires are happening. Unfortunately, those data do not support him.

By this metric, you are more than four and a half times more likely to experience a fire in a gasoline car than a Model S! Considering the odds in the absolute, you are more likely to be struck by lightning in your lifetime than experience even a non-injurious fire in a Tesla.

And, Bayesian statistics might give you a different analysis.

From a PR perspective, I wonder if this is really doing him any favours? The note he wrote after the october crash was flawed, but perhaps excusable. This is too pre-meditated and now must just be considered somewhere on the spectrum of 'wrong' to 'misguided' to 'misleading'.

[1] In data terms, it excludes intentional fires like vandalism, and parked cars being struck, and accidents in motor repair facilities, etc.

[2] http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Public+highway
Hiding behind a throwaway account, taking anonymous potshots? Goodness!
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"Removed" makes it sound like a sin of commission, where it's more likely that they decided to re-build their website and didn't see a point in having a historical archive of speeches, policy documents etc. on there. To the extent that political parties are marketing operations rather than history societies, this is not really surprising.

I'm not sure how this kind of thing used to be handled prior to the web being a major campaign tool. I wonder how easy it was to get hold of the 1992 Labour election manifesto in 1997, when such things existed only as printed documents.

There has always been a thriving cottage industry of political obsessives (in a good way!) who maintain their own archives of this kind of material. It turns out that you can't get old election manifestos from the Labour party, but you can get them here: http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/ - and the Conservative one here: http://www.conservativemanifesto.com/1992/

I'm not sure what's best here. Should we put greater pressure on political parties (and other similar organisations) to maintain a public history of their own activity despite this being sometimes against their self-interest, or should we support the efforts of third parties who archive this stuff without such conflicts of interest? (Of course, the right answer might be "both").
I recently noticed that you could create your own "IP -> countrycode" lookup system by using the delegation tables provided by arin/ripencc/afrinic/...

It might not be very accurate, but it's a fun little exercise:
http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2013/09/07/ip-to-countrycode-with...
You got a point (I upvoted you). But Netscape is not in the same position as it was pre-Microsoft. We can't know what would have happened, had Netscape survived.