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Android user here.

First of all:
"They are a great Christmas present to an iPhone user!"

No. Seriously?
A loyal iPhone user would resent you for being preachy.
And if your target just happens to use an iPhone by default without true brand loyalty, then they're quite likely to be tech unsavvy. So the reality of that present isn't "Hey, I got you a shiny new gadget that is better than the one you have now". It's "Hey, I got you dozens and dozens of hours of research, effort, and learning curve into something you didn't ask for for marginal benefit I'm not even certain you will receive"

P.S. "Like the people who moved from PCs to Macs and never switched back, you will switch from iPhone to Android and never switch back"

The irony is delicious. I like PCs and Macs for different reasons just as I like Android and iOS for different reasons. But the reasons why I tend to use PCs and Android are the same. So I can't help but think that if there was no conflict of interest, Eric Schmidt would be an iPhone user 100% of the awy
It's an infuriating bug, there's no real reason for it, and no pattern as to what triggers it. Some users see it daily others never see it. It's been around long enough to seriously irritate some users, hence the bounty.
Someone who uses google+! Guess posts like this suggest Google won't be helping gmail work properly on Apple products.
Each Bitcoin transaction has a set of inputs and outputs. The sum of the BTC in the inputs must be strictly greater than or equal to the sum of the BTC in the outputs. If sum(inputs) > sum(outputs) then the miner who wins the block containing this transaction gets the residual sum(inputs) - sum(outputs) as their "fee".

The fee charged on transactions is purely a convention, and is not fixed in the Bitcoin protocol. If a sufficiently large group of miners say "We will include transactions in blocks that we mine if and only if the input-output residual is 0.05BTC.", then transactions without this fee will have a low chance of making it onto the blockchain.

If this fee becomes too high, then people may abstain from paying it, reducing the number of transactions that miners are processing, reducing their profit, thus inducing them to lower the fee to capture a larger number of transactions and hence greater profit. There must be some kind of equilibrating fee, modelling this would make an interesting paper / blog post.
A real bubble means an epidemic of companies being overvaluated.

Is that really happening right now? Hundreds of companies have wildly inflated prices? Scores, even?

Or is this just a case of a few companies making the news recently?
Isn't closed to your social circle? OP wants something that helps you expand to other social circles. Arrive to a new city none of your friends are in, and have an app tell you what is around you based on your interests and posts.
I'd suggest the list here [0]. And I'd add a couple of my own notes:

- For replaying pro games, it's actually far easier than it sounds. I'd suggest to pick a pro with a "peaceful" playstyle: Shusaku, Shuwa for old go, Lee Chang-Ho or Go Seigen for more modern games. Try not to copy their opening/ joseki blindly, but getting a feeling of the conventional/ good shape in play is always good. Strong players with a aggressive play style and lot of brilliant moves can be a bit hard to follow.

- There is the smart go apps for iPad, which is very useful for both tsumegos and game replay (it has a large collection of games)

- I'd suggest the book "Lessons in the fundamentals of Go" by Kageyama Toshiro. I'm not sure if the book is out of print, but it helps a lot to get a sense of the game (ie. all those "fuzzy" criteria as joe_the_user mentioned).

[0] http://senseis.xmp.net/?BenjaminTeuber%2FGuideToBecomeStrong
The two donors I see are gavin and theymos, the former receives bitcoins so the rise in price doesn't affect him, the latter paid nothing himself since those coins were all given to him. There's is also someone else that contributed about 1 BTC, but that cannot be taken back except wtogami himself negotiates with this donator to send it back.

Anyway, I think the attention is well deserved and I hope this contributes to a real fix. The current situation makes me not want to use the official bitcoin client under osx, at all. And this will be the case for a long time now, since I have no idea whether the bug will be correctly fixed.
But it's not like his car payment magically disappears when he becomes a Lyft driver. Or magically stop having to carry insurance. It's a good estimate to use for cost, especially considering the author did not even own a car and would have to purchase one.
It had real preemptive multitasking, but lacked memory protection.
Ask HN: Reversible expressiveness of programming languages?
I have used many different programming languages from different paradigm, and all of them talks about how expressive they are, etc. I had this thought that the expressiveness of all these languages is in only one direction i.e from your thoughts to the code and the reverse of that - from code back to thoughts - takes around same amount of effort in all languages and this is really disappointing and leads to the use of alternate tools like documentation, comments etc. It may be possible to easily understand a specific part of the whole code base but that is no where near the whole picture of the system and what thoughts exactly were used to design the system. Also, we all know that code is read more than it is written.

Would like to know what people think about it.
Sorry, I was imprecise. I understand that it is possible to collect damages from controlling shareholders of corporations; for instance, in any tort case; in several states, unpaid wages also incur liability on company owners, as they did in Vuylsteke. I was asking specifically about your liability insurance argument.
"... survivorship bias ..."

Yes.

Look at who is successful, note some random characteristics of these individuals or businesses and then come up with your own theory of how success is deliberately attained. The share it over the web.

What's even more amusing is when someone sings Google's praises as a company that "did things differently" and then proceeds to dismiss any future innovators (who choose to do things differently) in the markets that Google is in.

I have often thought Google is a grossly misunderstood company, despite many facts being readily available. I'm still waiting for someone to show me otherwise.

Some years back I watched a presentation where a representative of one of the internet's most respected infrastructure companies claimed that the secret of Google's success was diversification and not relying on one product (search). He suggested the winning strategy was to release numerous products and cited non-search Google's products as examples. However, every example was a product released by another company (who, go figure, focused exclusively on one product) that Google had acquired. Some folks do know the facts about Google, but I see an inordinately large number of folks who you think would know the facts, but sadly do not. Instead they have their theories and are eager to share.
Just come to Chiang Mai, Thailand, and hang out at punspace co-working space punspace.com. Lots of developers here
Would you mind naming some good chess engines for Mac, Windows and Linux? (I know this can be googled, but I value the recommendation from a credible source).
What if I create a female account, then Rate myself? Can social hacking get me laid?
In particular, it seems to not manifest itself for the technical folks who are likely to actually solve it if they can reproduce it and yet be quite frequent for others.

I wouldn't be shocked if it ultimately turned out to be due to some setting that gurus would never have enabled. :)
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> But it's not like his car payment magically disappears when he becomes a Lyft driver. Or magically stop having to carry insurance.

Right, my point is that those costs are essentially fixed w.r.t miles driven, not that you wouldn't need those things. If you drive 36000 miles a year as a Lyft driver your car payment is still the same as someone who drives 12000 miles a year, whereas the author's model assumes the payment would be 3x as much. And re insurance, I know insurance companies take mileage into account in determining insurance premium, but it's certainly not the only thing in the formula.
Is Ripple seriously in the running to be the next Bitcoin? So many articles I read, news reports I watch, talk as if it is.

The company that started it holds half of them. Who (outsite of Ripple Labs) can honestly say that sounds like a good idea?
I think what he means is that you cant turn those costs into a "cost per mile rate" since that rate will decline once you excedd 12000 miles assuming a bunch of the costs are fixed costs.

But I don't know, if you're exceeding 12k miles working for Lyft, im sure the cost/benefit analysis takes on a whole new life.
The social networks are like TV shows. They have a limited run. This is because it's entertainment, rather than tech.

Hollywood knows how this works, and they do not incorporate or IPO each individual TV show: instead they incorporate studios, that produce many different shows. Facebook is forced into this model too by reality, thus they bought Instagram, and tried to buy Snapchat. Those shows will also have a limited lifetime. Facebook will fail, because they do not recognize that they are in the entertainment business and they will cling to their one single show.

Someone needs to create a non-gaming software studio, that is tooled to make or to buy Instagrams for less than $1bn, knowing that they constantly need to retire the old shows and come up with the new ones.
I think the obvious answer here is there won't be a next-gen social network that is Facebook. Instead there will be several social networks that are laser focused on being the best for X.

Ala Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Vine, Pinterest, Path, OKCupid, Github, etc...
You probably meant something else here, because everyone shares the same blockchain*. I guess you meant a SPV client, like Multibit.
I don't get the statist idea that it's any of your damn business to decide who does and doesn't "deserve" a particular amount of money. Given that free markets have lead to prosperity for average people on a scale that would've been unimaginable a few short centuries ago, while people living in socialist utopias like Cuba and North Korea continue to live in extreme poverty, those who support redistributionist schemes like this are clearly the ones who want to see poor kids rot.
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@Brent Noorda, awesome! You've identified a market opportunity to provider a more consumer friendly and driver friendly alternative! Give back to the community! All you need is some servers and lattes.
It's amortizing the cost so it makes sense. The real thing missing is assuming all the miles are lyft miles, and assuming the car provides no value outside of lyft
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Anyone who actually thinks this is a good idea should read Thomas Sowell's The Quest for Cosmic Justice (http://www.amazon.com/Quest-Cosmic-Justice-Thomas-Sowell/dp/...), and everything else Sowell wrote, and Hayek and von Mises, and Friedman and all the other economists who've long since debunked this kind of idiocy . . .
http://www.kiseido.com/go_books.htm

Pick up "Tesuji", "Life & Death" and "Attack & Defence". Use "Tesuji" and "Life & Death" to learn the how and why of basic go tactics and to prepare yourself to study problems in general. Keep "Attack & Defence" for when you are ready to learn how to actually play go on a strategic level.

Pick up the "Graded Go Problems for Beginners" vol 1 - 4. Pick up "1001 Life & Death". Pick up "501 Tesuji Problems". If you play games and grind through most of this material, your strength will be around 5 kyu by any standard and rising. "Attack & Defence" will be here now to help you climb to the gate of the dan ranks and begin crushing your way upwards.

I'd consider Ishida's "Dictionary of Basic Joseki" to be the definitive guide to how to think about corner patterns. The updated edition, "The 21st Century Dictionary of Basic Joseki" is much more up to date but suffers from shallower analysis and a narrowed scope. Dip into those books when reviewing your games and for regular study. Combine that with collections of professional games, commented and otherwise, to develop your sense of the opening and early to late middle game.

I love to read go books (I own or have owned nearly every book on that page, as well as books from many other publishers...) but all the periods where I've increased in strength the most have been when I've played games and worked go problems on a regular basis. Still, "Attack & Defense" and those 3 volumes of joseki were instrumental for my progression from the weak end of single digit kyu up to 1 dan.
Why not? The rules for validating Bitcoin transactions and blocks must be completely specified and followed exactly by all implementations of the client software, otherwise you risk forks.
Uber just announced that it has struck deals with auto manufacturers to chop $100-200 off monthly payments for those that are approved to drive for them.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/24/uber-driver-car-financing/
The funny thing is, replace PC with tablet, replace mainframe with PC, replace Windows with Android and your story still holds true.

History doesn't repeat itself. But it sure does rhyme.
Yeah lets be honest, it's probably something that's a pain-in-the-ass to solve. Unpredictable/difficult to repeat. Open-source devs need some motivation for this one clearly.
I remember the days when Shredder was practically unbeatable in computer chess tournaments and ratings but now it's not even on the top 15 in terms of strength (Check CCRL: http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/). Oh how the mighty have fallen! The strength of chess engines have improved immensely in the last 5 years and none of that has anything to do with processor speed.
Ah, I misunderstood. Yes, you are correct. I would use the US government's rate per mile, which comes out to about $17 for 30 miles. Unknown what components this is expected to include beyond fuel and wear/tear.

http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/100715

EDIT: Found further clarification. "The TDY mileage rates consider the fixed and variable costs to operate a car (gasoline, insurance, wear and tear, etc.) and are intended to reimburse the average expense of using a POC for the official government travel."

http://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/site/faqmileage.cfm
In early version there was a bug with OP_RETURN operation allowing anyone to spend anyone's coins without effort. This was fixed quickly.
According to IRS, $0.58 per mile is fair comp (for driving your own car). http://www.irs.gov/uac/2013-Standard-Mileage-Rates-Up-1-Cent.... In city, you can hardly drive over 35 miles/hour and you stop frequently. Even if you drive 10-20 miles per hour, that's $6 - $12. per hour.
Anyone else feel that no one knows this "next-generation social network" better than, well, the next generation? I'm talking about today's young teens and little kids. Facebook took off during our time because we were the cool demographic back then. It was everything we wanted and needed that MySpace and Friendster failed to give. I think it's difficult for us to comprehend what the next-gen social network will be because we think differently. We didn't exactly grow up with touch-screen devices and mobile internet, for one.
I know Uber drivers count driving/car costs as business expenses for a tax write off. Something to think about...
Tsunami warnings in Hawaii are broadcast by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center and through NOAA's weather broadcast. The PTWC is based in Ewa, so technically it's kama'aina. I live on Oahu right now and I've never received a tsunami warning with Google Now, only with the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) that are not specific to any carrier or phone. Flood and severe storm warnings are also broadcast using the WEA.
IIRC you need to have a certain number of "real" fb friends (I'm assuming they judge this by connections to one another) to access it. A female friend of mine told me about it and showed me my ratings a few months ago. Cringeworthy.
I did much better this time than I did the last time this was posted. The trick is to pay attention to the negative space more than the letterforms themselves; if you visualize the black pixels as the meaningful content, it's usually straightforward to see where things are out of balance.
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I bought OS/2 for work to run on some DEC PC (not the damn Rainbow, the decent 486 DEC sold). The graphic card (S3) wasn't supported out of the box, so I called the IBM and got nowhere other than an acknowledgement it existed.

I called DEC and they too believed it existed, so they (while I was still on the line) called their contact at IBM. After being transferred twice, we arrived at the person who could mail me the driver, but I would have to sign an NDA. Myself and the DEC rep explained we didn't want source or a beta driver, just the release one. He insisted every customer had to sign. I said I'd think about it. After hanging up, the DEC rep couldn't stop laughing. He asked if I wanted a free copy of NT compliments of DEC. I took it and it had the correct driver.

I tried, but they had no chance.
I just find stuff like this really scary. Google basically knows everything about this guy's life.

I understand that he isn't personally concerned by this, but I feel that a lot of people would be scared by things like this.
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Up until March of last year a lot of ATMs in the US were still running OS/2 . . . I "upgraded" a lot of them to Windows XP. Yuck.

When I would take the OS/2 system offline and replace it with a Windows cage the payment network would sometimes tell me the uptime on the deprecated machines . . . one network operator claimed 8 years of uptime at one particular machine. I have no way of confirming that, but I definitely felt the OS/2 machines were rock solid, especially compared to the vulnerable Windows machines. Most small banks with NCR machines are running two software packages (APTRA Edge or Advance) with default admin passwords and are really behind on the monthly bug patches. Eek.

The OS/2 machines required you to input config info in hex though, so I was glad I didn't have to work on them in the field too much.
Share prices are based on the last price paid. If there's a constant supply of new money from "nowhere", it's easy to keep bidding up the prices of existing assets.

Put another way: the effect of $80 billion / month doesn't have to be $80 billion / month. It can be the effect of using that $80 billion to drive up the prices of existing assets. If I have cheap money and feel like Example Company Inc is worth bidding from $100 to $500, even if I only buy a few percent of the company, I just quintupled its headline value.

That's the argument. I think it's a little simplistic that the "only" reason for the current bubble is US Federal Reserve policy, insofar as bubbles can form without an inflationary monetary policy. But it's not totally unreasonable to assume that it's playing a contributory role. It can certainly make any bubble a more bigger and frothier bubble.
Not only that, but why the hell would someone want to risk their life "ramming" a fighter jet. I'm terrified enough of scratching the paint on my car bumping into something, I couldn't imagine the mindset you'd have to have to deem it worthwhile to "ram" a fighter jet midair.
Most hardware architectures have a trap or condition set upon integer overflow, eg. x86 has the 'jo' instruction to jump if the overflow flag is set after an integer operation. Unfortunately, these are not exposed by C, so there's no portable way to access them, as long as you're writing the interpreter in C. This is one of the big advantages of compiling to LLVM or directly to the hardware; LLVM provides the llvm.*.with.overflow intrinsics to access the overflow flag of the hardware, which lets you do bigints at basically zero overhead.
Regarding vulnerabilities, which many think (wrongly) are not present in mainframes, because they are networked nearly as much, and have massively fewer programs running on them, don't show up as much. But they are there.
This thread (and funding of the bounty addresses) was started on Nov 18, the day Bitcoin on MtGox touched $900. Did the bounty start earlier?
My method: grep the Adobe password leak file for "@company.com".
Ah yes, you should give yourself another shot to figure out different possibilities. It gives u better insight into whether or not you are getting better at identifying tactics
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I don't think we used that exact terminology, but back in the '70s in the real-time interrupt-driven world, the concept was there. In fact, if you had used that phrase at that time, everyone would have grasped the meaning.
kickstarter? There are a few projects at kickstarter like this type already.
You lost me at "Surface."
Since when did we start demanding background checks on people that publish free tutorials on the internet?

But since you asked, he explains in this article that he was rated around 1800. He also clearly explains what that means. He then described a system he used to boost his rating by 600 points in 15 months. I'm impressed, but you aren't obligated to feel the same way. You also aren't obligated to take his advice. He gave it to us for free, and you returned his kindness with unnecessary hostility.
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Can you recommend which ad tracking tool to use for Facebook Ads?
However, I got the impression he was asked to leave as a result of his confrontational behavior.
Mobile messaging apps seem to be the way forward for this. They are starting to integrate social networking features into it.
cryptocoin, I have 'showdead' on and you're hellbanned. Welcome to HN!
It's certainly trying to add something of value - the problem everyone seems to have is that it's failing at that task pretty badly.
And not in the sense that the developers are incompetent or lack skill - but in the sense that what they think is a better UI experience is very definitely not an opinion shared by others.

This is further aggravated by the fact that many site owners choose to use them.
That's an interesting analogy. However, I don't think that Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, etc are as easy to replicate as a TV show. Empirically, social products are exceptionally difficult to 'manufacture' and are usually the result of side projects and early stage startups.
Yes, sometime back in spring or early summer I believe (based on my memory of #bitcon-dev conversations.. I don't frequent the scum-infested bitcointalk much).
You just described the social network I'm working on now, and like a couple of other posters have mentioned, our entire userbase is teens and college aged people at the moment.
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That's a pretty cool idea. will check it in my free time. Btw Does it just give ONE next move? or a series of moves until a significant accomplishment? because sometimes a move is only epic because of the subsequent moves it allows you to make. A sacrifice on its own doesn't seem like a good move. Its only when you see what opening that gave you, that you truly appreciate it.
Monetary incentive actually decreases quality, in situations like this. It devalues altruistic contributions (see: Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us)