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No one here is arguing that Apple shouldn't offer a standard in-app purchase option. As you describe, there are substantial benefits. The issue is with the way they mandate it, even in situations where it is actively harmful.

Amazon (to take the most notorious of many examples) doesn't need Apple's help to build consumer confidence and trust. In fact, including Apple in Amazon's transactions makes them more complicated and less trustworthy (consider what could happen if there's a hiccup in associating your Kindle account and your Apple ID). And the 30% cut isn't anywhere near a level playing field for them, since they compete with the one company that doesn't pay it (and have similar costs for acquiring the digital content they sell).

You also misunderstand Google Play's policy on digital in-app purchases. Google doesn't require all in-app purchases to go through their IAP system, just the ones that unlock application functionality (so you can't evade the 30% cut of app purchases by rolling your own IAP). This is qualitatively different from Apple's policies as a simple glance at the iOS vs Android Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Amazon MP3 (and on and on) apps will demonstrate.

Finally, I'll add that Apple handling returns isn't necessarily a benefit. It means iOS developers can't offer more generous return policies than the standard one, something many have used to good effect on Android.
Whenever I use someone else's computer I'm always amazed and wonder how can they stand it. I have noticed people actually getting frustrated at ads making sounds and what not.
But how you cheat on universal income is to declare having more children than you actually have. Or just actually having them, treating them badly.

Or at least, every now and then, there's an article in various European news articles that someone pulled that crap. (Most Euro countries will give a monthly stipend of ~100 euro per child you have, no questions asked (in Belgium you have to work to get it, I believe, but no other qualifications. A bank director gets it, and so does the cleaning lady))
As far as I can tell it also helps avoid bank runs. If you can only withdraw a small amount of your balance every day, it may prevent the price from tumbling precipitously when people get spooked - they would have to consciously cash out over many days. It might also allow the exchange to operate with money it doesn't actually have, but that's just speculation on my part.
thank you for this I live in Washington so the University of Washington is close by and what you went through would be relevant for me and close by I'll look into this.
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> Android Ported to ANSI C

The most common issue is the different semantics of 'inline' between historic gcc and C99.
Lantern seems a lot like the Hola Unblocker (http://hola.org/faq.html#ub_cost), although Hola is ad-supported and not open source.
I'm guessing part of it might also be in order for Mt. Gox to keep its float steady. They have a certain amount of BTC available at any one point, with the rest in cold storage. If someone were to withdraw a huge amount at one point, it'd drain the float and everyone else would not be able to do anything.
http://imgur.com/a/64v5t
so the currency with "no transaction fees" avoids the free-market implications of arbitrage that would prevent price-fixing..... through the serendipity of two-way transaction fees?
1. Bitcoin is as secure as it seems, if used properly.

2. It was never intended to be anonymous. It's pseudonymous.

3. The "computational arms race" doesn't hurt Bitcoin or alter the network performance at all. The only real negative is it wastes electricity.

4. The distributed-ledger system is not unwieldy. That's simply false.
That doesn't save time, it works directly against this by reducing it to a bunch of superficial funny bullets, it's an attack on preserving privacy, as usual. Let's talk about the article at least a little bit if we're going to talk.

Just wanting something that works is the same as having nothing to hide is the same as not understanding or caring about privacy.
The imbalance is not random; MtGox always has a higher price so your money would be flowing in one direction and you'd end up with all your money in MtGox USD that's very difficult to access.
I'm not saying that he does. And I'm not saying that he doesn't. I am not a psychiatrist.

My point is that it is relatively easy to investigate and that trying to solve inattentiveness with stultifying rigidity fortified with lashings of mindless tedium and extremely limited choice of work might not be the right move. Especially if it's genuinely due to an inborn condition that no amount of drill sergeants can yell out of you.

Once you sign up, you can't easily get out without serious penalties. So it's worth exploring other possibilities first.
What's the purpose of separating the 'float' and the 'cold storage'? Is it to increase security by limiting the amount of BTC exposed to an attacker who breaks in Mt. Gox?
>trying to solve inattentiveness with stultifying rigidity fortified with lashings of mindless tedium and extremely limited choice of work might not be the right move

Yes on that I completely agree!
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And as a hedge against a BTC price crash, or a huge jump in mining difficulty, or etc. If you're doing nothing but mining then you've got all your eggs in one basket.
If you had a good probability of both exchanges having equal amounts of high and low, you would be right, but if you have to always go in one direction then this "buffer" won't work.
Even if I had wanted to subscribe before, the wiggling put a stop to it.
I have definitely noticed this too. It also brought to my attention how much I use YouTube as I noticed how often I felt pissed because of yet another pre-roll.
I also don't track users at my sites except for anonymous cookies on my cooking web site. The cookie lets me identify them anonymously so I can keep track of food they have on hand for suggesting recipes.

I put a lot of work into my sites and the really large payoff is meeting people with similar interests and also people who might want to use my consulting services. It would make me sad to have to abuse people's privacy in order to make a living. (I am contracting at Google for a while, but I generally think that mostly Google falls into the good guys camp, as opposed to Facebook - just my personal opinion.)
Coinbase.com is by far the easiest to simply buy or use Bitcoin if you have a US bank account (and it is a YC company). Unlike MtGox.com (originally the most popular) the site is fast, stable, well designed, and can connect directly with your US bank account. They've also got a set of merchant tools and APIs.

The only downside is that it's not a real time trading platform / you wouldn't want to do day trading of BTC on it.

This link will give us both $5 in BTC if you buy 1 BTC.

https://coinbase.com/?r=4fedfb2d6cbd3b0003000845&utm_campaig...
It think the timing (days before the Adobe Flash CS5 launch, the first release that included iPhone application support, IIRC) and the eventual reversal makes it clear that this was about making life difficult for Adobe and Flash and not much else.
Mining bitcoin isn't worth it and has not been for quite some time (from a newbie perspective looking to jump in.) I did some Litecoin mining about 6 mos ago, and experimented with: a) firing up EC2 clusters with MIT StarCluster http://star.mit.edu/cluster/ (which is awesome for other reasons) b) buying my own rigs with expensive, high-end AMD GPUs. It was worth it for a while. I also pre-ordered some Butterfly Labs HW, but bailed on it when they couldn't produce a timely delivery.

tl;dr: it is fun for dorks like us, but at this point, don't expect to build your retirement nest egg mining -- just buying coins on an exchange is going to have a much better chance at ROI.
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> As far as I can tell it also helps avoid bank runs.

Sounds plausible but it puts the exchanges in a major position of power in the bitcoin economy. If they're actively managing liquidity of the BTC economy in this manner I have a hard time understanding why they're any better than the central banks that bitcoiners are attempting to disrupt.

> It might also allow the exchange to operate with money it doesn't actually have, but that's just speculation on my part.

Let's hope not, because that is literally a ponzi scheme.
> This annoyed me in the same way it would annoy an astronomer if you called an asteroid a planet through some chain of tortured logic.

I think many people just say "stars" while they should say "planets", "asteroids", "stars", "galaxies" etc instead, even when they are well aware that stars are not same as other planetary objects. Well, I think I have made many required qualifications in the second comment as your point becomes clearer. (And I think many others have the similar assumptions, but that's another story.)

> All I am pointing out is that calling asm.js "native code" is inaccurate and misleading.

You are totally right on that. Asm.js is just "a JavaScript subset that can act like a portable assembly language". No performance guarantee here. One can expect the performance boost with the reasonable assumptions but as far as I recall V8 people don't think so. In fact, I'm not that interested in the performance of asm.js but in the potential use of asm.js for non-JS contexts.
Unless they've changed things recently, you can always subscribe to channels and watch those videos on a smart TV. I don't see ads on that... yet.
Author of Martini here. It's very cool to see community members explain concepts better than I can! I'm very excited to see where the golang community can take this over time.
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Quarter life crisis: A question to those at the top of their respective fields.
A short background paragraph is in order. I'm suffering through what I believe is a quarter life crisis. I have either lost, or never had, the ability to recognize my own intelligence or that of others. It has lead me to be incredibly insecure about my own ability to perform in both the career path that has evolved from my passion and my ability to be a good human being. The additional true understanding of my mortality that I never had as an adolescent has also caused me to think about death on an almost daily basis. All of this has caused me to come to a silent panic and feel lost with... everything.

Now on to my question.

To all those at the top of their fields, be it STEM or otherwise. To those who help drive change, discover, and develop what we did not have before: How did you get there? How did you manage to become a part of a force that pushes humanity forward? How did you deal with your own shortcomings? Did you ever feel like you simply did not have it in you? Was there ever any significant emotional challenges that you had to overcome? How did you overcome them?

What I am asking for is not unlike those who ask where to start studying but I ask a different question: How did you manage getting there? Share with me a bit of your autobiography in hopes that I can find some common ground with the people I look up to.
Yes, but it's relevant. This is war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre ... as is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest_to_kill_100_people_usin...

Also, read this: http://www.amazon.com/Nothing-Less-than-Victory-Decisive/dp/...

There are some just, moral wars. Most aren't.
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It goes in both directions. If you are running low on USD at BitStamp, you just deposit money there (assuming deposits take an acceptable amount of time) and withdraw the same amount from Mt. Gox (which might take a while). You still made money. Are you looking for a never-ending money cycle?

You are creating a cyclical process of arbitrage. If arbitrage traders have large enough reserves they should be able to pretty consistently close the gaps, which means your opportunities will be few and far between anyway, giving you plenty of time to prepare.

When buying and selling BitCoin becomes more fluid, that is.
Hence this project: https://github.com/brandonbloom/backtick
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An idea for a "This Machine Kills Patents" sticker came to me as a reference to the message Woody Guthrie famously painted on his guitar. https://www.trycelery.com/shop/kills-patents I wanted one, and I figured others might too. Preorder one above and I'll make a bulk order. Hope you like the idea as much as I do!
General Tso's chicken, like fortune cookies and Chop Suey, come from America.
The problem is, as I see it, is with the agency grabbing the copyright, is that he has no way of proving it was his work, so that he arguably does not even have bragging rights.
Sweden, if you first convince a company there that they want to hire you.

"My" company has hired maybe 15 foreigners from all over the world. Getting the work visa (including visas for partners and children) is quite streamlined.

Here are the rules for Swedish employers looking to hire foreign people:

http://www.migrationsverket.se/info/6113_en.html

- advertise the job in Sweden and the EU for at least 10 days

- offer terms of employment that are at least on the same level as Swedish collective agreements or that which is customary in your occupation or industry

- offer a salary that is at least on the same level as Swedish collective agreements or that which is customary in your occupation or industry

- offer a monthly pretax salary of at least SEK 13,000

- fill out a offer of employment and give the trade union concerned the opportunity to state its opinion about the terms of employment

Processing time is usually okay, a couple of weeks.
The Guardian is rehashing Buzzfeed's Reddit thread summaries now? I can come up with at least 21 Ways This Makes Me Dissappointed.
I will make one. Oh yes, I will.

In fact, I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile after a decade just so I could have a GSM phone. Haven't gotten the pieces together yet, but I'm so down with this because I totally want a wooden phone.

And all the hipsters will squeal with jealousy.
yea that article was a waste of everyone's time. i think it's ok for people to have their opinions though. There are certainly many "pro Bitcoin" articles written that highlight its keys to success and conveniently forget to mention any flaws.

In fact a lot of pro BTC articles still paint it as perfect and Nakamoto is idolized. If the community were more willing to admit to possible errors perhaps they'd have a shot at fixing them. And I'd wager that the people they're idolizing (if they are true to their vision and not just profiteering) see these mistakes and are wracking their brains, rather than watching the numbers and smiling complacently.

i think the key with Bitcoin is to get people thinking... some are inspired but many just want to profit. Decent lesson about greed, I believe...
Worth $1000 or be precise.
Even if you're from LA, SF, or NY, there's a strong chance you've never actually had Chinese food ;)
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It is easier to write anti-fraud algorithms for other goods: If you want to buy stuff and ship to Romania with a US credit card, that will raise a lot of read flags I'd imagine.
You also have to resell the goods which is probably quite a hassle. There are of course a things that are almost as good as money, like gold and stuff, but the sellers of that probably have their algos set for very few false positives.

Google anti fraud api, it is quite interesting.
Honestly, when I read the NSA one I started laughing, but then it kind of sent a shiver down my spine. Brrr.
I mean, right now when the American exchanges are always trailing Mt. Gox, there is a pretty consistent arbitrage opportunity. But assuming Gox gets its act together (a big assumption) arbitrage opportunities could become fewer in the future. Which means you will have plenty of time to fill your reserves back up if a bigger opportunity comes along later.
There are two open-source D compilers that track the reference front-end, which is also open source. (Thanksgiving wish: this misinformation will cease to exist one day.)
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I can confirm that.

It also used to skip pre-rolls when you reloaded the page, now it will keep displaying the pre-roll until you watch it.
As an AU/NZ/DE citizen who has been mostly based in China (but also a year in LA, 2 weeks SF) since 2001, I can tell you that Auckland is a best case example.

Compared to SF (which has one of the oldest Chinatowns in the US... unlike LA's, which incidentally was ruthlessly bulldozed to make way for a 'required' freeway by racist local government) much of Auckland's Chinese population is recent, which is perfect. Recent mainland immigration brings real Chinese food as Chinese eat it.

SF is dealing with Americanized interpetations of Chinese food that persist from the modified cuisine of multiple generations of Cantonese immigrants distilled through American popular culture. You know:

(1) Paper box

(2) Disposable chopsticks

(3) Fujian/Guangdong style egg (yellow) noodles

(4) Canto-Americanisms like 'chop suey' (Mandarin 'chao cai') and 'dim sum' (Mandarin 'dian xin') and such.

(5) Total overuse of meats and a relative lack of vegetarian options

(6) Total overuse of heavy sauces (oyster, sweet and sour, etc.)

By contrast, despite an early presence of Chinese in New Zealand, just fifteen years ago you would be hard pressed to find any Asian food at all in central Auckland, and certainly there was no or next to no honest mainland-style Chinese cuisine available at all, anywhere in the city.

(Edit: What's with the downvote? Sheesh.)
I guess it's just annoying that it's practically on everything now... like everyone is trying to make that 4 cents in ad revenue off of their kitten rolling around or whatever lol ><

I've personally stopped watching several videos just because an ad started (as in I closed the browser tab after seeing I had to wait 15s or 30s). Youtube still has dominance now but if you keep getting in the way of people, something better will come along and usurp you (ie StackOverflow vs Experts Exchange).
Not at all. There are good restaurants and there are bad restaurants. Most of the customers in the SF Chinatown restaurants are Chinese, so you know there are going to be some good restaurants.
Is work necessary?
Compared to hulu and others they haven't yet but it is more pervasive.

The 'skip' link is still in after you watch one longer ad in a series. At least they have that because watching ads for online videos is not the same as TV.

Back in the day on TV you'd get 10-15 minutes of entertainment before a commercial. Here you are watching :30 spots for another minute long video or maybe a few minutes on most occasions. So ad sites really need to take that into consideration.

Noone wants to watch more ad time than actual video time, keep at least a sane balance. A balance that will keep people watching not turn them away forever.
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The designer should not have worked without a contract. What he did amounts to spec work. Next time, he will make sure that he and the agency sign a contract stating that when he gets paid, the transfer of copyright occurs.
That's a pretty cool thing to do. I'm not alone but wouldn't mind joining a group of people that I've never met before. If I didn't have anything to do, I'd probably take up the offer. Have a happy holiday!
This works for one trade. Then you need to get your dollars out of MtGox, and it takes a month, and your arbitrage is stalled.
> Nokia wanted to be able to use the official Android branding and use Nokia's existing services (mostly their maps), but Google's license doesn't allow that.

Can you elaborate? It's hard to understand in light of all the extra cruft the carriers put on their Android devices.
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No, he's not. Spike Lee's response on Twitter is that he never hired him, doesn't know who he is, and if he has a beef, it's not with him.
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In Chrome, I use Magic Actions for YouTube. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/magic-actions-for-....

Not only it blocks ads, it removes annoying annotations as well.
Eh, the ads are easy enough to circumvent on a PC. I think what OP is complaining about is just the fact that they're being pushed a lot harder recently.
Clearly this is rocket science.
Yeah, that's probably a fair point. It wasn't clear until I looked at the architecture diagram, though.

Native Sailfish apps are Qt based; with android apps as a secondary thing, presumably to kick-start the platform while they try to build an ecosystem. (Which makes sense, developers won't come unless people are using it but people won't use it if there are no apps.)

I'm guessing that was Blackberry's strategy too. Didn't work for them - be interesting to see how well it works here.
Actually, it's your own "bias" that seems to show through here...
Looks like I'm wrong about the attribution. It's in the article "The C Language and Models for Systems Programming" by Johnson and Kernighan.
This style of site (plain HTML with no styles) is pretty typical for a CS person who pre-dates the world wide web.
More interestingly: Is anyone doing BTX<->Litecoin arbitrage?
So do they get a transaction fee every time even though all they're doing is changing the id of the owner in their database?
The problem is that most people go to YouTube for quick content. It becomes useless when you have to stop 3 out of 4 times for 5-30 seconds, as OP pointed out. It completely changes the YouTube experience and just doesn't feel "right" or scalable as a business model.

Or, if Google sticks to it then the sort of content that gets consumed might change. I already find myself skipping to see videos under 2 minutes if there's an ad before.

I never felt pushed around by ads on Netflix, South Park or any other premium content though.
What laws are these? I find it strange to hear anyone claim that US laws determine what is made and sold as Chinese food. There are some laws regarding food safety, but they apply to all foods.
I used to find it pretty confusing to. I mean, most of the shit I worked in I was quite happy with Arial or some monospace font.

Since then, I've worked with some truly excellent designers. They're people who are great at design, but know very little about the web, so they tend to bring some of the more 'traditional' design concepts with them.

I've seen that the difference in feeling/perception a font can convey for your message when used well is much more significant than I ever would have presumed.

Simply put, there is an aspect of your message that cannot be conveyed with fonts that are available across every device and operating system. (What... Arial, Verdana, Georgia and Times New Roman?).

I still don't necessarily grasp the difference between, say, "Proxima Nova" and "Montserrat" (Google Web Font), but at this point I'm a little more willing to trust the designer.