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Sounds like horrible advice.

I guess you didn't see the Amazon drone on 60 Minutes? Marketing, showmanship, etc are very important for companies and products. Here, I think you should take a business course:

" Marketing is possibly the most important activity a business can partake in. It is the one activity that most directly affects the amount of recognition and sales that a company gets and this determines the level of profitability"

https://www.udemy.com/blog/importance-of-marketing/
Sure, but exactly how are you going to use the blockchain to prove to a non-technical jury that your BTC were not delivered?
Two alternatives

* Have a special message that does not contain the email address and makes it's contents public.
* Take whatever the first message happened to be and replace any characters in the email address with the character X and release that. Giving away the length of the email address wouldn't do anyone any good.
Spotify started 5 years ago not 9 plus most of its revenue came last year.
PierreA, jcampbell1 said you are immensely talented and he meant the app you created. I agree with that but there is one more thing to that, and that is the way you use English. I suppose English is your second language (so is mine) but how clearly you express yourself and what a pleasure it is to read your blog confirms that you're a super talented guy.
$500 for the 10' model, which gets 1.5 hours out of the battery. This is laughable.

When these were first announced, I wanted one badly. A cheap, MIPS-based laptop? Yes please. But you couldn't get one for a long time, and queries to the Chinese company were never answered. Now you can get one, but they're now out of date and too expensive.
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Show HN: My first ever e-book, Hacking Obamacare
This is my first-ever e-book, www.hackingobamacare.co

I was lurking on HN for a while reading comments and suggestions on how to write one. Thank you to everyone and their deep knowledge on what does and doesn't work.

I wrote hacking obamacare this because I kept seeing lots of my friends, family and loved ones struggling to figure out how to make the health care system work for them.

I've been fortunate given that I've been working in the industry for nearly a decade and know where to look and who to talk to if I'm unsure about something.

This e-book is by no means a comprehensive review of Obamacare and a commentary on its merits as a cure for a broken healthcare system. It's simply for 20-30 somethings who don't know about the health care system, who use the Internet and their phones for everything and want a leg up on everyone else.

Hope you pick up a copy. Drop me a line at david@hackingobamacare.co to let me know what you think. I'd love any feedback.

Oh and 25% of the proceeds go to organizations that make healthcare suck less.
>Your First Hire Should be a Sysadmin (an imperative and definitive statement)

Written by a Sysadmin....

He goes on to say how he built infrastructure and how it benefited the company but... He was far from the first hire at Crowdtilt - which invalidates the whole premise. why compromise the whole integrity of the article with a false premise and untrue suggestion.
| any misunderstandings are prevented

If only this were the case. Comments are frequently wrong- they were either wrong from the beginning, unhelpful, or never updated when code was changed. Whenever I find myself writing a comment, it is typically because I just wrote bad code. Sometimes, bad code is necessary; most of the time, its better to get rid of the comment and the bad code.

Ultimately, comments are not sufficient; you have to read the code anyway. Comments can only be useful in the regard of recording the intent of the author.
I used be in awe of articles like this. For a long time I believed some of the most difficult bugs are the ones where debugger itself has an issue. But having been working in machine learning and distributed computing all these bugs looks like pretty stories in kids book. Imagine this: When your machine learned model does not "work", there are no breakpoints to put, watches to watch or even a code to reflect about. All you have is data and probabilistic statements from which you need to statistically infer the root cause. It's same way in distributed computing. One of my script was over 1600 lines of dense high level statements that ultimately gets translated to hundreds of map reduces. Again you don't get any exceptions when things may get unexpected. All you can see is some statistical pattern that "doesn't look right" and it's always interesting to make you r probabilistic "if-then" arguments leading to a root cause.
I've been fairly high up in the iPad photo category since August 2010 and I'd agree. It's much harder to gain traction now.
> ...but it's possible that the microcode for an AES round opcode could be intentionally flawed

I guess that you mean that it'd still give correct output, but somehow leak the key (incorrect output seems simple to detect, unless it happens for a very small set of keys, and then it seems mostly useless).

I wonder: what ways of leaking the key off the machine would you expect? I (but I'm probably not devious enough) don't see ones that aren't overly complex and don't require additional compromised peripherals. Do you?
Seeing these pathetic salaries (and in the Bay Area!), I don't feel so bad about my boring enterprise development position at no-name established corporation anymore.
Lots of broad generalizations without any stats. I have gamed in the past in guilds with female members, and none of them have been treated particularly poorly.

The anonymity of the internet will always bring out the worst in some, and that is a much more powerful factor than being a gamer.
> I don't see why he asserts this as if it is indisputable fact.

I didn't take it as indisputable. Instead it is taken in the context of where he is. Specifically being a minor part of a major machine, acting out to damage the machine won't do anything other than cause more violence.
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They aren't spying on you (if in fact you aren't plotting to kill Americans)...
And the Academy Award for Best Drama goes to...

Let's not pick at straw men here. If you don't see the difference between real rape threats and Xbox LIVE shit talk, you need not wonder why you may make such an easy target for online bullies.

"Check your privilege"? Putting aside the fact that that phrase just sounds gross, perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to assume the situations of online strangers. Check your logic.
So, for example, in case of competitor offering your valuable worker +10-15% to their salary, will you have any means to match that offer?
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It's not a "gamer" problem, it's societal problem, issues with children/teenagers who tend to gravitate towards games and then have an anonymous mask to hide under. Social norms push men towards, and women away, just as blue is for boys, pink for girls.
Obviously the social context for video games is changing, and with that doesn't not come full cultural acceptance, in fact the opposite.
With anonymity to hide behind, people will voice their opinions more openly, and without consequence.

The Depression Quest story is not one of misogyny, rather the state of Steam Greenlight, who's "community" has a strong opposition to experimental games, and personal attacks against Quinnzel were simply called misogyny. This is why people dislike the movement. Misogyny and any personal attack on women are not the same. Anything that can remotely offend a woman is not misogyny. Things like the PyCon incident, and ideas like this further damage the movement.

Side Note: The holier than thou attitude through out the whole article is really off-putting. It's extremely prevalent throughout (game/tech industry at least, can't say I read too many other feminist material) feminist articles, and it only hurts the cause. Sarkeesian is the worst offender.
I went to the article imagining the worst, due to the overly ill-spirited title on HN "SeatGeek Acquires Better-Funded Competitor FanSnap".

Fortunately they only mention the funding in regards to them acquired co. having funding before SeatGeek started. Which is a testament to hard work, and not needing to be the first to launch a similar idea to succeed.

The title needs to be changed on HN though.
There's a few points in your post that don't address the needs of (our) business users.

If you run an event with hundreds or thousands of attendees you don't want them all emailing or SMSing photos to you.

Or if you run a travel agency and want to provide a way for people to share photos after their group vacation your suggestion won't work there either.

There's a lot of use cases that we've been discussing with customers.

Only then will you have a complex enough product, that
actually simplifies the users activity.

Can't say I agree with that statement :).
Is it really the "violence" ??

Have you ever played "Mortal Kombat" at a house party? As super-violent as it is, people generally are pretty chill about winning and losing... as long as its person-to-person.

On the other hand, I've played a game of Chess online once, and after making one or two good moves, I've been called homophobic names before the guy rage-quit on me.

You can take the least stressful activities, and if they're online, you WILL find people screaming death-threats at each other for some insane reason.

I think the online environment makes people somehow susceptible to stress and anger. At least, I personally go online to relax after the day... but with that relaxation... my inhibitions are released as well. I'm an introvert by nature, when I'm in public, I'm keeping tabs on my own behavior, watching what I say and trying to not be an asshole.

But when I'm at home and just browsing the internet, I'm not going to be holding back my words or thinking about other people's feelings. I'm completely tired of doing that all day. Plus, I'm at home, and (mostly) anonymous online. Why should I care about how I look or about other people's feelings?

I know it is lazy, but I'm just trying to be honest. And if anyone disagrees, please tell me about your experience with "Online Chess" vs "In-Person games of Mortal Kombat". I can almost guarantee you, the behavior of online-chess players is probably worse.
>Reddit does seem to have a problem with people who want to make fun of others

I always thought that's because there are many teenagers active on Reddit. I think ridiculing others in an attempt to elevate ones own status is a very common phase for insecure teenagers to go through.

My experience is almost everyone grows out of it.
This is a rather extreme opinion. I find tests to provide less value than they create most of the time. I think regression tests and integration tests are quite valuable. The former are created after the fact, and the later are often so difficult to do correctly that they are never made. Of course, this difficulty is the same reason why they are valuable.
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Eh, yes and no. It's not sent in plain text to the server. However, in the sense that it's 'Lavabit all over again', or at least a procedure that produces isomorphic problems, the encryption seems to be being done server-side:

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'The difference between messages in Secret Chats and ordinary Telegram messages is in the encryption type: client-client in case of Secret Chats, client-server/server-client for ordinary chats. This enables your ordinary Telegram messages to be both secure and available in the cloud so that you can access them from any of your devices — which is very useful at times.'

https://telegram.org/faq#q-why-not-just-make-all-chats-secre...

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I have trouble construing that other than in you use the server's key to encrypt the message you send and then server encrypts it with the public key associated with the addressees' device at the time.

...

This seems to produce the same problem LB had in that you can be asked to turn over the keys to the messages on your server. And for similar reasons, you're doing encryption on your server.

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Given that LB had that trouble, I also have difficulty seeing any non-malicious reason for solving the key distribution problem this way. Since you can set up secret chats that are end to end encrypted you could equally have asked the client's devices to exchange a private key using each others' public keys.

I'm tempted to explain it away in terms of the user being expected not to be technically savy enough to press the buttons on both devices when asked to do so. - But the client knowing about and using encryption in the first place implies at least some sort of technical competence which I would imagine is great enough to press two buttons when a prompt comes up saying something like:

'The device DEVICE NAME is asking for the key to read your messages.

If you did not try to set up your mail on another device within the last minute, press the REPORT ATTACK button.

Else press the ALLOW button.'

Still, I've overestimated the average intelligence of people before.
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As a boss I'd love this.

It's my job making sure everybody is paid fairly. If Niel came to me and told me about a competitive offer, I'd say, "well, let's look at the market; maybe we've fallen behind." And then we'd sit down and refresh the data that drove our current pay levels. If things had changed significantly, then it would be time for raises. If not, then we'd talk about why a company might be paying well above market, and whether it's the right choice for Niel to go there.

For specialized skills, yeah, a new matrix category's the obvious fix. If co-workers are the kind of people that freak out at market economics, then it means we're not educating them well, so that's something worth fixing.

I think it's important to remember that secret salaries rarely stay secret, so the choice isn't between full knowledge and zero knowledge; it's between full knowledge and half knowledge plus substantial speculation.
You want to use other peoples software, modify then and distribute it. Afterward, you then want to sue users who dare to modify or share your version?

How can anyone except authors to accommodate this, when the license choice explicit states the opposite?
I'm glad they're finally releasing technical details on this. (I tried to submit it too!)

It sounds like a great design, and I like that keypairs are generated for each person you talk with, rather than reusing one and tying different identities together. (maybe I misread that)

Perfect-forward security is great too.

Biggest on my mind is whether this will be open source, though...
Oh come on. I can't talk about the others, but Dina Karam had no business being within ten metric AUs of Mighty No.9

She was hired, BY HER OWN ADMISSION, because her bf works for Comcept. The only bit of art she posted was a godawful female version of Beck (the main character) with a lip piercing and lipstick like a companion-for-hire after a busy night. Much better versions were made by fans later, btw. The outcry is because she's completely unqualified at her job. Here's a youtube video summarising the first few days of the disaster https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXDSfUJBCj0 .

It's like hiring a dudebro who has only played Madden on the team for a spiritual successor for Ico.

There have been MegaMan games with female protagonists, btw. Of the newer ones ZX springs to mind.

Sorry for the hasty post, I didn't back that kickstarter and it still makes me mad. I went and backed Shantae. At least the designer on that team is a sane woman who knows her craft.
Yeah. Mission critical. It's not just a buzz word - there exists software that is critical to completion of the mission.

Examples: Missile guidance system. Space probe communication subroutine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve

this is an old theory and has been refined over time, but its still the basic model taught in economics courses.
Define constant sexual harassment, what's the context? Just in general? What do you classify as actual sexual harassment?

Everyone has their fair share of shit to deal with, it's unfair to place priority on a cause due to gender.

What about all the shit guys have to deal with? Where are our support programs, where are our campaigns?

For example: one of the things I'm struggling with is finding a girlfriend simply because I do not own a car, and yes I have been rejected on this because "although you're a great guy, if you can't drive me everywhere, I'll find someone lesser who can". Why is it that I have to initiate every relationship? Why do I have to play the "prove yourself" game?

Let's not blow things out of proportion. Name calling is just that, name calling. Ignore it and move on, you need to develop a thick skin.

Women have it great really great in this world. Yes there are things you can't change such as being physically weaker and symptoms of that (rape), but the entitlement I see from women is insane.
It looks like you've fallen into the trap of seeing "the Nazis" as the ultimate, perfect and monolithic evil. They were not. They were regular humans with quite disparate personalities and motivations.

And they needed active support from the "uninformed German masses" - why do you think Goebbels was their 3rd or 4th most important man? The support was gained through propaganda, and the core parts of that were the all-around (including moral) superiority of the Aryan race and in contrast the portrayal of Jews as its absolute enemy, both despicable and threatening.

If that propaganda had been revealed as a lie via large-scale non-violent protests, it would have caused serious and quite possibly unsurmountable problems for the Nazi government - they did not have nearly enough hardened ideologues to run the entire country.
If the US government said that it was creating a new currency and USD were no longer the official currency, what would happen to the USD?

And to be fair to the USD, Bitcoins regulations are laughable simplistic compared to a "real" currency, especially since it is so heavily biased towards deflation.

I do not mean to say that Bitcoin is unsound or poorly designed, just saying that the intrinsic tools available cannot compare given the scope of the initial creation.
Of course. It's impossible to respond when you have provided good logical evidence and get emotional instability and calling names in return. I just wanted you to got through the exercise to see that whatever feminists demand, whether it is logical or makes sense or not - they get. And if you try to respond in logical fashion, you get this, what I gave you. Just to prove a point. Females are more important to children than males. I agree 100%, you don't need to provide me with any evidence. That's common sense. The same way males are better soldiers than females. I agree 100%. You don't need to provide me with any evidence. That's common sense. But why we live in society where we apply logic to certain things (like divorces and who gets children as their result), and to other (i.e. female soldiers) we would rather gag logic in the name of the political correctness, is beyond me.
They were way too early to the market. Maybe it would've been ok to be there since Cortex A15, but being there at the Cortex A9 generation always seemed premature - at least for big customers like HP, Facebook, and so on. Maybe they should've tried selling them to the same people who like the idea of a much weaker Raspberry Pi server. Instead they tried to sell only to a few big guys, and none of them were really that interested.

I'm not too worried about them, though. They'll probably get acquired by someone like Samsung, or Qualcomm, or Nvidia.
I have also thought about this topic because I'm not a fan of pyramid schemes or open-loop money supply. Difficulty is already a proxy for demand (or perhaps the demand/supply ratio) because increasing demand increases the exchange rate which increases mining profitability which increases mining. If the block reward was set equal to difficulty then you'd close the loop. I am concerned that such a system would never be adopted in the first place because it wouldn't benefit early adopters and it may also stabilize at a low hash rate which would make 51% attacks too easy.

Edit: I'm not trying to criticize your ideas; I almost completely agree with you.
Once you acknowledge mainstream economic thought (or at least mainstream academic economic thought) might actually be a useful field of study, you've pretty much defeated the point of running Bitcoin with a non-central bank model.

Bitcoin appeals to people who have decided it's outrageous they have to invest their money in productive enterprise to get more of it, and it specifically appeals to greed which says "get in early and get rich easily!"
Hey, you still only spent $10!
They're DRM free to, so you could send one copy to a friend and pretend you intended to.
In most jurisdictions, contracts which require violation of law(s) are not enforceable.
My particular X60 has an Intel T2400 Core Duo Mobile processor [1] and this processor has a 32 bit width[2]. I picked an early model, and I decided to pick one up of UK ebay days before finding the site mentioned in the OA!

[1] http://www.cnet.com/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-x60-1706/4507-31...

[2] http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_Duo/Intel-Core%20Duo%20T2...
I agree with you 100%, the anonymity gives people incredible courage, but face to face people are more likely to be civil. But I think that is because the threat of physical violence is high if you said such hurtful things to other people.
money-as-IOU vs money-like-gold distinction

... is false. Both represent the bearer trusting their economic society to pay back the debt for the original goods or labour for which the bearer exchanged for its acquisition, at some point in the future.
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I haven't looked into integrating with the test harness, but the test suite was pretty easy to get running locally. Unfortunately it crashes halfway through, but up until that point, the majority of the tests passed.
I find the juxtaposition between PHP's short function names taken from C, and things like T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM to be rather funny.
Worst bug I saw took nearly a year with some really smart people working on it. It reproduced only after about 6 machine years (had ~100 test machines, and one of them would randomly crash every 3 weeks).
some performance comparisons by Anand:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6757/calxedas-arm-server-teste...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6757/calxedas-arm-server-teste...

while not bad, it doesn't seem to have enough advantage to beat Xeon in real market (especially while being more expensive than Xeon systems). Like with Sun's Niagara processors, being better only in a narrow niche may be not enough for a financial success in pretty general server market.
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Here is the story.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18...
I share op's feeling. At least on that image the skin looks very raw, like it has been peeled or burned off. It absolutely does not look normal and can be disturbing to unexpecting observers (me included). If it was normal there would be no post about it.

Looks don't mean much about a person and I am sure she is nice. No one should be ridiculed for their looks. But please have some sympathy with people who feel uneasy looking at diseases (not a native speaker, probably the wrong term).
Yeah, there are a lot of assholes on the internet[1]. You can either choose to let it get to you, or you can recognize it for what it is and get on with your life.

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19