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BUG:

Whenever two sets of tiles combine in a single move, only one of their scores is counted. For example, let's say that a pair of 8s and a pair of 4s are about to be combined into a new 16 tile and a new 8 tile. The game should be giving us 24 points total for this move because we are creating a 16 tile (16 pts) and an 8 tile (8 pts) where 8+16=24.

However, this does not happen. Only one or the other combination will actually be counted, it seems. In a more egregious case, I combined two 512 tiles to form a new 1024 tile and should have gotten those corresponding points. However, there was also a pair of 2s which combined to make a 4-tile. I only received 4 points for the entire move.

The game should be counting the score from all combined tiles!!! This is why my calculated minimum theoretical score of 20480 (assuming only twos are generated) was completely blown out of the water by winning scores of 12k - because in many cases, the score is incorrectly calculated!

If this is fixed.......

The minimum possible score to win the game (I think...) is 18432, although right now, with the bug, scores can be much lower. Here's how I get that. If we assume only 2s can be generated, then the minimum score is 10*2048 = 20480. However, sometimes a 4 is generated rather than a 2. Apparently, this happens 10% of the time. In theory, it is possible for someone to be given only 4s and also have a perfectly efficient game. In this case, the scoring contribution to get all the 4s from the 2s in the first example is eliminated. The total score of any tier is 2048, so we're remove 2048 from 20480, yielding 18432.

The minimum possible score to reach a winning 2048 tile, once this bug is fixed, should be 18432.
How about this strip: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1989-04-18/
I'll just throw my vote in for OpenElec. But by the replies you've already gotten, there really doesn't seem to be a clear winner.

I actually have two RPIs, Raspbmc seems to corrupt more on one of them. I stuck with OpenElec because it works great on both. In fact, to prevent corruption of the SD card, I followed a tutorial and have the data on a USB stick, so the SD card just holds the system, only gets written to on a system update.
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This is the same Robert Eatinger who engineered the CIA torture cover up. It is exceedingly kind of you not to ascribe malintent in this case.
>Security is not even a main selling point.

Didn't the founder specifically cite growing up under an oppressive regime as a key motivation behind WhatsApp?
Think of how much better the roads would (well, could) be if the mandatory cost of the attendant was deferred into additional tax revenue, while gas remains dirt-cheap.
The IRS EIN Application also has "hours":

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...

> Our new hours of operation [for the application] are Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Eastern time.
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Brilliant work on the presentation!
Thanks so much for the kind words Jacob!
My parents bought their house in the 1980s. They paid it off 100%.

When they retired they moved. Would it have been preferable to keep the house the whole family grew up in? Probably. But they couldn't afford the overhead of utilities, maintenance, etc. They moved to a smaller house in a state with lower property taxes.

They too left their friends, contacts, etc. Built up over living there for 35 years. But it was the responsible decision to do it. Why should it be everyone else's burden if they make a stupid decision to stay put in a place they can't afford? Is that a right?

Especially when seniors have the dual safety net of Social Security and Medicaid - they are generally in a better shape than many working class people. The landlord paid her $14k just to move out. That with social security would absolutely cover living expenses in most of the country.
> Big surprise, in a state where you're not even allowed to pump your own gas.

I'm afraid I don't understand this bit (being European and all). Are you saying that not only there are attendants, but that you are forbidden from using the pump if an attendant is not available?
Is there a good reason to do this? I'm actually curious
There is not mac support for the cryengine? This is really strange considering that apple has surely a bigger installed base in consumer computers compared to linux
My only guess is a batch job that really really doesn't want data changing out from under it (and the devs were too lazy to batch up the next days changes to be submitted post-job).
>Is it reasonable to expect her to leave her friends, contacts, etc that she's built up over decades because the city is changing?

YES! Absolutely reasonable. There is no right to live exactly where you want for the rest of your life (especially when where you want to live is an illegal residence). Nor should there be.
While I agree that selling something as straightforward as cars need not have a middle-man, I could see how some industries might want a gatekeeper such as pharmacists.
I started working out 2 years ago and it changed my life for the better, but it most definitively didn't improve my productivity at work. Why would it?
I get where you're coming from, extremely valid advice, I'm certainly a square so to speak. I love solving problems, I love learning, I love coding. Solving problems and constant learning is precisely what got me into software development.

I feel I'm so entrenched with solutions to every problem I don't need anymore solutions. I need problems.

I think I need to go against my assumptions and do what many have said: start to focus on other people, start looking outward. Looking inward hasn't really helped anything.
Ask HN: Tips on negotiating a price for an app re-branding?
We're currently in negotiation with a big soft drinks manufacturer to re-brand our mobile app for one of their brands for use over a 2 month period as part of a drink launch campaign. The target market is a very large Spanish speaking country in South America.

Does anybody have experience with such white labelling deals? We were thinking some up-front fee for the re-branding and translation effort, then some amount per install. There is no back-end overhead on our end, 100% client side, so we don't have to recoup server costs.

Any advice on a quantitative approach to get a justifiable figure for the initial negotiation amount?
Great job, very inspiring!
Why would they get upset? They get paid either way.
I actually had the idea to a) create a similar product/service, b) charge for its use and c) transfer most of the income (keeping only enough to cover the running costs) to the producers of the original material, with or without their consent. I have no idea how would that work out, but I bet that after a few months/years of steady and growing income some things would start to change.
I have no sympathy for the owner. He knew he had a tenant when he bought the property. The fact the unit was illegal was caveat emptor, yet she's the one who had to pay the price.
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Yes, with calculus you can find all the tangent lines from a point to any kind of curve. The exact equations vary based on what kind of curve it is (sine, parabola, cubic splines, Bezier curves, non-uniform rational B-splines, etc) and are kinda complicated.
If you're following up and are not getting a response then set a limit to the number of times you'll try again. I personally do 3 follow-up email over the course of a 3-6 weeks. On the last email, I let them know it'll be the last time I follow-up and let them know how they can reach me if they'd like to talk in the future.

If you just keep following up and never stop, you'll likely annoy someone who is probably not interested in what you're selling and you'll likely get spam filtered.

Sometimes we just have to take the hint :)
In Nevada (where I pay my corporate taxes) it was claimed that hours restrictions were mandated by law ("No part of the office can be open outside of the following hours" kind of thing) I have yet to find the statute though that says that. I agree it is a very weird thing.
The scale of wealth is so different, wouldn't he be able to purchase protection?

Granted, it would involve a radical lifestyle transformation that might be unpleasant and jarring, but it seems like he already got exposed to that by getting internet famous. Might as well enjoy the money.
> That doesn't make sense when talking about a random opponent, though.

Sure it does. AB search means you play to maximise your own value and minimise the value for your opponent. If your opponent is using a random strategy they will likely make a poor move and that's extra advantage for you.

Your argument here (and elsewhere in this thread) seems to be: if the opponent is random a stochastic strategy is best. This is simply not true. Stochastic strategies like MC search have an advantage over game-tree search when the game's branching factor limits you to considering just a few ply ahead (e.g. as in Go).
If the Executive branch is being investigated by the Legislative branch then the security of the documents should be assured by the Legislative or better yet Judicial branch. The process sounds broken.
Please don't post mystery URLs. The above goes to this search:

https://www.google.com/search?q=whatsapp+site:h-online.com
What's cross platform? I guess what matters in this specific argument is feature parity with D3D on all the platforms it can compete on.

If it works on Windows, then I wonder if it really matters. I've seen a lot of games (e.g. Team Fortress 2) still offer multithreading as an option in the UI, so there's already two code paths there.
If you open it in IE, it asks to display insecure content. If you click yes, the site works. (You can click buttons).

They must have linked a .js that wasn't on a https.
At very least, it would have been worth voting for Romney to get the media to do something like its job.

This IRS scandal should have the press howling at the stonewalling of the administration and the suppression of the rights of Americans trying to participate in the election process. Instead, it's crickets. After all, they're only a bunch of "tea baggers".
i don't care if its the hype train, i care that it runs linux :)
That is... a really good idea. I think you're right on the money there, I take almost zero risk in everything I do, I've been working on it but not nearly as hard as I could.
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It's not that I don't feel sympathy for her, but yes, cities change and it's something you simply have to be aware of if you're living in one. If you're planning on being a life-long renter, you're really taking a risk that this will happen to you, too, if the prices ever experience a big boom as they have in San Francisco. If she had bought property back when it was cheap, she might be a millionaire today. If over the course of her life she could never afford to buy anything in the city, though, then evidently it wasn't ever really "cheap" relative to her income (or else she just wan't frugal enough).

Besides, I moved away from my family, friends, and contacts that I'd built up over the first 18 years of my life in order to attend college. People uproot themselves frequently because they realize that not doing so is just too impractical.
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It's hard to get any source that would satisfy your question.

Let me put it this way. You are poor. Your family is poor. Everyone around you is poor. When you are financially in trouble, you ask someone to lend you money. In Asian culture, you don't start asking bank for money. You ask your friends, relatives and neighbors for help.

Now you are famous. Making $50,000 a day. Everyone is going to come after you and ask for help. You don't want to because who wants to be debt collector? But you have to because they are your relatives, friends and neighbors. You are in a dilemma and you don't know what to do about it.

Also, regardless of where you live, when you are rich you and your family becomes kidnappers' target. In countries like Vietnam making $50,000 a day makes you a millionaire to the people who are just making a few dollars a day...

He was happy with the initial revenue but he then realize his publicity would have cost him relationship with other people and that's what money can't undo for him. He just can't.
Maybe for some. He probably has enough in the bank to live comfortably in Vietnam for the rest of his life, though.
Anecdotal evidence, but I know for a fact that a lot of the people I know want to pay for the media. They don't enjoy pirating, and would rather be above board with purchases, but after checking Netflix, Hulu, Apple and Amazon and not being able to find what they were looking for, they torrent as a last resort.
> I would rather not pay someone (in the form of higher gas prices) to do something that takes nearly no effort

Then you'd be happy to know that in addition to having full service, Oregon's gas prices are ~$.40 per gallon cheaper than California's. Full service doesn't seem to be resulting in dramatically higher prices.

> Who is so lazy at they can't get out of their comfy seat for 2 minutes?

Who doesn't have better things to do with their time than inhale gasoline fumes?
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Try to objectively describe the life history and experience of President (then-Senator) Obama in 2008 vs. the life history and experience of Mitt Romney in 2012 in a way that makes Romney the clear "empty suit"[1].

There were plenty of defensible policy or character reasons to vote against Romney, for Obama, or both, but it's disingenuous to describe Romney as anything but a perfectly plausible president. And of course, not much would have been different if he'd been elected: Some vocal folks on HN may wish otherwise, but the range of American political consensus is narrow, and our system requires consensus to change anything.

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/empty%20suit
I see it requests both these permissions:
- View and manage the files and documents in your Google Drive
- View and manage documents that this application has been installed in

The second one seems reasonable. But the first has this description: "Upload, download, update, and delete files in your Google Drive
Create, access, update, and delete native Google documents in your Google Drive
Manage files and documents in your Google Drive (e.g., search, organize, and modify permissions and other metadata, such as title)"

That sounds like full access to every document in my google drive. No thank you!
Except this situation is created by the information environment, in which names themselves are quite important. For your comment to be applicable, the credit system would have to be something that existed outside of human creation.

The term 'fraud' makes it clear that the situation involves the fraudster and the defrauded, and OP's cousin is not part of it. The term "identity theft" makes it sound like OP's cousin has had something taken from him and is therefore heavily involved.
This article is a rambling, formulaic mess of non-information. I mean, the "7 deadly sins"/"virtuous habits"... didn't BuzzFeed teach us the inherent dubiousness of that framework? If you're adding or removing items to match a nice number, then you're not choosing which content to present based on its usefulness.

All writing on business and/or productivity flirts with the prospect of being a negative ROI time investment since it keeps you from doing business and being productive. This one offers no game changing incites, so falls squarely in the negative ROI pile (which is much larger than the positive ROI pile, incidentally).

It also falls into the winner worship category of business lit. To dismissively paraphrase, "These things are the right thing, because it's what winners did". Luck goes unacknowledged. Unfortunately, you, the reader, despite any other similarities the two of you may have, are despairingly unlikely to have Mark Zuckerberg's luck.
Is the US Gov. not like that? Wars of aggression, torture, massive prisonner population, ... it makes sense for them to spy on themselves.
My god, I hope this leads to Star Citizen being released for linux. Maybe this'll be the $50 million stretch goal?
Sure, I suppose I am qualified to chime in here, after all, I'm a developer for an A/B testing company (but not the one posted here-apptimize).

A/B Testing is a bit of a catch-all phrase for "testing the effectiveness of website changes." Strictly Speaking, A/B only refers to the testing specifically is testing of one change "A" against another "B". You can have multi-variate testing as well where you add in a third group "A,B, or C", or mixtures "ABC vs AB vs AC vs BC vs CONTROL"... it's up to the test design.

But basically it's a tool to help you see if the changes you make to your website will work, while the website is up running, using real users. So, for example:

* If your goal is to get more downloads, maybe you'll tset some page layouts or images and see which test group clicks the download button more

* Or, See which splash page results in the most "Sign up for Newsletter" clicks

This is great information for marketers, or really testing out any old thing you want that is trackable through browser-events.

Really though, this is just the tip of the Iceberg of what is possible... but I'll leave it at that. If you really want to know more let me know.
Sunnyvale would be pricey as the apartment rates have increased in last 3 years. Expect to see 30% jump in your total expenses moving from Denver.
The job market is fantastic here so if you decide to move, you will have opportunities in future.
I spent only $400 to file my C-corp taxes in 2011 and 2012 after calling a few dozen accountants and finding someone I felt was competent. This was after paying the $30~ for TaxAct which was a nightmare to use and gave me the feeling I was setting myself up for an audit.

Delaware has no corporate state income tax IIRC.

Edit: I skimmed over the last and most important line of Patio's reply so I figure so I should reiterate it and not seem completely contrary: You NEED to call an accountant.
There are many working-age, highly-paid individuals who rent housing, and are evicted for various reasons, so this may not be the least sympathetic case of eviction.
I wrote a script last night that does a simple: up, right, down, left. Ran it for a few thousand games last night -- highest it got was over 10k, and consistently got around 2.5-3k.
Yes. Oregon and New Jersey both forbid consumers from pumping their own gas. If an attendant is not available, you still may not pump your own gas.
Actually there is. It's called Rent Control and it protects the elderly from stuff like this (because they need the protection). As far as I'm concerned, the landlord simply found a loophole.
It's an evergreen attempt to cloak plain-ole self-interest-and-politics in more-noble-sounding attire. (Not unlike "States' Rights")
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This depends on your goal; in 24 hours, seeing 800 uniques and 100 signups was enough validation for us to take things to the next stage.
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Hm, then it becomes a question of whether that can be ran fast enough and remain realtime. :)
What rights do our legislators have that the citizenry does not?
10'000 tons is 10kg per server. That does not seem like "small things" to me.
This reminds me so much of the book Manufacturing Consent. One sounds like a crazy person when they say elite powers (indirectly) control the mass media, but after reading most of that book, the conclusion is inescapable.

Of course news outlets self-censor, they don't want to get shut out. Of course they play up victims of atrocities caused by our enemies, and largely ignore victims of atrocities caused by the United States and its allies. Of course media sources shy away from reporting on stories that would harm their owners or advertising dollars. Of course they use official press advisers and PR people, who they talk to every day and who understand how the industry works. Of course they use neatly packaged press releases when they're on tight budgets and deadlines. Of course they don't take the time to report all sides of a complex issue, if some sides are neatly presented, and opposing sides take days of research.
huh? Stop making shit up. None of what you said is true. They were sending messages in plaintext not that long ago. Their switch to encrypted communication was merely a footnote.
i've been considering running against her. would there be interest in a young guy with startup cred but no political background? i think i have a pretty good ability to express myself and see multiple sides of an issue.

edit: i grew up as a republican, but i hate where the party is now. i'm not sure which party would make the most sense, because i like some of the republican rhetoric - limited govt, lower taxes - but their implementation of it is terrible. in my experiences both parties support huge companies with different reasons.

i worked at microsoft and google, twilio and uber. i did electronic trading for two years before joining the startup scene, and was cto of a small gaming startup that was acquired.

i think my personal story is compelling, and i'd campaign on a platform of honesty. if you look me up online, you'd find all this "incriminating" shit on me, and i'd just say "yes that's because i'm human". i went from serious student with no social skills, to struggling drug addict with serious mental health issues, to solidly turning my life around after learning people skills, as a result of an obsession with P vs NP.

i think it's extremely unlikely that anyone will be electable in 50 years if there _aren't_ pictures of them doing ridiculous things online. nobody will trust you otherwise. i'm hoping to get that party started now.
A 3000x3000 div with a z-index of 50000 just sits on top of everything. Delete that node and the page reacts normally at least.
There's a relationship management issue there somewhere - supporting one-off small volume sales has a definite cost at some point - someone needs to process and fill the order. Limiting sales to "big" customers means you can spend less time dealing with all the order processes and focus more on a decent product (or decent profits, wherever the focus may lie)