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Definitely not the norm in my office. I think I'm the only person here right now.
This awesome dissection of Internet hyperbole will make you cry and ... .
This is great news, and nice work by Roger and the whole team. Blockchain is the way Bitcoin's lights are turned on so that most of the world can see what's happening, and has awesome potential both for monetization and better reach.
I disagree. Everything is quantifiable. Everything comes down to physical reactions that happen predictably. Even emotions like love and hate boil down to patterns of neurons firing and hormone levels.
So if a company like google claims to have a "review process" but its really just an autoreply that says that a review took place (that hasn't), isn't that fraud?

Either they have people review the cases or they don't. Either would probably be OK so long as they are upfront with developers about it, but lying about it doesn't seem legally tenable.

Perhaps all requests for review should have a (third party) captcha attached to make sure they were actually read. Oh Hey! I have a startup idea!
".....perhaps remove poverty of more than 500 million Indians."

It sounds so easy when you put it like that. Thank you :)
Xiaomi can't really enter western markets until its designs are more original, otherwise they would be sued out of existence. It will be interesting to see if and how they manage that transition.

Also, Xiaomi is not a very good value. Meizi provides better quality for a similar price if you are into the low end.
I do agree that server crashes and products disappearing from the cart might be technical issues, they weren't able to handle (either from incompetence or other reasons).

But, if you go through my links, you will see that they were indeed deliberately tricking customers. Price tracking websites show that most Flipkart on-sale products' prices were hiked to double their original pricing and then discounts were applied. In one case, a printer was hiked from Rs. 10000 to Rs. 50000 and then sold at a 'discounted' Rs. 11000. Apart from this, they silently increased sale price when adding products to cart, and cancelled orders which people had gotten for bargain prices.

In addition, they also had numerous examples where their claimed discount percentage was not the one that was applied to the product. A discount of 3% was advertised as discount of 10%, 40 Rs off was advertised as 500 Rs off, etc.

All this has managed to completely put me off Flipkart. Prior to this I was a very happy Flipkart customer, and would preferentially order stuff from Flipkart even if it was available on Amazon for marginally lower prices. Even though I did not personally experience any of the Big Billion Day issues, the way Flipkart has handled this 'sale', has left me totally disgusted with them. I think, I'll stick to Amazon/Snapdeal from now on.
Was about to comment same line. Just to add: Most of the products @ Amazon.in were cheaper than Flipkart even after discounts .
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That is not what he said, they send a mail with the new password, so that doesn't mean they store the passwords in plaintext (not cleartext).

It just generates a password, mails it and then (probably) encrypts it.
I appreciate you reporting expired certs, which unfortunately happen from time to time. That canned reply for is not appropriate and not a reflection of how we approach TLS and I will get it changed.
There's no advanced physics software required to get the data in the video, he's just plotting the second derivative of a line he got by tracing the center of the wheel. F is proportional to a :)
I myself have never had Pork. Just Chicken and Beef. A study by the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii and the University of Southern California suggests a link between eating processed (sodium nirite) meats and cancer risk
The minimalistic core language is OK if the authors don't want to maintain more. What I miss is some incarnation of the language that would still be more convenient than Perl or Python (by being a single executable) but have enough "basic libraries" inside. The last time I investigated I failed to find something like that.

Once you have Lua with the tons of the packages in different files with the package managers and stuff you lose the benefit of having a small-size-of-the-executable language. I understand that the language author doesn't want to be a part of that.
See here: http://www.marylandbusinesslitigationlawyerblog.com/2012/09/...
And here: http://ccrow.com/newsletters/insider-trading-in-commodities-...

And all the rules are available online. Most of the rules pertaining to commodities are to prevent fraud on the part of brokers, and the few that deal with insider trading deal with government employees that have information concerning subsidies, tariffs, environmental regulations, etc...

> They outperform the market because they have superior market information...

And because of their distribution, economy of scale, storage capacity (so they can wait out the market to get a higher price), refineries, etc...

BP has the advantage of being able to extract oil from the tarsands, store it, transport it, and refine it (their largest US refinery has been repurposed to refine oil sands crude), and their traders expedite the sale of it.

BTW, I happen to be in the same neck of the woods, and have spoken to BP traders here. Not sure what you're trying to read into, but what they do is legal. 100%. Company information is not considered to be 'insider' information for the purpose of commodities trading. Government regulations matter much more to commodities, as do natural events.
You cannot have effective 2FA and still be the owner of your private keys. That is why they send you an email backup. There are some multi-sig schemes out there where true 2FA seems doable but they are not ready yet.

As for [1]: people taking GeoIP data seriously are dumb anyway, don't really see where blockchain.info claims that this is accurate
> But despite the failure of some Bitcoin-related sites and new regulatory challenges, more than $250 million has been invested in Bitcoin companies, most of that in the last 12 months, according to Wedbush Securities, a financial services firm.

Interestingly, there's a good chance that the sum of the valuations given to these Bitcoin companies in the past year is equal to a not insignificant percentage of the total value of all the Bitcoin in circulation[1].

Xapo[2] and Coinbase[3] alone were both reportedly valued at more than $100 million in their last rounds, and I wouldn't be surprised if Blockchain received a similar valuation.

From a technical perspective, the current Bitcoin chart[4] doesn't look good, and hasn't for a while[5]. If there isn't a sustained recovery, the sum of the valuations investors have given Bitcoin-related startups could one day exceed the value of all the Bitcoin in circulation.

[1] https://blockchain.info/charts/market-cap

[2] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/07/08/bitcoin-startup-xapo-...

[3] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/12/12/andreessen-boosts-bit...

[4] https://blockchain.info/charts/market-price

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7500000
One easy solution is to force key holders to de-anonymize themselves if they want to take any shareholder actions, such as voting. This wouldn't be an issue for 99% of us - just because I own a few TSLA shares doesn't mean I'm ever going to pound my fist on Elon Musk' desk and demand something - But if someone does buy up a large portion of the corporation and tries to use it to vote - they would have to declare "Hi, I am Carl Icahn, I own the following private keys XYZ and I'm demanding that we liquidate our assets and build a giant statue to the sky" or whatever. This prevents the Taliban or Chinese hackers from seizing control of a US corporation.
Do you think this is a factor that slows adoption down?
The summary -> no charges against the head of this insider trader, but an agreement with the government to only invest Cohen's personal assets of nine billion dollars.
Just make sure you're validating your idea as you go instead of just building it, and you'll find out for yourself if its worth continuing.

As depressing as it sounds, there's little point in continuing product development without solid validation. Its a problem I ran into at my previous startup - a good product, but just not needed by enough people.
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> The reason why I would prefer to have systemd respect the "debug" flag, even if it means that kernel developers have to learn a new workflow

Again, you have things backwards. It was the systemd developers that DIDN'T want "to respect the debug flag". The systemd developers tried to prevent the debug flag from getting past the kernel. It was the kernel developers that forced the systemd developers "to respect the debug flag"

All the credit that you're attributing to the systemd developers was actually down to Linus Torvalds drawing a line in the sand.
Spout? Bolt? Firehose? No wonder confusion reigns within and especially outside programmers' worlds. I think I'll bring the campaign for plain English to meetings and ask programmers and marketing people to leave their Gibson paperbacks at the door. Everything doesn't have to sound like a new script for Keanu Reeves.

Jeezuz. Call a spade a spade.
Sounds absolutely perfect for affiliate-sales and ad-supported to me.
> The lua community really need to start doing something about this.

Why? A small community has advantages, too.
Thanks frequentflyeru,

we're foreseeing that need that's why we're evaluating to build something like Divshot architect on our own (or with a partner already providing a similar service like Froont or Webflowapp)
No one remembers Dopplr? It was a pretty popular social travel planning site before Nokia bought them and froze it to death. It was like, one of the original web 2.0 sites alongside Flickr.
These allegations seem pretty serious offhand. Has anyone been able to determine the veracity of this?
Interesting! I'll give it a try.

After I wrote the above I also found https://www.myscenicdrives.com -- which makes it almost to the MVP level, though it's very clunky to use.
Chile is one of the freest countries in the world (usually in the top 10 of such rankings) and Cuba is usually amongst the bottom 10.

I'd really be interested to see a link to a ranking placing Cuba at the bottom 10 countries in the world.
Would be lovely to see some screenshots on homepage.
really? the bible seems pretty clear on not eating pig.
Why not find a middle ground, where one can say that a patch is incredibly broken and shows lack of attention without resorting to abusive language?
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I had the feeling no one used Dopplr for vacations.
Me and quite a few people I know input their conference and business trips, so with only a bit more traction it could have served "oh, you're also in $CITY, let's meet" quite well.

This was in Germany and a few years ago, though. With only tech people. Not a bad demographic, but there's probably a reason it got canned.
Jumping on a bike is also basically a two-foot jump, where you pull the whole bike up after yourself using the handlebars. There is no special "pull up the front first and then push forward" as many people believe. The initial jerk is just to get the handle bars above the COG so that you can actually lift the bike from there and to put your pedals above the balance point of the rear wheel so you can push down hard for the actual jump. This might seem strange at first but when you think of it, apart from the legs what parts of the body have enough force to jump yourself that high, it's not like you can magically jump higher just because you are standing on some weird contraption.

On a bike you do get some help from preloading the tyres to give you a bit of bounce but that's minor compared to the rest of the movement.
This reminded me of arguments against plan economics of Soviet Union - "plan economics is infeasible" they said.

Oh, the irony.
I'm pretty sure Saudi Arabia never had nukes pointed at us or tried to.

You mean the Russian nukes from 1963? Those that were a response to the nukes the US placed all over Turkey and neighbouring countries? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_missile_crisis
Unfortunately HTTPS is unable to protect you in a school/office setting, or wherever you use a computer provided to you by someone else.
In those cases, certificates can (and will) be forged very easily.
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That is, post-WW2 Italy, post-civil war Spain. People were migrating in droves from Italy and Spain to e.g. Argentina in those years.
To some extent, Flipkart.com:India::Amazon.com:USA is more accurate than Amazon.in:India::Amazon.com:USA.

Amazon.in is following a purely marketplace model i.e. only 3rd party sellers (which is unlike the Amazon we know in US). Whereas Flipkart has a large percentage of stuff offered by 'WS Retail', which is essentially Flikart itself.
> Neither ever detected an error

You didn't have a very big sample size. Here's what Google had to say about the topic based on their systems[1]:

Our first observation is that memory errors
are not rare events. About a third of all
machines in the fleet experience at least
one memory error per year

[1] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html
Nowadays the workflow is more or less back to the reverse direction: Debian first and Ubuntu later, with the added benefit that Debian maintainers are rather more dependable when choosing the version to be packaged. :)
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Exactly! Every person has his own concerns about planning a trip and the problem is too subjective. That's why I said, I have to resort to my own research to figure out the place, instead of depending on a travel planning app. Travelogues and ratings posted on blogs and TripAdvisor give me a better idea of what to do, compared to a list of things generated by an App.
That's partially true, but also just because you get less wood in your cheap shelves, that doesn't make them less valuable.

For me, when I buy Ikea, I know it's not your top line products, but I also know it's relatively quick to buy and assemble, and if I need to give it away for free on Clist when I move, I won't cry about it.

Being able to buy lighter and faster-assembling furniture under the above constraints is a plus to me. When I can afford high end furniture, that's when I'll switch to real wood, made by real artists ...etc.

IMO
If Heathkit got their act together, I'm sure they could become successful again. The Maker/DIY movement is big, and they do have that brand name. They could even use the classic designs, retro is super big at moment. Yes, tubes are back! :-)
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I also wanted a map with both Airbnb and hotels, so I made one myself. It's now an aggregator that includes all the hotel sites and a bunch of airbnb's competitors too. The site is http://AllTheRooms.com.
From the article: 'The Department of Justice announced...that Cohen had presided over insider trading "on a scale without known precedent in the hedge-fund industry."'
The good old "design by commitee", catering for a still-unexisting alternative init system implementing the same interfaces?

No, thanks. systemd's interfaces are publicly available and with good enough documentation. Most of them are even declared stable, only the internal ones are obviously free to change.

In fact many project are now attempting to reimplement systemd's interfaces as this is how FLOSS work.
I wanted a site that gave me the confidence I was looking at all the places to stay in a destination, including the actual prices from every site. Nobody was combining airbnb with hotels and Hotwire and all the other sites I checked. I ended up building it myself: http://AllTheRooms.com.
I think the biggest actual barrier to actually getting one would be having to apply in person, and pick up your card in person.

Certainly for Americans, not a huge number of people will have two weeks spare and sufficient funds to wait for their application to be processed (or the money to fly to Estonia and back twice in two weeks).

Edit: apparently they're "working to add capacity to our embassies to process e-residency applications and issue cards abroad by the end of 2015". This makes the whole thing absolutely amazing. Let's see how the rest of the world reacts, I guess.
It's surprising how almost know one knows about this, especially someone with an (albeit unfinished) environmental studies degree.

Not sure what you define as substantive but this is what I know about:

There's a documentary about the topic called, The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. You can watch at the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUWces5TkCA

another dense source:
http://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/pub1328_web.pd...

google: "cuba sustainability" no quotes for a bunch of stuff.
Having spent a good month living in Havana and 5 years in other places across the globe, I can tell you that Cuba is near the bottom of the "places I would choose to be born" list.

I don't care what anyone says about their medical care - I've seen more amputees in that country than anywhere else on the planet. Crushing poverty, a brutal regime that interferes with daily life in large ways, absurdly low education even in the capital.

I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers we see about Cuba come from the government and thus should not be trusted.
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Thanks! I'm just getting started with core.typed, and record felt more natural as it's annotated just as you would annotate a function. I expected there to be a way to create a type a map just like that, but just haven't had the time to read up on it. So thank you for the example, will definitely play more with core.typed.
Don't get dejected. A person can probably write a similar post about every great company that will get started in the next 10 years. Prove cynics like that wrong.
systemd has always worked quite well for me and the transition in Debian has been incredibly smooth, so I wouldn't consider it "unfinished".

PulseAudio was unfortunately released in Ubuntu even before Lennart & co. declared it releasable, so it was Ubuntu's fault if it gained a reputation of being "unfinished" (indeed it was, but it was not a fault of the PulseAudio team).
Is that $100m USD or the Indian Rupee?
>It's called gamification.

It doesn't look zero-sum, looks more of a win-win game than a win-lose game, until we don't count the number of hours lost trying to assemble a long answer etc...But time/money/energy seems priceless when you seem to love/like what you do!So its poised to be a win-win for the source gets reputation/credits and publisher gets visits too!

So from another perspective , it seems ones likes and dislikes can be used in more ways than one!But guess transition from use to abuse occurs when priorities change!

> I once saw the top points earners on StackOverflow was Jon Skit who had earned 700k+ points. I looked at count of his answers, length of average answer and estimated that he must have spent 4hr per day each working day for past 4+ year to get that many points.

That's interesting.Doesn't this defeat the very purpose of having reputation points mentioned in CV?

> This was on minimum side. If you convert this to hourly rate, it's same as he donated about half a million to StackOverflow.

So that's how this so-called zero-sum-game looks but its more driven by priorities than perspective.We don't know how many people were saved from excess time and energy spent on understanding the same because of one persons generosity.

>Now if you can upvote this answer, that would be great ;)

wish i could do it twice :)
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I think people have given up.

The NSA spies on them, the Chinese try to hack their computers, Sony tries to load Rootkits on their computers. Between Heartbleed and Shellshock and 'goto fail; goto fail;' their systems are like swiss cheese to determined hackers. Just last week we learned that hackers stole info from Chase on 83 million accounts. Nude pictures of celebrities are floating around the Internet.

Normal people (not computer nerds) are virtually powerless to do anything to protect themselves. So they have stopped caring.
Don't mean to troll, BUT scamorza isn't mozzarella. It's just another kind of cheese. Different stuff
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I think there should be two versions of sport. One with free drug suplements snd one with out, it would be more honest. Think about the advances in results and human body enhancement drugs could benefit an aging population for example.
For anyone trying to learn how to do an ollie for the first time, the one thing that really helped me was this: do it on grass. I spent ages on concrete, and it is a lot harder. On grass the board doesn't roll and you don't get hurt if you fall.

A bit like learning to walk on your hands - start in a shallow pool. Once you get comfortable with the motion translating it to a different surface is not that hard.
Lennart didn't force anything on GNOME, please stop these false claims.

The GNOME developers simply had two choices: keep using the old, bug-ridden and still-unmaintained ConsoleKit or switch to the simpler, more powerful logind D-Bus interface.

ConsoleKit is still more-or-less supported upstream, but given it's extreme bugginess many distro choose to disable it and rely on logind interfaces.

Note that this does not mean that GNOME depends on systemd: as long as something else is implementing the needed logind interfaces (eg. systemd-shims) GNOME will happily run.

And no, a maintainer refusing patches is absolutely not "antithetical to the spirit of open source". The spirit of open source is that you can fork if you don't agree with a maintainer. It's simple as that.
Zillow being used infrequently is an assumption. Real estate investors (and those that would like to be) use Zillow almost constantly because it offers some seriously helpful data that is vital to helping with good investment decisions -- and with real estate, you can never have enough data. I'm on Zillow multiple times per day. I also travel enough that I am Platinum in United, yet I have never used a travel planning site, nor do I actively look for one when getting ready for another trip. I use Trip Advisor for my preliminary hotel hunt, for restaurants. For attracticions, Trip Advisor works but so does a normal Google search. Travel Planning isn't 'painful' to me; at least not enough to use travel planning software. I just don't get the value or the problem it purports to solve. I do however, generally love TripIt Pro because there's nothing worse than looking for a confirmation number among multiple days worth of emails while standing at some counter or another. TripIt solves the very real problem of disorganized travel information. Before I used TripIt, I would have to hand-enter the ibro into my phone's Calender. But a travel-planning site? It would have to be really compelling to get me to invest the time to join yet another service. For 'challenging' destinations like India, it could be very valuable, but only if the quality of the information was better than I can find on my own through Google. There'd need to be more than just a bunch of third party APIs, there's need to be some original content. Trip Planning software is a hard sell because I don't find a week long trip to St Tropez or Austin that hard to plan.
It's USD. A big deal I would say.
A couple of guys I know did a small travel planning website. It's plastered with ads. I think they have almost not touched the site after they launched it, and it's doing ~6-8K€ monthly with ads (traffic coming from SEO).

Don't get discouraged by a guy explaining why it can't work according to its theory.