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AdWords finally prohibits free software “download site” parasites
Dear AdWords Advertiser,

We're writing to let you know about a change to Google's advertising
policies that might affect your AdWords account.

In late April, the Google AdWords Unsupported Content policy was changed to
include additional requirements related to free desktop software downloads.
If you don't promote free desktop software, this change shouldn't impact
you.

You won't be allowed to promote free desktop software, unless the ad
explicitly names the software promoted and leads to the designated primary
distribution source for the software.

What you can do:
If you advertise free desktop software, please ensure that your ads and
landing pages meet the following standards:
- The ad includes the promoted software's name
- The ad directs to a landing page on the site designated as the
software's primary distribution source

Google will be providing software developers an opportunity to designate
their primary distribution source for use with these ads.

You can find more details at
https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6023676#uc

Sincerely,
The Google AdWords Team

You've received this mandatory email service announcement to update you
about important changes to your AdWords account.

(c) 2015 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
My thoughts exactly. At times I actually feel guilty for not killing myself because I therefore submit myself to unfair terms, which is worse than death. If our world is not fixable, we can not lead it to the state we might like, why pretend?
Windows Update has offered driver updates since Windows 98.
Hi HN,

this is Jakub, Co-Founder of Estimote.

We have just uploaded into GitHub (https://github.com/Estimote/iOS-Indoor-SDK) another release of our Indoor Location SDK.

We have managed to achieve 4m accuracy for large spaces using just several beacons.

In addition it is possible to locate several people same time with a real-time access to their X,Y position via cloud-based API.

We believe this might be your next canvas for awesome future real-world apps. Feel free to test it and share feedback/ask questions.
Does Onboarded use Onboarded?
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The correct place to dump users after they create an account is the Account screen, where they can fill out various sections, but don't have to. Each action on the site/app which requires certain info from the user (eg their location or interests) would have a link to an inline / popup allowing them to fill out that section before proceeding.
The Trial is perhaps a better film than Kane.
Did you try using the history file option?
I'm not sure it's that simple. Think of it in terms of shares in a company. When Apple does well does any executive sell their shares? Maybe, maybe not.

Nothing is preventing this musician from selling their MusicianCoins. If there are enough coins and enough musicians it won't do much to the price if the market knows how to value the coin properly. The musician might simply end up losing out on a profit by this action. Depending on the situation, maybe they might end up annoying the group and getting kicked out, who knows. It shouldn't be an issue though, just as it's not an issue with company shares.
I'd love to get an idea of the pricing before I sign up for a trial. I don't want to spend time trying out a product that will end up costing more than I'm willing to pay for it.
> The ND formations are profitable for existing wells down to $36

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/287422241.html

Nonsense. Even in ND they start hedging at $52, and the fact that the number of oil rigs is shrinking is pretty obvious evidence that the $52 number is just PR to reassure investors. I don't think it's a ton more than $52, but it's not $36. We're seeing oil prices recover, so it might be all a moot point soon.
If you're working with ruby mutant is pretty good -> https://github.com/mbj/mutant
Most of the armchair folks on these threads haven't internalized Fred Brooks, especially regarding diminishing returns as the team size grows.

You as the server guy hiring a couple people to figure out how to squeeze another 10% value out of the system by hacking hardware is not fungible with hiring two more devs to try to avoid racking custom hardware. As if two devs could pull that feat off anyway.
You seem to believe that "nigger" means something different than "black" nowadays. What's this new meaning?
That might be ironic, except that I didn't call you childish. I called ad hominem attacks childish.
Increasingly, the option to skip is removed. If you want to play a game with your friends, you have to spend 10 minutes doing what the game tells you to do.
I started using it shortly after the official release in the Fall/Winter of 2013 and used it until about a month ago when I moved to Wordpress.
>but just to be able to share the language.

This is a major pet peeve. We are very bad at teaching computer programming without using jargon--we don't even notice it.
re: elixir:

What do you think about golang or rust?
It will keep morphing and completely remove desktop computing as we know it. The same way desktop computers removed mainframes and terminals.

I wonder when smartphone platforms will become self-hosting.
Sigh, don't presume I "don't understand", and then feed me self-serving VC rationalizations that are essentially propaganda.

> " Immediately after taking the investment founders could sell the company for the value of the cash and profit handsomely while the investor loses the bulk of their money."

That's nonsensical on the face of it.  If the company is worth $10M and an investor puts in $2M for %20, then the remaining equity is $8M. I don't consider selling a $10M asset for $2M (and netting %80, or $1.6M) to be "profit[ing] handsomely". It's giving up %84 of the company.

Plus it's trivial to prevent this by requiring, as part of the deal terms, that a sale of the company have investor approval.

Your second point presumes that there's only one class of stock. There can be preferences, such as the anti-sale clause I mentioned that common shareholders don't have. That's completely different from liquidation preferences.

Your third point is silly, I'm focusing on being denied a fair deal in a liquidity even and you're talking about "Donswide protection". It is true that treating people fairly works better on the downside too.

But your comment "what are you starting a company for in the first place?" makes me think you're naive and reacting as if I've dared to disagree with the common wisdom of our lords and saviors the VCs.

I've been starting companies for 30 years, this is experience talking, kid.
That's a good point. It's good to be conscious of the fact that the person you're interacting with may not be in a healthy state of mind. Had the professor known that his behaviour would cause such distress to Tim Feriss, he wouldn't have acted like that (so he is not guilty: he didn't do it intentionally). If we are all a bit extra nice on the off chance that the other person is depressed, that would not only help depressed people, but also people who are not depressed. But I can see how it can be hard to avoid feelings of guilt like that. Perhaps it helps to view it the same way as charity: you can donate to a charity for the third world poor, but that does not mean that you have to feel guilty about poverty that you didn't fix. Similarly, you can donate to the "happiness charity" without feeling guilty if you cannot prevent all suicides.
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Thought about that but found Codeigniter to be extremely powerful yet lightweight. Managed to do URI routing easily, got my db/functions into Model working fine and everything is clean and reusable. Other frameworks looked too bulky. Not quite sure if pure PHP is safe. You might spend a lot of time securing it. Then there are also issues with caching and shit.
this is the dumbest thing I heard in the day. Congrats.
"But they got to a $40B valuation or whatever."

One analyst makes a good argument for a $3.2 billion valuation for Uber.[1]

[1] http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/uber-isnt-worth-17-billi...

"I see a very similar thing in the Bitcoin world. Build something, ignore all regulations, get VC, get big, then write your own regulations that advantage you relative to "legacy" businesses."

Bitcoin business strategies run more to "take the money and run". Running a honest exchange isn't very profitable, because you're in competition with no-fee crooks. Coinbase doesn't charge merchants until they do at least $1M in business, and few merchants have reached that level. NewEgg and Overstock reported that their Bitcoin business was much lower than expected, and have backed off on promoting Bitcoin.
Reddit to create original video content, starting with AMAs
What about this downsampler? I think it's a bit better http://res.cloudinary.com/rancloud2/image/fetch/w_400/https:...
Big data processing distributed to mobile devices?
Most mobile devices have powerful processors that could be used for something when the owner is not playing Candy Crush. My idea would be to distribute non-time-sensitive calculations to (tens of) thousands of devices and maybe incentivize the user with some kind of compensation (credits that could be used in certain paid games?).

I know little about big data processing, is there a scenario where something like this would be viable?
For every check in we get generate a new build environment, so managing a history file would have been quite difficult.
"You'd think we could find better uses for those massive piles of cash"

But those piles of cash don't belong to "us" to spend as "we" like.
re your hackintosh idea: I have no idea what the current state of play is, but I looked at this in some detail when they came out - and there was no way you could build a directly comparable machine without spending very similar money. The GPUs would just kill you, far more than any other components.
The longevity of the previous Mac Pro form factor definitely gives me hope, although one can never be sure when it comes to Apple.

Consider Mac Rumor's lifespan of the various Mac Pro models: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac_Pro

The previous form factor (silver tower) lived from August 2006 to December 2013. If we see that kind of longevity out of the black cylinder form factor, I'd be thrilled (although preferably with more internal updates). However, there's nothing stopping us from adapting our design to whatever new models come out.

We have current rack designs for Mac Minis and Mac Pros now, and we can add a third if the need arises.
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Funny thing, I've been scheming and plodding with seemingly identical idea. I've been approaching it with a bit more experimental angle (more declarative way to generate the ui? what approach for auto layout? etc.), so I've yet to make much progress.

Need to take a closer look if this happens to match my needs
> The local authorities helped us a lot, the forester aranged the cutting of two trees for us

We killed two trees for a 15 minute long youtube video.

Is this how little respect we all have for life?
link for anyone interested: https://mises.org/library/denationalisation-money-argument-r...
No basic income scheme is viable unless the economy that implements it already produces 100% of the basic living consumables required by the populace. It is not a wealth redistribution--more like a production capacity redistribution.

Naively attempting to do that using currency manipulation as your only tool seems doomed to failure, in my opinion.

I don't care to argue for or against basic income at the moment, but presuming that it is to be implemented, the task cannot be accomplished with an alternate currency. I think that ultimately, it will be necessary to threaten highly productive owners of capital with the use of force unless they meet some portion of the consumption requirements of non-working individuals.

The producers would be taxed, at a cruelly high rate, such that if they sold a product that is both appealing and affordable for the people on basic income, they would break even on a cashflow basis, only losing some use of their productive capacity. For some made-up, spewed-out numbers, Apple is taxed $1G on the sale of 4 million of its fully-featured iPhones, at $250 cost and $750 retail--effectively taxing 50% of the profits--and recoups $1G in revenue from selling 20 million "Nekhama iPhones" (Nekkhamma is a Buddhist term) that cost $25 to make, and sell at $75. Maybe it's just the same guts as an iPhone 1, using a smaller chip feature size. Or they could just tell that $1G to go piss off, and less prestigious manufacturers pick up the slack in the basic market. Obviously, sales in the basic market could not trigger the onerous taxes, or the scheme wouldn't work.
I read the article, and I don't understand why we're trying to solve the problem of "telling each ContainerOS to listen/respond to an additional IP address, and route it to the correct Container" by "creating another network layer and accompanying additional complexity".

In IIS this is done with Bindings.
http://fortune.com/north-dakota-fracking/

"Even if oil prices stay low, the Watford City/Williston area may be the last in the region to feel the pain. It is in the “sweet spot” of the Bakken, with the breakeven price for production about $36 a barrel, according to the state."

The Star Tribune hates fracking and is quoting the high number for the region, not the Bakken numbers.
Sounds like you mostly have issues with Windows? If you were using open source software, you could use your considerable expertise to help improve the issues you've found.
I meant laptops released four years ago.
Ask HN: Do you still use your Ipad or Ipad mini?
I've noticed that I use:

1) My Mac Pro less than before

2) My Mac Air more than before

3) My Ipad -- way less than before

4) My Ipad mini - a little less than before

And use of my phone has increased.

Am I the only one or are you noticing a difference in what you prefer?
Market or Team?
Screw everyone else. Look out for #1 as he said. I like to know when I clickety-clacked the key I was looking for. Mechanical keyboards ftw.
"Submit a patch" may be "fuck you" but that's not what he said, it was more like: "It's not as easy as you think. You can prove me wrong by submitting a patch.". This second is not reasonably interpreted as "fuck you".
This is true in the Army, too. I'm at a fairly technical school for Army Signal Officers right now and it's compounded even further. To top it off, I'm a sponsor for a Saudi Arabian student. All too often he'll get a ton of undefined acronyms thrown at him that he's never heard before. I have to imagine he feels a lot like a biz dev guy or gal working at their first startup (if not worse).
The GPUs in the Mac Pro are significantly more cost effective per gflop than the equivalent AMD Fire Pro server models.
Would the IRS position on digital currencies as barter all but eliminate this use within the United States? Would the KYC requirement for protection against Sybil attacks facilitate governmental interference? Neat article, but I found the lack of discussion about the topic of taxation to be shockingly absent.
I agree with Fred that it's a hypothetical number much like the unicorn and shouldn't be used as a scorecard. :)

Having said that I wonder how the drawbacks compare with merits of raising money at a higher valuation (not for ego boost) such as:

- Legitimization of the business in the eyes of the customers being onboarded,

- Creating a buzz which introduces the company to new user base funneling more users,

- Providing a longer runway and helping the founders from being distracted and wasting precious cycles trying to raise money in near future.
> you'll be in violation if you run it on a Thursday

Indeed, there is a JS library opensourced by Microsoft to decode Excel files, named xlsx.js. In the license, it is written... that it cannot run on another OS than Windows. It means even though it's Javascript, the page hosting it cannot be viewed on a Mac or Linux.

Long story short, Stuart Knightley created a clean room implementation named js-xlsx to do the same thing, without the lawyer string attached.

https://github.com/stephen-hardy/xlsx.js/issues/8
Exactly. I worked in a mine to pay my way through university. Never again.
"The results suggest that, at the margin, investors in start-ups should place more weight on investing in a strong business ("the horse") than on a strong management team ("the jockey")."
HTML is not good for UI.
15B valuation for drone-maker DJI
Do you use your Ipad less?
Hi,

The main peculiarity about this solution is that on this case we had a complex input type, where a transition on an inner element may influence the state on the outer element.

For example, given the following structure:

- A1 (state=1)

-- B1 (state=2)

--- C1 (state=5)

-- B2 (state=3)

If the state of C1 changes, then this change should be considered by the B predicates, and so should the A predicates.

After all, for the example in specific we are returning all the updated statuses in a list, as in our case we needed to show what was the difference on the overall state after the execution.
Red blood cells are pretty useless for forensic/archeology science. There's no nucleus and no mitochondria and therefore no DNA. There may be some hemoglobin left but not very useful.

There is DNA bound to and stablished in the bones and if I remember correctly some DNA extraction and analysis has been done already on this specimen and it matched closely with people still in the region.

Which is interesting. For much of Southern Europe (greece, Italy, Spain) the current inhabitants are not related to the ancient inhabitants. But for isolated areas like the alps and Northern Europe the genetics are similar.
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I once had someone I looked up to and admired very much tell me that if he had gone through some of the things I had, that he would have committed suicide. Shortly after he said that, he effectively stole nearly $13M from me. I sometimes wonder if he did it thinking that it would make things so much worse for me that I actually would commit suicide (because that's what he would have done), and I wouldn't be around to fight him for it.

You can't let bad experiences, bad people, and just plain bad luck make you start thinking about suicide. The reality is that most people that consider suicide don't do it. However, merely entertaining suicidal thoughts can be a caustic force in your life, as these thoughts affect every aspect of your life, and more importantly, hinder your ability to move on from the situation that caused the thoughts in the first place.

When your life crumbles, chances are it wasn't built on a strong foundation to begin with. As long as you're still breathing, you have an opportunity to rebuild it.
The real question to me is: why would anyone fund doing this in EC2?

Here's the quick math on cost per gflop, including all network and datacenter costs:

Mac Pro: $5/gflop
EC2 g2.xlarge: $21.19/gflop
I'm just reading about this for the first time but this is how I'm seeing it as well. My first guess is that it isn't as much about being anonymous as Bitcoin and more about (1) being able to buy gold more easily and (2) having these transactions securely recorded in a blockchain. Though without a large network, is the second part very useful?
Good one, would have backed it if it had a round neck tshirt.
My perception is that nerd has not only been reclaimed, it has been over-done. Even non-nerds like to "I'm such a nerd" nowadays.
Or LinkedIn's Hopscotch http://linkedin.github.io/hopscotch/
I would keep an eye on the columnstore space. I know that Microsoft introduced read-only columnstore indices before introducing updateable ones, and their turnaround on it was 2 years - SQL Server 2012 to 2014.

I'd use that as the outside end of an estimate for when the Postgres team will get updateable columnstore working.
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My point is that there were local religious entities and intellectuals. It was not some well-orchestrated idea of import as that one sentence reveals.

I am just annoyed because, despite being one sentence, shows even painstaiking detail to important events by journalists who spend months or years covering MENA stuff, but to do not do anything but reading, not in Arabic, that shows truly ignorant biases. It is very common. and why I gave up on regional studies after college.
How come these used Tesla's are so cheap? (e.g. $150 for an M2090) http://www.ebay.com/itm/NVIDIA-Tesla-M2090-6GB-GDDR5-PCIe-x1...
When will Tesla's home battery make financial sense?
Same tactics: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/4/8540935/apple-labels-spotif...
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I used to carry my iPad around but as my phone got bigger (HTC Amaze at 4.3" to Note 4 at 5.7"), tablet use went down as phone use went up. About 6 weeks ago, however, I replaced my laptop with a Surface Pro 3, so tablet use has gone back up, though I use it with the keyboard attached 95% of the time.

EDIT: my iPad 1 is now a monitor for our security cameras at home...it is more stable than the android version And has gone for a solid year without crashing. The android one crashes a few times a day.
I never really like this style of on boarding. Mostly because I can 'see' the app behind the dialogs and I just want to start using it.

Much prefer is on boarding is baked into the design of the app. So literally hide / alter the page based on where they are in the setup / learning process.
> there is no way that you can't build a hackintosh

Have you ever personally run a Hackintosh, full-time for a prolonged period of time?

It's anecdotal, but I can assure that once you're used to how OS X and the Apple hardware work together and never, ever, ever crash, using a Hackintosh is an exercise in frustration.

I had one of the known-best Hackintosh configurations in existence, and it didn't hold a candle to the MBP I had prior to it in terms of "it just works".

Sure, it was cheaper.

Guess what I did when that Hackintosh needed replacing? I walked in and dropped the coin on genuine Apple hardware without a second thought. I have never regretted it, and I'll never go back.
This is awesome, it opens up the possibility of using all sorts of JVM languages (Java, Scala, Clojure ...) for pseudo-systems type programming as well as easier interfacing with libraries.
Since the gold standard, governments are largely held together by reputation alone. If a government's reputation collapses (as has happened) then their monetary instruments (cash, bonds, etc) become effectively worthless.

In the US case in particular, the US dollar is more stable because it is so popular. So even if the US government's reputation goes down, as long as third parties continue to attribute value to it (e.g. you can buy oil with gold) then the value remains relatively static.

The same can be said in other stable currencies: Swiss Franc, Australian/NZ dollar, Canadian Dollar, British pound, and a couple of others.