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Who came up with these conversations? Hard to believe this was part of the training data. And where does the training data come from? To what extent is it applicable to academic or corporate settings?

What makes you so sure that Coinbase even has all of our bitcoin in the first place?

Why is multi-sig in quotes? Is Coinbase providing its users with a '3' address that is on-block chain, or does this "multi-sig" approach still reside entirely off-block chain.

Edit: I presume that Coinbase still holds on to all of the private keys for Vault accounts. Can someone verify otherwise?

Bitcoin was supposed to be a decentralized system, not one with a centralized benevolent authority. In GHash We Trust...

Same issue happened to me, Google responded several hours later with the following email:

""" Dear AdMob Developer,

Last week, we wrote to let you know that on December 19th 2013 we would initiate refunds to you for unused legacy AdMob advertising credits. Today we are writing to let know that between December 19th and 20th we inadvertently processed refunds for more than your unused balance. In some cases, customers will see multiple refund amounts on their bank card statement.

To correct this error, we have reversed these incorrect refunds with corresponding transactions for the same amount(s). These corrections have been processed on December 23rd and December 24th to the same bank card that the initial refund(s) was processed to. This means that you will see one negative and one positive transaction on your card statement for each refund made in error. These transactions will have “GOOGLE*ADMOB” as the description for the credits.

We will be processing the correct refund in early January 2014 for the correct amount owed to you. You will see a separate transaction for this refund amount on your January or February bank card statement.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

If you have any questions about this communication please check out our FAQ’s linked here.

Sincerely, The Google AdMob Team """

Sampling bias. The more people who visit a high-crime area, the more crime is likely to occur.

That and the gentrification resulting from UCSF's push into the area...

There clearly is lots of innovation going on, but 54 Mbps wireless hardware was introduced over 11 years ago!

Furthermore, AT&T's DSL speed has only exhibited a .15 Mbps CAGR over the past 5 years to its current peak of 6 Mbps. Comcast's average cable internet speeds were 6 Mbps from 2005 to 2007, until they jumped to 12 Mbps in 2008.

Can't wait for the future...

Sources: "IEEE 802.11a-1999." <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11a-1999>.\n "AT&T Residential Broadband Internet." <http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=6431>.\n "Evolution of Broadband speed and prices over time." <http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/31/41551958.xls>.

Was just talking to a young lady the other day about a product she built and is selling on Etsy that leverages this concept and applies it towards the iphone. Check out http://www.etsy.com/listing/49225650/foresight-a-smartphone-...

*Disclosure: I don't own one, but it sounds like a neat idea. Especially with the new iphone's gyro sensor

Export to PDF functionality is native in Word 2010 Beta

Just one of the many examples that highlights the market for energy-proportional computing. Check out http://www.cra.org/ccc/docs/ieee_computer07.pdf. Machines today still consume around 50 percent of total peak power while sitting at idle!

"The attempt to connect to the Adobe Stratus service timed out. We will wait for 10 more seconds the next time."

then radio silence...

The 6 degree Fahrenheit drop in the coast vs inland temperature gradient has resulted in a 33% reduction in coastal fog drip.

This is definitely not good for our Coastal Redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains, given their reliance on high fog density. Such a reduction in fog will result in smaller trees and a reduced growth rate. As a result, the more aggressive tanoak and douglas fir species will proliferate and dominate the limited Redwood forests.

It sounds far off, but this is definitely news worth considering if you are planning a timber harvesting operation. Given that these trees take between 20-50 years to grow back, such logging operations could drastically change the surrounding ecosystem.

I believe that the Redwood forests are one of northern California's most amazing gifts, and I would be extremely sad to see them go.

Reminds me of the importance of a good product manager. So many big software shops develop product today on the "feature level". As a result, developers and "managers" lose sight of the customer's workflow. Understanding the product from entry to exit and seeing how all of the pieces fit together is critical to creating a good product.

@jpluscplusm thanks for the feedback and good questions. Regarding the "what state is the codebase in" question, I can't imagine them telling me its "poor". What questions do you think would help me to gauge the quality of the code base? Obviously there is no formula, but it would be interesting to see what factors impact a codebase's quality. I guess there are static analysis tools to help out though :)

Fixed link:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126092289275692825.html

Looks like the issue is pretty widespread http://search.twitter.com/search?q=sparkfun

Seemed like a good idea at the time... Back to bed for me

Hmm interesting. Back in October, I reported a dead sea lion outside my house (I live on the Bay) to the department of Ornithology and Mammalogy at the California Academy of Sciences. They came out and removed the animal's carcass, and told me it had died of kidney failure due to a sexually transmitted disease (Bacterial Vaginosis). They explained that half of the Pier 39 sea lions were victims of the STD.

More information can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetmic.2005.11.045

I doubt it, but I wonder if this STD had any impact on their leave...

this will definitely be interesting to see how it unfolds. Does anyone know if the SMS messaging infrastructure is still working? Is this just limited to the Web interface? Is api.twitter.com still up?

I'll be watching http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?pli=... for interesting comments

Congrats Savraj! Out of curiosity, how are you powering the WiFi sensor?

Google PowerMeter works with TED (http://www.theenergydetective.com/ted-5000-overview.html)

Wish they made the source code downloadable... It would be helpful for students who want to step through the code and actually see what is going on. http://algowiki.com offers some code, but it isn't all necessarily in Python.

Some interesting statistics from the article:

- Private-equity owned companies employ 10% of the private sector work force

- 9 of the 10 biggest PE buyouts ever occurred between 2006 and 2008

- University of Chicago study showed that, for the years 1980 to 2001, the PE firms' investors got returns that fell short of the broad market average, after fees.

thanks for sharing. Those jokes also seem to apply to some of the homework problems encountered in the 2nd edition. I had no clue that Professor Bunyan was a reference to Paul Bunyan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bunyan).

Its great to see such a large-scale site offering streaming video at such a high resolution, but people seem to be forgetting about bit rates. As a result, the "HD" nomenclature loses its meaning.

still works. Jeez that is pretty bad. How does one go about reporting something like this? Wonder how long it will take to fix...

I really enjoyed recently reading Snow Crash. Watership Down was great back in the day

You are absolutely right in pointing out the lack of uniform probability distribution across the different pieces in McDonald's Monopoly game.

My goal in sharing the link above was to show that McDonald's Monopoly game is significantly more costly to win when compared to the Coupon Collector's Problem, which has an expected cost of O(n log n).

Still though, I think its pretty interesting that the folks who run the McDonald's Monopoly game have to factor in economics when setting up all of the probabilities as pieces get traded over the Internet (which is against the rules, but still happens as in http://cgi.ebay.com/2009-McDonalds-Monopoly-NORTH-CAROLINA-A...)

Server side re-rendering of websites?? Sounds like wide-spread support for that would be lacking... I'm sure as the Sidekick gained traction, more web sites adopted its special rendering requirements as you mention, but in the beginning, things must have been rough!

Disclosure - I've never owned a Sidekick (and know little about them, other than they are apart of Microsoft's 3 screens and a cloud strategy, yet they don't run Windows Mobile (??)).

I suggest taking your time when you implement the first version of your API. Nothing is worst than developing based on a rushed v1 API, which later gets modified without you knowing. No one wants to be caught calling a deprecated function that then gets removed.

Furthermore, try to keep all of your API libraries up-to-date. For example, I was almost driven crazy by Google's v1.0 Python Spreadsheet library's lack of support for insertion based on case-sensitive row names (See http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/data/1.0/developers...). There is no documentation regarding the requirement that the row name must contain only lower case characters. The .NET library is v3.0 and appears to offer much greater support for this type of basic functionality.

I don't know if you were making a direct reference to Salesforce.com's "Employees have fun in the office, participating in foundation/volunteer activities with their peers and wearing Hawaiian shirts on Aloha Fridays." (http://www.salesforce.com/company/careers/culture/)

I consider the whole Hawaiian shirt thing to be a "gateway" perk. If the company promotes wearing fun attire, then you can be sure to expect other more exciting perks. I don't know of any Silicon Valley software companies that advertise Hawaiian shirts as their one and only perk...

I also think Salesforce.com's volunteering perk is very enjoyable and worthwhile. You essentially get paid to do a workday of community service each month. Didn't sound very exciting or interesting at first, but it turned out to be extremely rewarding. I'd love to see more software companies adopting similar programs and following suit.