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Thanks for all the comments. I have a pair of keens - https://www.rei.com/product/772930/keen-targhee-ii-mid-hikin... - probably 5 years old and I haven't replaced the soles yet and put a good amount of mileage on them. I've only actually lost one toenail once, but it took about a year to grow back and my big toes do hurt like hell after most hikes and get some small bruising on the big toes after long hikes. I've never thought about the foot swelling when hiking you all are probably right! They're too small when hiking. I'll size up.

Ya but how many toenails does he have left? Every time I've hiked > 15 miles at a time they start turning purple

Not exactly online only but I run a small ATM Business out of Seattle http://effortlessatms.com It pays all my bills

Anyone want to give example inputs for the calculator? I find it very confusing. Are the Odds input as percentages? Decimal Odds?

I created http://sportsbettingcalcs.com/#kelly_calculator which I have pre-filled with an example which is much more intuitive to me. This calculator is more advanced, as it can maximize over multiple bets, but I'm finding it difficult to use. Another calculator which I have no affiliation with is http://www.sportsbookreview.com/picks/tools/kelly-calculator...

I'm pretty surprised at the HN comments and sentiment here of "if the athletes don't like it don't participate." It is a clear monopoly by the IOC. The IOC is a business. The athletes are the talent.

Look at any comparable business and the talent makes a way bigger % of the money, actors in the movie industry, musicians in the music industry, professional athletes in NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA etc. These are all "jobs" that people would gladly do for low pay just like the Olympics if that was their only choice. Does that mean that the other industries are overpaying their talent? No imo. It's reasonable to expect that the people that provide the talent and a large part of the value to the industry deserve a large portion of the rewards.

Professional athletes and hollywood have strong unions to fight for fair pay(they used to be exploited for low pay), the music industry is a semimonopoly and does screw artists, but at least there is some level of competition. If you don't like one record company you can always switch labels.

The problem with the Olympics and what makes them so valuable to begin with is their rarity. They only come around once every four years. A top tier athlete may only make one Olympics in his/her lifetime and perhaps as many as ~three. Are you really going to organize and "holdout" for a whole Olympic games with your fellow athletes to maybe better the financial position for all your fellow Olympians? It's one thing to sit out a season when your expected career is 10 seasons and you may only have to sit out 1/3 of one season, it's entirely different when you may have to sit out your entire career. The athletes are being exploited because

1. IOC is a monopoly

2. Their careers are short

3. It's too risky to organize because the risk of not competing is too high. They've trained so hard to get there, to not compete is not really an option.

4. Olympics only happen once every four years.

It's a very similar situation as the NCAA except for #4. If you want to make it "not about the money" that's fine by me, make tickets to attend these events cheap or free, let any network cover the games(why does NBC get a coverage monopoly?), get rid of the endorsements and ads, make all the IOC "volunteer" administrators unpaid, but it's never going to happen. When coaches and administrators are making millions and the talent is making close to zero, the talent is clearly being exploited.

I don't really care if universities hire hedge managers to manage their endowment, but it's absurd that schools with multibillion dollar endowments still charge tuition. Yale has ~12,000 students and a $26 billion endowment. Tuition is ~$45,000 per student. $45,000 * 12,000 = $540 million. They can't spend 2%(540/26,000) of their endowment per year on free tuition? What is this money for?

Of course this ignores financial aid so Yale's operating costs are much less than $500 mil/year. If you're going to donate to a university your money will go much further at a small college that actually needs your money and will actually spend it rather than hoarding it. TMQ had some great articles about this topic back in the day. http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/page/TMQWeekFour140930/robert... Halfway down.

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Where do you find these ML wizard conusltants? I've been looking to hire someone part time for a project to help build a model but most good people have no time and I don't trust that anyone on elance or similar is any good.

I'm all for rich people giving their mass fortunes to charity but they sure do seem to take a long time to do it. Bill Gates is STILL the richest person on the planet in 2015 and his wealth GREW $3.2 billion last year. Can we save the praise for giving away $44 billion until he actually gives it away?

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2015/03/02/inside-th...

Talk to a lawyer.

Yes but people were dying from hunger as a direct result of the policies that Mao implemented http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine He is largely responsible for these deaths even if he didn't personally exterminate them.

There are plenty of domain name registrars that accept bitcoin now which is currently impossible to setup automatic recurring payments for. https://www.namecheap.com/support/payment/bitcoin.aspx

With the know your customer laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer it's increasingly the bank's responsibility to do the job of regulators. This is not new. It might be dumb, but it's how the system works(or doesn't work) right now.

I mean it hasn't gone down two days in a row for over a month now and is increasing in price 10% per day. It's not just going to straight up to the moon like people think. There will be bumps along the way and it's overdue for one.

Forget these 10 reasons. The real 10 reasons are

1. The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy 2. The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy 3. The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy 4. The price keeps skyrocketing, so people hoard or buy

etc... it all works out until it doesn't... it's long overdue for a major correction

I dunno about the legality of this or not, but banks absolutely will refuse to give you over a certain amount in cash at any given time unless you notify them ahead of time of your withdrawal. They don't actually keep that much cash on hand. If you go to your local bank and try to take out $20k chances are they'll tell you here's $10k, come back in two days for the rest and call us ahead of time next time.

Could someone explain to my ignorant self why zoning a property as hotel and paying hotel tax is necessary? What is it for and why was it created?

It seems like a lot of these new startups are the same old business model but skirt costly taxes and regulation (Uber for taxis, Airbnb for hotels, Bitcoin for money transfers)

Meh, in an ideal world google search results would only result in one search result: the one I am looking for. This seems to go along with what's happening when someone searches "southwest airlines"

This is definitely not true. More money is spent on building and renting supercomputers every year even through the recession. There is tremendous demand out there for solving problems that would just not be possible without them. I believe Google's self driving cars collect 1 GB/sec of data.

It's just that we have a hard time imagining why we would ever need such a powerful CPU which is why you are saying this. Why would someone in 2005 ever imagine we need such a powerful computer in our pocket in 2013? What possible uses could we have for it?

Can someone post the command to create these messages or at least tell me what portion of the transaction this is being stored under? I am curious. My chain is a bit out of date, but I was able to generate the messages http://pastebin.com/wdpF4L4k

~/.bitcoin/blocks $ ls | xargs strings -n 20 | tee ~/Downloads/hiddenblockchain.txt

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_Calls...

Are they just sending coins to an invalid address (their string)?

Looks like they were down for about 90 minutes maybe less

Mind sharing what libraries you used for this?

Meh, I don't use google reader or really care, but I am pissed they plan on ending igoogle in November. It's insane to me that they will do this.

It's my homepage and I'm sure millions of other people's homepages. Setting your homepage to an internet company's site is pretty much their whole goal. It's insane to me that they will give this up.

I'm sure StackMob is a great product and time saver, but the title is incredibly misleading. I guess everyone does it these days to get the page hits.

"I timed it and it took about 16 hours over the course of three days to get this app up and running."

Lol. That's hardly one day then and as people have said it's not close to being a clone.

find . -name "*" | xargs grep "hello" 2>/dev/null

Searches all the files in current directory and all subdirectories for files that contain "hello". Add -l option to grep to only display the filenames instead of filename and match.

I find it sort of ironic that everyone here thinks this would be awesome, but are completely opposed to hovering predator drones observing our every action 24/7. Obviously it's all a matter of who has access to the data, but essentially the data would be the same.

I have same question but for mongoDB. What's the difference between mongo and rethink? Edit. Okay I found the charts.

Lunch with Warren Buffet went for $3.5 mil. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500395_162-57449980/lunch-with-w... It would not surprise me to see this go for $10-$25k.

I tried this when I had this problem. All the local google voice numbers for my area code were taken so I was SOL.

Well, yeah duh. But who cares what their true motives are? Why are you complaining about free credit card processing?

Also, everyone is trying to do cost calculations based solely on their transaction costs. You are not counting all the customer support they have to provide to setup all the accounts and maintain them which is significant.