I agree that it's 11131.

Right. I was assuming that the max random number would be chosen to be the smallest power of two larger than the largest ticket.

The results of this aren't evenly distributed in most cases.

Say the random number is between 0 and 7, and there are 5 tickets from 0-4. Then the possible results are:
0 mod 5 = 0 (0 is the winner)
1 mod 5 = 1
2 mod 5 = 2
3 mod 5 = 3
4 mod 5 = 4
5 mod 5 = 0
6 mod 5 = 1
7 mod 5 = 2
As you can see, tickets 0-2 have a better chance than 3-4

For proper randomness, you actually need to re-roll when the random number is greater than your range of winners. This could be done by hashing the block hash again or choosing a different block. (There are probably other algorithms for properly distributing the randomness, but AFAIK they're always less efficient when generating random numbers and I don't know any such algorithms off-hand.)

Probably your block database is getting corrupted for some reason. Maybe due to an antivirus or a bad disk.

These two are the same account. He just used his donator status to change his name.

I'm very annoyed by them, but I feel bad about deleting them because the people who post them are just trying to get some extra functionality out of the board. I do delete them on the most serious of threads, and you can ban them with local rules.

Status:

Of the bids that have been formally submitted, I'm only considering Request's seriously at this point. If you think I didn't give your bid a fair chance (especially if I don't mention you below), PM me with more details.

- nhodges: I sent you a PM requesting more details but didn't get a response as far as I know.
- Red Emerald's work sounds promising, but he hasn't given me enough detail yet.
- Matthew N. Wright hasn't sent me a bid yet.
- BinoX hasn't sent me a bid yet
- danieldaniel isn't qualified.
- I'm uncomfortable with using CIYAM Pty. Ltd.'s experimental (in my mind) code-generating software for something where security and performance are important.
- windowsdefender probably isn't qualified.
- Maybe Xenland or FlipPro could do it, but I don't feel confident enough to give either of them the job.

There's now 1700+ BTC in the forum fund, and I'm still accepting bids.

I've been too busy (and unmotivated) to do any coding, though I've been thinking about the design a lot. I think it would work well to put all of the business logic into the database. PostgreSQL allows you to create new database functions using any of several languages (including C++, PHP, Perl, and Python). This design would be very modular, easy to extend, and easy to break into parts for many people to work on. Making many different front-ends would also be easy, and the front-ends could be "stupid", working only with views covered by many triggers/rules. I'm not a very experienced programmer, though -- what do guys you think of this design?


Bitcoin uses C++. Hopefully Bitcoin is secure...

I don't find security to be very difficult on either. You do need to know what you're doing, but this is a prerequisite to winning this bid anyway.

No. The accounting entries created by move aren't real Bitcoin transactions.

Thanks!

Send it either to the forum at 17RTTUAiiPqUTKtEggJPec8RxLMi2n9EZ9 (used for forum expenses only) or to me at 1NXYoJ5xU91Jp83XfVMHwwTUyZFK64BoAD (used for anything I want).

It is recorded. You can see them in listtransactions.

I don't see a point in "officially" depreciating something that must be supported forever anyway.

The boat's harbored on Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin, so it won't ever see the ocean unless we want to go on a really long sailing trip. (Though two of my uncles sailed from Wisconsin to Florida when they were young, so it's definitely possible.) This year we'll probably try taking it to Lake Michigan, though this alone will take a long time.


What do you do?

My dad bought a C&C 27' Mk3 sailboat last year. We haven't been on any long excursions yet, though it's been nice to just sail around.

People with an ignore color now see the ignore range they fall in instead of the ":-(". Also, people with 0.35% see a range in the same spot as a warning.

I don't ignore anyone, either. RandyFolds often has good posts, actually. Maybe people immediately assume he's a troll when they see his avatar.


You're fourth in global numbers, with 19 ignores.

Here are all of the people who currently have any ignore color along with their ignore count (edit: this is the very-established ignore count):

This list looks pretty reasonable to me.

New VIP donator: gigavps. Thanks!

I haven't noticed any outages recently.

Does it always happen at the same time, or randomly? A slow backup script does run daily. That's possibly the cause.

It shows up in the same spot. Someone will probably post a screenshot.

Nope. Counting all users (not just very-established), PinkiePie (now banned) is the most-ignored with 30 ignorers, you have 22, and Matthew has 20.


Done.