No, at some point between $0 and $400,000,000[1], negligence is no longer an acceptable excuse. [1] The current market value of the claimed 700k BTC loss in USD.
Listed under "Assets": "New brand and services ready to be launched." Just what the community needs most - new Gox-quality services, hidden behind brand obfuscation. Ready to go!
I love the way this API is presented on the page. It's awesome. It exposes itself in such an obvious way that it leaves no question about its capabilities and usage. Makes me want to jump right in.
> "[The U.S. patent system] is not obliged to register change in ownership." That I hadn't known; the implication being, if you intend to leverage a patent with lawful permission from its licensor, it's still possible…
BBRY Market cap today: $4.3 bn Cash: "about $2.6 bn in cash" Patents: "estimate [...] between $1 bn and $3 bn" That leaves not a whole lot of value in the company's other assets after the cash and patents - their…
It's easy to dump on PMA, but what it was built for, it did (and mostly, does) excellently. When I used PMA for the first time I was a very young programmer, and it really amazed me that such a tool could exist. Oddly…
This article reads like a general argument against government subsidies in general - replace "STEM education" with "corn" or "new energy" and the argument is still valid. Given that it was published on nature.com, best…
Among my recent favorites: "Hello NULL," -- from Leap Motion "I wanted to follow up after meeting you" -- from "Developer Relations Team" (not a person!? did I meet the entire team?) at SendGrid
I received 15 emails in 10 days when I signed up for Full Contact. Yeah, I wanted to check out your product, so I signed up and tested it out. No, I don't need to be reminded that you exist every sixteen hours. I had,…
I gotta be honest, I can't figure out how to use this. I imported my Google Reader data (or so I am led to believe), but all I see is a generic feed full of (admittedly interesting, but not what I want) generic news…
In Windows, 'X' "makes no sense", while in OS X, 'X' is "clear." Okay, got it :).
To play devil's advocate, let's consider that it might actually be important to push new icons into the public icon lexicon. Right now I'm typing this comment in a browser window that has three icons at the top right: a…
Caution -- "Request access to the prototype" yielded an immediate email: "Thank you for signing up for a New York Times newsletter!"
On the subject of minification, I see a lot of lines that look like this[1]: fireToken : 1 === f.tradeTokens.data.fireToken ? !0 : !1, Why might that be a desired output from a minifier? Why not simply fireToken : 1 ===…
+1ed for "How To Express Your Dissenting Political Viewpoint Through Origami"
What are you using to determine whether *.io domains are "free" vs "taken"? It seems to be incorrect. http://www.usernique.com/io/x -- "free" http://www.nic.io/cgi-bin/whois?query=x.io -- The domain is unavailable for…
AOL Keywords ;)
Actually, the captcha predicate is a GET request that looks like this: http://en.lichess.org/captcha/78pkfjgz?solution=e5+e4 which returns 1 or 0. So the brute force captcha solution is to go through 8^4 (~4k) get…
To paraphrase: the question 'What is your mother's maiden name?' is intrinsically insecure as a security measure; instead of answering it directly, make up some unguessable string that has nothing to do with the…
> Most of us won't pay $1 for a great game, but will pay $99 in IAPs Here's the difference: by the time you're even considering an in-app-purchase, you already know you love the app. Would you rather support a…
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5343512
Aside from inertia, what is keeping DST in place right now? I could imagine some bizarre lobbying incentive, like it provides some marginal and trivial benefit to the corn industry somehow, although I am not aware of…
> "If it were found on Mars, people would call it Martian DNA. But this is DNA from Earth" Yes... yes indeed.
On the plus side, the bizarre site ux is because he's trying to do something novel, and not due to negligence, like the source of most of the internet's bad ux.
$39 for 100 minutes - that comes out to 39 cents a minute. Even the cheapest you can buy minutes ($22 for 1000, or 2.2 cents/minute) is more expensive than comparable web-based services. Is there anything that this…
No, at some point between $0 and $400,000,000[1], negligence is no longer an acceptable excuse. [1] The current market value of the claimed 700k BTC loss in USD.
Listed under "Assets": "New brand and services ready to be launched." Just what the community needs most - new Gox-quality services, hidden behind brand obfuscation. Ready to go!
I love the way this API is presented on the page. It's awesome. It exposes itself in such an obvious way that it leaves no question about its capabilities and usage. Makes me want to jump right in.
> "[The U.S. patent system] is not obliged to register change in ownership." That I hadn't known; the implication being, if you intend to leverage a patent with lawful permission from its licensor, it's still possible…
BBRY Market cap today: $4.3 bn Cash: "about $2.6 bn in cash" Patents: "estimate [...] between $1 bn and $3 bn" That leaves not a whole lot of value in the company's other assets after the cash and patents - their…
It's easy to dump on PMA, but what it was built for, it did (and mostly, does) excellently. When I used PMA for the first time I was a very young programmer, and it really amazed me that such a tool could exist. Oddly…
This article reads like a general argument against government subsidies in general - replace "STEM education" with "corn" or "new energy" and the argument is still valid. Given that it was published on nature.com, best…
Among my recent favorites: "Hello NULL," -- from Leap Motion "I wanted to follow up after meeting you" -- from "Developer Relations Team" (not a person!? did I meet the entire team?) at SendGrid
I received 15 emails in 10 days when I signed up for Full Contact. Yeah, I wanted to check out your product, so I signed up and tested it out. No, I don't need to be reminded that you exist every sixteen hours. I had,…
I gotta be honest, I can't figure out how to use this. I imported my Google Reader data (or so I am led to believe), but all I see is a generic feed full of (admittedly interesting, but not what I want) generic news…
In Windows, 'X' "makes no sense", while in OS X, 'X' is "clear." Okay, got it :).
To play devil's advocate, let's consider that it might actually be important to push new icons into the public icon lexicon. Right now I'm typing this comment in a browser window that has three icons at the top right: a…
Caution -- "Request access to the prototype" yielded an immediate email: "Thank you for signing up for a New York Times newsletter!"
On the subject of minification, I see a lot of lines that look like this[1]: fireToken : 1 === f.tradeTokens.data.fireToken ? !0 : !1, Why might that be a desired output from a minifier? Why not simply fireToken : 1 ===…
+1ed for "How To Express Your Dissenting Political Viewpoint Through Origami"
What are you using to determine whether *.io domains are "free" vs "taken"? It seems to be incorrect. http://www.usernique.com/io/x -- "free" http://www.nic.io/cgi-bin/whois?query=x.io -- The domain is unavailable for…
AOL Keywords ;)
Actually, the captcha predicate is a GET request that looks like this: http://en.lichess.org/captcha/78pkfjgz?solution=e5+e4 which returns 1 or 0. So the brute force captcha solution is to go through 8^4 (~4k) get…
To paraphrase: the question 'What is your mother's maiden name?' is intrinsically insecure as a security measure; instead of answering it directly, make up some unguessable string that has nothing to do with the…
> Most of us won't pay $1 for a great game, but will pay $99 in IAPs Here's the difference: by the time you're even considering an in-app-purchase, you already know you love the app. Would you rather support a…
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5343512
Aside from inertia, what is keeping DST in place right now? I could imagine some bizarre lobbying incentive, like it provides some marginal and trivial benefit to the corn industry somehow, although I am not aware of…
> "If it were found on Mars, people would call it Martian DNA. But this is DNA from Earth" Yes... yes indeed.
On the plus side, the bizarre site ux is because he's trying to do something novel, and not due to negligence, like the source of most of the internet's bad ux.
$39 for 100 minutes - that comes out to 39 cents a minute. Even the cheapest you can buy minutes ($22 for 1000, or 2.2 cents/minute) is more expensive than comparable web-based services. Is there anything that this…