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Being that they have not chose a license to release the code under, it should not be on Github. Github repositories without a license are generally covered by copyright. [1]

[1]: https://help.github.com/articles/open-source-licensing#what-...
"Not to mention that it's success assures that there is a weird shadowy cabal of people who end up insanely rich because they created it. Doesn't seem like currency should work that way..."

===> You are referring to the U.S. Dollar?
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Cool idea! There's ton of broken links on the website tho.

http://www.pixate.com/docs/framework/ios/2.0/getting-started...
Half of the links in the bottom are broken.

Is there any performance considerations to considerate when using Pixate? How fast is the CSS parsing and rendering?
Building a web application 100% in the cloud.
"Unlike college, it is extremely hard to know which programs are adding value and which ones are wasting everyone’s time."
Ha.
> Bitcoin is a fiduciary currency

> Fiduciary currencies—in contrast with commodity-based currencies (such as gold coins or bank notes redeemable in gold)—have no intrinsic value, and derive their value in exchange either from government fiat or from the belief that they may be accepted by someone else. They are inherently fragile; government orders can be ignored or doubted, and a currency that has value only because of the belief that it will have value may have no value at all (for instance, if I believe that no one will accept it, I will not accept it either).

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This article displays a lack of understanding of bitcoin, gold, and other market-driven assets. Quantifying bitcoin in terms of computing power and electricity is a clueless perspective. Conversely, the author doesn't attempt to quantify gold by the same standards of its minimum measurable cost to produce and mere industrial scope. Gold, in his mind, I suspect, is long established and therefore above the same logic.

Bitcoin and gold are each greater than the sum of their cost to produce, obviously. Demand drives this. Stability drives this. Intrinsic value is contained in bitcoin and gold for varying reasons. If the author doesn't appreciate (or understand) the intrinsic worth and applications of a peer-to-peer, cryptographically-secure, fungible transactional system that's becoming increasingly hard to defeat by any central authority and increasingly used in the real world -- then so be it. Many people won't value that. Hell, some people don't value the internet. Not valuing something doesn't mean it's not valued. To me, gold is a pretty element and good for electronics. I don't seek it out for fashion. Yet, I can fully appreciate why others do and why it's a stable way to store value.

Bitcoin has intrinsic value. It is not a "fiduciary currency." The "currency" of it is far removed from any guarantee of value and far separate from its functionality.
Basically, it allows you to style your native iOS app with CSS like a website instead of using Apples native styling. For example I have this game and I can make a css file to create and/or change the color scheme of my app. Here is an example of some themes all generated from LESS css files[1].

[1] - http://xo9.us/img/features/themes.png
Yes, for sure I can see that. Like I say my app is in a constant beta state.
If you get access to sites you care about for free, or heavily subsidized. Would you pay for access to full internet? This might give a lot of informational control to governments/internet providers. If let's say Google, and Facebook are accessible, would those companies fight for some libertarian website that was blocked?
After reading the buzzword heavy and (intentionally?) confusing site, I'm reminded of the parody Color pitch deck:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2364128
This is amazing. I've been wanting this for so long!!!
This is about style apps using CSS:

http://www.pixate.com/docs/framework/ios/2.0/style-reference...

Similar to NUI https://github.com/tombenner/nui

I'm using it. Easier than UIAppearance, but still need some improvements in handling UICollection (it lags). However, overall is good.
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Not BTC to USD. Just plain BTC to my wallet.

This is happening to a lot of people.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=324918.60
Report: IRS Refunded $4B to Identity Thieves
My thought there was there are rankings and historical data on employment success. Sure, it could be disguised as brand success.
Just played around with the demo. I love it.
cool, thanks!

My entire workflow for keeping track of projects I want to follow centers around GitHub, so I can't wait :P
That's not a reason - it's an excuse. Every other major browser works fine across Windows versions and MS claims they can't? It's a marketing decision. Microsoft is an OS company so tying their latest and greatest browser to an OS upgrade is compelling.
There's a reason I used the word "ostensibly."
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NUI is similar and OSS: https://github.com/tombenner/nui

OT but does anyone have any idea how much work it would be to port NUI or similar to Objective-J/Cappuccino? I really want to use Cap, but it's not designer friendly to theme and the default theme is looking a bit long in the tooth.
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What kind of CSS framework doesn't have a live demo on the site?

I have to download it to find out what it looks like, how it performs, and how it's written?
There is a fourth problem they solve: very early stage companies are willing to raise quick money on terrible terms as long as it doesn't actually set a valuation for their real seed round. Accelerators are positioned to do this because they can maintain a pretense that the shitty terms are made up for in mentoring and other services.

It would be much harder to raise a seed round on a 4M cap if you had just given an investor effectively a 1M cap 3 months before. But with accelerators that's not an issue!
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Regarding Bitcoins and gold, it’s important to keep in mind that neither has “intrinsic” value.

Rather, both are valued by men for their unique properties.

Gold is:
Divisible.
Fungible.
Value dense. (Scarce.)
Recognizable.
Durable.
Zero counter-party risk.
Stable in supply, yet minable.
Liquid.
International.
Non-manipulatable. (Non-centralized.)

By comparison:
Diamonds, while valuable, are NOT divisible, nor are they fungible.
Water, while valuable and divisible, is not value-dense enough to compete with gold as a form of money, on the free market.
Food, while valuable, is not durable.
Dollars, while liquid, do not represent zero-counter-party-risk (rather, they are debt-based.)
Dollars, while recognizable, are not stable in supply (inflation is a worry).
Dollars are also not minable. (Production is available only to a monopoly cartel, versus gold, which anyone can produce.)
Food, which anyone can produce, is not liquid, especially in comparison to dollars or gold.
Dollars, while you can hold them in your pocket, a board of bankers still has the power to reach into your pocket and manipulate its value. (This is not the case with gold.)
Soon it becomes very clear that gold was never “declared” to be a form of money by any “authorities” but rather, became money due to natural market forces.

If gold became money strictly due to natural market forces (as a result of its unique properties) then clearly the only reason it has been supplanted by dollars is due to artificial restraints imposed on the market by government force. (Such as legal tender “laws”, tax “laws”, money laundering “laws”, etc.)

Such forces must be constantly active, otherwise, natural market forces would immediately resolve back to gold again as they have for thousands of years.

Now let’s consider Bitcoin’s unique properties:

Divisible.
Fungible.
Value dense.
Recognizable.
Durable.
Zero counter-party risk.
Stable in supply, yet minable.
Liquid.
International.
Non-manipulatable. (Non-centralized.)

AS WELL AS:
Non-confiscatable.
Accounts cannot be frozen.
Anonymity is possible.
Electronically transferrable.

As you can see, Bitcoin’s unique properties are similar to those of gold, although it adds new properties due to its ethereal nature.

Those new properties (non-confiscatable, non-freezable, pseudonymous, transferrable electronically) all serve to route-around the artificial forces that are currently being used to supplant gold with the dollar. After all, the various immoral, legal-tender legislation in place today uses the force of a gun to impose fiat money onto an economy that would otherwise resolve to gold by natural forces. That artificial force depends on the government’s collusion with banks and their collective monopoly on the ability to issue, store, freeze, confiscate, track, and transfer dollars.
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Well, presumably if carriers provide reduced- or no-cost access to Wikipedia that's a direct violation of net neutrality, aka charging the same amount of money for data moving through the pipes no matter what it is or who it comes from.

Presumably the OP is concerned that this could degenerate from "breaking net neutrality is fine as long as it favors sites we like" to "breaking net neutrality is fine".

Note that I don't necessarily share the belief of the OP, but it's certainly a point worth some real consideration.
It's funny how many comments we've had about the music on our video. I wasn't sure at first, but Freddy, our CEO chose it so didn't want to upset him ;)
This is one of the best readings I had in the last year.
thanks for sharing.
What's the cause? The national debt? Countries with enormously bigger debts are Troika-free.
Makes the input border for the search field and the sign in button disappear on the main Google page as well.
IMO Labels/tooltips should be added to the icons for the cards. Some of them, including the leaf (nodejs?) and the tree (nfi what that is) aren't especially obvious.

Otherwise, cool!
And you can set fsync off for extra yolo!
What website will tell you how much BTC do I hold? If you can trace from some exchange or a merchant my identity linked to some bitcoins, you can equally do that with a gold dealer. Of course, you can see where bitcoins are moved, but that won't tell you much: they could be equally sold or simply relocated.
Love the article, but I don't think the tactics and suggests are hacks?
> Now, I haven't used SASS/LESS that much, so feel free to correct me, but it seems like they're solving a different problem.

You're correct, but that hasn't stopped people from trying.
"Repeating an assertion doesn't make it any more true."

===> In that case, deny it. Go ahead, present your case that banking and finance isn't the most cartelized, regulated, corrupt industry on earth.
10% for administrative costs is huge - how much costs per user can you possibly incur? surely at most about a couple of percent per user?

Furthermore, you state "I worry the donation isn't going to charity as advertised." is the number one reason. For me this reason is really "I worry the donation isn't really going towards the supposed aims of the charity". Therefore I'm only really going to be interested if you show me some measure of the "efficiency" of each charity, ie how much money goes on supporting their cause directly, and how much gets spent on administration, marketing, sending coins in the mail etc?

I've often often thought about the feasibility of a charity where 100% of funds are spent directly on the cause, and administration costs are covered by interest incurred between the time donations are collected and the time suppliers are paid (and whether you could run a lottery on the same principle).
Bitcoin will be a competitor to Chase as much as the U.S. Dollar is a competitor to Chase.
Hackers steal 4,100 Bitcoins worth $1.18M from wallet service Inputs.io
No, because last time I checked the US Dollar wasn't printed out of the back of some guy's house who came up with the idea.
Doctors see Google Glass as useful diagnostic tool
Exactly my thought :) minimalism + flat design
FellowTraveler, I love your work throughout the years, btw.

Yeah, as I noted, bitcoin is no less rational or irrational than gold for what it is (or rather for what it's becoming). The whole "intrinsic value" debate is a moot, endless point because both sides are equally arguable. Anything clearly valued by others holds intrinsic value, I could argue. I could also conversely say that its value is not derived intrinsically. However, in an argument where gold is given the status of having intrinsic value, I'll gladly argue that so too should bitcoin be given that status.
I agree with this, though I'm biased because I personally find [dockerfile image container] clearer than [deck drop instance]. Explicit > flashy.
Yep, I'm a huge fan of the Pomodoro technique, which forces me to do this. Works wonders.
Yeah, these are my only problem with the service; I did not get the metaphors at all, and their descriptions only added to the confusion.

The simplicity of the service is an opportunity to attract people without a lot of webdev chops, so why not make it super simple?
> The banking and financial industry is the most heavily regulated (and thus corrupt) industry that we have, surpassing even the health industry. Basically it's just a cartel.

I heavily disagree with your assessment that regulation is to blame. If anything the removal of regulation, specifically the repeal of the parts of Glass-Steagall that separated commercial and investment banks, is what caused the banking catastrophe.

> Saying that Bitcoin "may need government regulation" is like saying that Bittorrent "may need government regulation." The question is, how on earth can you regulate such things, when they are designed to be resistant to such threats?

No, despite using (sort of) similar protocols and having (sort of) similar names, these are not similar at all. Bitcoin will be regulated in these two, and probably more, ways: 1) It will be categorized as an instrument of value, in which case it can be taxed in USD, require licenses to transact with it etc. 2) It will be regulated at the point of currency exchange.

> Let's not forget also, that policy consists of political decisions regarding the use and threat of force. Therefore we can never actually regulate Bitcoin. At best, we can only regulate how we plan to use violence against people who use Bitcoin.

I'm not even sure I understand fully what you mean here. What do we regulate that can't be swapped for "bitcoin" in that sentence? IE: we can't regulate drugs, at best we can only regulate how we plan to use violence against people who use drugs.
I also highly suggest you own more than one stock.
Great - would love to read :)

http://exercism.io/help/how-to-nitpick is a good resource as well.
Wow, thought police flagged this off the front page?

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82. Tesla: Third Model S fire ...(cnet.com)

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Yeah, they changed the wording from "should" to "must" be O(1) in C++11, which means that before, even when they encourage the implementer to do it constant, that was in fact optional.

I don't that tracking the size would be a big deal, if you think that doing that they wouldn't be a linked list any more, you could think it as a linked link wrapper.

In any case the complexity guarantees of all the other operations remain true so I don't think it is a big deal.
Huh. A SoC on a board targeted at hobbyists without any capture/compare timer resources. What an... interesting choice.
This is one of the most brilliant few lines that I've seen on bitcoin, and economy in general, in a while.
Curious: what the work is about?
F# has its origins in OCaml which has the same set of properties (ability to write impure code and has an object system, albeit one that not many people use). F# replaced that object system with the .NET one.
The undrewriters don't always come out doing so well. Take a look at the Facebbok IPO as an example. They didn't end up selling all of the stock that was issued in the IPO and had to buy up stock back from the market at elevated prices in order to keep the stock from plummeting on the first day. They still made money but not what they expected.

As for the insider vs outsider. In order to issue an IPO, a number of stocks are agreed to be issued. These stock either come from the company issuing more shares and diluting the value to current stock holders and the company receives the money from the new share purchase, or the stock holders offer up some of their stock to be sold in which case they receive the money. I believe is usually mix of the two. The current stock holders don't offer all of their shares up. Just enough (I believe this is set by the SEC) to enter the market.

The underwriter assumes a large risk and for the portion of the stock that goes through them to market, they are paid the $20 difference ($26 to $46). As well they facilitate the actual sale of the shares. This is not an easy task (again see the technical issues with the Facebook IPO).

So in the end the 11 rounds of investors get $26 for some of their shares, in order for the rest of them to be worth $46 or now $50. They are also now allowed to sell those remaining shares on the open market. Something they were not able to do before the IPO.

No one is getting screwed here. There is a very big pie, and everyone, from the first investor to the undrewriter, gets a piece.
I would like to see Stripe and Square join forces
You see to be confused in thinking that "free market" means a market without regulation. It does not.
QE myths:

http://business.time.com/2013/09/18/taper-tantrums-3-myths-a...
You might want to check again.
9 out of 10 accelerators out there are bad copies of ycombinator made by greedy (and cheap) investors trying to ride the startup gravytrain like in the dotcom years and/or desperate politicians trying to get some of that sweet gentrification SF complains so much about.

I was unfortunate enough to land in a combination of BOTH: the accelerator was made by investors with literally ZERO experience with technology companies who were extremely cheap, and a local government that wasted taxpayer's money on it. I say waste because most of the money went to friends and family of the investors/organizers who didn't put a dime out of their collective pockets but went ahead and hired each other (and each other's acquaintances) to fill mentor roles within the accelerator.

What a joke that was, we got literally nothing out of the experience, we lost precious time having to deal with all the bullshit they made us go through. Contacts? they were nobodies, so no rolodex magic for us. Press? again, a bunch of nobodies, all press we got was BYO, in fact the accelerator mooched off our existing contacts with tech blogs and got some coverage for themselves.

Because the "investors" were cheapstakes along for the ride nobody got any investments from that network, only one team which secured a line of credit from a local no-name bank thanks to the local government (again more taxpayer money).

There should be a tripadvisor for accelerators, there was no way we could know what we were getting into.
there's a lot of cynicism here!

there's no great mystery to any of this, and what the article is saying is rather obvious (we remember the stuff we didn't finish yet - no shit!) but I just don't see all these cynical intent concerns you have.
And when I click on one, the checkmark doesn't disappear until I unhover the mouse.
Ask HN: Any comments on system76 Ubuntu laptops?
I ordered the "Galago UltraPro" from system76 yesterday. Just wondering if there is anyone using it and have a few things to share ? I upgraded the RAM to 8GB and also the wireless to "Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 AC Wireless LAN + Bluetooth"
This is fantastic!

Does anyone know where DO servers are located?
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Also, I have no idea why I'm being downvoted. We're both essentially stating the same things.
How Tint Hit 90k per Month in 9 Months with a 4 Man Team
Apparently they lost scanning equipment.
A Bigger Button: The Story of a Feature Request
Open Transactions, among other things.
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Do we have hundreds of high quality fossils for some homo species or is it just a few skull fragments?

I often wonder in a similar direction. For example, this headline from a few days ago:

"Horrific FLESH-EATING PLATYPUS once terrorised Australia"

...based on finding a single tooth, it seems.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/05/new_platypus_species...
Creditcard.js: a more usable credit card form
Starting to think Dorsey doesn't have a clue about business and is just a good product guy. What a ridiculous comment.

Why shouldn't a payment processor be profitable?
> We’re using dedicated because running virtual containers on virtual instances seems nuts to us.

but a traceroute points to AWS…
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”

-- Mark Twain

Flat design for flat design's sake is a signal that groupthink on this whole "flat" thing is beginning to reach ridiculous levels
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Merely by being non-descriptive, it's better than "Affordable Care Act".
No, of course not. I'll try to be short, though.

The first thing to ask is what differentiates Wikipedia content from the rest of the 'net so that it would be OK to break net neutrality principles towards the implementation of this project.

So, even if this breakage is somewhat worth the bending of the rules, companies must support the idea. Once they do it, what would be the moral ground to rightfully deny another proposals from content providers that offer them money to do that?

Well, this problem is not something really new. Net neutrality is already broken, though almost everybody agrees on its importance. There must be some kind of consistency if we want it to survive.
Corporate customers who have their shitty intranet apps tied to a specific version of IE for one.
A bit of a tangent, but am I the only one who finds texts unacceptable in professional situations? I never reply to a text from a client; if it's important, I'll reply to the text FROM an email, but never as a text. If it happens more than once or twice I explain that I don't receive text message notifications on my phone (which is true; I can see them passively but they do not "ping" me), and that to ensure a timely response they should always email or call me.

This means (a) all expectations of me are in one place (my inbox) and (b) I don't have to filter work from my free time. And in the age of smartphones, there's really no reason not to just use email.