busterc

I know what you're saying; I wanted the same thing. Here's how I resolved it: https://gist.github.com/busterc/f8e988b4ca63f24c71c56daf448a...

For better context, here's the related article he was commenting on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15852750

I found this comment, by Richard Berger on SeekingAlpha, compelling:

STOP! and think about what this author has revealed. Even IF Tether is NOT running a fraud, the arbitrage positions that automatically exist between Bitcoin and any tether are real and do create incentive to create an arbitraged feedback loop whereby a pegged tether between Bitcoin - any_generic_tether - USD does exist and self feeds, driving up Bitcoin exactly as the author contends may be happening with the current Tether. So long as such a scheme emerges naturally out of the system design, the design is fatally flawed and must asymptotically compound grow to an infinite exchange rate (impossible and unsustainable by definition), or it must ultimately collapse.

Thus, the author has demonstrated a basic inherent flaw to crypto-currencies that can not be repaired other than by legal estoppel. Legal estoppel will never occur because jurisdiction is off-shored and proving a case by case would generate infinite litigation along with each estoppel creating a crash. This in itself would kill the cryptos as surely as the fatal flaw itself will.

It is meaningless to argue WHETHER the author's speculation as to Tether's actions are fraud. The ONLY question is if his identifying of the nature of the available arbitrage can exist in reality. If it can, crypto is dead. No other conclusion is available.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4129543-bitcoin-one-way-go-...

Point taken. FWIW, I used the "post to HN" bookmarklet to add the link and didn't think twice about removing it.

I do not know and I don't have a windows machine to test with. I personally use the ISO's on my mac with VMWare Fusion. If you discover it does or doesn't please share.

Perhaps against the grain, I sometimes like to build an MVP for myself before any significant validation; something I'll use even if others won't. Then if others don't use it, I will. It can be a good opportunity to experiment with certain technologies as well. One such example is a service I made http://EmailMeTweets.com

When I first made it public I submitted it to ProductHunt and tweeted at marketing folks, with large follower numbers on Twitter, to please try it and help promote it. There was traction but not nearly as much as fast as I had hoped. In fact, just the other day I created an Indiegogo campaign to gauge the interest in paying for the service. At this time, there are 3 contributors for $12 each. Without a big surge it obviously doesn't seem poised to stay alive... for the public. However, like I said, I'll continue to use the service privately, freely. So, it's validated and minimally viable for myself; unfortunately not for the public.

Saving money by using Ebates, Cardpool and Raise.

Not using Ebates for 15 years has certainly cost me several thousands of dollars.

I'm a fan of handlebars, have you seen this: https://github.com/rexm/Handlebars.Net

If a disproportionate rate of growth widens the wealth gap, then certainly a disproportionate degree of wealth erosion is likely to exacerbate wealth inequality as well.

similar: https://github.com/hellgrenj/hulken

I'm glad you like it, in its infancy it's already saved me a good bit of time! Your concerns make sense and I do want to eventually reconsider the paste processing; for now, for me it's sufficient but please do submit a pull request.

Thanks. You'll notice I listed some aliases: fsx, fsc, fsv, fsl. I'm not yet sure what most others will want, myself included, as defaults so I avoided baking in naive opinions. Fortunately aliases should allow us all to tweak accordingly. I appreciate the feedback and look forward to hearing from others.

[1]Identity theft is the number 1 complaint 14 years running according to FTC. To answer your first question: MOAR.

Stories like yours make recovery policies, like [2]this, seem prudent.

[3]My very first post on hacker news, 3.5 years ago, stirred ZERO discussion. "Identity theft is an enormous problem, so what are the solutions? Who's working on something that practically everybody who uses the internet should consider looking into?"

[1]http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/id-theft-tops-ftcs-...

[2]http://www.zanderins.com/idtheft/idtheft.aspx

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2163006

In general, they go higher, if for nothing more than central bank induced inflation. The U.S. has $13Tr in mortgage debt outstanding, so lower prices aren't desirable by those who pull the strings.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/mortoutst...

Just yesterday, while developing a Cordova hybrid app intended to target iOS, Android & Windows Phone 8, this very notion became unsettlingly apparent for me. BTW, http://icons8.com is a great place to do icon recon.

Personally, I like the iOS 6 icon over the iOS 7 version. They're almost the same, except the new one places too much emphasis on "up." For example, when using the Meme Producer app and you want to save the picture to your photo library, the app uses the iOS 7 "action" icon but it feels awkward to then immediately go to the "download" icon to actually save. http://i.imgur.com/YtVd5WZ.jpg

Tldr; eating salads

In the past I did crossfit. I enjoyed the short time commitment: 30 minutes, 3 times a weak & it allowed me to become very fit. However, I hurt my hip & have never wanted to go back to that level of extreme exercise for fear of further severe injury. I'm not a paid athlete & don't really need to be that fit.

In the past I've tried 2 types of dieting that made sense to me and each worked very well: Zone & Atkins. The catch is that Atkins is hard to sustain with little variety and a lot of temptation; while the Zone is enjoyable & not hard to stick with but you must be active much more so than when on Atkins.

For the last 2 years I've been very fit, with no more exercise than random walks and general stretching every few days. I got married and my wife, and now I, eat a salad before almost every meal. It's had an astounding affect on me. I still eat the yummy, high calorie high carb goodies, but much less than before. Btw, my wife makes amazing salads, nothing too exotic but nothing too boring.

From a Texan who eats his fair share of BBQ, salads can be very enjoyable.

My related Ask HN: Would you prefer a non-profit domain name registrar?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7156997

I've worked with some, few, excellent managers. So, they're not all bad.

I believe all aspiring and current managers should heed Peopleware.

In summary of Peopleware:

"Almost all project failures are due to sociological problems"

"Most managers are prone to one particular failing: managing people like modular components."

-- http://javatroopers.com/Peopleware.html

Pocket

Google+ is where they want the conversation, IMO.

No, you cannot build Chrome Apps with Node-WebKit, but you can target Win/Lin/OSX. See my comments below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6778882

https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit

Dandy, but Chrome Apps will only ever be marginally more widespread than ChromeOS.

Q. Why? A. Node-WebKit Apps aren't crippled with the sandboxing of the Chrome App API and easily let me target Win/Lin/OSX without requiring the Chrome runtime.

FWIW, I like ChromeOS and would buy a couple of ChromeBoxes for family members, if they had reasonably sized hard drives (200+GB)(SATA) for pictures & videos, and weren't so dependent on Google Drive. Non-tech savvy _NEED_ ChromeOS, they don't need GDrive.

How many of us need yet another IDE for HTML5, CSS & JS? Not me, thanks though. Please Google, get back to autonomous cars and get serious about ChromeOS already.

Outlook.com allows you to use your own domain (free) and supports IMAP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6375844

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We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account.

Worse than an outage, I got this dreaded email from Google a few hours ago. I hope there isn't some sort of attack going on:

Someone recently tried to use an application to sign in to your Google Account - xxx@gmail.com.

We prevented the sign-in attempt in case this was a hijacker trying to access your account.

Learn how to setup Outlook.com for custom domain free email hosting http://www.blogsynthesis.com/setup-microsoft-outlook-custom-... as posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6375844

Outlook.com now supports IMAP http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2013/09/... as posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6375770

Missing David Sacks

I would suggest, for anybody considering attending a hackathon to not let this totally discourage you.

Not all hackathons are equal. My first was at Launch Fest 2013. It was a great experience and I think the judging was as fair as could be expected. There were a lot of talented people who honestly hacked awesome projects together in such a short time. You can see the 5 finalist starting at 23:30 in http://youtu.be/HPSnsxN4lEs

Also, consider http://openhack.github.io