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www.coindesk.com 11y ago

Bitcoin Startup Circle Raises $50M with Goldman Sachs Support

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www.coindesk.com 11y ago

Bitnet Partnership Opens Up 260 Airlines (like Lufthansa) to Bitcoin Payments

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

After the Social Web, Here Comes the Trust Web

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bit.ink 11y ago

The Hacker News of Cryptocurrency

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blog.wire.com 11y ago

Skype Co-Founder Backs Wire, a New Communications App

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www.cryptocoinsnews.com 11y ago

FinCEN Clarifies Which Bitcoin Services Are Money Transmitters

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

The Declaration Of Bitcoin's Independence

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www.businessinsider.com 11y ago

We Just Got A New Sign Apple Is Embracing Bitcoin

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gigaom.com 12y ago

Netflix reportedly launching in Germany in September

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zmap.io 12y ago

Heartbleed Bug Health Report Of The 5,000 Most Popular Domains

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

A Brief History Of Oculus

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gigaom.com 12y ago

What if Netflix switched to P2P for video streaming?

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

If Bitcoin was around in the '90s...

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www.bbc.com 12y ago

Negroponte on plans to connect last billion

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www.fastcompany.com 12y ago

Inside Airbnb's Grand Hotel Plans

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www.extremetech.com 12y ago

Qualcomm, up close and personal: Keeping Intel at bay

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www.youtube.com 12y ago

Man Denies He's Bitcoin Founder

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asia.nikkei.com 12y ago

Japan to regulate Bitcoin trades, impose taxes

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letstalkbitcoin.com 12y ago

The Ghost in the Machine at Mt. Gox

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avc.com 12y ago

A Letter To Senator Manchin

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www.foxbusiness.com 12y ago

Fox Business story has confirmed leaked docs from Mt. Gox CEO

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antonopoulos.com 12y ago

Statement on Mt. Gox

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garzikrants.blogspot.com 12y ago

How to support bitcoin core development

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Dust- And Water-Resistant Galaxy S5 – Heart Rate Monitor, Fingerprint Scanner

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venturebeat.com 12y ago

Google debuts a calculator to predict public cloud costs

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Flappy Bird Was Ported To The Commodore 64 Because Why Not

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Whatsapp Is Actually Worth More Than $19B, Says Zuckerberg

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techcrunch.com 12y ago

Google's Revolutionary 3D Vision Chip Of The 'Project Tango' Phone

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www.digitaltrends.com 12y ago

First Bitcoin vending machine permanently installed in the United States

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recode.net 12y ago

Meet “Paper,” Facebook’s New Answer for Browsing — And Creating — Mobile Media

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I recommend to use Blockchain.info or BitGo or GreenAddress over Coinbase if you already have Bitcoin.

With those services you hold the keys to your Bitcoin, not Coinbase. With Coinbase they are in control over your Bitcoin, not you.

GreenAddress is the only wallet for Bitcoin with a 2-2 model Multisig offering a Bip0032 wallet with nLocktime on the Bitcoin blockchain.

* https://greenaddress.it/en/

Thanks for your answer. Using Truecrypt and saving it on Box.net or Dropbox was an idea I also had. This cheap solution only has the problem that anyone who gets access to my cloud hosting area could find that Truecrypt container if it isn't cleverly hidden or disguised. And that master password has to be very very long and very complex, as I learned from Ars Technica:

* http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-mi...

Therefore I'm more looking for a convenient online solution that still offers some safety due to two-factor authentication for example.

I know there are services like 1Password, KeePass, Lastpass, Dashlane, RoboForm, SplashID, Passpack, mSecure, MyLOK+, Password Genie, PasswordWallet and you can find much more alternatives for example here: http://alternativeto.net/software/lastpass/ and LifeHacker has for example an article about this topic: http://lifehacker.com/5944969/which-password-manager-is-the-...

But is there a password service which is working similar to Evernote, but which is safer? I want to make secure notes of passwords in Evernote style.

And Wade Roush of Xconomy has made a interesting quick overview, he listed also Clipperz (you can pay with Bitcoin), PasswordBox and PasswordGenie:

http://www.xconomy.com/national/2013/06/28/passwordbox-unbre...

Finally here is a interesting aspect which I just found here in the comments of a Dashlane review: Quote: "David Pogue (NYT) raved about Dashlane, too, so I took the plunge. Immediate problem was that my login information wound up permanently entered in one of my credit card sites; it was an auto-login I could not disable. So if someone DID steal my laptop, it would be a happy time for him. Trashing Dashlane had no effect; I had to do a force quit of the Dashlane agent using Activity Monitor, then trash it and other attendant files. So many of these password managers, including the incredibly wonderful 1Password that everyone swoons over, imbed themselves so deeply into browsers and other functions that I don't trust them. I will stick with Password Wallet, which sits isolated off to the side and doesn't try to do too much. I understand it and am less likely to make mistakes."

source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043301/review-dashlane-is-a-...

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Stop asking this fine young lady math puzzles to determine her programming abilities. She is good at solving your seemingly pointless math puzzle, because she was practicing problem-solving since she was ten. But she is not anywhere near as good at programming, yet - which caused her problems at the actual jobs she had to do after she was hired.

Yes, that is minor but still important. Having 3 options: flag submission and flag discussion and flag title might be too much.

That's up to the admins to decide what needs more often to be managed, the submission or the discussion. Or it could be named:

    flag title | flag submission/discussion

Yes, more power to the community. Wikipedia is still alive despite its massive openness. There just need to be enough trusted watchdogs.

My idea: Have the system automatically populate the title, but allow it to be overridden by the community. Only community members with over 1K kudos can change the title. As soon as a second member (with over 1K kudos) wants to re-edit the title again, the title will automatically get locked to prevent back and forth edit-wars. Only mods and admins can then finalize title.

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There just need to be enough watchdogs.

A very simple solution would be that titles can be flagged by the community. Example below:

  submission X by kdzsb 22 minutes ago | flag title | flag discussion | 9 comments
Moderators would simply edit flagged bad titles. Rather than having them to watch all titles (old rules) or no titles at all (new rules).

I really like your idea. I suggest that HN shows the original title first and in a second "sub-headline" in italic letters the "commentary" headline by the submitter. Like:

   A new beginning
                                          
   *PHP elects new leader*                         
                 
                                                                
                                
After thinking about it, here is a even better solution:

Let titles allow to be flagged by the community. Example below:

  submission X by kdzsb 22 minutes ago | flag title | flag discussion | 9 comments
Moderators would simply edit flagged bad titles. Rather than having them to watch all titles (old rules) or no titles at all (new rules).

The problem with your logic is that not every URL has a meaningful title.

There are a lot of times websites that are not optimized and use titles that sometimes are as self-explanatory as "home". I have discovered news websites that don't have a title for each of their articles, even larger sites like pehub.com didn't have titles until they fixed it only some weeks ago.

So this is going to be more horrible than editorialized headlines.

After thinking about it, here is a easy solution:

In addition to discussions, allow titles to be flagged by the community. Example below:

  submission X by kdzsb 22 minutes ago | flag title | flag discussion | 9 comments
Moderators would simply edit the few flagged bad titles. Rather than having them to watch all titles (old rules) or no titles at all (new rules).

TLDR from user caffeine-overclock on reddit:

"Elop killed Nokia twice: First by announcing the move to Windows Phone 9 months before they could deliver, and again by announcing that no more MeeGo phones would be produced the day after the first MeeGo phone was released to extremely positive reviews.

Microsoft's phone ambitions are similarly doomed because buying Skype caused most if not all of the global carriers to despise Microsoft, and by association Nokia. This will only get worse as time goes on, since Microsoft/Nokia just became Microsoft and any residual good will from Nokia is gone. Without carrier support, Microsoft can't succeed in those markets."

Thanks. I found a great suggestion to this problem over there:

"Maybe borrow a feature from Stack Overflow [or Get Satisfaction or Desk.com or Uservoice], which presents similar-sounding stories before posting? Some client-side JS which pulls the page, heuristically picks some "interesting" words, and runs them through search.yc?"

Here is the perfect and best of both worlds solution to prevent duplicates:

Step 1: (Algorithm) Automatically check the title (and maybe other metadata like keywords) of his submission against similar existing content on HN. Present these results to the user.

Step 2: (Human) Let the user's intelligence decide if his submission to HN looks like a duplicate of another user or not.

There must have been other reasons why his animated weather app was rejected by Apple. There are already very flashy iOS weather apps, just take for example a look at "Clear Day".

I found this story several hours ago, as well. I found the news to be a possible sensationalist story and didn't even think about posting it on HN. Yes, it is a very interesting story. But it a speculative story. You never know if the media did their research properly or if they just wanted to have more readers. There are other more reputable and trusted news sources in Germany than this one. I don't say it is made up, but some facts could be wrong.