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I really hate Yahoo. When they bought Geocities they changed my user name that had 64 in it to 63 automatically. What a stupid number. Then, because I didn't log into it within a certain time frame, they up and deleted all my content. It was the first (and only, really, besides school requirement...) personal website I ever built, in 6th grade. It had all the cool images, gifs, midis I had gathered on the internet and I even created custom gifs for it. I even copy pasted some javascript code to make my gifs animate when moused over.

Even though I only used the email account they automatically set up for me for junk registrations (my main mail was already @home/attbi/comcast before they bought geocities, then gmail when that was created), I ended up making a second yahoo account with a name that wasn't lame (which I still used for junk registrations, and other random things, but moreso than the one automatically created). One day the password on that second email account suddenly changed. I used the same password on both the accounts for years with zero sign of infiltration. I still continue to use accounts tied to the one with the mysteriously changed password. I did everything I could to get that one back with no luck. Maybe I was compromised by some hacker? I do recall during my efforts being asked by yahoo support something along the lines of "is this your main account?". There was never anybody that I could talk to, only text support, and most of my attempts/ticket submissions went ignored. Maybe they think I'm a hacker.

In the end, nothing but bitter feelings toward Yahoo for me.

Yeah, and a clean record up until now is at least a theory? I'm wondering if there is any evidence to back up the untrustworthiness OP is accusing Coinbase of.

Ease of use. Exactly the same thing all the bitcoin fanatics are talking about improving. Exactly the reason Coinbase was created. I'm lazy.

Can you provide reasons/evidence for why I should not trust Coinbase?

Good point. It is definitely a smaller portion of the population that is really pulling the strings with money. I guess I could just say Wall Street? The banks? Regardless, I wouldn't say the lower 1% that makes this sort of middle class money that you are talking about are completely innocent. I'm sure many of them are government or government-funded private business employees, and I'm sure many of them aren't doing important work that is worth the fat wallets they are building thanks to the people who do control the money.

However, I'm also not denying that there are many highly influential, priceless, people getting paid these high salaries that are greatly beneficial to our society and have legitimately earned their fortunes. It's just unfortunate that everything is being done to support the continuation of rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. However, thanks to some people, the entire world can become richer.

You know that every year the USD gets inflated more? A person making $100k salary gets paid about 400/day (I just divided by 260) with holidays and no breaks. 650/day for freelance where the pay is not consistent sounds pretty modest to me. Really the way inflation and money printing and the market for money has been going these days we should all be getting paid a LOT more. But we will just continue to be happy with our 50-200k salaries as the rich 1% keeps gathering more and more of it.

Yeah, but games are INSANELY fun. Sports are just meh. It's more of a social activity I guess, and I'm kind of antisocial. I still enjoy hanging out with people and watching a game and especially live games, I just dont bother with the immense waste of time that is following it and playing the crappily made games.

+1 for Quake 3. I've been playing since it went beta in 98 or 99. I would skip school so I could listen to Rage Against the Machine in the Rocket Arena mp3 player. Big instagib player too, and I loved when the mods were popular like the two jail break ones.

I haven't played sports games since Ice Hockey and World Cup on NES. IMO the entire sports industry is just a waste of time.

Another similar company to keep an eye out for is ShopKeep POS. http://www.shopkeep.com/shopkeep-vs-square Found it at the Temple Coffee shops.

I actually enjoy using their interface a lot more than Square, and it seems to be more feature rich on the merchant end too. The main thing I have fun with is the ability to print your signature onto the receipt!

It would be interesting to look into all the developers of these POS swipe machines. What companies fund them? Credit card companies? Grocery store corporations? Just pure profit from sales of the devices? I know I see a lot of innovation on grocery store registers, and a lot of the visa swipe devices have been upgrading their interfaces consistently every few years.

Oh yeah, I ignored this at first because I just saw wikipedia, but it's the same animation that was discussed in the other HN post.

Just in case anybody seeing this missed the post earlier:

Article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7543691 Fourier Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7544481

Direct link to Fourier animation: http://math.stackexchange.com/a/738048

More advice from the discussion: http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-...

Yep. And it would probably be good for altcoins indeed. It just can't be a good bitcoin miner because the ASICs are already out there. If an altcoin can be mined with an ASIC (I believe the purpose of some, like litecoin, are not to be?) then it is near pointless to mine with a GPU (unless in a pool).

Also, I would assume the reason behind supercomputers not being good for gaming is that they are parallelized in ways other than the chips on the GPU (entire machines are networked together via various interfaces). The software behind distributing the processing between several machines, or whatever aspect makes it super, is probably what limits the ability of supercomputers to run video games :0

Yes. Both Men and Women. And I think one gender is having a harder time understanding our differences and how we can suppress our natural urges and grow away from them.

Sounds like puberty. Maybe it STEMs all the way down to genetics. Evolution. Can't we just accept that females and males have evolved differently?

I've been using the dform library [link] to create my DOM. I'm creating an input form used to query a database with PHP and generate a chart from the data using FusionCharts. I've been considering utilizing frameworks to help with form creation, manipulation, and query generation/execution/processing, but I've decided to stick with just these two libraries for the former and raw PHP for the latter. I also use PHP to enable/disable parts of my form via if's and file includes.

I really like dform's flexibility. I have been able to add every HTML elements that I've needed with the same syntax for every one, making it very simple to stick them into PHP loops to generate the elements based on the query results. I've learned a lot about writing jQuery functions while using it.

FusionCharts is very specific in what it does, and is compatible with many languages. I have actually learned to use it's classes in both PHP and JavaScript so that I can create any part of the chart I please in either language, and it is capable of transmitting data in both JSON and XML even though it uses XML internally. I've briefly taught myself the differences between the formats and have gone from manually creating XML, to learning that JSON is way better, to automatically converting my arrays into JSON data.

I feel that I've kept my project quite lean indeed, and was actually worried about not accomplishing a lot, not being complex enough. But I have intentionally been trying to avoid complexities so that I can make it easy to pick up and use, just include jquery, dform, and the FusionCharts.js/.php (and source code).

[link] https://github.com/daffl/jquery.dform

All I know is that coming from the Windows world with Stereo Mix and the configurability/stability of recording/playback devices, I have been constantly frustrated with my experience in Ubuntu. There have been a few moments of surprisingly pleasant features, but most of it has been frustrations such as:

- Low volume levels, and all the means I have tried to amplify cause quality degradation - Random devices showing up on streaming sites depending on what version of flash I'm running - Complete inability to access certain devices, non-functionality of "monitors" or just confusion about how the hell they work

Back during the times I was trying to deal with this I had attempted to switch over to ALSA/OSS or whatever and it was not a pleasant experience. I recall not even being able to get back to the functionality I had with pulseaudio before, and found no improvement on the low volume levels that have been the primary source of my woes.

One of the main reasons I find myself rebooting back to Windows is so that I can be back in the audio environment. Windows has been perfected to give me ultimate control over all my audio devices, with RealTek's drivers allowing me to duplicate my audio over both my front and back output jacks, monitor my stereo mix on other playback devices, and play with the quality/levels as I please.

definitively* just tryin to help bra

Why are you discussing Leah's article when this article is discussing something completely different (the fact that Leah's article is wrong)?

You can go to the post of the Newsweek article and get a billion comments exactly like yours. It is pointless to keep harping about it in every related discussion...

Looks like this is to OpenCV as jQuery was to JavaScript.

This was the text in my Computer Vision course. I agree it did a good job and OpenCV was a lot of fun to work with. I would definitely pick it up again if I had interest in this field.

Noticed this tool on suspicious0bservers youtube channel a while back. He uses several tools daily to monitor earth and solar weather:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Suspicious0bservers

Maybe when you are high. I assume there are people that use it that aren't high ALL the time...

This is what you would logically conclude by looking at the situation at a glance, but this is not true. Sure, Mt. Gox has the capability of operating just fine. Sure, they were vulnerable and needed to stop withdrawals temporarily, just like several other exchanges that had the same vulnerability. In fact, Mt. Gox did a service to some other companies by providing a warning that the risk of this vulnerability is becoming critical.

HOWEVER, this is NOT the reason Mt. Gox is not, and WON'T recover. The reason they won't recover is because they are taking a crap all over any sort of trust anybody could have had in them. They blamed bitcoin fundamentally and denied their own responsibility. A decision has already been made ever since Mt. Gox addressed the public about the withdrawal lockdown that they CANNOT be trusted, and it is not only based on this most recent folly, but many past mistakes and irresponsible public relations.

I just wish they would just give up and kill themselves off completely somehow.

I gave a shot at it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6956528

Industrial advancement IS the knowledge of creating components. Hordes of people at giant companies are improving every minor aspect of the tools that create these components. If we had all of the knowledge these companies have built up at any point in history, it could be implemented. The tools are the HIGHEST cost in creating components because they cannot be changed dramatically, and it's difficult to put them through iterations of improvement because you need to keep using the expensive tool you made to make up the cost of what you paid for it.

My point is simply that the USD is now worth less and the raw materials are now more scarce and expensive than in 1991. You are right in calling me out about the scale though, as I guess that even if you had all the knowledge to create all the components necessary, you still would have a much smaller market and therefore less offsetting of the initial cost. However, if say, you made 2 phones for everybody, maybe that would bring the market up enough to reach the same scale as today's market?

I'm sure if you looked at the raw material cost the iPhone would have been a lot cheaper, right? I mean, if you took all of the knowledge on how to build the factories and design the tools and fabrication equipment, and you had people skilled enough to understand it and implement it, the iPhones in 1991 would probably cost a lot less.

I thought the price was going down because of the news that Apple is "blocking" bitcoin apps (aka the bitcoin apps were breaking the App Store rules)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7193327

Men can be fashionable too, it's just typically not as fun for us. I would say most of the time the only reason men are interested in fashion is to become more attractive to women.

Edit: I realize this kind of generalization probably offends people. I'm sorry, I just believe that men and women are fundamentally different from each other. Here's my google search findings on the topic:

http://www.lloydianaspects.co.uk/evolve/fashion.html