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My friend at Orange Coast College just signed up with her .edu email address and it didn't work. I think its a scam to get people's email addresses. I don't think I'll ever refer anyone to Coinbase again now and I'm a previously happy customer.

"It came in the form of philanthropic donations, which, unlike government funding, required no public review of priorities or spending."

This is why we should raise taxes on Billionaires. A lot of them are willing to give away a lot of their money but, no matter how well intentioned they are, they are not as good at spending money for the public good as the government is.

I wonder how long someone could survive in this hypothermic state? Days? Months? Years? Decades? Imagine you were terminally ill could you hoist yourself in a weather balloon to 40k feet with an iv of nutrition and float around until they found a cure for your disease? It must be a lot cheaper then cryogenically freezing.

So the Government can't limit the amount of money corporations can spend on influencing political campaigns but, when it feels like it, it can silence them without even explaining why. Yeah that makes sense.

What is physically stopping us from actually seeing this planet with visible light? Is it that we can't build a big enough telescope?

Also would it be possible start broadcasting radio waves or maybe some kind of laser towards this planet incase there's something there that can respond to us a thousand years from now?

They should ditch Bing and get back to their core business of building a search engine. Google isn't perfect, just look at Wolfram Alpha and Duck Duck Go, there's room for improvement and people like options. Yahoo should be one of them.

There's got to be a way they could leverage the data in Tumblr and Flickr and Alibaba to create richer search results than the few lines of text and low res pictures and weak shopping results that Google currently offers up.

Can you copyright a license plate frame? I'd love to make a bunch of these things and go hand them out to low income minorities, those people deserve a break from the cops for once.

I like the set in this article: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/algorave-is-the-future-of-dan...

Someone with a bar in SF/Oakland start booking live coding please.

We're talking about different things, actually responding quickly to information is not the problem, gaining access to it before other people can is, which is what Michael Lewis's book was all about. Nobody is saying Algorithmic Trading is wrong, just front-running in HFT that's the problem.

You could pay Bill Gates a lot of money to wear a wire for you and perhaps if the number was high enough he would do it and you could then argue that anyone could have paid Bill Gates to wear a wire and therefore everything the wire records could be public knowledge you can use to trade MSFT on. But that's illegal and we've all agreed it's illegal and its basically no different then front running in HFT.

I think you are confusing "analyzing public information in a new way" with "getting access to non-public information". The former is what all smart traders do, the latter is illegal.

My point is these traders get to know things before other traders, thats not fair, everyone should see Bob's purchase order at the same time and arguing that Bob has an unfair advantage because he knows what he's going to do before the HFT's know what Bob's going to do is just silly.

Your saying you should be able to front run the market because otherwise its unfair that I know what decision I'm going to make before you know what decision I'm going to make?

I'm not buying it. Healthy markets are markets where everyone has access to the same information. HFT by definition means some traders have more access to information than others. This is fundamentally unfair and bad for markets and the economy. I don't see how HFT is any different then insider trading and everyone agrees that should be illegal.

"This poses obvious problems, however. Prominent among them is the discussion on what to call 1 billion Bitcoin, which symbol color to use for it, and when wallet clients should switch to it by default.

To combat this, this document proposes a controversial change: making Bitcoin's monetary supply finite."

Haha April fools! ... I hope?

All of the official shows have been crap for a long time. I have no idea why anyone would pay $800+ for one of those passes when theres better bands playing free shows usually with free food and drink over on the east side of town.

Seeing as there are more lawyers than ever with more influence in Washington than ever, do lawyers have any motivation to fix this system? It seems to me with taxes, patents, immigration, regulation, healthcare and criminal justice the laws are purposefully hard to follow precisely because the lawyers who wrote them like it that way. Do you believe there are too many lawyers in this country (we have the highest per capita in the world by far http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_country_in_the_world_has_most... ) and if so what can we do as a tech community do to replace most of them with simple laws and web applications?

I agree, If the app could maintain a frequency table containing how common words are in normal usage and slow down more for the most uncommon words that would be awesome.

Until then slowing down for longer words at least would definitely help. This could at least be an option if the authors aren't convinced its a good idea yet, then A/B test the amount of usage for people who use the option compared with those that don't.

"isn't saying "divide these 30 oranges to 6 boxes" enough? "

So your plan is to teach division by telling someone to 'divide'?

Does anyone know if there's a possibility for survivors? Could a highly skilled pilot glide the plane to a safe crash landing on the water given ideal conditions for an engine failure (assuming thats what happened)? Or does a crash landing over the ocean basically mean the worst? My thoughts and prayers go out to those involved.

"Santa Clara County, in the heart of Silicon Valley, has the highest average wage in the country, ... It would be a mistake to think of these plaintiffs as an oppressed set of victims."

I think this is a pretty narrow minded view. If the economy needs a particular skill set to grow then the wages for that skill set need to rise with demand so that market actors (Students) can choose the correct profession and supply the economy with the skill set it needs so it can properly grow and create the products everyone wants.

If the largest employers in the tech industry manipulated the market to keep salaries artificially low, it hurts not only the employees directly involved but also other people employed in the same industry who use average salaries to make employment decisions, students who are trying to decide what career to pursue in school and the economy as a whole which is unable to get the required labor it needs.

Can Software Engineers in California that weren't working at one of these companies get in on this class action? I mean even if you weren't at one of those companies its easy to see how suppressing wages at the largest companies would suppress wages for the entire industry.

The way "techies" are being talked about and treated right now is straight up Xenophobia and it's fucked up.

We can't just be "nerds" that are easy targets to be scapegoated and picked on. If someone tries to blame you for the low supply of housing (instead of restrictive building codes) or for "changing the culture" of the city in a way that they don't like (who died and made them the arbiter of good taste). Call them out on it, its bullshit.

Technology has improved a lot of peoples lives and supplied this state a ton of money in tax revenue and for every one technology job 4-5 other jobs are created [1]. The companies in the bay area are the envy of the world, don't let peoples jealousy bring you down.

1. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Tech-hiring-creates-other...

I know my Discover card sometimes gives me 5% off from online purchases during a certain quarter or bigger discounts on particular things from Amazon if I go through their "Discover store". Maybe they have a bunch of these types of credit cards?

I'm not sure how returns would work in that situation though, I guess you have to return it through Zinc.

"Wait til I get my money right, then you can't tell me nothin, right" - Kanye West

"Cash rules everything around me" - Wu-Tang Clan

In America money rules everything. Anyone with an Ivy League education and access to Billionaires obviously is not going to be intimidated by other status symbols.

It's only the people who need access who are intimidated by the gatekeepers.

This is great for a startup but can be depressing for long term consulting.

I've had the unfortunate experience of building a product for someone else where the process was driven by a combination of Complain-Driven Development and Upper-Management Wish-lists. This alone might have been fine but at the same time anything positive like the real analytics about how successful the product was or any non-complaint communication coming from the users was hidden from me for fear, I suppose, that I might try to use that information get my company more money.

This became incredibly depressing. Everyday you show up to work putting in more and more hours into something that comes back with more and more complaints. It was hell and I did everything I could to end Complaint-Driven Development to no avail because thats how the customer liked to work. Eventually I finally just gave up and left to find something more rewarding and less soul crushing.

Me too please!

One feature I really like is "Pairings" which gives you a list of fonts that looks good with the one you selected so you can easily find headline and body combinations.

To use this feature choose a font and click on the little 'pop out' icon (that looks like one square on top of another) and then click "Pairings". Here's an example: https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lobster#pairings

Right now it looks like $10 or $25 a month for a stop watch app. If I was a customer this one would have scared me away. I'm on my phone if that makes a difference.