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Coinbase is fucking killing it. Wish I had worn a tie instead of a sweatshirt to that customer service job interview ....

fwiw I immediately understood what I was looking at and proceeded to get hooked on that game :)

a popover or floating arrow or something might be a decent way to solve some people not getting it.

A poor attempt at humor?

It's a 12 column (col) grid, so a 'col-lg-6' takes up half of the page. 'col-offset-3' adds a 3 column margin on the left, effectively centering the element.

http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid

That's what I always thought about tor as well, but today I downloaded and have been using this - and it was/is as simple as installing and using any other browser:

https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en

I'm probably still missing a few layers of security if I want to order a pound of purple kush or a hitman or something though (right?)

My experience is probably not typical (I move around a lot and rarely go to the same Starbucks more than a few times) but I'm only about 70% sure that any given Starbucks will have a connection at all. So I only go in if it's really convenient or I have no other options. That's to say nothing of the speed or reliability - both of which are typically mediocre to terrible.

If I knew with certainty that every Starbucks had a fast and reliable connection, I'd probably patronize them 50-100% more than I currently do. Hell, I'd be on my way out of this hotel in search of a Starbucks right now if I knew that!

Pretty sure he just means documents that you have stored on dropbox.

^^that's Marc Andreessen FYI, those of you downvoting him.

No rep needed if all they want is coverage. If they want to craft the message, they still need PR. The job just changes from selling the story to getting the right people to cover it in the right way.

That's why Apple still takes PR very seriously even though the media are going to cover all of their product launches anyway.

According to https://quip.com/about/ he seems like an underachiever on the Quip team.

>>Ryan's resume intimidates small children and household pets. After co-founding Google App Engine with Kevin, Jon, and Bret, Ryan boarded his hot air balloon and ascended to low earth orbit. He then won a Nobel peace prize, seven Olympic medals (all bronze), three Oscars, and the jackpot at Caesar's Palace. Since landing, he's cured cancer, penned the sequel to Ulysses, and achieved nirvana. That was on Tuesday.

They've evidently already raised $15 million as well. This should be really interesting.

I love that button, think it looks awesome.

I'm not sure where you are getting your information, but it isn't accurate. Paedophiles are regularly sent to prison in Thailand.

There is also some misunderstanding about who declared bitcoin illegal. The Central Bank deals specifically with monetary transactions - and they were asked for their opinion by a private company, and they gave that company their opinion.

That is the extent of what happened. The government of Thailand is not on a crusade against bitcoin.

That's awesome and I'm a big fan of Bootstrap and use it for nearly every new project.

However I think 'powered' is taking things a bit far. Maybe 'styling' 1% of the web or 'powering the front-end' of 1% of the web. Wordpress uses the term 'powered' and that's fine because they actually do power a huge number of sites. That doesn't apply to most large sites running Bootstrap. Take Coinbase for example. They're still basically just running stock Bootstrap - but the site is 'powered' by a beefy custom backend.

>>I wonder if it will always be called RapGenius for non-rap content, or if they'll come up with a more general brand name

They appear to have decided to keep it all on the rapgenius.com domain but are calling the different verticals "_____ Genius"

If you hover over 'rap' in the navbar you see a dropdown with the following:

-rock -> links to rock.rapgenius.com

-poetry -> links to poetry.rapgenius.com

-news -> links to news.rapgenius.com

On those subdomains the logo reads 'rock genius' 'poetry genius' or 'news genius'. I checked and they own the .com for each of those as well, which redirect to the subdomains. They also have corresponding Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Tech Genius next please!

Very disappointing to see no data of any kind on the Good Old Days other than the word of some people they met in a park in San Francisco. Needless to say, their word is extremely unreliable.

Two claims specifically are pretty obvious exaggerations/blatant lies:

That a marijuana dealer can make 4-times more selling in New York than in California[1]. And that street kids used to make enough in a few days to travel for weeks[2].

[1] Unless the difference is purely a matter of volume, price alone cannot account for that big of a difference, as the article seems to imply. Marijuana is more expensive in New York but it's nowhere near 4-times more expensive.

[2] I sold marijuana in the bay area in the timeframe referenced in the article, between roughly 1999 and 2001 (in the dorms, to friends and friends of friends and friends of friends of friends etc). Yes the prices were higher than they are today ($50 an 8th was standard) but wholesale prices were also much higher. In the end I was lucky to clear $100 an ounce, after smoking myself - which the street kids surely do. They'd have to have been selling a half pound or more per day at full retail to make the claim even remotely possible.

And a small piece of anecdotal evidence - I went to Haight Ashbury in search of some weed not long ago. I asked some street kids near the park. I was quoted $60 an 8th and they were unwilling to bargain. The quality was low - probably over 100% markup from what they paid. Those kinds of margins were not possible in the Good Old Days glorified in this piece.

Cliffs: don't take the word of street hippies on how great things were in the past.

I actually haven't lost money. I still have a 57% overall profit (at a price of $3.03).

It does suck though. Similar to how it probably feels to have your startup be acqhired. It's not a total loss - but it's definitely not what you were aiming for.

I've been betting heavily on a turnaround, adding to my position in ZNGA each time it dipped below $3. Real money gambling I knew would be the savior and since they weren't burning much cash any more, they just had to wait for that to pass in the US.

Them canceling those plans - and Mattrick saying they are 'resetting' and expect volatility to continue, makes me lose my faith. I think I'm going to get out of the stock.

I don't know much about Mattrick so maybe he is a turnaround specialist and what he did at EA and Microsoft was great and he will save the company - but the business they are in is a loser. And they don't appear to be interested in a pivot.

Sad day. I now agree with the sentiment that Zynga is a dead company.

>>Once Maslov's hierarchy has been topped off, it's like the insatiable drive to achieve that made that possible just evaporates.

Great quote, I just tweeted it. I wish it weren't true, but it is.

Steve Jobs is another one who clearly didn't have that very common gene. After getting fired from Apple he could have just done drugs and had sex for the rest of his life. But he kept on building. And building. And building.

Thanks.

Where would you recommend to stay if I wanted to go for a week or two and check things out? I'd just be showing up unannounced (the VegasTechFund site seems to encourage that) but would want to get as close to an authentic experience as possible to what it would be like to actually live there.

From reading about VegasTech I thought 'The Ogden' was a building owned by Hsieh and restricted to startup people - but it appears that is just a normal building lots of them have chosen to live in? Anybody have an idea of the cost to rent a 2br?

Nice one, ya probably true.

Smartphone and camera ubiquity probably also plays a role. Just as cops know if they try to Rodney King somebody it will be on YouTube an hour later, so are criminals aware there will be a bunch of digital evidence.

Support is given to this by the fact that many of the crimes that are rising are things people can't witness you doing (bank fraud, identity theft etc).

And it's definitely not a silver bullet doing this. It's a combination of all of the factors in the article and here on HN and more we haven't thought of, all doing their part.

That was the old school argument, verbatim. The new school disagrees. I don't really have an opinion but I'm pretty certain Nate agrees with the new school and would disagree strongly with your view.

The new school argument is something like: the Triple Crown is an overvalued and superficial accomplishment and giving a player the MVP based solely on that is making a similar error to the scenes in Moneyball where the scouts cared about irrelevant things like whether a player has an attractive girlfriend or how he gets on base (walks vs hits).

At the time it was a win for him. It gave him credibility, a steady paycheck and guaranteed lasting exposure at a time when he could have easily faded into obscurity after the 08 elections were over.

Back then he was just a novelty with a website it looked like his 15 year old cousin built for him one weekend. And one who was going to find it very challenging to remain relevant until the next election cycle.

Now he's arguably outgrown them, having become a household name to anybody who follows politics closely, become a TV personality etc - but lets not rewrite history. He definitely stood on their shoulders to get where he is today, at least for the first year or two.

And this is all coming from a pretty huge fan.

The geeks are winning that culture clash. ESPN.com now includes a lot of advanced metrics in their stats and last year in the Mike Trout vs Miguel Cabrera MVP race they discussed why Mike Trout was the favorite of the new school at length, constantly discussing his obscene WAR[1].

Nate Silver was ahead of his time on those advanced metrics but he was undoubtedly one of the pioneers. If people had been more receptive to his brand of statistics five years ago he likely never even goes into politics. Sports was his first love (along with poker, which he goes out of his way to not mention these days, unfortunately. He even obscured his username on the largest poker forum[2], so it would be harder to find with search engines).

Completely random thought that probably means nothing, but is worth noting: he's openly gay[3]. With the tide on gay athletes turning sharply and quickly, I have to think that factored into his decision. Perhaps he is hopeful he can play a role in that, being the champion of the gay athlete or at least the one guy at ESPN they know will be on their side.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wins_Above_Replacement

[2]http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/members/4548/

[3]http://gawker.com/5969477/sexually-gay-but-ethnically-straig...

I got the 100th fork!

The value of the business would instantly go up a lot more than 6% just by having "YC" forever attached to the company. All of the advising, connections etc would just be a cherry on top.

If I were in your position, I would apply to YC.

Buy BTC from tocomment Inc with credit card. If in 5 1/2 months the price of Bitcoin is lower, issue a chargeback and take no loss. If the price is higher, do not issue a chargeback and take the profit.

Sounds like a bad deal for tocomment Inc.

Have been on Heroku for about two years and can't recall a single price reduction in anything. I think it's pretty clear that pocketing the difference in the steady AWS price reductions is exactly what Heroku does.

I've never seen a clearer demonstration of why you shouldn't say a word to the police if you ever come in contact with them. Those kids unwittingly admitted to crimes when explaining to the police what happened, and were arrested on the basis of things they said. If they had just shut up and asked if they were under or arrest or if they could leave, they all would have walked away.