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I'm not saying they shouldn't show the dollar value, I just expect them to at least show the bitcoin price next to it with a name like BitcoinStore.

It's called BitcoinStore, but the prices are only shown in USD. I expect it will show the conversion on the checkout page, but at first glance the concept feels like just a marketi…

Is this just for face detection or for face recognition as well? Face detection is a pretty much solved problem IMO and running OpenCV locally is a simple enough solution. What I w…

That's not a bad idea. A student visa in general would at least delay the problem.

If your goal is to make money, then sure, selling should be your goal. If your goal is to make something that might change the world some day, then maybe it shouldn't be. Hyperbole…

I'm aware of the startup visa act ( http://startupvisa.com/ ), but that is not going to be available by the time we would need it (assuming it even passes).

My co-founder and I have been bootstrapping our startup for a couple of months and things are starting to ramp up. However, we have an impending problem: he is here on a temporary …

I experienced this first-hand as I just signed a place a little over a month ago. Compared to what was listed the apartment we ended up with was several hundred dollars cheaper, an…

For being Apple's secret weapon, Samsung sure has a lot more of them. I wonder why Samsung's number of design patents issued peaked in 2008.

This is the logical move for padmapper. I wonder if the press they've been getting will be enough to seed their user base to make it self-sustaining. It would be ironic if Craigsli…

Having overly restrictive password rules like this, combined with requiring a new password every x months, just leads to more users writing down the passwords on notes stuck to the…

Magnetic stripes are the most hilarious thing ever, but still work almost everywhere on the globe. I am amazed that magnetic stripes are still the norm for credit cards in the US. …

As for the fallout, Polls was down throughout this episode. Because it spread virally by posting people's votes to their newsfeed, the three or four days of down time halted all gr…