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No, at some point between $0 and $400,000,000[1], negligence is no longer an acceptable excuse. [1] The current market value of the claimed 700k BTC loss in USD.

Listed under "Assets": "New brand and services ready to be launched." Just what the community needs most - new Gox-quality services, hidden behind brand obfuscation. Ready to go!

I love the way this API is presented on the page. It's awesome. It exposes itself in such an obvious way that it leaves no question about its capabilities and usage. Makes me want …

> "[The U.S. patent system] is not obliged to register change in ownership." That I hadn't known; the implication being, if you intend to leverage a patent with lawful permission f…

BBRY Market cap today: $4.3 bn Cash: "about $2.6 bn in cash" Patents: "estimate [...] between $1 bn and $3 bn" That leaves not a whole lot of value in the company's other assets af…

It's easy to dump on PMA, but what it was built for, it did (and mostly, does) excellently. When I used PMA for the first time I was a very young programmer, and it really amazed m…

This article reads like a general argument against government subsidies in general - replace "STEM education" with "corn" or "new energy" and the argument is still valid. Given tha…

Among my recent favorites: "Hello NULL," -- from Leap Motion "I wanted to follow up after meeting you" -- from "Developer Relations Team" (not a person!? did I meet the entire team…

I received 15 emails in 10 days when I signed up for Full Contact. Yeah, I wanted to check out your product, so I signed up and tested it out. No, I don't need to be reminded that …

I gotta be honest, I can't figure out how to use this. I imported my Google Reader data (or so I am led to believe), but all I see is a generic feed full of (admittedly interesting…

In Windows, 'X' "makes no sense", while in OS X, 'X' is "clear." Okay, got it :).

To play devil's advocate, let's consider that it might actually be important to push new icons into the public icon lexicon. Right now I'm typing this comment in a browser window t…

Caution -- "Request access to the prototype" yielded an immediate email: "Thank you for signing up for a New York Times newsletter!"

On the subject of minification, I see a lot of lines that look like this[1]: fireToken : 1 === f.tradeTokens.data.fireToken ? !0 : !1, Why might that be a desired output from a min…

+1ed for "How To Express Your Dissenting Political Viewpoint Through Origami"

What are you using to determine whether *.io domains are "free" vs "taken"? It seems to be incorrect. http://www.usernique.com/io/x -- "free" http://www.nic.io/cgi-bin/whois?query=…

AOL Keywords ;)

Actually, the captcha predicate is a GET request that looks like this: http://en.lichess.org/captcha/78pkfjgz?solution=e5+e4 which returns 1 or 0. So the brute force captcha soluti…

To paraphrase: the question 'What is your mother's maiden name?' is intrinsically insecure as a security measure; instead of answering it directly, make up some unguessable string …

> Most of us won't pay $1 for a great game, but will pay $99 in IAPs Here's the difference: by the time you're even considering an in-app-purchase, you already know you love the ap…

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5343512

Aside from inertia, what is keeping DST in place right now? I could imagine some bizarre lobbying incentive, like it provides some marginal and trivial benefit to the corn industry…

> "If it were found on Mars, people would call it Martian DNA. But this is DNA from Earth" Yes... yes indeed.