I skim Hacker News couple of times a day. I prefer reading books (on Kindle), ~30 mins to 1 hour every night before sleep and 20-30 mins every morning after waking up.
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There are projects like FoldingCoin.net and CureCoin.net, which enable people to contribute processing power for solving computation-heavy problems, such as protein folding. These two projects are focussed on medical research and the tech is based on bitcoin blockchain.
To encourage people to contribute processing power / storage, these projects need to incentivise them which is where bitcoin comes in.
There is a startup called 21.co which is creating an embeddable bitcoin mining chip, which can be "embedded into an internet-connected device as a standalone chip or integrated into an existing chipset as a block of IP to generate a continuous stream of digital currency for use in a wide variety of applications." [1]
As mobile devices start having these embeddable mining chips, people would be able to "mine" coins like FoldingCoin and CureCoin on their devices, which then becomes like a network of coordinated "cloud servers" which are incentivised by these coins
Also, there are decentralised cloud storage projects like Storj.io (similar to Dropbox).
Not sure if going forward with Angular.js was the right choice, given Angular 2.0 had been announced, and will be different from Angular 1.0 (no backwards compatibility)
There will be a clear migration path, including, it seems, the ability to run both 1.x and 2.x modules side by side using the new router from 1.4. This means you won't have to rewrite your 1.x modules immediately. 1.x also has a commitment from the Angular team to remain maintained for the foreseeable future.
loumf, davismwfl: Thank you for your thoughts. We will try to follow a strategy along the guidelines that you have suggested. As you have said, we are initially going to target companies where we have an existing network, and take it on from there.
Honest question: does Square save money if credit card fraud decreases? It would make most sense that the parties who lose money when fraud occurs would offer these devices for free, or subsidize them, and I'm unsure of whether Square is one of these parties.
That's what they currently do with the magstripe readers. You then get a credit for the amount of the reader (limit 1 per account I believe). That makes it easier to avoid losing a ton of money when someone figures out another use for them.
Even today the language is to "order" a card reader, but there's no charge. So don't read into the phrase "pre-order" here. They used the same language when they started.
