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I am really amazed and frighten everytime I read anything about politics - economics on HN.

So we see all this BS about "work less", "meditation", "how trees calm us down", etc. but in fact when you do read across the lines you only see a crowd of hypsters totally obsessed with economics, money-money-money, free market, productivity, basicaly : materialism as the holy grail.

Allo ? Is there any European in these comments ?
I mean, we all know the USA where a European colony from the XVI century, but the country as it is today seems to be born only 250 years ago, and maybe more acurately with the secession war and the yankees take over. That my friend is just nothing, dust in the wind, in the scale of history.

So we have this bunch of unsocializes nerds IT guys asking for every European nation to give up their own culture and souveirgnty for a centralized Federal State, certainly in the model of the glorious USA, and if possible infeodated to it. What's the next move, maybe get rid of any state currency to go all the way with bs bitcoins ?

France was born in 496 when Clovis was baptized as a catholic. Our history and culture is not about cars, movies, fast foods and Wall Street. Just come and visit to check it out and learn a few things about the history of the world.

There is more than Banking and Wall street and metrics and GDP in life. Actually, let me correct this, these are all the things which are actually not Life. So just respect the right of a nation to exists as it is and to give to her childrend what her parents gave her since centuries.

So Brexit is all in the rage now, great, the world is collapsing, maybe Germany will engage war with UK and laucnh a bunch of V2, who knows ? Bullshit. UK will go fine walking away, much better in fact that France and Germany are right now, our corrupted politics just fear that all the nations figures that sooner or later and ask to leave EU asap.

LET ME REMIND ALL THE HN READERS OF SOMETHING RIGHT NOW : Brexit is no a unique event, some want not to remember that France, Netherlands and Ireland had their own "Brexit" moments and the EU did denied the rights of these people to leave. I urge you to refer to the 2005 french referendum about the EU constitution, who was rejected by the french people, just to have it passed a few month later by the parliament denying any direct democratic right to the nation. That went also in the Netherlands. And they made people of Ireland vote twice, just till they vote what they wanted them to.

Please, do not make Europe another heartless Silicon Bullshit Valley with absolutely no history except the atrocious gold rush and the infamous tech boom. Facebook is not history, let us keep Pascal and Academie Française in lieu of Snapchat and Tinder, if you please, in the name of the french people.

I said.
There's more to the payment world than Stripe vs Braintree :) Actually, there's more to payments than cards! In many countries, local alternative payment methods account for more than 50% of e-commerce transactions. Do Stripe/Braintree support them? No.

Even more, you'll most likely have to integrate with each payment method's specific API/workflow!

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This is also how teleprompters work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprompter
It's no form of charity, quite the opposite. It's just that it is the current way of "the system" to keep the status quo.

It is already bad that people are getting 4 year degrees and ending up in an useless job. The vicious, even worse part is that it still manages to extract $100k+ out of them in the process.
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It is interesting that that within the last few days the NY Post has published an article on the food supply that continues to promulgate this myth. The book author they cite is also blaming olive oil for the tragedy in Spain. It is unfortunate that even with better data available publishers continue to quote myth as fact.

http://nypost.com/2016/07/10/the-truth-behind-how-were-scamm...
The first pokecrime has already been committed -- criminals placed a "lure" in the middle of a night in a secluded space, and robbed teens that showed up there at 2am:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/07/10/four-suspects-...
I'm a Lovecraft fan, never really touched Rust, and a name like "Rustonomicon" could really get me into it, hehe.
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I find that intermittent fasting and low-calorie diets in general do heighten the senses. They all have their drawbacks though.
I think that's not sufficient, other factors like time since account creation and possibly activity too seem to be taken into account too.
23andme does SNPs, not large scale sequencing. I don't think it knows what to do without a library.

I have actually researched full genome sequencing. That is why I asked if there was a cheaper way to do it.
Immutability stops you from experiencing random state changes. The code you read takes in data structures and spits out data structures making it easy to test things in isolation.

OTP is actually a lot lot faster than you'd expect and allows you to use all CPUs very simply and also provides network transparency (on top of supervisors and "let it crash").
Perhaps the next big of development the Ethereum guys need to build is a decentralized court system.
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I get decent meat from my neighbor, who raises hogs and cattle. Bud dresses it for a reasonable price. Make my own horseradish from plants I inherited from my father. Hot as I like it. Chocolate from my sister's shop, who gets it from the Winan family who have been making it for 4 generations - they temper their chocolate only with more chocolate so no wax or junk. They get their chocolate liquor from their Nicaraguan plant that processes beans on site. Doesn't cost any more. My brother makes wine from grapes grown on my southern hillside.

But I live in rural Iowa (USA). Not everybody can live this way.
Cool. Another example could be of IPC in distributed operating systems borrowing from message-passing in CSP or the Actor model although, it could be also be the other way around?
My company[1] builds machine learning and AI based quality control and production optimization for food manufacturing...

Would consumers be interested in a food verification service?

For the most part, we don't / wouldn't deal in food-safety, but we could do things like verify the age and provenience of wine, or the terroir of coffee.

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>> "it seems that funds can still be reverse under certain circumstances"

Maybe it's me, but ideas like being able to reverse funds do not belong in crypto currencies. If risk is presented, escrow the transfer, buy insurance, etc.

Why are people so unwilling to take responsibility for themselves?
You don't really know how many of the voters voted against the implementation, and how many voted against the concept, do you?
i have used both APIs. i would say both get the shit done. but i liked stripe more.
they have better admin interface. plus some what good documentation than Braintree.
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Amber, rosso, beefsteak, plum, cherry, orange rapture, San Marzano, Cheribelle, piccolo, sugardrop, temptation.

Hopefully that's enough for anyone!

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Not particularly bad, afaik. They leave after they studied, because now they're qualified to get good jobs in Germany or the Netherlands.
Good ol' fractional-reserve banking. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all do that?
I don't think it's their hardware, but their platform that they've been clinging to. Owning the platform gives gives them a lot of control over the gameplay experience.

I don't think they need to give up their platform-owner (or first party in game industry parlance) status in order to take advantage of the mobile space. Just an adjustment in strategy.

Nintendo has always relied on ancillary hardware to make their console platform work - TVs. If you think of Apple and Samsung as the screen makers the same way that Zenith and RCA were the screen makers when the NES launched, then you can see that what Nintendo really needs to do is launch their own platform app.

How much would a gamer pay for the Nintendo NX app? $50? $100? All of the games could come via in-app purchases and loaded or streamed from the cloud at the user's convenience. Meanwhile, Nintendo still gets their platform, but this time as a virtual console instead of a hardware one.
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the rest of us, who aren't so lucky, discipline will have to do.

Or, enough discipline to get started: http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html. I also like the Seinfeld "Never break the chain" method: https://www.writersstore.com/dont-break-the-chain-jerry-sein... (if "method" is not too strong a word here).
The top story of The Free Thought Project's Environmental News section is about chemtrails. The front page of ScienceAlert currently has a story about morse code being discovered on Martian dunes. Do you have any sources that aren't obvious crackpots?
Nintendo is successful despite Nintendo in some cases. There are so many missed opportunities with them. For example, first DS and Wii had a technical capability to talk to each other. They even announced it as one of the key points before launching either. It never happened. They could've had Pokemon GO on that platform already if they chose to.
Off-topic but it seems that a change to upvoting has recently been implemented: https://news.ycombinator.com/voteclosed?id=11923301&how=up

We used to be able to upvote old items but now it seems there's a limit on that too. Too bad, I always liked being able to express that I enjoyed discovering something old in someone's record of contributions, even if no one would notice my upvote.
.NET and C# are open source and multi-platform with the release of .NET Core.
Looks interesting.

I couldn't any info on charges - Could you link me up?
It's a British national dish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tikka_masala
Do I need to feel out of place in this world? I still dont understand why the game is so popular!
> do i miss something by not learning elixir?

Verses LFE? Not really, at the end of the day they're both ways of making programs for the Erlang VM that aim to improve on Erlang. You can use any of erlang, elixir, and LFE libraries from any of the three[0]. See Jose's comment at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/lisp-flavoured-erlang/ensAkz... .

[0] though beware string types -- LFE string functions generally take charlists, same as Erlang; Elixir ones take utf-8 binaries. So you lose a bit of unicode-just-worksness compared to Elixir, but it isn't really a problem, you just need to be aware of the mismatch and be prepared to handle it
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I wonder how this would look today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11641111
I'm kind of on the fence here. I played Ingress quite a bit (and early), but what I disliked was that it seemed multiplayer only.
There was very little (for me) return for being a solo player and most Ingress communication at that time happened in G+ (aka I wasn't part of that).

Pokemon Go is in some ways a limited Ingress, but the collecting/evolving/upgrading part of the game is what got to me.

I'd be glad about social features in the game. But I already think that this is a better game than Ingress for me personally.
Except that Apple wasn't complicit and has consistently worked to secure citizens against the US government. So your point is?
Nice write-up. Did you also look at Pin Payments (https://pin.net.au/)? Based out of Melbourne, IIRC.
The EU and Eurozone are two different entities. The UK is not part of the Eurozone.
As I understand it, you cannot downvote a comment if:

1. You have too low a karma (points, look top right)

2. The comment is a reply to yours

3. The comment is quite old

4. Something vague about a mechanism that stops you stalking someone and downvoting (spread the downvotes, don't focus them like a meanie)

5. It's already been downvoted to nothing (you can do it, but I think it has no effect)

Generally, upvote the positive rather than downvote the negative.
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Imho, if an option is not available, it should be grayed out, and the reason should be shown on hovering.
Smart contracts that can be modified post-hoc, through consensus or (after a precedent was made that it is possible) legislation or a judge are not smart.
https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/4s6rx7/discussio...
Genuine question:

As a self-described fairly intelligent tech person, the blockchain and its working is still fairly magical to me, so answer me this:

Would it be theoretically possible for big players on the market (read EvilCorp) to push the market over to a fork by convincing enough of its cronies to make the switch?

I'm assuming what you mean is that market consensus is (at least) 51% of the market accepting the fork as "the truth" in terms of value by making further business there instead. Or would it not even require 51% but merely (for example) 20% of the capital that covers 80% of the transactions?

I also assume anyone that wanted could still stick to the former blockchain as long as it has other participants to deal with?

Am I wrong in expecting a synecdoche to the current "real world economy" within cryptocurrency that it loses its democratization when the top X% can force for example a fork?
Presumably because the system uses an 8 bit unsigned integer for counting.
Looks like you were mistaken then.

If you want to make a substantial point, you'll need to address the content of the points I raised rather than wasting our time with ad hominems. Why do you find it far fetched that people can choose to vote for those that will represent their best interests?
You are going to be countered by some Americans who will as usual point to some niche examples. But theres no denying that most of the market for food is terrible. Even many of those upmarket niche examples are terrible because Americans really have underdeveloped pallettes until recently.
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I know, let's institute the very policies and programs that have devastated Europe and continue to lead it to limp from one self-imposed beat down to the next by electing an establishment criminal that is above the law and treasonous.

I get why people are attracted by the shiny parts of Europe from "afar" because they don't have any idea of the cruft, disaster, cost, and authoritarianism that underpins everything and lies just below the surface. Europe is really far more the depths of addiction than the good time the socialist, marxist, communist, and even social-democrat types tout even if they lure you with a free try of some social nirvana meth.
Wow, a simple bit-arithmetic bug somewhere in there has over time become a design constraint for all trains used in an entire country. That's insane!
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>Native English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish cuisines are all delicious.

Anybody that cares for it the way people globally care about French, Italian, Chinese, Thai, Mexican, Japanese, even German etc food?

One can find more Korean BBQ joints than British restaurants the world over...

Let's put it this way: some countries have more interesting (to the world) cuisines than others. Not every national cuisine is of the same caliber.
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> Why are people so unwilling to take responsibility for themselves?

This question - and the answer - has implications far outside of crypto currencies and you could probably write very large books about it. It goes to the heart of why we have religions and many other social phenomena.
Is the quality of the healthcare rising as well, or is this rise in the GDP mostly due to increasing costs and more regulations and to deal with the bureaucracy? I might be wrong, but my intuition says that we are not getting more doctors, paramedics, nurses and bioscience researchers around due to any new law.

Also, it's not so much about GDP per industry, but perhaps if you have the GDP per capita at different industries, we could take a look at what kind of jobs are being created and that actually needed.
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You have to realize that when this happened, as the article says, Spain was just out of a dictatorship. Back then, freedom in the press was... Poor, at least. Specially, there was still a lot inertia going with "The press must follow the government line".

In my opinion, it was as the article says, right or wrong, somebody found the "canola oil" hypothesis and it was really convenient: with the same shot, the recent and weak vegetable production was protected and a competitor for the national olive oil was smashed.

Today, I guess that there is in nobodies interest in Spain to move the issue. Everybody is completely convinced of the "canola oil version", and the vegetable production is a sizeable part of the Spanish economy. Saying the contrary in Spain in polite company it's the kind of thing that would label you as a tin-foil conspirance theorist.
Being dirty doesn't magically make eggs last longer; these eggs don't need to be washed because they're not very dirty.

While I can't speak for all European eggs, you can store UK eggs for longer, outside the fridge, because they are likely to be significantly less dirty at the point of collection, the chickens they came from are less likely to be infected with salmonella, and because they are not subjected to a damaging process (washing) that aids the transfer of harmful substances from the outside of the egg to the inside.
it's actually been proven to be 100% harmless as far as we know

As was smoking, and sugar, and thalidomide. What about what we don't know yet?
"Quite old" in this case seems to be about 8 hours, based on anecdotal evidence.
The fixed time limit doesn't make that much sense as what often happens is that the EU morning crowd sees the US West Coast's evening stories as the top trending stories, with a load of comments that can no longer be down voted, even though they are the most recent comments and barely debated.

Then again, why make it too complicated.
At the phone screen level, yes. Took about 10 calls for a disappointing pattern to immerge.
OP is asking if time length for item 3 has changed.
Well, if we're going solely by Apple's behavior towards their customers, then I don't trust them one bit. That's kinda beside the point though because the very simple point here is: If the tech exists, it will be used.

Obviously Apple is working against the vast majority of citizens by inventing this tech in the first place because the only use for it is to stop them from doing something that they obviously want to do.
Imagine there is a bug in the code or unhandled edge case, only exhibited on 0.01% transactions. Elixir/OTP handler dies on this edge case, supervisor spawns another worker, 99.99% of user transactions continue to be served.

Programmer wakes up next morning, comes to work, reads the exception log, fixes this edge case, optionally hot-upgrades the code in production if it's easier than doing a full restart, problem solved.

Other frameworks have to carefully implement the same semantics (that is, prevention of propagation of bad state/cascading failures). Elixir/OTP/Erlang come with it by default, and coding style encourages it.
Agreed! I reserve downvotes for unhelpful comments. Helpful comments should be about the topic, and not other commenters.
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I don't do much cardio but I walked 4 miles this weekend trying to catch Pokemon. I love a game that makes me healthier.
While I would hardly describe the players as "EvilCorp", or "Cronies", thats exactly what is happening now.

If the protocol developers and exchanges switch to a fork, there's very little the community can do.

Sticking with the former chain is difficult because 1) everyone else is calling a different chain "Ethereum" therefore you probably need to change your name to something else, 2) You need to be concerned with mining attacks
I know that transferring out of Zuora costs $5,000 per export.
I think Shakespeare got this one right:

2. New and common; trite; commonplace. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]

We have our philosophical persons, to make modern
and familiar, things supernatural and causeless.
--Shak.

Isn't that what we want from "modern" software? To "make modern and familiar" "things supernatural and causeless"? :-)
> Patenting mechanics of life and GMO are two separate issues not really connected to each other. There's plenty of plant development, for instance, that is covered by patents or patent-like protections, even if it's not GMO in the sense you talk about.

You can maybe get a patent for the process, but can you get a patent for the resulting lifeform or its individual genes? My understanding is that you can not, but if that's wrong I'd love to be corrected.

I agree that gene patents and whether to use GMO manufacturing are two different issues, but given that all of the GMO companies seem to be grabbing patents on their products, not buying GMO products seems like a good way to not support these practices. Especially since we already have GMO labeling in some places, whereas patent-information markings are very unlikely to ever be implemented.