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Could they parody action movie trailers and say something like "From the engineers who brought you the legendary Nokia N900..."?
I love how NYT puts it - private money is bad, and if it is not, governments would kill it it anyway, by whatever means necessary. Thus, private money is bad, and government will be doing you a favor by killing it by whatever means necessary. Oh yes, and there's no private money so it's clearly impossible in reality to have it. Which proves again the government is right to kill it.
Look I know that much of HN has a libertarian and pro-corporation bias. But, I think the article is pretty specific about the profit motive being cause for concern.

The California Board of Health reports, however indirectly, to the taxpayers. This accountability, however insignificant you may perceive it, is simply absent from 23andMe.

To summarize your comparison:

- 23andMe collects genomes to please their VC and Wall Street investors.

- The CA government collects genomes to please the taxpayers.

Be honest, and forget your bank account: who do you really trust more?
That's entirely different from gaining purchasing power by sitting on a fixed proportion of the currency supply, and you know it.
In addition, there are various measures a government or a central bank can take to stop or at least slow down escalating inflation. If there was a sudden loss of confidence in BitCoin (or more realistically, people lost confidence in other people’s confidence in BitCoin), such hyperinflation would spread and escalate with the speed of light with nothing to stop it. This kind of volatility might be interesting for speculative investment purposes but not incredibly useful as currency.

Then again, it’s entirely possible that we will be proven wrong.
I like the concept. More for the consumer than anything else. I didn't try the demo, but it would be neat to be able to post multiple cards for a transaction.

Is there mention of the cost to the merchant and or consumer? I looked, but did not see it in the expected places. Also how the merchant receives the funds would good to know. Apologies if it's in there and I did not see.
They are from the same shoot; unless the author is claiming credit for that.
Can I check I've understood you right, Patrick?

You have some code that infers from usage that, for instance, civil rights cards are popular in late January (Martin Luther King Day is on January 20th)? Neat! :-)
Yes. If you're not able to sideload this app, you probably shouldn't be using it.
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There's deflation, and then there is DEFLATION! Five days ago Litecoins were selling for approximately $7/coin on BTC-e. As I am writing this, the price is over $36/coin. If you had bought $100 of Litecoins last Friday, that purchase may now be worth $514. There is almost nothing that you can spend Litecoins on -- with the exception of buying other cryptocurrencies. It reminds me of the height of the dot com bubble, except several times "worse."
Actually, the question immediately above that one, "Won't loss of wallets and the finite amount of Bitcoins create excessive deflation, destroying Bitcoin?", really gets to the heart of what I really wanted to understand. My phrasing was really meant as a "reduction to absurdity" kind of formulation, as in "what if all the Bitcoins were lost?"
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Why would they not like this? You still need to open up gmail.com. This is pretty much like you scraping google search results.
For a lot of purposes though, that's unlikely to happen for small companies. I struggle to imagine Lodsys and friends suing someone who downloaded an app from Google Play or paid for a web app. Plus, if the money has already been remitted (and that tends to happen especially fast in the world of low ATVs), they haven't got a hope.

As one patent troll told me on reddit, there's just too much gold to mine and low hanging fruit in the US to bother with anyone else.
The first three steps were 1)hold breath 2)cross fingers 3)pray.

Always not a good thing when dealing with such a vital system component.

I hated flashing the things, since there was always a real possibility of turning them into lightweight plastic bricks, and often the firmware was needed to fix show-stopping bugs. so flashing wasn't optional.
I hope the FDA forces 23andMe to take back their results that I'm getting Alzheimer's. Unless they already have. I forget.
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please, unless you compared their offering with other ssds or used their support forums, this comment is as empty as it can be.

ssds are better than spinning media, so what? even the worst one would make you happy. this is not the point. they constantly send one device to reviewers and then put lesser specs on the shelfs, or less immorally, just updated the revision silently to cut costs. i have a couple of them. i regret buying because what i got was something equivalent to something i could have gotten cheaper. also, admins often mocked people on the support forums.
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Newegg doesn't want to do this. They deliberately fight patent trolls and exhaust all avenues of appeal in an attempt to overturn bad patents. The fact that they lost in the trial court is a formality; they will win on appeal.
going by wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_genome_sequencing#2012

1000$ - 5500$
Windows only? Are you joking around?
I remember them being something other than an SSD manufacturer. I've got a few sticks of DDR memory from them. In fact I was surprised to see them producing flash memory products lately (for a very long definition of lately).
That would look to be correct, see here for example: http://hackers2devnull.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/exploiting-pos...

In which case, I woner why more sites (or evil ads via an ad network) don't attack our home routers?
Hi Kartik, Gmelius (http://gmelius.com) developer here! Great stuff. Will be glad to help you maintain the API up-to-date, if you wish so :)
The author of the Article summons Graeber in an abysmal way. In 'Debt' Graeber proposes two main ideas, that the State is by no means necessary to have a great economy (he is an anarchist, with small 'a'), and that our current debt-based monetary system is a mess. Bitcoin is debt-free because no one needs to take loans or create bonds since bitcoins are mined. I think Graeber would be (is?) fascinated by them.
Are there any documented cases where that would help?

It seems to me that the real problem is convincing a jury that a prior piece of work is related to a patented piece of work.
As pointed out, the media faithfully reported the claims of a very well-respected academic. Obviously there will always be mistakes made in the rush to print, and obviously there can be real issues that need to be addressed; but I don't think you can fault "the media" on this one. It was bad research, and it has to be addressed within the scientific community. A journalist isn't ever going to be well equipped to fact-check a crypto paper.
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They updated the article, the app is in violation of the TOS.

> Update: Removed reference to stating the app was not in violation of TOS – this was a mischaracterization of Google’s statement.
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A while back I read about half of Graeber's book. He does argue strongly that money arises from debt, not barter. He does not argue that it must come from the government, and in fact gives numerous examples of money arising organically from private debt relationships. That's a major point of his book.
You're just considering the game-perspective, where you don't need anything but GL and sound. What about WebRTC? What about DOM manipulation? You can't do this from Emscripten very well.
I agree - such a search engine would not be as general as Google or Yahoo. But in sacrificing generality it might become better at handling certain types of requests. I am sure that given such a service the community of HN will make light work of finding out what they are :)
At the beginning I thought so too, that BTC is doomed in the long run. But after the spike prices and a careful re-reading the only really thing that still puzzles me is the D. Ron and A. Shamir paper[1] released in 2012. If this paper holds true then a handful of early adopters holding more than 95% (the paper states 98%) of the currency, will and can bring the currency up and down overnight and their extremely powerful position in the BTC market cannot be challenged.

Bitcoin has two qualities that are unique:

1) Extremely high degree of privacy (you can put 50.000.000 USD worth of USD in a USB stick and pass through 7 airports, or print them in an A4 page encrypted with GPG, and no one will know).

2) Transaction speed: You can send money from Iceland to China (even huge amounts) very quickly (less than 1 hour), with no third party being involved.

There will be always a market to request this kind of qualities. However if any of those two qualities goes missing for whatever reason it is doomed. Another way to kill BTC would be to create another crypto-currency that have additional features and would kill BTC on the spot.

[1] http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdf
What/Where is start-up weekend? It sounds like something I'm interested in!!
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> that you cant install without voiding warranties

So you think that a user should be able install an OS that bricks their phone and still have the phone still covered by warranty?

How does that make sense?

Is this people's expectation of Google, that if they don't give you whatever you want (at their own expense) then they are like 90s Microsoft?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_genome_sequencing

The page cites only 69 people so far had it fully sequenced, and it cost about $100k a few years ago
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At this point do you really need the genetic data to get the same effect? I throw out my back, I upgrade my insurance, then I get the surgery. The doctor says I have 90% blockage in my arteries,I upgrade insurance, then I get the bypass. It seems like genetic data will have less influence than people making changes based on empirical observations of their health.
Uhh, yes there is such a thing as intrinsic value and... you just proved it!

"a glass of water is worth very little when I'm boating across a large pristine lake"

So you're saying that when someone is offering you 1 dollar, doesn't matter much to you, if
you sleep in a bed made of dollars. No way!!!

I hope you understood that water didn't lose its intrinsic value. Because you can(and want to)
still drink it and it will still keep you alive. Whether you have lots of it, or none at all,
your body will keep asking for its usual dosage.
They require a good amount of spit, in order to ensure that they get enough DNA from each sample. It's quite likely that they're not left with much afterwards, and for many of their samples there may be nothing left at all. Banking the DNA is a whole other hassle. Banking the 500,000 samples that they've done so far would require quite a bit of freezer space.

Also, based on their recent statements, it seems that 23andMe doesn't actually do any of the lab work, they contract out to a lab partner. Based on the amount of capital they've raised, I would have assumed that they did everything in house. Anybody know more about this?
That's not a sad thing to be, at least recently. Apple is one of the major enemies of personal computing freedom.
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Its easy to call it a bubble/scheme because most things usually are. The fundamental difference with bitcoin is that it is unlike anything the world has ever seen. Given the limited quantity and proven utility of it, many people believe it is still undervalued and maintain price targets in the tens of thousands upwards to hundreds of thousands. These targets are derived from simple calculations.

The only question is whether or not bitcoin will maintain its utility going forward. As long as it does then the value will continue to rise.

Do yourself a favor and hedge your one-sided, possibly wrong opinion and own some BTC sooner than later.
Fair point. I was confusing/merging health insurance and some generalised form of 'health coverage' in my last post.

Even in a situation with no uncertainty, you can still have forms of personal health insurance, e.g. you have a system where everyone is enroled, everyone pays and everyone gets the same cover. The collective benefits of insurance still apply, even if one individual's outcomes and costs are known. Whether this system counts as 'healthcare insurance' or it is now a 'national health service' just depends on how you want to name it...
PayGarden processes the gift cards for them.

http://paygarden.com
Ten years ago, maybe a bit less, there were a number of sites promulgated upon aggregating TV listings. Five years ago or so, they -- or the ones I was still aware of -- started disappearing behind page obfuscation and/or altogether. You might ask yourself and look into why.

In short, if it's a personal project, then go ahead and have fun. If it's a business idea, you'd better do some domain and market research before committing any significant resources -- pre-existing ventures appear to have exhausted themselves. Although with my avoidance of unnecessary Javascript and low use of mobile, perhaps I've just missed out on what they've become.
The plural of anecdote is not data.

(Just a note to keep in mind when seeing all these personal testimonies)
Yup. The cynicism of Japanese consumer law can be breathtaking.

Have you followed the sorry debacle of Abe's third arrow? Any policy initiative that threatens a vested interest eventually gets overturned.
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Currently about $3,000 and falling.

See http://www.genome.gov/images/content/cost_per_genome_apr.jpg
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Also using actual buyers/users for testing their drives and firmware. Not cool at all...
It would help if, for example, you needed to have BTC on hand for your business but you wanted to hedge away your exposure to the exchange rate with the USD.
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Not hitting their servers is different to not using their services.

You can block cookies to their domains, or just block all third party cookies, and then you will be pretty safe from them doing anything to track you. The browsers make this pretty easy - I would argue that is in reach of 'the common man', or at very least one who can use Bing (however Bing will profile and track you just like Google, of course).
Let's define privacy first. Does privacy mean my communications are monitored by the NSA? Or does privacy mean Facebook has to display some message to people who voluntarily make their private information public?
Fairly janky on mobile, even on a 5s. It's still an interesting concept, though.
Moreover, if I understand the situation correctly, states aren't outright sequencing and compiling the full genome from each of those spots - instead, the blood spots themselves are being saved. That will make it signicantly harder to access and misuse the genetic data contained therein. 23andMe, on the other hand, has that data in a much much more accessible and centralized form, though it too doesn't fully sequence it. Yet.

That's a big part of what makes it more dangerous than what the states are doing, I believe.
Another process caching the same file - it follows UNIX permission model. If both processes have permission to the file - then I think the other process will be able to madvise() and drop it from page cache.

If the app tells the kernel it is done with the range - it is telling that it doesn't care about the data in that range anymore. So MADV_DONTNEED will not flush dirty pages to backing file store without msync() - if you access that range again it will reload the pages from the backing file or zero-filled ones for the anon case.
I always consider Spike Lee as technically worst filmmaker working today, and wondered who on earth did he get to rights for the Oldboy remake. He cannot even get the simpliest things right, and I wonder how often the DP needs to help him adjusting the shooting plan, tell him that he crossed the line and adjusted angles, and how much the editor has to fix. And we have to see the results. But with the Oldboy remake you would need a master, not an amateur with a hyper ego. Anyway, I decided to skip that desaster last year already.
And now we see that he is also in other departments one of the lowest.
> It's kind of hard to redesign an airplane in flight

It is true that IE6 was 5 years in flight. However that has changed. Google replaces Chrome plane each 6 weeks.

JavaScript it is new IE6.

I really would like to see Dart in Chrome stable release. Sometime ago I thought that pure VM, like JVM, would be better. Now I think it is safer to leave scripts loaded as plain text. Just like HTML, CSS. It is hard to guess how whole web ecosystem would work with scripts loaded as bytecode.
Producers want to pay as little as possible, for obvious economic reasons. Freelancers want to be paid as much as possible, likewise. If you're not operating under a union or guild contract of some sort (and paying part of your income in dues for the privilege of outsourcing and standardizing your rates and working conditions), then it's up to you to make the best deal you can for your services, and and part of that involves a willingness to walk.

On a couple of occasions I've rejected a job only to be called up several weeks later when the lower-cost provider the producer contracted with didn't perform, and in cases like that I ask for and get my full fee. It's a tough world.
fla: The article also mentions that these ELF binaries can be made compatible with ARM and other targets easily by just changing the Compile Target metadata in the binary itself. Making it quite simple to also target almost all routers.
So is every packet filtering app that requires root, and many other categories of apps requiring root.
How is this true? Everywhere you can buy Bitcoins will let you sell them with roughly the same effort involved (except MtGox perhaps).
In the U.S., denying insurance or raising rates based on pre-existing conditions will be illegal as of Jan. 1. Doing these things based on genetics has been illegal for several years now.
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Congrats! I've actually had TextBlob bookmarked to play around with soon, glad you chose it for one of your posts.
Unrealistic. He has the last word on the posters being choosen.
He already chose these posters, but was told that the guy asked for money.
It was his decision to rip him off.
He is the producer also.
HIPAA and FDA are completely independent. HIPAA is much broader and at the same time much less cumbersome to comply with. I'd be extremely surprised if they weren't being HIPAA compliant, not just because of the law but because HIPAA doesn't ask much that they wouldn't be insane not to do anyway.
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23andMe. I don't have to give them my genome if I don't trust them.
Congrats on launching! Looks like a useful product and its much more comprehensive than chromecast!
IMO both of you have good points.

I would expect 23andMe to be doing some shady Facebook-esqe bullshit because of the profit motive and that is why I have never used them even though I am curious. I expect the state to be doing some shady Facebook-esqe bullshit because of "terrists" but I didn't have the option to not.

So I can both be "at least as concerned about the State of California" and also be 100% against sending a swab to 23andMe. I trust neither more but with one of them I have control over their collection of my DNA.
I find many defenses of bitcoin hilarious.

A lot of people are pointing out how great it is that bitcoin increases in value over time. Except there are at least two problems with this. One, few people who say such things have any concept of economic theory. Two, nobody seems to care where that value comes from. Somehow they just think it comes from magic, or somehow it has no cost associated with it.

All in all it's precisely reminiscent of any and every speculative bubble throughout history. The market will always go up! up! up! Where does the increase in valuation come from? How is it possible for it to be sustained? Who cares?! We're gonna be rich!

Yeah, good luck with that.

(Edit: all of which is to say, if you want to fly in the face of conventional economic theory, go ahead, but bring some better arguments to the table than "well, it's just been going up the last few years!")
Right, because the popularity of a programming language is always directly correlated to the quality of its design, and because when people choose languages to build a project in they only ever take technical considerations into account.
> No, actually, fuck YOU.

Why so angry mate?
This is less a matter of Google being evil or hypocritical. Google is just being dumb. CyanogenMod is an important part of the Android ecosystem, and should be an even more important part of that ecosystem.

Google should encourage aftermarket Android distributions. They serve the customers who want a truly open source Android and they serve the orphaned devices users.

It you RTFA, you see that the app has a very simple function and mostly serves to enable discovery of CyanogenMod. The actual installation requires a Windows PC.
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It's $10,000 in California and you don't need a lawyer. However, winning is no sure thing; we're only getting one side of the story.
It's a nice attempt at being pithy but in this case it's more Open, Embrace, Moderate.
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The controversy already started when we heard that Spike Lee (!), the amateur who doesn't even know the simpliest technical film skills got the rights.

A similar controversy arose when M. Night Shyamalan sat on the rights for "Life of Pi" for a few years, but was ultimately replaced by Ang Lee. The only one who could master such a job.

With the Oldboy remake it was clear from the beginning that it would lead to a desaster, but apparently the studio owed Spike Lee a big favor.
Happy to answer any questions about this, it is particularly cool because you really can run a SaaS service with "no servers" and still get to use your pick of providers (Sendgrid, Mailchimp, Twilio, etc.). It seems like a lot of fun, especially paired with Angular.js.
At the consumer level, it is quite difficult to research a lot of this kind of thing. There is so much contradictory information out there on almost every product, and trying to ferret out the right information can be a gruelling task.

Go to a few review sites, have the reviews say "OCZ looks fast and good", go away with a good impression. You have to look elsewhere - on forums and the like, all of which are highly variant in quality - to get information about long-term performance. It's compounded when you have a new player or new product lines. Here in this very thread, it has several people saying "OCZ is great".
The problem right now is that Bitcoin is not (used as) a currency. A currency facilitates the exchange of services of goods. Bitcoin now is more like a plot of land in the middle of London, or gold a few years ago. You buy bitcoins to hold and speculate, not to spend and pay your purchases with it. The resurrection of Bitcoin as as currency after the bubble will be a very interesting transition to watch and it's not 100% sure that Bitcoin will survive it.