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I guess I forgot an important thing inherent in Western society: children leave home and never come back, in most cases. From that perspective, I understand your decision, and I think it's logical in many ways. Your investment is an near-guaranteed loss, so why make it, right?

Where I'm from, things are different. It's the responsibility of the children to take care of their parents, especially during old age. In some cases, all of the children decide to live with their parents along with their families. I know it sounds weird, but it works in practice. This, I believe, makes raising children worthwhile, because there is a chance, even if it isn't that large, that your children will return the favor when you become old.

Sorry for the long rant by the way. I wish you and your wife good luck :)
The 1st order effects are on business. It's mostly the 2nd order effects that consumers feel. Marginally higher costs that inevitably pass to consumers . Merchant refusal to ship to "high risk" locations. More difficult international transactions generally. Fewer online vendors (=less choice & higher prices) of high risk (easily resellable) items.

Then there are the effects of having such a thick intermediary, a duopoly. Some consumers can't get a credit card. It's hard for consumers vulnerable to overspending & borrowing to avoid the card's expensive credit component.

There's also a general brokenness (IMO) of the "pull" nature of credit cards. I want to send vendors money, not authorize them to take some themselves while reserving the right to dispute the charge. Even for recurring transactions I would rather an easy bill paying service that works like invoices & checks do, but with a 10X simpler UI.
"What does the browser do, to "route around damage"?"

Browser doesn't - user does.
I tell them I want to get paid X dollars in bitcoins, and they tell me how many bitcoins I should ask for and what address they should be sent to. Stripe then gives me the dollars I asked for (minus a small processing fee, of course).

How much is the fee? Is it a fixed amount or proportional to the transaction value? How does Stripe set the dollar denominated bitcoin price? One easy way to make a bitcoin payment look cheap is to offer a low fee but offer a slightly inflated exchange rate and take a profit out of the difference between the rate used for payment and the rate you can get in the market (exchanges or dealers). It's hard to compare the economic value of dollar denominated bitcoin payments (relative to credit cards) without knowing these details.
I don't know Stripe enough to draw any conclusion on that, would you see Stripe becoming a Paypal like, where you could just have an account, link your CC, BTC, whatever you want, and then have a button "Pay with Stripe"?
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That's a good point, BTC doesn't have that figured out yet but I bet Stripe will be able to help figure that out! We handle that for ACH if you're interested.
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Am I the only one that read Stripe: Bacon at first glance?
>>Alas, it looked good on paper, but died in practice, either because the theory was flawed (but academic simulations seemed to suggest it would be a win), or because Sun didn't have the resources to invest in it properly and Oracle killed it.

I heard this never actually worked at all and they added the ability to turn off the hardware scout entirely before canceling it. I'm not really sure how the scout was supposed to be able to help performance. If the algorithm is indirect heavy then speculatively running it won't help you. On the other hand, if it isn't you might as well rely on conventional prefetch. Do you have a link to those studies?

>> If it turns out you have to actually restructure your code to get this 2.3x performance, rather than gcc-recompile with a different architecture, then it's not really an apples-to-apples speedup.

Right, I would only add that the algorithm itself has to be amenable to that architecture in the first place. Most general purpose code isn't and won't be able to take advantage of a large number of parallel execution resources.
No, it's not. ACH (which standard for 'automated clearing house') is just a bank transfer - and a slow one at that.

Direct Debits in the UK are distinct to bank transfers because they're guaranteed by the bank - you can dispute a direct debit and have your bank refund it, but this is considerably harder (if not impossible) to do with ACH.
Yes, that's definitely true. I don't know what kind of vetting is performed for free apps on the Play Store, but for all we know, couldn't it be someone pseudonymous in a non-extradition country uploading via Tor?
> Online, it's 23 digits that you don't know, and then 3-23 more fields (shipping address, billing address, name, email, etc. etc.) That sucks.

Shipping address, name, and email are necessary even if you use bitcoin. Billing address is usually the same as shipping address. That leaves the CC number, in which case the equivalent is your bitcoin address. So there's no real win here. And if you're using a regular online shop, then they probably have all these details saved. With Amazon, I can buy things with one click. With Newegg and other stores that I use regularly, its two. I haven't seen any bitcoin experience that matches that. Reading up on "experiences" people have with Overstock and Tiger Direct, it all seems very roundabout and inconvenient. And then you're hit with shit like no refunds to top it off.

> Even at it's best in the Stripe Checkout model, it's less than ideal and extremely unsafe - it's so unsafe that American Express is RUNNING COMMERCIALS ADVERTISING HOW UNSAFE THEIR PROCESS IS!

Pull is less safe than push, yes. Bitcoin is undoubtedly more secure than giving your CC number. But pull is more convenient for consumers, as I outlined above.

There's work-arounds for credit cards, such as virtual card numbers, but they haven't gained broader consumer penetration for the exact reason that they're inconvenient. In practice, the "unsafe but you can get the charges reversed" system works well enough that promoting a new system based on the fact that its safer isn't really enough.

> For your convenience, let's 2.9% and $0.30 of every transaction. That's a huge drain on the margin for a business of any size, but especially someone with checkout size about 10-50 bucks and margins of 10-40%.

Not every business charges 2.9%. Many get rates as low as 1% (this is what we charged large corporations, if I remember correctly). With bitcoin, you're going to get hit with transaction fees, exchange fees, and exchange spread. For small shops, its likely that will come out less than the CC fees, but for bigger stores its questionable.

Edit: Note that I hope these problems will be solved. Ideally, we see the Bitcoin protocol and ecosystem mature such that it is as convenient as a credit card and safer to boot.
In India, homeopathic remedies are considered to be in the same category as herbal medicine and any discovery of effectiveness of some aspect of herbal medicine is counted in favor of all 'alternative' medicine. Many of these herbal remedies do contain an active ingredient, and so such discoveries are frequent. Vague stuff like turmeric being anti carcinogenic also reinforces the idea that there are secret remedies in nature far more effective than the stuff man makes.

In addition, primary health care is poor in India, so everyone knows of a story of some member of the family having a poor experience in the organised health care sector. This leads to many people's search for 'something better' at a time when they're particularly vulnerable.

I would also be remiss if I did not mention that at least some degree of cultural chauvinism is responsible. To some, the West has ignored Eastern knowledge of medicine, and there is, at least among some, a belief that there are secrets unknown to modern science.

My parents are surgeons in India, and while what I've said is my opinion, it is derived in part from what I remember to be their experience.
It's up to the landlords. Soft-Story retrofits are the law now.

http://www.sfgsa.org/index.aspx?page=6048

"On the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Mayor Ed Lee signed into law the Mandatory Soft Story Retrofit Ordinance. This legislation requires the evaluation and retrofit for “multi-unit soft-story buildings,” defined as: Wood-frame structures, containing five or more residential units, having two or more stories over a "soft" or "weak" story, and permitted for construction prior to January 1, 1978."
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I think there is truth to this. Even beyond "new". Maybe I like to think that I'm friends with my friends because I care for them, but is there another reason; a subconscious utility I'm deriving from them too?
I'd have to agree with this. I've never used Photoshop, but the destructiveness of GIMP is a pain. Sure, .xcf supports multiple layers, but I can't rotate a layer without doing so destructively.
But if he refuses to comply with the Courts

Who said he refuses to comply with the courts? He's opposing a filing made by the plaintiffs. The court has not even ruled on the filing (which is merely a request from the Plaintiffs for the court to order).

Deposition by video conference is common. Alternatively, he's offered to meet them in Taiwan. The guy can be guilty of whatever, but to paint him negatively because he's not going out of his way to help someone who wants to destroy him doesn't make sense to me.
SuSE has been using btrfs as their "default stable production filesystem" for a few years now, with no problems.

So it isn't a "recent" change at all.
I think it was the era when we were young and learning about the U.S. in school :)
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what sort of things can you build with this besides accepting payment in bitcoins.
Shameless plug of my Go R-tree implementation, which cites the Guttman R-tree paper and the Roussopoulos/Kelley/Vincent nearest-neighbor search paper in its implementation, and is therefore perhaps a useful resource: https://github.com/dhconnelly/rtreego
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The latter is quite a clever slogan, however it conveniently omits that the internet is ran and used by people. They need to put those mechanisms in place.
Because he included his google analytics code in the plugin that he made available to the world.
I think the biggest problem with the homebrew biotech world right now is that even with the labs opening up, there's still such a barrier to entry.

There's a "hello world" to biotech, no doubt; extract some DNA from strawberries or explore the tiny world with a consumer microscope.

But then what? There doesn't seem to be much potential mid-tier work to be done in biotech. In contrast with software where there is a very visible ladder you can climb.

Most of the biotech work seems to be in research, not development (unless you own a huge firm)

Where does one go after they've exhausted the basics, and how can you make money off of this stuff without working in a expensive lab for somebody else?
Ahh, I stand corrected. Thanks!
Yes, that's what I've meant. This also gives you easy accountability (rows can have information like user_id, ip, timestamp).
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Stripe is going to convert it to the merchant's local currency in "real time" to prevent the problems in fluctuations of BTC value. This is shaping up to be very nice.

http://recode.net/2014/03/27/stripe-merchants-will-soon-be-a...
I wish all these resources spent & millions of investment dollars would go to a better version of Bitcoin. BT is a major breakthru but it is still in an alpha stage. The main problem is that it is deflationary, to support a global economy it needs to slightly inflationary. This is because for hundreds of millions of people to use BT, the supply of the coins need to gradually increase to support the flow of spending. Right now more half of Bitcoin supply is already own by someone (a lot of them stolen). The BitCoin owners are holding on their stash in hopes that they will get a return on their investment. They will sell their BT for currency rather buy depreciating goods with them.
So...Fox News gets their story from a Reddit post referencing a two year old article.

I don't know anything about drug trials. I do know that terminal patients often cannot get experimental therapies. This Fox article has around 250k Facebook shares....so far. Surely this will create a lot of pressure to fast track trials, wouldn't it?
It is only web scale if all the cool kids start using it. :)
Blog posts are opinion pieces. I write my opinion, which is that bitcoin is a great medium of exchange despite its other shortcomings.
Any pointers to write ups about this?
I am currently working on a side project that requires contracts with content producers - think HBO. My goal is to have a technical prototype and apply for YC in W15. The main thing I need from YC is connections to be able to get those contracts. I cannot get users until I have contracts. How do I show growth in my application?
1. You are somewhat comparing apples to organges here. Google had access to the exact same websites as AltaVista, Excite, and Yahoo, so it's obvious that they could build an alternative search engine using the same data. But if you tried building an alternative email provider, you would not have access to the mails stored at google for training your spam filter.

2. You are contradicting yourself. "When it does become false" implies that it is true at some point, i.e., that there are hurdles to overcome, that is to say, that it is harder for a similar service to exist. Noone says that it is impossible, just that it is harder, and the form that that usually takes is precisely that it takes what you call "dissimilar disruptions" to establish an alternative. Having to come up with a "dissimilar disruptions" obviously is harder that coming up with some small evolutionary improvement.
Bitcoin is equivalent to cash, of course businesses want a cash equivalent as their method of online payment. However many consumers have gotten used to the protections credit cards offer.
Recently I (with my friend) created this tool called reedme.in which is getting like 70 pageviews / day. Excluding our pageviews. It's live : http://reedme.in

We don't have any idea what to do right now, so we made it open source and we're focusing on our main project.
It's pseudoscience backed up by anecdotal stories which strike me very similar to stories about the paranormal or UFOs (not that it proves the stories are wrong, but that such evidence is horribly unreliable.)

Why even have eyes and ears if "souls" can apparently get sensory input without them? Why would people with brain damage have impaired cognitive function? Why would neurons act like the kind of complex information processing structures we would expect, if information was processed outside the brain? Why do MRIs and EEGs of the brain correlate so well with the mind? Why has no mechanism of this "transmission" ever been discovered? How would such a thing even be possible with the laws of physics? How would evolution evolve such a mechanism in the first place, or biology produce it through mere chemical reactions?

Nothing about it makes any sense. But a lot of people believe it anyways because religion.
Regarding the performance - you can add triggers writing to additional table with a sum, or maintain that table in the code that adds rows, or calculate it each time you want to know the sum.
Most of the FAT patents of the '90's finally expired in November.

Now exFAT is much more recently encumbered.
For only $15 ? I know a few people doing CAAD technical drawing, all day long. Often just recreating the sketches the structural engineer draw on a piece of paper.

Are you offering to do that manually (prolly outsourcing) ? You know, those paper drawings aren't 4 lines with 2 measurements :-)

Or are you looking into automating that ? That would be a very interesting side-project ... but that would be really hard to do character recog. on hand-written numbers that are all over the place :-/
I think your reference to minimum wage is a little tenuous at best. The thing about technology is that it keeps progressing and eliminates barriers to entry. Yes, Google has a lot of machines, but now, without a lot of capital you can run a competing service without even having to own hardware. Yes, it's hard to write good spam filters, but Open Source Software allows you to get access to code that others have written which may be of similar quality, or at least give you a leg up on writing your own.

So yes, Google gets a temporary lock on mindset and technology, but as technology progresses there open up new opportunities to unseat the incumbents. If you'd asked anyone 10 or 20 years ago whether Microsoft could be unseated, they would have said you were crazy. The same goes for Google. With technology, nothing is permanent. Either you innovate, or you get left behind.
would you please lend me few bitcoins to see how things work. /s

My CC got hacked twice on the internet, every time I got my money back., it took 90 days but ultimately was credited. Can I expect it from Bitcoin?

Anyway 99.9% people do not have bitcoins to spend. I like it, however it is far from becoming a mainstream payment method., and perhaps never will sadly.
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is he my friend because I present a certain "utility" to his success? If the latter, does that in turn mean our friendship is discarded as soon as I fail to present that utility?

Nobody sticks around the friendship they get nothing out of. Friendships are two-way streets.

But it isn't like you will necessarily be used and thrown out like yesterday's garbage; as he grows, so do you. In a strong friendship, you grow together (in both senses of the word)
yes, thats it! thank you..
I'm really interested in solvers.io, and I've been trying to come up with things like that. Small, bite-sized chunks that take just a bit of time, and then everyone can go their separate way.
I didn't downvote you, but if I had, it would have been because "neuronal activity" seems like a strawman here, and I'm not sure where you got that idea. I would have started with synaptic connections myself.
Or we could consider spending less.
When a top is not spinning, where is the spin stored?

When it's not raining, where are the rainbows kept?

I think a simpler explanation is that your self/psyche is created by the actions of the brain (or the whole CNS). When the brain is not working, they are not there. When it starts working again, they are back. They were really gone for a while: no need to resort to another vessel for them.
While growth is the most important thing in a startup, it's unreasonable to expect it at the point when companies are applying to YC, so it is not the main thing the partners look for. Neither Dropbox nor Airbnb nor Stripe nor Optimizely had any growth when they applied to YC. When I was reading applications (odd yet delightful to use the past tense) the main thing I looked for was energetic founders working on an idea that grew organically out of their own experience. E.g. Optimizely consisted of the guy in charge of a/b testing for Obama's first presidential campaign, starting a company to turn the insights he'd gained into a product.

That said, startups should certainly seek growth, because that's how you evaluate and refine an idea. When you try to get people to use something you've built, and especially to pay for it, you learn quickly what's wrong with it.

The only misleading thing about Adrian's advice is the implication that you need growth to get funded by YC. That is definitely not true. A quick random sample of the current batch (the first 10 in alphabetical order) shows only half had any growth when they were accepted.
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> F*ck it - list all the great aggregates like Hacker News.

The http://fuck.it URL just redirects to porn.

Got a link?
In all honesty, it's made me hesitant to look at Kickstarter projects now that might "take off" in the same manner. I'm a big fan of crowdfunding, but I'm not sure yet how I feel about being a part of crowdfunding a product that just sells out. It's bad investment on my part, no return on it.
How can they do this knowing what's going on in Ukraine and Egypt?
It depends on a lot of other factors. Are my bitcoins on the card insured against loss or theft? Can I reverse the transaction if I get stiffed? If the answers are "no" and "no", then I'd probably still prefer my credit card for peace of mind. 3% isn't a huge discount in the grand scheme of things, and I get 1-3% rewards on my credit card for most purchases.
Sounds cool!

But the reality is that with or without YC, you're going to need to learn how to close some of those contracts on your own.

Of course having connections is super helpful, but you're much more likely to get those introductions if you can show that you get things done without them.

So my advice would be to work on closing smaller contracts / deals and show that you are capable of running those processes first (and you also show growth!).

Then it's a lot easier to recommend you and pass you along to people in a network.
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Right, and I'm saying that the data dependency limitations alone in general purpose code pose an upper limit on how much instruction level parallelism can be extracted from the instruction stream. You simply can't make use of execution resources if they need to wait on the results of another one.

EDIT: I'm not even considering pipelining, latency or transferring data among execution units, just assume every instruction completes in one cycle and makes its result available instantly.
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I'm glad you posted that before I installed it.
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> Friends, close friends, seem like they're "supposed" to be a bond like family: someone you're always there for in good times and bad.

I don't know about that. I don't want my happiness to come purely from people sacrificing their own. That'd be a horrifying way to live. I want people to support me, to a certain extent, in bad times, but I don't want to ruin their lives or drag them down with me in any significant way.

Your friend has a shitty week? Sure, it'd be an ass hole thing to cut her out.

Your friend is depressed for many years? At some point you've got to start thinking about yourself. At some point I'd want people to start thinking about themselves.

On reflection, I don't think my concept of close friendship is someone who's always there for you. It's an equal, someone who's responsible for their own happiness and finds life richer for sharing it with me.
That's currently the #2 story on the front page. I submitted both, but people are voting up the link to Stripe more.
I don't think you're looking at the big picture. It's "news" because the plaintiffs want to generate negative public PR for Karpeles. They're not going to the press for the hell of it. The plaintiffs want that negative press against Karpeles to flow.