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Merchants don't need to expose themselves to FX risk to accept Bitcoin. Square does that for you, as do Coinbase, Bitpay, and similar companies.

I don't think the tax issues will be prohibitively complicated for consumers. Whichever exchange someone uses to buy Bitcoin and whatever app they use the spend it can easily generate the necessary paperwork. The companies have hundreds of millions of dollars on the line that require Bitcoin to be easy to use. They're going to do it.
Definitely hard-coded. But I have a feeling they got Google employees to choose places on the maps by telling them to choose places they like or something like that (without mentioning what project this is for).

The reason I think so, is because some places seem to be residential, like they're places you would live at.
Absolutely, multiple schemas is a really neat feature in a SaaS app context.

You can give each tenant his own schema, that way you can even make some nice split-testing when you incorporate new features in your app requiring changes in you database.
Once a fraction of your tenants have tested/approved (much better if they choose themself to take part of a beta) the new model, you are good for rolling out progressively a full implementation to all of your tenants.
managed time sounds a lot like how FRP (Functional Reactive Programming) and even things as simple as Rx (Reactive Extensions)
If something is to replace Javascript, it's going to be because of the language, not Brendan Eich.
I think the opposite. To consider that not allowing gay marriage is a HUGE denial of equal rights to gays.

Not just flippantly saying "They can't get married, but they're still alive, right?"

Maybe thinking that it's ALL tragic is the best point of view in moving this world forward.
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It's also worth pointing out that BizSpark imposes no requirements or obligations on the startup. You are free to join BizSpark and never use any of its services and you don't owe MS anything at all.
I need to move her shoulders but it might cripple her.

This brings up another point that struck me about the situation as described in the article. The author's friend was "supporting the back" of the injured woman: why? Why not just let her lie still, with something soft under her head, and something else under her feet to keep them elevated, until the EMTs got there? The fact that one bystander was holding the woman up might in itself have struck the cops (and the firemen) as unusual, not to mention a possible cause of damage to the patient.
the real answer is it is being overshadowed by the fact that one of the exchanges stopped allowing CNY withdrawals. I don't think any of the other answerers actually follow bitcoin.
I'm working up to that.
Yes, I'm not disputing the $180 as the full price, especially for professionals.

I'm just saying personally I'd prefer a cheaper price point option for better evaluation.

Certainly would hand over the $180 after evaluation.

As it stands, I don't feel I can eval properly in a 14 day trial, and I don't want to drop $180 without consideration.

Seems I'm being down voted, not sure why as it's just feedback as to my reaction on pricing which I figured the devs could find useful regardless of if there are other people who would pay $180 immediately.
As mathattack said, the SPY fund pays out dividends too (from the 500 items in its basket).

Person A has 100k to invest, and puts it all into Microsoft. He's betting MSFT will outperform the rest of the industry, and likely all industries. Presumably he spent some time and effort to research this decision, seeing as investing in a single stock is risky.

Person B wastes no time, makes no predictions, and just puts 100k in the general market. He gets the average appreciation and average dividend returns along the way.

Person B ends up ahead: less risk (one vs. many), better returns, and zero time in research.
That kind of linkbait is such bullshit, and so annoying, that I'm not going to bother to correct the title. I'm going to bury this post. Thanks Agorak.

HN users: When submitting a story, you're responsible for making sure that it isn't something like this. You've read the story, the rest of us haven't, and there's no way the moderators can read them all. Do your due diligence and help us all optimize HN for signal/noise.
> They released it too late.

Calls for boycott are happening AFTER it was released. I think it's the content (or lack thereof) of that letter that makes it ineffective.

> If they had ANY clue, they'd have thought of this ahead of time. e.g. Brendan donates $2k or $5k to a gay charity requiring a public record

So now we prefer lying bigots to honest bigots? That reeks so much of hypocrisy, it is disgusting.
Jeez, it would be nice if someone, somewhere, would define GAME_JAM for those of us out of that bubble.
Wonderful idea!

Somebody should cook up some javascript (yes, grumble grumble) and start a campaign to embed this on every major site.

As clicking YES is too easy for bigots to get around, another version might require signing in to Facebook, Google or Twitter and upon clicking YES, posting a public message that you support marriage equality.

Obviously any website which does not take part in this campaign is not gay friendly and should be immediately boycotted.
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I don't think I believe, for better or worse, people are capable of that extremely segmenting their lives. Strong disapproval of someone for his or her lifestyle is inevitably going to creep into your interactions with that person.
> technical community & the wider world

Hah, wider world. For most people, a browser is "the internet". They don't even care that it is made by a company. They certainly don't care about the CEO of this company who gave some money to some thing sometime in the past.
OKCupid asking users to boycott Firefox
The problem is not that Eich's beliefs are a deviation from a norm (whether they are or not is irrelevant). His beliefs are hateful.

The reason for this particular message is because it is part of a greater campaign to show Mozilla that users and producers on the internet are not in support of Eich's appointment.
> Is this such a problem that the some Labor Ministry has to enforce a rule?

Dunno, don't have the data.

Anecdotally: I get called after hours from time to time, but then again I get paid a lot in return. Calling me after work, whatever you want, costs several hundred pounds a go.

My sister, who works a bunch of part time jobs in retail and other minimum wage things get called on after hours as well. And she doesn't get paid for it beyond not being fired. She'd never dare tell one of her managers not to call her after work, because if she loses one of her jobs she's going to have trouble paying her bills.

In my case the conditions in my contract ensure that I only get called if it's important. That's my protection from being constantly exploited. But... my sister doesn't have that - and frankly has no hope of ever having it.

Should it be legal to take that sort of advantage of someone in that weak a bargaining position? We have the concept of undue influence in contract law, and this strikes me as the same sort of thing.

It's like when you have a contract between two companies, the companies are expected to be protected by having a contract that they both understand and have negotiated from positions of relative equality. Whereas, between companies and individuals, the individual is generally expected to be mostly protected by the allowances of consumer protection law.

> would people be okay with Olympic Trainers being banned from asking their athletes to train after hours?

Well, I would. If the athlete does it of their own free will, then that's fine. But if they're being coerced by a desire not to get fired... well, 'Fuck you, pay me.' springs to mind.
Good idea. While they're at it get rid of those passenger side convex mirrors, "objects are closer than they appear." One of the functions of a rear view mirror is to tell you where objects are behind you when you are changing lanes in heavy traffic. You can cover your blind spot by proper adjustment of your side mirror.
Eich has made it clear, both through promises as well as actions, that he is not going to force his beliefs on Mozilla. Does OkCupid seriously wish harm upon an organization that employs hundreds of innocent individuals, most of whom likely hold different beliefs than Eich? An organization that works for the open web everyday and defends our privacy against actual harmful actions by criminal organizations? Intentionally trying to bring down Mozilla's browser market share means they have less negotiating power with the search engine providers that make up the majority of their revenue.

Talk about forcing your beliefs on others. OkCupid is shamelessly exploiting this situation for attention.
The IM case can be done without JS, actually, using chunked encoding [1]. This is similar to the MIME multipart/x-mixed-replace technique [2] that was used for "streaming" webcams in the late 90s.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Mixed-Replace
Tor mirror in the DNS?
Tracking data-points based on events and user and storing them into our DB.
Oh my, really appreciate this, dang!

I did share the HN link on Campfire and colleagues must've jumped to pitch in. It is hard to draw the line but I can see how this sort of behavior should be unrecommended from the start.

Thanks for being so transparent and for spinning this back up. Lesson learned, but I have to ask, are profiles also flagged once they are associated with posts nailed by the vote ring detector?
edit: thanks for your edit. And I'm still bitter about that, but that's a whole other argument ;)
OkCupid is for creating love. Those who seek to deny love and instead enforce misery, shame, and frustration are our enemies, and we wish them nothing but failure.

There is an irony that an entity that declares it is for creating love is going around declaring enemies, and wishing them failure. This clearly undermines their own message, and shows them to be of a similar us vs them hateship. There are Sides to be taken, and you don't want to be on the wrong one.

What they should have said is "we are disappointed, and would like to see Eich publicly change his opinion and make some form of recompense; we would like Eich to join us in our view"... instead of "FUCK THAT GUY".

Remember the people that picketed Fred Phelps' funeral with the sign "Sorry for your loss"? That is how you fight hate, not with more hate.
I've had some issues with Azure too and have fought it a bit. My app is Node/Postgres based. I'm pretty positive if I had developed a C#/SQL Server app, then Azure would be almost entirely smooth sailing. I can't really blame MS for targeting their own tech first. Node, PHP and the like are not quite as first class citizens in Azure yet.
There are a couple of reasons, actually. This will be a short version of something I'm still in the process of writing, so consider this very high level, broad strokes. Consider "Coinbase" a stand-in for any service like it. I also know that lots of Bitcoin enthusiasts won't agree with me, and that's fine.

The most important one is that merchants generally want USD, not BTC. Instant Exchange is a really important feature of Coinbase, and so even if we did support bare addresses, they would still be generated through Coinbase anyway, because giving our merchants USD is killer. Since Balanced isn't interested in getting in the business of holding and selling BTC, we'd need to do that through some sort of service, and Coinbase is the biggest and best one.

Secondly, the UX for Coinbase-only payment is vastly superior to using bare addresses. People are generally familiar with "sign in via Facebook," and Coinbase's OAuth works the same way. Using a Bitcoin wallet to buy something on a site is very strange until you've done it a few times. Enthusiasts will know what's going on, just like any early adopter will. But for most cases, Coinbase only is waaaay better.

Coinbase <-> Coinbase transactions have another special property: they can be off-blockchain. I don't remember offhand if they are for all purchases, but they are for microtransactions, at least. Coinbase can (could?) not wait for the ten minutes to confirm a transaction, since they'd just be updating balances within Coinbase itself. They could build options in that consumers have come to expect, like chargebacks, holds, and other things, that the protocol would not inherently have to support.

Next, we feel that Bitcoin is best thought of as cash. Like, physical, printed notes. Websites don't actually accept USD, for example: they accept Visa, which is a financial instrument that happens to be denominated in USD. You can't mail a twenty dollar bill to most SaaS products: that'd be really silly, for a number of reasons. Using bitcoin-qt is like paying with cash, and paying with cash works great in some ways, but is a pain in others. Chargebacks, for example, are an incredibly important part of the advantage consumers see in using credit cards, and nothing like that exists with 'raw' Bitcoin in any significant capacity.

I guess that could all be summed up with "Most people don't actually use cash, because it's pretty inconvenient. They use a financial instrument on top of cash, because it offers a bunch of advantages for online purchases. A successful Bitcoin will be no different."
I was rather surprised when LinkedIn synced all of my LinkedIn contacts' email addresses into my address book via the Android app. Not as bad as this, but strange default behaviour.
I disagree. I think people can replace JavaScript simply because of Brendan Eich. I can see it happening easily.
The issue I, and I think others, have with this appointment is what the appointment implies: in a world where many hateful people hold power, yet another hateful person should hold power (in, of all places, an organization seemingly rooted in progress).
Does he have any control over future development of javascript and how this future development will affect a wider community? I don't think he does.

But he is the CEO of the company, and what the company does going forward does depend on him a lot.

I think this is the key difference between boycotting the browser and boycotting the language.
This political-correctness frenzy is beyond ridiculous. A browser company should not have to give statements about political issues that have absolutely nothing to do with their business. What's next, regular declerations concerning basic income, marijuana legalization and the Crimea?
Well that's disappointing then. I wasn't particularly impressed with the service I got at my various hosts' homes in the UK. Is it really the case that the last mile physical infrastructure is considered common there so any provider can use it?
>dull, miserable, offensively expensive

None of these apply to Berlin. Flamebait much?
What if your colleagues are in the U.S.? Do you just turn off the phone until 9am the next day?

I'm on the east coast in the U.S. and I have colleagues in Britain, Germany, California, Colorado, and Minneapolis. If we stuck to strict working hours, we'd never be able to communicate in real time!

The guys in Europe sometimes are helping us until 10pm or 11pm which is not a requirement but they're just dedicated and we really appreciate it. By the same token, I'll get on a call at 6am local time, which works for them.

But maybe not everyone has to deal with all these time zones. We're a little crazy.
Bravo! More of this, please.

It is my great sorrow that I have no time to read these excellent things. The rest of you, please do it justice.
Today, it's being anti-gay-rights is acceptable to lots of people. 50 years ago, being a racist was acceptable to lots of people. Would you work for or buy products from a CEO who was an unapologetic racist just because his beliefs were a product of his family/community?

A good question to ask: If you think we will evolve to the point where gay rights are a given, what should we do right now? Should we be respectful for these often-arbitrary beliefs or should we try to make people/companies with these beliefs uncomfortable (but in kind/respectful way)? Honest question.
I know. But, y'know, "I've tried to take away your rights and I refuse to talk about it, but hey! I promise I won't do it again, baby!" isn't playing out too well in practice.
Note the bottom still picture with Diesel? exhaust fumes, and that the objective is to foil "infrared missiles".

It's not trying to be invisible per se, just avoid a signature that allows locking onto some part that will result in serious damage. If the missile e.g. fires a self-forging penetrator through that exhaust plume, mission accomplished.
America - everyone can have their own opinion unless it disagrees with the majority.
The article was hard to follow, but I respect him for writing it. I sure hope he keeps his day job. ;)
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I think stupidity is a sufficient explanation.

"I'm envisioning the board standing around with glassy stares, 'I have no idea how this could have happened. We totally vetted his geek cred.'" - rone
FYI, idiomatic English would read, "They did the math," not "They made the math."
Given that his beliefs in 2008 were echoed by a majority of Californian voters, it's hard to argue that they're a deviation from the norm.
Thanks, dang. I'm glad to see HN staff engaging directly with users.
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Don't ask how I got into the After Oscar Party but I was standing next to Mathew when George called to congratulate him. Then a surprise guest wanders in. What a night!
There's the fallacy fallacy, which says "just because you can match an argument to a fallacy doesn't mean you've proven anything":

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fallacy_fallacy
How do you look at and analyse that data?
€1000 per month for what? In Berlin, 1000€ would seem excessive.
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Based on the documentation:

https://github.com/rickynils/scalacheck/wiki/User-Guide#gene...

It cannot derive random generation behavior (Arbitrary typeclass in Haskell) for arbitrary data types. You have to write the generators yourself using the Generator class.

Which goes back to my point about generics, typeclass instance derivation, and the boilerplate using Haskell kills dead.
Ah, thanks for posting the email. You're right. :-)
And that seems to be the unfortunate truth. Something that has no direct intent can be positioned such that it's creators or users end up in a legal quandary. I don't see how that can move forward in a positive manner - the question is what is questioned next?

It seems as though only actors which are threatened by true privacy have a position, and that position includes significant wealth, political power and greed. Those actors set a precedent based on already won battles which don't seem to revolve around facts but, again, money and power. Everyone else is then left to spend "huge sums of money" to defend a position that was never unconstitutional in the first place.

Frustrating.
What you get down is really a question about what marriage is about. Is marriage about giving government benefits (property transfer benefits, tax treatment changes, certain treatment under health insurance regulations, adoption miscellaneous other things) to two people who like each other a lot? Or is it about giving government benefits to people who might found a family with children and things (notwithstanding the fact that not every heterosexual couple actually does or plans to do this?)

That's the real question here. This issue isn't about hate and dehumanization -- I mean, there's way too much hate and dehumanization, certainly, but not enough to drive electoral victories we've seen. The question is just an extension of the social upheaval of the sexual revolution of the 1960s. The real remarkable thing is that it's been simmering for so long without coming to the forefront yet. Probably many people thought that it was substantially settled, on account of this quiet, but it looks more like the two camps just quietly went their separate ways.

This is also why religious groups outside of Westboro mostly talk about focusing on the family and the social problems associated with single-parent households and divorce. (If you are not a member of these groups or do not have friends and family who are members of these groups, you are probably unaware of what this advocacy looks like. See also: the entire public policy of the Catholic church on this matter.)

FYI: This is how you can have an eminently nice person with nothing but respect for the intrinsic human rights and dignity of homosexuals, but who still votes for Prop 8 or Amendment 1 or a similar measure.

And you know what? What goes on between two people in private of their bedroom is nobody's business. What benefits the government makes available to people, through spending the public purse or giving people tax breaks or mandating certain sorts of treatment... that kind of is peoples' business. It's a public-policy question, and structuring public policy one way or another impacts society in several ways - including, in some jurisdictions, making your ability to operate as a business contingent on you performing some services that you might not want to perform (cf. New Mexico photography etc etc).

(Postscript. No particular stance for or against Proposition 8, or for or against Amendment 1, or any other public policy recommendation, is hereby endorsed. The following ideas are hereby endorsed: Gay people are human beings and deserve a substantially identical set of human rights and dignity as any other human being is entitled to receive. People who treat them otherwise may be some sort or another of monster. The extent to which these rights overlap with public policy in the matter of issuing marriages is controversial. Voters who support Amendment 1 or Prop 8, electorally or fiscally, are not monsters for doing so. Pluralism is good and it would be great if we all had some way to get along. Maybe we can start with more understanding.)

(Post-postscript. Added adoption to the list of misc. benefits as it is of special relevance as a way for a married gay couple to raise children.)
I think that is not how this is working out. Go to Google News, enter "eich" and see how much coverage this is getting in the international mainstream press.
I have never in my life been asked if I was gay before any business transaction.
> but the CEO IS paid by Mozilla. In the past he has donated to anti-gay-marriage causes, and may continue to do so in the future enabled by Mozilla's money.

Going by this logic, we should be vetting every person who works at a company whose product we use, because they may have contributed to some cause we don't agree with.
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Yurgei does his best to impress Monica with his English skills and insults her instead. Hilarity ensues.....
The answer may surprise you.

We all know the UK has internet blacklists managed by various agencies such as the IWF[1]. These blacklists are highly granular and allow blocking of individual HTTP resources.

Virgin is intercepting your DNS traffic and putting you through a proxy to Google. In this way they can block individual pages and images on Google without denying you access to the entire site.

UK ISPs are being forced by the law to filter certain content. Doing it in the manner detailed above angers their customers less. It also leads to interesting situations for site owners. If a site has even a single URL on the blacklist the entire UK will appear to be coming from a small set of proxy IP addresses.

[1] https://www.iwf.org.uk/
At thin majority and this is a weak argument anyway.
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