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Yes I agree that bitcoin could be useful to the unbanked or in high inflation countries. I don't have enough knowledge of those markets to elaborate.

I was answering the author who was advocating bitcoin's ease of use as compared to credit cards.

Credit card use is not a limited world view though. Credit card networks are pervasive all over the world. And in the areas they aren't, I don't think a volatile digital asset is at the forefront of people's minds when it comes to payments. A lot of innovation is being put in place to eliminate card use and opt instead for the mobile phone/wallet, connected directly to a bank account in fiat, government-regulated currency.

It would be useful to know why those 30% of Americans don't have a debit/credit card. Is it an infrastructure problem? Is going online and buying things part of their day-to-day activities?

And for those areas of high credit card fraud, what do merchants do now? Accept checks, cash, ACH? And what do consumers do if they receive subpar merchandise? Etc.
Seems you are knowledgeable about these matters, I am not. So could you put in perspective why would runsit be interesting. I have run into several names that claim to handle this problem, you have mentioned s6 and runit, then there is monit, launchd, supervisor... Are there some glaring lacks that needs to be filled. Do they all do the same thing or do they have specialized niches ?

I guess I am asking for a lot, no need to indulge, but if you do, much appreciated.

@akerl_19 Thanks. I have but two upvotes to give.
https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/installation-guide/i386/automa...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9683357/ubuntu-run-comman...
That's great! How did you find and choose this particular guy?
Rust is a browser development language. Maybe he doesn't want to bother with memory management. Besides, is there a modern IDE for Rust (automated refactoring etc.)?
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Just thought HN would be interested on seeing new arguments and reasoning on this topic. I personally would love to see a debate between Bro. Soriano and Bill Nye.
still totally worth trying.
This is great. Can't it be extended to find images in general ?
I work for a startup providing a similar product to Dropcam. The difference being we are free, and you can choose from a variety of supported cameras (we have ~ 30 supported cameras).

What do you guys think? http://www.cammy.com/
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And this is called added value. The product is more valuable than its components simply added together. Something that hipsters who look very hard, every day, for injustices to fix, always seem to miss.
As far as I'm aware pattern matching is commonly used in most functional languages (including haskell).
Here is the page on pattern matching in haskell from the haskell wikibook: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Pattern_matching
On a side note, it's already possible to build Android binaries with CGO as long as you use the external linker. Just build for Linux + external linked from the NDK.
That strikes me as a pretty extreme reaction. If it's an issue you care about and you think it's a viable approach, you'd really withhold your contribution on the basis of a required email address?
> Maybe he doesn't want to bother with memory management.

Who is "he"? The poster michael was replying to said s/he was waiting for Rust to be viable.
How do you suppose they are buying Bitcoin? I expect the ones doing transactions with Amazon are mostly using debit cards or buying prepaid cards somewhere.

It's a nice hypothetical use of a distributed transaction system, but it's not how the people you are talking about are accessing the financial system, they are much more likely to either not buy things from Amazon or to get a prepaid card at Walmart.
It's the best modern language overall (if you count everything: IDE, APIs, language design, cross-platform capability, capital backing, reach, approachability).

Also XNA is reborn as MonoGame. Microsoft wants to decouple from it's APIs and tools by offloading to OSS and third party (Unity3d).
I posted this link as a new thread, but i think it is worth posting this also here,

http://www.elisoriano.com/blog/new-truths-belie-evolution-ev...

Would love to hear what the HN community thought on the arguments.
It's not a matter of trust:

http://users.skynet.be/bs939021/artikels/group%20versus%20in...

Are N+1 heads better then one?
The group is better then the average head.
Heads are worse then the best head.

I do not know however if Google makes reviewing the patches more time intensive then it should be, it all depends on the rate of progress, isn't it?
They don't even support the latest version of C#.
Sorry, I upvoted you by accident. Can you clarify why requiring an email address is a showstopper for you?
It's interesting to see he takes critics seriously and addresses them : http://www.theoceancleanup.com/blog/show/item/responding-to-...
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Those are good comments. I have some clause in my contract regarding side-projects and I'll definitely look into how using their stuff affects it. For now, I guess I'll just use it for work and games then... Thanks for your comment.
Some of the most important innovations and movements in history were 'very criticized'.

I'd say they were in good company.

On a quasi-related note, here's a project I'm launching soon. It's for innovators: http://diepenniless.com
Here's how this goes:

1. Person X buys land because they need to live.

2. X asks real estate broker, "Don't I need air rights too?" Broker says "nah, the air's clean around here". (It is.)

3. Industry Y decides to move into town. Buys up all the unsold air rights from the broker (maybe with a little kickback). (Industry Y sells widgets, of which everyone needs an endless supply.)

4. Industry Y does what industries do and pollutes the air. Person X is out of luck, gets cancer and dies. (Person Z, who was smart and kept his air rights, is out of luck too, because everyone else sold out and it turns out particulate matter doesn't respect property law.)

Don't believe me? This is exactly what's happened with fracking. Affected homeowners are told they can't sue because they don't own the water/mineral rights around their land.

Anyway the end of this story in anarcho-capitalist-libertarian land is:

5. Person X gangs up with other townsfolk to pay their private police force to strongarm industry Y into selling their air rights to a collective trust.

6. Townsfolk look at their combined police-and-regulatory trust, see that it is good, and decide to name it "government".
I'm skeptical. Most of the plastics in his/her photos are visible. In the actual gyres, most plastics are microplastics, i.e. particles from cosmetics and clothes washing that have gone down the drain. There's a pinkie fingernail sized piece every couple of cubic metres or so. Definitely not visible. They also harbour life. How to remove the life and give it somewhere to live without upsetting the ecosystem?
The tone and innacuracy certainly didn't help.
I see no reason for your comment, specially when the guidelines are clear about these types of contributions.

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html 4th paragraph from the bottom

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is
> inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic,
> flag it by going to its page and clicking on
> the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.)
> If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
It's not like everyone's just imagining that it's slower for many work loads either.
> getting Linux to talk to a relatively unheard of device called an iPhone 5s! It sure would be nice getting pictures and video off this damn phone so I can free up space!

I do it all the time. All it takes is to plug the phone in.
Unfortunately, I can't really say whether or not runsit is an interesting entry in the group of process management tools. While I'm very willing to dive into the code if I run into issues or am looking to customize things, the lack of any documentation or overview has prevented me from trying out runsit yet. Partially, this is for the obvious reason: it's difficult to get started with a tool that doesn't document how to use it. Additionally, the lack of documentation is a warning sign that this project won't be maintained in the long term as a community project. Which isn't to say that projects that begin without a strong focus on documentation or community cannot change in the future, but in my experience the vast majority of these projects end up being "a thing the author wrote for themselves, which becomes abandoned when they no longer use it".

As far as the variety of other tools:

launchd is an interesting concept but hasn't picked up a ton of adoption by things other than OSX.

I've used supervisord for some other projects, but never as the main init system, and the python dependency has thus-far prevented me from doing so: I like my init process to be statically compiled so that the initial system startup has as few deps as possible.

I really enjoyed runit; I'm only trying out s6 now because it has a few more helper tools for controlling process startup and management, and appears to have better support for log handling. Runit was very powerful as an ultra-light-weight init system, and both runit and s6 have very thorough docs, with runit having a large catalog of community-provided initscript examples.
I didn't see many good counterpoints in the article.

1. They argue the majority of the waste is small particles, and they refer to it as a 'plastic soup'. Are these particles not just larger plastic debris that has decomposed? Wouldn't keeping up with the larger debris help prevent the 'plastic soup' in the first place?

2. Second point, they say the project is too big of a challenge but believe it might work on a smaller scale. I don't think this is a situation where you should think small.

3. Thirdly, they say this will be in the way for boats, and wildlife. The site addresses most of the wildlife concerns because there's nothing to capture wildlife, and it's basically a floating wall. The wildlife can swim under it, or away from it. I'm sure some jellyfish would be floating into it, but it seems like a big improvement over nets. Also, it says their large scale operational test will be 10km wide. That's not exactly disrupting the shipping lanes in the middle of the ocean.

4. Their last points are awful. They say the plastic waste can't be recycled, so it's worthless to pick up, and they close with saying 'cleaning the oceans will never be a solution', and we should instead just reduce the use of plastic.

In short, I have no idea if this thing will work, but watching the videos, it seems like a decent solution that's worth exploring. They seem motivated, and a couple of million dollars isn't much to invest on such a project and team.
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"Ludicrous"?
That's really cool. I guess we'll see quite a few messed up levels created with this. (I mean messed up in a good way.)
Presumably Elements; though Euclid wrote others, it's the most famous and relevant to the OP.
It's most likely Elements

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s_Elements
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Perhaps it was Mondragon? Mondragon started in 1956 and is now at 80000 workers and an annual revenue of 14 billion. It's still a worker cooperative in the 21st century, though :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
Particularly useful if you allow guest bloggers on your site.
Cool game, well made, but it's driving me nuts. I'm stuck on 3/40 - I've created the enclosing circle for "in origin circle" but game doesn't want to acknowledge it. Clearly I'm doing something wrong....
I agree entirely. What's kind of a pity is that until NumPy is ported over, all of the scientific stack is basically unusable on PyPy - and right now, there are several incredibly good NumPy specific JITs (numexpr, numba, parakeet).
Ask HN: Validate my idea
The idea is: Digital guestbook

For example you run a restaurant, museum or any other place. You register to my service, get a short link to your guestbook and a QR code. Your visitors can visit the website and leave a comment, even a handwritten signature through their smartphone's touchscreen. Another alternative is that you can find the place on your smartphone browsing the nearly places based on your gps location.

And no, it's not like Yelp because it aggregates places, mine will give you a private page with the reviews from your visitors.

So, what do you say?
I don't know enough about the subject to have the pretence to judge whether it can work, what I do know is that:
1. It seems the naysayers are doing nothing to try and change the situation, but then again, history books aren't populated with names of critics...
2. A partial solution is better than no solution. It doesn't solve the problem of microscopic plastic parts ? So what ? It also doesn't solve world hunger and global warming, but having more people with the attitude and vision of this young entrepreneur just might.
>> motivated primarily BY public interest, instead of IN THE public interest

Isn't this what the Discovery Channel or a show like Myth Buster's does?
I wonder if it would make sense to make a "child poller" akin to the net poller:

Have one goroutine loop forever:

* wait for SIGCHLD
* take the childlock
* do nonblocking Wait() until no unwaited child remains
* release the childlock

The childlock would need to be taken for reading by os.Process.Kill and when a syscall that takes a PID of a child is called (after taking it we'd need to verify that the process we intend to touch isn't already dead).
There's a lengthy, point by point response to criticism on this page:

http://www.theoceancleanup.com/blog/show/item/responding-to-...

I am not qualified to judge the merits of the criticism or the response, I'm just kind of happy someone is at least trying to do something about trash in the ocean.
Would they have to be ported to Mono to be used for Unity?
Did you read it? Which one did you find ludicrous?
Great project. I do wonder , why are 100 people involved ? is it very complicated ? or just the fact they volunteer so they can't give their 100% attention to this?
One might hope so. How about private/religious schools?
Do cool stuff, share it, talk about it publically SHOW PEOPLE YOU ARE AWESOME without having to prove it indirectly with pieces of paper
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What's the benefit for the restaurant owners and their customers? What would you say is your riskiest assumption? Which would be harder: getting restaurant owners to invite their customers to leave a message, or getting their customers to post a message?
Think of a small-scale experiment how you could test your assumptions.
Speaking for myself, I don't understand understand how people can choose a book of questionable origin and authenticity as their authority on matters concerning life and death.

Whatever that page is trying to say has most likely already been addressed here: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html
Do you have a reference for the main sources of microplastics? My understanding is that they are the result of larger chunks of plastic that just decompose in the oceans. By removing large plastic items we'd make a strong leap forward.
$10m valuation.
LLVM is not a C++ compiler, CLANG is a C++ compiler frontend that uses LLVM as it's backend.

Significant difference there.
I thought about Scala, but the Scala plugin for Android Studio is rumored to be buggy and Scala doesn't integrate well with Gradle build system. At least I couldn't get it to work and I gave up after a while. If they (Google) wanted Scala to be supported on Android, they would make sure it isn't such a pain. And some documentation - all I could turn to for help is a handful of random blog entries etc.
It's smartphone era, you like it or not. And it's more paper saver.
What is there to explain? They found nothing, which does not necessarily explain anything.
I am a bioinformatician with a background in genetics.

The argument against evolution in the article, mainly the piltdown man hoax and new sequencing data on neanderthal is extremely weak.

I don't think a single example of scientific fraud is enough to discredit the entire community. I actually think the fact that the fraud was found out as a hoax shows that evidence is constantly being scrutinized and re-examined; which is exactly what science should be all about.

The point about sequence similarity/dis-similarity being not the ultimate evidence for common ancestry is actually an insightful point; however, I doubt the author of the article realized the insight. He was probably just parroting a statement he read in another article. I don't think you can make a strong statement about homology between genomes using only 65,000 bases of sequence from potentially heavily degraded sample. I think it is just an interesting starting point for further analysis with more data.

The rest of the article dealt with interpreting biblical statements to fit with current undeniable understanding of the universe. IE. Man is made from dust is consistent with humans being consisted of elements found in dust (crust) of the earth. I am sure it sounds nice to people who believe in the bible. But it makes me wonder what these interpretations will look like in a hundred years. Are these interpretations going to change with new understandings of the universe? Is the bible just full of vague statements that can constantly adapt to new understanding of the world? What good is that really?

I've always wondered what a creationist view of biology would look like. There are plenty of attacks against evolution, but never any clear explanation of how their belief system is in accordance with current data. Do new species suddenly pop into existence from nothing by god? Do god specifically implant new species into the womb of a surrogate specie? Why does god invent bunch of new species in the first place? Why not modify the environment to suit the species rather than modify species to suit the environment? I think creationism hides behind a wall of hand-wavy and foggy ideas that breaks down when explicitly examined.
For me, that auto-complete is useful about a third of the time, and the rest of the time it's like having someone hovering over your shoulder saying "Did you mean ...?" every few keystrokes. If a person did that to me I'd tell them to shut up for a second and wait, and they'll see what I mean as soon as I finish typing it.
You could try internships. It’s not just startups that are recruiting. May have an easier time landing an internship doing websites for ad agencies or such. If you are any good you could land a contract in 1-2 months.
This point is quite immaterial. If they did find a mention of "pope Francis", then yes, they would have to consider alternative explanations before jumping to the conclusion of time travel. However, they didn't, so it's perfectly reasonably to report that there is no evidence of time travelers talking of pope Francis.
Java's datetime API and (to some extent) collections were a cultural shock to me (coming from a .NET background) :)

That's why there are all these crutches like Joda, Guava etc.
can it be integrated with sublime text ?
For youtube not really, happens automatically. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3038280?hl=en
"Elements and minerals found in our body is exactly what are stated in the Bible that we came from the dust (crust) of the earth."

The two pie charts for the Earth's crust look pretty different to me - although the fact that the same colour is used for different elements in the two charts is obviously trying to hide this (the only consistently coloured one is oxygen).
It was curious to see the reference to cold-brew coffee. I didn't even know it was a thing until a couple of days ago when I saw this article in a freebie newspaper:

How to Make cold brew coffee at home
http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/foodanddrink/how-to-make...
I agree with your points. "Official", out of the box support for Scala or Groovy wouldn't hurt, either!

As for IDEs, personally I grew to prefer Android Studio to Visual Studio (well, no ReSharper), although I have much more working experience with the latter. Especially in terms of navigating around the project. VS native refactoring tools are very rudimentary, too, even in VS 2013 - not much seems to have changed in YEARS.
This is a good question, although if that is the case, it appears that public interest mainly involves fire, guns, explosions, and a risk of self-harm.
I wonder how accurate it is to say this is for "all UK schools" as education is pretty heavily devolved in the UK - Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales all have their own counterparts to the Department of Education:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_for_Education#Devolu...

NB As an aside, from a UK perspective the title is a bit confusing as "public schools" are private schools here. "State schools" would probably be more accurate - even if there are 4 "states" involved.... :-)
There is this thing called public transit. It's where government takes tax money from all companies and their workers and subsidizes a train or bus to go into most neighborhoods and commercial areas... Some companies even provide transit passes to cover the unsubsidized portion. (And then get a tax break for doing so).

For restaurants, this exists in Europe. Your employer gives you a monthly number (around 20) of $10 vouchers that are accepted as cash only by restaurants (though there was a small black market for them). One that I saw in France is called http://www.groupe-cheque-dejeuner.com/en.html

One of my employers reimbursed my work-from-home expenses (ISP, extra landline, printer and toner), and I get to deduct my home office expenses from my income for taxation purposes (percentage of my habitation costs, proportional to the percentage of my office floor space).
But what about just doing it the way it's done in Europe? Where employers are required by law to be paid X amount per month for lunch, X amount of transit, and so on. Company gives you the money, you spend the money whichever way you feel.

That's called a "salary". The only difference between those subsidies (as we call them here in the European country I live) and regular salary is for tax purposes.

PS: when you think about it, it's really kind of funny how all these perks and stuff that magnificent Silicon Valley companies offer their employees, are taken for granted in Europe because they've been there since workers' rights movements

Europe's a big place. We certainly don't have on-site daycares, healthy food by a good chef, life insurance, concierge service, rental cars, gyms, buses with Wi-Fi and such. The only perk I can see is the maternity leave, which has a similar duration (120 days) but doesn't have gender discrimination, and probably the vacations.
If I am the owner of a restaurant, I will go to the Yelp page and see the customer reviews. What advantage are you going to offer, so I should subscribe to you?
Can you please explain it more.

Thanks
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Also the words that follow the above:

"From that moment on, everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink -- for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder."